by Travis
This video is particularly interesting in light of conversation we’ve had here about authorial intent and information revealed outside of the seven-book canon. (HT to HogPro)
I really have to get that podcast done on authorial intent.

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by Travis
Blogengamot Tech-Elf Ben sent me an email today alerting me that the featured article at Wikipedia today is “Religious Debates over Harry Potter,” and SoG gets a mention in the section on Dumbledore’s sexuality. Not only do we get mentioned, but Dave is quoted (though, unfortunately, it doesn’t actually say that…it does link [...]

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by Travis
This is just a short, bare bones pubcast - no music, nothing fancy. Back to regular podcasts in the new year!
Happy Christmas!

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by Travis
The busy-ness of the season (well, and Matthew’s new twins) has got the Blogengamot quite tied up and unable to write as much as normal right now. We’ll try to get up more Dickens discussion soon, but it’s quite possible that we’ll finish up that discussion after Christmas Day; Part Three is available [...]

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by Travis
I’ve just finished Colin Duriez’s helpful book, A Field Guide to Harry Potter. This is probably one of the better examples of a Harry Potter manual one will be able to find. The first half the book is given to literary analysis, touching lightly on a wide variety of subjects, including analysis [...]

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by Travis
Audio of Part One of Rowling on Leaky.
John Granger changes his tune about whether or not Rowling should keep talking.
I’ve not changed mine, but I’ll digest the new material, and we’ll have some good discussion, I’m sure.

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by Travis
Amazon.com won the auction for Tales of Beedle the Bard, and there are picture and information on the stories here.

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by Travis
Just a reminder that Part 2 of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, read by B.J. Harrison at The Classic Tales, is released today.  Dave has started our discussion on the first part with a helpful post setting the stage for Scrooge’s journey, and we’ll have more posts in the upcoming week.
Also on the docket for [...]

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by Travis
Update 2, New Poll: In light of the Gambon discussion, I thought I’d link an article I stumbled across a couple weeks ago: McKellen turned down less superior Potter role. The article doesn’t seem clear to me whether there was an official offer to McKellen, or if he was just responding to [...]

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by Dave
I’ve said before that Victorian Era novels (whether British or American) have always left me cold. It may be a failing on my part, but if you put passages from Thomas Hardy, George Eliot, Henry James, or the Brontes in front of me, I’d have a difficult time distinguishing between them. Dickens [...]

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By Matthew
JK Rowling has just added some new and interesting information to her website.
Follow these links
Last four months
Documentary
Hary and Voldemort in the forest
What was that on King’s Cross Station?

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by Travis
Happy St. Nicholas Day.  (I know that’s about 28 minutes too late…)
Today, The Classic Tales Podcast releases the first of a three-part installment of Charles Dickens’ classic, A Christmas Carol.  Throughout the next three weeks, the Blogengamot will be posting at least once a week (hopefully more) on the portion of the story released [...]

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by Johnny
NarniaWeb, a news website devoted to the Narnia films, has posted the first trailer for the next Narnia movie, Prince Caspian, today. This is certainly newsworthy for Harry Potter considering that J.K. Rowling has said in past interviews that C.S. Lewis is a “genius” and that “[h]e was a very learned man and created [...]

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The Classic Tales Podcast is releasing Charles Dickens’ classic ”A Christmas Carol” in three parts over the next three weeks.
Given Rowling’s indebtedness to Dickens, we may try to get a few posts up on this, and I’ll base them on how much of the story has been released by Classic Tales, so that everyone can follow along [...]

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