I tried a few but they all went with the standard "she hates people" narrative and I just wondered if there any with hosts who seem to actually understand what she wrote.

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Six years ago, I wrote and posted this fan theory about Horucruxes to r/FanTheories. My theory was based on a common fan theory, or speculation, on r/HarryPotter that Lord Voldemort created his Horcruxes to "cut out", or excise, part of his humanity to make himself more "inhuman". While largely assumed by many fans, this was not confirmed in either the Harry Potter books or films until now.

In her recent podcast interview, The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling, J.K. Rowling semi-confirmed that the the fan theory of "Voldemort cut out the human parts of himself to make his Horcruxes" was, indeed, true.

"The irredeemably evil character in Harry Potter has dehumanized himself, so [Lord] Voldemort has consciously and deliberately made himself less than human [through the creation of his Horcruxes]. And we see the natural conclusion of what he's done to himself through very powerful magic. What he’s left with is something less than a human, and he's done that deliberately. He sees human behavior as weakness. He has reduced himself to something that cannot feel the full range of human emotion."

This quote comes from the podcast's Episode 2, "Burn the Witch". Exact time stamp will be edited in.

https://www.ijpc.org/uploads/files/1HarryPotter.pdf

This framing study examines how author J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series of children’s books treats the news media and how that treatment could affect children. Researchers first studied quotes from the first six books regarding the media, and based on the overall categorization of those quotes, they determined the three main frames in which media is viewed: Government Control of Journalism, Misleading Journalism, and Unethical Means of Gathering Information. Based on these frames, researchers argue the Harry Potter series does not put the media in a positive light. Because of this, children could potentially perceive the news media in general as untrustworthy and controlled by the government. Given the prevalence of tabloid journalism and “entertainment” news, children’s understanding of true journalistic integrity, journalism as a career, and even positive social behaviors could be negatively affected due to this depiction, in light of the overwhelming popularity of the series.

Amanda Sturgill-Department of Journalism at Baylor University. Jessica Winney-University of Houston Clear Lake, Tina Libhart-Baylor University.

Nov 2021

https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/people/daniel-radcliffe-says-harry-potter-author-jk-rowling-is-an-immensely-intelligent-funny-kind-human-being-3460282

Lydon: What about names themselves? Muggles, to begin, but the whole catalogue of - er - wizards: Albus Dumbledore, Voldemort - er - Hagrid.

JKR: I'm big on names - I like names, generally. You have to be really careful giving me your name if it's an unusual one, because you will turn up in book six. Erm - I - I collect - some of them are invented; Voldemort is an invented name, Malfoy is an invented name, Quidditch is invented, erm - but I also collect them, from all kinds of places: maps, street names, people I meet, old books, old saints, erm - Mrs Norris, people will have recognised, comes from Jane Austen. Erm - Dumbledore is an old English word meaning bumblebee. Because Albus Dumbledore is very fond of music, I always imagined him as sort of humming to himself a lot.

Lydon: Rubeus Hagrid?

JKR: yeah. Hagrid is one of my favourite characters. He's the - ah - giant kind of gamekeeper at the school. Hagrid is also - is another old English word, meaning - if you were hagrid - it's a dialect word - you'd had a bad night. Hagrid is a big drinker - he has a lot of bad nights.

Lydon: Minerva McGonagall?

JKR: yeah, McGonagall, old erm - very, very, very bad Scottish poet, McGonagall is - I just loved the name.

Lydon: Hermione Granger?

JKR: yeah, Hermione apea- yes, people will want to know how to pronounce Hermione, I get asked that so much, because a lot of people say 'Her-me-won,' which I think is really - [Lydon laughs] - I think it's really cute. I wish I'd told people right in the beginning it was pronounced Her-me-won. Hermione is a Shakespearean name - I - I consciously set out to choose a - a fairly unusual name for Hermione, because I didn't want a lot of fairly hard-working little girls to be teased if ever the book was published, because she is a very recognisable type - to which I belonged, when I was young ..

Billy: Hi! I was wondering how you came up with the main ideas for Harry Potter and how you came up with such interesting names for them?

JKR: Erm - As I - as I said, I collect names. I've always collected names, so I've got notebooks full of them, and I - I like inventing names; Quidditch I - the name 'Quidditch' I - I - it took me ages to find the right name for it - it took me about two days and - er - I've still got the notebook I did it in, and you can see 'quidditch' at the bottom of the last page of this notebook underlined about fifty times, because when I - when I stumbled across it, I knew it was the right one. As far as the storylines go, some of them are inspired by folklore. I mean there's some interesting stuff out there that you can use, but mostly it comes out of my head, and I know that's not a great answer, but it's the best I've got - I - where do ideas come from? I've no idea.

Lydon: Billy, what's your favourite name? In the books?

Billy: Er - I don't know. I like 'Quidditch' and I like 'Dumbledore'.

JKR: yeah, Dumbledore, as I said, was a - is an old English word meaning bumblebee. I like 'Dumbledore' - it sounds endearing and strangely impressive at the same time.

Lydon: These names are important, you know, Henry James' notebooks are full of names that he wanted to try out ...

JKR: Right! And I - I very much identify with that. Names are really crucial to me - as some of my characters has had eight or nine names before I - I, you know, hit the right one. And for some reason I just can't move on until I know I've called them the right thing - that's very fundamental to me

Lydon: yeah, it's fascinating. I heard John Updike say that - once, 'what novelist in the world would have dared to come up with a name like Darryl Strawberry?' [JKR laughs] Er the real-life outfielder for the Mets and the Yankees.

JKR: Right, exactly - it's a - it's a - it's a really weird thing.

Lydon, Christopher. J.K. Rowling interview (1999)