If you like Expelliarmus, wait till you hear about these spells! This week, the heat flairs as Bijaya, Michael, and Sarah duke it out in the TriQuizzard Tournament Task 1! Sarah introduces the Unforgivable Curses, Michael can’t get enough sleep until he talks about Peeves, and Bijaya’s dog, Kobe, tries to give his two cents! Find …
Spinning eye and jumping ferret! Join us this week as the tie is broken during what Sarah calls the lucky 13 Quizzitch match! Michael reintroduces us to the day to day grind at Hogwarts and the gang go over one of Dumbledore’s many bad decisions: the teachers he keeps hiring for the Defense Against the Dark …
Inter-house Quidditch Tournament is cancelled?? SAY IT AIN’T SO!! Join us this week as things heat up in the Triquizzard Tournament and Sarah’s mom has a special guest for dinner. Bijaya announces the new DADA professor and the Triwizard Tournament, and the gang tries to figure out why Hogwarts keeps Peeves around. Find us on Twitter …
The Red Threads of Fortune and The Black Tides of Heaven by JY Yang are a matched pair of stories, and I figured that whichever I read first would change the way I read whichever I read second. So I did what any good D&D player would do and rolled a die. Even red, odd …
Allllll abooarrd! We are headed back to school (finally)! Join us this week as tensions increase in the Triquizzard Tournament, we make the journey back to our beloved alma mater where nothing mysterious is going to happen at all, and we learn about how the Hogwarts Express works and why it came to be! Find …
Everfair by Nisi Shawl is an alternative history set in the Belgian Congo during King Leopold II’s reign. Instead of years of slavery, racism, and genocide a congregation of Fabian Socialist from Great Britain and African-Americans form their own nation called Everfair and resist Leopald’s subjugation and return to slavery. Though alternative history is not …
Spellbook of the Lost and Found – Moïra Fowley-Doyle’s debut, The Accident Season, was a quiet roar of a book that used suspenseful magic to get at some extremely heavy issues, and her second book is no different, except that it’s even better. It follows three groups of teenagers who collide after a party where …
Please proceed calmly to the podcast, folks – there’s no need for alarm! It’s not actually the Dark Mark, just a podcast about one. Or many. Or all of them. This week, we veer toward the more morbid and delve into the world of Voldemort’s followers and the use of the Dark Mark – and turn …
How do you top Nevernight, a book that’s basically Harry Potter for assassins, complete with magical, stairway-shifting school accessible only by diving through something that really shouldn’t be dived though? Well, actually the second installment does involve a diary and a giant snake, but that’s where the similarities end. Mia Corvere murders people to further her …
Ladies and Gentlemen…let’s get ready to rummmbbllleeee: Ireland takes on Bulgaria in the Quidditch World Cup! Who will win? Who will shoot a ball into a hoop thing? Who will catch the very small flying object?? This week, we attend the Quidditch World Cup, talk a bit about the Cup’s long and kind of …