We meet this week on Thursday Night, back at our old Potterology time of 6 pm- 8 pm at Kathy's house. We've had to make a couple small changes to meeting locations for the next month- baseball schedules!!!- so please check those on the blog's schedule page... But, book club changes are not very mysterious...
Harry's life, on the other hand, has always been a mystery that we, as readers, have slowly been unravelling. This week, it has become more somber and tragic than it ever was before; in addition, the importance and meaning of these mysteries seems to have increased to radical new levels. His cursed scar; Who heard the prophesy at the Hog's Head? The Department of Mysteries; What's up with the centaurs; What will happen with Grawp? The archway with the veil; What spells was Dumbledore atempting to cast at Voldemort in the Ministry of Magic? Sirius gave Harry a two-way mirror, but Harry forgot to use it...why? And what about Nearly Headless Nick saying to Harry, "learned wizards study (the secrets of death) in the Department of Mysteries"... And certainly not last, or least intriguing, look at the picture above and consider who and why is that elf or goblin clinging to the back of Harry on the British cover of Deathly Hallows...and is that Godric Gryffindor's sword? AND WHY DOES BOOK COVER ART MATTER????? What does it tell us, and not tell us, about a book?!!
Harry's life, on the other hand, has always been a mystery that we, as readers, have slowly been unravelling. This week, it has become more somber and tragic than it ever was before; in addition, the importance and meaning of these mysteries seems to have increased to radical new levels. His cursed scar; Who heard the prophesy at the Hog's Head? The Department of Mysteries; What's up with the centaurs; What will happen with Grawp? The archway with the veil; What spells was Dumbledore atempting to cast at Voldemort in the Ministry of Magic? Sirius gave Harry a two-way mirror, but Harry forgot to use it...why? And what about Nearly Headless Nick saying to Harry, "learned wizards study (the secrets of death) in the Department of Mysteries"... And certainly not last, or least intriguing, look at the picture above and consider who and why is that elf or goblin clinging to the back of Harry on the British cover of Deathly Hallows...and is that Godric Gryffindor's sword? AND WHY DOES BOOK COVER ART MATTER????? What does it tell us, and not tell us, about a book?!!
۩ When we meet this week we'll start with a dinner-time discussion of last month's secret question, which could easily be a starter for this month's concluding discussion of Order of the Phoenix:
*We went inside Professor Snape's memories briefly when Harry took Occlumency lessons from him; Harry, who had accidently broken into Snape's memories, saw Snape, as a boy, cowering in a corner, while his father was cruel to his mother...also, a broomstick kept trying to buck young Snape off...but the question is ~~Why does our fearless writer, J.K. Rowling, include this scene in the book? What does it tell us about Professor Snape and how is this scene useful to the story? Think and be ready to discuss!
See you all Thursday at Kathy and Mikaya's!
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