6.1: The Other Minister
Harry Potter After 2020
This volume is going to humble us all. We're all going to have to face the parts of ourselves that we're not sure we're strong enough to face, and everyone else in the world can see these things about us. What are you going to do if the world is in an urgent enough crisis so that we don't actually have time for self-delusion anymore? Well, just give it up and just do what you have to do. For full show notes, transcripts, ways to contact the hosts or support the show, and more, visit .
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5.38: The Second War Begins
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On Umbridge: How would you feel if you had tried your absolute best to get somebody destroyed and they come to save you? It's not because they love you; it's because you have worth -- because people have worth. I think that being face-to-face with the greatness of that humbling mercy and that moral code is world-destroying for her. For full show notes, transcripts, ways to contact the hosts or support the show, and more, visit .
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5.37: The Lost Prophecy
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Recently, having seen what becomes of people when they become billionaires, how it warps them… I have felt a greater appreciation for what Dumbledore did for Harry by not having him be raised from the age of one as The Boy Who Lived, the Chosen One, the savior. Neglect and abuse are awful; uncontained indulgence is frightening in a completely different way. For full show notes, transcripts, ways to contact the hosts or support the show, and more, visit .
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5.36: The Only One He Ever Feared
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Grace Candido-Beecher [author of Voldemort] reads that phrase "the boy" as when Voldemort says it, he means Harry and he also means that part of himself that was the young Tom Riddle growing up in an orphanage. For full show notes, transcripts, ways to contact the hosts or support the show, and more, visit .
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5.35: Beyond the Veil
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When your friends are literally in mortal danger around you, the only important thing is these people's lives have to be saved. That is such a good, strong value that I think the Harry Potter generation, the millennials that grew up with this, really internalized from this international bestseller, which is one of the reasons why there's so much confusion and mass indignation at thinking that it's now okay to throw trans people under the bus. For full show notes, transcripts, ways to contact the hosts or support the show, and more, visit .
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5.34: The Department of Mysteries
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The locked room, the one that you can't do anything about. You can't get in, there's no handle, there's no nothing. I associate this room with Snape in all ways. To me, the energy that keeps this room sealed is exactly what this whole volume has been showing us about Occlumency. For full show notes, transcripts, ways to contact the hosts or support the show, and more, visit .
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5.33: Fight and Flight
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I see it from people who accepted these books when they were children and didn't have the critical faculties to see, 'Okay, this is a woman of a certain race and background writing these limitations that are her own personal prejudices.' But it's not too late to go back and reread and build up those defenses. That's just what any rereading does. For full show notes, transcripts, ways to contact the hosts or support the show, and more, visit .
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5.32: Out of the Fire
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JC: Madam Pomfrey says, "I would resign in protest, but I can't abandon the students." I hear teachers say that all the time. "I hate that the government wants me to put up the Ten Commandments or whatever. I hate that I can't call kids by their chosen name. I hate that I can't ask them how they're feeling or express concern over their mental health. I would quit in protest, but then who is going to take care of these kids? They still need someone." For full show notes, transcripts, ways to contact the hosts or support the show, and more, visit .
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5.31: O.W.L.s
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JC: ICE comes in the middle of the night to take Hagrid, basically. LK: Where are they taking him? What are they charging him with? Harry demonstrates something that is painfully real and current: he's so upset by all of this that he gets three hours of extremely poor-quality sleep the night before his History of Magic exam, so that exam is doomed. For full show notes, transcripts, ways to contact the hosts or support the show, and more, visit .
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5.30: Grawp
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The bullying that Grawp was suffering (that Hagrid had to save him from) is a result of colonization and displacement because giants were not meant to be in such close quarters. They've been attacking and killing each other because they weren't meant to be crammed into wherever they've escaped to, but there's nowhere else for a giant to go. This is about land rights and displacement. For full show notes, transcripts, ways to contact the hosts or support the show, and more, visit .
info_outlineJC: ICE comes in the middle of the night to take Hagrid, basically.
LK: Where are they taking him? What are they charging him with? Harry demonstrates something that is painfully real and current: he's so upset by all of this that he gets three hours of extremely poor-quality sleep the night before his History of Magic exam, so that exam is doomed.
For full show notes, transcripts, ways to contact the hosts or support the show, and more, visit hpafter2020.com.