It’s Monday — you know us, you love us, it’s time for Podtrificus Totalus, a Harry Potter podcast done book by book, chapter by chapter.
This week we cover chapter five of Harry Potter and Prisoner of Azkaban, in which Harry encounters a clumsy metaphor for depression — I mean, a new and foreboding creature in the magical world! — meets his new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher, and eats some chocolate.
We make a number of references to outside sources and popular culture, which are listed below:
- Friends at the Table and The Adventure Zone
- Brookyln 99 (TV Series)
- The Lord of the Rings series
- The scary Beowulf movie from 2007
- Romeo + Juliet (1996)
- A Storm of Swords by George R.R. Martin
- Kushiel’s Dart by Jacqueline Carey
- An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir
- Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
- Finding Nemo (2003)
- Lupin’s personality type is ENFJ, per J.K. Rowling’s Twitter (transphobia warning if you visit her account)
- JKR’s “Idle Jottings,” preserved by the Harry Potter Lexicon, which reference that the Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher in Prisoner of Azkaban may have been a woman at some point in the writing process
- Q&A with J.K. Rowling at the Edinburgh Book Festival (15 August 2004) on Accio Quote
- Ann Treneman interview with J.K. Rowling for The Times (30 June 2000) on Accio Quote
- Dementor on the Harry Potter Wiki
- Dementors and Chocolate on Wizarding World
Our Spell of the Week for this episode is chocolate, which seems to have some magical properties in the Harry Potter universe.
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You can hear more from our guests, Kevin Rizza and Lauren Kelley, on the Why Can’t We Be Wizards podcast. Check out the show on Twitter (@WhyNotWizards) and Instagram (@WhyNotWizards). You can also find Kevin on Twitter as @RizzaKevin.
Thanks for listening and we’ll see you again for 3.6, “Talons and Tea Leaves!” Have a magical day!
