Category: snape

Transcript of Snape Chat Podcast Episode 50

Thank you to Deannah Robinson for transcribing Snape Chat Podcast’s interview with Lorrie Kim. Inquiries about transcription and subtitling work can be sent to: deannahm03@gmail.com. Snape Chat Podcast Episode 50, September 6, 2025 Snape: I can teach you how to bewitch the mind and ensnare the senses. I can tell you how to bottle fame, brew

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Snape Chat Podcast Ep. 50

Lorrie Kim joins Snape Chat Podcast for a wide-ranging interview about everything from TERFpocalypse and Death of the Author to whether Snape died as a good man.

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Masterful by Logospilgrim

Masterful:  Severus Snape, A Jar of Cockroaches, and Me by Logospilgrim, published January 28, 2020.  Order from Lulu.com, $18.50.  Also available from Amazon and Barnes and Noble. Stories change according to who’s doing the reading. The character of Snape is certainly not for everybody.  Is he irredeemable?  Brave?  Irrelevant?  A source of strength? As Logospilgrim

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The Things You Do for Your Boss

I asked the artist mud-foot.tumblr.com to draw me a cartoon of Dumbledore telling Snape to kill him.  This is what they came up with, and I’ve been laughing ever since.  Perfection.

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“And my soul, Dumbledore?” The Snape-Dumbledore Relationship

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

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Mini Adventure Mapping with Xandra Robinson-Burns of Heroine Training

I met a magical cartographer at Granger Leadership Academy in March 2019. Xandra Robinson-Burns is an essayist who runs Heroine Training, providing lessons on how to apply love of fiction and magic to daily life, becoming the heroine of your own story. I was introduced to her by Grace Gordon, who said firmly, “You will

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Snape Celebration! [and trivia] at LeakyCon 2018

This is a modified version of a panel titled “Snape Celebration! Talk and Trivia” delivered at LeakyCon, Dallas, TX, on August 11, 2018. Welcome to a celebration of Snape.  I love Snape, but I’m going a little dark in this talk. Here are some of the complicated reasons I celebrate Snape. He’s not materialistic.  Like

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Ten years later, an apology for killing Snape! Never more timely.

Rowling apologizes for killing Snape! OK, here it is. Please don’t start flame wars over it, but this year I’d like to apologise for killing (whispers)… Snape. *runs for cover* — J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) May 2, 2017 In July 2007, when I read Snape’s death scene and realized his author wasn’t going to give him

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Snape was a reformed neo-Nazi

With all of the white supremacists, “alt-right” supporters, and neo-Nazis in U.S. government this year, it becomes clearer to U.S. readers that Rowling wrote Snape to be a reformed neo-Nazi who devoted his adult life to renouncing such ideology and remaining undercover so he could help similarly vulnerable students avoid repeating his mistakes.  This group interview,

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Transcript! Book Jawn Podcast Ep 33

In July 2016, Grace Gordon and Sawyer Lovett of Book Jawn Podcast released an interview with Lorrie Kim about Snape: A Definitive Reading. You can read the transcript courtesy of whiz transcriber Deannah Robinson.  Contact her at deannahm03@gmail.com if you need anything transcribed! Book Jawn Podcast Ep 33 (Writer Jawn): “You Can Retain the Value of

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