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This is a re-run of a popular November 2006 article because of the imminent arrival of the movie this week of the Half Blood Prince. The article was written before the publishing of the last book in 2007 and I have left the speculations in that I made at the time.

Any magician can use the material in the Harry Potter books, though the visual results are not Hollywood fireworks but changes of conscious state, which is the aim of spells. Here we go.

June brides were a pop song cliché when I was young. But it wasn’t just because June rhymed with Moon. It is a very ancient custom. People tended to get married in June for centuries because in the old days when Beltane was celebrated as the beginning of summer in May, that month was the month in which the god and goddess were wed and conceived the divine child to be born at Yule, nine months later. (See my posting Hooray! Hooray! The first of May…Beltane 4/27/2007).

Every pagan knows about that connection. People then didn’t want to compete with the deities, and marry in May, bad luck at least and great misfortune at worst. So they waited until June to follow the marriage example. And June 21, the Summer Solstice was treated by them as Midsummer, not the beginning of summer.

In November 2005 I posted a blog entry entitled Become a Magician in which I outlined a simple method that practicing magicians could use to make their "spells" more effective. It’s in the archives. Since a year has gone by and the last Harry Potter book is apparently scheduled for release on 7/7/07, a neat nod to Crowley’s book, 777, I thought to add a little to that posting and a few further hints on the matter of using dog Latin for your spells.