Episode 226: Delightors

The Irresistible Urge to Fall for Your Enemy, chapters 1-3 It's time. We've been incubating the idea for a new angle for the show for a long time now, and doing lots of research about the early days of the Potter fandom. But we've struggled a little, both with time and with the idea of how, exactly, to structure things moving forward. The answer hit us (to borrow the opening line of TIUTFFYE) like a knife: why not structure it like the same damn show we've loved doing for years now? So! Here we are. And what better way to anchor future discussions of the history and impact of Harry Potter on media and culture than by reading books that were once fanfics with the Potter stripped out? We're starting with The Irresistible Urge to Fall for Your Enemy, a bestselling romance novel unabashedly marketed as a former Dramione fic (Draco Malfoy and the Mortifying Ideal of Being In Love). This first episode will be a bit of a bridge, because the third segment reading I selected is more contemporary. But you can expect our research to start showing up in the first and third segments! Anyway, this week we check out the world of the Grogu meal, attempt to identify original concepts vs renamed Potter concepts in TIUTFFYE, and learn why it's actually activism to read Dramione fanfiction in 2026. It's good to be back! P.S there is a very funny fact about this episode I will reveal after it's been out for a day or two so please look forward to that P.P.S this is just temporary art and a temporary theme song, but if you're curious the music is from my upcoming game 35 Electric