Cornelius Fudge’s Tyranny Primer
by Robbie Fischer The behavior of the Ministry of Magic, particularly Fudge and Umbridge, in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, makes for a nursery book on the arts and sciences of tyranny....
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Learn Spanish By Reading Harry Potter!
by Robbie Fischer This past week, I read Harry Potter y la piedra filosofal, which happens to be the Spanish version of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s/Sorcerer’s Stone. Big deal! Millions of Spanish-speaking people can say...
The Burrow: Reconciling Percy
by Tammy Nezol Although I was not surprised by Percy’s actions in Book 5, I found myself cursing the rat-faced weasel. Why? Percy has shown signs from Book 1 about how far he takes...
CC #075: Week of March 21, 2004
In this week’s Caption Contest image, Petunia and Vernon find themselves in the Jurassic age. This is a special Maniacal Month caption image! Read all of the winning captions for this week’s contest now!
Hermione as Hermes
by Nikko B. As long as we have been reading about Hermione, we have known that her name is derived from that of Hermes the messenger to the Greek gods. At first glance the...
The Power and How It Will Be Used
by Larissa First of all, I think that Harry will indeed kill/destroy/vanquish the Dark Lord. It would not be very sensible of JKR to leave a seven book series right back at where it...
Wizarding Images: Real or Memorex?
by Joshua Bradshaw By now we’ve become comfortable with the idea that photographs, paintings, and even tapestries in the wizarding world can move and even react to the environment to a degree. But how...
The North Tower #20: Songs of the Sorting Hat
Okay, so today I want to take a closer look at what I think is the most poetic and one of the most interesting aspects of the books – the Sorting Hat’s songs. I feel that there are clues to be found here, especially regarding questions on the different houses, the characters in them and the future structure of JKR’s story as a whole.
So far, we have three songs available to us. I suggest you go here and read them over again before reading the following. All set? Okay, here we go.
The Burrow: Secret Agent Man
by Nancy Paulette In a recent online chat, J.K. Rowling said that, in Order of the Phoenix, Percy was acting entirely of his own accord. This rules out one popular theory: that Percy had...
