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Who’s the Hero? Harry or Dumbledore?
The Hog's Head —
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On her blog Quoth the Maven , Janet Batchler has some great comments regarding who is the hero of Harry Potter: Harry Potter or Dumbledore. She’s responding to a story here arguing that Dumbledore is the real hero of the HP series not Harry. Check out both and see what you think. Related Posts Faith in ...1 day ago -
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)
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[Somehow this film, too, slipped through the cracks in my trying to get this blog up to speed. I saw it in July, I think.] Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is the 6th movie in the Harry Potter series based on J.K. Rowling ’s book of the same name . It was directed by David Yates and stars Daniel ...2 days ago -
Four Literary Agents Looking for New Writers
Writinghood —
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Image via Wikipedia The writer today has a tough task trying to get published, if you are not famous like J K Rowling or Stephen King, then you have work to do. Remember, they were in the same position as you. They had faith in their work and it paid off. The Harry Potter book was turned down over twenty times, but ...2 days ago -
California, Alice, and Bond… James Bond
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Not to mention E.B White , J.R.R. Tolkien , Richard Adams , L. Frank Baum , C.S. Lewis , A.A. Milne , J.K. Rowling , and H.G. Wells …. The Southern California auctioneer, Profiles in History , will be auctioning a valuable collection of children’s literature, as well as some collectibles for adults, on ...5 days ago -
C.S. Lewis and The Doctor
The Hog's Head —
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For me, two very important events happened yesterday and today. Yesterday, November 22, 1963, C.S. Lewis died, his death being overshadowed by the assasination of John F. Kennedy. Aldous Huxley also died that day too. Lewis is well known for his Chronicles of Narnia books and also for his Christian ...6 days ago -
Real Life Version Of Potter’s Hogwarts Coming
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The Wizarding World of Harry Potter, the keenly anticipated Florida theme park, will open in the spring of 2010 and allow visitors to tour Hogwarts, buy quidditch gear and drink butterbeer, according to a press release. A 20-acre addition to its Islands of Adventure property, Universal Orlando secured the theme park ...1 week ago -
Can’t trust anyone, then
Bookwitch —
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Not only does it seem that we can’t trust reviewers not to bore us or give too much away, but they want a little extra money for their trouble. (I can tell you that my halo feels really heavy today.) From the same source as the $25 payment for reviews I gather that we can’t expect ’staff picks’ labels in ...1 week ago -
Why Harry Potter and Ginny Weasley are the Least Romantic Literary Couple of the Age
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This post was written in response to the Miami Book Examiners defense of Harry Potter and Ginny Weasley as one of the five most romantic literary couples . Point One: Great literary romances develop in a believable way. The Book Examiner would have you believe that because J.K. Rowling had seven books to write ...1 week ago -
Vatican no fan of ‘deviant’ Twilight
Useless Place Blog —
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The Vatican has spoken out against the new Twilight movie that is sweeping the globe, slamming it as a deviant moral vacuum. Twilight Saga: New Moon, starring Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart, has had sensational box office takings since opening in France and Spain ahead of its US release on Friday. Monsignor ...1 week ago -
J.K. Rowling is NOT the Messiah
Mike Rouse's Diary —
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Far be it for me to lecture more superior people and organisations on the importance of fact-checking, but both Perez Hilton and the Daily Star are WRONG in their stories about J.K. Rowling being the new face of the Labour Party after featuring in a Party Political Broadcast. The millionairess was edited out ...1 week ago -
Booking Through Thursday: Looking Forward to Posterity
Bryan's Book Blog —
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Well, another Thursday is upon us, and that means it is time for yet another Booking Through Thursday prompt. What will it be this week, you ask? Here you go… Prompt: Do you think any current author is of the same caliber as Dickens, Austen, Brontë, or any of the classic authors? If so, who, and ...1 week ago -
J K Rowling - Harry Potter characters sketch
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270 by 160mm., pencil drawing, signed and dated in biro "JKRowling 1999" in lower centre, framed and glazed; together with autograph letter signed ("JKRowling") providing provenance in which the author expresses delight that the picture has "gone to such a good home", declines a lunch invitation, and hopes that one ...1 week ago -
JK Rowling becomes new face of Labour’s working class heroes’
Thaindian News —
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London, Nov 19 (ANI): British author J. K. Rowling has become the new face of Labour’s “working class heroes”, in its bid to win back voters.Rowling, 44, who is the creator of the Harry Potter series, was named in a new video released on November 18 designed to show true “Brit grit”, reports the Daily [...]1 week ago -
Film News Roundup – November 2009 – Week 3
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Hollywood’s Favorite Cowboy Author Cormac McCarthy, 76, talked about love, religion, his 11-year-old son, the end of the world and the movie based on his novel ‘The Road.’ He was just getting going. Novelist Cormac McCarthy shuns interviews, but he relishes conversation. Last week, the author sat down on ...1 week ago -
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
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Title: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Author: J.K. Rowling Published date: July 2007 Publisher: Arthur A. Levine Books Pages: 784 Genre: Children’s/YA Fantasy Source: Personal copy Several months ago I made the decision to reread the entire Harry Potter series even ...1 week ago -
Encountering Harry Potter
Subversive Influence —
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I’m just barely returned from the world of Harry Potter. Having put off reading the books for so long now, I finally gave in and picked up a couple of the books in a used bookstore. After they sat on the shelf for a month or so, I finally started reading. Of course I’ve heard many things about the books, and am ...1 week ago -
Harry Potter Audio Books
Authspot —
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When I first saw it in my down loader I was curious about it. “Audio book – listening instead of reading, well that would be great” – I said in my mind. So, I downloaded it and listened to it. It was good and I love it. A person is reading the whole ...2 weeks ago -
Will Dumbledore’s gay lover be in HARRY POTTER and the DEATHLY HALLOWS films?
GeekTyrant —
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Back in 2007, it caused quite the controversy when Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling said that she envisioned the character of Prof. Dumbledore as gay and that she intended the character of Gellert Grindelwald in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows to be Dumbledore’s lover. She didn’t specify that in the book, ...2 weeks ago -
The stories we read and write
Day By Day Writer —
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Revision update: It’s coming along. I’m still working on the first eight chapters, where I split one chapter into two, and cut down the others a LOT. I still have some research to finish up that could mean I’ll be making changes, but I feel like I’m making some progress, although small steps. Would still love ...3 weeks ago -
Stories overlapping and intertwining
Kaet's Weblog —
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I’ve just started reading Trinity: a novel of Ireland by Leon Uris , as I finished The Professor and the Madman this morning, and this was one my DH expressed an interest in my opinion of. I’ve seen novels by Uris before, but not read any of them. At the moment this is sharing the opening set-piece of ...3 weeks ago
