Sorry about the absence from the weBlog this last week! End of term duties here at Valley Forge and our celebrations of Nativity on Sunday, not to mention re-organizing and re-writing Unlocking Harry Potter: Five Keys for the Serious Reader for the wizard at Zossima Press to send off to the printers, have kept me from the fun here! God allowing, I’ll post something brief more often as we prep for exams at school.
Today’s exciting news is that Travis Prinzi edited his podCast interview with Wendy B. Harte and myself that we did on western New Year’s Day. I hope I didn’t say anything especially bone-headed or, if I did, that Travis was able to cut it out during the edit. Please write out below all the mistakes you think I made!
I drove to Boston this weekend for Nativity services at the St. John Chrysostomos Mission in Saugus (if you live up that way, you really should go). My daughter Hannah drove the minivan with my wife co-piloting, so I was in the back with the other six children. What a hoot! We listened to Order of the Phoenix tapes (Scholastic, Jim Dale) and I was delighted by several inspirations about the Disillusionment Charm (and postmodernism), the Thestrals (and existential epistemology), and Voldemort’s narrative misdirection (and Rowling’s much bigger twist) that I look forward to sharing with you at HogPro.
Thank you for stopping by — and Merry Christmas!
Post-posting: If you haven’t been following the comment boxes on Dragon’s blood, you’ve missed a few more references from canon. Fascinating that Dragon’s steak has healing properties, no?
I am late, but merry Christmas to all Orthodox Christians – and Happy New year. Do you celebrate the feast of the Epiphany, as well? In that case, I’m not too terribly late. )