On Thursday night last week, James Thomas, Travis Prinzi, and I, the Potter Pundits collectively, did our first live PotterCast program with video feed. It was a lot of fun, as always, with the usual laughs, insights, interruptions, and graciousness of three friends talking about books they love.
The format of the show, fortunately or unfortunately (depending on how you feel about listening to some one else talk at length), does not allow any of us to explore any particular topic at much depth. We’re volleying like a three-way tennis match rather than running marathons solo. I hope this week, consequently, to write out two or three things about names here that I could only touch on in the show last Thursday before we veered off what I was trying to get at (to talk about goblin names and flower references and other fascinating stuff we had to squeeze in).
Before I do that, though, I wanted to share a wonderful letter I received this week on the subject of names from Miriam Greenwald (great name!). She’s reading Harry Potter’s Bookshelf and wrote to share what I think is a key insight about the humor and satirical quality of Mrs. Rowling’s names most Americans almost certainly don’t ‘get.’ [Read more…]
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