I am the chief "Technology Wizard" of the Lexicon. Over the last several years, I have worked with Steve on bringing the Lexicon website up to modern standards.
Since Episode 16, I joined Steve as co-host of the Harry Potter Lexicon Podcast. On the Lexicon itself, my principal duties include maintaining the servers that host the Lexicon, converting Patricio's fantastic design into a fully functioning site, and continually working on adding new features to the Lexicon codebase. That said, I also make edits from time to time as I finds the time to browse and edit the Lexicon as well.
I owe a lot to Harry Potter. On a Harry Potter RPG website I volunteered and programmed for, I met a young lady named Barbara who shared my love of the Harry Potter novels. About a year and a half later I married her. A few months after that, through connections met on the same site I found my future employer and so I owe my job and my wife to Harry Potter.
Over a Decade later, Barbara and I are proud to be working with Steve and the rest of the great staff here at the Harry Potter Lexicon to continuously make it even greater.
Nick Moline
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Love... and Harry Potter will Bring us Together
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Nick: Hey, everyone, welcome to your Harry Potter Lexicon Minute, I’m Nick Moline, The Harry Potter Lexicon’s resident tech wizard, Barbara: and I’m Barbara Moline, one of the Editors on the Harry Potter Lexicon, and Nick’s Wife, and this is the story of… Read More
How My Potter Adventure Began
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Hey, everyone, welcome to your Harry Potter Lexicon Minute. I’m Nick Moline, The Harry Potter Lexicon’s resident tech wizard, and this is the story of how my adventure in J.K. Rowling’s wizarding world began. It was somewhere around late 2000 or early 2001 that I first… Read More
Episode 31: The Crimes of Grindelwald Trailer
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The last week or two has just been chock full of new stuff for members of the fandom. We have a new audiobook version of Quidditch through the Ages which also has a dramatization of the 2014 Quidditch World Cup which is particularly entertaining. We have a new gameplay trailer… Read More
The Changing Quidditch World Cup Schedule
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Following up on the earlier release of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them in audiobook form, Pottermore and Audible are releasing a Quidditch Through the Ages audiobook tomorrow. In addition to a reading of the book itself, 2 voice actresses will take on the roles of Ginny Potter… Read More
Episode 30: Discussing The Harry Potter Lexicon Minute
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Episode 30 of our main Lexicon Podcast is shorter than usual and is all about discussing our new podcast, the Harry Potter Lexicon Minute. We started the episode by talking about the rich collection of essays on the Lexicon and the recent feedback we’ve received telling us that we have… Read More
Episode 29: “...and it was all just cabbage”
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Recorded in person and with an added panelist, we discuss Gamp's Law and the meaning of "sixteenth year" Read More
Episode 28: New Fan Theories!
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Episode 28 is finally here! This episode (Recorded on November 25th) is all about a couple of recent fan theories we’ve come across lately. We discuss the recent updates to the Lexicon, dissect the new cast photo, and debate theories we’ve seen online lately. What’s New in the Lexicon We… Read More
Defense Against the Dark Arts Loot Crate Unboxing
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The July J.K. Rowling’s Wizarding World Loot Crate has arrived! Join Nick and Barbara once again as we unbox another box of magical goodness for the Lexicon’s Youtube Channel. This month’s theme is “Defense Against the Dark Arts” and contains items to help you fend off the darkest and most… Read More
Episode 27: The Hogwarts Deathtrap
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New at the Lexicon Steve and Nick began Episode 27 by talking about the task of moving remaining content over from the old legacy site into the current, modern Lexicon. We also talked about the ongoing work on the Timeline system. New in the Harry Potter Universe We talked about… Read More
The Cauldron: Where Science and Magic meet
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It was very early in my life that I became captivated with the worlds of Science Fiction and Fantasy. From Tolkien’s Middle Earth, to C.S. Lewis’s Narnia, to Roddenberry’s Federation, the worlds of my favorite pieces of fiction spurred me on in a myriad of ways. I can trace my… Read More
Episode 26: Fantastic Beasts and the 2001 thirst for canon
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Episode 26 of the Lexicon Podcast focuses on Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (the schoolbook released in 2001 and a new edition released this week), and Quidditch Through the Ages (the book that was originally published along with Fantastic Beasts in 2001). We first talked… Read More
Episode 25: The Horcrux Conundrum
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For the majority of Episode 25, Steve and Nick puzzle over the topic of Horcruxes, and more particularly how they are created and when Voldemort created each of his Horcruxes. Listen in as we end up with more questions at the end then we had at the beginning. We are back to audio only this week, but stay tuned, more Video podcasts will be coming soon. Read More
Episode 24: J.K. Rowling's Wizarding World Loot Crate Unboxing (x2)
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Episode 24 is a little different than usual, it is actually 2 mini-episodes put into 1 (mostly because after recording the first J.K. Rowling’s Wizarding World Loot Crate crate unboxing, I was so busy I didn’t have time to actually edit and post it). As such, the second Wizarding World… Read More
Episode 23: Fantastic Beasts and the Wait for the Next Movie
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The week Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them came out, Lexicon Tech Wizard Nick Moline just so happened to be on a business trip. On the way home, he stopped in Texas and together Steve and Nick (along with Steve’s wife Mitzi) watched the movie together. After watching the film,… Read More
Episode 22: The One About Draco
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Episode 22 of The Harry Potter Lexicon Podcast focuses on the character of Draco Malfoy. Steve and Nick start by talking about the latest news about the upcoming Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them movie franchise, now announced to be five movies instead of three, and theorize on how far… Read More
Episode 21: Do Seers see alternate realities?
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Steve and Nick continue their discussion of Cursed Child, so here is your spoiler warning (which we didn’t quite get to mentioning until we had already been talking about cursed child quite a bit), don’t listen to this episode if you haven’t read or seen Harry Potter and the Cursed… Read More
Minister or Teacher, either way Hermione is still awesome
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In the weeks since the release of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, there have been a number of criticisms of the story. One, which I’ve already talked about has to do with the way time itself is presented to work. Another has to do with one character, … Read More
Episode 20: Is Cursed Child Good?
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Steve and Nick finally got a chance to sit down and talk about Cursed Child, some good, some not so good, and found it is very hard to steer away from the Time Travel rabbit hole. So much stuff to talk about and we debate a few big issues on the story.
SPOILER WARNING: Don't listen to this episode if you haven't read Cursed Child yet because we are not holding back on this episode. Read More
Albus Potter and the lesson in Quantum Mechanics
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The release of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child has brought the conversation about quantum mechanics in the Wizarding World back into the limelight. In this essay, I will attempt to make sense of the way Time Travel in Harry’s world actually works, and give a bit of explanation to the… Read More
Episode 19: The Grand Circle Tour of the Lexicon
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On this, our second Live episode of the Harry Potter Lexicon Podcast, Steve and Nick take the viewers on a tour of the New Lexicon and show off a bit of the new unique navigation and some of the special features that we’ve put our blood, sweat and tears into. Read More
Where will you be Saturday Night? We know where we will be!
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As you may know, part of the reason we were hurrying to get the new Lexicon online was because, for the first time in nine years, Potter Fans all have something worth getting us to a bookstore at midnight. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, the script of the two part play… Read More
Episode 18: We're LIVE!
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Episode 18 of the Harry Potter Lexicon Podcast is very special, for multiple reasons. Our first ever Live Podcast (with live Canon questions from the audience) Our first ever Video Podcast (don’t worry, you can still listen to audio!) We pushed the New Lexicon Live… Read More
Episode 17: Trademarks, Contracts, and Butterbeer
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Steve and Nick talk about live data on the new lexicon, which spawns a debate about wizarding currency. Just how much is a Galleon “really” worth anyway? We also try to make sense of the concept of Magical Contracts, and Nick recounts a tale of his recent visit to the new… Read More
Episode 16: So How Does the Map Work Anyway?
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Steve introduces a new series with this episode to coincide with the new version of the Harry Potter Lexicon website, and also introduces a new co-host, Nick Moline. They discuss the new website, for which Nick is the programmer, and then delve into the mysterious Marauder's Map, answering the age-old fan question of why <insert name here> didn't see <insert another name here> on the map? Read More
How many Quidditch World Cups have there been anyway?
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For the past couple of months (according to The Daily Prophet in Pottermore) the 427th Quidditch World Cup took place in the Patagonia Desert in Argentina. Since April 12, 2014, J.K. Rowling has been progressively giving us the story of… Read More
Busy little House-elfs
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Hello everyone, you may have noticed some changes around here lately, most of them right here in the What’s New section of the site. The Lexicon Blog First of all, the What’s New section has now become The Lexicon Blog. And it’s more than just a change in title. While… Read More