With The Hallmarked Man on the horizon and J. K. Rowling treating us to a new Twitter Header, Beatrice Groves, Research Fellow and tutor at Trinity College, Oxford, and author of Literary Allusion in Harry Potter, has written a Hogwarts Professor Guest Post: Secrets of the Red Room.
Beatrice Groves – Secrets of the Red Room
June 22, 2024 by 6 Comments
New Hunger Games Prequel Announced, Set to Cover the 50th Games
June 6, 2024 by 2 Comments
When the celebrated prequel to Suzanne Collins’s Hunger Games trilogy, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, was published in 2020, many readers, including the
faculty here at Hogwarts Professor, suspected Collins might be launching a whole new prequel trilogy. Today, Scholastic has just announced the planned March 18, 2025, publication of Sunrise on the Reaping, set forty years after Songbirds and Snakes and twenty-four years before The Hunger Games. This is exciting news on a few fronts, including the choice of today, June 6, to make that announcement, and, of course, we have some guesses and ideas about what will happen in this new installment, set to take place during the fiftieth Games, the year, as Katniss Everdeen tells us that “District 13’s Haymitch Abernathy won the crown” (Catching Fire 37). Join us after the jump for some thoughts and predictions!
Rowling Studies Podcast – Sark, Snark and Censorship
April 10, 2024 by 1 Comment
Join John and Nick as they explore the strange and quirky island of Sark, take a look at the latest J. K. Rowling twitter storms and stand in admiration of her heroic stand against judicial free-speech suppression in Scotland. Sark, Snark and Censorship.
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Roses from Rowling – A Solution at Last!
April 9, 2024 by 4 Comments
My conjecture then was:
1. Assistance in developing or correcting the occult/demonic/satanic aspects of Troubled Blood. He doesn’t appear in the acknowledgments, but perhaps this is understandable given Rowling’s experience of the American evangelical backlash to Potter.
2. Thanks for supporting Johnny Depp, or in response to Manson’s thanks to Rowling for standing with him.
3. Something to do with The Ink Black Heart.
None were particularly compelling, and The Ink Black Heart turned out to be a bust. Much like the mystery of the 50 roses in Career of Evil I had assumed this may be a mystery that would never be solved. That was until last Sunday, when at last there was a plausible explanation.
A Twitter user posted that the roses were for the 1980’s British and Jamaican pop singer Marilyn. Marylin has been a long time supporter of J. K. Rowling and has received more than a little push back from fellow gender non-conforming men as a result.
The story goes that the error was made (presumably by her office, Marilyn not exactly well known outside of his fanbase) and Rowling contacted him to apologise. The story was related by Marilyn himself during a Twitter space, and has this Rowling student convinced. Let me know in the comments what you think, does this close the case?
Rowling Dares Scotland’s Government to Throw Her in Jail for Her Hate Crimes
April 1, 2024 by 1 Comment
It started last month.
Rowling promised a legislator that warned her she would be prosecuted for hate crimes if she continued to call “transgender women” men, i.e., stating a biological fact, that she would be prosecuted in April for committing a hate crime under a new law in Scotland.
Rowling promised him the “mother of all April Fool’s jokes” if he seriously thought she was going to stop speaking the truth for fear of incarceration. [Read more…]
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