Hand-Me-Downs
by Robbie Fischer Such is life in a large, not-very-well-off family. Ron Weasley is the sixth of seven children, and everything he owns is worn-out, second-hand stuff. Hand-me-downs. Second-hand stuff. Or at best, hand-knitted...
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Voldemort’s Core
by Jo M. “Why does Voldemort/Tom Riddle have a Phoenix Feather from Fawkes in his wand?” This is a question I have thought about for some time now, and I’ve finally decided to write...
The Department of Mysteries: Osama Bin Voldemort and George W. Fudge
by Bob Sindeldecker Part of the brilliance of Jo Rowling is the way she ties the characters and events of her fantasy world into their counterparts in Our World. In this essay I will...
Ordinary Harry and the Final Confrontation
by Brandon Ford Before I begin, I must thank the wonderful people at Mugglenet for having a momentary lapse in common sense and actually giving me a regular column. They don’t realize they have...
Spinners and Detours and Felix, Oh My!: Speculations Galore
by Brandon Ford A wonderful individual emailed me a few days ago after reading my Lost Day articles and asked if I thought the door on JKR’s site would open on Halloween. I told...
The Underground Lake #9: Ordinary Harry and the Final Confrontation
by Brandon Before I begin, I must thank the wonderful people at Mugglenet for having a momentary lapse in common sense and actually giving me a regular column. They don’t realize they have opened...
The North Tower #33: On Blood and Princes
…I admit, I was persuaded that the HBP was none other than Tom Marvolo Riddle, and though I still think that my arguments are quite good, they were based on two main faulty assumptions: 1) that the HBP storyline was connected to CoS (i.e. that it remained inexplicitly in that book and hadn’t been removed altogether) and 2) that the duality of the character Tom/Voldemort was such (in JKR’s mind) that Tom and Voldemort could be considered separate characters of sorts (which would tally with Dobby’s use of “He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named” in CoS and the Changeling Hypothesis). Clearly I was wrong. It happens.
Today, I’ll look deeper into the mysteries of blood and princes, try to create some sort of base for future analysis, and maybe reach some new conclusions on who the prince might be.
The Underground Lake #8: Spinners and Detours and Felix! Oh, My!: Speculations Galore
by Brandon A wonderful individual emailed me a few days ago after reading my Lost Day articles and asked if I thought the door on JKR’s site would open on Halloween. I told this person that since she...
The Magic Quill #26: The Freestyle Event, Part 2
“The most intense five minutes of my life, up to that day, began. The final of the Owlympic Freestyle Duel, between me and my most hated enemy, Sid Shmedly…”
Spanky continued his story, while a small audience of invisible, veiled, and masked witches and wizards listened in rapt silence–broken only by an occasional sneeze as a sizzle of firewhisky got up someone’s nose.
