Category: Department of Mysteries

by Bob Sindeldecker We Just Floo In One of the things you learn in military (and probably police) training is Penetration, or getting into your enemy’s camp with or without them knowing you’re in...

by Bob Sindeldecker OPENING REMARKSAs of this writing (Thursday, February 17), we have 21 more weeks until Half-Blood Prince comes out, and I have 19 columns that need to be posted before that book makes them...

by Bob Sindeldecker and Esther Kleinig NOTE FROM BOB: Esther has done a brilliant job here and has been kind enough to ask for my input. I have added a little, but it is all...

by Bob Sindeldecker AUTHOR’S NOTE: this was written in December 2004, to be posted in the week before Christmas. The weather prevented me from getting it up – more on that below. Just pretend...

by Bob Sindeldecker AUTHOR’S NOTE: this was written on Thursday, December 30 and intended to be posted on Friday, December 31. For reasons beyond my control I was unable to do that. There is...

by Bob Sindeldecker This time, it’s personal. A few columns ago I elaborated on a quote from the mysterious WDD, a correspondent from Sri Lanka. WDD eventually identified himself as Wikum Dina, a student in that...

by Bob Sindeldecker Argus Filch is a sad creature. To explain how I know him so well, I must explain a bit more about myself. When I left the Navy in 1990, I went...

by Bob Sindeldecker Mea Culpa. For those who don’t speak Latin, it means “I am wrong.” If you read the previous column you know I just made a most embarrassing blunder. I wrote an entire article...

by Bob Sindeldecker My colleague Brandon Ford wrote a recent article on the nature of Prophecies. He noted that Prophecies always seem to come when they are most needed, and that they appear to come from some intelligence...