Ph.D. student Parinita Shetty is the creator of the Marginally Fannish podcast, in which she uses an international lens to examine fan podcasts as sites of public pedagogy. For a delicious break from quarantine life, she invited me onto her show for an hour of talk about how much I love the character of Nagini
Notes from a talk delivered at LeakyCon in Boston, MA, USA, on Sunday, October 13, 2019. Posted by request. Thank you for coming to think about what is, to me, the most difficult relationship to understand in Harry Potter. There are things about Snape and Dumbledore that I’ve been trying to figure out since July 2007
Sixth blog post about Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald. Did Leta Lestrange temporarily host an Obscurus before passing it to Credence? That was a listener theory from Episode 75 of the SpeakBeasty podcast and it seized my imagination immediately. It would make a lot of things click. The Absence of Love We learn in this movie
Fifth blog post about Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald. Grimmson, a “beast hunter for hire,” is the opposite of Newt Scamander. When the Ministry wants someone to kill Credence to prevent Grindelwald from using him as a weapon, Grimmson looks at an image of Credence’s face and says, “Is that it?” “It.” Not “him.” Newt
This post builds upon my previous blog post about Fantastic Beasts: Crimes of Grindelwald. Header image shows the prop used in the film to represent Credence Barebone’s adoption certificate. Who or what is Credence Barebone? Grindelwald has an answer. Whether it is completely true or not, he has a story that he is telling to
Spoiler alert! If you haven’t yet seen Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, be warned that the following blog post contains spoilers. When a hostile Ministry official accuses Dumbledore of once being “as close as brothers” with Grindelwald, Dumbledore corrects him: “We were closer than brothers.” What did that mean? Possibly over 99% of the theater
Note: Dear good people, do not do what I did. Do not throw out everything you prepared for writing a 20-minute talk on the day before the talk is scheduled because you’ve just realized that there’s something you really have to write about, so you have to scrap everything and start over. That was not a
Seventh and final blog post spurred by reading The Life and Lies of Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore by Irvin Khaytman. The final chapter of Irvin’s book addresses the similarity between Dumbledore’s storyline and Snape’s. In the chapter of Deathly Hallows called “The Life and Lies of Albus Dumbledore,” Harry and Hermione lay out the terms of the debate.
Further reflections spurred by reading The Life and Lies of Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore by Irvin Khaytman. In the Half-Blood Prince chapter, Irvin starts with the moment that Dumbledore is injured by the ring Horcrux and then branches out into complex speculation about what Dumbledore might have been thinking during his final year, as he prepared Harry to
Further reflections spurred by reading The Life and Lies of Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore by Irvin Khaytman. The Order of the Phoenix chapter of Irvin Khaytman’s Dumbledore book is the one that opened my eyes the most. Even though the clues had always been there, and there had even been explicit pointers to the clues,
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