DVD cover of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone film adaptation.

In 1997, J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series, about sorcery and witchcraft, was launched and it has been published for ten years [June, 1997 - July, 2007], As of June 2008, the book series sold more than 400 million copies and has been translated into 67 languages.

Rowling's last four books have consecutively set records as the fastest-selling books in history.

Movie adaptations of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series have been drawing teens to movie theaters since November, 2001 and will continue to 2011 when Part 2 of Rowling's last book will be released

After learning that invisible entities manipulated Aleister Crowley with unexplained career setbacks -- to make sure he promoted The Book of the Law, it made me realize entities can also manipulate corporations, the media, government and academia. There is probably no limit to the amount of manipulation that is possible.

Murky Plots in Teen Books
Because I work in book publishing, I have always wondered why the best selling teen book of all time is a book about sorcery. J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series is not the first teen book with a dark theme. Murky plots have dominated teen book covers for many years.

In 1992, I worked as a network and software applications troubleshooter for Simon & Schuster's 160 graphic designers in New York's Rockefeller Center.

One day when I was in Junior Books, I looked at the book covers of new books and every one of them had blood in the cover illustrations. I remember asking, "Why does the artwork on every cover have blood?" No one knew.

Hermes Bust in Rowling's Room
When Rowling completed the last book in the Harry Potter series, she was staying at the Balmoral Hotel in Edinburgh, Scotland [image below the bust of Hermes]. On January 11, 2007, she wrote the following message on a marble bust of Hermes in her room:

J. K. Rowling finished writing Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows in this room (652) on 11 January 2007.

When fans found out about the message that Rowling had left in her room, the Harry Potter message boards and Blog sites lit up with discussions about "Hermes."

Reptilian "gods" Have Multiple Identities
In my note on 3/4/10, I mentioned that Hermes is the Greek persona of Thoth, son of ENKI. Thoth is this Reptilian's Egyptian name, Mercury is his Roman name and Quetzalcoatl is his Central American name.

ENKI's family members have multiple identities. Hermes was Zeus' son making Zeus and ENKI the same person.

Multi-national identities of Reptilian [criminals/geneticists/eugenicists] gets confusing. Here's a list:

Thoth [Egypt, son] is also known as:

• Hermes [Greece]
• Quetzalcoatl [Central America]
• Mercury [Rome]

• Zeus [Greece]
• Satan [nickname shared with his brother ENLIL]

The stone carving of Hermes is most likely in the Balmoral Hotel because the Thoth-Hermes temple of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn is located in Edinburgh, Scotland.

J.K. Rowling Moved to Edinburgh
I've read J.K. Rowling's biography a couple of times and I remember that she wrote the Harry Potter books in England. Her Wikipedia biography says that she now lives in Edinburgh, Scotland.

My note about Aleister Crowley explains that the "inner order" of the Golden Dawn is called Argenteum Astrum, also the name of an order founded by Crowley, meaning "Order of the Silver Star" -- silver star referring to Sirius. We'll never know if J.K. Rowling is an initiate of the "Golden Dawn" or, if she's been admitted to the "inner order" of the "silver star" [these are secret orders].

Satirical Article About Children
In 2001, New York's The Onion, an American spoof newspaper that satirizes pop culture phenomena, published an article entitled "Harry Potter Sparks Rise in Satanism Among Children" [image at right]. The satirical article said, with implied irony, that the "High Priest of Satanism" had described Harry Potter as "an absolute godsend to our cause".

Satanism does appear to be popular among children [and adults]. When the word "Satan" is typed into the Search field at Yahoo Groups, 2,344 groups are returned. The first one on the list is called, "Teens4Satan." If Scholastic has sold 400 million Harry Potter books that have been translated into 67 languages, their book marketing effort has been very thorough.

J.K. Rowling: One Third of the Spells Are Real
In his book, Harry Potter and the Bible: The Menace Behind the Magick, author Richard Abanes, an award-winning author who specializes in socio-religious issues, cults, the occult, world religions, and the entertainment industry, says that during a 1999 interview, Rowling admitted that she studied mythology and witchcraft in order to write her books more accurately, stating:

I do a certain amount of research. And folklore is quite important in books. So where I'm mentioning a creature, or a spell that people used to believe genuinely worked -- of course, it didn't -- then, I will find out exactly what the words were, and I will find out exactly what the characteristics of that creature or ghost were supposed to be."

Spells in Harry Potter
A Wikipedia list contains 139 incantation spells [those read aloud] from the Harry Potter series. The list does not include non-verbal spells for "advanced adult practitioners" of magic that were introduced in J.K. Rowling's sixth book, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.

I wondered about the Avada Kedavra spell shown in The Onion photograph. The entry next to "Suggested etymology" [history/origin of a word] on the Wikipedia page says:

During an audience interview at the Edinburgh Book Festival (15 April 2004) Rowling said: "Does anyone know where avada kedavra came from? It is an ancient spell in Aramaic, and it is the original of abracadabra, which means 'let the thing be destroyed.' Originally, it was used to cure illness and the 'thing' was the illness, but I decided to make it the 'thing' as in the person standing in front of me. I take a lot of liberties with things like that. I twist them round and make them mine."

Beneath a paragraph that says that the incantation was first used by a physician named Serenus Sammonicus in the 2nd century, there's a image of an graphic that Sammonicus told patients to wear to free themselves of disease.

Patients were instructed to wear an amulet containing the word abracadabra written in the form of an inverted triangle. In my note about Aleister Crowley, I added a Web image of the cover of the Lam Statement and a link to a religious forum that explains that an inverted triangle refers to Satan.

British Bloggers Call Rowling "Spooky"
Three bloggers based in the United Kingdom [UK], "Nona", "aangirfan," and "Scotland", all published an April, 2009 story calling J.K. Rowling "spooky."

The bloggers also name British Prime Minister Gordon Brown [as of June, 2007] as a spooky person. J.K. Rowling and Gordon Brown are both linked to a missing 3 year-old named Madeleine McCann. Madeleine, who has been missing since May, 2007, is still missing.

The blogs link to a British site called "The Sergeant's Inn" where a fourth blogger refers to J.K. Rowling's and Gordon Brown's response to the missing child "commercial and political profiteering."

J.K. Rowling gave donation to a "Find Madeleine" campaign [which includes the child's photo on bookmarks for her books] and the London Times reported that Gordon Brown contacted Kate and Gerry Brown, Madeleine's parents, shortly after Madeleine disappeared [Madeleine disappeared in May, 2007 and Gordon Brown became Prime Minister in June, 2007, after Tony Blair resigned].

The blogs say that the J.K. Rowling is a "very close friend of Gordon Brown and his wife Sarah."

Mircochipping Children
The "Find Madeleine" campaign may have been a manipulation with a goal to microchip school children.

By November, 2007, schools in Britain began microchipping school children with badges sewn on their school uniforms. A story in Britain's Daily Mail says that the chips "trace a pupil's every step during the school day." Teachers have been given hand scanners to identify children [see photo].

Spooky Thread Gets Spookier
The "spooky" thread in the blogs gets spookier and the path eventually leads to Aleister Crowley. The bloggers say that J.K. Rowling's favorite children's author is Edith Nesbit, an English author and poet whose children's works were published under the name of E. Nesbit [1858-1924].

Edith Nesbit was a political activist, a co-founder of the Fabian Society and a member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn at the same time Aleister Crowley was a member.

Note: Edith Nesbit's married name was Bland and the Fabian Society that she founded with her husband, was named after their son Fabian. The Fabian Society, formed in 1884, was a precursor to Britain's Labour Party. Gordon Brown is the current leader of the Labour Party.

The Fabian Society wants people to know how popular J.K. Rowling is with UK residents. A Fabian Society poll, conducted in 2005, revealed that 55 percent of the 2,500 surveyed said they would like to name J.K. Rowling as their new monarch.

Connections Between Harry Potter and Aleister Crowley
The bloggers see the following connections between the Harry Potter franchise -- and Aleister Crowley:

• Harry's Discovery, Age 11
  In the first Harry Potter book, Harry discovers he is a wizard at the age of eleven. The bloggers say Aleister Crowley and Edith Nesbit both discovered their "true identities" at age 11 and ask, " ...Is Lord Voldemort based on Aleister Crowley (1875-1947)? [Note: In the Harry Potter stories, Lord Voldemort is the the most powerful dark wizard of all time].

• Hogwarts School and the Golden Dawn
  According to the bloggers, real life Fabian Society members moonlighted as members of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn [many were also members of the Theosophical Society]. They say Edith Nesbit "held court" at the Golden Dawn.

• Bellatrix LeStrange Character
  J.K. Rowling's Bellatrix LeStrange character from The Order of the Phoenix has a name that is similar to a character named Beatrice Lestrange Bradley created by detective writer Gladys Mitchell.

  The bloggers say Mitchell was introduced to demonology by her friend Helen de Guerry Simpson [1897-1940]. They also explain the significance of the number 93 which is tatooed on the back of the Bellatrix LeStrange character in The Order of the Phoenix film:

  • Bellatrix Lestrange, played by Helena Bonham-Carter, has the prison number '93' tatooed on the back of her neck.

  • The number 93 is related to the religion of Thelema, created by Aleister Crowley in 1904 -- with the writing of The Book of the Law.

  • Crowley's former home on Loch Ness, Boleskine House, is reputed to lie on the '93 Current' energy line."

• Grimmauld Pl., address, The Order Of The Phoenix
  J.K. Rowling's use of the street name, Grimmauld Place, may refer to Carolingian king Grimoald who overthrew the Merovingian dynasty in the 700s [Carolingian and Merovingian dynasties were both branches of Freemasonry that later became one].

  A Web article titled, "The Sumerian Origins of the Iconography of the Templars, Masons and Merovingians" displays a pentagram used to refer to Merovingian Kings in Sumerian writings.

• Cassandra Vablatsky, tribute to Mme. Blavatsky
  In the Harry Potter stories, Cassandra Vablatsky is the author of the Hogwarts textbook. According to the bloggers, Aleister Crowley considered Madame Blavatsky to be a "profound inspiration."

  The bloggers also say that Madame Blavatsky, who founded the Theosopical Society, wore an "'Eastern Star Emblem" most of her life as a sign of respect to the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry.

  [Note: while putting this page together, I stumbled on several Web sites that say James Cameron is a 33rd degree Freemason. His second wife, Gale Anne Hurd, was a member of the Order of the Eastern Star [a female Freemasonic society].

She is distressed that Harry Potter vocabulary words such as "Azkaban", "Circe", "Draco", "Erised", "Hermes", and "Slytherin" are all real.

Her letter seems to be taken off an original server, but a Bible group has added it to their server.

At the time that the letter was written, 200 million Harry Potter books had been sold. As I've mentioned in this note, that number eventually doubled. Movies and video games have expanded the Harry Potter franchise even further -- gathering fans until 2011.

Mary Jo