Hogwarts Professor

Happy Birthday, Mrs. Murray!

As a birthday gift of sorts, Nick and John close off their month-long celebration of the woman writing under the pseudonyms J. K. Rowling and Robert Galbraith’s life and work with a follow-up look at yester...

Almost there!

For the day before Rowling’s 60th birthday, Nick and John tackle by reader request the never before discussed subject of the Lost Child theme in the author’s more than twenty published works.

They re-introduce the Golden Threads idea — see their

In their antepenultimate Kanreki celebration conversation, Nick and John fulfill a reader request to discuss the book inside Deathly Hallows (one of three actually…), ‘Tales of Beedle the Bard,’ a text that Albus Dumbledore leaves Hermione in his will for her to read and apply to the Horcrux Hunt.

From the Lake side, Nick t...

Nick and John return to the books after Golden Threads and Rings at a reader’s suggestion in order to give a Lake and Shed reading of the original Newt Scamander textbook, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.

Nick relays everything you need to know about the genesis of this work and John talks about Rowling’s comments to Stephen Fry in a 2022 inter...

John traveled to his backyard Mongolian ger, the archetypal circular architectural form, to deliver a firehose introduction to the four essentials of ring writing. He used slides to depict the structure of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone as his brief ‘for instance’ of how Rowling chooses to organize her stories and he provided this list of links for ...