William Wilberforce

by Travis

Bathsheba?  Anyone have a brilliant idea about why she chose that name?  And here’s a prediction: the internet is about to be flooded with people wanting “Elvendork” as their new screen name.  Which new patron of the pub will claim the name here first?

John Granger asks about Elvendork, and at Suite101, I write at length about Wilberforce.  You’ve got to be a real (elven)dork to come up with almost 600 words of analysis on this 800 word story, but here you are:

The Harry Potter Prequel

The take-home point: “Wilberforce” pulls together two strains of thought in Rowling’s construction of the Harry Potter series – Christian influence and social justice.

Also, I was very honored today to receive an Editor’s Choice Award for my article J.K. Rowling’s Harvard Speech.

I’ll be interested in more of the pub’s thoughts on the three names – Wilberforce, Bathsheba, and Elvendork - and the story as a whole.  (Only an elvendork would think this hard about three names embedded in an 800 word story.)

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