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I normally do my annual re-read of Harry Potter during Christmastide (maybe this coming Christmas I’ll do a post surveying the place of Christmas in the Wizarding World), but I didn’t get to it this…
Every time I read Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, I am struck, rather uncomfortably, by certain similarities between myself and boy-Voldemort. When Dumbledore shows Harry his memory of first meeting ten-year-old Tom Riddle, we…
There are many books I have read after my childhood, but which are still children’s books, like J. R. R. Tolkien’s Smith of Wooton Major; George MacDonald’s The Princess and the Goblin and The Princess…
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince does not usually rate high in terms of my favorites in the series, not because of any deficiencies, it just isn’t one I normally think of. This is likely…
Recently an article went up on The Atlantic by writer Colleen Gillard titled, “Why the British Tell Better Children’s Stories.” A friend sent it to me today and I will admit initially to…
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