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🎙️ 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
🎙️ Episode 15: The one who is both brave AND clever
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The Harry Potter Lexicon podcast is back with a new series. In this episode Steve talks about Severus Snape (and calls him "Snake" by accident more than once), Read More
🎙️ Episode 14: "It's the Mirror all over again."
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Steve talks about the upcoming Potter play, the latest Pottermore updates, various arcana from the Book of Spells, and sources which may or may not be canon. Then he finally tackles the complexities of the seventh book and explains why, for the entire series to make sense, the Hallows are essential and Harry's final confrontation with Voldemort absolutely cannot be violent. Read More
🎙️ Episode 13: "The budding new baby hero!"
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Steve digs into the interview archives, discussing Rowling’s control of her story and her characters, then explores the murky challenge of finding name sources, discovers the not-so-murky Grimmauld Place in London, and discusses the essential elements of book six which allow us to truly understand book seven. Show links: The… Read More
🎙️ Episode 12: "Why weren't we told about this sooner?"
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Steve chats about Rowling's take on "official" Harry Potter, then discusses different modes of storytelling in book five, fan recommendations for best re-reads, how Sectumsepra just might be necessary, and how Molly Weasley rocks long before her showdown with Bellatrix. Read More
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Steve marvels at the levels of the soundscapes on Pottermore, then bemoans expensive canon and Rowling's lost website, reads a wonderful insight from a fan about the magic of books, then finds book five to be "really jarring on a number of levels" ... and yet his favorite book of the series. Read More
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Steve starts "season two" of the podcast by reviewing the past nine episodes, then discusses new things on Pottermore, discovering Diagon Alley in London, how the world of Harry Potter changed during the gap between books four and five, and why that gap left many fans unprepared for book five when it came. Read More
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Steve wonders about the numbers 1531 and 4157, then talks about December in the Harry Potter universe, what makes the Dark Arts dark (and where Crouch Jr. could have learned them), mixes up the spelling of a spell and forgets the order of Priori Incantatem, then recalls experiences with anti-Potter book-banners. Read More
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Steve raves about Pottermore, then talks about dragon breeds, interviews from the misty past, offensive spells, Rowling's trickery, missing the whole point, and other odds and ends of Harry Potter lore. Read More
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Steve wanders down Charing Cross Road, then talks about hidden pubs, anti-magical roads, questions in book two and answers in books six, floating kitchenware, hanging animals, and other bits of Potter lore. Read More
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Steve discusses McGonagall and Walpurga and their friends, wobbly bridges, mutant chickens, Bertie Botts Shots, who can and can't fly, a fateful decision to retrieve a forgotten diary, and other odds and ends of Harry Potter canon. Read More
🎙️ Episode 5: "In front of me was a signpost that said 'Burrow'..."
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Steve explains how choices were made about Lexicon content ten years ago, then discovers the Burrow among the hedgerows, an intriguing list from Rowing’s notebooks, and two Harrys over the course of the saga. Pictures of the Burrow farm and a Devon country lane:… Read More
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Steve lists things he liked and didn't like about Deathly Hallows part 2 (SPOILERS), and discusses the warm and cozy Great Hall, the Famous Wizard cards, prejudice through the ages, what Dobby knew and how, and other Harry Potter odds and ends. Read More
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Steve talks about Harry Potter canon levels, Rowling skipping the 't', teaching styles of Snape vs. Flitwick for First Years, wandering around Grimmauld Place, and other random Potter things. Read More
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The Daily Prophet newslettersSteve talks about Pottermore misconceptions, how Rowling changed the online world once before, cool and interesting sources of canon information, Galleons changing the world, the late Quidditch match in book one, and other bits of Potter lore. Read More
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Welcome to the Harry Potter Lexicon Podcast, in this first episode:
Steve introduces the podcast
thanks a few people
reminiscing about visiting the graveyard in Godric's Hollow
the missing twenty-four hours
the mystery of Quirrell
and a few other oddities. Read More