8.1: Cecilia Tan
"A not-insignificant number of people discovered their trans identities through Harry Potter roleplay and Harry Potter cosplay, because Harry Potter was so big and such a big part of our lives. I was ...
16 Nov 20241h 37min
3.22: Owl Post Again
Giving Harry back the cloak and the Marauder's Map, Lupin so distinctly crosses over from being a teacher to being a pure agent of chaos. He has zero compunction about this, but that's his actual true...
13 Nov 20241h 41min
3.21: Hermione's Secret
Whenever time travel and Time-Turners are used in Potterverse, I read it as this metaphor for how you can go back into trauma, into the past, with a different perspective and change not what happened,...
6 Nov 20241h 25min
3.20: The Dementor's Kiss
The appearance of this Patronus made me think, 'This is the love that had strengthened him from his father.' This is so much more coalesced now in him. He's gotten to know the bonds between James and ...
30 Okt 202452min
3.19: The Servant of Lord Voldemort
This is the one character that every person, every character in this series, is unanimous about. There is nobody else where every single character on every side has the same reaction, but everybody lo...
23 Okt 20241h 4min
3.18: Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs
Sirius has re-entered relationships. Until this moment, he had nobody but himself, so what did it matter if he killed Peter now or five minutes from now? Now Lupin is saying, "I don't know the story. ...
16 Okt 20241h 16min
3.17: Cat, Rat, and Dog
'Don't kill. Get the full story. You might think what you want is revenge or anger or hatred or murder, but what you really want -- what's really going to satisfy you -- is knowing the full story.' Ex...
9 Okt 20241h 25min
3.16: Professor Trelawney's Prediction
In this series that is overtly skeptical about a lot of new age or mystical things, we see something that is obviously meant to be genuine divination. It's powerful and it's undeniable, so do we suspe...
2 Okt 20241h 16min
