literary alchemy

13 min read 2023-02-14 15:28:37

Beatrice Groves – Valentine’s Alchemy

A very happy St Valentine’s Day from all at Hogwarts Professor to you dear close readers! Robins are red, Strike’s name is Blue, Beatrice Groves

5 min read 2023-02-07 18:01:55

We are very fortunate that long time stalwart of the Hogwarts Professor – Chris Calderon has submitted a guest post. Now that it is likely Dylan

4 min read 2023-01-04 16:00:40

Chris Calderon, long time stalwart of Hogwarts Professor has submitted a guest post that argues that three of Dorothy L. Sayers Wimsey novels

9 min read 2022-09-05 15:42:39

We have a lot of hypotheses about why we got such a nigredo-laden book in Strike 6. They are: 5-6 flip: which supposes that Troubled Blood was

14 min read 2022-07-09 13:15:37

This is the last, at least for now, of my Pentagram Predictions Posts. As I started in the introduction to this series, this model has a serious

4 min read 2022-07-05 18:00:07

Several days ago I floated a new idea on this side: 5-6 Flip, the possibility that Troubled Blood was originally intended as the sixth book in the

16 min read 2022-06-20 06:34:05

I am a scientist by training and profession, whether I am teaching behavioral neuroscience, designing treatment plans for special needs children, or

16 min read 2022-06-20 04:47:53

I am typically a lot less interested in Rowling’s tweets than some of my Hogpro colleagues are, with the notable exception of when she drops hints

1 min read 2021-11-07 04:09:33

I went into my first predictions for Troubled Blood a bit overconfident, after my bulls-eyes in Lethal White, where I successfully predicted a

1 min read 2021-10-14 09:41:58

To get discussion started on The Christmas Pig, I thought I would post some thoughts, aligned with a few of our keys to interpretation, that I was

3 min read 2021-02-22 04:39:35

Nearly a decade ago, William Sprague published a guest post here on Hogwartsprofessor, arguing for a type of reverse alchemy in the first three

13 min read 2021-02-14 06:25:24

The centrality of Elizabethan imagery in Troubled Blood is hard to miss. The Faerie Queene epigraphs and structuring, already well documented on

6 min read 2020-11-15 02:26:40

Oxford University’s Beatrice Groves, author of Literary Allusion in Harry Potter, listened to the J. K. Rowling-Graham Norton interview today and

1 min read 2020-08-10 22:00:46

Literary alchemy provides clues to the romantic pairings in Harry Potter. Why did Ron and Hermione, Remus and Tonks, and Bill and Fleur end up

6 min read 2020-05-24 18:00:46

by Dr. Beatrice Groves George Ripley was one of England’s most important alchemists, and he was crucial to the revival of the art in the 15th