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The Doom Bar is a location that may show up in "Troubled Blood"

Bathilda's Notebook / The Quibbler

“Troubled Blood” in Cornwall

In anticipation of the imminent release of “Troubled Blood”, Dr. Beatrice Groves predicts that the upcoming novel will include Cornish myths, occult presences, and a mysterious place known as the Doom Bar.

Bathilda's Notebook / The Quibbler

Handfasting in “The Cuckoo’s Calling” and “Harry Potter”: A Discovery of a Walt Whitman Poem?

Dr. Beatrice Groves argues that the unnamed poem Lula Landry recites in “The Cuckoo’s Calling” is Walt Whitman’s “Of the Terrible Doubt of Appearances” – a poem that connects to the theme of handfasting in both “The Cuckoo’s Calling” and “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince”.

The translated title of "The Ickabog" is displayed in French, Italian, German, Spanish, and Brazilian Portuguese.

Bathilda's Notebook / The Quibbler

The Names of “The Ickabog” – Part 1

Dr. Beatrice Groves reveals the meaning behind the names of “The Ickabog” and explains how this newest fairy tale connects not only to the “Harry Potter” series and “Casual Vacancy” but also to such diverse artists as Shakespeare, Keats, and Monty Python.