Beautifully done by Red Hen Publications, this is content of the back cover for the special Azkatraz edition of Hog’s Head Conversations: Essays on Harry Potter. Note the charities that will be helped with purchases of this volume at Azkatraz!
Our next guest post comes from Arabella Figg! ~ Travis
This is my first post here, and what a chapter to work on! So, no metaphorical Dung Bombs, please. (All page references are from the American edition.)
Sectumsempra could well have been titled Truth or Consequences, as deceit plays the starring role. Moreover, two events we’ve long-anticipated—a confrontation between Harry and Draco, and another kind between Harry and Ginny—occur.
The chapter begins with good news—Katie Bell’s return and the Ron/Lavender and Ginny/Dean breakups, Harry can now pursue Ginny, but fears Ron will disapprove; is he right (Ron has previously indicated how he would feel)? He returns Katie to the Quidditch team, displacing Dean who has played most of the year; was this fair? [click to continue…]
- Journey to the Sea, Issue 12 is posted! Great stuff in here on Hades/Death in mythology. I’m really looking forward to reading through this issue.
- HP Progs’ Episode 101 is an interview with Steve Vander Ark about the Harry Potter Lexicon
- Cory Godbey is doing Tolkien tribute work: Here’s Bilbo, and here’s Gandalf. Love ‘em both.
- The Tolkien Professor is working his way through lectures on The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Looks like a great set of lectures. Free subscription through iTunes (HT to Amy Sturgis)
- Janet Batchler continues her re-read of Harry Potter: Here’s Book 5!
Rowling and Bloomsbury Accused of Plagiarism
June 15, 2009A Yahoo! article indicates that a legal action filed in England is claiming that J.K. Rowling copied significant portions of Goblet of Fire from a 1987 children’s book written by Adrian Jacobs, called Willy the Wizard.
It named the estate’s trustee as Paul Allen, and said that Rowling had copied “substantial parts” of “The Adventures of [...]