Everyone look up in the sky frequently today. The flying Ford Anglia from Chamber of Secrets has been stolen!
The blue Ford Anglia 7990 TD used in the Potter films had been parked under tarpaulin at South West Film Studios in St Agnes, Cornwall, when it was stolen between Wednesday and Thursday.
My guess [...]

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The following is the final installment of the brief discussion I had with Richard Abanes over some of the issues surrounding the Harry Potter novels.

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Apparently a musical group called The Wyrd Sisters is taking Warner Brothers to court over the alleged use of their name without permission in Goblet of Fire. My first thought in response was that Shakespeare wrote about a group of witches called “The Weird Sisters” in MacBeth (JKR’s favorite Shakespearian play, by the way), [...]

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Here is the next section of the short discussion between myself and Richard Abanes on the Harry Potter novels. In this, we get into issues such as whether or not JK Rowling’s profession of Christianity is specific or generic and whether or not John Granger is playing fast-and-loose with JKR’s materials.

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I’ve taken work off Novemer 18 to be sure I get to see Goblet of Fire right away. I’m really looking forward to this one, especially Ralph Fiennes’ portrayal of Voldemort. I’ll keep you posted with a few news tidbits as we approach the movie’s release.
The young actors seem to have [...]

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Two days ago, I posted the first few exchanges of a short discussion I had with Richard Abanes, outspoken critic of Harry Potter. Abanes is the author of two books addressing the series, Harry Potter and the Bible, and Harry Potter, Narnia, and the Lord of the Rings.
The posting of this discussion, of course, [...]

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I’ve been saying for a while that if the Goblet of Fire movie is going to be faithful to the book, the book’s climax will earn it a PG-13 rating. Turns out this is true in America and England (which gave it a 12A, a basic equivalent less one year).
I wonder if [...]

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About a month ago when I decided to give Sword of Gryffindor its own domain name and a new site design, I started manually transferring posts from the old site over here. Richard Abanes, published author and outspoken Harry Potter critic discovered the site before it went public and in doing so, came across [...]

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Are the Harry Potter books Christian? I don’t know for sure.
Is J.K. Rowling a Christian? Well, she says she is:
“Yes, I am,” she says. “Which seems to offend the religious right far worse than if I said I thought there was no God. Every time I’ve been asked if I believe in God, I’ve said [...]

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