{"id":523,"date":"2007-07-16T18:27:59","date_gmt":"2007-07-16T18:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog-test\/?p=523"},"modified":"2024-02-11T20:27:54","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T01:27:54","slug":"langford_end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2007\/07\/langford_end\/","title":{"rendered":"Langford, David: <cite>The End of Harry Potter?<\/cite>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>David Langford&#8217;s <cite>The End of Harry Potter?<\/cite><\/strong> was a freebie from Patrick Nielsen Hayden at Tor, the book&#8217;s U.S. publishers. After I finished my re-read, I gave it a skim to see what Langford spotted that I missed.<\/p>\n<p>This would actually be a good way to brush up on the series if you couldn&#8217;t or didn&#8217;t want to re-read. Langford neatly and concisely pulls out themes, techniques, references, and patterns, giving the reader an idea of what might be&mdash;or ought to be&mdash;significant in the last book. And though much of the content was familiar, there were still a few things that I hadn&#8217;t picked up on (for instance, Langford cites a passing comment from Dumbledore in Chapter 37 of <cite>OotP<\/cite>, and suddenly I am much less concerned about Rowling being able to count). If you&#8217;re looking for a quick, well-grounded refresher, give this a try.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Langford&#8217;s The End of Harry Potter? was a freebie from Patrick Nielsen Hayden at Tor, the book&#8217;s U.S. publishers. After I finished my re-read, I gave it a skim to see what Langford spotted that I missed. This would actually be a good way to brush up on the series if you couldn&#8217;t or &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2007\/07\/langford_end\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Langford, David: <cite>The End of Harry Potter?<\/cite>&#8220;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,9],"tags":[281],"class_list":["post-523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-non-fiction","tag-langford-david"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2805,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions\/2805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}