The intermitences of death, chapter VI

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  Prelude
  Chapter I
  Chapter II
  Chapter III
  

  Chapter IV

• Chaper V

Chapter VI

Extracts from the life of Hermione Granger years 20013 – 2015

 

E - Mail from Susan Granger to her Daughter, Hermione Granger:

 

Dear Hermione:

 

I’m so happy that you remembered to invite mumsy to your lecture.  I would have loved to go, but you know how hot Oxford is in this season; and I’ve never been able to deal with such a climate. I hope you could understand.

 

Big Hugs,

Mum.

***

 

The School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies

St Antony's College, Oxford

The Latin America Studies Center cordially invites you to a public lecture :

 

Nectar & Ambrosia: Going through Death

Prof. Hermione Granger

 

(University of Bath, Center for Death and Society)

Introduction: Prof. Marina Gaete

(The Latin America Studies Center)

Wedsnesday, July 20^th; 2013 5:30 – 7:00 PM

At: School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies

12 Bevington Road, Oxford, OX2 6LH

 

This public lecture will consider how the survival in ancient Greek of the lndo-European root *nek and *mer, which in Indo-European designated two ways of dying, not in the words referring to death, but in the terms ϖ φ ι χ ρ α π and α  γ π ο ο φ &alpha.  At the same time, the analysis of the texts where these terms are connected to death helps us to determine exactly their meaning and to realize that in Greek religion, like in other Indo-European religions, a belief exists in a substance allowing going over death and reaching immortality.

Finally, we connect these terms evoking these two different ways of dying with the ancient formula α ψ ι φ π α ε χ

 

Hermione Granger is Reader in Sociology and vice Head of the Department of Social and Policy Sciences at the University of Bath. Before moving to Bath she was Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Sydney, Australia. She has also held posts at the University of Sussex and the London School of Economics where she was T.H. Marshall Fellow in the Department of Sociology. She has been researching and publishing in the field of death and dying for almost ten years. Granger is a Founding-Editor of Mortality, the first European journal of death studies, which she now co-edits with Mortimer Killjoy. She has been closely involved with the series of conferences on the Social Context of Death, Dying and Disposal, the first of which she co-organised with Fernando Alvarez in 2003.

 

For more information on the speaker, cf. http://www.bath.ac.uk/cdas/people/cdasmem/index.html

 

To register or for information: 

 

ana.castillo4@bath.ac.uk    or maria willkins@area.ox.ac.ok

 

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Card from Mr. Granger to her daughter Hermione Granger:

 

My little one:

 

I can’t express how proud I am of your success; I frame The Times interview and put it in my office. Now all my patients will know I have a brilliant daughter. 

These 33 roses are a symbol of all the years that you have made my life bloom. (Remember, my dear scholar, to put water in the vase and the roses in it!)

 

Looking to be with you for my birthday,

 

Daddy.

 

PS: Mum sends you a kiss.

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Letter from Ted Lupin to his Godmother, Hermione Granger

 

Hogwarts, 11 th November 2013

Dear Oddie:

…could you believe I’m missing dear old Binns? Prewett sucks! He is full of new teaching ideas and I find myself facing my free periods full of History of Magic homework. Besides I’m his star boy, so he kept making me explain things from Dad, Mum, Uncle Fred (As if I remember them!). He keeps talking about Uncle Harry or you in front of the whole class. It’s so embarrassing being a Lupin! Everyone is making fun of me now; I don’t dare enter the common room anymore. I hate Prewett!

 

Flitwick has made us write an essay “Ten ways of losing your magic”; I know I’m not supposed to talk about it, Granny says so, but this is urgent, the due day is the day after tomorrow  and I have only four ways; so could you please, please tell me how do you end up being a squib? All the books at the library are “checked out” and I really, really need a good mark in this one or Granny will forbid me to play Quidditch any more.

 

Thanks for the Action Helmet Video Camera; I will record you a Wronsky Feint once I manage it

 

Ted

 

PS: Thanks for saving my  ass life too

 

 

 

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Chat between dean_forest (dean_forest@hotmail.com ) and Herm19 (herm19@aol.com)

 

03:09dean_forest: Are you there?

Herm19: Have any news?

dean_forest: You were right.

Herm19: How many?

03:10 

dean_forest: None. No deaths in the last five months!

 dean_forest: It’s like people just stay alive, a minute away from dying, no changes, neither dead nor alive.

03:11 

Herm19: Were you able to get the files?

dean_forest: Love, I can’t go around asking for files about non existent dead

03:12

dean_forest: People don’t talk about it.

Herm19: So how are you sure of the facts?

dean_forest: I don’t reveal my sources

Herm19:  Stop being silly, this is serious

03:14

dean_forest: I AM being serious; there is something rotten here. It scares me.

 

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Irma Pince to Hermione Granger.

 

 

Dear Miss Granger:

I will be delighted to receive you in Hogwarts Library again. You should not be concerned about your condition, measures will be taken to make your stay as pleasurable as always. I send you this bookmark with the invitation; it’s a portkey that would be activated next Monday at 8:30 sharp.

 

Regards,

Irma Pince.

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Black, Araminta Melliflua, Birth Date Unknown- 1800. Papers: Guide.

 

Hogwarts Library, Hogwarts School of Witch Craft and Wizardry

 

Descriptive Summary

Repository:   Hogwarts Library, Hogwarts School of Witch Craft and Wizardry
Location: Restricted Section b (shelved with bMS Flamel 6)
Call No.:  MS Flamel 7
Creator:  Black, Araminta Melliflua.  Birth date unknown? -1800
Title:  Papers
Date(s): 1741-1773.
Quantity:1 box (.5 linear ft.)
Abstract: Letters to and from author and literary hostess Araminta Melliflua Black, from the Noble and Most ancient House of Black, a partial draft of her An Essay on Death, comparative study among British Muggles and Wizards and her transcripts of poems by a variety of authors paying tribute to the essay.

 

Acquisition Information:

*1984JM-58 (part)

Donor: Cedrella Black

Custodial history:

Most of the letters in Series I had previously been bound into an extra- illustrated edition of The Life of Honoria Nutcombe. Which Nicholas and Perenelle Flamel purchased at a Chilean auction in 1801, and which they disbound in 1823. The contents of Series II were all sold as a group  to Benjy Fenwick in 1971, along with four letters in Series I: Starkey to Black, [1769 Sept. 29]; Gregory to Black, 1768 Oct. 31 and 1769 Mar. 18; and Black to Lyttelton, 1769 Sept. 22. Several other letters were acquired by the Flammels from miscellaneous sources.

Araminta Melliflua Black, an author and literary hostess, was a central figure in Wizarding Bluestocking circles, and a friend of Honoria Nutcombe; their friendship broke when Mrs Black tried to force through a Ministry Bill to make Muggle-hunting legal. Her best-known work was the anonymously published An Essay on Death, comparative study among British Muggles and Wizards. (1769).

Arrangement

Organized into the following series:

·        I. Correspondence

·        II. Manuscripts

The correspondence is arranged alphabetically by correspondent.

Scope and Content

Series I, Correspondence, includes fifteen autographed letters by Black, and ten letters received by her. Prominent correspondents include her friendship and depart with Artemisia Lufkin, philosophic discussions about the nature of Muggles with Gondoline Oliphant  & Flavius Belby; Perenelle Flamel,  her romantic letters to Edward the Young (Covers the subsequent change of perspective that led to her disowned for disagreeing with the belief in pure-blood supremacy). Several of the letters discuss her An Essay on Death, comparative study among British Muggles and Wizards.

Series II consists of a partial draft of Black's An Essay on Death, comparative study among British Muggles and Wizards, and nine poems written by a variety of authors which honor the essay. Most are transcripts in Black's hand.

Processed by:

Snape, Severus

 

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Reviews are well acepted and cherished

Comments

[nocturnus33]

Thanks, I´m glaad the interactions gives some hints.

The next will be on friday as usual, then I will have a hiatus because I'm running short of chapter. need to kick the muse and make her work harder.