48 Episodes

  1. Sybill Trelawney: Seeing, but Not Believed

    Published: 7/10/2025
  2. Prof Response- Bigger than the Box: the Rubeus Hagrid Story

    Published: 7/2/2025
  3. Caretaker, Friend, Scapegoat: The Rubeus Hagrid Story

    Published: 6/25/2025
  4. Prof Responds- The Umbridge Trap

    Published: 6/18/2025
  5. The Devil Wears Pink: The Violence, Villainy, and Vanity of Dolores Umbridge

    Published: 6/11/2025
  6. Prof Responds- Gilderoy Lockhart: Ravenclaw or Ravenfraud?

    Published: 6/4/2025
  7. Fame Is a Fickle Fraud: Here Lies Gilderoy Lockhart

    Published: 5/28/2025
  8. Prof Responds- Mom or Mess, Petty or Possessed: McGonagall & Quirrell

    Published: 5/21/2025
  9. Ambition and Audacity: The Two Faces of Quirinus Quirrell

    Published: 5/14/2025
  10. The Silent Suffering of Minerva McGonagall

    Published: 4/30/2025
  11. Prof Responds- Remus Lupin & the Struggle to Stay Human

    Published: 4/23/2025
  12. 3.3%=100%: The Remus Lupin Story

    Published: 4/16/2025
  13. Prof Responds: Has anyone seen Peter Pettigrew?

    Published: 4/9/2025
  14. The "Ratdacity" of Peter Pettigrew

    Published: 4/2/2025
  15. Prof Responds- Death Eaters, Country Clubs, and the Cosplay of Power

    Published: 3/26/2025
  16. Lord Voldemort: More Diva than Dark Lord

    Published: 3/19/2025
  17. Prof Responds: The Power, The Pettiness, and The Pretty

    Published: 3/12/2025
  18. [Tom] Riddle Me this: The origin story of a pick me

    Published: 3/6/2025
  19. Prof Responds- The Pureblood Showdown

    Published: 2/26/2025
  20. It's a Pureblood Showdown: The Best, The Worst, and Everything in Between

    Published: 2/19/2025

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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.