"In my fantasies, there's an alternate universe in which Snape, after this disgraceful performance of a first day of Potions class, gets disciplined, and there's a headmaster saying, "You can't do that. You're on probation." And then there's the universe we live in, where real teachers really act like that. That's what this story's about, not what should have been but what we know sometimes happens." - Lorrie Kim, Ep. 1.8

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“Lily's child comes to school, and he is runty and starved and abused, and we later find out he's prone to headaches. Oh, this is not good. Somebody's got a guilty conscience for a very good reason, and this is going to be his job from now until Harry graduates or Voldemort kills him, whichever comes first.” - Lorrie Kim, Ep. 1.7

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"Are you so important that you're acclaimed as part of the whole culture’s story? That is a level of emotional importance and cultural identity that is beyond whether you win things or you're president or whatever. Ron is going to be on a chocolate frog card. He is going to be the most successful of Molly's children." - Lorrie Kim, Ep 1.6

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“Ollivander won't rest until he finds your magic. You'll know it when you feel it, and sometimes it's not about things you've accomplished or powers you have, but about your hopes and your potential. This is, to me, the core value of this entire series: you matter. Your inner self matters. There is a true inner self. That's what magic is.” - Lorrie Kim, Ep 1.5

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“He's an in-between character; he is partly wild nature and partly culture. He'll wear a suit, but it'll be horrible brown fur; he'll eat and drink, but the plates and cups are enormous; and he is half qualified, he's half magical.” - Lorrie Kim

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"The fatphobia felt different. It felt personal, and easily – instantly  identified and rejected by the majority. To me, the fandom collective response to it serves as a pre-existing, very good and healthy template for how to deal with other offensive areas in the story if you're still going to extract the things that are valuable." - Lorrie Kim, Ep. 1.2

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"I feel pretty strongly that -- at least for me and probably for other people, too -- the solution is not simply to cut loose, abandon, and leave, because there's me in there. All the associations with this series, some of it I want to go retrieve. That's mine. I'm going to go in and get it, and I'm going to see which parts of it are mine and which parts I'm going to just rinse off. Also, there's information there for me. Remembering what things were like, noticing what has changed, becoming conscious of it: that's power. I don't want to forget. The specifics of encoding memory with fiction are so detailed; that's empowering. It can help you remember.” – Lorrie Kim, Ep 1.1

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"The world is so different now than it was when I first read these books. 2020 is such a marker. There's a before 2020 and then there's after 2020 in our world, right? I'm curious to see: will I be able to enjoy this? Will I be able to engage with this again in a way that feels okay to me?" - JC, Ep. 1.0

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