How to get it right - and how it gets wrong:

http://wemyss.livejournal.com/79776.html

Let us talk seriously about lineages, genealogies, and heirships.

Bulstrodes, Potters, Crouches ... Arms and the Man, really.

This is a brief look at the heraldry depicted in the new Black pedigree recently glimpsed, and its implications.

The Americanisation of Harry Potter

Hi, I'm pretty new to the HP fandom and offer this fairly mild rant about something that is consistently annoying and irritating me as I read my way through the gargantuan amount fan fiction out there . Please read at you peril. *g*

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When I took down my, well, rant on Brit-picking and Harry Potter being "British" some days ago, I had every intention of re-drafting and posting it up on here to clarify my point. However, the more I think about it, the less I have to say, and those very posters who tore apart my original post made my point for me, really (though that wasn't the ( Read more... )

Hi, I'm new... came over from quickquote the other day to check out the "Is Harry British?" essay, which now seems to be gone ( Read more... )