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Six new additions this morning to previously existing pages:
First, I came across a piece by Alicey that I’d seen before, but that was for some reason missing from my collections, of Ron and Neville looking nervously over a Howler in CS6 ;
Second, I went back through Drew ...
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Most of you know that I have a policy of avoiding spoilers in my chapter commentary; I’m intending this website to be around for a long time, and to be here for a new generation of Harry Potter readers as they’re reading the books, so I don’t want them to hear what’s ...
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Good morning! Just a quick update this morning, as I was reading through an interview that Rowling gave shortly after the release of Order of the Phoenix and came across several great quotes that I realized I should have used. So I’ve added them in! They are:
A description of the ...
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Dolores Umbridge may be a terrible person (and at times painful to read about), but one thing I have to give her is that she’s preparing Harry to deal with adversity in a way that she clearly doesn’t intend. I’ve run into a few Umbridges in my time (well, maybe they ...
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Hello again! Back again with another new chapter and also the far-more-anticipated trivia answers! ;) Here’s the chapter, first off:
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix , chapter 14: ‘Percy and Padfoot’
As far as my trivia questions went, I got answers in three ...
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Back again with even more…. Umbridge! Yay! Can you tell I’m posting these chapters quickly because I can’t wait to be done with her character? ;) There is, however, some fantastic art in this chapter, which makes me excited to be posting it too, of course.
I was also struck ...
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As I write these pages in Phoenix , I’ve found myself having a hard time avoiding just ranting . So many unjust things happen to Harry this year, at the hands of so many just awful people (including one in particular who happens to be this chapter’s namesake…), that it just ...
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
I think if I had to choose one word to describe this book, “ominous” would be it. We get to a point in this chapter where it feels like every other paragraph is a bad sign of things to come. Of course, in a few more chapters we’ll get to a point where it feels like every ...
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
I’m here with an extra bonus post today, because I’m excited to be adding the 79th artist to our ranks! I fell a little behind over the past couple of weeks, and consequently contacted thepolestar later than I intended to. So I certainly can’t blame her for getting back to me ...
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In the first three Harry Potter books, by the time we reached chapter ten we were already well into the fall term: Halloween, November, and so forth. But now we’re in book five, so chapter ten means Harry is only just on his way to school.
On the other hand, chapter ten is also where ...
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
I’ve talked a couple of times recently about chapters where the books grow up; this is one of the chapters in which I think Harry really starts to grow up. He’s coming to terms with the corruption in the Ministry; Dumbledore is mysteriously ignoring him; Ron is made a prefect; and ...
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Whew! Well I took a break from things yesterday and had a very productive day around home for a change, but last week was a lot of fun. The HPC broke its all-time records for page views in a week, in a day (10/24), and in a month (October), and over the past few months we’ve now been ...
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Happy Harry Potter Day! Well, sort of. McGonagall suggests in the very first chapter of the books that “this day” may eventually be known as Harry Potter Day. The only problem is, the day Harry Potter vanquished Voldemort was the previous day – which was Halloween, a holiday ...
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For those who are interested, I’ve just added the capability to follow HPC updates on Twitter, @hpcompanion. It will supply a link every time I post here. At the moment I’m not planning to use that account for anything else, so I doubt we’ll get tons of followers, but at ...
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Good morning! It’s Halloween, so a very happy one to you. Here’s hoping yours isn’t as eventful as most of Harry’s turn out to be. After all, his parents were killed on Halloween when he was one, he fought a troll when he was eleven, he discovered the Chamber of Secrets ...
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Another new essay today, and it comes with a bit of a story.
Many of you know I used to be an editor at the Harry Potter Lexicon. While I was there, one of the site’s FAQ pages had a point along the lines of, “before you e-mail us your brilliant idea, consider the fact that ...
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In my iPhoto I have a folder (one of 200+ Harry Potter-related folders….) with a queue of artwork I’m considering adding to the Companion, to chapters I’ve already posted. They’re there for all sorts of reasons – some I just found recently for the first time, ...
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Back again today with another update, and another new chapter. This chapter – the cleaning of number twelve, Grimmauld Place – is another one like the Quidditch World Cup, where Harry’s horizons just expand as we read through all that’s going on. There’s magic he ...
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Hello – back again this morning with another new essay. This time it’s one that I’ve promised I was writing (I was asked about it in the comments a few weeks back) but that just took me a little bit longer to finish than I was expecting. But similar to the essay I wrote for ...
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This is a big week for the Harry Potter Companion, as the next chapter I post will be the 100th chapter in the series – and since the series has 199 chapters overall, that means we’re halfway through the books. So to celebrate, I have decided that this week shall be called HALFWAY ...
