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posted May 17, 2015 09:30 AM            

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Having watched all of the Harry Potter movies, I wondered if JK just channelled all the magical information or she had prior knowledge i.e. practised or studied herself, Because while the movies don't go into precise rituals etc....because it's a movie(!) but some of the principles are very esoteric in nature which would have only come from either pure channelling OR from prior knowledge of the art. Then I found out that JK practise astrology. Interesting huh?
http://www.astrology.co.uk/news/jkrowlingastrology.htm

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posted May 17, 2015 04:48 PM            

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I'm not surprised.

And there used to be a very interesting site up that detailed a lot of occult trivia JK Rowling apparently knew as it made its way into her books (with creative license of course). I knew the person who put up the website and she'd been through years of intense occult training and study of the Western Mystery Tradition and even she was impressed at the obscure knowledge Rowling seemed to know. (Just to be clear my friend didn't think Rowling was necessarily an occultist, many folklorist could have come across the same knowledge.)

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posted May 17, 2015 05:05 PM            

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I would looooooove to read that site. Any chance of finding it or has it been taken down?

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posted May 17, 2015 06:14 PM            

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Originally posted by PixieJane:
I'm not surprised.

And there used to be a very interesting site up that detailed a lot of occult trivia JK Rowling apparently knew as it made its way into her books (with creative license of course). I knew the person who put up the website and she'd been through years of intense occult training and study of the Western Mystery Tradition and even she was impressed at the obscure knowledge Rowling seemed to know. (Just to be clear my friend didn't think Rowling was necessarily an occultist, many folklorist could have come across the same knowledge.)

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Knowledge doesn't mean she's a practitioner.
I'd imagine, as an author, she might have well-read on research basis. But you never know....it's not as if....she's gonna say I'm a practitioner.

Do you remember the URL? Could always try, archive.org..... it might have been archived there.

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posted May 17, 2015 06:24 PM            

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The site no longer exists (down by 2003) and the creator of the site is dead.

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Originally posted by astra7:
Knowledge doesn't mean she's a practitioner

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Check out what I'd said in parenthesis.

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posted May 17, 2015 08:02 PM            

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Knowledge doesn't mean she's a practitioner.

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Right. I doubt she is. Maybe an astrologist, probably not an astrologer.

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posted May 17, 2015 09:31 PM            

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Indeed, as astra7 already said there may be an archived version of the website out there somewhere hrmmm...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_archiving

I don't know enough about it but some server likely has it logged in the bowels of its data lol

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posted May 18, 2015 02:44 AM            

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Well I'm certainly not going to sort through a billion plus Harry Potter saves in the hopes of finding something that went down over a decade ago.

Come to think of it someone else may have put something up on that since then as well. But Harry Potter is just too ubiquitous on the net (and my mind cringes thinking how much Christian Right lunacy I'd have to wade through before I got to something I was actually looking for, and who knows how many of the utterly insane HP crackfics out there would suck me in). Now if it were Dorrie the Little Witch (maybe even The Worst Witch) then maybe, as I doubt there's a lot to sort through there.

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