This episode, your hosts discuss the concept of wandless magic and how it relates to the themes of positive and negative emotion in the series, as well as the shifting power dynamics in the Dursley household and Harry’s development into a more emotional pubescent character.

Your hosts return with the first episode of Season Three of the show! We introduce Prisoner of Azkaban and talk a bit about its place within the overall Harry Potter canon, as well as continuing our ongoing discussion of Rowling’s book-by-book improvement in her first chapters and the way she writes exposition.

The hosts give a thorough breakdown of what Dumbledore realizes from Harry's encounter with the Diary, as well as contrasting the drastically different tone of this chapter from the last one, and wrapping up the second season of the show.

In this extra-long episode featuring special guest Conor Crockford of The Barn: a podcast about The Shield, the hosts discuss the monster-character of Memory-Riddle, horcruxes, agency, and with a special focus on how Rowling uses horror archetypes to capture the excitement of this climactic chapter.

Apologies for the several-week delay on this episode; we’ll be back to our normal schedule now. Your hosts break down the concept of memory removal as it is used in the Harry Potter series, and what effect that magic has on society in general and the character study of Gilderoy Lockhart in particular.

Your hosts discuss Harry and Ron’s journey into a spider pit and how the whole chapter is written like a bad dream.

In this episode, your hosts look at the exit from the story of three major characters, and why this had to happen when it did.

Your hosts break down the central object of importance in this mystery novel, and also attempt to discredit the memory that T.M.Riddle shows Harry.

In which Dumbledore and Harry say nothing to each other, and Harry and Ron become body-snatchers.

Your hosts break down the fiasco of Lockhart hosting a dueling club meeting, as well as the next attack on a student and how the book is starting to take on the feeling of a horror novel, written for a young audience.