Recent Posts Tagged With 'lord voldemort'

• Portus Video Here. Now.

  Posted on Sunday November 2nd, 2008 at 19:44 in voldemort, lord voldemort, portus 2008, harry potter conference, azkatraz, azkatraz 2009, formal programming

  After almost four months, I have finally gotten around to uploading the video from my round table discussion at Portus. The reason I chose to do this is three fold. Or would that be tri-fold? I don’t know. In any event….here are the reaso...

• Episode #79: Harry Potter and Gödel’s Theorem

  Posted on Friday May 16th, 2008 at 17:35 in podcasts, harry potter, order of the phoenix, lord voldemort, patterns in potter, existenialism, gödel's theorem

  This week, we finish up our Patterns in Potter discussion for Book 5, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.  This time, we focus on Harry’s visions (courtesy of Lord Voldemort) and his driving urge to understand the truth of these visio...

• Episode #63: Harry Potter and the End of Innocence

  Posted on Thursday December 27th, 2007 at 20:48 in literature, podcasts, harry potter, order of the phoenix, deathly hallows, goblet of fire, lord voldemort, half blood prince

  There comes a time in a person’s life when they realize, for the first time, that the world is not actually the way they thought it was.  That the picture they had in their mind about how the world works, the rules of the game, are suddenl...

• Episode #58: Harry Potter Potpourri

  Posted on Wednesday November 21st, 2007 at 19:53 in podcasts, afterlife, interviews, harry potter, deathly hallows, immortality, lord voldemort, souls, jkrowling, severus snape, albus dumbledore, wiliam penn

  The more interviews J.K. Rowling gives, the more show topics we get. This time, J.K. Rowling spoke with the Dutch newspaper Volksrant (not to be confused with Volkswagon or Voltron) and discussed many topics. Amongst them were the issues of life af...

• Episode #57: Fatherhood in Potter

  Posted on Thursday November 8th, 2007 at 07:22 in podcasts, fatherhood, harry potter, snape, deathly hallows, lupin, lord voldemort, dumbledore, severus snape, draco malfoy, albus dumbledore, james potter

  Last week we discussed love, and focused on the distinctly maternal focus taken by J.K. Rowling.  This week, we examine the father figures in Harry’s life.  From his actual, albeit ephermeral father James, to surrogates in Lupin, Sirius and e...

• Episode #56: Love in Harry Potter

  Posted on Thursday November 1st, 2007 at 16:12 in podcasts, harry potter, eros, snape, voldemort, deathly hallows, lord voldemort, philia, agape, dumbledore, severus snape, albus dumbledore

  Although in English we have one basic term for love, there’s really all different kinds of love: brotherly love, selfless love, erotic love, and all make some kind of appearance in the Harry Potter novels. In this week’s show, we take a l...

• Episode #49: Voldemort’s Downfall

  Posted on Thursday September 6th, 2007 at 20:55 in podcasts, harry potter, deathly hallows, lord voldemort, horcruxes, house elves, albus dumbledore

  Voldermort’s downfall was a long time coming. Despite his efforts to ensure his longevity, Voldemort’s overall approach to life almost guarunteed his defeat. By ignoring the signifcance of some very important “deeper magics,”...

• Episode #46: The Religion of Harry Potter

  Posted on Thursday August 16th, 2007 at 22:22 in podcasts, harry potter, deathly hallows, jk rowling, lord voldemort, severus snape

  There’s no question that there are religious/Christian undertones and themes to the Harry Potter books. In 2000, JK Rowling stated that if she were to divulge her religious beliefs, it would make the ending of the story obvious. Now that we&#...

• Episode #45: The Dearly Departed

  Posted on Thursday August 9th, 2007 at 23:13 in podcasts, harry potter, deathly hallows, lord voldemort, dobby, severus snape, wormtail, peter pettigrew

  Ask not for whom the bell tolls, for in Book 7, it tolled for quite a few folks.  The body count in the final book gets higher and higher as the book goes on.  Some deaths, granted, were quite welcome, such as Bellatrix and Voldemort; others were t...

• Episode #43: Making Sense of Deathly Hallows

  Posted on Wednesday July 25th, 2007 at 22:56 in podcasts, harry potter, hogwarts, hermione granger, deathly hallows, jk rowling, lord voldemort, hagrid, dobby, severus snape, ron weasley, neville longbottom

  *Deathly Hallows Spoilers Included* It’s been less than a week since the release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, yet most of us have now read the book more than once; inevitably, bits and pieces need to be re-read to make sense of them...

• Episode #41: The End of Harry Potter

  Posted on Monday July 16th, 2007 at 23:18 in podcasts, harry potter, deathly hallows, lord voldemort, prognostications

  This may very well be our last full episode before the release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. In this episode, we discuss how we’re feeling (perhaps the five stages of loss would be appropriate), and take one final crack at a few the...

• Episode #34: The Wizard’s Soul

  Posted on Friday May 25th, 2007 at 08:13 in podcasts, harry potter, lord voldemort

  What kind of a soul does a wizard have?  JK Rowling has left many hints as to the nature of the soul, as portrayed in the Harry Potter books.  In this week’s episode, we tie it all together in an attempt to figure out the true nature of the w...

• Harry Potter and The Office: Team Gryffindor vs. Team Voldemort

  Posted on Tuesday May 15th, 2007 at 18:48 in harry potter, lord voldemort, gryffindor

  From last week’s episode of The Office. ...

• Episode #32: How to Destroy a Horcrux

  Posted on Thursday May 10th, 2007 at 23:26 in podcasts, harry potter, lord voldemort, prognostications, horcruxes

  So, we know that the big task facing Harry is to find and destroy Voldemort’s Horcuxes, thereby destroying the fragments of his tattered soul and shuffling off his mortal coil. Sounds simple, right? Not quite, there’s one problem that w...

• Episode #29: Prophecies

  Posted on Wednesday April 18th, 2007 at 23:07 in podcasts, harry potter, lord voldemort, prognostications, neville longbottom

  Quite predictably, ever since we were introduced to The Prophecy in Book 5, it’s been the subject of controversy.  Despite almost an entire chapter of Book 6 devoted to setting the record straight, questions still abound about what The Prophec...