Lorrie Kim writes blog posts on topics related to Harry Potter, support for LGBTQIA+ rights, the Fantastic Beasts films, figure skating, books and films and music, and fiber art. She also writes The Pensieve Papers, a column at MuggleNet.
Delivered at the Harry Potter Conference at Chestnut Hill College, October 21, 2016. It is incomplete, designed to fit into a 20-minute conference slot, but there will be plenty more to discuss along these lines,
This blog post contains mild spoilers for Short Stories from Hogwarts of Power, Politics and Pesky Poltergeists. The substantial chapter on Horace Slughorn illuminates one of J.K. Rowling’s beautifully subtle points that she never states outright.
This blog post contains mild spoilers for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child and Hogwarts: An Incomplete and Unreliable Guide. For those of us who have read Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, the trolley witch is both a
Summary: By giving Snape the matronymic “Prince,” J.K. Rowling hinted that Machiavelli’s The Prince might hold some keys to her own intentions about this character. A fresh look at Machiavelli gives definitive answers about whether Snape redeemed
Jennifer Sheffield of Big Blue Marble interviewed Lorrie Kim for the July 30, 2016 release party of Snape: A Definitive Reading. The full text is on the bookstore blog. Excerpt: What kinds of insights have you
On July 30, the night before the midnight release of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Big Blue Marble Bookstore will host a release party for Snape: A Definitive Reading. Events will include three rounds of Snape
Summary: In a family of overachievers, one sibling outshines them all. Ronald Bilius Weasley leapfrogs over mere curse breakers and dragon tamers to take his place alongside Merlin, Circe, and Dumbledore as one of wizardkind’s
Emma Grant moderated a “Sorting Hamilton” panel at Leviosa that featured Heidi Tandy, Rachael Vaughn of Snapecast, and me. I love Emma’s model for live sortings: she designates different corners of the room for different Houses, and when she
Delivered at Leviosa, July 9, 2016 Sometimes, you just can’t help the hate. But as much as they loathed each other, Sirius Black and Severus Snape were similar: brilliant, immature, dangerous men with ruined
Art by Fox Estacado In the French translations of Harry Potter, the character we know as Professor Snape is named “Rogue,” emphasizing his unpredictable, untrustworthy nature. The Snape of our imaginations wears many faces: the
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