“I seem to be awfully thirsty these days.” “Tessa’s the same,” said Michael. “I suppose when you’re feeding these guzzly babies it’s understandable.”

I wish what Jenkins asserts was entirely true, but in reality, I have lost count of the number of Harry Potter studies colleagues who have been challenged, marginalized, or outright threatened because of their publication and scholarship in this area. Serious scholars do not engage in acafandom.

It seems to me that the placement of that poster could be better.

The cane was undoubtedly of foreign make, for it had a solid silver ferrule at one end, which was not English hall–marked.