Most probably this will be my last HP related post here ( Read more... )

These months I'm moving my HP books out of my office (as most probably I won't teach [history of] philosophy courses featuring Harry Potter again).

Cornelia Rémi's great Harry Potter Bibliography is still alive, but my academic interest in HP has ended. So there won't be any new additions to my HP database (which contains a topical approach to the ( Read more... )

As announced on this blog on 2010-12-03: Theoria magiae non est magia mere theoretica (ut probatur) will lose its focus on things HP. I'm saying Goodbye to the metapotterverse.

Scholarly potterism as of now has not come to an end, - this is well documented in (and by) Cornelia Rémi's magnificent Harry Potter Bibliography, which has recently (2011- ( Read more... )

Just to say: This Blog is still alive. And I plan to post a (very short) review of The ultimate Harry Potter and Philosophy (edited by Gregory Bashham, published 2010, and read by me in November) sometime this month or early next year ( Read more... )

Cornelia Rémi's Harry Potter Bibliography (the place to look for people interested in more or less scholarly texts on Harry Potter) has been updated once again (this time on 2010-04-10 ( Read more... )

Last Sunday the parish priest used in his sermon Harry's entry into Hogwarts as a simile of the start of a spiritual journey transforming both the person on that voyage and his environment ( Read more... )

The Harry Potter business (and parts of the fandom) seem to be in some decline:

• I was not able to get an audio version of PS read by Stephen Frey (which I wanted to have as a gift pr christmas) via amazon.


• I've almost finished reading CoS (in the German version) to my daughter, and up to now she has not requested that the next book I should read ( Read more... )

Some things do continue, and sometimes that's a good thing, like in this case:
Cornelia Rémi's Harry Potter Bibliography (the place to look for people interested in more or less scholarly texts on Harry Potter) has been updated once again (this time on 2009-10-13).

She writes:
Even information about works in progress, ongoing doctoral ( Read more... )

At http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/352678/windows-7-spanks-harry-potter you can read (under the title "Windows 7 spanks Harry Potter").

"The launch of Windows 7 has superseded everyone’s expectations, storming ahead of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows as the biggest-grossing pre-order product of all-time, and demand is still going strong," claims ( Read more... )

Some things do continue, and sometimes that's a good thing, like in this case:
Cornelia Rémi's Harry Potter Bibliography (the place to look for people interested in more or less scholarly texts on Harry Potter) has been updated once again (this time on 2009-07-31).