If the new HBO Harry Potter trailer got you excited for book one all over again, this is where to start with The Potterverse Podcast. Here are the best ways to jump into our Sorcerer’s Stone coverage.
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The new HBO Harry Potter trailer works for one big reason: it understands that Harry’s story is not really about spells, spectacle, or nostalgia. It’s about an unloved child being offered a home — and that changes everything.
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The Potterverse Hosts Mary & Blake chat chapter 17 of Harry Potter and The Sorcerer’s Stone – The Man With Two Faces.
We discuss if the book stands on it’s own as a singular work, why Harry being a passive character in the end is the right choice, and Voldemort just needs to find a Hot Topic…
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The Potterverse Hosts Mary & Blake chat chapter 12 of Harry Potter and The Sorcerer’s Stone – The Mirror Of Erised.
We discuss how much Dumbledore is in control of Harry’s fate, the author’s gift of showing and not telling us about her characters, and why Mary’s deepest desires involve Doritos and melatonin…
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The Potterverse Hosts Mary & Blake chat chapter 7 of Harry Potter and The Sorcerer’s Stone – The Sorting Hat.
We discuss how the houses may have influenced YA stories forever, why Harry is always wrong and Snape is immediately misunderstood, and Hagrid Wasted…
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The Potterverse Hosts Mary & Blake chat chapter 5 of Harry Potter and The Sorcerer’s Stone – Diagon Alley.
We discuss how the author foreshadows Harry’s impending struggles, why Ollivanders feels like a sacred ceremony, and why Hagrid needs a stiff drink in Diagon Alley…
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we’re diving into Chapter 1 of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone: “The Boy Who Lived.” And here’s the hot take right off the jump: this is the chapter that makes Harry Potter matter.
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