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Prof Responds: D.A.D.A, Power, and the Politics of Fear
Season 2 Episode 59
Professor Julian Wamble returns to the Defense Against the Dark Arts bonus episode with listener responses from Patreon, Discord, and Spotify. Three …
2 months, 1 week ago
Defense Against the What???
Season 2 Episode 58
In this episode on Hogwarts courses, Professor Julian Wamble takes on Defense Against the Dark Arts and finds more to critique than expected. The cen…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Prof Responds: Dean Thomas- An Unnecessary Digression?
Season 2 Episode 57
In this Prof Responds episode, listeners push back, go deeper, and make the case for Dean Thomas with everything they have. The conversation spans fo…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Dean Thomas: We're Fighting Aren't We?
Season 2 Episode 56
This IS a Dean Thomas episode, and, if I do say so myself, it delivers. From his quiet refusal to jettison his Muggle identity in a world pressuring …
3 months ago
Prof Responds: What's Missing from the Tale of Padma and Parvati Patil?
Season 2 Episode 55
In this Prof Responds episode, Professor Julian Wamble returns to Parvati and Padma Patil with the material the original episode didn't have time for…
3 months, 1 week ago
The Double Disappearing Act of Parvati and Padma Patil
Season 2 Episode 54
In this episode, Professor Julian Wamble traces the Patil twins from Philosopher's Stone through the Battle of Hogwarts, examining what the series gi…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Prof Responds- Cho Chang, the Rebel
Season 2 Episode 53
In this Prof Responds episode, Professor Julian Wamble takes on one of Harry Potter's most misunderstood characters: Cho Chang. Drawing on listener r…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
The Tale of the Three Hierarchies
For personal reasons, Professor Julian Wamble is taking a brief detour from the regularly scheduled programming — which also means listeners who have…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Cho Chang & the Cost of Emotional Intelligence
Season 2 Episode 52
She was the first girl Harry Potter called his "girlfriend." But, she was also a seeker, Cedric's date, a defender of her best friend, a member of Du…
4 months ago
Prof Responds: Present Characters, but Not Known Ones
Season 2 Episode 51
In this Prof Responds episode, Professor Julian Wamble returns to "The Color of Magic" to sit with what the CMT community brought to the post-episode…
4 months, 1 week ago