Time travel is a mess and I feel like too many people fall back on back to the future as their means of understanding it, the time turners rules don't have a "what if", what happens happens because it always happens, its the most uninteresting time travel but thats how it works.

Prisoner of Azkaban chapters 5-6. We investigate the "new" JK Rowling interview content "discovered" this week before getting into our reading--which we really liked! Still, there's plenty to go over in detail, from train stoppages to knight paintings to JK's strangely cruel supplemental writing about her own characters. Finally, we top it all off with some of your confessions!

The Shrieking Shack

Episode 21: Zippo Tricks

Prisoner of Azkaban chapters 9-10. Happy birthday, Harry Potter! And a happy birthday to you too, JK Rowling--we hope you got a third treehouse or whatever. After we finish wishing our heroes a happy birthday, we travel to a very rainy Hogwarts to discuss the Marauder's Map, pub waitresses, reddit, and who would win in a fight between Sirius Black and John Wick.

Episode 23: Hit Wizards

Prisoner of Azkaban chapters 11-12. We hit up Bustle for some headlines and Pottermore for some marketing material before discussing the most drama-filled chapters of this book yet. Hermione took away Harry's Xbox! The flobberworms are dead! Crookshanks is scheming! We cover all this and more before taking a trip overseas to learn all about Chinese Harry Potter fan fiction and bootlegs.

Episode 24: Shriekcast Walk Up to Dragon

Prisoner of Azkaban chapters 13-14. Knives out!! We've been enjoying this book so much we hadn't quite realized how hungry we were, and this chapter about how cool the Firebolt is just dumped a ton of blood into the water. We discuss the Firebolt's superb handling, pinpoint precision, and whatever the hell else it has along with Leakycon updates and our own American broom marketing plans!

Episode 25: Lee Harvey Grindelwald

Prisoner of Azkaban chapters 15-16. Liz conjures up the dark spirit of an ancient basic cable TV drama before we discuss Prisoner of Azkaban's tenth Quidditch match. Just like Harry, this book's specialty seems to be dives--does the rest of this reading pull up in time, or are we headed towards a crash of Norbert Chapter proportions?

Episode 26: Early Edition

Prisoner of Azkaban chapters 17-18. We uncover Pottermore's "revelations" about Fantastic Beasts. Then we get into the very exciting scenes that take place in the Shrieking Shack itself, which are way more farcical than we were expecting. To commemorate this occasion, Liz's fanfiction chops are put to the test with the ultimate Marauder fic quiz.

Episode 27: Shipping Theseus

Prisoner of Azkaban chapters 19-22. Our third reading adventure is over. After fifty Quidditch games and ten chapters of faffing around in the titular Shrieking Shack, we discuss the end of Prisoner of Azkaban in fine detail: including dog brains, House Elf Dementors, the ethics of taking a life, and fate vs. free will. That sounds like a joke, but it's not! Listen now and find out if the third Harry Potter book stuck the landing or takes a dive. (incidentally, Harry's really good at those)

Episode 28: Dog Brain

Goblet of Fire chapters 5-6. For the second week in a row, we're here to pick up a Pulitzer for our investigative reporting! This time it's for our role in predicting and uncovering (well, mostly just watching) the leak of a new Harry Potter video game. We have LOTS to discuss about our hopes (and fears) about the game, but first we have reading to attend to. Good news: this week's chapters are much less sociopathic than the previous ones.

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Episode 32: Whizarding Whorld

Goblet of Fire chapters 12-13. The last episode of Dark Arts Month 2018 is here, and we have Halloween costumes to discuss! But before that we have the news (cursed) and our reading (surprisingly, much less cursed? Mostly?) to attend to. We have a Triwizard Tournament to introduce, a slavery subplot to tug our collars over, and French accents to botch!

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Episode 35: Oui Oui

Goblet of Fire chapter 18. Content warning for transphobia discussion, because this chapter has a part that sucks big time!!

The Crimes of Grindelwald (listen to the episode!) looms over us, but we still dutifully discuss our reading for the week. There's some... good? Character stuff? Sort of? And a lot of bad stuff too. Harry Potter is truly a land of contrasts.

Episode 38: The Wheighing of the Whands

Goblet of Fire chapter 28. We've got news! You folks heard about the news? We've got Blu-Ray news and Pokemon news; after that, we have perhaps the most overstuffed chapter in the series so far to discuss. After that, we take a trip to Cameo to check out what Harry Potter stars we can find!

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Episode 45: Toriel Weasley

Two lapsed Harry Potter fans on a journey back through the books they (used to) love so much. Updates every Friday!

Episode 28: Dog Brain

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