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A Year Ago Today! The Kanreki Series of Lake and Shed Interpretations Begins
15+ hour, 39+ min ago (87+ words) Hogwarts Professor Thoughts for the Serious Reader of Harry Potter The Four "Lake" Pillars of understanding Jo Rowling, the Seven Shed Tools she uses, the Twelve golden Threads " Nick Jeffery and I launched our month long series of Lake and…...
A Pen to Change the World " the Biography of J. K. Rowling by Solomon Schmidt.
3+ week, 2+ day ago (373+ words) Thoughts for the Serious Reader of Harry Potter As John Granger pointed out when the new biography by Solomon Schmidt was announced, he is very young, and his publisher seems to specialise in controversial books by, among others, Woody Allen,…...
Muggle Net Drops Staff, Gets Sued, Disapparates, Reappears Brand New
1+ mon, 19+ hour ago (336+ words) Thoughts for the Serious Reader of Harry Potter In September 2025, though, Topix decided to clean house and start over. They fired everybody and in April 2026 wiped the site clean of its past. As The Leaky Cauldron's "Amanda Kirk' wrote last…...
Rowling Tweets Status of "Sleep Tight, Evangeline:" Sixty Percent of First Draft
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (51+ words) Thoughts for the Serious Reader of Harry Potter Three quick notes about this news! Let me know how you read these migraine inspired'bon mots to her followers on Twixter! Keys to Understanding J. K. Rowling's Novels and Screenplays Copyright "2026 " Prose on Genesis…...
Warren Farha: Memory Eternal!
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (362+ words) Thoughts for the Serious Reader of Harry Potter My take-away from Warren's life and Eighth Day Books, though," is from the sui generis genesis point of the operation. As he explained it years ago in a talk he gave about…...
Rowling's Sarcasm about "Assisted Dying' (Medical Murder) Escapes Fans
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (149+ words) Thoughts for the Serious Reader of Harry Potter Url to Tweet Above A casual reading of Rowling's tweet this morning about the "legalisation of assisted suicide" suggests that she is in favor of making into law the suspension of the…...
Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping" Trailer Released " The Gamesmakers Are Getting Better at Ironic Filmmaking
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (166+ words) Thoughts for the Serious Reader of Harry Potter We've come a long way since the hijacking-via-movie-adaptation of the first book in the series. In that film we were presented with the Gamesmakers as heroes contrary to the point of Suzanne…...
The Cupid and Psyche Myth Retellings: C. S. Lewis" "Till We Have Faces" and J. K. Rowling"s Cormoran Strike Novels
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (236+ words) Thoughts for the Serious Reader of Harry Potter At the Hogwarts Professor Substack page, Nick Jeffery and I both wrote pieces this month about C. S. Lewis'Till We Have Facesand Rowling-Galbraiths Strike-Ellacott mysteries. We then filmed our conversation about why the Serious…...
Guest Post: The Church Across the Street from the Agency's Denmark Street Office
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (163+ words) Thoughts for the Serious Reader of Harry Potter Ed Shardlow visited the church across the street from the Agency office on Denmark Street and sent me some fascinating fotos he took there. I asked him to write up his visit…...
Plants are tricky: Mysterious Sunrise on the Reaping Floral Installations Invite Speculation
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (895+ words) Hogwarts Professor Thoughts for the Serious Reader of Harry Potter Plants are tricky: Mysterious Sunrise on the Reaping Floral Installations Invite Speculation - Timing is everything. In addition to the fact that time plays an integral role in the Hunger Games…...