Prof Responds: Harry Potter & the Unreachable Standard
About this episode
The episode features a community discussion on Harry Potter's flaws and the standards used to evaluate him, ultimately leaving the question unresolved.
This episode of Critical Magic Theory picks up where the last episode left off, this time handing the floor to the CMT community. Listeners push back, dig deeper, and refuse to agree — on whether Harry's flaws are his fault, on what standard we're even using to evaluate him, and on the question that generated the most heat: is he extraordinary? Four themes emerge from the conversation: Harry as a product of his environment, the impossible standard applied to a child, the tension between goodness as practice and goodness as grade, and the case, argued with a bevy of receipts, that Harry Potter is, actually, extraordinary. Prof weighs in throughout and closes without resolving the question. That's the point.
More episodes of Critical Magic Theory: An Analytical Harry Potter Podcast
- THE HALFBLOOD SHOWDOWN
- Prof Reponds: Harry Potter & the Politics of Worthiness
- Harry Potter is sick with Heroism
- Harry Potter: The Boy who Survived, not Lived
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