Delivered on October 16, 2020 at the Harry Potter Conference of Chestnut Hill College in Philadelphia, PA. On September 25, 2018, Korean actress Claudia Kim was announced in the role of Nagini for Fantastic Beasts: Crimes of Grindelwald. Here is my five-item tweet from the moment I found out: That was a fun morning. I
Prairie Lotus by Linda Sue Park. Published March 3, 2020. Linda Sue Park must have read and loved Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House books as much as I did as a kid. Reading about Hanna in Prairie Lotus hits some deep emotional beats I remember living through with Laura: School trouble. Recitations. Hoop skirts going through doorways. Oranges.
I didn’t intend to see Snape parallels when I picked up this book, but they’re plentiful. The narration alternates between a middle-school Korean girl, Sun-hee, and her young adult brother as they live with their parents through Japan’s colonization of Korea during World War II. The story is set a decade or two after the
Warning: This discussion gets dark. (I mean, this whole series is dark. And it certainly looks as if the Fantastic Beasts series, freed of any concerns about being intended “for children,” is going to go darker. But yes, this discussion gets dark.) On Tuesday, September 25, 2018, the final trailer for the upcoming film Fantastic Beasts and
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