Update: Be sure to read John Granger’s excellent thoughts on the speech, which are far more insightful than my own.  While my favorite quote was Seneca, his was Plutarch.  Thanks for the great work, John.
Yes, there was a gay Dumbledore reference.  
I think it’s also safe to say that, for the most part, John Granger’s [...]

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by Dave
Check out this news article from the Chicago Sun-Times. For a charity event, several major UK authors were asked to write something on a card to be auctioned to raise money to help those with dyslexia:
Rowling used both sides of her card to hand-write a prequel to her seven-book Harry Potter saga.
Rowling’s “prequel” [...]

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No, not that court case.  This one:
Harry Potter author JK Rowling won a landmark privacy ruling in her battle to ban publication of covert long lens pictures taken of her son when he was 18 months old.

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by Dave
The copyright case Rowling brought against Steve Vander Ark goes to trial this week, as I’m sure some of you read. I’m not going to offer up anything new about the case, copyright infringement, or her ownership over her work (authorial or otherwise).
I thought I’d give you a couple of links:
This one takes [...]

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Commentary on two recent J.K. Rowling interviews.
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Adeel Amini Interview
Q&A at University College Dublin

 

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by Travis
Rowling rarely mentions Tolkien, but I’ve found in the process of writing my book that she has far more in common with him than I had previously realized. Chalk it up to the Cauldron of Story (which is precisely what I do, actually….) In the recent interview for El Pais, translated (with [...]

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by Johnny
I watched the documentary, J.K. Rowling - A Year in the Life, and I simply loved it. Airing on ITV in the UK on 30 December 2007 and available online, this documentary is an intimate look into the personal life of J.K. Rowling this past year when Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows was [...]

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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
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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I know I’m a little late reporting this, but I thought it deserved some discussion:
J.K. Rowling has been named “Entertainer of the Year” by Entertainment Weekly.
The magazine said the “Harry Potter” author, who has sold nearly 400 million copies of her boy-wizard series that’s been adapted into a megasuccessful movie franchise, deserved props for getting [...]

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by Travis
I found in my inbox this morning a link to a fascinating Rowling interview, in which once again the spiritual elements of the books are discussed, along with some of Rowling’s own religious history.  John has already got discussion rolling over at HogPro.
It is evident that Rowling intends to continue to talk about her [...]

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J.K. Rowling and Warner Brothers are suing RDR Books for the forthcoming “Harry Potter Lexicon” book by Steve Vander Ark.
In a statement on Wednesday, Rowling said even though she loved fan sites, she hoped to write “the definitive Harry Potter encyclopedia, which will include all the material that never made it into the novels” and [...]

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“Dumbledore was gay;” Christian reactions to the statement; maternal and romantic love in the Harry Potter series
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John Granger’s response
Dr. Amy H. Sturgis’s eyewitness report of the night
The initial SoG discussion
My essay: “Dumbledore is Gay: Welcome to the Culture War”
The text of “The Ballad of Nearly [...]

 

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by Travis
Update: Comments at HogPro by Bob Trexler and Amy Sturgis are well worth your time.
If you’ve not been exposed to the “Culture War” before, welcome. J.K. Rowling has given you your introduction. I am hoping that after reading this post, you’ll run from the Culture War as quickly as I have. By “culture war,” [...]

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Ok, this will be my last post before Prophecy 2007.
Something struck me as I was listening to the audio version of Deathly Hallows: Auntie Muriel, 107 years old, speaks of Dumbledore’s past and the mystery of Kendra’s hiding Ariana as though she were present for the whole thing. Rowling said twice, last time in [...]

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