# Blood! The Crimson Thread

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Podcast: [Rowling Studies The Hogwarts Professor Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/rowling-studies-the-hogwarts-professor-podcast-6739232)
Published: 2026-01-12T09:20:40+00:00
Episode link: https://hogwartsprofessor.substack.com/p/blood-the-crimson-thread
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Nick is joined by John Granger and special guest star Guido in their temporary headquarters as they await the move to Granger Towers. We discuss the revelation that J. K. Rowling has an inherited blood clotting disorder, and speculate that this could be von Willebrand Disease, and discuss what this could mean for a Golden Thread that John first explored more than five years ago. Nick surveys the instances of blood in all her published work, and John identifies a theme that Nick has missed - the Eucharist. Could this be the key to understanding the final narrative arch of the Strike series? Links Discussed in this Episode: The revelation of J. K. Rowling’s condition: https://www.hogwartsprofessor.com/j-k-rowling-and-the-roy-phipps-connection/ John discusses the Golden Thread on the Reading Writing Rowling Podcast in 2020. https://audioboom.com/posts/7566531-episode-37-troubled-blood-and-the-faerie-queene-strike-5 John Granger’s book How Harry Cast his Spell exploring the Christian content and meaning in Harry Potter . https://www.amazon.com/How-Harry-Cast-His-Spell/dp/1414321880 John’s visit to Denmark Street and St Giles-in-the-Fields in 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20171130161236/https://www.hogwartsprofessor.com/visiting-cormoran-strikes-pub-and-denmark-street-premises-in-london/ Victor Turner - Colour Classification in Ndembu Ritual (1966) https://gwern.net/doc/psychology/vision/1966-turner.pdf The Blood Survey: Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone The word “Blood” appears 33 times. dragon’s blood The Bloody Baron Harry thought Flint looked as if he had some troll blood in him. One book had a dark stain on it that looked horribly like blood. That’s unicorn blood. It put its hand into its pocket and pulled out a blood-red stone. Harry Potter and the Chamber…

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