Recent Posts Tagged With 'patterns in potter'

• Episode #83: Patterns in Potter - Deathly Hallows

  Posted on Tuesday July 1st, 2008 at 22:23 in podcasts, death, harry potter, trust, deathly hallows, aeschylus, william penn, patterns in potter

  We’re back for another action-packed episode of Patterns in Potter.  This time, we take on the latest contender in the Harry Potter series, The Deathly Hallows.  We begin with an analysis of the prologue, of both The Libation Bearers by ...

• Episode #81: Patterns in Potter, Book 6 - Definitely Evil

  Posted on Sunday June 8th, 2008 at 17:16 in podcasts, evil, harry potter, selfishness, harvard, jk rowling, severus snape, half blood prince, albus dumbledore, patterns in potter, moral ambiguity

  This week, we discuss J.K. Rowling’s commencement address to Harvard University’s graduating class of 2008 (with audio snippets!) and conclude our Patterns in Potter discussion for the theme of Book 6. JK Rowling’s Speech at the Har...

• Episode #80: Patterns in Potter, Book 6 - Black, White and Gray

  Posted on Sunday June 1st, 2008 at 14:57 in podcasts, morality, harry potter, snape, dumbledore, draco malfoy, half blood prince, albus dumbledore, patterns in potter, moral ambiguity

  This week, we begin our Patterns in Potter coverage for Book 6, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. The theme of this book is quite ambiguous; in fact, it is ambiguous. Sorry if I’m not being too clear here, but you’ll have to liste...

• 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 #78: The Truth Hurts

  Posted on Friday May 9th, 2008 at 14:39 in podcasts, truth, knowledge, harry potter, trust, order of the phoenix, jk rowling, ootp, severus snape, james potter, dolores umbridge, patterns in potter

  In the week’s episode, we continue our discussion of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix and the central theme of truth and knowledge, specifically how the book presents the theme in context of Hogwarts, education, careers and experientia...

• Episode #77: A Dramatization; and, Patterns in Potter, Book 5

  Posted on Thursday May 1st, 2008 at 20:31 in podcasts, truth, copyright, harry potter, order of the phoenix, epistemology, jk rowling, ootp, patterns in potter, steve vander ark, rdr books, barry hammer

  In what will go down in history as being HPProgs’ finest hour *or* our worst episode yet, we bring to you Episode #77. We decided to go a slightly different route for part of this episode and after our very short news discussion we re-enacted ...

• Episode #74: Pride Before The Fall

  Posted on Thursday March 27th, 2008 at 09:17 in pride, podcasts, racism, harry potter, nationalism, goblet of fire, quidditch, patterns in potter

  This week, we continue our Patterns in Potter series, beginning our examination of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. In this episode, we discuss the main theme for Book 4, pride, and how Harry’s experiences in the beginning of Book 4 relate ...

• Episode #73: Patterns in Potter, Prisoner of Azkaban - The Pit of Despair

  Posted on Thursday March 20th, 2008 at 13:26 in Emotions, podcasts, soul, harry potter, modernity, prisoner of azkaban, poa, patterns in potter

  In this week’s episode, we finished our discussion on the theme of emotion in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. We talked about the Dementors and their effect on the soul, as well as their antidote: the Patronus, and the necessary requi...

• Episode #72: Harry Potters Anonymous

  Posted on Wednesday March 12th, 2008 at 19:19 in addiction, podcasts, interviews, harry potter, patterns in potter

  Firstly, we apologize for the lateness of this episode. If you have been paying attention to the goings on at this blog, you’ll know that I have been ready to be committed to St. Mungos Psych ward because of all the problems editing this episod...

• Episode #71: Patterns in Potter - Lost in Emotion

  Posted on Monday March 3rd, 2008 at 10:08 in podcasts, harry potter, prisoner of azkaban, patterns in potter

  In this week’s episode we started our discussion on the prevailing theme in Prisoner of Azkaban: Emotions. Between the Aunt Marge debacle, the werewolf in his midst, the various animals and animaguses (I never learned how to pluralize that) in...

• Episode #70 - Patterns in Potter: Identity Theft

  Posted on Sunday February 24th, 2008 at 23:29 in podcasts, hermione granger, patterns in potter, chamber of secrets, argus filch, colin creevy, heir of slytherin, justin finch-fletchly, mrs. norris, nearly-headless nick, penelope clearwater

  In this week’s episode we continued our discussion on the theme of identity in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. We did a brilliant (in Greg’s opinion) deconstruction of some of the characters in the book: specifically the individu...

• Around the Prognosticators’ Table

  Posted on Friday February 22nd, 2008 at 15:41 in administrivia, portus 2008, patterns in potter

  Yes, I totally stole the title of this post from Travis, sorry but it works. So here is a few tidbits of info for y’all: –In case you haven’t noticed, the Thursday update thing has not been happening lately. We have found that it ...

• Episode #69: Patterns in Potter, Book 2 - Crisis of Identity

  Posted on Sunday February 17th, 2008 at 22:48 in podcasts, harry potter, patterns in potter, chamber of secrets, gilderoy lockhart

  In this week’s episode we started to discuss the theme of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets: Identity.   As usual, the theme is present from the beginning of the book at the Dursley’s  and continues to make its appearance throu...

• Call For Voicemails: Episode 69

  Posted on Thursday February 14th, 2008 at 19:52 in administrivia, patterns in potter

  We have gotten some really great feedback on the voicemail discussions as part of the Patterns In Potter Series. So, because we released episode #68 late, we want people to have time to listen to it before moving on to episode #69. We plan on reco...

• Episode #68: Patterns in Potter, Book 1 - The Desire for Power

  Posted on Tuesday February 12th, 2008 at 14:37 in podcasts, harry potter, invisibility cloak, patterns in potter, book 1, sorcerer's stone, hp progs, mirror of erised, philospher's stone

  In this week’s episode we continued our discussion on Power as the prevaling theme in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. We specifically addressed the invisibility cloak and Mirror of Erised and their roles in bringing the theme to li...

• Episode #67: Patterns in Potter, Book 1

  Posted on Thursday January 31st, 2008 at 23:17 in podcasts, harry potter, philosopher's stone, patterns in potter, book 1, sorcerer's stone

  In our first episode of Patterns in Potter for Book 1, we take a look at the circumstances of Harry’s childhood and how that shaped him into the young man we meet right before being plunged into the wizarding world.  The rush of power, along w...

• Episode #66: Introducing Patterns in Potter

  Posted on Thursday January 17th, 2008 at 22:56 in literature, podcasts, harry potter, snape, deathly hallows, dumbledore, patterns in potter

  It’s finally time.  It’s been several months since Deathly Hallows came out, we’ve discussed most of what there is to discuss relating to the characters, the themes, the news that came out after the book was released.  It’s...