August 19th, 2008 — , Half-Blood Prince movie, Harry News and Commentary, The Movies from Travis Prinzi @ The Hog's Head
by Travis
Eric D. Snider debunks the following 4 Myths about the Half-Blood Prince movie delay:
Half-Blood Prince was moved because WB was scared of Twilight. (That one’s just silly.)
It got moved because WB was nervous about Daniel Radcliffe’s extra-curricular activities. (Referring to his appeared naked in Equus)
WB moved Half-Blood Prince to the one-year anniversary of The [...]
August 18th, 2008 — , Gryffindor Common Room, Harry Potter awards, Mythopoeic Society Awards from Travis Prinzi @ The Hog's Head
Got an email from Randy Hoyt - Harry Potter has won this year’s Mythopoeic Society Fantasy Award for Children’s Literature. It was announced this past weekend at MythCon 39.
A well-deserved win for Potter.
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Related StoresAugust 17th, 2008 — , Azkatraz San Francisco, Azkatraz and Half Blood Prince movie, Harry News and Commentary, Harry Potter Culture, Harry Potter conferences, The Movies from Travis Prinzi @ The Hog's Head
I suggested, upon hearing the news of the delay of the Half-Blood Prince movie, that the only silver lining to the news would be for Azkatraz 2009 attendees. The LA Times got a note from a member of Team Azkatraz, Heidi Tandy, saying that very thing. There is no way they’ll be able to accommodate everyone [...]
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August 15th, 2008 — , Beedle the Bard, Half-Blood Prince movie, Harry News and Commentary, Harry Potter Culture, Harry Potter conferences, Harry Potter events, John Granger, Melissa Anelli book, Tales of Beedle the Bard, The Movies, academic books on Harry Potter from Travis Prinzi @ The Hog's Head
Despite the fact that the supposed next big Potter event - the release of the Half-Blood Prince film - has been delayed till next summer, the Potterverse will be alive and kicking, with lots of key events, until that film release. Here’s a breakdown, in as close to chronological order as possible. Consider this your magical [...]
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August 15th, 2008 — , Book giveaway, Gryffindor Common Room, children's books from Travis Prinzi @ The Hog's Head
From time to time, I’m sent books by WaterBook Press to review and give away. This upcoming week is a Children’s Extravaganza Tour, and I have three children’s books I’ll be reviewing here on the site and then giving away. Hence, the August giveaway is three children’s books:
God Gave Us Heaven
God Loves Me More Than [...]
August 14th, 2008 — , Half-Blood Prince movie, Half-Blood Prince pictures, Harry News and Commentary, The Movies from Travis Prinzi @ The Hog's Head
Five more pictures from the Half-Blood Prince movie we now won’t see until July 17 of next year. Images of Snape, Bellatrix, and Slughorn, and the Slug Club are of interest. (HT to HPANA)
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Related StoresAugust 14th, 2008 — , Half-Blood Prince movie, Harry News and Commentary, The Movies from Travis Prinzi @ The Hog's Head
This is going to disappoint a lot of folks (myself included). Warner Bros has apparently decided to change the release of the film version of Half-Blood Prince to Summer 2009 (instead of Thanksgiving of this year).
“Our reasons for shifting ‘Half-Blood Prince’ to summer are twofold: we know the summer season is an ideal window for [...]
Continue reading → Half-Blood Prince Movie Delayed Until Summer 2009
August 14th, 2008 — , Beyond the Potterverse, Breaking Dawn, Harry Potter and Twilight from Travis Prinzi @ The Hog's Head
by Travis
“We never thought there was going to be another Harry Potter” ~ Samantha Gutierrez, manager of the Children’s and Teen’s Department at Barnes and Noble.
There’s been a lot of buzz around The Twilight Saga, a quartet by Stephanie Meyer about teen vampires which has even been proclaimed “the next Harry Potter.” The fourth [...]
August 13th, 2008 — , Gryffindor Common Room, Harry Potter invisibility cloak, real invisibility cloak, science invisibility cloak from Travis Prinzi @ The Hog's Head
by Travis
This story has been making the rounds for years, and apparently scientists are getting ever closer to making a magical object a reality. Despite the fact that I argue in chapter one of my book that magic and science need not be antithetical, something about the possibility of a real invisibility cloak leaves me [...]
Continue reading → Real Invisibility Cloak - Why am I not Excited?
August 12th, 2008 — , Alchemy from Travis Prinzi @ The Hog's Head
by Travis
It’s weird story time. The woman who cuts my hair and I have been talking about book publishing the last several times I’ve made an appointment, because I’m getting published on Harry Potter, and her father is getting published on alchemy.
What I didn’t realize until last night was that her father actually claims not only [...]
August 12th, 2008 — , Beyond the Potterverse, Fantasy Fiction Conference, MythCon, mythopoeic society from Travis Prinzi @ The Hog's Head
Just a reminder that MythCon 39 is this upcoming weekend (August 15-18) in New Britain, CT. Sadly, despite the fact that I’ll actually be in CT this weekend, I’ll not be able to attend. But the conference looks great, and the rates are excellent for a conference from such a great organization. There are also excellent [...]
Related StoresAugust 11th, 2008 — , Harry Potter Alliance, Harry Potter and Darfur, Harry Potter globalism localism, Monday Magical Musings, Olympics and Triwizard tournament, international cooperation and Harry Potter from Travis Prinzi @ The Hog's Head
by Travis
I’m going to begin a new Hog’s Head practice of starting each week off with a subject for discussion. This week - the Olympics and the TriWizard Tournament. With the Beijing Olympics underway, Potter fans are reminded of the “Olympic” event that is the TriWizard Tournament in Goblet of Fire. The HP Alliance is noting the parallels along the [...]
Continue reading → Monday Magical Musings: TriWizard Tournament & Olympics
August 10th, 2008 — , Harry Potter Culture, Platform 9 3/4 from Travis Prinzi @ The Hog's Head
If you haven’t yet seen the “real” Platform 9 & 3/4, check out this video from the Baby Blue Cafe.
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Related StoresAugust 9th, 2008 — , Harry News and Commentary, Harry Potter 800-word prequel, Harry Potter Prequel from Travis Prinzi @ The Hog's Head
It was a simple 800-word story scribbled on two sides of a postcard, but it helped What’s Your Story? sell out in a day, breaking the record for the fastest-selling short story collection in history. From BBC:
What’s Your Story? contains 13 postcard-sized tales by authors including Doris Lessing, Nick Hornby and Sebastian Faulks.
More than 10,000 copies [...]
Continue reading → Rowling is Gold: A Simple 800-word Prequel Helps Break a Record
August 9th, 2008 — , Beyond the Potterverse, Cthulhu movie, Cthulhu trailer, H.P. Lovecraft from Travis Prinzi @ The Hog's Head
There’s an independent movie coming out in a few weeks based on Lovecraft’s Cthulhu (trailer at that link):
Adapted from a story by H.P. Lovecraft. A Seattle history professor, drawn back to his estranged family on the Oregon coast to execute his late mother’s estate, is reacquainted with his best friend from childhood, with whom he has [...]
August 9th, 2008 — , Beyond the Potterverse, Cthulhu movie, Cthulhu trailer, H.P. Lovecraft from Travis Prinzi @ The Hog's Head
There’s an independent movie coming out in a few weeks based on Lovecraft’s Cthulhu (trailer at that link):
Adapted from a story by H.P. Lovecraft. A Seattle history professor, drawn back to his estranged family on the Oregon coast to execute his late mother’s estate, is reacquainted with his best friend from childhood, with whom he has [...]
August 7th, 2008 — , Amazon.com deals, Gryffindor Common Room, Samuel Taylor Coleridge from Travis Prinzi @ The Hog's Head
Update: It’s back to the original price. Did anyone order before the $900+ price jump?
John Granger sent me an email last night with a follow-up today that Amazon.com has an unbelievable deal on The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (7 Volumes) - $15 for what is normally $965. Last night, they still had both [...]
Continue reading → Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Only $15 at Amazon.com!
August 7th, 2008 — , Hogwarts School of Literature, Philip Nel, Rowling and Tolkien, comparing Tolkien and Rowling from Travis Prinzi @ The Hog's Head
by Travis
Philip Nel, author of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter Novels: A Reader’s Guide, contributed an excellent article to The Lion and the Unicorn in 2005. In “Is There a Text in this Advertising Campaign,” Nel argues effectively in favor of the series’ literary merits (contra the position of John Pennington, in particular, and A.S. Byatt [...]
August 6th, 2008 — , Gryffindor Common Room from Travis Prinzi @ The Hog's Head
PubCast #57 will be temporarily unavailable. It will be back up again tonight.
August 5th, 2008 — , David Thewlis, Lupin and Tonks, Nymphadora Tonks, Remus Lupin, werewolf symbolism from Travis Prinzi @ The Hog's Head
Several of the recent discussions here at The Hog’s Head have reminded me once again of what great thinkers regularly visit and comment. Here’s a discussion starter for you all: Remus Lupin’s character. It’s time to give everyone’s favorite werewolf some careful attention. Directions to head in:
Remus Lupin’s “Furry Little Problem”
Werewolves are classic scary characters, [...]
August 5th, 2008 — , Harry Potter Conference, Harry Potter Culture, Hogwarts School of Literature, James Thomas, Termins from Travis Prinzi @ The Hog's Head
Sadly, I’m unable to attend Terminus, the Harry Potter conference in Chicago which starts Thursday of this week. I do, however, want to encourage any Hog’s Head readers, if you’re going, to make sure you attend James Thomas’s presentation. Here is the abstract:
The Omegas in the Alphas: Rowling’s Dazzling Use of Foreshadowing
James Thomas
Rowling’s Harry Potter [...]
August 4th, 2008 — , Del Toro, Fairy Tales, Magic in Literature, demons, fantasy fiction and religion from Travis Prinzi @ The Hog's Head
by Travis
From a USA Today article on Del Toro:
“I’m interested in monsters because, much like archangels and angels, they represent a portion of the human soul.”
“In adult movies, R-rated movies, monsters can signify many different things,” says del Toro. “But in the (PG-13) Hellboy mythology, they symbolize our imperfections and how we can embrace them. [...]
August 3rd, 2008 — , Amy Sturgis, Beedle the Bard, Fairy Tales, G.K. Chesterton, Half-Blood Prince trailer, Podcasts, SpinnersCast, StarShipSofa, Tales of Beedle the Bard from Travis Prinzi @ The Hog's Head
Tales of Beedle the Bard; why fairy tales matter; Half-Blood Prince trailer; site business
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Pub Menu
Pre-order The Tales of Beedle the Bard
G.K. Chesterton: “The Ethics of Elfland” (Chesterton at The Hog’s Head Bookstore)
Half-Blood [...]
August 2nd, 2008 — , Gryffindor Common Room, Tales of Beedle the Bard from Travis Prinzi @ The Hog's Head
I really like the cover art for the UK edition of The Tales of Beedle the Bard.
Related StoresAugust 1st, 2008 — , Gryffindor Common Room, Half-Blood Prince trailer, Harry Potter's Birthday, Tales of Beedle the Bard, Three Broomsticks from Travis Prinzi @ The Hog's Head
It’s been an exciting Harry Potter week. Here are this week’s highlights, as well as a few things not yet reported here at the pub:
Half-Blood Prince Trailer released - We’ve been having a great discussion here, and HP Progs podcasted on it
J.K. Rowling’s and Harry Potter’s birthday (Neville’s, too, the day before!) Pat wishes them [...]
July 31st, 2008 — , Amazon Tales of Beedle the Bard, Beedle the Bard Cover Art, Harry News and Commentary, Tales of Beedle the Bard from Travis Prinzi @ The Hog's Head
For the standard edition:
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by Travis
I decided this deserved its own post.
Exciting news: Amazon is selling copies of The Tales of Beedle the Bard, available for pre-order! (If you decide to order a copy, please do so by clicking to it from this site; that way, you can support The Hog’s Head at the same time!) Proceeds go to [...]
Continue reading → Pre-Order The Tales of Beedle the Bard at Amazon.com
July 31st, 2008 — , Happy Birthday Harry Potter, Happy Birthday J.K. Rowling, Harry, JK Rowling, Tales of Beedle the Bard from Travis Prinzi @ The Hog's Head
Today is the birthday of our favorite author and her story’s hero. Happy Birthday to J.K. Rowling and to Harry Potter!
Exciting news: Amazon is selling copies of The Tales of Beedle the Bard, available for pre-order! (If you decide to order a copy, please do so by clicking to it from this site; that way, [...]
Continue reading → Happy Birthday, Harry Potter & J.K. Rowling!
July 30th, 2008 — , Download Half Blood Prince Trailer, Gryffindor Common Room, Half-Blood Prince trailer from Travis Prinzi @ The Hog's Head
Want to download the Half-Blood Prince Teaser Trailer? HPANA has the links!
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July 28th, 2008 — , Half-Blood Prince pictures, Half-Blood Prince trailer, Harry News and Commentary, The Movies, Tom Riddle from Travis Prinzi @ The Hog's Head
HPANA reports the release of an image of young Tom Riddle from the trailer for Half-Blood Prince to be released tomorrow. That’s actually a younger Dumbledore in the background, too.
Related StoresJuly 27th, 2008 — , AOL Half-Blood Prince Trailer, Half Blood Prince Teaser Trailer, Half-Blood Prince trailer, Harry News and Commentary, Harry Potter Alliance, Harry Potter Culture, Harry Potter's Birthday, J.K. Rowling's Birthday, Jim Dale, Portus 2008, The Movies from Travis Prinzi @ The Hog's Head
It should be a fun forthcoming week in Harry Potter’s world.
Tuesday, the 29th, the Half-Blood Prince Trailer will be appearing exclusively on AOL. It will be our first live-action look at the new film. I really enjoyed what Yates did with Order of the Phoenix, but I have to admit I’m a bit nervous about this [...]
Continue reading → Harry Potter This Week: Half Blood Prince Trailer, Harry’s Birthday
July 26th, 2008 — , Harry Potter Audiobooks, Jim Dale, Podcasts, Portus 2008 from Travis Prinzi @ The Hog's Head
Jim Dale press conference from Portus 2008
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On Tap
Jim Dale’s website
Order the Harry Potter Audiobooks
Amazon.com Widgets
Continue reading → Hog’s Head PubCast #56: Jim Dale Press Conference
July 24th, 2008 — , Half-Blood Prince movie, Half-Blood Prince trailer, The Movies from Travis Prinzi @ The Hog's Head
by Travis
Update: HPANA reports that it will probably be online Tuesday, so we won’t even have to wait for The Mummy.
Reports today confirm the speculations of commenter Victoria that the first official Half-Blood Prince trailer will be released prior to The Mummy III on Thursday evening.
I can’t see myself paying for a Brendan Fraser movie just [...]
Continue reading → Half-Blood Prince Trailer Coming Thursday
July 23rd, 2008 — , Gryffindor Common Room from Travis Prinzi @ The Hog's Head
by Travis
Earlier, there was a Death Eater attack on this blog, and it was down for some time. Sorry ’bout that! We’re back up and running, and I’ve added a new feature which should make following conversations a bit easier for some. You’ve always been able to subscribe to all comments if you’d like, by putting [...]
July 23rd, 2008 — , Dark Knight, Gryffindor Common Room, Jeffrey Overstreet, Jim Dale, John Granger, Portus 2008, myth from Travis Prinzi @ The Hog's Head
by Travis
My review of Portus 2008
John Granger on Potter and medieval studies
Dark Knight fans: If you haven’t read Dave’s post on Joker and Voldemort yet, you should
Dark Knight fans (again): Here are two opposite perspectives on the film - Brant Hansen thinks it’s evidence of the utter boredom of our culture; Jeffrey Overstreet thinks it’s [...]
July 21st, 2008 — , Deathly Hallows, Harry Potter Alliance, Harry Potter Culture, John Granger, Pensieve from Travis Prinzi @ The Hog's Head
by Travis
What were you doing at this time last year? You were reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. I remember dropping Sophia off with Tricia’s mom and heading to the park on two hours’ sleep (I had read until 5am), and then reading all day long.
Today marks the anniversary of the release of Deathly [...]
July 19th, 2008 — , Giveaways, Jim Dale, Podcasts, Portus 2008 from Travis Prinzi @ The Hog's Head
Portus 2008; July giveaway winner announced; shout-out to my Portus peeps
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On Tap
Welcome to new readers/listeners
Portus People: Greg and Penny (HP Progs)
Portus People: Dave and Leanne (ChristianAudio.com and GuyNamedDave)
Portus People: David and Toni (HP [...]
Continue reading → Hog’s Head PubCast #55: Post Portus Podcast
July 18th, 2008 — , Gryffindor Common Room from Travis Prinzi @ The Hog's Head
by Travis
I want to extend a special welcome to all those who have found The Hog’s Head as a result of attending Portus 2008! We’re glad to have you here. Aberforth’s beer is on the house, so we hope you’ll stick around and join the discussion. Here’s a bullet-point introduction to The Hog’s Head:
Blogengamot: The [...]
Related StoresJuly 14th, 2008 — , Gryffindor Common Room, Portus 2008, pictures from Travis Prinzi @ The Hog's Head
My camera’s zoom doesn’t work, so I wasn’t able to get many good pictures. I’ll update this post as I find good ones from various Harry Potter fansites.
Me and Penny on the Podcasting Panel
Half of the Panel and the other half
Jim Dale presentation
Jim Dale at Private Press Meeting (which I attended)
July 12th, 2008 — , Edmund Kern, Gryffindor Common Room, Portus 2008 from Travis Prinzi @ The Hog's Head
This will actually be the last Portus update, since I’m flying out too early tomorrow to make it to any of the closing events. I’ll be writing more on Portus, podcasting, and doing an essay or two at Suite101. For now, just a few quick updates.
Though I’m convinced of the Christian reading of “King’s Cross,” [...]
July 12th, 2008 — , Edmund Kern, Gryffindor Common Room, H.P. Lovecraft, Jim Dale, King's Cross, Portus 2008 from Travis Prinzi @ The Hog's Head
This morning, I got up early enough to make it to the hotel for a small press gathering with Jim Dale. In the next week or so, I’ll do a podcast with audio clips and reflections on that. His talk was excellent; he’s a very engaging speaker.
My second talk went well, I think. ”Hogwarts, A [...]
July 11th, 2008 — , Gryffindor Common Room, Portus 2008 from Travis Prinzi @ The Hog's Head
Today was an excellent day at Portus 2008! I attended two roundtable discussions led by Penny of HP Progs, and they were both stellar. Well done, Penny! David Gras of Harry Potter Fan Zone led a discussion on the way both Lewis and Rowling include pagan elements in their stories in a way that “bridges [...]
Related StoresJuly 10th, 2008 — , Gryffindor Common Room, Portus 20, Portus 2008 from Travis Prinzi @ The Hog's Head
Just the opening ceremonies tonight. I basically wandered around aimlessly until I ran into Greg and Penny, and then David and his wife (from HP Fan Zone), Karen Kebarle (whom I met at Convention Alley), and Dave and Leanne Bruno. It was an enjoyable night catching up with these friends.
I’m really tired. I slept from [...]
July 9th, 2008 — , Gryffindor Common Room, Portus 2008 from Travis Prinzi @ The Hog's Head
I’m scrambling to get everything packed and ready before waking up at 3am to drive to a friend’s house in Buffalo, who will drive me to the airport, from whence I will fly to Dallas for Portus 2008 (you can still register for the whole conference or day passes!). Elvendorks from all around will gather [...]
July 8th, 2008 — , Elvendork, matchstick Hogwarts from Travis Prinzi @ The Hog's Head
John Granger came across a pretty impressive undertaking by a genuine elvendork - a matchstick scale model of Hogwarts!
Pat Acton, 55, of Gladbrook, took more than two years to complete the model which features all the turrets, walkways and towers seen in the films.
“I love the books and consider myself a Harry Potter fan,” he [...]
Continue reading → John Granger Nominates an Elvendork of the Month
July 6th, 2008 — , George MacDonald, Gryffindor Common Room, summer reading list from Travis Prinzi @ The Hog's Head
by Travis
I had a summer reading list planned, but I have the tendency to dabble a little bit here and a little bit there, and I think this summer I’m going to remedy that by burying myself in George MacDonald. So my reading list is going to be entirely comprised of books and audiobooks by [...]
July 3rd, 2008 — , Del Toro, Frankenstein, House Elves, Podcasts, audiobooks, social justice from Travis Prinzi @ The Hog's Head
Social Justice, Flawed Characters, and the Fabian Key to Harry Potter’s Sociopolitical Vision; audio clip from A Short History of Myth
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Added: [...]
Continue reading → Hog’s Head PubCast #54: Revolutionaries and Gradualists
July 2nd, 2008 — , Gryffindor Common Room, Margaret Atwood, free audiobook, giveaway, karen armstrong, mythology from Travis Prinzi @ The Hog's Head
by Travis
As I announced yesterday, The Hog’s Head is giving away three free audiobooks in the form of Brilliance Audio’s “The Myths Collection.”
Karen Armstrong, A Short History of Myth: What are myths? How have they evolved? And why do we still so desperately need them? Heralding a major series of retellings of international myths by authors [...]
July 1st, 2008 — , Gryffindor Common Room, Jeannette Winterston, Margaret Atwood, free giveaway, karen armstrong, mythology, mythopoeic society from Travis Prinzi @ The Hog's Head
by Travis
There are three different matters of mythology I’ve been meaning to write about, and as long as there’s three, I’ll put ‘em all in this myth-mania post.
Myth Matter #1: Journey to the Sea has been launched!
Randy Hoyt, a Hog’s Head patron, whose voice you heard on the last PubCast, has launched an online journal [...]
Related StoresJune 30th, 2008 — , Gryffindor Common Room from Travis Prinzi @ The Hog's Head
by Travis
Harry Potter in the Classroom
Malfoy Actor Cites “Alchemy of Harry Potter”
Why has Rowling referred to the encyclopedia as “The Scottish Book”?
Young Voldemort
Rowling Wins Another Award