Want to download the Half-Blood Prince Teaser Trailer?  HPANA has the links!

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Several thousand people have found this site in the past couple days as a result of searching for the Half-Blood Prince trailer.  Welcome!  The trailer can be found here. 
If you’re new to the site, feel free to check out this welcome post.  Also, you might be interested in our free monthly giveaways.  Our giveaway for [...]

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by Travis
Earlier, there was a Death Eater attack on this blog, and it was down for some time.  Sorry ’bout that!  We’re back up and running, and I’ve added a new feature which should make following conversations a bit easier for some.  You’ve always been able to subscribe to all comments if you’d like, by putting [...]

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by Travis

My review of Portus 2008
John Granger on Potter and medieval studies
Dark Knight fans: If you haven’t read Dave’s post on Joker and Voldemort yet, you should
Dark Knight fans (again): Here are two opposite perspectives on the film - Brant Hansen thinks it’s evidence of the utter boredom of our culture; Jeffrey Overstreet thinks it’s [...]

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By Matthew
Please do yourself a very big service and download B.J. Harrison’s reading of Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Hound of the Baskervilles while it is still available.
It is in six parts and I have been waiting eagerly each week for the next episode. I love to listen to it while having a daily constitutional.  [...]

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by Travis
I want to extend a special welcome to all those who have found The Hog’s Head!  We’re glad to have you here.  Aberforth’s beer is on the house, so we hope you’ll stick around and join the discussion.  Here’s a bullet-point introduction to The Hog’s Head:

Blogengamot: The Hog’s Head is run by the Blogengamot, [...]

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My camera’s zoom doesn’t work, so I wasn’t able to get many good pictures from Portus.  I’ll update this post as I find good Portus pictures from various Harry Potter fansites.
Portus Pictures

Me and Penny on the Podcasting Panel
Half of the Panel and the other half
Jim Dale presentation
Jim Dale at Private Press Meeting (which I attended)

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This will actually be the last Portus update, since I’m flying out too early tomorrow to make it to any of the closing events.  I’ll be writing more on Portus, podcasting, and doing an essay or two at Suite101.  For now, just a few quick updates.
Though I’m convinced of the Christian reading of “King’s Cross,” [...]

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This morning, I got up early enough to make it to the hotel for a small press gathering with Jim Dale.  In the next week or so, I’ll do a podcast with audio clips and reflections on that.  His talk was excellent; he’s a very engaging speaker.
My second talk went well, I think.  ”Hogwarts, A [...]

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Today was an excellent day at Portus 2008!  I attended two roundtable discussions led by Penny of HP Progs, and they were both stellar.  Well done, Penny!  David Gras of Harry Potter Fan Zone led a discussion on the way both Lewis and Rowling include pagan elements in their stories in a way that “bridges [...]

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Just the opening ceremonies tonight. I basically wandered around aimlessly until I ran into Greg and Penny, and then David and his wife (from HP Fan Zone), Karen Kebarle (whom I met at Convention Alley), and Dave and Leanne Bruno.  It was an enjoyable night catching up with these friends.
I’m really tired.  I slept from [...]

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I’m scrambling to get everything packed and ready before waking up at 3am to drive to a friend’s house in Buffalo, who will drive me to the airport, from whence I will fly to Dallas for Portus 2008 (you can still register for the whole conference or day passes!).  Elvendorks from all around will gather [...]

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by Travis
I had a summer reading list planned, but I have the tendency to dabble a little bit here and a little bit there, and I think this summer I’m going to remedy that by burying myself in George MacDonald.  So my reading list is going to be entirely comprised of books and audiobooks by [...]

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by Travis
There are three different matters of mythology I’ve been meaning to write about, and as long as there’s three, I’ll put ‘em all in this myth-mania post.
Myth Matter #1: Journey to the Sea has been launched!

Randy Hoyt, a Hog’s Head patron, whose voice you heard on the last PubCast, has launched an online journal [...]

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by Travis

Harry Potter in the Classroom
Malfoy Actor Cites “Alchemy of Harry Potter”
Why has Rowling referred to the encyclopedia as “The Scottish Book”?
Young Voldemort
Rowling Wins Another Award

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