Dumbledore: The Life and Lies of Hogwarts’s Renowned Headmaster: An Unofficial Exploration by Irvin Khaytman. Hardcover, $16.99. I thought I knew the Harry Potter series pretty well. Then I read Irvin Khaytman’s book, Dumbledore: The Life and Lies of Hogwarts’s Renowned Headmaster, an Unofficial Exploration, and realized that my Snape-centric view of the series had
I asked the artist mud-foot.tumblr.com to draw me a cartoon of Dumbledore telling Snape to kill him. This is what they came up with, and I’ve been laughing ever since. Perfection.
The Guardian printed a letter by J.K. Rowling, among others, from A Love Letter to Europe: An outpouring of love and sadness from our writers, thinkers and artists, published October 31, 2019, the date that Boris Johnson had designated, unsuccessfully, for Brexit. Rowling’s letter gives us a few more glimpses of the author we know
Notes from a talk delivered at LeakyCon in Boston, MA, USA, on Sunday, October 13, 2019. Posted by request. Thank you for coming to think about what is, to me, the most difficult relationship to understand in Harry Potter. There are things about Snape and Dumbledore that I’ve been trying to figure out since July 2007
This post builds upon my previous blog post about Fantastic Beasts: Crimes of Grindelwald. Header image shows the prop used in the film to represent Credence Barebone’s adoption certificate. Who or what is Credence Barebone? Grindelwald has an answer. Whether it is completely true or not, he has a story that he is telling to
Spoiler alert! If you haven’t yet seen Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, be warned that the following blog post contains spoilers. When a hostile Ministry official accuses Dumbledore of once being “as close as brothers” with Grindelwald, Dumbledore corrects him: “We were closer than brothers.” What did that mean? Possibly over 99% of the theater
Note: Dear good people, do not do what I did. Do not throw out everything you prepared for writing a 20-minute talk on the day before the talk is scheduled because you’ve just realized that there’s something you really have to write about, so you have to scrap everything and start over. That was not a
Seventh and final blog post spurred by reading The Life and Lies of Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore by Irvin Khaytman. The final chapter of Irvin’s book addresses the similarity between Dumbledore’s storyline and Snape’s. In the chapter of Deathly Hallows called “The Life and Lies of Albus Dumbledore,” Harry and Hermione lay out the terms of the debate.
Further reflections spurred by reading The Life and Lies of Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore by Irvin Khaytman. In the Half-Blood Prince chapter, Irvin starts with the moment that Dumbledore is injured by the ring Horcrux and then branches out into complex speculation about what Dumbledore might have been thinking during his final year, as he prepared Harry to
Further reflections spurred by reading The Life and Lies of Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore by Irvin Khaytman. The Order of the Phoenix chapter of Irvin Khaytman’s Dumbledore book is the one that opened my eyes the most. Even though the clues had always been there, and there had even been explicit pointers to the clues,
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