You Bet Their Lives: Putting the Odds on Future Deaths
by Bill Hammon It’s been speculated over and over again. Who will die? How, and when will it happen? How will it affect Harry? What purpose does it serve to the story? Some scenarios...
by Bill Hammon It’s been speculated over and over again. Who will die? How, and when will it happen? How will it affect Harry? What purpose does it serve to the story? Some scenarios...
by Later Player As this essay begins, keep in mind a solitary fact of its contents. This is not an essay intended to make any persons jump ship, nor an essay intended to prove...
Many readers (myself included) were disappointed to not see any real progress in the R/Hr dynamic in OotP, as there definitely was âsomething going onâ in GoF (JKR words, not mine). After all, Harry...
by Esther Kleinig I’ve been quite disappointed recently – I’ve yet to find a rational analysis of who might die in HBP. (I missed out on the theories before OotP and I don’t want...
When little Ginny is first introduced in “Sorcerer’s Stone”, she’s obviously starstruck with Harry. Over time, that changes – as do they.
…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.
In this week’s Caption Contest image, Albus Dumbledore distracts Cornelius Fudge in Hagrid’s pumpkin patch. Read all of the winning captions for this week’s contest now!
by Dan The following was actually written two weeks after Gryffindor Tower #15 came out. Feel free to jot on down to the end of the plus signs if you really don’t feel like...
In this week’s Caption Contest image, Ron receives a Howler for the first time in front of his friends. Read all of the winning captions for this week’s contest now!
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