4.37: The Beginning
Cedric was special, but just that Dumbledore goes into the personal... This is such an important thing to reaffirm at a time like that: the individuality of a person who's gone is important, because t...
30 Juli 202552min
4.36: The Parting of the Ways
"Snape strode forward, past Dumbledore, pulling up the left sleeve of his robes as he went. He stuck out his forearm and showed it to Fudge, who recoiled." This is one of the moments in the series whe...
23 Juli 20251h 21min
4.35: Veritaserum
When you're a child, you want somebody to have wanted you and to love you even if there's absolutely no evidence that this will ever happen for you. The need doesn't go away, and you may hate yourself...
16 Juli 20251h 6min
4.34: Priori Incantatem
He's just rebuilt his entire body with Harry's blood that has protective love in it. That is what it takes to feel human connection and empathy and grief and remorse; those are the qualities in a pers...
9 Juli 202557min
4.33: The Death Eaters
I imagine that this entire series is being imagined by Tom Riddle, an orphan in an orphanage who is a brilliant and violent and lonely child, and that he's fantasizing that somewhere in the world ther...
2 Juli 20251h 26min
4.32: Flesh, Blood, and Bone
No matter how potent Voldemort is, he can't make himself grow. That is magic he doesn't have and that is what he needs Harry for, because what makes you grow? Does brilliance make you grow? Does being...
25 Juni 202545min
4.31: The Third Task
JC: When I think Voldemort, sexual magnetism is not the word that comes to mind. Lorrie: I think his focus is on how he feels against people who have intact families; he is breaking apart those bonds...
18 Juni 20251h 11min
4.30: The Pensieve
By the end of this chapter, Harry sees how old Dumbledore is for the first time. Dumbledore ages in this chapter. He sees Dumbledore at first as the great wizard that Harry's always believed he is, an...
11 Juni 20251h 17min
