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Prof Responds: The Great Half-Blood Reckoning
Season 2 Episode 69
Professor Julian Wamble returns to the Half-Blood Showdown listener mailbag to dig into three of the community's sharpest debates: whether Dolores Um…
9 hours ago
THE HALFBLOOD SHOWDOWN
Season 2 Episode 68
Critical Magic Theory closes the book on Half-Bloods with one final superlatives showdown, capping off more than a year spent inside the wizarding wo…
1 week ago
Prof Reponds: Harry Potter & the Politics of Worthiness
Season 2 Episode 67
In this second Prof Responds episode, Professor Julian Wamble returns to listener comments from Critical Magic Theory's Patreon and Spotify communiti…
2 weeks ago
Harry Potter is sick with Heroism
Season 2 Episode 66
Harry Potter's heroism is contagious — in the best way and the most literal one. This episode tackles the back half of the Harry Potter survey, worki…
3 weeks ago
Prof Responds: Harry Potter & the Unreachable Standard
Season 2 Episode 65
This episode of Critical Magic Theory picks up where the last episode left off, this time handing the floor to the CMT community. Listeners push back…
4 weeks ago
Harry Potter: The Boy who Survived, not Lived
Season 2 Episode 64
Is Harry Potter a good person? A good friend? A victim? Extraordinary?
We heard from over 600 listeners, and the results were more chaotic than you mi…
1 month ago
Prof Responds- Who is a Hero?
Season 2 Episode 63
What does it mean to call someone a hero, and how much of what we believe about heroism in the Harry Potter series was shaped for us before we ever t…
1 month, 1 week ago
Heroes & Halfbloods
Season 2 Episode 62
What does it mean to be a hero in the wizarding world, and does being half-blood change the calculus? In this episode, Professor Julian Wamble examin…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Prof Responds: Seamus Finnigan- The Boy Who trusted his Mom
Season 2 Episode 61
In this Prof Responds episode, Professor Julian Wamble returns to Seamus Finnigan to sit with what the Critical Magic Theory community had to say. Li…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Seamus Finnigan & the Making of "Irish McIreland"
Season 2 Episode 60
What does it mean that the number one word listeners used to describe Seamus Finnigan was Irish? In Critical Magic Theory history, no character has e…
2 months ago