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Are Rowling’s Works Literary Enough to Merit the Nobel Prize in Literature?
[The Swedish Academy Committee for the Nobel Prize in Literature: Anna-Karin Palm (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna-Karin_Palm), Ingrid Carlberg (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingrid_Carlberg), Anders Olsson (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
A Lake and Shed Conversation about the Lost Mother Golden Thread in J. K. Rowling’s Work
This is the third of three posts about the Lost Mother Golden Thread in the work of J. K. Rowling. The first, Anne Rowling and the Lost Mother Golden Thread in the Works of J. K. Rowling (https://hogwartsprofessor.substack.com/p/anne-rowlin
The Lake, Shed, and Golden Thread Aspects of Rowling Characters’ Repeated Trips Underground
This video podcast is the third in a series of three posts about the Hidden Hold of Horrors Golden Thread in the work of author Rowling-Galbraith. A Golden Thread is a plot point, scene, or character type that recurs repeatedly through an a
Year One of ‘The Hallmarked Man’ at Hogwarts Professor: A Look Back at What We’ve Learned
Nick Jeffery and John Granger met on Wednesday this week to talk about John’s epic ‘Index to the First Year of Reading (https://hogwartsprofessor.substack.com/p/happy-birthday-hallmarked-man-a-hogwarts)Hallmarked Man (https://hogwartsprofes
HBO+ Harry Potter Roll-Out is Heavy with Traditional Symbolism
Nick and John get together to discuss three HogwartsProfessor posts about the All New Hogwarts House Emblems and Rowling’s commentary via three emojis about the recent trailer for the Bronte Studios adaptation of Harry Potter and the Philos
A Conversation about the Symbolism of the Letter 'G' in 'Hallmarked Man'
Nick Jeffery and freshly Shorn & Clean Shaven John Granger sit down to discuss John’s two posts about the symbolism of the Letter ‘G’ in Strike 8. Part One (https://hogwartsprofessor.substack.com/p/the-symbolism-of-the-letter-g-in) of the s
Shanker's 'Old Man,' Leda Strike's Tattoo, Her First Husband's Real Name, and The Dress
Late last month, John shared two theories about the Cormoran Strike series of novels, both from Katya Slonenko, a member of the Reddit r/CormoranStrike online fandom: Dementia, Jewelry, and a Nine Inch Cock: The Mystery of Shanker’s ‘Old Ma
A Pen to Change the World: Conversation with Solomon Schmidt, Rowling-Galbraith Biographer (Part Two)
(Credit: Telegraph article, June 2017 (https://web.archive.org/web/20170721135330/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/news/people-excited-two-new-harry-potter-books/), J.K. Rowling at the Raisa Gorbachev Foundation party in 2007, wearing a flo
A Pen to Change the World: Conversation with Solomon Schmidt, Rowling-Galbraith Biographer (Part One)
(Credit: Neil Wilder, Edinburgh 1999, now in National Portrait Galley) Solomon Schmidt, author of A Pen to Change the World: The Life of J. K. Rowling (Skyhorse, June 2026), sat down with us this week to discuss what moved him to write a Ro
The Mysterious Suicides of Leda Strike and Charlotte Campbell Revisited Post Hallmarked Man
‘Fiona F’ is a Hogwarts Professor subscriber in Adelaide, Australia, the truly down under capitol of the South Pacific island-continent. She works as an environmental scientist on the days she isn’t combing through the Cormoran Strike novel
The First Seven Strike Novels Paralleled Their Seven Harry Potter Equivalents; What Rowling Work Did The Hallmarked Man Parallel?
Last week Ed Shardlow posted his thoughts about The Hallmarked Man being written in playful but meaningful parallel with Rowling’s “political fairy tale,” ‘ (https://hogwartsprofessor.substack.com/p/the-hallmarked-man-meets-the-ickabog)The
The Hidden Narratives and Interpretive Ciphers Beneath the Surface Story of Hallmarked Man
In yesterday’s Hallmarked Man (https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication_id=719368&post_id=198594497&utm_source=post-email-title&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=1k2y1&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyNjE2NTUzLCJwb3N0X2lkIjoxOTg1O
A Conversation about Cormoran Strike, Literary Alchemy, and Structural Models for the Ten Book Series
Nick Jeffery and John Granger sat down last weekend to discuss John’s post, The Literary Alchemy of Hallmarked Man: What Do the Structural Models Tell Us? (https://hogwartsprofessor.substack.com/p/the-literary-alchemy-of-hallmarked) They’d
Wet Squibs, Islamic Cub Names, the Seven Strike Series Structure Theories, and How a Human Being Reads a Story
Nick Jeffery and John Granger sat down to discuss four Hogwarts Professor posts. Here are links to those posts with an excerpt from each and the most relevant urls embedded in them. Enjoy! What is a Squib, Really? And Where Would Rowling Ha
Is Rowling's Incest 'Golden Thread' the Key to Her Cormoran Strike Finale?
Golden Threads Last July, Nick Jeffery and I put togethera month long review of Rowling’s work in celebration of her 60th birthday (https://www.hogwartsprofessor.com/the-jkr-60th-birthday-party-kanreki-celebration-index-links-and-blurb-summ
A Spirited Conversation about Rowling-Galbraith's Cormoran Strike Series and C. S. Lewis' 'Till We Have Faces'
[Apologies but the recording is quite poor at the start, but improves. Please bear with it - Nick] John Granger shared privately with Nick Jeffery that he thought it would be a good idea to read C. S. Lewis’ Till We Have Faces, a re-telling
Metallurgical, Literary, and Psychological Alchemy: Is Jung a Good Guide for Understanding J. K. Rowling's Artistry and Meaning?
This is the second of a series of posts about the literary alchemy of J. K. Rowling, a discussion jumpstarted by a post by ‘Iris’ at a Strike fan website, an article that championed a Jungian perspective on this subject. The first post in t
What do Tyler Powell, Rupert Fleetwood, Jolanda Lindvall, and Lady Jensen Have in Common?
Nick Jeffery and John Granger met up last Sunday — St David’s Day in Wales and the Sunday of the Triumph of Orthodoxy — to talk about John’s first Hallmarked Man names post, ‘The Allegorical Cryptonyms of The Hallmarked Man, Part One: Ten C
What the Hallmarked Man Epigraphs Reveal About Rowling-Galbraith's Artistry and Meaning
Nick Jeffery read Robert Browning’s The Ring and the Book, a Victorian epic poem about a murder mystery in 17th Century Italy, to test a theory. John Granger’s best guess after surveying the chapter headings of Hallmarked Man last September
'Sleep Tight, Evangeline,' Miniature Psalters, and the Head of Persephone: A Conversation with Dimitra Fimi
Last November Nick and John introduced Dimitra Fimi, the magnificent maven of Tolkien Studies and Professor of Fantasy and Children's Literature at the University of Glasgow, to students of J. K. Rowling’s work. In that discussion, ‘Reading
Valentine's Day Special: The Cupid and Psyche Myth within the Cormoran Strike Series
Happy Valentine’s Day! Mrs Murray met the UK StrikeFans.com contingent and Badly WiredLamp (“and friends”) on Thursday to talk about the Cormoran Strike novels. Yesterday, Friday the 13th, Rowling tweeted about the secret she had told them
The Christmas Charm Bracelet of Strike 9 Clues (Part Two)
Elizabeth Baird Hardy, Deputy Headmistress of Hogwarts Professor, the genius behind AppalachianInkling.com (https://www.appalachianinkling.com/blog/welcome), Hunger Games expert, and author of Milton, Spenser and the Chronicles of Narnia: L
The Christmas Charm Bracelet of Strike 9 Clues (Part One)
On 23 December last year, Rowling changed her Twixter home page header and cameo with this tweeted explanation (https://x.com/jk_rowling/status/2003509901457580375): The Charm Bracelet header features thirteen charms on nine links: Rowling
Robin Ellacott's Imminent Death and Its Out of This World Effect on Strike
Running Grave, book Seven of the ten novel Cormoran Strike murder mystery series by Joanne Murray (‘J. K. Rowling’) writing as ‘Robert Galbraith,’ is what the author described as her “cult novel.” The cult in question is the Universal Human
Blood! The Crimson Thread
Nick is joined by John Granger and special guest star Guido in their temporary headquarters as they await the move to Granger Towers. We discuss the revelation that J. K. Rowling has an inherited blood clotting disorder, and speculate that
A Hogwarts Professor New Year Celebration!
Welcome to the Hogwarts Professor New Year’s Celebration! John and Nick look back to a packed 2025, as John looks forward to big changes in 2026. From the marathon Kanreki celebration in July to the joys of sharing The Hallmarked Man with f
The Most Influential Book Rowling Read as a Child Wanting to Be a Writer is Dodie Smith's 'I Capture the Castle'
Merry Christmas! In between looking at houses to rent and packing up the Granger house in Oklahoma City, Nick and John put together this yuletide conversation about perhaps the most neglected of Rowling’s influences, Dodie Smith’s I Capture
Why Hallmarked Man is the Best Cormoran Strike Novel and Will Be Considered the Key to Unlocking the Series' Mysteries
John Granger Attempts to Convince Nick (and You!) That The Hallmarked Man will be Considered the Best of the Series. We review our take-away impressions (https://hogwartsprofessor.substack.com/p/three-cheers-for-the-hallmarked-man) from our
Full Cast Audio Harry Potter: Is It Worth a Listen?
John Granger rarely listens to audio adaptations of books unless he’s on a long drive, though he admits they have played an important part in his life as a reader. Nick Jeffery listens to audio books everyday and often for hours at a time;
Talking About 'A Rowling Reading of Aurora Leigh'
John Granger in September 2022, weeks after the publication of Ink Black Heart, tackled the tangle of 108 poetic epigraphs in Strike 6 from twenty-two Anglo-American Victorian women poets in search of a common theme, of a prevalent meaning,
