Thanks to Claire M. Jordan, the author of an excellent essay in our collection, I have been able to update the page listing differences between the UK and US editions of Deathly Hallows. Most of the differences are simply substitutions of US terms for British ones (e.g. ‘crib’ for ‘cot’). There are a few interesting [...]

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Recently, some of my friends have been receiving unwanted and annoying phone calls from members of the press, trying to get in contact with me. This is definitely not appreciated. One friend has had to change her phone number several times to avoid these kinds of calls, but is still receiving them.
To avoid this [...]

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Continue reading → Contacting me

There’s been a decided lack of new posts here, I know. Sorry about that. I spent most of the week in London at the publisher working on the new book, In Search of Harry Potter, which is due out October the 9th, and so I’ve been commuting back and forth, which means hours on the [...]

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Continue reading → This week at the Lexicon

I’ve fixed the Google search for the site, so have at it. Unfortunately, the Remembrall isn’t working right now because it’s fixed on the wrong domain. I’m sure we’ll be able to sort it out, but for now just use the Google search.

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Great news! Thanks to Roonwit, we have our timelines back. Well, almost back. The back-up file was dated March 2007, so some material was lost. Also, since the domain names have changed, the links in the timeline entries themselves don’t work at the moment. However, we’re hoping to get things cleaned up, working properly, and [...]

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Continue reading → Timelines

As you might have noticed, the Lexicon has had some technical problems over the past week or so. We’re in the process of updating and upgrading everything. Part of the process involved transferring some domains around, and along the way an error resulted in the www.hp-lexicon.info domain losing its DNS settings. We can’t reset them [...]

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Continue reading → And we’re back…

Last night I finished entering Quidditch Through the Ages into the Portkey database. That’s the last of the books to be entered, so now the Portkey covers all seven novels and the two Schoolbooks, as well as all the Famous Wizard cards. Surprisingly, there was actually an earthquake just a few moments after I entered [...]

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Continue reading → finished QA

Last night I finished entering Quidditch Through the Ages into the Portkey database. That’s the last of the books to be entered, so now the Portkey covers all seven novels and the two Schoolbooks, as well as all the Famous Wizard cards. Surprisingly, there was actually an earthquake just a few moments after I entered [...]

• Famous People Topical Specialty Stamps

• Romance Novels

Continue reading → finished QA

Over the years, there have been a number of strange Quidditch matches played, many of them famous for their length or some odd circumstances surrounding them. Since February 22 is the anniversary of one of the strangest Quidditch matches in the Harry Potter books, I thought I’d mention it here, along with some other odd [...]

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Continue reading → Unusual Quidditch Matches

Questions have been asked and accusations made which require some kind of response. Specifically, I have been accused of lying in my declaration. This is a very serious charge. I want to make a clear statement of the facts.
In my declaration, I wrote that the income from the advertising on the Lexicon has “…covered the [...]

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Continue reading → Setting the record straight

A new page today for number twelve, Grimmauld Place.

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Continue reading → New Page: Grimmauld Place

I have begun a sweep of the character pages, but it is going slowly because it is so complicated. First, old style pages need to be switched to the new design, then double-checked for Book 7, all the old [Y-whatever] dates have to be removed, and then I need to check the page against the [...]

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Continue reading → Character page progress

After discussion with Lisa, I’ve decided to change the way we indicate Pottercast references. The interview with Jo is now referenced as PC-JKR1 and PC-JKR2. Any other Pottercast references will be given as PC#, so that a citation of Pottercast 121 will be PC121.
There have been some questions about the dates Jo has used for [...]

Continue reading → More on abbreviations and dates

I have updated the timeline and the day-by-day calendar to indicate that the Battle of Hogwarts was on 2 May. Unfortunately, Jo wasn’t clear about which day of the Battle was 2 May, since the start of hostilities was the evening of one day and the final confrontation was sunrise on the next. For now, [...]

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Continue reading → The Battle of Hogwarts

On the whole, the show was lovely, although unlike the famous BBC “Harry Potter and Me” show (Part1 | Part2 | Part3 | Part4 | Part5), there is little new canon.
I think the title is a misnomer. Rather than being entirely about “a year,” we get a nice look at Jo’s roots with highlights of [...]

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Continue reading → “J.K. Rowling, A Year in the Life” airs in the UK, available online

The third trailer for tomorrow’s ITV1 documentary [TLC YouTube Channel] shows Jo diagramming the family trees for the marriages and children of Harry and his friends. The tree is now on the Lexicon (thanks Mugglenet!) Here is a list of the new canon from the trailer:

The Battle of Hogwarts took place May 2nd.
Bill and Fleur’s [...]

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Continue reading → Weasley third gen names and more!

I posted this last night to Accio Quote, and figured it would be of interest here too…
PotterCast 130 (December 17, 2007)
text | audio

Helga Hufflepuff gave the House-elves at Hogwarts “good conditions of work.” Her intent wasn’t to be activist, merely to [...]

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Continue reading → List of new canon from PotterCast interviews

We here at the Lexicon wish you all happy holidays and safe travel! I want to wish a very happy (belated) birthday to Lisa, whose big day snuck by us on December 8. Sorry, Lisa…
We also wish a happy birthday (a little early) to Melissa over at Leaky, who turns…er, some youngish age on the [...]

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Over the past few months, we here at the Lexicon have been traumatized and disheartened. What has been the hardest are the personal attacks, blatant disinformation, and rushing to judgement that have been hurled our way. The staff of the Lexicon consists of some of the most selfless, dedicated, passionate people on the face of [...]

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Continue reading → catching up

The Leaky Cauldron has announced that J.K. Rowling will be the featured guest on tomorrow’s PotterCast. Leaky staffers Melissa Anelli, Sue Upton and John Noe were on hand for the first extensive fan interview since 2005. Melissa promises new canon and lots of fun, so stay tuned. Among other things discussed was the missing 24 [...]

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Continue reading → Rowling to be on PotterCast!

I have added a new section to the Lexicon: our Reader’s Guide for The Tales of Beedle the Bard. None of us has seen the actual book, of course, and we can’t write a full and detailed Reader’s Guide. However, the new owner of the book, Amazon.com, has been releasing fascinating information about the five [...]

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Continue reading → New book pages: Beedle the Bard

Jo updated the news on her site again yesterday about the situation with the book. Here’s part of what she said:
“I take no pleasure in the fact that publication has been prevented for the present. On the contrary, I feel massively disappointed that this matter had to come to court at all. Despite repeated requests, [...]

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Continue reading → more from Jo

Dear Friends,
I would like to thank each and every one of you for your support in recent days. Everyone here at the Lexicon, all volunteers, regrets the unpleasantness. We have always been interested in working with the publishers of the novels to satisfy their concerns, interests and needs and we certainly do not [...]

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Continue reading → about the upcoming book

Rowling has updated her site with another new news item today. She has handwritten seven leather-bound editions of The Tales of Beedle the Bard, six of which she plans to give as ‘thank-you’ gifts to those who have helped her most, and the seventh of which she will auction off next month for charity.
Unfortunately, there’s [...]

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Continue reading → Another JKR Update

Tricks and Treats abound on Jo’s official site today for Halloween!
There also appears to be new hidden extra content for you Scrapbook.
We’ll leave this post spoiler free for those wanting to solve the mysteries for themselves, but see the first comment in this pensieve for clues as we get them.
WooHoo!

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Continue reading → New Hidden Extras on JKR.com

Jkrowling.com has a special Halloween treat for us!
The Do Not Disturb sign on the Secret Door has returned, but along with a TimerTurner! The Time Turner allows you to revisit all the past puzzles that lay behind the Door each time the Do Not Disturb sign was removed since the beginning.
Click the Time Turner [...]

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Continue reading → Time Turning on JKR.com

As expected, the Wizard of the Month calendar on JKR’s official site has changed to display birthday wishes to Molly Weasley for October 30th, again this year.
Happy Birthday to one witch who showed us just how powerful love really can be!
(Note for those Americans wondering about the hour delay from the usual 7pm posting, BST [...]

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I’d just like to point out that I did ask what Dumbledore’s wand was made of…in July of 2004 in the open letter, which I know Jo read.
Oh well.
EDIT by Bel~: Oy, Steve! You must have been tinkering in the Timelines and got your dates mixed up? The Open Letter was actually [...]

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Continue reading → Hey, Jo!

I’ve been waiting for a full transcript from Leaky, but want to post this list of canon summaries now. I figure I can add to it later. These summaries are actually based upon three sources: TLC, HPANA, and iamstarmoms LiveJournal. All were present at the reading. Please extend Dumbledore-like courtesy to those you disagree with [...]

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Continue reading → NYC Sweepstakes Reading Canon Summaries

So after a fairly lengthy morning of in-depth research and writing, I have now completely re-vamped our page for the Burrow. Among other things, I determined what floor each room had to fall on, and organized the page accordingly. The explanation for why the floors line up the way they do is fairly lengthy, so [...]

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Continue reading → The Burrow

As expected, the Wizard of the Month calendar has automatically updated to show Happy Birthday greetings to Filius Flitwick for October 17th.
I’ve updated the Guide to Jo’s site to note it.

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Continue reading → Happy Birthday Flitwick

Just finished three more updates, of various scopes and sizes:
1. St. Mungo’s Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries, for which I rewrote the entry, greatly expanded the lists of staff and patients, and added a list (albeit a short one) for donors;
2. The Leaky Cauldron, for which I rewrote the entry and expanded the list [...]

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Continue reading → Three more updated pages

The profiles for Snape, Luna and Voldemort have been updated. Voldemort’s entry is humongous but still good reading, I hope!
I also reworked the main character index page, taking out almost all of the graphics, so hopefully it will load faster.

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Continue reading → Snape, Luna, Voldemort updated

As promised, we now have a completely re-worked and updated Hogsmeade page as well. I also created a new detailed list of all the secret passages between Hogsmeade and Hogwarts - something we hadn’t done before. Enjoy!

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Continue reading → New Hogsmeade Page

Okay, my turn!
The Gazetteer pages are now completely up-to-date with the last book, except for a few destination pages (like the Leaky Cauldron and Hogsmeade, which I’m working on now). We didn’t have a lot of big or important new places, aside from Shell Cottage and maybe Nurmengard, but trying to list all the places [...]

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Continue reading → Gazetteer up-to-date!

I’m on a roll. Flitwick, Greyback, Neville, Regulus and Sirius now have updated profiles. That may mean that some of the quick facts still need to be looked at, but the major work of the page — the narrative profiles — has been done. I am especially fond of the profile for Neville. [...]

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Continue reading → Flitwick, Greyback, Neville, Regulus and Sirius

Hi everyone,
Today I worked on the character timelines, as they are the backbone for any future work. So far, I have updated:

Dumbledore, Albus
Dursley, Dudley
Malfoy, Draco
Snape, Severus

I also updated Hermione’s page and found a groovy new portrait of Xenophilius Lovegood by Red Scharlach.
In case you’re interested, here are my proofs on dates for the Dumbledore [...]

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Continue reading → More character updates, and my notes on dates for the Dumbledores

I read in the comments that someone has noticed the Deathly Hallows symbol that has begun to appear on various pages of the Lexicon. If you roll your mouse over it, you’ll see why it’s there. It means that the page has been updated through book seven and is now conisdered correct as of the [...]

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Continue reading → The Deathly Hallows symbol

I have been working on several entries at once, and think they are ready to be published. Some are brand new pages: The Carrows, Dumbledore profile (not the Quick Facts yet), Pius Thicknesse, Vincent Crabbe, and Kingsley Shacklebolt. Others were older pages that I (and others like Steve) revised for book 7: The Crouches, [...]

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Continue reading → New and newly updated character pages

The Wizard of the Month calendar on Jo’s official site is right on schedule and now displaying Happy Birthday wishes to Minerva McGonagall for October 4th.

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Continue reading → Happy Birthday Minerva McGonagall

The new Wizard of the Month for October 2007 has appeared on Jo’s site, and Lo and Behold it’s Harry!!
His description states:
Harry Potter
(1980 - )
The Boy Who Lived, only known survivor of the Avada Kedavra curse and conqueror of Lord Voldemort, also known as Tom Riddle. Harry Potter joined the reshuffled Auror Department under [...]

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Continue reading → October 2007 WotM is… Harry Potter!

Please join us in wishing our own Clint Hagen a very happy birthday today, September 24th! Clint is the Lexicon’s Master Coder Guy, as Steve has dubbed him and our resident Latin expert. He is responsible for the magical programming behind the Remembrall Search feature, the Knight Bus Tours, and the amazing Canon [...]

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Continue reading → Happy Birthday Clint!

The Wizard of the Month Calendar has changed to wish a Happy Birthday to Hermione Granger for September 19th again this year.
Hmm…. curious it’s not updated to include her married name, Weasley.

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Continue reading → Happy Birthday Hermione!

The Wizard of the Month calendar on JKR.com has changed to display the new WotM for September 2007 to be:
Albus Dumbledore
1881 - 1996
Brilliant and often controversial headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Albus Dumbledore is most famous for his 1945 defeat of Grindelwald and his steadfast championing of Harry Potter, the Boy Who [...]

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Continue reading → September WotM - Albus Dumbledore

House-elves really came into their own in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — this fact, and some similarities between the characters of the house-elves and the theme of the greatness of servitude in the Christian gospels, was not lost on new Lexicon essay contributor Leanne Bruno. Enjoy!

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Continue reading → New essay!

The Wizard of the Month calendar on Jo’s official site has changed to wish a Happy Birthday for 22 August to Percy Weasley!

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Continue reading → Happy Birthday Percy Weasley!

No, we’re not up to mischief! Although our server has been misbehaving a bit.
I’m suspecting Nargles, but the tech folks tell us that they’re working on it. If you’ve experienced a “page not found” error recently when trying to access the Lexicon, or found this page telling you it “cannot connect to the [...]

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Continue reading → We solemnly swear that we are up to…

Greetings! Check out Mike Weinstein’s essay, Astronomy in the Harry Potter Series—it’s been updated with analyses of a couple of astronomical references in Deathly Hallows.

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Continue reading → Essay update

It’s begun. The influx of emails pointing out pages which haven’t been updated yet. I promise you, we’ll get to them. You’d be amazed at how much needs to be edited at this point. Just as an example, I was reading the commentary on the first chapter of Philosopher’s Stone and discovered five or six [...]

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Continue reading → Updates, Abbreviation, and Fun Stuff Like That

The Wizard of the Month calendar on JKR’s official site is now displaying Happy Birthday wishes for August 11th to Ginny Weasley!

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Continue reading → Happy Birthday Ginny Weasley