A guest post from Viktor Richardson:
Guest Post: Was Stephen Meredith Potter Harry’s Inspiration?
September 11, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Is the First ‘Hallows Quest’ in Philosopher’s Stone? Yes.
September 7, 2011 by 21 Comments
Right on the heels of William Sprague’s fascinating connection of Literary Alchemy and Ring Composition published here last month, Adam Ross has made another great catch affirming the loop of the series in the conjunction of Philosopher’s Stone and Deathly Hallows. Read ‘Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Hallows’ at his site, ATRossBooks.com or make the jump below where I have posted it with his blessing. The Ring Composition formal structure of the series grows in importance with each one of these discoveries and I’m delighted that HogPro All-Pros are sharing their finds here.
Mailbag: Why is the Magical World Invisible to Muggles?
September 7, 2011 by 10 Comments
A note from Christopher De Morrow about seeing and not-seeing in the series:
Dear John,
I recently finished Order, and came across a passage that seems to make sense of an aspect of the series that I’ve been wondering about. Everyone in the parallel magical world is able to hide their great secret, although it seems pretty haphazzard. So many of the people, actions, and even buildings of the magical world intrude upon our own muggle world that it seems impossible that they aren’t more widely known. I think Rowling let us in on the principal reason why when the group visits Mr. Weasley at St. Mungo’s:
Mailbag: King’s Cross Gaffe in Deathly Hallows Lectures
September 5, 2011 by 3 Comments
It would hurt to learn what a doofus I am if readers were not so wonderfully kind in presenting my mistakes in their letters to me. I give you this note from Bill Davis about my Harry Potter’s Bookshelf and Deathly Hallows Lectures as a case in point. He wrote (and I share this with his permission):
John,
I just read “The Deathly Hallow’s Lectures” and “Harry Potter’s Bookshelf”. I found them to be quite interesting. However, in both books (and I suspect some of your other Harry Potter books), there are frequent references to King’s Cross tube station. You stress the significance of this being an underground location.
YouTube: Harry Potter Piano Magic
September 5, 2011 by 1 Comment
Thanks to Deborah for this and for yesterday’s Doonesbury Shared Text link!
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