The Harry Potter Bookworm

Welcome to Salem College Harry Potter Bookworm Club!

2006-09-24T15:02:00.000+01:00

Welcome to the Salem International College Harry Potter Bookworm Club! Please feel to browse on the links in the right-hand margin for news, interviews, articles and updates on your heroes. Don't forget to click on the Amazon icons and links to make purchases, so we can donate the commission you earn to the College library! Thanks for your support!
If you have any news or articles to contribute, please email me!
Chief Bookworm

Try Photo.com!

2006-05-10T08:56:00.000+01:00

For those of you who have digital cameras, we have just signed up with a new affiliate program to help raise money for our good cause. Click here to check it out! Best wishes, Chief Bookworm

Harry Potter link on Scholastic.com

2006-03-24T11:27:00.000Z

Hello Harry Potter fans,

I just wanted to flag up a Harry Potter link which I recently discovered with my English class. Click here to see more! Particularly suitable for children (of all ages). Have fun!

Goblet of Fire DVD coming soon!

2006-03-12T06:48:00.000Z

Get your copy of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire as soon as it comes out. Pre-order here!

And for those of you who haven't tried the Amazon DVD lending service, don't miss this special introductory offer: remember with every purchase or loan through this site you are helping us to fundraise! Just click on this button:

But what you are REALLY thinking about is
Caribbean Holidays isn't it? You see, I'm a mind reader! Or would you prefer a Mediterranean hotel? Or just click on this Mediterranean map to find your special destination.

Congratulations and thanks to HP Bookworms!

2006-02-09T09:09:00.000Z

Dear Bookworms,
We are proud to announce our first fund-raising success with the Bookworm Club, thanks to your support by ordering from Amazon through the blog!
Using funds which you have helped to raise, we have just ordered the following books for the library. The titles were recommended by Ms Baker and her student helpers as books which you might enjoy. So here goes:

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden (2 copies)
Around the World in Eighty Days, Journey to the Center of the Earth, 20,000 Leagues under the Sea, all by Jules Verne, in English and German,
The Ultimate Guide to the Mysteries of Harry Potter, and The Plot Thickens, Harry Potter Investigated by Fans for Fans (both by Galadriel Waters)
and, by popular request, several volumes by Peter Ustinov: Gott und die Staatlichen Eisenbahnen, Über das Leben und andere Kleinigkeiten, Ich und Ich, Peter Ustinovs geflügelte Worte.

Once again many thanks for your support! As promised, funds which you have helped to raise will also be used to help carers of the disabled to have a well-earned break, possibly here on Lake Constance: we are in negotiation with the CEO of the Wilf Ward Family Trust to find the best arrangements. Watch this space!
Best regards and happy reading
Clare Krojzl

Trouble sorted, now back to the real business of life!

2005-10-18T11:36:00.000+01:00

Techie-muggle that I am, I still managed to sort out the problem with Internet Explorer. Now I can get back to the fun part of blogging. Just stumbled across Pete Townshend's blog today. Click on the link in the margin, and have fun reading some really good stuff while I get back to Hogwarts and prepare my lessons for tomorrow (pubescent potions etc.)

Whoops!

2005-10-14T22:02:00.000+01:00

Sorry everyone, for some reason the right-hand margin is disappearing right down the page when viewed in Internet Explorer. It seems to be fine in Mozilla Firefox, which is what I mainly use (and Blogger). Please let me know if you are having problems viewing the page, and if so in which browser. This has not been a problem until now.
Thank you for your patience. You can still read the links and archives in the right-hand margin by scrolling down the page. I will try to sort this out asap.

New Links!

2005-10-09T16:44:00.001+01:00

Dear Harry Potter fans and fund-raising supporters,

In the right-hand margin you will find links to some Harry Potter websites. Some are well-known, some less so. If you know of any more, please email me. The list is certainly not exhaustive!

Have fun!

Harry Potter 6 erschient heute 1. Oktober!

2005-10-01T09:31:00.000+01:00

Harry Potter 6

2005-09-25T11:27:00.000+01:00

Harry Potter as Philosophy?

2005-09-25T09:38:00.000+01:00

The following book may interest students, teachers and other readers who are looking for the deeper meanings in life and philosophy. It can be viewed and ordered through this link:

I have just ordered it myself and look forward to reading it, and to receiving your comments!

2005-08-18T16:46:00.000+01:00

Professor McGonagall would just like to remind those students who are interested in advanced OWLs in Harry Potter studies to wave their wands over the following links:
The Harry Potter Lexicon winner of a JK Rowling fansite award, and part of The Floo Network so popular with the Weasleys. For in-depth interviews with JK Rowling, please read the articles by Madam Scoop. Hogwarts students are reminded to take care to quote the author correctly on their parchments. The most reliable sources are to be found in Quick Quote Quill

Trailer for Goblet of Fire!

2005-08-18T16:36:00.000+01:00

Download the teaser trailer for Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire now!

The Half-Blood Prince: Join this course at Barnes and Noble!

2005-07-29T15:58:00.000+01:00

There is still time to join a special online course on The Half-Blood Prince run at Barnes and Noble! It promises to be a real treat!
Click here to enroll now:
Barnes and Noble
This particular course is being run by two real celebrities of Potterlore: John Granger, of Hogwarts Professor
fame and author of some interesting books on the Harry Potter phenomenon, including Looking for God in Harry Potter, and Doris Herrmann, of the award-winning Leaky Cauldron fansite praised by JK Rowling herself.

There are still places available on the course due to start on 1 August 2005 if you hurry. Later courses will be run by others, however.

Click here to enroll now:
Barnes and Noble

This is the Harry Potter Bookworm wishing you lots of fun delving into the deepest secrets of Book 6!

Click here for more information on John Granger, or
here for more on Doris Herrmann.

This is the Harry Potter Bookworm wishing you lots of fun delving into the deepest secrets of Book 6!

Harry Potter Fansite Tips

2005-04-12T01:44:00.000+01:00

Mugglenet
The Leaky Cauldron
Hogwarts Wire
Factmonster
Harry Potter news aggregator
Harry Potter Magic
Harry Potter Society
Draco Fans
Tom Felton fansite
Dan Radcliffe fansite, auch auf deutsch!

Harry Potter and Christian symbolism

2005-04-04T10:12:00.000+01:00

You can follow more links on the symbolic Christian meanings in the Harry Potter books here in the article by John Granger for Touchstone Magazine

The Hidden Key to Harry Potter

2005-04-04T09:04:00.000+01:00

There's a lot more to Harry Potter than meets the eye. Some of you will have read about the controversy unleashed among the Christian community by the theme of magic in the books. Opinion is both strong and divided.
For those of you who like to scratch below the surface, I can thoroughly recommend John Granger's book The Hidden Key to Harry Potter. I have read around this subject quite a lot and have found this to be the most thought-provoking so far.

Granger does two things in his book: first, he shows the enormous depth, consistency and richness of detail that JK Rowling has put into the series. There is great significance, for example, in her choice of names for her characters. Aunt Petunia, to name but one, is named for a flower traditionally said to signify resentment, and we know from the very first book how much Harry's Aunt Petunia resented his mother Lily (a name signifying purity, incidentally).

Second, Granger puts forward his case for arguing the 'High Road' case that the Harry Potter series ranks among traditional Christian fiction of the Inkling school, alongside Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia. He argues convincingly that the books are meant to be read symbolically.

I found his book well-researched, erudite, an exciting read, but gratifyingly free of cant. You may not always agree with the conclusions he reaches (that's part of the fun), but I can safely say it will exercise the right mental muscles. A must-read for the serious Harry Potter fan!

Order your copy here: for UK readers:

For US readers:

Harry Potter and the Halfblood Prince

2005-04-01T12:21:00.000+01:00

Dear Bookworms!

Don't forget to pre-order your copy of "The Half-Blood Prince" through the Bookworm Club site! Help us to generate revenue for elderly and disabled bookworms.

Watch this space for new reviews and articles on the Harry Potter phenomenon.

We will be featuring reader reviews, as well as a fascinating backround reading article on what the Harry Potter series is really all about!