Potter Podcast

It is a natural progression for books to become movies when they have been insanely successful. Harry Potter is no exception. Sarah and Elisabeth discuss what worked and what didn’t in the writing and producing of all eight (should it have been seven?) Harry Potter movies. 0:40 Intro/Fantastic Beasts 3:25 Names 4:00 Movies into Books – Missing Plot Points - The Marauder’s Map 6:55 Dumbledore’s Storyline 8:25 Piece of Mirror 10:20 Scabbers 12:15 Book 4 – What worked and what didn’t  15:30 Other Storylines  19:00 What worked in Deathly Hallows pt. 2 21:15 Our Favourites 22:35 Daniel Radcliffe – Movie 6 27:00 Actor dynamic 28:30 Professor Snape 32:30 Our Least Favourites 34:00 Deathly Hallows pt. 2/Wrapping up the Harry Potter series 36:15 Character Translation  44:00 Characters who died/McGonagall 48:30 Wrap-up

The Harry Potter series was ground-breaking in many ways. Join Sarah, as she explores them after reading them for the first time, and Elisabeth, as someone who grew up with the series and the characters in it. Both Pottermore-proclaimed Hufflepuffs, each discovers things that maybe the other didn’t. 0:23: How we got into potter 3:50 Favourite book 7:35 Other books (Cursed Child, Fantastic Beasts) 15.30 Liz growing up with the books. 19:37 The Dumbledore debate 29:27 So much teen drama 34:44 Where was Harry Potter when Sarah was growing up? 37:33 Why are we talking about Twilight? 41:34 Favourite characters 46 Quidditch  48:56 Outro