Prof Responds: Seamus Finnigan- The Boy Who trusted his Mom
In this Prof Responds episode, Professor Julian Wamble returns to Seamus Finnigan to sit with what the Critical Magic Theory community had to say. Listeners dig into three themes: the machinery of Iri...
27 Mai 55min
Seamus Finnigan & the Making of "Irish McIreland"
What does it mean that the number one word listeners used to describe Seamus Finnigan was Irish? In Critical Magic Theory history, no character has ever been described by their nationality before. Tha...
20 Mai 1h 13min
Prof Responds: D.A.D.A, Power, and the Politics of Fear
Professor Julian Wamble returns to the Defense Against the Dark Arts bonus episode with listener responses from Patreon, Discord, and Spotify. Three threads drive the conversation: whether Dumbledore ...
13 Mai 54min
Defense Against the What???
In this episode on Hogwarts courses, Professor Julian Wamble takes on Defense Against the Dark Arts and finds more to critique than expected. The central argument: DADA was never really about defense....
6 Mai 1h 7min
Prof Responds: Dean Thomas- An Unnecessary Digression?
In this Prof Responds episode, listeners push back, go deeper, and make the case for Dean Thomas with everything they have. The conversation spans four major threads: Dean's remarkable ability to hold...
29 Apr 1h 13min
Dean Thomas: We're Fighting Aren't We?
This IS a Dean Thomas episode, and, if I do say so myself, it delivers. From his quiet refusal to jettison his Muggle identity in a world pressuring him to assimilate, to his year on the run without p...
22 Apr 1h 13min
Prof Responds: What's Missing from the Tale of Padma and Parvati Patil?
In this Prof Responds episode, Professor Julian Wamble returns to Parvati and Padma Patil with the material the original episode didn't have time for, the full Weasley comparison, the backstory invent...
15 Apr 59min
The Double Disappearing Act of Parvati and Padma Patil
In this episode, Professor Julian Wamble traces the Patil twins from Philosopher's Stone through the Battle of Hogwarts, examining what the series gives them and what it withholds. From the Yule Ball'...
8 Apr 1h 6min
