All Episodes

Prof Responds: D.A.D.A, Power, and the Politics of Fear

Defense Against the What???

Prof Responds: Dean Thomas- An Unnecessary Digression?

Dean Thomas: We're Fighting Aren't We?

Prof Responds: What's Missing from the Tale of Padma and Parvati Patil?

The Double Disappearing Act of Parvati and Padma Patil

Prof Responds- Cho Chang, the Rebel

The Tale of the Three Hierarchies

Cho Chang & the Cost of Emotional Intelligence

Prof Responds: Present Characters, but Not Known Ones

The Color of Magic: Race & the Wizarding World

Prof Responds: The Erasure of Nymphadora Tonks

The One Who Got Away: The Search for Nymphadora Tonks

Prof Responds: Fleur Delacour & the Patriarchy’s Sleight of Hand

Fleur Delacour & The Price of Pretty Privilege

Prof Responds: Hogwarts & the Pedagogy of Wartime Education

Two Years of Critical Magic: Best & Worst Teachers at Hogwarts

Prof Responds: Secrecy, Sacrifice, and the Dumbledores We Never Questioned

Ariana & Aberforth Dumbledore & the Price of Secrecy

IT IS CHRISTMAS... AT HOGWARTS

Prof Responds: Dumbledore, Necessity, and the Myth of “No Other Choice”

The Fears, Fallacies, and Folly of A.W.P.B. Dumbledore

Prof Responds: If Not Him, Then Who? Dumbledore & the Pitfalls of Wartime Necessity

Dumbledore, the Great & (Reluctantly and Ignorantly) Powerful

Prof Responds: Dumbledore’s Schemes & Scams, Plots & Plans

THIS is a Dumbledore Episode

Prof Responds: Hogwarts & the Fallacy of Equity

WTF is Hogwarts doing???

The Horizontal Arc of Severus Snape: Unpacking His Final Lessons

The Ends, the Means, and the Man: The Ethics of Severus Snape

Prof Responds- The Tragedy of Severus Snape

Half-Blood, Whole Paradox: Severus Snape’s Identity Crisis

Prof Responds: The Repentance, Regrets, and Reality of Severus Snape

"He's Just Complicated": The Gray Space of Severus Snape

Prof Responds: Lions, Magic, and Gryffindors’ Gamble for the Greater Good

Rewarded Recklessness: The Making of a Gryffindor

Prof Responds: Snakes, Supremacy, and the Slytherin Stigma

Shedding Old Skins: Rethinking Slytherin House

Beyond the "Smart House": The Spectrum of Ravenclaw

Can curiosity k*** the Ravenclaw

Hufflepuffs & The Politics of Conditional Morality

Don't Pet the Badgers: Unpacking Hufflepuff House

Prof Responds: The Shawls, Sherry, and Shenanigans of Sybill Trelawney

Sybill Trelawney: Seeing, but Not Believed

Prof Response- Bigger than the Box: the Rubeus Hagrid Story

Caretaker, Friend, Scapegoat: The Rubeus Hagrid Story

Prof Responds- The Umbridge Trap

The Devil Wears Pink: The Violence, Villainy, and Vanity of Dolores Umbridge

Prof Responds- Gilderoy Lockhart: Ravenclaw or Ravenfraud?

Fame Is a Fickle Fraud: Here Lies Gilderoy Lockhart

Prof Responds- Mom or Mess, Petty or Possessed: McGonagall & Quirrell

Ambition and Audacity: The Two Faces of Quirinus Quirrell

The Silent Suffering of Minerva McGonagall

Prof Responds- Remus Lupin & the Struggle to Stay Human

3.3%=100%: The Remus Lupin Story

Prof Responds: Has anyone seen Peter Pettigrew?

The "Ratdacity" of Peter Pettigrew

Prof Responds- Death Eaters, Country Clubs, and the Cosplay of Power

Lord Voldemort: More Diva than Dark Lord

Prof Responds: The Power, The Pettiness, and The Pretty

[Tom] Riddle Me this: The origin story of a pick me

Prof Responds- The Pureblood Showdown

It's a Pureblood Showdown: The Best, The Worst, and Everything in Between

Prof Responds: LAVENDER BROWN

Lavender Brown: Messy? Maligned? or Misunderstood?

Merope Gaunt and the space between victimhood & villainy

Poverty, Power, and the Paradox of the Gaunts

Luna Lovegood's Path to Authenticity, Courage, and Friendship

Cedric Diggory: Not a Hero, but a Champion

The Ministers’ Manipulative Ministrations

The Quiet Complexity and Courage of Neville Longbottom

The Duplicity of Barty Crouch Jr: Radicalized Victim or Perpetual Villain?

The Mind Games and Mayhem of Barty Crouch, Sr.

The Chaotic Neutrality of Horace Slughorn

James Potter: Heroic Gryffindor? Privileged Bully?

The Seriously Tragic Tale of Sirius Black

Andromeda and Regulus: Pureblood Rebels with a Cause?

The Bellatrix Paradox: "Love?" Loyalty, and Lunacy

Draco Malfoy: Spoiled Rich Boy or Reluctant Anti-Hero?

Draco Malfoy: Misunderstood, Maligned, or Merely A Malfoy?

Lucius Malfoy's Path to Power (& Flawless Hair)

Narcissa Malfoy: The Villain, The Mom, & the Hero?

The Best and the Worst of the Weasleys

Maybe she's born with "it." Maybe she's Ginny Weasley

Ronald Weasley is NOT Your Coworker

Ron Weasley- Almost Too Normal to Appreciate?

Fred & George's Fits & Giggles

The Perils of Prefect Percy

Arthur's Peer-ent Trap

Mommy Issues? or Molly Issues?

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