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Harry Potter After 2020

Lorrie Kim and JC

How does it feel to read Harry Potter after 2020? The words on the page don"t change. But times change. We, the readers, change. And that changes the story. Join podcast hosts Lorrie Kim and JC on a re-read of the series, chapter by chapter. As we delve into the story, we"ll remember what the books meant to us when they were first published and analyze what we see differently now. For full show notes, transcripts, ways to contact the hosts or support the show, and more, visit

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47:48

5.4: Number Twelve, Grimmauld Place

Harry Potter After 2020 ·

2025/08/29

In Korean, there are no capital or lowercase letters, so when I got this volume of Harry Potter in Korean translation, I checked to see how they did Capslock Harry and it's in boldface. If you're familiar with Capslock Harry, you don't have to read Korean to know what chapter this is; you can just see it and know. For full show notes, transcripts, ways to contact the hosts or support the show, and more, visit hpafter2020.com.

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39:36

5.3: The Advance Guard

Harry Potter After 2020 ·

2025/08/20

The moment he starts flying, he feels like himself again. This is something that we've really needed in this political landscape. The respite it gives your whole system to get back in touch with who you really are… That is something that anybody who's struggling should keep in mind like this. We actively want to reconnect to that feeling as much as possible, because it just resets your body if you can find a way. For full show notes, transcripts, ways to contact the hosts or support the show, and

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01:05:45

5.2: A Peck of Owls

Harry Potter After 2020 ·

2025/08/13

Sometimes, there's a fantasy where you think, 'Well, if you could just make contact with somebody who's prejudiced and get them to see the common humanity, then they wouldn't be able to say to somebody's face, "Well, I hope you die."' But no, Vernon is fully aware of who Harry Potter is and has said right to his face, "Do your lot have the death penalty?" For full show notes, transcripts, ways to contact the hosts or support the show, and more, visit hpafter2020.com.

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01:19:51

5.1: Dudley Demented

Harry Potter After 2020 ·

2025/08/06

There is no getting away from knowing that for nine and three-quarter years, Dumbledore let him live a hopeless childhood with the Dursleys, never contacted him until he was eleven, never let him know "somebody knows about you," never gave him any reason to think his life would be anything other than that. When Dumbledore ignores or abandons Harry in this novel, that triggers Harry beyond anything else. For full show notes, transcripts, ways to contact the hosts or support the show, and more,

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52:05

4.37: The Beginning

Harry Potter After 2020 ·

2025/07/30

Cedric was special, but just that Dumbledore goes into the personal... This is such an important thing to reaffirm at a time like that: the individuality of a person who's gone is important, because that's the opposite of how Cedric was treated when he was killed. For full show notes, transcripts, ways to contact the hosts or support the show, and more, visit hpafter2020.com.

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01:21:53

4.36: The Parting of the Ways

Harry Potter After 2020 ·

2025/07/23

"Snape strode forward, past Dumbledore, pulling up the left sleeve of his robes as he went. He stuck out his forearm and showed it to Fudge, who recoiled." This is one of the moments in the series when Snape shows his true self. There aren't that many. This is his Time-Turner moment. We have seen throughout this entire volume how immature and unprepared he really is for this, but it's his time.For full show notes, transcripts, ways to contact the hosts or support the show, and more, visit

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01:06:18

4.35: Veritaserum

Harry Potter After 2020 ·

2025/07/16

When you're a child, you want somebody to have wanted you and to love you even if there's absolutely no evidence that this will ever happen for you. The need doesn't go away, and you may hate yourself for it. You may try, like Voldemort, to split your soul and deny that need and put it away from yourself so you never feel it again, but it doesn't go away, and this is the bond that Voldemort and Barty Crouch Jr. found in each other. For full show notes, transcripts, ways to contact the hosts or

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57:46

4.34: Priori Incantatem

Harry Potter After 2020 ·

2025/07/09

He's just rebuilt his entire body with Harry's blood that has protective love in it. That is what it takes to feel human connection and empathy and grief and remorse; those are the qualities in a person that help you heal. All of the effort that Voldemort has always put into compartmentalizing his soul -- walling off his feelings -- now, those efforts are being countered and undermined by the love in his blood that's a solvent. For full show notes, transcripts, ways to contact the hosts or support

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01:26:50

4.33: The Death Eaters

Harry Potter After 2020 ·

2025/07/02

I imagine that this entire series is being imagined by Tom Riddle, an orphan in an orphanage who is a brilliant and violent and lonely child, and that he's fantasizing that somewhere in the world there is a little kid like himself who has spent the exact same time suffering and can understand him, and if he finds this kid, this kid can give him some answers, put some limits on his pain, maybe help him heal. For full show notes, transcripts, ways to contact the hosts or support the show, and more,

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45:41

4.32: Flesh, Blood, and Bone

Harry Potter After 2020 ·

2025/06/25

No matter how potent Voldemort is, he can't make himself grow. That is magic he doesn't have and that is what he needs Harry for, because what makes you grow? Does brilliance make you grow? Does being magically powerful make you grow? No. The most completely dirty, mundane, commonplace caregiver affection is what makes babies grow. For full show notes, transcripts, ways to contact the hosts or support the show, and more, visit hpafter2020.com.

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01:11:19

4.31: The Third Task

Harry Potter After 2020 ·

2025/06/18

JC: When I think Voldemort, sexual magnetism is not the word that comes to mind. Lorrie: I think his focus is on how he feels against people who have intact families; he is breaking apart those bonds to create people who feel more like how he does so that he's not quite so alone -- so he doesn't have to be torn apart by this death-like jealousy. For full show notes, transcripts, ways to contact the hosts or support the show, and more, visit hpafter2020.com.

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01:17:33

4.30: The Pensieve

Harry Potter After 2020 ·

2025/06/11

By the end of this chapter, Harry sees how old Dumbledore is for the first time. Dumbledore ages in this chapter. He sees Dumbledore at first as the great wizard that Harry's always believed he is, and at the end of the chapter, he's looking at Dumbledore and realizing he's an old man and he looks exhausted. Maturing, looking at the adults in your life and realizing they're mortal. For full show notes, transcripts, ways to contact the hosts or support the show, and more, visit hpafter2020.com.

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4.29: The Dream

Harry Potter After 2020 ·

2025/06/04

He is riding on the back of the eagle owl that he has seen earlier. Apparently the eagle owl is going to Riddle Manor and then Harry's perspective leaves the owl's back. He can see the owl, too, as well as the back of the chair with that thing in it, that thing that Harry has never seen head on: that small, baby-shaped, scary thing. So yeah, he's having a vision. For full show notes, transcripts, ways to contact the hosts or support the show, and more, visit hpafter2020.com.

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57:58

4.28: The Madness of Mr. Crouch

Harry Potter After 2020 ·

2025/05/28

Maybe, if we show how upset we are, she'll understand how angry and desperate she's made people. The thing is, that doesn't work because strangely, recipients of hate mail don't take that lesson away from it. When your defenses and alarm shoot way up because somebody is threatening you and sending hatred your way, your first response is not sympathy for the person who's threatening you. For full show notes, transcripts, ways to contact the hosts or support the show, and more,

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01:02:42

4.27: Padfoot Returns

Harry Potter After 2020 ·

2025/05/21

He says to Harry, "I'll breathe freely again when this tournament's over, and that's not until June." To me, this is the proof. Yeah, Sirius is a parent, godfather. He and Molly Weasley have an argument in the next volume about whether he's really the same as a father. Yeah, this qualifies to me. For full show notes, transcripts, ways to contact the hosts or support the show, and more, visit hpafter2020.com.

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59:34

4.26: The Second Task

Harry Potter After 2020 ·

2025/05/14

She was the mother of a three-month-old, kicked out of the house with her baby still inside. That's something that happened to this author, and I can't help but remember that when I look at the passage of Fleur going crazy because she was physically unable to go rescue her sister. I'm not going to read literature separated from details of the biography of the author. I find it more rich, more human and rewarding to integrate what I know into my reading of it. For full show notes, transcripts, ways

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01:00:25

4.25: The Egg and the Eye

Harry Potter After 2020 ·

2025/05/07

Whether or not you change on the inside, there are choices you've made in your past that you cannot run away from, and there are people who remember that commitment you made and were in it, too. You can't disavow this. Snape seizes his left forearm as if "something on it had hurt him," and that's one of those rare moments when we get to see the real Snape. For full show notes, transcripts, ways to contact the hosts or support the show, and more, visit hpafter2020.com.

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4.24: RIta Skeeter's Scoop

Harry Potter After 2020 ·

2025/04/30

"Boys, keep back! They prefer the woman's touch... Girls to the front…" This is a de facto magical gender test, right? If you're a kid who might not fall neatly into the gender binary, then you have to wonder, “How is this magical creature going to respond to me?” You might be able to pass by human standards or wizard standards. What is a unicorn going to think? For full show notes, transcripts, ways to contact the hosts or support the show, and more, visit hpafter2020.com.

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01:01:29

8.4 Bess Carnan of WZRD and Geoff Hutton, aka Dream...

Harry Potter After 2020 ·

2025/04/26

“I know people who've come out within the last few years as trans or non-binary because of the book series. It is the perfect metaphor for being gay, for being trans, and that's the community that makes up the heart of, at least, the Wizard Rock portion of the fandom. Regardless of what she says, her books make a difference to little queer kids every day.” – Bess Carnan of WZRD Radio For full show notes, transcripts, ways to contact the hosts or support the show, and more,

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01:00:37

4.23: The Yule Ball

Harry Potter After 2020 ·

2025/04/23

"Hermione, for once, gets to be the main character." For full show notes, transcripts, ways to contact the hosts or support the show, and more, visit hpafter2020.com.

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