2.9: The Writing on the Wall
"During the time of the Four Founders, there was an overriding real danger, which is that non-magical people were killing witches and wizards. That's what you want to be fighting, but Slytherin took i...
10 Apr 202456min
2.8: The Deathday Party
"You have to go to school and sit next to a kid whose family is trying to make sure that something really, really bad happens to your family; if you get hurt or killed in that process, they like it. T...
3 Apr 202442min
2.7: Mudbloods and Murmurs
"We've seen multiple teachers having to deal with Lockhart. They've all just gritted their teeth and sucked it up and they've maybe said something subtle, but no one has confronted him, which says som...
27 Mar 202451min
2.6: Gilderoy Lockhart
"There's an exercise I do with kids about who really sets up the Dueling Club, and one of the exercises is to have them look up how people react to Lockhart and how predictable he is. How universally ...
20 Mar 202452min
2.5: The Whomping Willow
"I put a lot of time and effort into learning how to make really good chocolate frogs, and I once made about 90 of them for a fifth-grade party. Also butterbeer, a good homemade butterbeer with cream ...
13 Mar 202443min
2.4: At Flourish and Blotts
"There's just so much fun stuff in this chapter. I love the world-building that we see here, I love the interactions that we see here. We get these little glimpses of the politics of this world. Lots ...
6 Mar 20241h 8min
2.3: The Burrow
"It's cluttered and everything has been reused and repurposed, and there's a lot of people in there. But yet, it's clearly a well-loved space and a space where all these people -- all these kids -- ha...
28 Feb 202441min
2.2: Dobby's Warning
"That's a big theme in this series: don't try to pull yourself out of depression by thinking, 'Oh, you have to help yourself, you have to love yourself.' No. When you're depressed, that power is dead,...
21 Feb 202457min
