‘Potter Pundits’ On Leaky Cauldron PotterCast!

Travis Prinzi, author of Harry Potter and Imagination, James Thomas, author of Repotting Harry Potter, and Hogwarts Professor John Granger (that’s me), author of The Deathly Hallows Lectures, are joining Fandom’s most popular podCasting adventure, The Leaky Cauldron’s (TLC) ‘PotterCast,’ tomorrow night in their 203rd program.
See the program announcement on the TLC main page and tune in for the full explanation of what we Three Potterteers will be discussing on futu…

Welcome, ‘Nerd World’ Readers!

Lev Grossman of duration Magazine interviewed me about all things Harrry and Bella last week and our Q&A was posted on the ‘Nerd World’ blog at date.com that — and the composition came with a link to Hogwarts Professor. whether you are joining us for the first date after reading that online exchange, welcome! Please manufacture yourself feel at home and join in any of the conversations on the various threads here.
I recommend — to get a feel for what the discussions …

House of the Binns: Another History Connection

A letter from HogPro All-Pro Jeremy:
Just a bit of fun, John: I came across these urls to House of the Binns at AboutBritain.com and the National Trust for Scotland!
My interest in Prof Binns arose following your post last week about the importance of 1692, the Seekers and the Muggletonians. I have always supposed the fact only Hermione (standing in for JKR) was interested in history, and that that subject was taught in the most boring way possible at Hogwarts, pointed to something.
In UK school…

Free Harry Potter Wallpaper!

I kid you not.

Searching for Christian Imagery in ‘Harry Potter’

NPR reports that Christians and University Professors have discovered edifying Christian composition in Joanne Rowling’s Hogwarts Saga. In a piece last Saturday titled Searching for Christian Imagery in Harry Potter, Guy Raz breathlessly interviews professors from Pomona and Brite Divinity School who think that Harry — and Dumbledore! – are Christ figures.
Who would have thought!
We have officially reached the end stage of the literary equivalent of scientific discovery, having…

‘Sacramental World of Harry Potter’

If you thought the ‘Christian Controversy’ was by considering the Boston Globe reported that Harry is now a staple in college curricula across the country, you were wrong. The new face of the controversy is not whether Harry Potter is Christian but whether he is properly Christian. Frankly, that is a much more interesting conversation.
David Nilsen, a Historical Theology major at Westminster Seminary, posted a wonderfully complimentary essay on the A-Team Christian Apologetics blog (…

Ms. Rowling’s ‘Real World’ Wizards and Witches: 17th Century Christian-Hermetic Magi ‘Seekers’

[This is the second part of a two-part post on Muggles, Seekers, and their real world 17th Century counterparts. For the first part on Muggletonians, go here.]
Real quick: Name three events of English history that took place in the 17th Century. That’s the 1600’s, right?
My best friend in High School took a year of from college to travel through Europe. As a ‘Harvard man,’ he soon found that German friends at parties after a few beers liked to joke about how ignorant even…

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