Harry’s Hero Journey: Is He Going Through the Veil in Deathly Hallows?
If I have neglected one key here at HogPro that I discuss at length in Unlocking Harry Potter: Five Keys for the Serious Reader, it is Harry’s Hero Journey. In Unlocking I explain it in great detail...
View ArticleTale of Two Cities: Why We Should Expect a Beheading in Deathly Hallows
A week or so ago, my computer mailbox filled up with e-owls from friends everywhere about an article that had appeared on the MSN network. Called “Death of Harry Potter Makes Mythological Sense,” it...
View ArticlePDay Minus One: Prediction #7 “Does Harry Die?”
Here are the Six Previous Predictions in this Series for your convenience and easy reference: Prediction #1: “Deathly Hallows Will Be Very Much Like the First Six Harry Potter Novels” (with 3...
View ArticleThe King of the Golden River – Ruskin
Another tale of three brothers, subtitled ‘The Black Brothers: A Legend of Stiria,’ this fairy tale by the very young John Ruskin (1841) should get you in the mood for Tales of Beedle the Bard. I...
View ArticleSearching for Christian Imagery in ‘Harry Potter’
NPR reports that Christians and University Professors have discovered edifying Christian content in Joanne Rowling’s Hogwarts Saga. In a piece last Saturday titled Searching for Christian Imagery in...
View ArticleMyth Placement: How and Why Popular Media Monkeys with Mythology–Part 2
In the early 1980s, Joseph Campbell indicated that mythology had fallen out of favor in the media, but he could not have foreseen the rampant popularity of mythological themes, characters and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
New C. S. Lewis Work in Print: Aeneid Selections
This is exciting news. A. T. Reeves has edited C. S. Lewis’ translations of Virgil’s Aeneid, which consist of long passages from Books 1, 2, and 6. I assume these are the best known sections, most...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Guest Post: Katniss Everdeen as Female Hero Archetype
Wayne Stauffer teaches writing and literature at Houston Community College in Houston, Texas. He has taught a Literature and Film class on the Harry Potter books and films and is preparing one on the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Guest Post: Kylo Snape? Is ‘The Force Awakens’ the Eighth Harry Potter Story?
Kylo Snape? by Emily Strand I know it’s hard to believe. It’s even harder to admit, but until this fall I’d never seen Star Wars. Any of them. I was too young to watch the original films in the 1970s...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Three Spoiler-Free Reasons to See The Last Jedi
Fresh from my first viewing of Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi, here are my relatively spoiler-free impressions of the film. (Read on if you’re okay knowing some generalities about the film, with...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Attack of The Last Jedi
SPOILER ALERT: Go see Star Wars: The Last Jedi already, will you? Quit dragging your Jedi boots! Then come back and read this piece, and tell us what you think in the comments. My favorite Star Wars...
View Article
