My friend Travis Prinzi at his excellent all-HP all the time blog, Sword of Gryffindor has this great post revealing some very interesting parallels between the first volume of Howard Pyle’s The Story of King Arthur and His Knights and the life and times of Harry Potter as presented by JK Rowling in her fictional series.

He also recently engaged in an online debate with Richard Abanes, the most visible and articulate of the anti-Harry crowd. I would go to this post which was his final installment of the debate and click through the links beginning with part one. Abanes repeatedly refers Travis to his latest book on the controversy which I now have on my nightstand and intend to read. I will be giving a talk to a group of college students on November 17th, the night before the next HP movie opens, about the controversy.

Steve