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The Magical Worlds of Harry Potter

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by David Colbert


  Potter, Harry

  page 206: “Entirely by coincidence”: www.jkrowling.com. www.jkrowling.com/textonly/en/extrastuff_view.cfm?id=18

  page 254: “European tradition”: www.jkrowling.com. www.jkrowling.com/textonly/en/extrastuff_view.cfm?id=18

  page 207: “A sudden quarrel broke out”: Histories of the Kings of Britain, translated by Sebastian Evans (New York: Dutton, 1920).

  Trolls

  page 230: “I’ll come to your bedside at midnight tonight”: Peer Gynt, translated by R. Farquharson Sharp (London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton, 1921).

  Unicorns

  page 240: “a most swift beast”: Pliny the Elder [C. Plinius Secundus], The Historie of the World, translated by Philemon Holland, Book VIII (1601).

  page 240: “The elder is formed”: The Travels of Ludovico de Varthenta in Egypt, Arabia Deserta and Arabia Felix, in Persia, India, and Ethiopia, AD 1503-1508, trans. John Winter Jones, ed. George Percy Badger (London: Hakluyt Society, 1863), quoted in Nigg.

  page 241: “never become tamed”: Pliny, as page 240.

  page 241: “Time’s glory”: Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece.

  page 243: “There are in India certain wild asses”: Ctesias, Indica. From Ancient India as Described by Ktesias the Knidian, ed. J. W. McCrindle, 1882.

  Veela

  page 245: “Two brothers”: adapted from Hero Tales and Legends of the Serbians by Vojislav Petrovic (London: G. G. Harrap & Company, 1914).

  Voldemort

  page 249: “A Dark Lord has often been”: see entry for “Dark Lord” in Clute, John, The Encyclopedia of Fantasy (New York: St. Martin’s, 1999) p. 250.

  page 250: “racist”: TIME, 30 October 2000.

  page 250: “takes what he perceives”: transcript of “Hot Type with Evan Solomon,” Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, original broadcast 23 June 2000.

  Wands

  page 254: “European tradition: www.jkrowling.com. www.jkrowling.com/textonly/en/extrastuff_view.cfm?id=18

  Wizards

  page 255: “psychically sensitive”: Guiley, Rosemary Ellen, The Encyclopedia of Ghosts and Spirits (New York: Checkmark Books, Facts on File, 2000) page 383.

  page 262: “When they reached”: The Odyssey of Homer done into English Prose. S. H. Butcher and A. Lang (London: Macmillan, 1879).

  Seven

  page 270: “the first to establish”: www.jkrowling.com. Archived at www.hp-lexicon.org/wizards/a-z/w.html

  page 271: “Time, then, and the heaven”: Plato, Timaeus, trans. by Benjamin Jowett. Available at www.gutenberg.org/etext/1572

  page 274: “The number seven represents”: Lévi, Éliphas, Transcendental Magic, trans. by A. E. Waite (1896).

  Horcruxes

  page 277: “I had tried for days”: Diary entry for 29 September 2006 at www.jkrowling.com; archived at www.hp-lexicon.org/about/sources/jkr.com/jkr-com-diary.html

  page 278: “Stories of this kind”: Frazer, James G., The Golden Bough, 1922 edition, ch. 66. Available at www.bartleby.com/196/166.html

  page 279: “Temporary absences”: The Golden Bough, ch. 66.

  page 280: “If only the safety”: The Golden Bough, ch. 66.

  Family

  page 287: “Harry encounters himself”: Doniger, Wendy, originally published as “Can You Spot the Source?” in the London Review of Books, vol. 22 no. 4, 17 February 2000; reprinted in another version as “Never Snitch: The Mythology of Harry Potter”. Copyright © 2001 by The University of Chicago. Available at fathom.lib.uchicago.edu/1/777777121870/

  page 289: “Snape is a complicated man”: Dateline, NBC News, 29 July 2007. Archived at www.accio-quote.org/articles/2007/0729-dateline-vieira.html

  Religion

  page 289: “My struggle is to keep believing”: Dateline, NBC News, 29 July 2007.

  page 289: “religious undertone”: Dateline, NBC News, 29 July 2007.

  page 290: “Every time I’ve been asked”: “Hot Type,” CBC Newsworld, 13 July 2000. Archived at www.accio-quote.org/articles/2000/0700-hottype-solomon.htm

  page 290: “I knew this was coming”: Blume, Judy, “Is Harry Potter Evil?” The New York Times, 22 October 1999.

  page 292: “a kind of limbo”: Webchat at www.bloomsbury.com, 30 July 2007. Archived at www.accio-quote.org/articles/2007/0730-bloomsbury-chat.html

  page 296: “I wouldn’t expect”: “Hot Type,” CBC Newsworld, 13 July 2000.

  Evil

  page 297: “I wasn’t going to pretend”: “Harry Potter author defends her work, The Associated Press, 14 October 1999. Archived at www.accio-quote.org/articles/1999/1099-ap.html

  page 298: “The enchantment” and “There can’t be many more”: Webchat at www.bloomsbury.com, 30 July 2007.

  page 299: “psychopath”: Dateline, NBC News, 29 July 2007.

  page 299: “he’s beyond redemption”: Dateline, NBC News, 29 July 2007.

  page 301: [Mobs] “demand illusions”: Freud, Sigmund, Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego (1921) pp. 77-80.

  page 301: “magical protection”: Becker, Ernest, The Denial of Death (New York: Free Press, 1973) p. 132.

  page 302: “Nothing is more dangerous”: Baldwin, James, “The Black Boy Looks at the White Boy,” Esquire, May 1961.

  page 302: “If one murders”: The Denial of Death, pp. 135-6.

  page 302: “People use their leaders”: The Denial of Death, p. 137.

  page 304: “avoiding responsibility”: The Denial of Death, p. 137.

  page 304: “involved in something historic”: Arendt, Hannah, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (New York: Penguin, 1963), p. 105.

  page 305: “The belief in a supernatural source”: Conrad, Joseph, Under Western Eyes (1911).

  page 305: “Ron had finally got S.P.E.W.”: Webchat at www.bloomsbury.com, 30 July 2007.

  Deathly Hallows

  page 307: “Death became a central”: Dateline, NBC News, 29 July 2007.

  page 308: “In many ways”: Dateline, NBC News, 29 July 2007.

  page 309: “He’s terrified of death”: Dateline, NBC News, 29 July 2007.

  page 310: “I would like to”: “Hot Type,” CBC Newsworld, 13 July 2000.

  page 311: “Death is but crossing” and “They that look beyond”: Penn, William, Fruits of Solitude, in vol. 1, part 3, The Harvard Classics (New York: Collier & Son, 1909-14) available at www.bartleby.com/1/3/210.html

  All illustrations come from the Dover Publication art collection and ArtToday.com except for: pages 50 and 258 (reproduced with slight alteration from Ogden, Tom, Wizards and Sorcerers: from Abracadabra to Zoroaster. New York: Facts on File: 1997); and page 169, courtesy of the Cruikshank Collection of Drawings and Prints, Princeton University.

  Index

  Leagues Under the Sea (Verne)

  Achilles

  Aconite

  Actium, Battle of

  Aelian

  Aeneid, The

  Africa

  Agrippa (Heinrich Cornelis)

  Alberich

  Alchemist, The (Jonson)

  Alchemy

  Alcott, Louisa May

  Alexander the Great

  Alexandria

  Alice in Wonderland(see also Through the Looking-glass)

  Almagest

  Ananta

  Animagus

  Antony, Marc

  Apollo

  Arabia

  Arabian Nights, The

  Arachne

  Aragog

  Argus

  Ariadne

  Ariel

  Ariosto, Ludovico

  Aristotle

  Arithmancy

  Artemis

  Arthur (King), see Pendragon, Arthur

  Asia

  Asphodel

  Assyrians

  Astolfo

  Athena

  Athens

  Atlantic

  Atlee, Clement

  Auror

  Avada Kedavra

  Azkaban

/>   Azkaban (see Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban)

  Baal

  Bagman, Ludovic

  Bagshot, Bathilda

  Bane

  Bar-Hillel, Gili

  Basilisks

  Bast

  Bayeux Tapestry

  Beard, Henry

  Beaumont, Francis

  Beauxbatons

  Belladonna

  Bellerophon

  Beltane

  Bezoar

  Bible

  Bicorn

  Biedermann, Hans

  Black Death

  Black Dogs

  Black Forest

  Black family motto

  Black, Regulus

  Black, Sirius

  Blair, Tony

  Blast-Ended Skrewt

  Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna

  Blenheim, Battle of

  Blenheim Palace

  Bloody Cap

  Blue Cap

  Bodin

  Boggarts

  Boleyn, Anne

  Bonaccord, Pierre

  Borgin & Burkes

  Braccae

  Bradamante

  Britain

  Brocken

  Broomsticks

  Brown, Lavender

  Bubasti

  Buckbeak

  Buddhism

  “Burning Times, The,”

  Caesar, Julius

  Caffè Florian

  Campbell, Joseph

  “Canonization, The,” (Donne)

  Canterbury Tales, The

  Carroll, Lewis

  Cassandra

  Cats

  Cauldrons

  Celsus

  Celts

  Centaurs

  Centaurus

  Cerberus

  Cerridwen

  Chamber (see Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets)

  Chamber of Secrets

  Charlemagne

  Charms

  Chaucer, Geoffrey

  Chimaera

  Chiron

  Chocolate Frogs

  Christ, Jesus

  Christianity

  Christmas Carol, A

  Chronicles of Narnia, The

  Cinderella

  Circe

  Cliodna

  Clute, John

  Complete Herbal, The (Culpeper)

  Congreve, William

  Constant, Alphonse Louis

  Copernicus, Nicolaus

  Cornish Pixies

  Cornwall

  Creevey, Dennis

  Crete

  Criosphinx

  Cromwell, Oliver

  Crookshanks

  Crouch Jr., Barty

  Cruikshank, George

  Ctesias

  Culpeper, Nicholas

  Cyclops

  Daedalus

  Daisies

  Dark Arts

  Dark Mark

  Davies, Robertson

  De Mimsy-Porpington, Nicholas (Nearly Headless Nick)

  Dearborn, Caradoc

  Death Eaters

  Dee, John

  Delacour, Fleur

  Dementors

  Department of Magical Games

  Devil

  Diagon Alley

  Diana

  Dickens, Charles

  Diggle, Dedalus

  Diggory, Cedric

  Dittany

  Divination

  Dog Star

  Doge, Elphias

  Donne, John

  Dragons

  Draught of Living Death

  Draught of Peace

  Dream Oracle, The

  Druids

  Duke of Marlborough

  Dumbledore, Aberforth

  Dumbledore, Albus

  Durmstrang

  Dursley family

  Dursley, Petunia

  Echeneis

  Egypt

  Elixir of Life

  Elizabeth

  Elves

  England

  English Physician, The (Culpeper)

  Erkling

  Erl King

  Essex

  Ethiopia

  Eton

  Europe

  Eurydice

  Excalibur

  Fabian Society

  Fabius (Quintus Fabius Maximus, “Cunctator”)

  Faerie Queen, The

  Fairies

  Famous Witches and Wizards

  Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

  Fat Lady

  Fata Morgana

  Faust

  Fawkes

  Fawkes, Guy

  Fidelius Charm

  Figg, Arabella

  Filch, Argus

  Filibuster, Dr.

  Firenze

  Flamel, Nicolas

  Flamel, Perenelle

  Flaubert, Gustave

  Fletcher, John

  Fletcher, Mundungus

  Flitwick

  Flint, Marcus

  Floo

  Florence

  Fluffy

  Flying Dutchman, The (Wagner)

  Forbidden Forest

  Ford, Ford Madox

  Fortescue, Florean

  Fortescue, Sir John

  France

  French (language)

  Freya

  Fridwulfa

  Fudge, Cornelius

  Furies

  Gaea

  Gaelic

  Galahad

  Gandalf

  Gargantua

  Gargouille

  Gaul

  Geoffrey of Monmouth

  German (language)

  Germany

  Giant Squid

  Giants

  Gigantes

  Gillyweed

  Glasgow

  Goblet (see Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)

  Goblet of Fire

  “Goblin Market” (Rosetti)

  Goblins

  Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von

  Gog

  Gogmagog

  Goyle, Gregory

  Granger, Hermione

  Grant, John

  Great Pyramid

  Great Sphinx

  Greece

  Greek mythology

  Grey, Lady Jane

  Griffins

  Grim (black dog)

  Grimmauld Place

  Grimoald

  Grindelwald

  Grindylows

  Gringotts Bank

  Grub, Gabriel

  Grunnion, Alberic

  Gryffindor House

  Gryffindor, Godric

  Gubraithian Fire

  Guiley, Rosemary Ellen

  Gunpowder Plot

  Hades

  Hagrid, Rubeus

  Hallowe’en

  Hannibal

  Harrius Potter et Philosophi Lapis

  Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

  Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

  Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

  Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone

  Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

  Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

  Harz Mountains

  Hecate

  Hedwig

  Hein, Rudolf

  Heka

  Heliopolis

  Hellebore

  Hengist of Woodcroft

  Hera

  Herbology

  Hercules

  Hermes

  Hermione, see Granger, Hermione

  Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn

  “Hero with a Thousand Faces,”

  Hidden Monarch

  Hieroglyphs

  High Inquisitor of Hogwarts (see Umbridge, Dolores)

  Hinduism

  Hinkypunk

  Hippocampus

  Hippocrates

  Hippocratic Oath

  Hippogriffs

  History of Magic

  Hitler, Adolf

  Hobbit, The (Tolkein)

  Hogsmeade

  Hogwarts Express

  Hogwarts

  Ho
linshed, Raphael

  Holmes, Oliver Wendell

  Holy Grail

  Homer

  Honeydukes

  Hopkirk, Mafalda

  Hornby, Olive

  Horsa

  Hunt, Violet

  Hvergelmer

  Hydra

  Hydrippus

  Hyperborea

  Ibsen, Henrik

  Icarus

  Iceland

  Idylls of the King

  Imago, Inigo

  Immortality

  India

  Inquisition

  International Confederation of Wizards

  Ireland

  Isis

  Italian (language)

  Italy

  Iyer, Pico

  James

  Japan

  Jenny Greenteeth

  Jerusalem

  Jesus Christ

  Jigger, Arsenius

  Job

  Jonah

  Jones, Hestia

  Jonson, Ben

  Judah

  Judaism

  Jung, Carl

  Kappas

  Karkaroff, Igor

  Kelley, Edward

  Kelpie

  Kenobi, Obi-Wan

  “Kensington Garden” (Tickell)

  Kent

  Kettle, Gertie

  Khepera

  Killing Curse (Avada Kevadra)

  King Arthur, see Pendragon, Arthur

  King Proetus of Tiryns

  Kingdom of Kent

  Kirke, Digory

  Knights (of Charlemagne)

  Knights (Order of the Garter)

  Knights of the Round Table

  Knights of Walpurgis

  Knights Templar

  Knockturn Alley

  Knotgrass

  Kraken

  Kreacher

  Labour Party

  Labyrinth

  Laius

  Lamed Wufniks

  Lancashire

  Lancelot

  Laski, Harold

  Last Supper

  Latin

  Le Fay, Morgan

  Le Guin, Ursula K.

  Legilimency

  Leprechauns

  Lestrange, Bellatrix (Black)

  Levi, Eliphas

  Lewis . S.

  Lindisfarne

  “Loch Ness” (McGonagall)

  Lockhart, Gilderoy

  Lockhart, J. G.

  Lord of the Rings, The (Tolkien)

  Love for Love (Congreve)

  Lucifer

  Lupin, Remus

  Macbeth

  MacDonald, Ramsay

  Madame Mim

  Magog, see Gog

  Malfoy, Draco

  Malfoy, Lucius

  Malfoy, Narcissa

  Malleus Maleficarum

  Mandragoritis

  Mandrake

  Manguel, Alberto

  Manticore

  Marauder’s Map

  Marchbanks, Griselda

  Marchbanks, Samuel

  Marko, Kralyevich

  Martin, Kingsley

  Marx, Karl

  Maxime, Olympe

  McCarthy, Joseph

  McGonagall, Minerva

  McGonagall, William

  Meadowes, Dorcas

  Mecca

  Medea

  Medusa

 

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