While you Wait for ‘The Wizarding World…

of Harry Potter’ at Universal Theme Park in Orlando, FL, why not check out Dickens World in the UK? whether you made the commitment to read even half of Dickens’ novels before hopping the pond, that trip could be a life-changing experience! (H/T to Nicholas)

Ronald MacDonald: In the Near Loss of Everything

Not the hamburger clown, but the son of George MacDonald, literary great and scion of the Inkling fraternity. Zossima Press yesterday released In the Near Loss of Everything, a biography of that Ronald MacDonald by Dale Wayne Slusser that focuses on Ronald’s day in America and the book is a ‘wow.’ Please read these blurbs from MacDonald scholars and the Zossima Press news release for why you, the Harry Potter serious reader and lover of imaginative fiction, will want to read In…

George MacDonald: Literary Alchemist?

Sorry to have been out of touch for so distant! Here’s a challenging thought to jump start the All-Pro discussion here at Hogwarts Professor: could George MacDonald, C. S. Lewis’ supposed “master,” have written At the Back of the North Wind, as a work of literary alchemy?
Catherine Persyn at Mythlore thinks so. In her 2006 composition, “In my end is my beginning:” The Finnegans Motif in George MacDonald’s At the Back of the North Wind, she argues in the…

Harry Potter and YouTube Copyright Thoughts

Yes, you can listen to the complete Jim Dale audio recordings of Order of the Phoenix at YouTube. I know that Travis and others won’t want to do that — ever — considering they prefer the Stephen Frye readings, but I was startled to see that. I’ve bought the tapes so I don’t have any legal or ethical qualms about listening to the book online, but isn’t that a copyright violation? What am I lost?

“Witchcraft is Just a Metaphor”

I received a wonderful letter today from a school teacher who had just finished reading Harry Potter’s Bookshelf. After saying very kind things about Bookshelf, she wanted to know what I thought about a comment Ms. Rowling made in a 1999 interview with Dan Hulbert (”Just wild about Harry: committed fans of a young wizard have Scottish scribe J.K. Rowling to thank,” The Atlanta Journal and Constitution, October 22, 1999). In that discussion with an American reporter, the author,…

‘Welcome to Hufflepuff!’

Mitchell and Webb hilarity. Hat tip to Lisa!

Infinitus 2010: Last shout for Early-Bird Discount

That’s right; the lowest registration cost for the next HPEF fan con (July 13-15, 2010) in sultry Orlando, Florida, is only available whether you register before 11:59 p.m. EST on September 17th. I know the Potter Pundits are all hoping to be there — and to see you! Go to the Infinitus 2010 site today and sign up.

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