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I just added a bit of historical background to the character entry for Mungo Bonham. It turns out that there was a real St. Mungo who was an early Bishop of Scotland (also called St. Kentigern) who evangelized pagans c. 600 in the Glasgow area. One local tradition even holds… Read More
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More new canon! Wheeee! I have just finished uploading to the Quick-Quotes-Quill what I hope are definitive versions of the press conference and readings Jo did in New York last week. These transcripts use the best from other fansites with corrections and extra research, so I hope you will… Read More
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We’d like to join Jo in wishing Ginny Weasley a Happy Birthday! As she has done for the past two years, Jo posted this birthday wish on the Wizard of the Month Calendar of her website: jkrowling.com today. Read More
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Welcome to the brand new What’s New page. I know it looks pretty much like the old one, but there is one important difference. This page is set up as a blog, which means that you can subscribe to get the RSS feed in your favorite RSS newsreader. Look for… Read More
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Once again the Wizard of the Month on Jo’s site, Erica Stainwright, is a new canon character. This has been the case for the past four months, providing us here at the Lexicon with fresh new canon to incorporate! (We always get excited over new canon.) Also this week… Read More
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We thought you’d enjoy reading the full list of questions that Lexicon staff came up with for the Lumos Trivia Challenge pitting The Leaky Cauldron against Mugglenet. Read More
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The Wizard of the Month on Jo’s site for June (Daisy Hookum) and July (Tarquin McTavish) were both new characters. Most of the WotM have been from the Famous Wizard Cards, but occasionally she has given us these charming additions to the canon. Read More
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From the moment it was physically possible for the first fan to have finished Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, the Harry Potter fandom has been speculating on what is going to happen in Book Seven — and what needs to happen, given the puzzles, mysteries and loose… Read More
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We have been asked to remove the archive of the test from the Lexicon, and we have done so. Sorry about that, I know that many of you never had a chance to see the test in action, but Jo has asked us not to provide the archive and we… Read More
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Steve let me fiddle with his page on the night Harry’s parents were killed. I have clarified the timeline, added key quotes, and updated the information so that it takes into account recent statements Jo has made as well as the information from Book 6. I started a topic over… Read More
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Yup, me again. I am very pleased to announce the addition of a new artist’s work to the Lexicon! Her name is Makani, and I have just finished adding her paintings and drawings of: Young Arthur & Molly Weasley, Dumbledore and Fawkes, Remus Lupin, Hestia Jones and Emmaline Vance, Fenrir… Read More
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I’ve just updated the Floo Network Home Page for March. With it I have added (as requested by you) an archive of all the past trivia. Soon there will be a similar archive, but for the Recipe section. So, have a look and see how much of a Harry Potter… Read More
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If you haven’t already seen it, check out the holiday version of our main menu. Thanks to Laura Freeman, whose artwork already graces many pages of the Lexicon, our friends Moony, Wormtail,  Padfoot, and Prongs are having a bit of fun with their favorite Slytherin. We can’t thank Laura enough… Read More
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Just a quick note. I’m on vacation, currently in Quebec City, and I happen to have internet available in my hotel, which is pretty darn nice. I had a wonderful time at Convention Alley and now I and my family will be vacationing in Canada for a few days. I… Read More
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Still more edits and additions all over the place. There are a couple of things that deserve a mention here. First, I have updated the page of spells from the films and games to correct the entry on the spell Arresto Momentum. Penny begged me to get to that one… Read More
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Michele here, the Lexicon’s assistant/junior editor. The chapter guide for CS1 has been updated; go to the Help/About page, to the section “Delving Deeper into Harry Potter”. An essay on duelling which has been awaiting review has also been made available. Read More
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Added a new page for Luna Lovegood, which includes another of Marta T.’s brilliant drawings and artwork by a new artist to the Lexicon, Tiny Q. Her illustration of Luna is just beautiful, really capturing the quirky nature of this intriguing character. I am delighted to welcome Tiny Q. to… Read More
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The reorganization is going very smoothly, thanks to Dreamweaver. What an excellent program that is! I have added a page to the Hogwarts Atlas which shows a stunning painting by Michael Bramman, a well-known British illustrator. The page includes a brief note from the artist… Read More
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For the last few days, I’ve been reorganizing the thousands of files which make up the Lexicon. This is a painstaking process, at least for me, since I’m not a Dreamweaver wiz by any stretch of the imagination. I do things like this in utter terror of messing… Read More