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James and Lily Potter

Deathly Hallows News & Other Notes

by revgeorge August 29, 2010

Last weekend a test screening of part 1 of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows was held in Chicago.  Denise Roper has put together many of the reviews and notes of this screening on her blog The Lord of the Hallows.  Check it out but note there are plenty of spoilers for the movie.  There’s [...]

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Harry Potter in Person

by Jenna St. Hilaire June 2, 2010

I went into Fred Meyer this afternoon and passed Ginny Weasley just outside the gardening section. No, not Bonnie Wright (my town isn’t that cool.) Just Ginny Weasley–a girl with long red hair, average build and the sort of face I’d pictured Ginny as having, not too far removed from Miss Wright’s. She may have [...]

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Snape’s Love

by Travis Prinzi August 16, 2009

Some time ago, a discussion sprang out of our Half-Blood Prince read-through about Snape’s love for Lily: is it a devoted, virtuous love that moved him to courageous self-sacrifice, or some sort of unhealthy, obsessive infatuation? I think the discussion merits its own post. I’ve looked back to try to summarize all the arguments for [...]

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James Potter’s Invisibility Cloak, Take Two

by Travis Prinzi September 14, 2006

Update: Move along to another essay. JKR destroyed this theory a couple days ago. So much for my attempts at predicting things!  Rowling’s statement doesn’t entirely annihilate the theory, since my particular version of the theory doesn’t have Snape hiding under the cloak at the house while the Potters were killed, but I’m moving on [...]

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James Potter’s Invisibility Cloak

by Travis Prinzi September 13, 2006

Rowling has given a belated answer to a query about which question she’s never been asked but wished she was asked: Why did Dumbledore have James’ invisibility cloak at the time of James’ death, given that Dumbledore could make himself invisible without a cloak? Prior to posting this I had a quick look on-line, and [...]

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