Rowling Studies The Hogwarts Professor Podcast

64:16

The Hallmarked Man's Mythological Template

Rowling Studies The Hogwarts Professor Podcast ·

2025/09/25

Url to TweetNick Jeffery and John Granger focus their Hallmarked Man Week Three conversation around the mythological content of Strike 8, a subject prompted by Rowling’s 8 September tweet above. They briefly review the author’s background in mythology, from her study in school to her use of it in Harry Potter, Fantastic Beasts, and Cormoran Strike. John explains the relationship of myth with Rowling’s ‘triple play’ combination of Shed tools and her ‘G-spot’ Lake and Shed wizardry that has enchanted

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75:58

Hallmarked Man's Three 'Whose My Daddy?' Set-Ups to...

Rowling Studies The Hogwarts Professor Podcast ·

2025/09/15

Nick Jeffery and John Granger opened the Orthodox New Year with a conversation about, you guessed it, Rowling-Galbraith’s Hallmarked Man. Both of them confessed that they were struggling with the most complex and carefully integrated novel in the author’s oeuvre, with five different candidates for the body in the silver vault, a cast of characters for each candidate, all of them spun together with the Strike-Ellacott cum Murphy-Bijou ‘shipping madness as it unfolded. Neither of them was ready to

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103:34

Three Cheers for The Hallmarked Man! Thoughts After...

Rowling Studies The Hogwarts Professor Podcast ·

2025/09/08

Spoilers Warning! If you haven’t finished reading the 900 pages of The Hallmarked Man and don’t want to hear details from the novel, you will not enjoy this conversation about Strike8.John read the latest Strike-Ellacott novel by Thursday morning using the pre-publication head start, the Robert Glenister audiobook dropped early Tuesday morning, a bootleg epub version on his wife’s iPad, and the codex hardcover that arrived at 5:00 on the day of release. Nick didn’t finish until early Saturday but

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81:39

How Are You Going to Read 'Hallmarked Man'?

Rowling Studies The Hogwarts Professor Podcast ·

2025/09/01

What can you say about Hallmarked Man that doesn’t include anything beyond epigraph authors from the latest pre-publication drops from the leak-ing ship of Rowling, Inc.? Nick and John elect to discuss their respective plans for reading the latest Cormoran Strike-Robin Ellacott murder mystery cum Modern Romance. Enjoy that conversation in the hours left before the books arrive — and tune in here this time next week for our first thoughts on another epic-length novel from the world’s most popular

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96:28

Is Rowling a Romance Writer or What?

Rowling Studies The Hogwarts Professor Podcast ·

2025/08/26

We’re counting down the days until the publication of The Hallmarked Man! Nick Jeffery and John Granger take perhaps the last look at Rowling’s most recent postings before they dive into discussion about the meaning and artistry of Strike8.In today’s conversation, they review Rowling’s relationship with Stephenie Meyer, the author of the Twilight series, a New York Times feature article ‘The Wizard’s Everlasting Spell’ about the growth of Potter fan fiction with a romantic twist, and Rowling’s

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74:52

Rowling Links "Subconscious" Lake Inspiration to...

Rowling Studies The Hogwarts Professor Podcast ·

2025/08/20

Nick has been reading his way through Anthony Powell’s twelve volume Dance to the Music of Time because Rowling mentioned it in a 2017 tweet and he thought there were interesting connections between that Roman Fleuve and Rowling-Galbraith’s series-writing. And it turns out he was right! Rowling tweeted about her favorite book in Dance and her favorite character in the epic (see links below).Two weeks ago, Rowling tweeted at some length about her ‘Lake and Shed’ writing process. Nick and John dive

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60:10

Alternative Explanations for The Lost Child Golden...

Rowling Studies The Hogwarts Professor Podcast ·

2025/08/16

In the last two episodes of our Kanreki tribute last month to the life and work of Joanne Rowling Murray, a.k.a., ‘J. K. Rowling’ and ‘Robert Galbraith,’ as celebration of her 60th birthday, we first explored perhaps the most ubiquitous and mysterious ‘Golden Thread’ that runs through her work, namely, that of a ‘Lost Child.’ We reviewed the forty plus appearances of this plot point in the just over twenty books she’s written and searched for possible ‘Lake’ sources in her life for this persistent,

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51:06

The Kanreki Series Q&A

Rowling Studies The Hogwarts Professor Podcast ·

2025/08/05

We collected all the questions and comments posted last month beneath our daily Kanreki Lake and Shed videos and sat down to answer them live with paid subscribers sitting in on the conversation. That discussion drew the Kanreki celebration-marathon to a close (Phew!) and opened the door to our next efforts. We’ll be writing weekly posts about Rowling’s life and work, filming video conversations about those posts, and beginning a series of classes about Lake ‘springs’ and Shed ‘tools’ that will,

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100:08

Happy 60th Birthday, J. K. Rowling! Opening the Gift...

Rowling Studies The Hogwarts Professor Podcast ·

2025/07/31

Happy 60th Birthday, Joanne Rowling Murray! Thank you for close to thirty years of challenging, even edifying fiction, for the joys of community your serious readers enjoy in discussing your work, and for your philanthropic efforts on behalf of women and children everywhere. The faculty at HogwartsProfessor all wish you many, many years.As a birthday gift of sorts, Nick and John close off their month-long celebration of Rowling-Galbraith’s life and work with a follow-up look at yesterday’s review of

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132:24

A Lake and Shed Look at the Lost Child 'Golden...

Rowling Studies The Hogwarts Professor Podcast ·

2025/07/30

It’s the Day Before Rowling’s 60th birthday so Nick and John tackle by reader request the never before discussed subject of the Lost Child theme in the author’s more than twenty published works. They re-introduce the Golden Threads idea — see their Pregnancy Trap podcast or the two Kanreki series on this subject (here and here) — then they do a deep dive into the crowded waters of Lost Children in her work, and then they go out out on a high-wire to speculate about what specific spring in her Lake

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53:26

A Lake and Shed Reading of 'The Tales of Beedle the...

Rowling Studies The Hogwarts Professor Podcast ·

2025/07/29

Two Days and a Wake-Up until Joanne Rowling Murray’s 60th Birthday. In their home stretch conversation, Nick and John fulfill a reader request to discuss the book inside Deathly Hallows (one of three actually…), ‘Tales of Beedle the Bard,’ a text that Albus Dumbledore leaves Hermione in his will for her to read and apply to the Horcrux Hunt. Nick tells the story of Rowling’s creation of six hand-written copies as six-of-a-kind gifts for those who brought Harry Potter to life. John dives into the

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56:40

A Lake and Shed Reading of Fantastic Beasts and Where...

Rowling Studies The Hogwarts Professor Podcast ·

2025/07/28

We’re in the home stretch of the 60th Birthday Blitz at Hogwarts Professor! On the first of the last four days of July, Nick and John return to the books at a reader’s suggestion in order to give a Lake and Shed reading of the original Newt Scamander textbook, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. Nick relays everything you need to know about the genesis of this work and John talks about Rowling’s comments to Stephen Fry in a 2022 interview about “archetypal” animals and the importance of

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43:57

A Lake and Yurt-Shed Conversation about Rowling's...

Rowling Studies The Hogwarts Professor Podcast ·

2025/07/27

Let’s talk about Rowling’s use of traditional chiastic structure, what anthropologist Mary Douglas called ‘Ring Composition.’ John travels to his backyard Mongolian ger, the archetypal circular architectural form, to deliver a firehose introduction to the four essentials of ring writing. He uses slides to depict the structure of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone as his brief ‘for instance’ of how Rowling chooses to organize her stories and he provides a list of links (below!) for further

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97:24

A Lake and Shed Look at the Golden Threads in the...

Rowling Studies The Hogwarts Professor Podcast ·

2025/07/26

Welcome back! John and Nick finish their back-and-forth challenge to come up with three examples of the ‘Fourteen Golden Threads’ in the work of J. K. Rowling, the plot points and story features that run through everything she writes.In this second overview of the Golden Threads, Nick and John talk about Kanreki red caps and tackle three Threads each. Nick gives at least three examples for Evil Government, Occult tropes, and the Embedded Author. John responds with three or more ’for instances’ of

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61:45

A Lake and Shed Look at the Golden Threads in the...

Rowling Studies The Hogwarts Professor Podcast ·

2025/07/25

Welcome back! John and Nick, having finished their Lake and Shed review of the seven Harry Potter novels, the first seven Strike-Ellacott adventures, the three Fantastic Beasts screenplays, and the three stand-alone stories Cursed Child, Casual Vacancy, and Christmas Pig, are open to suggestions about how to fill the remaining week of daily conversations until Rowling’s birthday on July 31st. The first request we received was one asking for more on the ‘Twelve Golden Threads’ in the work of J. K

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56:35

A Lake and Shed Reading of The Running Grave

Rowling Studies The Hogwarts Professor Podcast ·

2025/07/24

Today’s Lake and Shed framed conversation focuses in on the remarkable Strike-Ellacott novel, The Running Grave, the last book in our review of every work of fiction with either of Mrs Murray’s pseudonyms on the cover. Nick confesses to feeling stumped about what to say as his ‘Lake’ contribution to the discussion — before his epiphany on a long walk with Addie that almost every buoy or pillar in Rowling’s metaphorical place of inspiration finds its reflection in the seventh Galbraith mystery. John

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62:00

A Lake and Shed Reading of The Ink Black Heart

Rowling Studies The Hogwarts Professor Podcast ·

2025/07/23

Welcome back! After learning the Snakewood Secrets of Dumbledore — that’s right, it’s Rowling the Wood Snake having a private Lake moment — we return to real books, Ink Black Heart to be specific, a novel written entirely by Mrs Murray, aka Robert Galbraith. Nick covers the front and the back of making Lake readings of Strike6 without a lot of circumspection and John talks about the eerie feeling he had while reading this book that the author was ‘having a go’ at him. Enjoy!New to the Lake and Shed

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66:32

A Lake and Shed Reading of Secrets of Dumbledore...

Rowling Studies The Hogwarts Professor Podcast ·

2025/07/22

Today’s Lake and Shed framed conversation is all about the Steve Kloves screenplay, The Secrets of Dumbledore, which is “based on a screenplay by J. K. Rowling.” Nick lays out the drama surrounding the third Fantastic Beasts franchise film and his favorite part of the movie (hint: it’s about “confusion”). John reveals why Jacob gets a Snakewood wand and one without a core as well as why he thinks Kowalski is the embedded author in this series.New to the Lake and Shed Kanreki Birthday series? Here’s

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56:08

A Lake and Shed Reading of The Christmas Pig (B)

Rowling Studies The Hogwarts Professor Podcast ·

2025/07/21

Today’s Lake and Shed framed conversation is once again about The Christmas Pig. Nick by the Lake shares the history of the Murray Family and their beanie pig toys as well as a likely source for the defenestration of DP (in Esquire magazine, no less). John talks about the promise and the limits of reading literature through a biographical lens and then explains the anagogical meaning of the Power palace kangaroo court trial of CP and Jack. Both share their reasons for thinking that The Christmas Pig

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63:06

A Lake and Shed Reading of The Christmas Pig (A)

Rowling Studies The Hogwarts Professor Podcast ·

2025/07/20

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 match up with things she has lost; he takes a deep dive into the Blue Bunny episode outside the Gates of the City of the Missed and Rowling’s embedding herself and her daughter Mackenzie in the story. John talks about the Blue Bunny and his being “found” or “saved”

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