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Prof Responds: Dumbledore, Necessity, and the Myth of “No Other Choice”
Season 2 Episode 41
In this Prof Responds episode of Critical Magic Theory, Professor Julian Wamble returns to Harry Potter to engage listeners’ reflections on Albus Dum…
7 months ago
The Fears, Fallacies, and Folly of A.W.P.B. Dumbledore
Season 2 Episode 40
In this penultimate episode of our Critical Magic Theory series on Albus Dumbledore, Professor Julian Wamble takes a deep look at one of the most com…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Prof Responds: If Not Him, Then Who? Dumbledore & the Pitfalls of Wartime Necessity
Season 2 Episode 39
In this Prof Responds episode of Critical Magic Theory, Professor Julian Wamble takes a critical look at Albus Dumbledore’s most morally complicated …
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Dumbledore, the Great & (Reluctantly and Ignorantly) Powerful
Season 2 Episode 38
In this episode of Critical Magic Theory, Professor Julian Wamble revisits Albus Dumbledore through a very different lens: not as the wise, whimsical…
7 months, 4 weeks ago
Prof Responds: Dumbledore’s Schemes & Scams, Plots & Plans
Season 2 Episode 37
In this Prof Responds episode of Critical Magic Theory, Professor Julian Wamble dives into your discussion about Albus Dumbledore and asks some of th…
8 months ago
THIS is a Dumbledore Episode
Season 2 Episode 36
In the first installment of our Albus Dumbledore series, Critical Magic Theory host Professor Julian Wamble unpacks the contradictions that define Al…
8 months, 1 week ago
Prof Responds: Hogwarts & the Fallacy of Equity
Season 2 Episode 35
In this Prof Responds episode, Professor Wamble tackles the fallacy of equity at Hogwarts: the idea that sharing wands and classrooms means sharing o…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
WTF is Hogwarts doing???
Season 2 Episode 34
What is Hogwarts actually for? Beyond floating candles and talking portraits lies a school with deeply entrenched ideologies—one that prepares studen…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
The Horizontal Arc of Severus Snape: Unpacking His Final Lessons
Season 2 Episode 33
After six deep-dive episodes, Professor Julian Wamble closes our exploration of Severus Snape—one of the most complex figures in the Harry Potter ser…
9 months ago
The Ends, the Means, and the Man: The Ethics of Severus Snape
Season 2 Episode 32
In this final chapter of The Severus Snape Trilogy, Professor Julian Wamble takes listeners back into the moral heart of the Harry Potter universe to…
9 months, 1 week ago