Alohomora!: A Global Reread Of Harry Potter

On this recap we discuss... → Ghosts as punishment → Luna's spirituality  → Neville, Luna, and Ginny as a trinity → Draco: a Judas parallel? 

On Episode 210 we discuss... → Predestination vs. free will in prophesies → Magic as religion → Is there a Wizard God? → Wizards reconciling magic and religious belief → The stigma of Christians against Harry Potter → Resurrection: a common element → Are Horcruxes a perversion of religious symbols? → The importance of choices → Even Quidditch has religious imagery! → Trios and the Trinity → Repentance and Redemption → Ghosts and the afterlife

On this recap we discuss... → Did the diadem bring the DADA curse? → Why murder is the thing that splits the soul → A different take on the food/soul theory → Piggy bank Harry

On Episode 209 we discuss... → Making a Horcrux: How Do You Even? → Horcrux pies and chocolate bars → Body and soul → The first kill → The Seven Horcrux Sins → Hot-Demort → Did Grindelwald make a Horcrux? → Rowling's least favorite Horcrux question

On this recap we discuss...    → Peter and the Hat → "Heads or tails?" → Sorting families → Houses through the years

On Episode 208 we discuss...   → Why is Hogwarts still Sorting? → The Hat is always right...or it thinks it is → Hat Stall: I do not think that means what you think it means → Should families really end up in the same House? → Controversial Sortings → Lockhart: is he really blue and bronze? → Let's speculate on some Houses!

On this recap we discuss...    → Dumbledore did what was right, not easy → How could Dumbledore's sexuality have been included in the books? → A balancing of House traits

On Episode 207 we discuss...   → No spoilers for Fantastic Beasts! (Well, we tried) → Dumbledore as the archetypal mentor → Is Dumbledore a good person and are his actions justified? → Timelines can be confusing → JKR got Harry's story from Dumbledore's portrait → Would knowing Dumbledore's sexuality have impacted Harry's story? → Everything goes back to that one summer → How does Dumbledore still trust people? → Regret and caution → The Greater Good vs. the one → Love of all kinds → Why do we have more empathy for Dumbledore than other characters?

On this recap we discuss...    → Muggle ailments vs. Magical wounds → Flight, Fight, and Freeze → Why Order of the Phoenix Harry is exactly who he should be

On Episode 205 we discuss...  → Magic can’t fix everything → SpeakBeasty host, Ariel, has a question → How Anne Rowling shaped Harry Potter → What Ariana stands for → Lupin, HIV and metaphors for disability → Silvanus Kettleburn: The Black Knight → Disability in the darkness → The abuse of memory → Taking advantage of the disadvantaged

On this recap we discuss...  → Fiddling with the Fidelius Charm → Is there a secret hiding in the Order photo? → Giving Peter some slack

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On Episode 204 we discuss... → A little more Patronus talk → The brightest witch of her age → The love of teaching → Being an individual → Not conforming to society's needs → Small yet powerful → A mother's love → A mother's desperation → Abuse playing into the picture → Is evilness related to pleasing a man? → The Hogwarts Regina George? → All hail the Queen

On this recap we discuss... → Delphi's parentage → Scorpius nerdish qualities → Changing the people's opinions

On Episode 203 we discuss... → We reveal our Patronuses! → A new interpretive theory of the play → McGonagall: Out of character? → Awkward hierarchy → Ol' Reekie train → Who can influence a prophecy? → Albus's character progression → The need to hear Scorpius's lines in Anthony Boyle's voice → Paint, memory, and finally confronted trauma → Draco's softening → Time Turners and Fawkes and the Elder Wand, oh my! →Blanket potentially on fire: the joys of live theatre! → How is the Fidelius Charm working here? → Theories on Delphi's, er...origins → We have lots of emotions about the end

→ Amos the "stage dad"? → Could Cedric really be a Death Eater? → Snape's self destruction → Snape and Hermione

→ Seen, unseen and to be seen → Taking “The Augurey” seriously → Familiar faces for familiarity’s sake → Imagination vs. Live Theater → The Great Snape Debate continues → Polly Chapman and the Missing Direction → Scorpius: The Human Pottermore → Cedric Diggory goes stupid crazy → Ron and Hermione: From teaspoons to ladles → Who is the Cursed Child? → The Curse of Nineteen Years Later → Delphie... something... something

→ Something feels familiar... → The origins of Del-FEE → Time: Wibbly-wobbly or around in circles? → Spinster Hermione has no Oppugnos to give → The happy medium of reading Cursed Child

→ More first impressions → To what effect are the dream sequences helpful? → Delphi's master manipulation → Why did Harry listen to Bane? Shouldn't he know better? → Scorpius the Cinnamon Roll → J. K. Rowling and Where to Find Her → The insane strength of Scorpius Malfoy? → Legitimizing 101: How to Make Your Fan Fiction Canon → Scorbus: to be or not to be? → Is Delphi affected by the AUs? → Risk isn't risk if it can be undone