Previews of a Coming Attraction?
February 21, 2025 by Leave a Comment
Harry Potter Interactive Illustrated Editions to Continue
February 20, 2025 by Leave a Comment
Fans of the Harry Potter illustrated editions from the design duo Mina Lima were left disappointed last August, when the artists announced that they had not been commissioned to illustrate the fourth in the series: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Collectors of the first three books will be relieved with yesterday’s announcement from Scholastic that Karl James Mountford will be illustrating the next book for release in October.
Magic is on the way! This glorious new interactive illustrated edition of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire will be coming to shelves on October 14. @jkr_stories
Learn more about this special interactive edition: https://t.co/WTxUmlAn4k pic.twitter.com/myN7uRJ77m
— Scholastic (@Scholastic) February 19, 2025
The Hallmarked Man and the Heart of Yorkshire
February 19, 2025 by Leave a Comment
On Valentine’s day, Lindsey, one of the hosts of the Strike and Ellacott Files podcast, shared a very appropriate video short from inside York Minster. With the cathedral featuring in J. K. Rowling’s latest Twitter header, fans are hoping this is a good omen for the next installment.
Thanks to @cikadina for showing me this video on Instagram because OMG!!!! 😍😍 https://t.co/o4DcQZkm9K
— Lindsay (@LindsayMLand) February 14, 2025
Harry Potter Headstone Found Near Forks, Washington (Not that Close…)
February 18, 2025 by Leave a Comment
At the largest graveyard in Port Townsend, ‘America’s Victorian Seaport’ on the Olympic Peninsula, a sharp-eyed serious reader found the headstone of one ‘Harold Potter:’
Here’s the close-up:
Read the November 2019 piece Real Life Muggles Named ‘Harry Potter’ for thoughts about what this might be like for those, living and dead (well, for their descendants obviously).
Regardless, fun find! Back to my formatting efforts…
Possible Change in Formatting at Hogwarts Professor: Imbedded Cameo-Video with MS PowerPoint Slides
February 17, 2025 by Leave a Comment
I’m still not 100% so I haven’t made progress on the two remaining ‘Foundation Crime’ posts in that three-part series. God willing, I’ll be over this season’s bug in Oklahoma City sooner than later. What I was able to work on was a MS PowerPoint presentation for The Rowling Library’s anthology. The Phoenix and the Flame.
Because of that presentation’s brevity and the deadline for submitting it on Friday, I worked today on creating slides for the talk and how to embed a cameo-video in as many slides as I think appropriate. If I cannot figure this out (too likely I’m afraid), I will send TRL the slides and my video for them to play around with. [You’ll see it after TRL edits it into the collage of other Potter Punditry authors that have contributed to this anthology.]
I’ll try to create a ‘Foundation Crime’ video-cum-cameo tomorrow that moves that Golden Thread series forward, even if only by a Baby Step. Thank you for your patience as I try to climb this techno formatting Fuji!
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