For the majority of Episode 25, Steve and Nick puzzle over the topic of Horcruxes, and more particularly how they are created and when Voldemort created each of his Horcruxes.  Listen in as we end up with more questions at the end then we had at the beginning.  We are back to audio only this week, but stay tuned, more Video podcasts will be coming soon.

Having a Beastly day… pic.twitter.com/xRGCC9gt3B

— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) February 27, 2017

In writer's room at film studio. How wonderful is this typewriter, provided by the props dept? pic.twitter.com/hEEauZ1LPH

— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) February 28, 2017

Next month we will give away this lovely White Gold and CZ MACUSA Key necklace from kingice.com to one of our patreon subscribers, so become one of our patrons and you can win this lovely key.

King Ice has a bunch of other Fantastic Beasts jewelry, one of them is this pendant, and neither Steve nor Nick has any idea what this MACUSA symbol is, represents or comes from. If you know what this symbol is, please let us know down in the Pensieve.

Do you think that the murder has to be premeditated, and would Harry have become a Horcrux if Voldemort hadn’t been planning on making a horcrux from his murder?

Let us know your answer to this (or any of your other thoughts about Horcruxes) in the Pensieve below and we’ll be sure and keep this discussion going.

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Episode 24 is a little different than usual, it is actually 2 mini-episodes put into 1 (mostly because after recording the first J.K. Rowling’s Wizarding World Loot Crate crate unboxing, I was so busy I didn’t have time to actually edit and post it).

As such, the second Wizarding World Crate came before I ever managed to post the first one.  When the second Wizarding World crate came in, we were unable to arrange a time with Steve to record so we recorded it ourselves.

Loot Crate’s Wizarding World crate is great, containing a ton of exclusive Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts collectibles.  Take a look at our unboxing of the first two crates and then if you want your own J.K. Rowling’s Wizarding World crate, go to lootcrate.com/hplexicon and use promo code HPLEXICON and order one.  The next crate will be themed “Hogwarts House Pride.”  When you select your crate you can declare your house and the products in this next crate will be tailored to your selected house.

Using this promo code not only saves you some money on your order, but you’ll also be supporting the Lexicon at the same time.

If you’d like to support the lexicon in other ways, be sure to visit our Support the Lexicon page.

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The week Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them came out, Lexicon Tech Wizard Nick Moline just so happened to be on a business trip. On the way home, he stopped in Texas and together Steve and Nick (along with Steve’s wife Mitzi) watched the movie together. After watching the film, they couldn’t wait to sit down and talk about it, so for their first truly live podcast —  so without having to call each other remotely over Hangouts — Episode 23 is all about Fantastic Beasts.

Those of you who haven’t seen the film yet, you can listen to the first 20 minutes of the podcast before they break down and start talking spoilers.

I won’t put the spoiler filled topics of discussion in the show notes (at least for now) but we go on for a good 40 minutes talking about various aspects of the film and what we think the rest of the franchise will include.

At the end of the podcast in the “What Struck You” segment, Steve pointed out a site where there are ambient noise audio mixes of the various Hogwarts Common Rooms.  Nick was struck by a negative Cursed Child youtube review he had watched that week but particularly by something the reviewer said starting at 25 minutes 31 seconds into the review.  The reviewer (Austin Mcconnell) said “Harry Potter books are Mystery Books disguised as Fantasy Books, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is a Time Travel Book disguised as a Harry Potter Book.”  While Nick disagrees with much of what the Reviewer had to say about Cursed Child, that statement had struck him as an interesting way to sum up what makes a Harry Potter book special.

We end by discussing what is coming up for Episode 24 of the podcast.  Episode 24 will be a video podcast (we’ve already recorded it so it’s coming real soon) where we unbox the Loot Crate Wizarding World Crate #1 “Welcome to the Wizarding World.”

If you want to get your own Loot Crate Wizarding World, be sure to use our promo code HPLEXICON at lootcrate.com/hplexicon, you’ll get $3 off your purchase and you’ll be supporting the Lexicon while you do it.

You can also support the Lexicon by supporting us on Patreon or by using our link when you shop on Amazon.  You know you want to buy a copy of the Fantastic Beasts Original Screenplay anyway, so why not support the Lexicon while you do.

One quick note about the episode.  In between the time this was recorded and now Rowling confirmed that the movie series will run through to 1945 on twitter.  During the episode we speculated that it would span that length of time, but it is no longer speculation.

Our story starts in 1926 and ends in 1945. It's just too big to fit in one movie! https://t.co/fb5GOGvTxq

— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) November 21, 2016

Thanks for listening and we’ll see you real soon on Episode 24 of the Harry Potter Lexicon Podcast.

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Episode 22 of The Harry Potter Lexicon Podcast focuses on the character of Draco Malfoy. Steve and Nick start by talking about the latest news about the upcoming Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them movie franchise, now announced to be five movies instead of three, and theorize on how far this franchise will go in the five movies.

After talking about what is new in the Wizarding World, they turn their attention to talking about Draco Malfoy. In particular, they talk about what ways Draco has matured in Cursed Child, and just what the reason for this might be. Steve and Nick disagree a bit about if Draco and Harry are friends in the 21st century or not, but they both agree that the relationship is in a very different place than it was in the 1990s.

Also during this podcast episode, Steve and Nick announce a new partnership between the Lexicon and Loot Crate. Loot Crate, the premier mystery box subscription service for Science Fiction and Fantasy fandoms, has created a new subscription just for the Wizarding World. Sign up for the Wizarding World crate or any of Loot Crate’s other great subscriptions at lootcrate.com/hplexicon using promo code HPLEXICON and you’ll get a $3 discount off the cost of your subscription. Make sure you use that promo code to get your discount and support the Lexicon at the same time.

We ended the episode with a discussion of what has “struck” us in the Wizarding World in the last week.  Nick talked about his re-listen to OP31 and how he was struck just how old Professor Marchbanks must be.  Steve talked about a youtube video he had seen recently about how difficult it was for translators to translate the Harry Potter books into other languages.  He recalled a conversation he had with one of the translators about the difficulty of translating the title to HBP3 Will and Won’t because the wordplay simply didn’t work the same way in the other language.  We’ve embedded the video below so you can watch it yourself before or after listening to this episode.

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Steve and Nick continue their discussion of Cursed Child, so here is your spoiler warning (which we didn’t quite get to mentioning until we had already been talking about cursed child quite a bit), don’t listen to this episode if you haven’t read or seen Harry Potter and the Cursed Child yet unless you don’t mind spoilers.

We managed to mostly avoid the Time Travel rabbit hole, but we did come up with an interesting theory about Divination based on what we know about Delphi.  We also spend some time discussing the way other characters are represented in Cursed Child.

In addition to talking about Cursed Child, we also spend some time going over all the new canon from Pottermore, the Pottermore Presents e-books, the MACUSA article, and the Patronus quiz.

We also talk a bit about upcoming enhancements to the Lexicon website, and we talk a little about how you can support the Lexicon.

Stay tuned for Episode 22, where we plan on focusing our conversation on the character of Draco Malfoy.

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Steve and Nick finally got a chance to sit down and talk about Cursed Child, some good, some not so good, and found it is very hard to steer away from the Time Travel rabbit hole.  So much stuff to talk about and we debate a few big issues on the story.

SPOILER WARNING: Don’t listen to this episode if you haven’t read Cursed Child yet because we are not holding back on this episode.

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On this, our second Live episode of the Harry Potter Lexicon Podcast, Steve and Nick take the viewers on a tour of the New Lexicon and show off a bit of the new unique navigation and some of the special features that we’ve put our blood, sweat and tears into.

We also took live questions from our viewers about the Lexicon and our content.

Be sure to tune into Steve’s Facebook Page this Saturday night as he live broadcasts from one of the many Cursed Child release parties.

We still released an audio version of this podcast below, but we really recommend the video version for this particular episode as we were screencasting pages of the Lexicon and then talking about them.  Check out the embedded video below, or watch the episode on Youtube.

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Episode 18 of the Harry Potter Lexicon Podcast is very special, for multiple reasons.

Tonight’s episode was a lot of fun for both of us as we got to interact with you in real time.  We are sure to do this again soon.  Canon Topics included are:

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Steve and Nick talk about live data on the new lexicon, which spawns a debate about wizarding currency.  Just how much is a Galleon “really” worth anyway?  We also try to make sense of the concept of Magical Contracts, and Nick recounts a tale of his recent visit to the new Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal Studios Hollywood((And comparing with the Hogsmeade portion of the Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal Studios Islands of Adventure in Hollywood)).

We have something extra special planned for Episode 18 and we need your help!  We are going to do Episode 18 live as a Hangouts on Air this Thursday at 9:30 pm Eastern Time, 1:30 am GMT.  Don’t worry if you can’t make it, we will still upload the episode here for everyone who can’t make it (or just wants to listen later), but if you can make it, we have a special announcement to make about the New Lexicon, and you can interact with us live.  Ask us your most challenging Canon Mysteries and we’ll try to puzzle them out.  Ask us about the new Lexicon and we’ll answer what we can.  The next episode is about you, so be sure to tune in.

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Steve introduces a new series with this episode to coincide with the new version of the Harry Potter Lexicon website, and also introduces a new co-host, Nick Moline. They discuss the new website, for which Nick is the programmer, and then delve into the mysterious Marauder’s Map, answering the age-old fan question of why <insert name here> didn’t see <insert another name here> on the map?

Be sure to join us next time when we intend to have a conversation about Wizarding Money

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