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Full Cast Audio Harry Potter: Is It Worth a Listen?

John Granger rarely listens to audio adaptations of books unless he’s on a long drive, though he admits they have played an important part in his life as a reader. Nick Jeffery listens to audio books everyday and often for hours at a time; he credits the medium for his mid-life rebirth as a reader (re-reader!). Zossima Granger, writer in residence at ProtagonistBook.com (Give the gift of an unforgettable story! [http://www.protagonistbook.com]) and host of Teller Talk interview series at Zossima’s Story Stack [https://zossimastorystack.substack.com/podcast] Substack page, cannot remember a time when Harry Potter and audio books were not an important part of his life. He like Nick listens to one book per week or more. So — what do these Potter Pundits and Serious Strikers think of the new Audible ‘Full Cast Audio’ (FCA) unabridged dramatization of [https://www.amazon.com/Harry-Potter-Sorcerers-Stone-Full-Cast/dp/B0F14PDX2Z]Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone [https://www.amazon.com/Harry-Potter-Sorcerers-Stone-Full-Cast/dp/B0F14PDX2Z], which in the UK and Commonwealth nations is Philosopher’s Stone? They loved it! No, the adaptation wasn’t perfect, and, yes, there are a few jarring miscues and disappointments. As they explain in their ten point discussion of their experience listening to the Audible production, however, there’s reason to be very excited about this audio version of the first Potter novel and the six promised FCA dramatizations. Nick lays out the audio adaptation history of the Hogwarts Saga, to include, in addition to the background of the new FCA books, the Stephen Fry and Jim Dale legacies. And then he asks the questions below! * What is your relationship with audio books? Are you a frequent listener? * Were the Fry/Dale Potter adaptations an important part of your experience of the Hogwarts Saga? * Did you listen to the ‘full cast audio’ adaptation of Christmas Pig? Other books? * What were your expectations -- fears and hopes -- for the Sorcerer’s Stone full cast audio adaptation? * What was the biggest surprise you experienced in your first listening? * Which of the voice actors brought out a different dimension of the text than you expected? * What is your favorite scene in Stone and was the full cast audio depiction of it a delight or a disappointment? * Fry, Dale, or Full Cast: will you listen to all three versions in the future? Do you have a strong preference? * Thumbs up or down: one to five stars, please, for the Audible production and your biggest grins and gripes. * What changes do you hope the producers will make before they release the next six adaptations? Please join in the conversation by sharing your answers to these questions in the comment boxes below. What is your relationship with books you listen to rather than read? What do think of the new FCA dramatization? And, when you’ve made your contribution to this conversation and you’d like more conversation between Nick Jeffery and Zossima Granger for dessert, check out Teller Talk #4, ‘Harry Potter [https://substack.com/home/post/p-178924964] and the Skill of Reading [https://substack.com/home/post/p-178924964]’! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit hogwartsprofessor.substack.com/subscribe [https://hogwartsprofessor.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2]

Talking About 'A Rowling Reading of Aurora Leigh'

John Granger in September 2022, weeks after the publication of Ink Black Heart, tackled the tangle of 108 poetic epigraphs in Strike 6 from twenty-two Anglo-American Victorian women poets in search of a common theme, of a prevalent meaning, or, the Holy Grail, a work among the many works that acted to Heart as Rosmersholm did to Lethal White and Faerie Queene did to Troubled Blood. This effort involved listing the poets, the epigraphs (citing poems by each woman) [https://www.hogwartsprofessor.com/ink-black-heart-intro-to-epigraphs-101/#comment-1626690], and, without reading each poem, noting simply what each brief excerpt included. You can read the results of those surveys at ‘Ink Black Heart: [https://www.hogwartsprofessor.com/ink-black-heart-intro-to-epigraphs-101/]Intro to Epigraphs 101 [https://www.hogwartsprofessor.com/ink-black-heart-intro-to-epigraphs-101/].’ The anticipated result of those tabulations was that the poetic epigraphs in Heart, in tandem with the cardiac Part headings from Grey’s Anatomy, were consistently about the heart as spiritual faculty rather than bodily pump. The surprise finding was that 13% of the epigraphs were from Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Aurora Leigh. John speculated in conclusion that it was the heart of Rowling’s sixth Strike-Ellacott novel: Again, this is not the place to write at any length about the relevance of ‘Aurora Leigh’ as a mirroring text within Ink Black Heart. Like you, I look forward to Beatrice Groves’ exegesis to complement her Cuckoo’s Calling work with Rossetti’s ‘Dirge’ and Tennyson’s ‘Ulysses [http://www.mugglenet.com/2017/09/literary-allusion-cuckoos-calling-part-2-tennysons-ulysses/].’ The two important things to note here are only that ‘Aurora Leigh’ is the poem most deployed in Strike6 epigraphs and that it is a melange of “Biblical and classical history and mythology, as well as modern novels.” That it would work as something of a template or touchstone for Ink Black Heart, a novel with mythological [https://www.hogwartsprofessor.com/ink-black-heart-the-mythic-backdrop/] and hermetic [https://www.hogwartsprofessor.com/ink-black-heart-alchemical-albedo/] backdrops and archetypal symbols used to reinvent the depth and range of the most modern of genres, the murder mystery, as psychomachian allegory [https://www.hogwartsprofessor.com/ink-black-heart-jung-or-shakespeare/], seems almost a no-brainer. If you can only read one book or poem to buttress your understanding of Strike6, it has to be Durkheim’s Suicide, Evola’s Ride the Tiger, or Browning’s ‘Aurora Leigh,’ and I think the epic poem is your best bet. When Rowling agreed to a live interview with Serious Strikers on Twitter the month after Ink Black Heart’s publication, one hosted by the Barmy Army, John listed the first question [https://www.hogwartsprofessor.com/jkr-live-qa-on-twitter-tomorrow/] he would ask her to be about the importance if any of Aurora Leigh for understanding Strike 6: “Is Barret Browning’s [https://www.hogwartsprofessor.com/ink-black-heart-intro-to-epigraphs-101/]Aurora Leigh [https://www.hogwartsprofessor.com/ink-black-heart-intro-to-epigraphs-101/] the backdrop story to Ink Black Heart the way Rosmersholm and Faerie Queen were to the fourth and fifth Strike mysteries?” Nick Jeffery included this question in a veritable barrage of questions he launched during the Barmy Army interview, and, incredibly, Rowling responded: John concluded in his write up of the Barmy Army interview [https://web.archive.org/web/20221017221228/https://www.hogwartsprofessor.com/jkr-live-barmy-army-qa-a-review/#more-28730]: If I get “all credit” for the spotting, I must take the blame as well for misspelling Browning’s name and for Nick’s saying there were thirteen rather than fourteen Leigh epigraphs. All credit to @gbjeffen for succeeding in getting Rowling to answer a question, something I have not succeeding in doing in more than two decades of reading her work and writing about its artistry and meaning. Look for the seven point Ink Black Heart: Aurora Leigh post in the coming week. John, however, never wrote up that '“seven point Ink Black Heart Aurora Leigh post” and his expectation of a Beatrice Groves exegesis also never materialized. That project was delayed until Nick Jeffery, in his years long effort to read everything Rowling has admitted to reading and liking (see this list of those books [https://www.hogwartsprofessor.com/rowlings-admitted-literary-influences/], a list that predates the 2022 revelations in re Aurora Leigh), arrived at the 1856 epic novel in blank verse. Last week Nick wrote up his findings here as ‘A Rowling Reading of [https://hogwartsprofessor.substack.com/p/a-rowling-reading-of-aurora-leigh]Aurora Leigh [https://hogwartsprofessor.substack.com/p/a-rowling-reading-of-aurora-leigh]: The Influence of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Aurora Leigh on J.K. Rowling [https://hogwartsprofessor.substack.com/p/a-rowling-reading-of-aurora-leigh].’ John and Nick put Hallmarked Man aside, consequently, in this week’s conversation to talk about this poem, Nick’s essay, and the place of this work in Fourth Generation Rowling Studies. Enjoy! Next week they’ll chart Part Three of Hallmarked Man, discuss the astrological symbols and meaning embedded in Strike 8’s names and plot points, and review with a Generation Hex special guest the long anticipated full-cast audio book of Harry Potter. and the Philosopher’s Stone. Stay tuned — and please join the Paid Subscribers club to keep the HogPro lights on and restore heat and power to John’s home! Many thanks to all subscribers around the world with a special shout-out this week to the six listeners in Norway: Tussen Takk! The Ten Questions and Promised Links: Little Women [https://web.archive.org/web/20130222092051/http://www.hogwartsprofessor.com/little-women-and-harry-potter-jo-rowling-is-jo-march/] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20130222092051/http://www.hogwartsprofessor.com/little-women-and-harry-potter-jo-rowling-is-jo-march/]Harry Potter [https://web.archive.org/web/20130222092051/http://www.hogwartsprofessor.com/little-women-and-harry-potter-jo-rowling-is-jo-march/]: Jo Rowling is Jo March [https://web.archive.org/web/20130222092051/http://www.hogwartsprofessor.com/little-women-and-harry-potter-jo-rowling-is-jo-march/] The Seven Points of Correspondence You see, I was a plain — and that is relevant! you know that is relevant, that isn’t a trivial thing, especially when you’re a kid — I was a very plain, bookish, freckly, bright, little girl. I was a massive book worm and I spent a significant part of my reading looking for people like me. Now I didn’t come up with nothing. Y’know, I remember Jo March who had a temper and wanted to be a writer so that was a lifeline. There’s a heroine in a book called Little White Horse [https://web.archive.org/web/20130222092051/http://www.amazon.com/LITTLE-WHITE-HORSE-GOUDGE-ELIZABETH/dp/B000OURU5Y/ref=tmm_pap_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1323731454&sr=1-6] that I’ve spoken about publicly who was plain and that was fabulous. “Wow! You get to be a heroine and get not to be a raving beauty..” But y’know these were pretty slim pickings. J. K. Rowling: Deathly Hallows, Part 2, DVD extras, ‘The Women of Harry Potter‘ Mightier than the Sword: [https://www.amazon.com/Mightier-Than-Sword-Battle-America/dp/039308132X/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&dib_tag=se&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.Xld5zUX2qAM38CYkpTMPgJ3YUPnnMwo9hhecaswmhD55CFW9tLkPoBLP5iCFnWE-OsSAppUwLOjj-EYURd5LLA.AbH0x73FU3BXx-JStgqOAeUnhMMLlJaXtBgnXyLu5RE&qid=1764707679&sr=1-99]Uncle Tom’s Cabin [https://www.amazon.com/Mightier-Than-Sword-Battle-America/dp/039308132X/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&dib_tag=se&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.Xld5zUX2qAM38CYkpTMPgJ3YUPnnMwo9hhecaswmhD55CFW9tLkPoBLP5iCFnWE-OsSAppUwLOjj-EYURd5LLA.AbH0x73FU3BXx-JStgqOAeUnhMMLlJaXtBgnXyLu5RE&qid=1764707679&sr=1-99]and the Battle for America [https://www.amazon.com/Mightier-Than-Sword-Battle-America/dp/039308132X/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&dib_tag=se&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.Xld5zUX2qAM38CYkpTMPgJ3YUPnnMwo9hhecaswmhD55CFW9tLkPoBLP5iCFnWE-OsSAppUwLOjj-EYURd5LLA.AbH0x73FU3BXx-JStgqOAeUnhMMLlJaXtBgnXyLu5RE&qid=1764707679&sr=1-99] A fascinating look at the cultural roots, political impact, and enduring legacy of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s revolutionary bestseller. Uncle Tom’s Cabin is likely the most influential novel ever written by an American. In a fitting tribute to the two hundredth anniversary of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s birth, Bancroft Prize-winning historian David S. Reynolds reveals her book’s impact not only on the abolitionist movement and the American Civil War but also on worldwide events, including the end of serfdom in Russia, down to its influence in the twentieth century. He explores how both Stowe’s background as the daughter in a famously intellectual family of preachers and her religious visions were fundamental to the novel. And he demonstrates why the book was beloved by millions―and won over even some southerners―while fueling lasting conflicts over the meaning of America. Although vilified over the years as often as praised, it has remained a cultural landmark, proliferating in the form of plays, songs, films, and merchandise―a rich legacy that has both fed and contested American racial stereotypes. Interview Questions 1. [Nick] I wrote the essay, John, but the reason I read Aurora Leigh late 2025 dates back to September 2022 and a discovery you made while sorting through the 108 poetic epigraphs of Rowling’s Ink Black Heart. Before we jump into the Elizabeth Barrett Browning epic poem, can you run us through that effort and finding? 2. [John] 13% of course is nothing like the 100% epigraphical backdrops of Lethal White and Troubled Blood but, just reading the Wikipedia summary of Aurora Leigh, I thought it a very strong possibility that it might have served a similar function for Ink Black Heart. Which is where you enter the picture, Nick. I’ve never managed to get Rowling to answer even one of my questions in a quarter century of asking; you pried three answers out of her in one go! And on your first effort? Please tell us that story and what Rowling revealed about Aurora Leigh. 3. [Nick] And so we had almost immediate confirmation of your highly speculative conclusion from the epigraphs, John. And you promised a seven point essay of compare and contrast criticism vis a vis Aurora Leigh and Ink Black Heart. What happened to that post? 4. [John] So my notes for that were put aside, literally folded and stuffed in my Norton Critical edition of Aurora Leigh, waiting for the leisure time post dissertation to read the verse-novel and write up the seven points. But you revived that long forgotten project with your essay, Nick, so let’s skip to that work. I’m confident few of our listeners are familiar with Elizabeth Barrett Browning or her most important and final poem; can you introduce us to both subjects? 5. [John] How easy or hard was it to enter into the story, visualize the surroundings, and empathize with the characters? 6. [John] And you charted the ring of Aurora Leigh’s nine parts in your post! How hard was that? You didn’t discuss it at any length in your post; how important do you think that is for understanding the work? Was it largely a hat-tip to the great epic poets? 7. [John] If I had one complaint about your exegesis it’s that you only spent two sentences on what I thought were profound findings, namely the ‘meaning in the middle’ and the turtle-back correspondences between parts two and eight. Those are the giant take-aways, I think, of Leigh’s influence on Rowling the Re-Reader and Magpie Borrower-Writer, no? Say some more about that, please. 8. [John] You wrote that Rowling’s selections from Aurora Leigh for epigraphs “are not arbitrary; they serve as interpretive keys, inviting readers to draw connections between the 19th-century verse and Rowling’s modern tale of online toxicity, anonymity, and justice.” Can you give us some examples of what you mean? 9. [John] Rowling specifies a parallel between Heart’s Zoe and Leigh’s Marian. Can you explain that link and its importance and any other character parallels and inspirations? 10. [John] You close with ‘Thematic Resonances and Broader Literary Influence,’ which are probably the most important connections between EBB and JKR beyond the plot point parallels and character echoes in Ink Black Heart. Can you summarize those in a way to push Serious Strikers and Rowling Readers to make the effort to find a copy of Aurora Leigh and read it? *Optional [Nick] So how close did I come to your ‘seven points,’ John? This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit hogwartsprofessor.substack.com/subscribe [https://hogwartsprofessor.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2]

Jonny Rokeby was both Cormoran and Charlotte's Father: The Incest Twist Rowling Has Hidden Inside the Strike Series

The Hogwarts Professor comment threads have been jumping so Nick Jeffery and John Granger decided to dedicate a conversation to a review of the Greatest Hits in the last week (to do a complete review yourself, click on ‘Activity’ in the left margin of the Hogwarts Professor Substack home page). After their reviewing the remarkably global and growing audience of Rowling Readers — 36 countries, 46 states! — and tracking The Presence’s location — her yacht seems to be in Fiji but she is touring Levesden Studios? — Nick and John read out fifteen comment subjects and discuss the merits, deficiencies, and promise of each. The lede story is the theory shared by Jaclyn Hayes [https://hogwartsprofessor.substack.com/p/ryan-murphy-is-charlotte-campbells/comment/177194101?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyNjE2NTUzLCJwb3N0X2lkIjoxNzgzNzA0ODEsImlhdCI6MTc2MzE3NTY2OSwiZXhwIjoxNzYzNDM0ODY5LCJpc3MiOiJwdWItNzE5MzY4Iiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1jb21tZW50cyJ9.uupxdH972FIl0vCEtDqSs36lSP8sIfaF-F1mZrVyFAc#comment-177199442?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyNjE2NTUzLCJwb3N0X2lkIjoxNzgzNzA0ODEsImlhdCI6MTc2MzE3NTY2OSwiZXhwIjoxNzYzNDM0ODY5LCJpc3MiOiJwdWItNzE5MzY4Iiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1jb21tZW50cyJ9.uupxdH972FIl0vCEtDqSs36lSP8sIfaF-F1mZrVyFAc]that Cormoran Strike and the late Charlotte Campbell were half-siblings with Jonny Rokeby in common as their absentee father. From her notes: I think Charlotte was blackmailed (via threat of exposing the relatedness btw her and Cormoran) into marrying Jago to provide him a male heir. Perhaps their relatedness is even an open secret in Charlotte’s family, similar to the “secret” relatedness of Decima and Rupert in THM (another parallel). Charlotte was forbidden from telling Cormoran about the blackmail, but since she’s conniving and obsessed with him, she uses their unexpected encounter at the Paralympics gala to drop hints about her predicament, hoping he’ll solve the mystery and save her or take her back once she’s fulfilled the terms of her marriage/birth agreement with Jago. She then orchestrates another encounter with Cormoran to drop more hints-- this time at Franco’s, which she knows will trigger the memory of her father’s outrage at seeing her and Cormoran dating again. She hopes Cormoran will realize her father was angry because he knew they were related, not simply because he thinks Cormoran wasn’t good enough for her. She then tells Coromoran things would be different if he’d taken the job her father offered him (calling to mind the job Tara gives Rupert to keep him quiet in THM), and says she found out she was pregnant at Tara’s house and later “lost” (not aborted) the baby. Read the whole thing [https://hogwartsprofessor.substack.com/p/ryan-murphy-is-charlotte-campbells/comment/177194101?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyNjE2NTUzLCJwb3N0X2lkIjoxNzgzNzA0ODEsImlhdCI6MTc2MzE3NTY2OSwiZXhwIjoxNzYzNDM0ODY5LCJpc3MiOiJwdWItNzE5MzY4Iiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1jb21tZW50cyJ9.uupxdH972FIl0vCEtDqSs36lSP8sIfaF-F1mZrVyFAc#comment-177199442?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyNjE2NTUzLCJwb3N0X2lkIjoxNzgzNzA0ODEsImlhdCI6MTc2MzE3NTY2OSwiZXhwIjoxNzYzNDM0ODY5LCJpc3MiOiJwdWItNzE5MzY4Iiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1jb21tZW50cyJ9.uupxdH972FIl0vCEtDqSs36lSP8sIfaF-F1mZrVyFAc]. Ed Shardlow’s response [https://substack.com/profile/100619955-ed-shardlow?utm_source=substack-feed-item], in which he points out that the hallmark given to silver and DNA testing of human beings have a lot in common, and Tamspells [https://tamarafarrelly.substack.com/?utm_content=comment_metadata&utm_source=substack-feed-item] and Jaclyn Hayes [https://jaclynhayes.substack.com/?utm_content=comment_metadata&utm_source=substack-feed-item] discussion of Strike’s dreams in previous books give the Strike:Charlotte::Rupert:Decima theory some heft. Cheryl Rose Orrocks [https://hogwartsprofessor.substack.com/p/reading-rowling-as-myth-maker-and/comment/179042568?utm_source=activity_item] asked for help with research she is doing on a possible divine marker, mythologically divine at least, being placed in each book at the appearance of that novel’s killer. The only holes in her theory at the time Nick and John recorded their conversation were Troubled Blood and Running Grave — and Catherine [https://open.substack.com/pub/hogwartsprofessor/p/reading-rowling-as-myth-maker-and?utm_campaign=comment-list-share-cta&utm_medium=web&comments=true&commentId=179506734] has since posted a neat solution for Strike 5. Check that out and please share the missing god or goddess from Running Grave! Nick and John also review and discuss: * Ed Shardlow’s idea [https://substack.com/@edshardlow/note/c-179009086?r=1k2y1&utm_source=notes-share-action&utm_medium=web] that the characters creating narratives inside Rowling-Galbraith stories are perhaps best understood as creating their stories as Rowling writes hers, i.e., inspired by Lake material and crafted with the tools in their Sheds; * Vicky’s thank you [https://hogwartsprofessor.substack.com/p/reading-rowling-as-myth-maker-and/comment/178771631?utm_source=activity_item] to Dr Fimi for the Ursula Le Guin quotation; * Ed Shardlow’s ‘ [https://open.substack.com/pub/hogwartsprofessor/p/ryan-murphy-is-charlotte-campbells?utm_campaign=comment-list-share-cta&utm_medium=web&comments=true&commentId=177807355]RL Mystery [https://open.substack.com/pub/hogwartsprofessor/p/ryan-murphy-is-charlotte-campbells?utm_campaign=comment-list-share-cta&utm_medium=web&comments=true&commentId=177807355]’ [https://open.substack.com/pub/hogwartsprofessor/p/ryan-murphy-is-charlotte-campbells?utm_campaign=comment-list-share-cta&utm_medium=web&comments=true&commentId=177807355] with back-up from Tamspells and J. S. Maleksen; * Cheryl Rose Orrocks’ YouTube notes [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rptbUD_0XUU&lc=UgzjAppCyd6EACiuz7l4AaABAg] about the Dirty Bomb Theory conversation (and just how wrong John is about Carmen the opera and Carmen Ellacott); and * Answers to listener requests for more information — all of which can be found in the Links section below! In the week to come, John pledges to post his Hallmarked Man Names exegesis, Nick is working on his review of Aurora Leigh, the supposed template of Ink Black Heart (and the only book ever confirmed by Rowling as such), they will record their Part Two ring charting this weekend, and John is reorganizing his 2017 seven week online course — Wizard Reading Formula — for which class Paid Subscribers will get a greater than 50% discount. John and Nick thank everyone listening and especially those active on the comment threads and taking part in the Hallmarked Man Ring Reading Workshop! Links to Subjects Discussed in the Conversation Above: Cheryl Rose Orrocks: [https://hogwartsprofessor.substack.com/p/reading-rowling-as-myth-maker-and/comment/179032933?utm_source=activity_item] Can you let me know the title and author of the book about Gothic elements? The one John used for Harry Potter’s Bookshelf was Patterns of fear in the Gothic novel, 1790-1830 [https://www.amazon.com/Patterns-Gothic-1790-1830-studies-dissertations/dp/0405126824] by Ann Tracy, now only ‘in print’ via a Kindle version [https://www.amazon.com/Gothic-Novel-1790-1830-Summaries-Motifs-ebook/dp/B09254YJ9H?ref_=ast_author_mpb]. John read from his much longer Harry Meets Hamlet and Scrooge: Harry Potter’s Hogwarts Adventures as the Gateway to English Literature [https://www.lulu.com/shop/john-granger/harry-meets-hamlet-and-scrooge/paperback/product-1zme2mwm.html?page=1&pageSize=4] in the conversation above, in which the list of subjects is spelled out (e.g., the castle, supernatural atmosphere, horror, isolation, subterranean passages, fragmentation and reunion, prophecy, ancestral curse, tainted blood, bond of blood, graveyard, corpses, Decay of Aristocratic Privilege, Rise of Bourgeoisie, forest, memories, dreams, found book, doppelgangers, scar or tell-tale mark, mysterious stranger, confused origin, night, mist and fog, distant past, death,, etc.). John also recommends The Handbook of Gothic Literature [https://www.amazon.com/Handbook-Gothic-Literature-Marie-Mulvey-Roberts/dp/0814756107], ed. Marie Mulvy-Roberts, and The Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction [https://www.amazon.com/Cambridge-Companion-Fiction-Companions-Literature/dp/0521794668], ed. Jerrold Hogle. Who is the mystery writer John was talking about who killed a women when she was an adolescent? Anne Perry [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Perry#Murder_and_trial], author of the Thomas and Charlotte Pitt and William Monk series of historical detective fiction. John recommends Anne Perry and the Murder of the Century [https://www.amazon.com/Perry-Murder-Century-Peter-Graham/dp/1634505182], the book written by the journalist who out’d Perry as a convicted murderer writing murder mysteries. Perry died in 2023. J. S. Maleksen [https://hogwartsprofessor.substack.com/p/reading-rowling-as-myth-maker-and/comment/179006675?utm_source=activity_item] I too enjoyed this post, immensely. Can someone recommend a version of Cupid and Psyche and other relevant works of mythology for a Striker who assiduously avoided mythology through seven years of post-secondary education. I’m willing to gut it out in order to understand Rowling’s work. TIA. John shared his favorites in the conversation above — Hamilton’s Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes, Graves’ The Greek Myths, Powell’s Classical Myth [https://www.amazon.com/Classical-Myth-3rd-Barry-Powell/dp/0130884421/ref=sr_1_1?crid=21PCSK49VIJEF&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.tBoCGmPDiLxxJNxsxUV1bzZhAxH96eA5FBZkt6w9HCujlPS-b3a6mvNw4TaG4roZr7QhJo-CYncx3oKu088npw.qQb6YordtmA16htw1qTPO2U8lGgxLoTHAVehCTdS_V4&dib_tag=se&keywords=classical+myth+powell+third+edition&qid=1763770820&s=books&sprefix=classical+myth+powell+third+edition%2Cstripbooks%2C135&sr=1-1], and Schwab’s Gods and Heroes: Myths and Epics of Ancient Greece but Dr Dimitra Fimi responded in the thread today [https://hogwartsprofessor.substack.com/p/reading-rowling-as-myth-maker-and/comment/179006675?utm_source=activity_item#comment-179616232?utm_source=activity_item]: It’s a really difficult question this, and yet it shouldn’t be. But the truth is that there is no contemporary authoritative collection of Greek/Classical mythological retellings that’s up-to-date with recent scholarship, etc. Catherine recommends Hamilton’s book below, which is still good in many respects, but these earlier compilations (like Bulfinch’s too) often synthesize different versions of mythological narratives, and omit some interesting variations. My recommendations are a bit heavier on the scholarly side of things, but still readable (the issue will be getting hold of them, but I provide links where possible): 1) Classical Myth by Barry B. Powell - as implied by the astronomical price on Amazon.uk [http://amazon.uk/] (https://amzn.to/3JYkLfF [https://amzn.to/3JYkLfF]) this is mostly available second-hand now, but there is a scanned version via Archive.org [http://archive.org/]: https://archive.org/details/classicalmyth0000powe [https://archive.org/details/classicalmyth0000powe] (you’ll need to create a free account, but once you do you can log in and borrow the book digitally to read) 2) Early Greek Myth: A Guide to Literary and Artistic Sources (2 Volumes) by Timothy Gantz is great, and at least easier to get hold of. It gives the tales and their versions as well as an overview of their sources. The Amazon price of Vol. 1, for example, is a bit more accessible: https://amzn.to/4oTFKQ1 [https://amzn.to/4oTFKQ1] For those interested in the de profundis interpretation of classical myth, see The Door in the Sky: Coomaraswamy on Myth and Meaning [https://www.amazon.com/Door-Sky-Ananda-K-Coomaraswamy/dp/0691017476/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0] and Symbolism in Greek Mythology [https://www.amazon.com/Symbolism-Greek-Mythology-Paul-Diel/dp/0877731780] by Paul Diel. You can find the post about Beedle the Bard that Dr Fimi discussed in her conversation with Nick and John at her Substack, ‘A Kind of Elvish Craft [https://dimitrafimi.substack.com/]:’ “You must’ve heard of Babbitty Rabbitty!”: Secondary World Fairy Tales in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter Series [https://dimitrafimi.substack.com/p/you-mustve-heard-of-babbitty-rabbitty?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=4029487&post_id=161755635&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=1k2y1&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email] This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit hogwartsprofessor.substack.com/subscribe [https://hogwartsprofessor.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2]

Reading Rowling as Myth Maker and Myth Re-Writer: A Conversation with Dr Dimitra Fimi

Dimitra Fimi [https://dimitrafimi.org/]is Professor of Fantasy and Children’s Literature at the University of Glasgow [https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/critical/staff/dimitrafimi/] and Co-Director of the Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic [https://fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk/]. Her Tolkien, Race and Cultural History [https://www.amazon.com/Tolkien-Race-Cultural-History-Fairies/dp/0230272843/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1GM59ECSR169O&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.dY5pA7TxJsUzuIH23dzceykpgPHZGMWlBOj6kvEhUKJEVrCTyPYoVkbJzZMNK-yOpwkNqY3i_GsZNTu2BAzx96cvngsXYCHvb8tRhIyvyKGpIYAAdHdG7hPq0dVpr3mBhAy8JRnv19HdrylQ_frgQGUg5gYX_Hie3XfpM5wez855V2OTKq0fDnw0pBFAPnyllciKNwkdUMMrePD-Wp98Dw.PLeycAg18-YljeUBLYCWUL-MDI8ej6VWamuO4KR1bd8&dib_tag=se&keywords=Dimitra+Fimi&qid=1763310303&s=books&sprefix=dimitra+fimi%2Cstripbooks%2C124&sr=1-1] won the Mythopoeic Scholarship Award for Inklings Studies and she co-edited the critical edition of A Secret Vice: Tolkien on Invented Languages [https://www.amazon.com/Secret-Vice-Tolkien-Invented-Languages/dp/0008591768/ref=sr_1_2?crid=1GM59ECSR169O&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.dY5pA7TxJsUzuIH23dzceykpgPHZGMWlBOj6kvEhUKJEVrCTyPYoVkbJzZMNK-yOpwkNqY3i_GsZNTu2BAzx96cvngsXYCHvb8tRhIyvyKGpIYAAdHdG7hPq0dVpr3mBhAy8JRnv19HdrylQ_frgQGUg5gYX_Hie3XfpM5wez855V2OTKq0fDnw0pBFAPnyllciKNwkdUMMrePD-Wp98Dw.PLeycAg18-YljeUBLYCWUL-MDI8ej6VWamuO4KR1bd8&dib_tag=se&keywords=Dimitra+Fimi&qid=1763310303&s=books&sprefix=dimitra+fimi%2Cstripbooks%2C124&sr=1-2] which won the Tolkien Society Award for Best Book. Her Celtic Myth in Contemporary Children’s Fantasy [https://www.amazon.com/Celtic-Myth-Contemporary-Childrens-Fantasy-ebook/dp/B06XG79SH9/ref=sr_1_5?crid=1GM59ECSR169O&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.dY5pA7TxJsUzuIH23dzceykpgPHZGMWlBOj6kvEhUKJEVrCTyPYoVkbJzZMNK-yOpwkNqY3i_GsZNTu2BAzx96cvngsXYCHvb8tRhIyvyKGpIYAAdHdG7hPq0dVpr3mBhAy8JRnv19HdrylQ_frgQGUg5gYX_Hie3XfpM5wez855V2OTKq0fDnw0pBFAPnyllciKNwkdUMMrePD-Wp98Dw.PLeycAg18-YljeUBLYCWUL-MDI8ej6VWamuO4KR1bd8&dib_tag=se&keywords=Dimitra+Fimi&qid=1763310303&s=books&sprefix=dimitra+fimi%2Cstripbooks%2C124&sr=1-5] won the Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Myth and Fantasy Studies. Other work includes co-editing Sub-creating Arda: World-building in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Work, its Precursors and its Legacies [https://www.amazon.com/Sub-creating-Arda-World-building-Tolkiens-Precursors/dp/3905703408/ref=sr_1_4?crid=1GM59ECSR169O&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.dY5pA7TxJsUzuIH23dzceykpgPHZGMWlBOj6kvEhUKJEVrCTyPYoVkbJzZMNK-yOpwkNqY3i_GsZNTu2BAzx96cvngsXYCHvb8tRhIyvyKGpIYAAdHdG7hPq0dVpr3mBhAy8JRnv19HdrylQ_frgQGUg5gYX_Hie3XfpM5wez855V2OTKq0fDnw0pBFAPnyllciKNwkdUMMrePD-Wp98Dw.PLeycAg18-YljeUBLYCWUL-MDI8ej6VWamuO4KR1bd8&dib_tag=se&keywords=Dimitra+Fimi&qid=1763310303&s=books&sprefix=dimitra+fimi%2Cstripbooks%2C124&sr=1-4] and Imagining the Celtic Past in Modern Fantasy [https://www.amazon.com/Imagining-Celtic-Modern-Fantasy-Perspectives-ebook/dp/B0BLV28L9Z/ref=sr_1_8?crid=1GM59ECSR169O&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.dY5pA7TxJsUzuIH23dzceykpgPHZGMWlBOj6kvEhUKJEVrCTyPYoVkbJzZMNK-yOpwkNqY3i_GsZNTu2BAzx96cvngsXYCHvb8tRhIyvyKGpIYAAdHdG7hPq0dVpr3mBhAy8JRnv19HdrylQ_frgQGUg5gYX_Hie3XfpM5wez855V2OTKq0fDnw0pBFAPnyllciKNwkdUMMrePD-Wp98Dw.PLeycAg18-YljeUBLYCWUL-MDI8ej6VWamuO4KR1bd8&dib_tag=se&keywords=Dimitra+Fimi&qid=1763310303&s=books&sprefix=dimitra+fimi%2Cstripbooks%2C124&sr=1-8]. She has contributed articles for the TLS and The Conversation [https://theconversation.com/profiles/dimitra-fimi-142231], and has appeared on numerous radio and TV programs. When the rightly famous and beloved ‘The Great Courses’ series decided to offer a Lord of the Rings entry for their catalog of the very best in scholarship for adult-learners, they asked Dimitra Fimi to create ‘The World of J. R. R. Tolkien, [https://www.amazon.com/The-World-of-J-R-R-Tolkien/dp/B0B8T3XYQR/ref=sr_1_3?crid=1GM59ECSR169O&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.dY5pA7TxJsUzuIH23dzceykpgPHZGMWlBOj6kvEhUKJEVrCTyPYoVkbJzZMNK-yOpwkNqY3i_GsZNTu2BAzx96cvngsXYCHvb8tRhIyvyKGpIYAAdHdG7hPq0dVpr3mBhAy8JRnv19HdrylQ_frgQGUg5gYX_Hie3XfpM5wez855V2OTKq0fDnw0pBFAPnyllciKNwkdUMMrePD-Wp98Dw.PLeycAg18-YljeUBLYCWUL-MDI8ej6VWamuO4KR1bd8&dib_tag=se&keywords=Dimitra+Fimi&qid=1763310303&s=books&sprefix=dimitra+fimi%2Cstripbooks%2C124&sr=1-3]’ one of their most popular courses and one you can enjoy in an Audible edition. Links Promised in Conversation: A Kind of Elvish Craft: The Dimitra Fimi Substack Site [https://dimitrafimi.substack.com/] * Miniature Books in Children’s Fantasy [https://dimitrafimi.substack.com/p/miniature-books-in-childrens-fantasy] * Parabasis: [https://dimitrafimi.substack.com/p/parabasis]A Tribute to Dionysis Stavvopoulos [https://dimitrafimi.substack.com/p/parabasis] * On Tolkien’s Letter 131 (4): “Romance” vs. Science [https://dimitrafimi.substack.com/p/on-tolkiens-letter-131-4-romance] Dimitra Fimi articles at ‘The Conversation’ [https://theconversation.com/profiles/dimitra-fimi-142231] * After 150 years, we still haven’t solved the puzzle of Alice in Wonderland [https://theconversation.com/after-150-years-we-still-havent-solved-the-puzzle-of-alice-in-wonderland-44049] (2015) Kanreki Conversations about Rowling-Galbraith ‘Golden Threads’ * Pregnancy Traps in the Works of Rowling-Galbraith [https://hogwartsprofessor.substack.com/p/golden-threads-in-the-works-of-j] * Golden Threads in Rowling-Galbraith (1) [https://hogwartsprofessor.substack.com/p/a-lake-and-shed-look-at-the-golden] * Golden Threads in Rowling-Galbraith (2) [https://hogwartsprofessor.substack.com/p/a-lake-and-shed-look-at-the-golden-f55] * ‘The Lost Child’ Golden Thread [https://hogwartsprofessor.substack.com/p/a-lake-and-shed-look-at-the-lost] * Alternative Explanations of ‘The Lost Child’ Golden Thread [https://hogwartsprofessor.substack.com/p/alternative-explanations-for-the] * The Induced Abortion Hypothesis [https://hogwartsprofessor.substack.com/p/happy-60th-birthday-j-k-rowling-opening] * The July 2025 [https://hogwartsprofessor.substack.com/p/the-kanreki-project-index-the-july]Kanreki [https://hogwartsprofessor.substack.com/p/the-kanreki-project-index-the-july] Index [https://hogwartsprofessor.substack.com/p/the-kanreki-project-index-the-july] Our Ten Questions for Dr Fimi: 1. How does a woman born and raised on the Greek island of Salamis wind up in Cardiff studying Celtic Mythology? 2. You’re a Tolkien scholar and expert in fantasy and Children’s literature. Tolkienistas are legend for looking down their Ent noses at Harry Potter, though there are important exceptions to that rule (the late Stratford Caldecott, his wife Leonie, Amy H. Sturgis, others). How did you meet the Boy Who Lived and what were your first impressions of Rowling as author? 3. You have a lot in common with Rowling, no? Tolkien devotee, serious student of mythology, and a wonderful appreciation of the magic of story, especially magical stories for children. The Tolkien influence on Rowling is well documented though she has tried to belittle it, but her use of myths as templates for her stories is less well known but at least as important. What do you make of her admittedly “shameless” borrowing from folk tales and myths? 4. I guess this is a segue to the Cormoran Strike books which are awash in myths -- Leda and the Swan, Castor and Pollux, Cupid and Psyche, Artemis and Tisiphone... Am I missing any? 5. You’ve seen Rowling’s recent confirmation of the Cupid and Psyche myth in her tweeted painting of ‘Psyche Ascendant.’ That suggests we’ll see the happy ending of the myth in Strikes 9 and 10. Or does it? What did you see of that myth specifically in Hallmarked Man? 6. Running Grave has another embedded text, not a myth per se, one that makes sense in light of Rowling’s love of everything the Bronte sisters wrote. Tell us what made you think of Jane Eyre as you were reading Strike 7. 7. Rowling did something unusual in 2019, well, among the unusual things she did that year, in inviting readers to interpret her work in light of their ‘Lake’ inspiration as well as her intentional ‘Shed’ artistry. Writers like Lewis and Tolkien would be aghast at that, though Inkling Studies today necessarily include heavy biographical leanings in almost everything written about those authors. What is your take in general on what Lewis called ‘The Personal Heresy’ and about Rowling as a living author inviting that critical perspective while she is still among us? 8. It’s fascinating, frankly, that you are not so compartmentalized in your reading that Rowling is still a writer you read outside of her fantasy and children’s literature. Do you read the Strike-Ellacott stories because you also love a good detective novel or is it your interest in Rowling and whatever she is writing? 9. Have you read Christmas Pig? John believes that in fifty years, the Lord tarrying, high school and college students will read Pig as Rowling’s representative work the way we had to read Tale of Two Cities or Christmas Carol to be exposed to Dickens. 10. John tries to read imaginative fiction through what he calls an “iconological lens,” a method born of his Perennialist beliefs and life as an Orthodox Christian. In what ways do you think your childhood and secondary education gave you a sympathy unusual for multi-valent texts than those born and raised in relatively secular cultures? This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit hogwartsprofessor.substack.com/subscribe [https://hogwartsprofessor.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2]

Ryan Murphy is Charlotte Campbell's 'Dirty Bomb'

Nick Jeffery and John Granger sat down today to talk about the wonderful comment threads beneath their Hallmarked Man posts since publication day. They see every comment on every thread and realized no one else was seeing the brilliant theories and ideas from the Hogwarts Professor community. John was tasked with reviewing every comment post publication comment thread to identify the best offering they had not discussed in previous posts. Nick had the harder job of culling that list down to the best ten ideas; he balked and chose thirteen. John added two, just because. They both recommend you click on the links below as you listen to Nick and John embrace, push back, and marvel at the great Serious Striker conversations to be had here. The best of the best? J. S. Maleksen’s ‘Dirty Bomb Charlotte,’ which makes the credible argument that Rowling has written a back-stage scenario in which Charlotte seduces Ryan F. Murphy to destroy Robin Ellacott. Why? When? What? How? Read the comment beneath the #1 link below and listen to Nick and John talk, no, rave about this seemingly off-the-wall bit of speculation. And then wade through the rest! Thank you to all the contributors to our conversations; please remember it was Nick, not John, who decided not to use your idea. Hallmarked Man Names and Part One ring-charting later this week — stay tuned! Links to Reader Ideas and Theories from the HogPro Comment Threads 1. J. S. Maleksen [https://substack.com/profile/82513397-j-s-maleksen?utm_source=substack-feed-item]: ‘Dirty Bomb Charlotte [https://hogwartsprofessor.substack.com/p/hallmarked-man-vs-the-first-seven/comment/173366102]:’ Ryan Murphy Killed Charlotte Thank you for discussing my first [https://hogwartsprofessor.substack.com/p/the-mysterious-death-of-charlotte/comment/171645873]Running Grave [https://hogwartsprofessor.substack.com/p/the-mysterious-death-of-charlotte/comment/171645873] RFM comments. [https://hogwartsprofessor.substack.com/p/the-mysterious-death-of-charlotte/comment/171645873] As you may have noticed, my theory is a bit of a work in progress. In keeping with the Hogwarts Professor/ Rowling Studies standards, I am striving to put it all together and set forth a textual basis for my contention that the relapsing, unstable RFM we see in the later parts of RG and all of HM is the dirty bomb left by Charlotte with the intent of exacting revenge on Robin and Strike. In RG, after listening to a portion of Charlotte’s final 3 voicemail messages, Strike frets about the possibility that Charlotte will seek out RFM and spin a web of lies to him. He expresses concern in his inner monologue that RFM would have no loyalty to Strike and that RFM could use the information to turn Robin against him. Understanding that I may be in nutter drawer/Gateshead territory and mindful that I am diverging from my original post slightly, I contend that RFM met up with Charlotte at some point, maybe in the month or two, before she died. She used McCabes (the agency she hired to get dirt on Jago in IBH) to get info on Robin, discovered RFM, contacted him seduced him, and filled his head with lies about Strike and Robin. On the night Charlotte dies, RFM is there. They are drinking together. They get into a fight. She assaults him (like she assaulted Strike and Dormer) and because ‘he is mean and aggressive when he gets drunk’ (yes this is where this line from Wardle in RG becomes relevant) he hits her back, they fight, and she dies. He makes the murder look like a suicide, writes a suicide note that is based on the information she has given him about Strike and her family and her kids. There is nothing in the suicide note about Strike being in love with Robin. Remember, the only evidence that this appears in the note is Strike’s egotistical presumption that is based solely on Strike’s conjecture. RFM uses his position at the Met to make sure the final determination is suicide. The guilt and self-loathing he feels thereafter causes him to spend as much time as possible in Spain (rather than taking the earlier flight to see Robin after she escapes from Chapman Farm.) It also causes him to declare his love for Robin on his first night back with her. He’s drinking and unraveling and he thinks if he can make it work with Robin and rescue her from an abusive Strike, it will make up for the fact that he committed murder. This also explains his mistakes in the gang shooting case, including roughing up a suspect and all of the descriptions of him being overly stressed and exhausted including on the night he got Robin pregnant. This is the thought process that led me to post under Nick’s ‘Charlotte was Murdered’ thread. It just took me a little longer to articulate it. Once again, thanks to both of you for all of the fine work you do. * Catherine [https://substack.com/profile/35779143-catherine?utm_source=substack-feed-item]: Strike 9 will be about Strike searching to find Lost Robin/Psyche [https://hogwartsprofessor.substack.com/p/hallmarked-mans-three-whose-my-daddy/comment/156599662] 3. June McGarry [https://substack.com/profile/387348520-june-mcgarry?utm_source=substack-feed-item]: Incest Part 1 — Leda and Ted Half-Siblings [https://hogwartsprofessor.substack.com/p/hallmarked-mans-three-whose-my-daddy/comment/157437340] 4. Tamspells [https://substack.com/profile/320311737-tamspells?utm_source=substack-feed-item]: Incest Part 2 — Charlotte Raped by Dino Step Father [https://hogwartsprofessor.substack.com/p/hallmarked-mans-three-whose-my-daddy/comment/170585981] 5. Vicky [https://substack.com/profile/361985377-vicky?utm_source=substack-feed-item]: Names Idea 1 — Decima Mullins – Shirley Mullens [https://open.substack.com/pub/hogwartsprofessor/p/hallmarked-mans-flood-of-names-characters?utm_campaign=comment-list-share-cta&utm_medium=web&comments=true&commentId=160188437] 6.Kathleen OConnor [https://substack.com/profile/98755061-kathleen-oconnor?utm_source=substack-feed-item] Names Idea 2 — Rupert Fleetwood – Lady Patricia Fleetword-Chiswell [https://open.substack.com/pub/hogwartsprofessor/p/hallmarked-mans-flood-of-names-characters?utm_campaign=comment-list-share-cta&utm_medium=web&comments=true&commentId=172356524] 7. Sandy Hope [https://substack.com/profile/147046649-sandy-hope?utm_source=substack-feed-item]: Cupid and Psyche 1 — Psyche’s Sisters in [https://open.substack.com/pub/hogwartsprofessor/p/the-hallmarked-mans-mythological?utm_campaign=comment-list-share-cta&utm_medium=web&comments=true&commentId=161568767]Hallmarked Man [https://open.substack.com/pub/hogwartsprofessor/p/the-hallmarked-mans-mythological?utm_campaign=comment-list-share-cta&utm_medium=web&comments=true&commentId=161568767] 8. Kelly Loomis [https://substack.com/profile/58776727-kelly-loomis?utm_source=substack-feed-item] Cupid and Psyche 2 — Chelsea Arts Club Cupid, Etc. [https://open.substack.com/pub/hogwartsprofessor/p/the-hallmarked-mans-mythological?utm_campaign=comment-list-share-cta&utm_medium=web&comments=true&commentId=164169708] 9. June McGarry [https://substack.com/profile/10524964-june-mcgarry?utm_source=substack-feed-item]: — Strike lies to READERS about Paternity Test [https://open.substack.com/pub/hogwartsprofessor/p/hallmarked-man-q-and-a-with-nick?utm_campaign=comment-list-share-cta&utm_medium=web&comments=true&commentId=166726966] 10. Ed Shardlow [https://substack.com/profile/100619955-ed-shardlow?utm_source=substack-feed-item] — Planet Narnia [https://open.substack.com/pub/hogwartsprofessor/p/hallmarked-man-q-and-a-with-nick?utm_campaign=comment-list-share-cta&utm_medium=web&comments=true&commentId=166620591] Theory for Strike series [https://open.substack.com/pub/hogwartsprofessor/p/hallmarked-man-q-and-a-with-nick?utm_campaign=comment-list-share-cta&utm_medium=web&comments=true&commentId=166620591] * Ed Shardlow: The Five Strikes in [https://hogwartsprofessor.substack.com/p/hallmarked-man-vs-the-first-seven/comment/174521616?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyNjE2NTUzLCJwb3N0X2lkIjoxNzc3NTI1ODQsImlhdCI6MTc2MjYzNDc1NCwiZXhwIjoxNzYyODkzOTU0LCJpc3MiOiJwdWItNzE5MzY4Iiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1jb21tZW50cyJ9.xlkvOIWR2ISu7j0JOmTVcgs7QlHhfjbVxUALac3PaHU#comment-175085469?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyNjE2NTUzLCJwb3N0X2lkIjoxNzc3NTI1ODQsImlhdCI6MTc2MjYzNDc1NCwiZXhwIjoxNzYyODkzOTU0LCJpc3MiOiJwdWItNzE5MzY4Iiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1jb21tZW50cyJ9.xlkvOIWR2ISu7j0JOmTVcgs7QlHhfjbVxUALac3PaH]Hallmarked Man [https://hogwartsprofessor.substack.com/p/hallmarked-man-vs-the-first-seven/comment/174521616?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyNjE2NTUzLCJwb3N0X2lkIjoxNzc3NTI1ODQsImlhdCI6MTc2MjYzNDc1NCwiZXhwIjoxNzYyODkzOTU0LCJpc3MiOiJwdWItNzE5MzY4Iiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1jb21tZW50cyJ9.xlkvOIWR2ISu7j0JOmTVcgs7QlHhfjbVxUALac3PaHU#comment-175085469?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyNjE2NTUzLCJwb3N0X2lkIjoxNzc3NTI1ODQsImlhdCI6MTc2MjYzNDc1NCwiZXhwIjoxNzYyODkzOTU0LCJpc3MiOiJwdWItNzE5MzY4Iiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1jb21tZW50cyJ9.xlkvOIWR2ISu7j0JOmTVcgs7QlHhfjbVxUALac3PaHU] 11. Brenna Hill [https://substack.com/profile/88630322-brenna-hill?utm_source=substack-feed-item] — Meaning of Ellacotts’ Naming Puppy ‘Betty’ [https://open.substack.com/pub/hogwartsprofessor/p/hallmarked-man-q-and-a-with-nick-111?utm_campaign=comment-list-share-cta&utm_medium=web&comments=true&commentId=168081215] 12. Ed Shardlow [https://substack.com/profile/100619955-ed-shardlow?utm_source=substack-feed-item] — Meaning of [https://open.substack.com/pub/hogwartsprofessor/p/hallmarked-man-reader-theories-and?utm_campaign=comment-list-share-cta&utm_medium=web&comments=true&commentId=171039723]Hallmarked Man [https://open.substack.com/pub/hogwartsprofessor/p/hallmarked-man-reader-theories-and?utm_campaign=comment-list-share-cta&utm_medium=web&comments=true&commentId=171039723]Titles, Other Strike Series Titles [https://open.substack.com/pub/hogwartsprofessor/p/hallmarked-man-reader-theories-and?utm_campaign=comment-list-share-cta&utm_medium=web&comments=true&commentId=171039723] 13. Ed Shardlow [https://substack.com/profile/100619955-ed-shardlow?utm_source=substack-feed-item] Lions, Eyes, Bridges, Silver, Swans, Steps [https://open.substack.com/pub/hogwartsprofessor/p/hallmarked-man-reader-theories-and?utm_campaign=comment-list-share-cta&utm_medium=web&comments=true&commentId=171062560] 14. Joanna [https://substack.com/profile/136221446-joanna?utm_source=substack-feed-item] — ‘Hidden in Plain Sight’ [https://open.substack.com/pub/hogwartsprofessor/p/hallmarked-man-reader-theories-and?utm_campaign=comment-list-share-cta&utm_medium=web&comments=true&commentId=171417652] 15. Brenna Hill [https://substack.com/profile/88630322-brenna-hill?utm_source=substack-feed-item] — Dirk and EXCALIBUR [https://open.substack.com/pub/hogwartsprofessor/p/hallmarked-man-q-and-a-with-nick-111?utm_campaign=comment-list-share-cta&utm_medium=web&comments=true&commentId=168110227] This is a public episode. 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