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Death Eaters, Part 1: Retirement Plan
Alohomora!: The Original Harry Potter Book Club - July 03, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 397 ratingsOn Episode 325 we discuss... → Why are they called Death Eaters? → The lack of math strikes again → Death Eater dynasties → Irvin's Death Eater essays - 1 | 2 | 3 → Picking things up and putting them down → The Battle of the Department of Mysteries: An Analysis of the Chase and Battle, June 1996 ...
Death Eaters, Part 1: Retirement Plan
Alohomora!: The Original Harry Potter Book Club - July 03, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 397 ratingsOn Episode 325 we discuss... → Why are they called Death Eaters? → The lack of math strikes again → Death Eater dynasties → Irvin's Death Eater essays - 1 | 2 | 3 → Picking things up and putting them down → The Battle of the Department of Mysteries: An Analysis of the Chase and Battle, Ju...
OotP 36 Revisit: Snaps for Williamson
Alohomora!: The Original Harry Potter Book Club - June 19, 2021 13:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 397 ratingsOn Episode 324, we discuss… → OotP has the best chapter titles → The five stages of grief in ONE chapter → Bargaining flipped: We start with a death and end with a life → Voldy was right about Dumbledore's willingness to sacrifice Harry! → Harry feels love most acutely through overwhelming grief ...
Fairytales: Lockhart is Gaston
Alohomora!: The Original Harry Potter Book Club - June 05, 2021 13:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 397 ratingsOn Episode 323 we discuss... → Fairy tales, fairytales, wonder tales, magic tales, fairy stories, and Märchen → "In the old times when wishing was still effective"... and how → The Dewey Decimal System for fairytales is... woah → How many of these classifications match up with Potter? Hint: a lot...
CoS 15 Revisit: Selfies With Fang
Alohomora!: The Original Harry Potter Book Club - May 22, 2021 13:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 397 ratingsOn Episode 322 we discuss... → "Those who ask will always be given help... I think... maybe..." → Why does a second year discover what the beast is when nobody else can? → It must be nice, it must be nice... to have Ernie Mac on your side → Does anyone actually feed Fang while Hagrid is gone? → ...
Horace Slughorn: Chugging a Gallon of Golden Potion
Alohomora!: The Original Harry Potter Book Club - May 08, 2021 13:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 397 ratingsOn Episode 321 we discuss... → Our podcast is old enough to have a drinking game → Slughorn wins the name game: Horace Eugene Flaccus Slughorn → Aurelia is the author of the Harry Potter books now → Armando Dippet is how old?! Aging in the wizarding world is confusing → We love old Pottermore → I...
PoA 16 Revisit: None of the Good Phillias
Alohomora!: The Original Harry Potter Book Club - April 24, 2021 13:00 - 3 hours ★★★★★ - 397 ratingsOn Episode 320 we discuss... → Descriptive dialogue and how to write it → Exam study stress is REAL → Is the Hogwarts' school calendar indicative of the UK's schedule? → #FantasticBeastsRightToLive → Are the tortoises alive?? The Rock Kittens return! → Katy, say no to drugs! Can Cheering Charms b...
Dark Arts & Beasts: Justice for Basilisks!
Alohomora!: The Original Harry Potter Book Club - April 10, 2021 13:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 397 ratingsOn Episode 319 we discuss… → Does Dark Magic only depend on the intent of the witch or wizard using it? → Dark Magic is magic for which there is no good use → All dark magic are curses, but not all curses are dark magic → Knockturn Alley... the black market that everyone knows about → Snakes are ...
HPB 26 Revisit: The Dueling Aesthetics of Dumbledore and Voldemort
Alohomora!: The Original Harry Potter Book Club - March 27, 2021 13:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 397 ratingsOn Episode 318 we discuss… → First all-male episode?!? → The chapter that inspired the book's cover art → Young Tom Riddle was incredibly focused and powerful → Everyone agrees... Half-Blood Prince is THE BEST → Has Dumbledore been to the cave before? → Quality quotes comin' at ya! → "Really? You...
The Anthropology of Harry Potter, Part Two: Bloody Brilliant
Alohomora!: The Original Harry Potter Book Club - March 13, 2021 14:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 397 ratingsOn Episode 317 we discuss... → Localization of the Harry Potter text (British vs. American English) → Why butcher cultures for the sake of ethnocentrically Americanizing text? → Hooray for fans fighting back! → Folklore and Fairytales - "The Boy Who Lived" is already a living legend → Are there s...
GoF 26 Revisit: This is Traumatizing!
Alohomora!: The Original Harry Potter Book Club - February 27, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 397 ratingsOn Episode 316 we discuss… → Would aqua lungs have functioned at Hogwarts? → We need more info regarding the limits of transfiguration → Madam Pince is THE WORST librarian → Powers you never knew you had and how to use them → Where are card catalogs/CTRL-F/Google when you need them? → This task i...
"Alohomora!: Full Circle" Sneak Peek
Alohomora!: The Original Harry Potter Book Club - February 22, 2021 21:49 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 397 ratingsCreated and hosted by Kat Miller, Alohomora!: Full Circle is a re-read of the Harry Potter through the lens of Ring Composition. Enjoy this sneak peek from the show featuring clips from Books 1 - 4 and an exclusive clip from the yet-to-be-released Book 5! Can you guess who the voice belongs to? F...
Love: Ride or Die
Alohomora!: The Original Harry Potter Book Club - February 13, 2021 14:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 397 ratingsOn Episode 315 we discuss… → Love types: Agape, Philia, Eros, Storge, Xenia, Philautia → From Lily to Narcissa, mothers' love is everything in Potter → A child's love for their parents is not to be ignored → Everyone in Harry Potter needs to have a therapist → Does Hermione love her friends more ...
OotP 28 Revisit: Fresh Horror
Alohomora!: The Original Harry Potter Book Club - January 30, 2021 14:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 397 ratingsOn Episode 314 we discuss... → Leaving a broken vanishing cabinet on the 1st floor... totally fine → Tragic Filch - the half-person → Fear of kittens makes a lot more sense than pigeons → What do fireworks and torture devices have in common? → Turning suffering into profit is ok when you're makin...
Memories and the Pensieve: Drowning in French
Alohomora!: The Original Harry Potter Book Club - January 16, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 397 ratingsOn Episode 313 we discuss... → Where did the brains in the Brain Room come from? → We hope there are individual education plans for struggling students → Rex schools us on memory types, formation, storage, retrieval, etc → Memory loss, brain injuries, and diseases → Are the disembodied brains con...
DH 20 Revisit: Xenophilius Lovegood
Alohomora!: The Original Harry Potter Book Club - January 02, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 397 ratingsOn Episode 312 we discuss... → Why does Harry forgive Ron so much more easily than Hermione? → The Muggle Prime Minister is potentially left out to dry → It's time for Ron to shine → We need to know what a plimpy is! → Xenophilius's name is one of the best in the series → Dumbledore's gifts final...
Quidditch: The Human Condition
Alohomora!: The Original Harry Potter Book Club - December 19, 2020 14:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 397 ratingsOn Episode 311 we discuss... → Early Quidditch = animal cruelty → How does the Hogwarts House team system work? → There should be JV teams, more backup players, fun play, and more games → "That's just Jo not thinking it through." → Quidditch is the one thing that comes naturally to Harry → The 20...
CoS 11 Revisit: Can Everyone See Me?
Alohomora!: The Original Harry Potter Book Club - December 05, 2020 14:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 397 ratingsOn Episode 310 we discuss... → Theory confirmed: Dumbledore is the Avatar → CoS is FULL of red herrings → Are Fred and George cruel jackasses? → What's the most terrifying sentence in the Harry Potter canon? → Everyone knows that Neville is almost a squid → Snape is such a bad teacher! For the gr...
Rubeus Hagrid: The Soccer Mom
Alohomora!: The Original Harry Potter Book Club - November 21, 2020 14:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 397 ratingsOn Episode 309 we discuss... → Did Dumbledore know Hagrid's father? → Mr. Dumbledore's home for Peculiar Children → Ogg was probably important to Hagrid's continued learning → Hagrid is the opposite of toxic masculinity → Hey Google, what is pedagogy? → Was the blast-ended skrewt breeding legal? ...
PS/SS 10 Revisit: No Inflated Bladders
Alohomora!: The Original Harry Potter Book Club - November 07, 2020 14:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 397 ratingsOn Episode 308 we discuss... → Harry & Ron = The Chaos Crew → Neville has "zero positive male role models that aren't trying to dangle him out of a window" → Harry's privileged broom → Caps lock McGonagall → We finally learn what the heck Quidditch is! → Only 28 kids per year get to play the one ...
Introducing "Alohomora!: Full Circle"
Alohomora!: The Original Harry Potter Book Club - October 25, 2020 15:46 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 397 ratingsYou asked for it, you got it! After years of requests from our loyal listeners begging us to start another re-read, we are very happy to introduce Alohomora!: Full Circle. Created and hosted by Kat Miller, Full Circle is a re-read of the Harry Potter series through the lens of Ring Composition. F...
The Department of Mysteries: Unspeakably Vague
Alohomora!: The Original Harry Potter Book Club - October 24, 2020 13:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 397 ratingsOn Episode 307 we discuss… → Hagrid definitely couldn't work there → Whose brains do they have in the Brain Room?? → "Thoughts could leave deeper scars than almost anything else" → The Death Chamber - the room we know the most and least about → Are there multiple death veils? → "[Myrtle is] livin...
HBP 12 Revisit: Questionable Morality
Alohomora!: The Original Harry Potter Book Club - October 10, 2020 13:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 397 ratingsOn Episode 306 we discuss... → Harry reading Cliff Notes → Fandom theories from back in the day → "Eh, it's Half-Blood Prince. Things get a bit sexy." → Why did Aberforth buy a sketchy mirror? → Was Rose Granger-Weasley named after Madam Rosemerta?? → Polyjuiced Draco in Hogsmeade?? → Double Impe...
Cho Chang: Social Distance From Swans!
Alohomora!: The Original Harry Potter Book Club - September 26, 2020 13:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 397 ratingsOn Episode 305 we discuss... → Cho's name... lazily written, alliteration love, and/or downright offensive? → The only girl on her Quidditch team! → Written to be a love triangle character/self-insertion mold → From cool chick to emotional, jealous wreck → Ginny vs. Cho → Teenage boys are oblivio...
PoA 15 Revisit: Quidditch Is Life
Alohomora!: The Original Harry Potter Book Club - September 12, 2020 13:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 397 ratingsOn episode 304 we discuss... → What was Buckbeak's favorite part of London? → Hermione at her breaking point... crying, slapping, quitting → Hermione's slap = SO GOOD... but, don't do that → Fowl or Foul? Ron helping with Buckbeak's appeal is precious → How does the Quidditch system even work?? →...
Patronuses & Dementors: You Fail, Maggots!
Alohomora!: The Original Harry Potter Book Club - August 29, 2020 13:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 397 ratings*Trigger warnings for this episode: suicidal thoughts and death of a loved one On Episode 303 we discuss... → "Azkaban Guards" = magical policemen? Not quite → Why are parents not concerned that their children will be surrounded by Dementors in PoA? → Is Harry already suffering from mental health...
DH 26 Revisit: Live Your Best Life
Alohomora!: The Original Harry Potter Book Club - August 15, 2020 13:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 397 ratingsOn Episode 302 we discuss... → Grace’s famous last words, “I don’t think there’s anything controversial in this one!” → Action set-piece + character growth all in one → The trio forms a good plan for once! → Why didn't they ask Bill for advice? → The quest for Bellatrix’s wand → Why was Hermione ...
The Anthropology of Harry Potter, Part One - Wicked Fascinating
Alohomora!: The Original Harry Potter Book Club - August 01, 2020 13:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 397 ratingsOn Episode 301 we discuss... → How has Potter shaped your own personal or social environment? → "The Harry Potter series is a massive lesson on the notion of death" → Which character deaths got send-offs and which didn't? → Life following loss → What kind of afterlife would you want in the Potter...
Episode Zero
Alohomora!: The Original Harry Potter Book Club - June 27, 2020 13:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 397 ratingsOn Episode Zero we discuss... → A behind the scenes look at the inception of the show → How will this podcast be different from all others? → Are our interpretations just as valid as JKR's? → Kat doesn't want to be a narrator → In-depth analysis begins! → Crackpot theories → Is Dumbledore's w...
Alohomora: A History - The Song
Alohomora!: The Original Harry Potter Book Club - June 23, 2020 18:36 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 397 ratingsOur wizard rock song from episode 300! Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/alohomora-the-original-harry-potter-book-club--5016402/support.
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