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For the term "Occlumency".

Owl Post / The Quibbler

The Potions Riddle and the DADAs

by Rams Reading Daniela Teo’s detailed editorials on the significance of the seven tasks in PS/SS (The Seven Tasks and The Seven Tasks Revisited) and an excellent essay in the Harry Potter Lexicon by Prefect Marcus, The...

The North Tower / The Quibbler

The North Tower #36: Severus Snape 2: Losing Control

Hi everybody. Hope your holidays were nice. I thought I’d cut right to the chase and start with today’s article, which will continue my analysis of one Hogwarts Potions master. As I said in NT 34, there’s a lot to this character, so I’ll be writing a little series of articles about him. That’s the plan, but there might be some insertions (like the last one on Dumbledore) because of reader reactions as well.

Owl Post / The Quibbler

The Body Thief Curse

by The Pirate King Greetings, fellow Harry Potter geeks! Welcome to yet another crackpot theory regarding the yet-to-be-revealed mysteries of the Harry Potter series of books, in which I prove to the world that I...

Close-up on the spines of Harry Potter books

The Quibbler / The Two-Way Mirror

The Two-Way Mirror #10: The Triwizard Tasks and the Seven Books

Seven tunnels of tasks, like seven books of tasks. In “Goblet”, we actually have a network of tunnels, the square maze, so much like a chessboard of tasks. And we have the two grand tournaments (like the two matrix groups of elements): one tournament is Quidditch (in which the players seem to be the most important part); the other is the Triwizard Tournament (here, the tasks are important).

Owl Post / The Quibbler

The Long Reach of Dumbledore

by Angela Goff We all know JKR is a master of details. Her intricately connected plots keep readers enthralled and, no doubt, make script-writers gnash their teeth when trying to adapt them for movies....

Owl Post / The Quibbler

He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named

by Jennifer Oakley In CoS we first see how Voldemort’s name was fashioned from Tom Riddle’s but I don’t believe we’ve paid enough attention to the significance of this chosen name. I’m not talking...