6.10: The House of Gaunt
"The house seemed to contain three tiny rooms. Two doors led off the main room, which served as kitchen and living room combined." Where did Merope sleep? For full show notes, transcripts, ways to con...
1 Juli 1h 38min
6.9: The Half-Blood Prince
Is there something in this series that's going to poison people's minds? When we read it, uncritically and with enjoyment before the author revealed what a TERF she is, were we being poisoned without ...
24 Juni 1h 43min
6.8: Snape Victorious
Snape, you have won yourself a second chance to make decisions about 16-year-old Death Eaters and about whether you give in to the Dark Arts or defend against them. Slughorn back… and every second wit...
17 Juni 52min
6.7: The Slug Club
JC: Coming from a teacher education perspective, we spend so much time talking about building appropriate relationships with students. That just hits all the wrong buttons for me, but for creepy reas...
10 Juni 58min
6.6: Draco's Detour
Lorrie: Because Voldemort cursed the curriculum... JC: If people can't defend themselves on a very basic level -- people can't do critical thinking or media literacy, or just basically being able to d...
3 Juni 1h 5min
6.5: An Excess of Phlegm
Harry and Draco are in that liminal space between being old enough in many ways to be an adult, but still technically young enough so that they're still a bit malleable. There's still a chance to turn...
27 Maj 1h 1min
6.4: Horace Slughorn
The thing that Dumbledore wants to force Slughorn to do against Slughorn's will… Dumbledore actually has Slughorn's best interests at heart. That's the greatness of this character: he will go against ...
20 Maj 58min
6.3: Will and Won't
JC: Dumbledore taking the Dursleys to task. That's the way that he is throughout this chapter, and I remember thinking this feels like fanfic because it felt like such fantasy fulfillment. I had want...
13 Maj 53min
