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• Episode #43: Making Sense of Deathly Hallows

  Published: July 25, 2007, 11:56 pm

  Tags: Deathly Hallows, Hagrid, Hogwarts, Ginny Weasley, House Elves, Jk Rowling, Horcruxes, Dobby, Draco Malfoy, Neville Longbottom, Albus Dumbledore, Severus Snape, Harry Potter, Lord Voldemort, Ron Weasley, Lily Potter, James Potter, Hermione Granger, Podcasts

  between Harry and Voldemort? Examples of Voldemort’s spells not working, references to Nazis, the fittingness of Snape’s death. What was the purpose of the epilogue? And what did we need the Deathly Hallows for anyhow? Of course, there’s more questions that need to be discussed (who discovered magic later in life?

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• Episode #41: The End of Harry Potter

  Published: July 17, 2007, 12:18 am

  Tags: Deathly Hallows, Prognostications, Books, Lord Voldemort, Harry Potter, Podcasts

  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 theories before signing off and preparing for the weekend. No news this week, but a few links of

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• Episode #34: The Wizard's Soul

  Published: May 25, 2007, 9:13 am

  Tags: Books, Lord Voldemort, Harry Potter, Podcasts

  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 wizard’s soul. And in the news: HP and the Philosopher’s Stone one of the Top 25

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

  Published: May 15, 2007, 7:48 pm

  Tags: Gryffindor, Lord Voldemort, Harry Potter

  From last week’s episode of The Office.

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• Episode #32: How to Destroy a Horcrux

  Published: May 11, 2007, 12:26 am

  Tags: Horcruxes, Prognostications, Lord Voldemort, Harry Potter, Podcasts

  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 we haven’t addressed: Just how the heck does one destroy a horcrux anyhow?!?! Tune in for our best explanations as to how Harry

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• Episode #29: Prophecies

  Published: April 19, 2007, 12:07 am

  Tags: Prognostications, Neville Longbottom, Lord Voldemort, Harry Potter, Podcasts

  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 Prophecy might mean. Could it be referring to Neville? (No.) Maybe it doesn’t have to come true?

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• Episode #13: The Deathly Hallows Theory Explained

  Published: December 25, 2006, 11:28 pm

  Tags: Deathly Hallows, Prognostications, Lily Potter, Lord Voldemort, Harry Potter, Podcasts

  used to protect Harry from Lord Voldemort by dying for him out of love. In this podcast, we go into greater detail on our theory and discuss how all the pieces fit together, incorporating many loosed ends, including horcruxes, occlumency, legilimens and that gleam in Dumbledore’s eye at the end of Book 4. It’s our theory, and

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• How Harry Potter Will End - The Deathly Hallows

  Published: December 22, 2006, 2:42 pm

  Tags: Deathly Hallows, Prognostications, Books, Lily Potter, Albus Dumbledore, Lord Voldemort, Harry Potter

  Harry became protected from Lord Voldemort when Lily died for him out of love. Lily’s performed a “deathly hallowing” of Harry, making him immune to Voldemort’s powers. In Book 7, Harry will learn this magic, and devise a way to use it so that he, Harry, is killed by Voldemort. The key: Harry’s deathly

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• More thoughts on Deathly Hallows

  Published: December 21, 2006, 12:05 pm

  Tags: Deathly Hallows, Books, Lord Voldemort, Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter

  he can use that to defeat Voldemort. Methinks we will finally find out what Dumbledore was smiling about at the end of Book 4.

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• Episode #12: Vol-de-Mort - The Death Eaters

  Published: December 21, 2006, 10:41 am

  Tags: Death Eaters, Lord Voldemort, Podcasts

  These minions of the Dark Lord do his every bidding, or they suffer the consequences. The worst part is: no one knows for sure the identities of these dark wizards; shrouded in mystery, their chief weapons are fear, surprise, a ruthless efficiency, and an almost fanatical devotion to Lord Voldemort. Who are these masked men? We now know the

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• Episode #6: What Happened at Godric's Hollow?

  Published: October 31, 2006, 10:59 pm

  Tags: James Potter, Lily Potter, Lord Voldemort, Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter, Severus Snape, Podcasts

  also the date that Lord Voldemort attacked the Potter’s in Godric’s Hollow. In memory, we’ve got a special All Hallow’s Eve edition of HPProgs discussing just what went down on that fateful night. There’s a lot we don’t know, which, of course, calls for some prognosticating. For some background info

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• Episode #4: Voldemort - What makes him so bad?

  Published: October 16, 2006, 11:37 pm

  Tags: Lord Voldemort, Harry Potter, Podcasts

  us, the picture painted of Lord Voldemort is not all that horrifying. Certainly he talks big, representing ideals that would seem to lead to mass murder and genocide, but his follow-through, at least so far, has been pretty weak. Is this really the true source of his ultimate evilness, or is there, perhaps, so underlying theme that animates

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• Episode #45: The Dearly Departed

  Published: August 10, 2007, 12:13 am

  Tags: Dobby, Peter Pettigrew, Wormtail, Deathly Hallows, Lord Voldemort, Harry Potter, Severus Snape, Podcasts

  such as Bellatrix and Voldemort; others were tragic and shocking. All of them, however, held a special meaning for Harry and for the books. In this episode, we examine the specific meaning of that which gives ultimate meaning, the deaths of Deathly Hallows. This episode is dedicated to the memory of Hedwig the Owl, Alastor

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• Episode #46: The Religion of Harry Potter

  Published: August 16, 2007, 11:22 pm

  Tags: Deathly Hallows, Jk Rowling, Books, Lord Voldemort, Harry Potter, Severus Snape, Podcasts

  final battle with Voldemort very much a passion play, there are overarching religious themes to the entire book. What is the character of the religious content of Deathly Hallows in particular, and the Potter series in general? Is JK Rowling preaching or does she have a different intention? In this podcast, we explore the religious

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• Episode #49: Voldemort's Downfall

  Published: September 6, 2007, 9:55 pm

  Tags: House Elves, Horcruxes, Deathly Hallows, Lord Voldemort, Harry Potter, Albus Dumbledore, Podcasts

  to ensure his longevity, Voldemort’s overall approach to life almost guarunteed his defeat. By ignoring the signifcance of some very important “deeper magics,” Voldemort opened up a proverbial chink in his armor that ultimately led to his demise. In Chapter 35, King’s Cross, an etherieal Dumbledore sums it up nicely:

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