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As Avellina and I slowly collected articles for our Harry Potter issue of the magazine, we were astounded when story after story came in, all about everyone’s least favorite teacher, Severus Snape, and nearly all…
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…
It took my friend Sarah two years to convince me to read the Harry Potter series. I was in middle school and, as an introverted misfit recently transplanted from homeschool to Catholic school, I had…
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…
Year: 1996 Filming: Color Length: 100 minutes Genre: Comic book/Action/Adventure Maturity: PG Director: Simon Wincer Personal Rating: 3.5 Stars Heroes today must brood. Failing that, they must have a “complexity” of some sort. This is…
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…
Samwise Gamgee is one of J.R.R. Tolkien’s most beloved characters. He is loyal, brave, and selfless. At the mere mention of his name many images rise to the minds of fans and pull…
Recently I was watching Return of the Jedi to celebrate the release of The Force Awakens (which I have not seen yet, but when I do, I will be posting a review). As a teenager,…
On a remote desert planet overlooked by the rest of the galaxy, the pensive figure of a young farm boy watches the twin suns sink below the horizon. As darkness settles over the barren landscape,…
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