Episode 41: Breaking Babbitty
Deconstruct Beedle the Bard’s tale “Babbitty Rabbitty and Her Cackling Stump” with us in our latest bonus episode! Katy and Emily talk with Katherine Sas (University of Pennsylvania) about the wiza...
25 Maj 202033min
Episode 40: Unpacking Petunia
Take a surprising closer look at Petunia Dursley in this week’s episode. Harry’s Aunt Petunia is one of the lesser villains of Rowling’s fantasy series, but in this bonus episode, Katy and Emily he...
18 Maj 202039min
Episode 39: When in Doubt, Go to the Library: The Books Within the Books
Which of the wizarding world books mentioned in the Harry Potter series would you most like to have on your bookshelf? Join us in considering the funniest, most important, and most intriguing books...
11 Maj 202030min
Episode 38: Harry Potter and the Deathly Virus
Graduating seniors connect their experiences this spring to the final Harry Potter book. In this special episode, Emily, Katy, and Lana Whited (Ferrum College) talk with high school and college sen...
4 Maj 20201h 21min
Episode 37: Troubled Blood and The Faerie Queene: Strike 5
Prognostications about the next Cormoran Strike novel, based on the clues so far. In this bonus episode, John and Katy predict what will happen in the next novel in the Rowling/Galbraith Cormoran S...
27 Apr 202042min
Episode 36: How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Harry Potter
Enjoy a special bonus mini episode of our show about how we’re “holding on to Harry Potter.” Katy and Emily talk with MuggleNet’s Laurie Beckoff about how to navigate our love of Harry Potter with ...
20 Apr 202025min
Episode 35: Lessons in Magical Manipulation
Explore the more-than-magical power of words and rhetoric in the wizarding world. This month’s episode explores Albus Dumbledore’s wisdom that “Words are our most inexhaustible source of magic.” Ma...
13 Apr 20201h 28min
Episode 34: Werewolves of Wizard London (And Other Animal Transformations)
Get to the heart of werewolves in the Harry Potter series in this month’s special double episode! In this supersized episode, John and Katy talk with literary scholars and werewolf specialists Dr. ...
9 Mars 20201h 56min
