Hogwarts Professor has been posting up a storm at its Substack home in the four weeks since the publication of The Hallmarked Man though we’ve been relatively quiet here on the weblog.
Here is a quick guide to the conversations we’ve been having ‘over there’ with links to those discussions at your fingertips! Every post except ‘Flood’ comes with a video capture of John and Nick playing point-counterpoint with extensive footnotes and urls for Rowling Readers wanting to follow up on the ideas discussed. Be sure to read the comment threads beneath each for the insights of Serious Strikers around the world.
Enjoy!
Three Cheers for The Hallmarked Man! Thoughts After the First Reading
Nick Jeffery and John Granger discuss Strike8, fandom disappointment, predictions review, three Rowling targets, the Core Text hidden in the epigraphs, and ‘What’s Next?’ for Serious Strikers (8 September 2025)
Hallmarked Man’s Three ‘Whose My Daddy?’ Set-Ups to Shock Readers in Strikes 9 and 10
Misdirection to cause Defamiliarization in the next Strike-Ellacott Mysteries: Incest, Paternity, Gorilla Murphy, and the Bad Dad-Big Brother who Killed His Little Sister (15 September 2025)
Hallmarked Man’s Flood of Names, Characters, and Plots
Rowling-Galbraith Inundates the Reader with Possible Victims, Murderers, and Sideline Observers; Three Explanations for the Tsunami of Plot Threads and New Faces (22 September 2025)
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