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Instead of seeing criticism as an indication of not liking something, Professor Julian Wamble invites listeners of Critical Magic Theory to explore the things about the characters, plot points, and the Wizarding World of Harry Potter broadly that have always given them pause or made them smile without knowing why. It is in this navigation of the positive and the negative aspects of a world that we find true magic.
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Critical Magic Theory closes the book on Half-Bloods with one final superlatives showdown, capping off more than a year spent inside the wizarding world's largest and most varied blood-status category. Professor Julian W
In this second Prof Responds episode, Professor Julian Wamble returns to listener comments from Critical Magic Theory's Patreon and Spotify communities for a deeper dive into Harry Potter's heroism, sacrifice, half-blood
Harry Potter's heroism is contagious — in the best way and the most literal one. This episode tackles the back half of the Harry Potter survey, working through good half-blood, good Gryffindor, hero, and free will with l
This episode of Critical Magic Theory picks up where the last episode left off, this time handing the floor to the CMT community. Listeners push back, dig deeper, and refuse to agree — on whether Harry's flaws are his fa
Is Harry Potter a good person? A good friend? A victim? Extraordinary? We heard from over 600 listeners, and the results were more chaotic than you might expect. In this episode of Critical Magic Theory, Professor Julian
What does it mean to call someone a hero, and how much of what we believe about heroism in the Harry Potter series was shaped for us before we ever thought to question it? In this Prof Responds episode, Professor Julian
What does it mean to be a hero in the wizarding world, and does being half-blood change the calculus? In this episode, Professor Julian Wamble examines the Battle of Hogwarts through the lens of half-blood identity, aski
In this Prof Responds episode, Professor Julian Wamble returns to Seamus Finnigan to sit with what the Critical Magic Theory community had to say. Listeners dig into three themes: the machinery of Irish stereotyping in b
What does it mean that the number one word listeners used to describe Seamus Finnigan was Irish? In Critical Magic Theory history, no character has ever been described by their nationality before. That single data point
Professor Julian Wamble returns to the Defense Against the Dark Arts bonus episode with listener responses from Patreon, Discord, and Spotify. Three threads drive the conversation: whether Dumbledore ever actually tried
In this episode on Hogwarts courses, Professor Julian Wamble takes on Defense Against the Dark Arts and finds more to critique than expected. The central argument: DADA was never really about defense. It only becomes urg
In this Prof Responds episode, listeners push back, go deeper, and make the case for Dean Thomas with everything they have. The conversation spans four major threads: Dean's remarkable ability to hold onto both the muggl
This IS a Dean Thomas episode, and, if I do say so myself, it delivers. From his quiet refusal to jettison his Muggle identity in a world pressuring him to assimilate, to his year on the run without proof of his blood st
In this Prof Responds episode, Professor Julian Wamble returns to Parvati and Padma Patil with the material the original episode didn't have time for, the full Weasley comparison, the backstory inventory, and the argumen
In this episode, Professor Julian Wamble traces the Patil twins from Philosopher's Stone through the Battle of Hogwarts, examining what the series gives them and what it withholds. From the Yule Ball's transactional gaze
In this Prof Responds episode, Professor Julian Wamble takes on one of Harry Potter's most misunderstood characters: Cho Chang. Drawing on listener responses to the main episode, Prof explores three themes— Harry's emoti
For personal reasons, Professor Julian Wamble is taking a brief detour from the regularly scheduled programming — which also means listeners who haven't caught the Cho Chang episode yet have an extra week to do so before
She was the first girl Harry Potter called his "girlfriend." But, she was also a seeker, Cedric's date, a defender of her best friend, a member of Dumbledore's Army, and the only person brave enough to feel all the feeli
In this Prof Responds episode, Professor Julian Wamble returns to "The Color of Magic" to sit with what the CMT community brought to the post-episode chat. Before diving into the comments, Julian opens with an invitation
In this Black History Month special, Professor Julian Wamble turns the lens on the five Black characters in the Harry Potter series, Angelina Johnson, Lee Jordan, Kingsley Shacklebolt, Blaise Zabini, and Dean Thomas, and
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