{"podcast":{"title":"Critical Magic Theory: An Analytical Harry Potter Podcast","slug":"critical-magic-theory-an-analytical-harry-potter-podcast-6756584","podcast_index_feed_id":6756584,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/6511293/episodes/feed","website_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/critical-magic-theory-an-analytical-harry-potter-podcast--6511293","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/2e564598f831cc56dde09c861f0dfb08.jpg","author":"Prof. Julian Wamble","episode_count":94,"summary":"Instead of seeing criticism as an indication of not liking something, Professor Julian Wamble invites listeners of Critical Magic Theory to explore the things about the characters, plot points, and the Wizarding World of Harry Potter broadly that have always given them pause or made them smile without knowing why. It is in this navigation of the positive and the negative aspects of a world that we find true magic.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/critical-magic-theory-an-analytical-harry-potter-podcast-6756584"},"episode":{"title":"Prof Responds: D.A.D.A, Power, and the Politics of Fear","slug":"prof-responds-d-a-d-a-power-and-the-politics-of-fear","published_at":"2026-05-13T04:00:03+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/critical-magic-theory-an-analytical-harry-potter-podcast-6756584/prof-responds-d-a-d-a-power-and-the-politics-of-fear","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/critical-magic-theory-an-analytical-harry-potter-podcast-6756584","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/prof-responds-d-a-d-a-power-and-the-politics-of-fear--71983830","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/71983830/cmt_ep_85_prof_responds_dada.mp3","summary":"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","meta_description":"Professor Julian Wamble returns to the Defense Against the Dark Arts bonus episode with listener responses from Patreon, Discord, and Spotify. Three threa…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3281,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/critical-magic-theory-an-analytical-harry-potter-podcast-6756584/episodes/prof-responds-d-a-d-a-power-and-the-politics-of-fear/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/critical-magic-theory-an-analytical-harry-potter-podcast-6756584/prof-responds-d-a-d-a-power-and-the-politics-of-fear.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}