# Prof Responds: D.A.D.A, Power, and the Politics of Fear

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Podcast: [Critical Magic Theory: An Analytical Harry Potter Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/critical-magic-theory-an-analytical-harry-potter-podcast-6756584)
Published: 2026-05-13T04:00:03+00:00
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## Resource

Professor Julian Wamble returns to the Defense Against the Dark Arts bonus episode with listener responses from Patreon, Discord, and Spotify. Three threads drive the conversation: whether Dumbledore ever actually tried to break the curse on the DADA position, whether Lucius Malfoy as Chair of Governors had reasons to keep it broken, and what magical education is failing to teach about consent, consequences, and the ethics of power. The reflection asks a bigger question: why don't we have a real-world equivalent of DADA? Because we don't need one. The conditioning DADA has to do explicitly in a classroom happens in our world through media, history, policing, and the composition of the spaces we grow up in. The fear arrives before school does. What school teaches, in the wizarding world and ours, isn't how to defend yourself. It's who the defenders are. Seamus Finnigan Survey

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