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A Lake and Shed Reading of The Christmas Pig (A)
Today’s Lake and Shed framed conversation is once again about the hilarious Christmas story for children of all ages, Christmas Pig. Nick discusses Rowling’s many interview statements about the Things which were lost and how many of them ma
A Lake and Shed Reading of Troubled Blood (Part Two)
Today’s Lake and Shed framed conversation is once again about the fifth Cormoran Strike novel, Troubled Blood. Nick discusses Rowling’s history with the Clerkenwell neighborhood. John talks about Troubled Blood as a double re-telling of The
A Lake and Shed Reading of Troubled Blood (Part One)
Today’s Lake and Shed framed conversation is about the fifth Cormoran Strike novel, Troubled Blood. Nick discusses Rowling’s history with the divinatory art of astrology and the occult resources and reference works she brought into play in
A Lake and Shed Reading of The Ickabog
Today’s Lake and Shed framed conversation is about Rowling’s remarkable “fairy-tale” and the history and meaning of its release during the “pandemic” hysteria of 2020. The Ickabog, along with Casual Vacancy and Ink Black Heart, is not only
A Lake and Shed Reading of Crimes of Grindelwald, the 'Fantastic Beasts 2' Screenplay
Nick and John take a Lake and Shed long look at the second screenplay for the Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them film series. On the Lake side of things, Nick explores the Johnny Depp casting scandal and the lead-up in 2018 to the 2019
A Lake and Shed Reading of Lethal White
Today’s Lake and Shed framed conversation is about the fourth Cormoran Strike novel, Lethal White. Nick discusses the embedded class struggle in the book and its roots in Rowling’s background before dropping the bomb of the real world ident
A Lake and Shed Reading of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (Screenplay)
Today’s Lake and Shed framed conversation is about J. K. Rowling’s first “original screenplay,” Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. Nick does his signature deep dive into the history of the Fantastic Beasts film franchise’s origins in
A Lake and Shed Reading of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
Today’s Lake and Shed framed conversation is about the Jack Thorne play, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. Nick reviews the history of how Rowling was sold on the idea of a Wizarding World stage production via a bit of bait and switch mark
A Lake and Shed Reading of Career of Evil
Today’s Lake and Shed framed conversation is about J. K. Rowling’s third Cormoran Strike novel, Career of Evil. Nick and John debate whether Rowling crossed the line of “violence porn” that she worried she had approached and they discuss wh
A Lake and Shed Reading of The Silkworm
Today’s Lake and Shed framed conversation is about J. K. Rowling’s second Cormoran Strike novel, The Silkworm. Nick and John discuss the date Rowling claims to have had her Lake inspiration for Silkworm, the first book idea she had for the
A Lake and the Shed Reading of Cuckoo's Calling
Today’s Lake and Shed framed conversation is about J. K. Rowling’s first Cormoran Strike novel, The Cuckoo’s Calling. Nick and John debate the degree of Rowling’s dishonesty about writing a detective series before she was outed as ‘Robert G
A Lake and Shed Reading of Casual Vacancy
Today’s Lake and Shed framed conversation is about J. K. Rowling’s first adult novel and one Nick and John think she may have been writing before she was inspired to write Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. It’s that autobiographical
A Lake and Shed Reading of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Today’s Lake and Shed framed conversation is about the seventh and final Harry Potter novels Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. John and Nick discuss the ‘Deathly Hallows’ symbol, a triangulated and vertically bisected circle, from both
A Lake and Shed Reading of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Today’s Lake and Shed framed conversation is about the sixth of the seven Harry Potter novels, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Nick reveals the real life model for Severus Snape, Rowling’s Chemistry teacher at Wydean Comprehensive,
A Lake and the Shed Reading of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Today’s Lake and Shed framed conversation is about the fifth Harry Potter novel, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Nick talks about the darkest period in Jo Rowling’s life, namely, her return to the UK from Portugal as a single mot
A Lake and Shed Reading of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
On 31 July 2025, Joanne Murray, aka J. K. Rowling and Robert Galbraith, will be celebrating her 60th birthday. This celebration is considered a ‘second birth’ in Japan or Kanreki because it is the completion of the oriental astrological cyc
Rowling's Kanreki Episode 4
The second of our daily examples of the lake and shed inspiration withing all of J. K. Rowling’s work. In this episode Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Read about the parallels between Prisoner of Azkaban and Career of Evil here (h
Rowling's Kanreki Episode 3
The second of our daily examples of the lake and shed inspiration withing all of J. K. Rowling’s work. In this episode Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. Check out Harry Potter and the Sexual Innuendos a Mugglenet Academia podcast her
Rowling's Kanreki Episode 2
The first of our daily examples of the lake and shed inspiration withing all of J. K. Rowling’s work. In this episode Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. Check out Dr John Granger’s work on Rowling’s Molesworth inspirations here (http
J. K. Rowling's Kanreki
Dr John Granger and I will begin our Lake and Shed reviews of the twenty-one stories written at least in part by J. K. Rowling. In this introduction to our month long project to celebrate Mrs Murray’s 60th birthday, we explain the Japanese
'Pregnancy Traps' in the Works of J. K. Rowling
Dr. John Granger and Nick Jeffery explore the theme of pregnancy traps and coercive love as a golden thread running through all the published works of J. K. Rowling. After detailing the number and importance of this plot point in everything
On Reading, "On Writing"
John and Nick discuss the four generations of Rowling studies, and applies their principles to the new video’s “On Writing”. From the Lake and Shed metaphor to shocking DNA predictions, join Rowling Studies for episode five. This is a publi
Sark, Snark and Censorship
Join John and Nick as they explore the strange and quirky island of Sark, take a look at the latest J. K. Rowling twitter storms and stand in admiration of her heroic stand against judicial free-speech suppression in Scotland. This is a pub
Rowling Studies - Robin Ellacott is Sterile
Join John and Nick as they tackle a controversial subject. Using the ‘lake and shed’ analysis of J. K. Rowling’s compete cannon to understand if Robin Ellacott might turn out to be sterile. The thesis is that Robin Venetia Ellacott will not
Rowling Studies - The Christmas Pig
Welcome to the second episode of our Rowling Studies podcast, this time a discussion on The Christmas Pig. Nick’s ‘Top Three’ books per the Lake or biographical and bibliographical perspective, Rowling’s life and literature influences, and
The Mysterious Death of Charlotte Campbell: Was It Suicide or Was It Murder?
Welcome to ‘Rowling Studies,’ a Hogwarts Professor podcast! In the pilot episode, Nick Jeffery and John Granger discuss the aim of ‘Rowling Studies’ before jumping into a conversation about Nick’s theory that Charlotte Campbell did not comm
