Recent Posts Tagged With 'severus snape'

• Episode #81: Patterns in Potter, Book 6 - Definitely Evil

  Posted on Sunday June 8th, 2008 at 17:16 in podcasts, evil, harry potter, selfishness, harvard, jk rowling, severus snape, half blood prince, albus dumbledore, patterns in potter, moral ambiguity

  This week, we discuss J.K. Rowling’s commencement address to Harvard University’s graduating class of 2008 (with audio snippets!) and conclude our Patterns in Potter discussion for the theme of Book 6. JK Rowling’s Speech at the Har...

• Episode #78: The Truth Hurts

  Posted on Friday May 9th, 2008 at 14:39 in podcasts, truth, knowledge, harry potter, trust, order of the phoenix, jk rowling, ootp, severus snape, james potter, dolores umbridge, patterns in potter

  In the week’s episode, we continue our discussion of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix and the central theme of truth and knowledge, specifically how the book presents the theme in context of Hogwarts, education, careers and experientia...

• January Portus Preview up Now

  Posted on Wednesday January 30th, 2008 at 18:30 in severus snape, portus 2008, snapecast, snapefest

  I just had a chance to listen to the Portus Preview Podcast for the month of January. They interviewed Rachael from SnapeCast who will be hosting SnapeFest at Portus. I have to say I am not a HUGE Snape person. While I do agree that he is at the ce...

• Episode #58: Harry Potter Potpourri

  Posted on Wednesday November 21st, 2007 at 19:53 in podcasts, afterlife, interviews, harry potter, deathly hallows, immortality, lord voldemort, souls, jkrowling, severus snape, albus dumbledore, wiliam penn

  The more interviews J.K. Rowling gives, the more show topics we get. This time, J.K. Rowling spoke with the Dutch newspaper Volksrant (not to be confused with Volkswagon or Voltron) and discussed many topics. Amongst them were the issues of life af...

• Episode #57: Fatherhood in Potter

  Posted on Thursday November 8th, 2007 at 07:22 in podcasts, fatherhood, harry potter, snape, deathly hallows, lupin, lord voldemort, dumbledore, severus snape, draco malfoy, albus dumbledore, james potter

  Last week we discussed love, and focused on the distinctly maternal focus taken by J.K. Rowling.  This week, we examine the father figures in Harry’s life.  From his actual, albeit ephermeral father James, to surrogates in Lupin, Sirius and e...

• Episode #56: Love in Harry Potter

  Posted on Thursday November 1st, 2007 at 16:12 in podcasts, harry potter, eros, snape, voldemort, deathly hallows, lord voldemort, philia, agape, dumbledore, severus snape, albus dumbledore

  Although in English we have one basic term for love, there’s really all different kinds of love: brotherly love, selfless love, erotic love, and all make some kind of appearance in the Harry Potter novels. In this week’s show, we take a l...

• Episode #54: J.K. Rowling Speaks

  Posted on Thursday October 18th, 2007 at 22:12 in podcasts, harry potter, deathly hallows, jk rowling, severus snape, albus dumbledore

  J.K. Rowling has begin her Open Book Tour, with stops in Los Angeles, New Orleans and New York City. At the press conference at the LA appearance, J.K. Rowling spoke for the first time at length on the religious themes of the Harry Potter books, spe...

• Episode #47: The Prince’s Tale - The Tao of Snape

  Posted on Thursday August 23rd, 2007 at 00:36 in podcasts, harry potter, deathly hallows, slytherin, severus snape, neville longbottom, half blood prince, lily potter, james potter

  Without question, Severus Snape is one of the most intriguing characters in J.K. Rowling’s wizarding world. In the beginning, he was simply a mean teacher, and obstacle for Harry; but by the end of the series, Snape became a paradigm of sacrif...

• Episode #46: The Religion of Harry Potter

  Posted on Thursday August 16th, 2007 at 22:22 in podcasts, harry potter, deathly hallows, jk rowling, lord voldemort, severus snape

  There’s no question that there are religious/Christian undertones and themes to the Harry Potter books. In 2000, JK Rowling stated that if she were to divulge her religious beliefs, it would make the ending of the story obvious. Now that we&#...

• Episode #45: The Dearly Departed

  Posted on Thursday August 9th, 2007 at 23:13 in podcasts, harry potter, deathly hallows, lord voldemort, dobby, severus snape, wormtail, peter pettigrew

  Ask not for whom the bell tolls, for in Book 7, it tolled for quite a few folks.  The body count in the final book gets higher and higher as the book goes on.  Some deaths, granted, were quite welcome, such as Bellatrix and Voldemort; others were t...

• Episode #43: Making Sense of Deathly Hallows

  Posted on Wednesday July 25th, 2007 at 22:56 in podcasts, harry potter, hogwarts, hermione granger, deathly hallows, jk rowling, lord voldemort, hagrid, dobby, severus snape, ron weasley, neville longbottom

  *Deathly Hallows Spoilers Included* It’s been less than a week since the release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, yet most of us have now read the book more than once; inevitably, bits and pieces need to be re-read to make sense of them...

• Episode #31: Snape Revisted

  Posted on Wednesday May 2nd, 2007 at 23:29 in podcasts, severus snape, half blood prince

  After some good discussion in the comments of last week’s post, we’re back to take a fresh look at Snape. Is Snape good or evil, or perhaps, neither (or both)? Most of us are under the presumption that there is some explanation for Snap...

• Episode #30: Occlumens and Legilimency

  Posted on Thursday April 26th, 2007 at 00:39 in podcasts, harry potter, order of the phoenix, severus snape, half blood prince

  I know what you’re thinking…you want a podcast delving into the subject of…Occlumency and Legilimency!  Your wish is granted (we always try to anticipate your needs…).  This week, we explore the meaning of the mind in th...

• Episode #19: Was Snape at Godric’s Hollow?

  Posted on Tuesday February 6th, 2007 at 23:25 in podcasts, deathly hallows, severus snape, lily potter

  Those of you who tuned in to last week’s post-podcast comment frenzy undoubtedly did a head smack when reading Virigina Mama’s prognostication connecting Snape to Godric’s Hollow and the invisibility cloak. If you didn’t, you...