Thank you to all readers and commenters here at Sword of Gryffindor! In just two months, you’ve made this little side project of mine a lot of fun, not to mention a tad overwhelming! I certainly did not expect the amount of traffic this site has seen, though I am very grateful. [...]

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Is Harry a “Budding Bodhisattva”? No, but an interesting article nonetheless, particularly on the issue of Harry as a role model.
Harry Potter raising funds for Hospice. I did a thesis on Hospice many moons ago.
Lots of theories going around about there being more than one “Unbreakable Vow” playing into the [...]

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J.K. Rowling is getting geared up to write the seventh Harry Potter book.
Any bets on how long she’s going to take to write it?

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Carrie Birmingham’s excellent article, “Harry Potter and the Baptism of the Imagination,” can now be found at Hogwarts Professor.
Here’s an excerpt:
It is true that Harry is not a model compliant child. In Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry saves his friend Ginny Weasley from certain death, yet Professor McGonagall feels compelled to comment [...]

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A summary of Christmas in Harry Potter. Merry Christmas.

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A summary of what we know and don’t know about horcruxes in Harry Potter.

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How good people use good magic for good purposes in Narnia as well as Harry Potter.

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Over time, as I read and re-read the Chronicles of Narnia and the Harry Potter books, I want to draw the parallels between Aslan and Gryffindor and highlight their status as Christ symbols. Let’s lay the initial groundwork.
Aslan is the manifest Christ symbol of Lewis’ Narnia books. Son of the Emperor over the [...]

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Is the magic in Narnia “Christian” while the magic in Harry Potter “occultic”?

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My Narnia Review is up at Restless Reformer. I tried to keep it simple, since the entire world is reviewing the movie.
Here’s a random observation about the Narnia movie: If Gryffindor House were called to war out on a battlefield, what do you think their camp would look like? Yeah…red and gold [...]

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Just checking in with everyone. I’m back from my weekend trip to Nashville (great trip, excellent show at the Ryman). I’ll hopefully get back to blogging in the very near future, though I spent my day off on airplanes and didn’t have the time to write like usual. I finished another reading [...]

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I’m away for the weekend, so I thought I’d send you around the Gryffindor Common Room before I go.
A few new sites have come to my attention that might be of interest to you.
Muggle Matters - Here are some Christian folks blogging about Harry Potter who are fellow fans of John Granger’s approach.
The [...]

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There’s a flurry of discussion about whether or not Harry will die in the last book, as well as the related issue of whether or not Harry is a horcrux. Next week, I’ll do some summary and speculation on the horcrux issue, but for now, the Poll Troll has a question:
What do you think will [...]

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Will Harry die in the seventh book?

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For years, believers in Christ have been captivated and inspired by the resurrection of Aslan in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. Aslan explained that it was the result of the deeper magic from before time. Lewis, of course, was not trying to portray what we might call “pagan” or “occulting” magic. He was [...]

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