Potter Nonsense

Potter Nonsense

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Potter Nonsense episodes

  • Episode 23: Les Mis but with Magic

    We talk societies bucking against the Statute of Secrecy, and sex education at Hogwarts.


    Mentioned:

    Conservatives love to advocate for mass hysteria

    Wizard Oneida

    Bettina Arndt? Weirdly?

    The Snape Voice

    South Park and its associated works

    A Transition

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    53 min
  • Episode 22: 14 and Edgy AF

    Fi and Rae discuss the faults of the house system, and somehow talk a whole lot about Astrology?

    Mentioned:

    How radicalisation works

    Myers Briggs

    England hasn’t really changed culturally for 1000 years

    Downton Downunder

    Damsels in Disney

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    1 hr 1 min
  • Episode 21: The Snapening

    Part 2 of 2.  Alice has some stuff to say about Count Olaf, Fi reveals her most hated popular canon-bending fanon, and we discuss the worst spell in the series.  We ended up with 12 distinct terrible Snape things but we may have miscounted.

    Mentioned:

    Invasive species in Australia

    Schoolies

    No ethical consumption under capitalism

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    Find Alice on her Instagram

    1 hr 7 min
  • Episode 20: The Snapisode

    The moment everyone was waiting for, part 1 of the dedicated Severus Snape episode, with Alice returning as our guest.  We begin with Snape's decision to bully children as a man in his 30s.

    Spoilers for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker begin at 29:20 and end at 30:05.

    Mentioned:

    Littlefinger and Sansa

    Listening to your own podcasts

    Kylo Ren is Space Snape

    Explanations ≠ Excuses

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    Find Alice on her Instagram

    51 min
  • Episode 19: Say You Wear Bonds Underwear

    Fashion in the wizarding world!  What do wizards wear under their robes?  Why does Molly Weasley even make jumpers?  Tattoos???

    Mentioned:

    We want self altering clothing

    The 30 year fashion cycle

    Emma 2020

    Much Ado About Nothing 1993

    Nick Kyrgios' getting fired from bonds

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    1 hr 5 min
  • Episode 18: If you can catch a hippo, you deserve to eat it

    We talk veganism in the wizarding world with Alice, Special Guest Vegan and Sword-Distributing Watery Bint.

    Mentioned:

    How bees work

    Escaped animal stories

    Making stuff taste like salmon

    Malfoy family nonsense

    Dumbledore, Yoda and Professor X have a tea party

    West Ham United vs Sumos

    Sneaking dogs into Hogwarts

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    1 hr 26 min
  • Episode 17: Baby's First Feminism

    The Many Missions of Hermione Granger: rights for sapient creatures, education, maybe ending the International Statute of Secrecy?  All the establishment-frustrating stuff that would prevent her from becoming Minister for Magic.

    Featuring:

    Two white Australians awkwardly discussing slavery again

    More Tudor Era discourse

    Witch and werewolf hunts, vampire panics

    Rae missed her calling as a contortionist

    A neurological explanation for why this podcast is the way that it is

    Fanfiction corner

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    58 min
  • Episode 16: Splinch the Baby

    Lily Potter deserved better from the books, the movies, and honestly from this episode where Rae and Fi went on the most tangents we've ever been on.

    Mentioned:

    • The Munchverse

    • This picture of the Slug Club

    • Henry Cavill, Keanu Reeves and Christian Bale, for some reason

    • The Underworld series

    • Open Plan Housing

    • Hatpin Stabbings

    • All the other mums failed by fiction

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      1 hr 7 min
    • Episode 15: Spelunking?

      Fi and Rae speculate on what happens in the classes we don't get to see at Hogwarts.  Detours include: Creatures who are reproductively compatible with humans, our own fun ancestry, a brief trip to the Renaissance, and the fact that Professor Binns should be fired.

      Content warning for references to real world slavery.

      Mentioned:

      • Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor's unfortunate Habsburg Chin
      • Podcast rec: Tudor I Hardly Know Her
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        1 hr 19 min

      About Potter Nonsense

      From the publisher's feed

      Fi and Rae are two friends for whom Harry Potter began their love of reading. Now they're taking their questions about the Wizarding World to a more public forum.