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