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HogPro BookstoreContactHogwarts ProfessorThoughts for the Serious Reader of Harry PotterRowling Interview Transcript and NotesOctober 21, 2020 by John 2 Comments Rowling-Galbraith has given one interview about Troubled Blood in the first month of its publication history, a softball session (Tee-ball?) I complained about the day after its release. So many more important questions she could have been asked! et cetera.I asked my wife to type up a transcript of the interview for ease in reference, and, Serious Striker that she is, it can be found below the jump. Reading through it, I confess my first response to the interview was both understandable in its disappointment think of the work posted here on the Spenser epigraphs and Tarot card spreads alone, neither of which gets more than a head nod and lamentable. The interview is much better and more revealing than I thought.I have numbered the fourteen questions, provided a comment for each, and hope that you will use those numbers and add your own thoughts in the comment thread below. Corrections of the transcript are welcome, of course, as are alternative questions you would have asked The Presence, even if she was only virtually Present. Enjoy! [Read more ]Filed Under: Hog Pro Notes 2020 Harry Potter Academic Conference Recorded Talks Are Now Available OnlineOctober 20, 2020 by Louise Freeman Leave a Comment One of the advantages of the Harry Potter Academic Conference at Chestnut Hill College going online this year is that people from further away could attend, and that several presenters who pre-recorded their talks are sharing them through Youtube, personal websites or other venues. I am including the link to my humor talk here ( Beyond Zonko s: Psychological Explanations of Humor in the Wizarding World ). In addition, I have listed several others below the jump and will continue to add more as I become aware of them. All opinions expressed in the several talks described and linked to below are those of the individual presenters and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of any of the HogwartsProfessor faculty members. [Read more ]Filed Under: Louise Freeman Troubled Blood: The AcknowledgmentsOctober 19, 2020 by John 2 Comments Troubled Blood: The Acknowledgements is a HogwartsProfessor commissioned ( explicitly requested ) Guest Post. Its author, Nick Jeffery, is a longtime and frequent contributor to this website both in the post comment threads and as Go-To-Person for questions the staff here have about Rowling-Galbraith. It is a delight to welcome him to the Faculty Lounge to share his findings about all those named in the Troubled Blood Acknowledgement Page and about a few not mentioned as well. Enjoy!I confess that one of the first things I do when faced with a new Robert Galbraith mystery is to immediately flip to the last pages. Not to spoil the mystery, or even to see how far the Robin-Cormoran relationship will develop, but to peek at the acknowledgements and its glimpse into the private world of J. K. Rowling’s still astonishing life.Of necessity there were no acknowledgements in Cuckoo’s Calling lest the pseudonym be exposed but every book since has a page that lists her thanks in sometimes plain and sometimes intriguing language.Join me after the jump to take a look at the acknowledgements in Troubled Blood. [Read more ]Filed Under: Cormoran Strike, Guest Posts The Virtual Harry Potter Conference 2020October 16, 2020 by John 3 Comments Chestnut Hill College is hosting its annual Harry Potter Conference online this year due to Pennsylvania s draconian Covid measures and the nigh on universal conformity to state demands in this regard by university officials everywhere. The Conference begins today, you can register here, and all the talks can be watched at your at-home leisure via Zoom. The Featured Speakers and panels will present live and answer questions; the great majority of presentations have been recorded to facilitate surety in broadcasting.Three quick notes: [Read more ]Filed Under: Hog Pro Notes Beatrice Groves: Trouble in Faerie Land3 T was Duessa Who Did the Dirty Deed!October 15, 2020 by John 3 Comments Oxford University s Beatrice Groves, author of Literary Allusion in Harry Potter, has written the finale of her three posts about Edmund Spencer and Troubled Blood, posts that are all now up at her MuggleNet page, Bathilda s Notebook. Check out Trouble in Faerie Land – Part 3: Searching for Duessa in “Troubled Blood”.In her capstone post on the subject, Prof Groves does a deep dive into the parallels between the Bad Girl of Spenser s Faerie Queen, Duessa, and the doppelganger murderer of Margot Bamborough in Troubled Blood. She offers along the way fascinating and brilliant catches on the meaning of Cratylic Names in Strike 5 as well as several Spenser and Elizabethan era fun facts that throw light in the dark corner of the Faerie Queen epigraphs.Part Three: Searching for Duessa in “Troubled Blood” is both more accessible and rewarding, I think, to the serious reader unfamiliar with Faerie Queen than Prof Groves first two posts on the subject, ‘Trouble in Faerie Land (Part One): Spenserian Clues in the Epigraphs of Troubled Blood‘ and ‘Troubles in Faerie Land (Part Two): Shipping Robin and Strike in the Epigraphs of Troubled Blood. You do need to read all three, of course, as well as Elizabeth Baird-Hardy s seven part discussion of the Faerie Queen epigraph bonanza here at HogwartsProfessor, to appreciate the fullness of Rowling s use of Faerie Queen as mirroring text both above and within Troubled Blood (i.e., the work is never mentioned in Strike5 but it introduces every Part and chapter as well as the work as a whole). And all this literary detective work has been done within a month of Troubled Blood s publication! My first post on the relationship of Ibsen s Rosmersholm and Rowling-Galbraith s Lethal White, in contrast, was four months out from Strike 4 s publication and Prof Groves did not write about it for almost two years (cf., The Epigraphs of Lethal White: Shipping Strike and Robin ). It goes without saying that there is a lot of heavy lifting to be done still to get at the artistry and meaning of Troubled Blood, but the Serious Strikers of the world, those who read the novels repeatedly rather than once and done, owe a great debt to Profs Groves and Baird-Hardy. Both the speed with which they have written and the quality of the work each has done in bringing to light how Rowling-Galbraith uses Faerie Queen as a support and illuminating backdrop to Troubled Blood will inform all consequent exegesis of the work.Three cheers!Filed Under: Beatrice Groves, Cormoran Strike, Elizabeth Baird Hardy 123464Next Page Email NewsletterSubscribe by email to make sure you don't miss a single post. First Name E-Mail AddressHogwarts Professor Pillar Posts Keys to Understanding J. K. Rowling s Novels and Screenplays

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