This Week in Elfland: August 20th Edition

Last updated on: August 20, 2016 at 10:33 am by David Russell Mosley

The Dementor’s Kiss (Redux) and the Problem of Muggleborns: Two Thoughts upon Finishing the Harry Potter Series

Description Great Western Railway Hall Class, no. 5972 "Olton Hall" on display at Doncaster Works open day on 27 July 2003. This locomotive is used to haul the Hogwarts Express in the Harry Potter films. Date 27 July 2003 Source Own work copied from en:File:GWR_'Hall'_5972_'Olton_Hall'_at_Doncaster_Works.JPG Author Image by Phil Scott (Our Phellap) (CC BY-SA 3.0) — Description
Great Western Railway Hall Class, no. 5972 “Olton Hall” on display at Doncaster Works open day on 27 July 2003. This locomotive is used to haul the Hogwarts Express in the Harry Potter films.
Date 27 July 2003
Source Own work copied from en:File:GWR_’Hall’_5972_’Olton_Hall’_at_Doncaster_Works.JPG
Author Image by Phil Scott (Our Phellap) (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Well, I finished my annual re-read of Harry Potter a few nights ago, and rounded it off with a re-read of The Tales of Beedle the Bard. Hopefully, I’ll eventually get my hands on a copy of The Cursed Child, but until then, I have two primary thoughts from this re-read. The first concerns dementors and souls, again; and the second concerns muggleborns.

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