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Alchemy

Chapter 4: The Most Magically Powerful Number of Potters

by Travis Prinzi August 22, 2009

Chapter 4 of the Deathly Hallows Read-Through is brought to you by Lily Luna! In Chapter 4 we get many echoes of the past and foreshadowings of the future set in an alchemical framework. First off in this chapter we get a completion of the farewell to the Dursleys with Harry reminiscing about his old [...]

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The End of the White Stage

by Travis Prinzi April 25, 2007

John Granger is intending a post in the near future on Snape’s place in Harry’s alchemical transformation, which should be great reading.  He linked this site recently, and I did some browsing and found this description of the state of the soul at the end of the White Stage: The whitening is a phase when [...]

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Alchemy Proved!

by Travis Prinzi March 1, 2007

This is big news (at least in my very strange world of thinking about Harry Potter): John Granger has found a quote that should finally put to rest all the doubters about the alchemical framework of the Harry Potter series: I’ve never wanted to be a witch, but an alchemist, now that’s a different matter. [...]

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A Delay

by Travis Prinzi June 23, 2006

I promised some posts on alchemy. I’m getting there.  I’ve been working with a Jungian view, but this weekend I’ll be picking up Titus Burckhardt’s book on alchemy, and I want to work a bit with both views before post significantly on that topic. Until then, brush up a bit on literary alchemy as it [...]

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Harry Potter, Perelandra, and Alchemy

by Travis Prinzi September 21, 2005

The alchemical framework of Harry Potter and C.S. Lewis’ “Perelandra.”

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