
5.31: O.W.L.s
JC: ICE comes in the middle of the night to take Hagrid, basically. LK: Where are they taking him? What are they charging him with? Harry demonstrates something that is painfully real and current: he'...
4 Mar 1h 8min

5.30: Grawp
The bullying that Grawp was suffering (that Hagrid had to save him from) is a result of colonization and displacement because giants were not meant to be in such close quarters. They've been attacking...
25 Feb 45min

5.29: Career Advice
Even if Harry can't understand it right now, he is getting some of his father back by seeing that there were real living people -- full-fledged people -- who knew the whole James and demonstrate that ...
18 Feb 1h 15min

5.28: Snape's Worst Memory
Snape's worst memory is that he regrets betraying Lily by referring to her hunted status and reinforcing it. That supports the notion that Hermione did a sort of favor for Marietta by preventing her f...
11 Feb 1h 35min

5.27: The Centaur and the Sneak
Marietta catches a sight of herself as framed in Umbridge's agenda, and seeing what she really is in that agenda? That's this moment of recognition that shuts her up. Marietta has now just seen a diff...
4 Feb 1h 15min

5.26: Seen and Unforeseen
Somebody is being a grown-up, and he is taking on a dangerous duty so the kids don't have to fend for themselves. "It's not your job to find out what the Dark Lord is..." "That's your job, isn't it?" ...
28 Jan 1h 23min

5.25: The Beetle at Bay
This is her chance to explore this unexplored concept of writing journalism as a member of the Fourth Estate, trying to hold people accountable; she's never done that, and when Hermione reminds her ou...
21 Jan 1h 9min

5.24: Occlumency
LK: We know, from him having put three memories in the Pensieve, that Snape has his own important things at risk here. JC: My first read with it was that there were things that he didn't want Harry ...
14 Jan 1h 30min




















