3.15: The Quidditch Final
JC: For Harry, this is one thing that he has that is really his own. I think about the students I've worked with. How important it is for a kid to have a thing that they are good at and that they kno...
25 Sep 202446min
3.14: Snape's Grudge
LK: To me, this chapter is a masterpiece. People have secret agendas, everything is working on at least three layers at once, and everybody in this chapter is right and wrong about everything. JC: I...
18 Sep 20241h 14min
3.13: Gryffindor Versus Ravenclaw
JC: "How cool would it have been to be one of the teachers in that school, to be sitting in that game and to watch Harry Potter shoot off a fully formed Patronus? Everybody else knows what Harry's P...
11 Sep 202435min
3.12: The Patronus
You can't tell Harry Potter, "Don't continue to integrate your memories. Don't continue to uncover who you are and to be yourself." These are his memories; they belong to him. These are his parents th...
4 Sep 202455min
3.11: The Firebolt
Why is there this broom? Why is it so suspicious, even though it turns out to be fine? What passions have all come together in this wildly ostentatious, inappropriate, mysterious, dangerous gift repla...
28 Aug 20241h 8min
3.10: The Marauder's Map
"Harry gets to ask Lupin, somebody who knows what this is like, "Why is this happening to me?" and Lupin gets to tell him straight out, "There are horrors in your past that the others don't have." Thi...
21 Aug 20241h 13min
3.9: Grim Defeat
What we're seeing is the origin of Harry's 'saving people thing'; this is what Voldemort did to him to change him from being a baby to somebody who is scarred for life. This tiny baby felt he had to h...
14 Aug 20241h 16min
3.8: The Flight of the Fat Lady
For Snape to walk in, look at this kid and Lupin, be wary, deposit this tricky potion and then back out… We're not imagining that the author wrote secrets into that scene -- secrets in history and sus...
7 Aug 20241h
