Rowling Studies The Hogwarts Professor Podcast
Episodes
A Spirited Conversation about Rowling-Galbraith's Cormoran Strike Series and C. S. Lewis' 'Till We Have Faces'
19 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
[Apologies but the recording is quite poor at the start, but improves. Please bear with it - Nick]John Granger shared privately with Nick Jeffery that...
Metallurgical, Literary, and Psychological Alchemy: Is Jung a Good Guide for Understanding J. K. Rowling's Artistry and Meaning?
02 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This is the second of a series of posts about the literary alchemy of J. K. Rowling, a discussion jumpstarted by a post by ‘Iris’ at a Strike fan ...
What do Tyler Powell, Rupert Fleetwood, Jolanda Lindvall, and Lady Jensen Have in Common?
02 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Jeffery and John Granger met up last Sunday — St David’s Day in Wales and the Sunday of the Triumph of Orthodoxy — to talk about John’s f...
What the Hallmarked Man Epigraphs Reveal About Rowling-Galbraith's Artistry and Meaning
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Jeffery read Robert Browning’s The Ring and the Book, a Victorian epic poem about a murder mystery in 17th Century Italy, to test a theory. Jo...
'Sleep Tight, Evangeline,' Miniature Psalters, and the Head of Persephone: A Conversation with Dimitra Fimi
17 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Last November Nick and John introduced Dimitra Fimi, the magnificent maven of Tolkien Studies and Professor of Fantasy and Children's Literature at th...
Valentine's Day Special: The Cupid and Psyche Myth within the Cormoran Strike Series
14 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Happy Valentine’s Day!Mrs Murray met the UK StrikeFans.com contingent and Badly WiredLamp (“and friends”) on Thursday to talk about the Cormoran...
The Christmas Charm Bracelet of Strike 9 Clues (Part Two)
06 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Elizabeth Baird Hardy, Deputy Headmistress of Hogwarts Professor, the genius behind AppalachianInkling.com, Hunger Games expert, and author of Milton,...
The Christmas Charm Bracelet of Strike 9 Clues (Part One)
04 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On 23 December last year, Rowling changed her Twixter home page header and cameo with this tweeted explanation:The Charm Bracelet header features thir...
Robin Ellacott's Imminent Death and Its Out of This World Effect on Strike
22 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Running Grave, book Seven of the ten novel Cormoran Strike murder mystery series by Joanne Murray (‘J. K. Rowling’) writing as ‘Robert Galbraith...
Blood! The Crimson Thread
12 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Nick is joined by John Granger and special guest star Guido in their temporary headquarters as they await the move to Granger Towers. We discuss the r...
A Hogwarts Professor New Year Celebration!
31 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the Hogwarts Professor New Year’s Celebration! John and Nick look back to a packed 2025, as John looks forward to big changes in 2026. F...
The Most Influential Book Rowling Read as a Child Wanting to Be a Writer is Dodie Smith's 'I Capture the Castle'
24 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Merry Christmas! In between looking at houses to rent and packing up the Granger house in Oklahoma City, Nick and John put together this yuletide conv...
Why Hallmarked Man is the Best Cormoran Strike Novel and Will Be Considered the Key to Unlocking the Series' Mysteries
20 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
John Granger Attempts to Convince Nick (and You!) That The Hallmarked Man will be Considered the Best of the Series.We review our take-away impression...
Full Cast Audio Harry Potter: Is It Worth a Listen?
08 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
John Granger rarely listens to audio adaptations of books unless he’s on a long drive, though he admits they have played an important part in his li...
Talking About 'A Rowling Reading of Aurora Leigh'
03 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
John Granger in September 2022, weeks after the publication of Ink Black Heart, tackled the tangle of 108 poetic epigraphs in Strike 6 from twenty-two...
Jonny Rokeby was both Cormoran and Charlotte's Father: The Incest Twist Rowling Has Hidden Inside the Strike Series
22 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Hogwarts Professor comment threads have been jumping so Nick Jeffery and John Granger decided to dedicate a conversation to a review of the Greate...
Reading Rowling as Myth Maker and Myth Re-Writer: A Conversation with Dr Dimitra Fimi
18 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dimitra Fimi is Professor of Fantasy and Children’s Literature at the University of Glasgow and Co-Director of the Centre for Fantasy and the Fantas...
Ryan Murphy is Charlotte Campbell's 'Dirty Bomb'
10 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Jeffery and John Granger sat down today to talk about the wonderful comment threads beneath their Hallmarked Man posts since publication day. The...
Charting Hallmarked Man as Ring Composition: An Introduction and Invitation
08 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When Running Grave was published, John Granger charted each Part’s chapter sets, the Book-as-a-Whole, and then the Book as the concluding novel of a...
Hallmarked Man vs the First Seven Cormoran Strike Novels (2)
05 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Jeffery and John Granger do a Compare and Contrast test of the latest Cormoran Strike novel, The Hallmarked Man, and the previous seven books in ...
Hallmarked Man vs the First Seven Cormoran Strike Novels (1)
03 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Jeffery and John Granger do a Compare and Contrast test of the latest Cormoran Strike novel, The Hallmarked Man, and the previous seven books in ...
Hallmarked Man Reader Theories and Insights
27 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nick and John have posted eight Hallmarked Man conversations since its publication last month and, as interesting as their back-and-forth talks have b...
Hallmarked Man Q&A with Nick Jeffery and John Granger (2)
18 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Jeffery and John Granger continue their Q&A conversations about Rowling-Galbraith’s Hallmarked Man (if you missed the first discussion, click h...
Hallmarked Man Q&A with Nick Jeffery and John Granger (1)
15 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
While John Granger labors with the paid subscribers to chart each of Hallmarked Man’s ten Parts and one Epilogue (in preparation for a charting of t...
Hallmarked Man and Rowling's Tweets after the Shooting of Charlie Kirk
07 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Jeffery and John Granger were asked in the first week after the publication of Hallmarked Man what they thought of Rowling-Galbraith’s twitter ...
The Hallmarked Man: A 'Blitz' Lake and Shed Reading (with a few Golden Threads)
03 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It’s been a month since the publication of Hallmarked Man so Nick and John decide to have a ‘Pit Pony Pickleball’ match in which they serve and ...
The Hallmarked Man's Mythological Template
25 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Url to TweetNick Jeffery and John Granger focus their Hallmarked Man Week Three conversation around the mythological content of Strike 8, a subject pr...
Hallmarked Man's Three 'Whose My Daddy?' Set-Ups to Shock Readers in Strikes 9 and 10
15 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Jeffery and John Granger opened the Orthodox New Year with a conversation about, you guessed it, Rowling-Galbraith’s Hallmarked Man. Both of th...
Three Cheers for The Hallmarked Man! Thoughts After the First Reading
08 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Spoilers Warning! If you haven’t finished reading the 900 pages of The Hallmarked Man and don’t want to hear details from the novel, you will not ...
How Are You Going to Read 'Hallmarked Man'?
01 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What can you say about Hallmarked Man that doesn’t include anything beyond epigraph authors from the latest pre-publication drops from the leak-ing ...
Is Rowling a Romance Writer or What?
26 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We’re counting down the days until the publication of The Hallmarked Man! Nick Jeffery and John Granger take perhaps the last look at Rowling’s mo...
Rowling Links "Subconscious" Lake Inspiration to "Universal Psyche," Etc.
20 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nick has been reading his way through Anthony Powell’s twelve volume Dance to the Music of Time because Rowling mentioned it in a 2017 tweet and he ...
Alternative Explanations for The Lost Child Golden Thread in the Work of J. K. Rowling (Spoilers for Hallmarked Man!)
16 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the last two episodes of our Kanreki tribute last month to the life and work of Joanne Rowling Murray, a.k.a., ‘J. K. Rowling’ and ‘Robert Ga...
The Kanreki Series Q&A
05 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We collected all the questions and comments posted last month beneath our daily Kanreki Lake and Shed videos and sat down to answer them live with pai...
Happy 60th Birthday, J. K. Rowling! Opening the Gift of the Biggest Secret in Her Lake of Inspiration?
31 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Happy 60th Birthday, Joanne Rowling Murray! Thank you for close to thirty years of challenging, even edifying fiction, for the joys of community your ...
A Lake and Shed Look at the Lost Child 'Golden Thread' in J. K. Rowling's Work
30 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It’s the Day Before Rowling’s 60th birthday so Nick and John tackle by reader request the never before discussed subject of the Lost Child theme i...
A Lake and Shed Reading of 'The Tales of Beedle the Bard'
29 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Two Days and a Wake-Up until Joanne Rowling Murray’s 60th Birthday. In their home stretch conversation, Nick and John fulfill a reader request to di...
A Lake and Shed Reading of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (Textbook)
28 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We’re in the home stretch of the 60th Birthday Blitz at Hogwarts Professor! On the first of the last four days of July, Nick and John return to the ...
A Lake and Yurt-Shed Conversation about Rowling's Ring Writing
27 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Let’s talk about Rowling’s use of traditional chiastic structure, what anthropologist Mary Douglas called ‘Ring Composition.’ John travels to ...
A Lake and Shed Look at the Golden Threads in the Work of J. K. Rowling (B)
26 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back! John and Nick finish their back-and-forth challenge to come up with three examples of the ‘Fourteen Golden Threads’ in the work of J...
A Lake and Shed Look at the Golden Threads in the Work of J. K. Rowling (A)
25 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back! John and Nick, having finished their Lake and Shed review of the seven Harry Potter novels, the first seven Strike-Ellacott adventures, ...
A Lake and Shed Reading of The Running Grave
24 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s Lake and Shed framed conversation focuses in on the remarkable Strike-Ellacott novel, The Running Grave, the last book in our review of ever...
A Lake and Shed Reading of The Ink Black Heart
23 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back! After learning the Snakewood Secrets of Dumbledore — that’s right, it’s Rowling the Wood Snake having a private Lake moment — we...
A Lake and Shed Reading of Secrets of Dumbledore (Screenplay)
22 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s Lake and Shed framed conversation is all about the Steve Kloves screenplay, The Secrets of Dumbledore, which is “based on a screenplay by ...
A Lake and Shed Reading of The Christmas Pig (B)
21 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s Lake and Shed framed conversation is once again about The Christmas Pig. Nick by the Lake shares the history of the Murray Family and their ...
A Lake and Shed Reading of The Christmas Pig (A)
20 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s Lake and Shed framed conversation is once again about the hilarious Christmas story for children of all ages, Christmas Pig. Nick discusses ...
A Lake and Shed Reading of Troubled Blood (Part Two)
19 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s Lake and Shed framed conversation is once again about the fifth Cormoran Strike novel, Troubled Blood. Nick discusses Rowling’s history wi...
A Lake and Shed Reading of Troubled Blood (Part One)
18 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s Lake and Shed framed conversation is about the fifth Cormoran Strike novel, Troubled Blood. Nick discusses Rowling’s history with the divi...
A Lake and Shed Reading of The Ickabog
17 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s Lake and Shed framed conversation is about Rowling’s remarkable “fairy-tale” and the history and meaning of its release during the “...
A Lake and Shed Reading of Crimes of Grindelwald, the 'Fantastic Beasts 2' Screenplay
16 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nick and John take a Lake and Shed long look at the second screenplay for the Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them film series. On the Lake side of...
A Lake and Shed Reading of Lethal White
15 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s Lake and Shed framed conversation is about the fourth Cormoran Strike novel, Lethal White. Nick discusses the embedded class struggle in the...
A Lake and Shed Reading of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (Screenplay)
14 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s Lake and Shed framed conversation is about J. K. Rowling’s first “original screenplay,” Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. Nick ...
A Lake and Shed Reading of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
13 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s Lake and Shed framed conversation is about the Jack Thorne play, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. Nick reviews the history of how Rowling ...
A Lake and Shed Reading of Career of Evil
12 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s Lake and Shed framed conversation is about J. K. Rowling’s third Cormoran Strike novel, Career of Evil. Nick and John debate whether Rowli...
A Lake and Shed Reading of The Silkworm
11 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s Lake and Shed framed conversation is about J. K. Rowling’s second Cormoran Strike novel, The Silkworm. Nick and John discuss the date Rowl...
A Lake and the Shed Reading of Cuckoo's Calling
10 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s Lake and Shed framed conversation is about J. K. Rowling’s first Cormoran Strike novel, The Cuckoo’s Calling. Nick and John debate the d...
A Lake and Shed Reading of Casual Vacancy
09 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s Lake and Shed framed conversation is about J. K. Rowling’s first adult novel and one Nick and John think she may have been writing before ...
A Lake and Shed Reading of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
08 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s Lake and Shed framed conversation is about the seventh and final Harry Potter novels Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. John and Nick dis...
A Lake and Shed Reading of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
07 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s Lake and Shed framed conversation is about the sixth of the seven Harry Potter novels, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Nick reveals ...
A Lake and the Shed Reading of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
06 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s Lake and Shed framed conversation is about the fifth Harry Potter novel, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Nick talks about the dar...
A Lake and Shed Reading of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
05 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On 31 July 2025, Joanne Murray, aka J. K. Rowling and Robert Galbraith, will be celebrating her 60th birthday. This celebration is considered a ‘sec...
Rowling's Kanreki Episode 4
04 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The second of our daily examples of the lake and shed inspiration withing all of J. K. Rowling’s work. In this episode Harry Potter and the Prisoner...
Rowling's Kanreki Episode 3
03 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The second of our daily examples of the lake and shed inspiration withing all of J. K. Rowling’s work. In this episode Harry Potter and the Chamber ...
Rowling's Kanreki Episode 2
02 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The first of our daily examples of the lake and shed inspiration withing all of J. K. Rowling’s work. In this episode Harry Potter and the Philosoph...
J. K. Rowling's Kanreki
01 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dr John Granger and I will begin our Lake and Shed reviews of the twenty-one stories written at least in part by J. K. Rowling. In this introduction t...
'Pregnancy Traps' in the Works of J. K. Rowling
03 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. John Granger and Nick Jeffery explore the theme of pregnancy traps and coercive love as a golden thread running through all the published works of...
On Reading, "On Writing"
31 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
John and Nick discuss the four generations of Rowling studies, and applies their principles to the new video’s “On Writing”. From the Lake and S...
Sark, Snark and Censorship
08 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Join John and Nick as they explore the strange and quirky island of Sark, take a look at the latest J. K. Rowling twitter storms and stand in admirati...
Rowling Studies - Robin Ellacott is Sterile
18 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Join John and Nick as they tackle a controversial subject. Using the ‘lake and shed’ analysis of J. K. Rowling’s compete cannon to understand if...
Rowling Studies - The Christmas Pig
30 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the second episode of our Rowling Studies podcast, this time a discussion on The Christmas Pig. Nick’s ‘Top Three’ books per the Lake...
The Mysterious Death of Charlotte Campbell: Was It Suicide or Was It Murder?
16 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to ‘Rowling Studies,’ a Hogwarts Professor podcast!In the pilot episode, Nick Jeffery and John Granger discuss the aim of ‘Rowling Studi...