I was looking through some of my old Strike writings and found two marginal predictions that materialized, at least partially, in Career of Evil, admittedly among many more gutter balls.

Spoilers, ho!

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You may have heard that there is a new book on J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter novels, Ravenclaw Reader, an anthology of talks given at a St Andrews University conference on this subject.

I’m excited about the collection, what it means for our understanding of the Hogwarts Saga, and about the offer Unlocking Press is making during the book’s first week of publication. If you buy during the launch period (and follow the steps detailed here), then, in addition to the ‘wow’ book, you get:

• Four videos of talks from St Andrews, including the two Keynote presentations;
• Mp3 audio files of three other talks;
• Q&A webinars with Potter Pundits on Severus Snape, the Fairy Tale structure of each novel, the Forbidden Forest, and the Dursleys; and
• a chat with me about literary alchemy, symbolism and ring composition.

If this is news to you (where have you been all week?), there is a BookLaunch page that is loaded with information about Ravenclaw Reader. It includes a video in which I talk about the collection, introduce a lecture on Severus Snape filmed at St Andrews, and then explain how you can access the free webinars, videos, and audio downloads this week if you buy the book before Sunday at midnight.

We talked about this earlier in the week at HogwartsProfessor.com here and I interviewed the St Andrews PhDs who edited the book on MuggleNet Academia here.

The deadline was tonight at midnight. Friends I have been in touch with yesterday and today, correspondents around the world, have asked me to push back tonight’s deadline to Sunday midnight so the friends they are writing and contacting through socal media have time to sign up. Fair enough! But the doors close Sunday midnight (well, Monday morning when I get up).

 

If that weren’t enough, Amazon has discounted the book 10% during the launch! It’s an interactive conference with the world’s leading Potter Pundits for the cost of a shuttle ride from your hotel to the airport. So…

Buy the book or ebook and send me the confirmation of purchase; I’ll send you an invitation to the members site with all the extras. Talk with you there on Monday!

Keith Hawk and I talk with John Patrick Pazdziora, Fr. Micah Snell, and Joshua Richards about the St Andrews University Harry Potter Conference, Ravenclaw Reader — the just published anthology of essays and responses from that gathering, the free lecture video now available as part of the book launch, and the future of Hogwarts Saga scholarship. Enjoy!

See the post below for the subject of this MuggleNet Academia conversation, Prof. Stauffer’s Horcrux article!