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The Christmas Charm Bracelet of Strike 9 Clues (Part One)
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Summary
On 23 December last year, Rowling changed her Twixter home page header and cameo with this tweeted explanation : The Charm Bracelet header features thirteen charms on nine links: Rowling tweeted an addendum about the Psalter and Jack in the Box charms: Nick Jeffery dropped an explanatory post two days later at the Hogwarts Professor weblog: J. K. Rowling Drops All the Strike 9 Clues for Christmas! It remains the only complete survey of the pieces and compendium of what Serious Strikers around the world have discovered about them. Beatrice Groves, author of Literary Allusion in Harry Potter , wrote up her charm bracelet thoughts at ‘The Strike Ellacott Files’ a month later. In ‘ Charms, Psalms & Golden Clues: A brace(let) of clues for Strike 9 ,’ Prof Groves discusses the magical quality of charms as talismans and even incantational song: Rowling points out in this 2013 piece the link between the name given to charm bracelets and the magical world: ‘Why do we call those little masterpieces “charms” if not in allusion to their talismanic properties?… they are personal amulets.’ To charm someone is also to slightly to bewitch them, something Rowling plays with when Riddle exerts his charm on Ginny and literally possesses her: ‘If I say it myself, Harry, I’ve always been able to charm the people I needed.’ Witch Weekly’s Most-Charming-Smile Award is given to a smile that is both literally, as well as metaphorically, bewitching. The word ‘charm’ comes, through French, from the Latin ‘ carmen ’ which means ‘song, verse, oracular response, incantation.’ Its first meaning in English, therefore, was the magical one: ‘the chanting or recitation of a verse supposed to possess magic power or occult influence; incantation, enchantment; hence, any action, process, verse, sentence, w…