The Alchemical Harry Potter

JAN 4, 2021-1 MIN
Quantum Harry, the Podcast

The Alchemical Harry Potter

JAN 4, 2021-1 MIN

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<p>&nbsp;</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWFLkRlM1oQ1AS13W4klnsKu4EAMurakszgOlyTHE8_05npc321In7F2tEnSMw9un3I80MBPWGBpvZXilxR5u138O7NAX1Ta4Wk25g5dfHovaq_tkkJ3P_ztlqFmxHLqPUwZfsY-AGcmg/s751/AlchemicalHPCover.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="751" data-original-width="503" height="631" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWFLkRlM1oQ1AS13W4klnsKu4EAMurakszgOlyTHE8_05npc321In7F2tEnSMw9un3I80MBPWGBpvZXilxR5u138O7NAX1Ta4Wk25g5dfHovaq_tkkJ3P_ztlqFmxHLqPUwZfsY-AGcmg/w423-h631/AlchemicalHPCover.png" width="423" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p>PUBLICATION NEWS: <i>The Alchemical Harry Potter</i> is now available for purchase from McFarland! (My chapter is in Part III, below.)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 3px;">From the publisher:&nbsp;</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><br /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 3px;">When Harry Potter first boards the Hogwarts Express, he journeys to a world which Rowling says has alchemy as its “internal logic.” The Philosopher’s Stone, known for its power to transform base metals into gold and to give immortality to its maker, is the subject of the conflict between Harry and Voldemort in the first book of the series. But alchemy is not about money or eternal life, it is much more about the transformations of desire, of power and of people—through love.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><br /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 3px;">Harry’s equally remarkable and ordinary power to love leads to his desire to find but not use the Philosopher’s Stone at the start of the series and his wish to end the destructive power of the Elder Wand at the end. This collection of essays on alchemical symbolism and transformations in Rowling’s series demonstrates how Harry’s work with magical objects, people, and creatures transfigure desire, power, and identity. As Harry’s leaden existence on Privet Drive is transformed in the company of his friends and teachers, the Harry Potter novels have transformed millions of readers, inspiring us to find the gold in our ordinary lives.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><br /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 3px;">Chapters/Authors:</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><br /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span style="background-color: white;">I—The Resurrection Stone and the Transfiguration of Desire</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span style="background-color: white;">Why I Read <i>Harry Potter</i> Books Again and Again by&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: white;">Sophia Imafuji, age 8</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span style="color: #212121; font-family: Merriweather, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">The Literary Alchemy of J.K. Rowling by&nbsp;</span></span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-size: 15px;">John Granger</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span style="color: #212121; font-family: Merriweather, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><i>Harry Potter</i> and the Transfiguration of Desire by&nbsp;</span></span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-size: 15px;">Anne ­Parker-Perkola</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span style="color: #212121; font-family: Merriweather, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">Re-Reading <i>Harry Potter</i>, Re-Creating Ourselves: <i>Harry Potter</i> as Resurrection Stone by&nbsp;</span></span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-size: 15px;">Isaac Willis</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span style="color: #212121; font-family: Merriweather, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">Out from the Shadows into the Light: Persona and Shadow in <i>Harry Potter by&nbsp;</i></span></span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-size: 15px;">Alicia L. Skipper and Kate Fulton</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span style="color: #212121; font-family: Merriweather, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">An Anti-Oedipal Reading of <i>Harry Potter</i> and Alchemy by&nbsp;</span></span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-size: 15px;">Robert Tindol</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span style="color: #212121; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-size: 15px;"><br /></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-size: 15px;">II—The Elder Wand and the Transfiguration of Power</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span style="color: #212121; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-size: 15px;"><br /></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span style="color: #212121; font-family: Merriweather, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">My <i>Harry Potter</i> Journey by E</span></span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-size: 15px;">lla Victoria Greer, age 13</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span style="color: #212121; font-family: Merriweather, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">The Missing Element: The Alchemy Experiment Inside the Chamber of Secrets by&nbsp;</span></span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-size: 15px;">S.P. Şipal</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span style="color: #212121; font-family: Merriweather, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">On the Transmutation of Voldemort’s Love of Power into Harry Potter’s Power of Love by&nbsp;</span></span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-size: 15px;">Lawrence W. Farris</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span style="color: #212121; font-family: Merriweather, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">Auror Magic: An Almost Alchemical Process by L</span></span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-size: 15px;">orrie Kim</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span style="color: #212121; font-family: Merriweather, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">Tapping on Just Another Brick in the Wall by&nbsp;</span></span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-size: 15px;">Sean Paulsgrove</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span style="color: #212121; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-size: 15px;"><br /></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span style="color: #212121; font-family: Merriweather, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">III—The Cloak of Invisibility and the Transfiguration of Self and Community</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span style="color: #212121; font-family: Merriweather, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span style="color: #212121; font-family: Merriweather, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">And All Was Well by&nbsp;</span></span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-size: 15px;">Tamyra Dixon-Rankin</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><b><span style="color: #212121; font-family: Merriweather, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">The Snitch, the Stone, and the Sword: Harry Potter the Alchemical Seeker by&nbsp;</span></span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-size: 15px;">B.L. Purdom</span></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span style="color: #212121; font-family: Merriweather, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">Alchemy as a Metaphor for Learning by&nbsp;</span></span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-size: 15px;">Mary Pyle</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span style="color: #212121; font-family: Merriweather, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">Harry Potter and the Root of All Evil by C</span></span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-size: 15px;">harles M. Rupert</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span style="color: #212121; font-family: Merriweather, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">Soul Making and Soul Splitting: Alchemy of the Soul in <i>Harry Potter</i> by J</span></span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-size: 15px;">ulie Loveland Swanstrom</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span style="color: #212121; font-family: Merriweather, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">Ruddy Stargazers: Centaurs, Philosophers, and a Life Worth Living by&nbsp;</span></span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-size: 15px;">Anne J. Mamary</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span style="color: #212121; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-size: 15px;"><br /></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span style="color: #212121; font-family: Merriweather, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">Epilogue: Friendship Hallowed, Pure, and ­Ever-Present</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span style="color: #212121; font-family: Merriweather, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span style="color: #212121; font-family: Merriweather, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><b>Available in physical form (click <a href="https://mcfarlandbooks.com/product/the-alchemical-harry-potter/" target="_blank">HERE</a>) or as an ebook (click <a href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-alchemical-harry-potter-anne-j-mamary/1137046149?ean=9781476640839" target="_blank">HERE</a>).</b></span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span style="color: #212121; font-family: Merriweather, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span style="color: #212121; font-family: Merriweather, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">Enjoy!</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span style="color: #212121; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-size: 15px;"><br /></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></p>