1.10: Halloween
"Ron is taught Wingardium Leviosa; he doesn't even know how to cast it, but it's going to pay off later. This is indoctrination. Indoctrination is not necessarily bad, although it's a word that's used...
20 Dec 202344min
1.9: The Midnight Duel
"We're beyond you, Malfoy. Not only did your little plan not work, but you don't even know what we're doing next." "In fact, thank you. Thank you!" - Lorrie Kim, Ep. 1.9 For full show notes, transcri...
13 Dec 202332min
1.8: The Potions Master
"In my fantasies, there's an alternate universe in which Snape, after this disgraceful performance of a first day of Potions class, gets disciplined, and there's a headmaster saying, "You can't do tha...
6 Dec 202352min
1.7: The Sorting Hat
"Lily's child comes to school, and he is runty and starved and abused, and we later find out he's prone to headaches. Oh, this is not good. Somebody's got a guilty conscience for a very good reason, a...
29 Nov 202348min
1.6: The Journey from Platform Nine and Three Quarters
"Are you so important that you're acclaimed as part of the whole culture's story? That is a level of emotional importance and cultural identity that is beyond whether you win things or you're presiden...
22 Nov 202345min
1.5: Diagon Alley
"Ollivander won't rest until he finds your magic. You'll know it when you feel it, and sometimes it's not about things you've accomplished or powers you have, but about your hopes and your potential. ...
15 Nov 202354min
1.4: The Keeper of the Keys
"He's an in-between character; he is partly wild nature and partly culture. He'll wear a suit, but it'll be horrible brown fur; he'll eat and drink, but the plates and cups are enormous; and he is hal...
8 Nov 202347min
1.3: The Letters From No One
"The unstoppability of the letters is Petunia and Vernon's deferred truths of what they do. Whatever bargain they made: okay, time to collect. But I love that. It feels like, to me, what happens when ...
2 Nov 202346min
