The Three Broomsticks

Grab a butterbeer and think about what if... Join Karoline, Sophia, and our guest Matthew as they philosophize about the differences in girl's and boy's upbringing in the wizarding world.

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In this episode:

• Fanfiction informs culture
• The inevitable demise of Cedric Diggory
• The gender-specific nuances of Dursley-abuse
• Would female Harry have done better at school?
• Harrietta and Ginny <3
• Looks change everything for Snape
• A little bit of Hagrid bashing
• Gender swapping Fleur turns into Lockhart
• Archetypes with fixed genders
• Polyjuice potion transitioning variation

Resources:

• Harry Potter and the Social Construct. Does Gender-Swap Fanfiction Show Us That We Need to Re-consider Gender Within Children's Literature? by Harry Oulton
• Nine Contradictory Observations About Girls' and Boys' Upbringing and Education – The Strength-Based Approach as the Way to Eliminate the Gender Gap by Kaarina Määttä & Satu Uusiautti
• Why boys achieve less at school than girls: the difference between boys' and girls' academic culture by Mieke Van Houtt

Contact:

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Grab a butterbeer and fantasize about the only cup you're not supposed to drink out of: Join Ev, Irvin, Taavi, and our special guest Natalie Candido as they discuss Chapter 12 of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - "The Triwizard Tournament"!

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In this episode:

• Why do we have a Sorting in Goblet of Fire?
• McGonagall hazes first years worse than Peeves
• Violence against geese!
• All aboard the vomit comet!
• Dennis's dreams are coming true!
• What's the point of Dennis Creevey?
• The woes of losing your favorite ruff
• We figure out what Dean Thomas's career will be
• You can't cancel Quidditch!

Voldemort: The Definitive Study of Tom Riddle-the Man Who Would Become "He Who Must Not Be Named" by Grace Candido-Beecher (available in all* bookstores)

Pub's Jukebox:

• The Sorting Hat by RiddleTM

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Grab your favourite summer-drink to face the unusal convergence of stuffy weather and dementors at Privet Drive: Join DJ, Karoline, Taavi, and our guest Lane as they discuss Chapter 1 of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - "Dudley Demented"!

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In this episode:

• Everyone is bored…
• The privilege of living like the Dursleys
• Dumbledore is the real villain, or is it Umbridge, or Skeeter?
• Whispers in Fudge's ear
• Dudley's greatest piglike fear
• Voldemort's most boring Privet Drive Dreams
• Petunia and Vernon - the perfect couple <3
• The little horcrux-truffle dementor-pig
• Umbridge is so relatable!
• The duality of cat ladies

Resources:

• Umbridge had one power that no other Harry Potter villians could use by Tom Beasley
• Manipulative/Morally Grey Dumbledore by Wisteria Lodge
• Bloomsbury Web Chat Transcript by The-Leaky-Cauldron.org

For more from our guest Lane:

• lanearoo on Instagram
• shunstanpike on Tumblr
• lanearoo on AO3
• Starside Comic Book Series
• Starside on Instagram

Pub's Jukebox:

• I Hate Harry Potter by The Dudley Dursleys (aka The Hinky Punks)

Contact:

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Take one last sip of your wit-sharpening potion and open your copy of Advanced Potion-Making : Join as Ev, Irvin, Karoline, and our guest Gilad wrap up the discussion after half a year of potions.

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In this episode:

• We're saving lives and teaching punctuation
• Lucy Pevensie has a bottle of dittany
• Madam Pomfrey is using magical essential oils
• Snape is counting on a disastrous potion to cure boils
• The many uses of hair-raising potions
• Per our guest, Draco is absolutely correct
• What is everlasting with an everlasting elixir?
• Some deeply unimpressed muggle-borns
• We figure out what a Scintillating Solution does
• The Skele-Gro Scandal of 1978

Resources:

• Episodes 82-89 in our Potions series
• Episode 90 Part 1 of Major Potions (The Classical Period of Magic)
• Episode 92 Part 2 of Major Potions (Skele-Gro is the Next Fad Diet)
• Potions by Pottermore

Pub's Jukebox:

• Amortentia by Split Seven Ways

Contact:

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Grab your quill as it is time for remedial potions: Follow along as Ev, Irvin, Karoline, and our guest Gilad accidentally drink a pint of Babbling Beverage, condemning them to endless chatter.

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In this episode:

• We want Ron to suffer but be happy about it
• Karoline goes down a rabies hole
• Our tadpole knowledge is severely lacking
• How was Aunt Marge deflated?
• Swelling Solution is magical botox
• We become a philosophy podcast and discuss immortality
• The potion for an ethical vampire society
• Steam the germs away
• The potion to up one's pep

Resources:

• Episodes 82-89 in our Potions series
• Episode 90 Part 1 of Major Potions (The Classical Period of Magic)
• Potions by Pottermore

Contact:

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Join hosts Ev, Irvin, and Sophia, as well as special guests Dr. Beatrice Grove, Dr. Louise Freeman, and Nick Jeffrey, as they discuss the parallels between Cuckoo's Calling from the Cormoran Strike series and Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.

Please be warned that there will be spoilers for the Cormoran Strike books in this episode, up to and including Hallmarked Man.

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In this episode:

• Where is the Strike rock scene? What would the bands be called?
• Leda's love is a more psychologically complex version of Lily's
• You can come of age at any age!
• Strike is our Hagrid here, not just because he's hairy.
• We all find where we belong on Charing Cross Road
• Does John have a Dark Lord in the back of his head?
• Tony was madly in love with Leda Strike
• Who is notably toxic to beef?
• Read what the stars are telling us!
• We're looking forward to the Battle of Denmark Street

Resources:

• The Psychopaths - Bristow, Riddle, and Crouch by Irvin
• Reverse Alchemy in HP and Strike:
  • The Connection of Ring Composition and Literary Alchemy in the Layout of the Seven Book Harry Potter Series by William Sprague
  • The Chiastic Structure of Harry Potter by Joe Thacker
  • Robin Ellacott and Reverse Alchemy: Transformation Through the First Three Strike Texts by Louise Freeman
• Cormoran Strike and the Itch That Cannot Be Scratched by Louise Freeman
• Strike-Potter Parallels: Cuckoo & Stone by John Granger
• Literary Allusion in Cuckoo's Calling:
  • Part 1: Christina Rossetti's "A Dirge" by Beatrice Groves
  • Part 2: Tennyson's "Ulysses" by Beatrice Groves
• Handfasting in "The Cuckoo's Calling" and "Harry Potter": A Discovery of a Walt Whitman Poem? by Beatrice Groves

For more from our guests:

• Louise Freeman:
  • @lmf3b on Twitter
  • Doc Thelma on Reddit
  • The Farting Sofa Faculty Lounge
  • The Harry Potter Academic Conference
  • Queen City Magic
• Beatrice Groves:
  • @beatricegroves1 on Twitter
  • Beatrice Groves on MuggleNet
  • Beatrice Groves on Hogwarts Professor
  • Potterversity Essays Exploring the World of Harry Potter
• Nick Jefferey:
  • @gbjeffen on Twitter
  • Nick Jeffrey on Hogwarts Professor
  • Nick Jeffrey on Substack

Contact:

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Grab your favourite potions book and start brewing: Follow along as Ev, Irvin, Karoline, and our guest Gilad bottle fame, brew glory, and even put a stopper in death.

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In this episode:

• Bacon is the essence of an Irvin sandwich
• The age-old question: how are wizards okay with love potions?
• How do you keep your mind during werewolf transformations?
• How do you spritz a restorative draught?
• Aging Potions would be a doctor's best diagnostic tool
• Voldemort side-quest as a farmer
• Ev's grandma and Voldemort have so much in common!
• Voldemort has to do something a little bit extra
• It's so exciting for Voldemort to touch Harry!

Resources:

• Episodes 82-89 in our Potions series
• Episode 64 on the topic of Disbelieved Deaths
• Potions by Pottermore

Pub's Jukebox:

• "Potions Yesterday" by Draco and the Malfoys

Contact:

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Chug your pumpkin juice and let's win that Quidditch match! Join as Karoline, Sophia, Taavi, and our guest Ella discuss Chapter 14 of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince: Felix Felicis!

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In this episode:

• The romantic drama of the chapter splits our panel
• An in-depth enumeration of all the ways Ron sucks
• Harry is a bad friend
• Hermione doesn't get enough credit for her Quidditch passion
• Ginny tells the whole castle that Ron makes out with his aunt
• Viktor Krum's Quidditch prowess lives rent-free in Ron's head
• WON WON!!
• Ron's Inauguration into the Society of Filthy Hippogryffs
• Would Felix Felicis make a good anxiety medication?

For more from our guest Ella:

• @ellaheipt on Instagram

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Grab your drink but remember to only have a little sip: Join Ev, Irvin, Taavi and our guest Margarete as they get giddy, reckless, and dangerously overconfident while discussing the most curious little potion called Felix Felicis.

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In this episode:

• Potions affect yourself, as opposed to all other magic that can affect others
• Somehow, it's all Percy's fault
• Can a potion be omniscient?
• Do we trust men named Zugmunt?
• Do Slughorn's memories have an Autorecover feature?
• Felix Felicis makes drinkers act OOC
• Everybody hates moral philosophers
• How did Slughorn get the Felix Felicis?
• Was Snape swigging some Felix?
• How much coffee is a reasonable amount of coffee?

Resources:

• Felix Felicis from the HP Lexicon
• Felix Felicis: Understanding Snape's Innocence by Brianna Leigh Woell
• Snape's Lucky Escape: Did the Felix Felicis Potion Really Fail? by Christy Morley
• Fantastic Potions and How They Helped Albus Dumbledore in HBP by Felicitys_mind
• Felix Felicis series at MuggleNet by Irvin Khaytman:
  • Part 1: Felix's Helping Hand
  • Part 2: Free Will and Felix
  • Part 3: How Felix Works
  • Part 4: Conversing with Slughorn
  • Part 5: Fight with the Fat Lady
  • Part 6: The Felix-Struck Tower

Pub's Jukebox:

• "Felix Felicis" by Hawhtorn & Holly
• "Felix Felicis" by Harry and the Potters

Contact:

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Grab a tea and a cough drop so you can get through your villain monologue without losing your voice: Join Irvin, Karoline, Sophia and our guest Lizzie as they finish their discussion of Chapter 35 of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - "Veritaserum"!

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In this episode:

• How did Voldemort get through his villain monologue without a water bottle?
• What is the Dark Order and who believes in it?
• When do dementors dig graves for prisoners?
• The ultimate Daddy Issues episode
• Whose Voldy obsession is superlative?
• Humanizing our villains through sport
• Why is Barty Crouch Sr. turned into a bone?
• Playing fetch with Bartz Crouch Sr.
• Lupin's highly creative storytelling

Resources:

• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Sevens by Irvin Khaytman
• The Fallen Fathers of Goblet of Fire by Irvin Khaytman
• The Schemes Behind the Spite: Why Voldemort Really Jinxed the DADA Job by Sophia Jenkins
• Dumbledore: The Life and Lies by Irvin Khaytman

Contact:

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