If you want to read about LV/TMR as an academic job-search hero: have a look at Fretful Porpentine's obligatory Harry Potter post.

Here are (extremely late, I know) the -rather few - new entries in my Pensieve that resulted from my hitherto last reading of HBP (in April 2007):

• De anima : Spiritus // spirit // Slughorn: Aragog's spirit in the Forewst. //(p. 453)
  
  
• De calibratione : De tempore // but I don't now anyone else who's got a clock like this // Molly Weasley. Cf. DD ( Read more... )

We have it from JKR's own mouth (or, well, website, at URL http://www.jkrowling.com/textonly/en):
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the Giant Squid is actually the world's largest Animagus, which rises from the lake at the eleventh hour, transforms into Godric Gryffindor and...

IMO: That's definitely better than the few lines on Scrimgeour that same website gave us before the ( Read more... )

No, this is not really HP-related, but it is related to magical things in the renaissance, and to fiction about such things, and it is (i.a.) about a plot were a castle mentioned in the first part is raided in a later part (yes, you might think of Hogwarts, PS and HBP …), and, well, it is fun:
The entry "All's Lost by Lust" in Blogging the ( Read more... )

This morning I found in my inbox an email by amazon.de:
Their (maximum) price for "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" (DH) has been reduced from EUR 25 to EUR 19.80.

There are a lot of possible causes: Some of them are:

• DH is an UK publication, and the GBP is tied to galleons and sickles, and Amazon found out that the Euro will gain in value ( Read more... )