Harry Potter Lexicon Minute

Author: Vários
Narrator: Vários
Publisher: Podcast
Duration: 3:21:40
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Synopsis

The Harry Potter Lexicon website has been in existence for almost two decades. Over that time, J.K Rowling thrilled us with her magical creation in novels, interviews, on her websites, on Twitter, and more.And here at the Lexicon, a small group of dedicated fans have worked very hard over all those years to catalogue all the magical details she revealed. The Lexicon website has always been seen as the gold standard for careful research and faithfulness to Rowlings created world, all because of these amazing fans.Now we editors of the Lexicon would like share some of what were so passionate about in a new way. So weve creating this podcast as a way for you to hear from us. Its called the Harry Potter Minute, and in it youll hear the voices of our editors sharing a few of the many little things which delight us about the Wizarding World. We are fans from all over the globe who love to spend our time keeping track of the interesting details and obscure references which make Rowlings work so rich and wonderful.In each podcast, one to two minutes in length, well talk about anything from cool trivia and interesting canon passages to the latest Wizarding World news. We might share something thats stuck in our heads as we researched the books or maybe recall some event from the history of Harry Potter fandom.The podcasts will come out a couple of times a week, on Wednesdays and Saturdays. We hope youll join us! And wed love to hear from you as well. Feel free to use the comment section on the blogpost for each podcast to post your thoughts.Special thanks go to Felicia Cano who gave us permission to use her amazing artwork of Hermione reading a book for the logo, which was brilliantly created by Kim B.

Episodes

Horcrux Deaths

22/08/2019 Duration: 06min

Today we’re going to talk Horcruxes. Specifically, how they’re made. I started thinking about this subject when I read a particularly interesting passage from Half-Blood Prince. Here’s what caught my eye: Dumbledore says that Voldemort “seems to have reserved the process of making Horcruxes for particularly significant deaths. … After an interval of some years, […] The post Horcrux Deaths appeared first on Harry Potter Lexicon.

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OP33: What Was She Thinking

17/08/2019 Duration: 06min

At the end of the last chapter, Hermione launched an impromptu plan to free herself and Harry from Umbridge, who had caught them using her office fireplace to talk to someone. Hermione’s plan was to pretend that they were talking to Dumbledore, telling him that the powerful secret weapon he’d created was ready to use. […] The post OP33: What Was She Thinking appeared first on Harry Potter Lexicon.

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New Historicism and Harry Potter

14/08/2019 Duration: 02min

New historicism is an approach to literature which regards a work of literature as a product of the historical moment in which it was created and as embedded in the ideas and ideologies present in that time. For example, a new historicist might be interested in what Elizabethan beliefs about gender roles can tell us […] The post New Historicism and Harry Potter appeared first on Harry Potter Lexicon.

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CC4: Act 1 Scene 5: Doings at the Ministry

10/08/2019 Duration: 04min

This is a short scene, but it’s a huge scene when it comes to important information. We get a glimpse of the time-turner that causes all of the timeline disasters in this play. We finally get a mention of Hugo! We get the official titles of Harry and Hermione’s position in the Ministry. And we […] The post CC4: Act 1 Scene 5: Doings at the Ministry appeared first on Harry Potter Lexicon.

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The Smell of Love

07/08/2019 Duration: 02min

Love is obviously a powerful theme of the Harry Potter novels, but today I’d just like to talk about the powerful love potion amortentia, and how it induces the smell of what most attracts us. We first encounter amortentia in Slughorn’s classroom during his first potions lesson, and for Harry it smells like treacle tart, […] The post The Smell of Love appeared first on Harry Potter Lexicon.

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OP32: That “Saving People Thing”

03/08/2019 Duration: 05min

Hermione says something very important in chapter 32 of Order of the Phoenix, something which helps define the overarching plot of the entire seven-book series. When Harry is frantically describing the vision he had of Sirius captured and tortured by Voldemort in the Department of Mysteries, Hermione tries to reason with him. ‘OK,’ she said, […] The post OP32: That “Saving People Thing” appeared first on Harry Potter Lexicon.

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