4.15: Beauxbatons and Durmstrang
Hagrid as kind of a second-class citizen in the British wizarding world he's not really part of is because of what happened when he was younger and his wand got snapped, but Madame Maxime shows you if...
26 Feb 202544min
4.14: The Unforgivable Curses
If you're the person who was a victim of one of these crimes, you do not owe the criminal your forgiveness. If somebody has tried to mind-control you, torture you, or kill you, it's not your job to fo...
19 Feb 20251h 27min
4.13: Mad-Eye Moody
This fake Moody seizes an opportunity to get on Harry's good side. Knowing the relationship or even just observing the relationship right there between Harry and Draco, to just jump in and go so over ...
12 Feb 20251h 1min
4.12: The Triwizard Tournament
The lake is rising and Dennis Creevey falls in, and then it hit me: these kids are never going to have a normal year at Hogwarts. This is the crew that will never know what it was like. Not that any o...
5 Feb 202545min
4.11: Aboard the Hogwarts Express
Lorrie: I don't know if this is an unpopular opinion or not, but I think that Lucius and Narcissa have by far the most functional marriage in this whole series. JC: I can't think of a couple that see...
29 Jan 202533min
4.10: Mayhem at the Ministry
Since I've read this book last, the whole fake news thing has arisen and we have so much disinformation online, and the way that news spreads has changed. It just hit me that I'm going to read Rita Sk...
24 Jan 202548min
8.2: Dr. Brent Satterly, aka Clitoris Umbridge
The transphobic messages communicate to especially trans youth -- but also queer and non-binary youth, LGBTQIA+ youth -- "you're broken"; "you are a danger, you're a threat." I think one of the things...
18 Jan 20251h 19min
4.9: The Dark Mark
"This is the first time we have genuinely seen the intense fear that Voldemort stirs up in the adults who lived in that era. We've seen people shuddering when they say the name, but it almost becomes ...
15 Jan 20251h 22min
