Wicked Good Book Club

Welcome back to Lumos Maxima! This week, we head straight into part 2 of the Dumbledore controversy. Listen as hosts Sarah and Delaney, as well as returning special guest Kelsey, tackle heated topics surrounding the man himself.  We love feedback, comments, critiques and questions! Get in touch at: Instagram:  @lumosmaximapodcast  Twitter: @Lumosmaximapod Email: Lumosmaximapodcast@g...

This week, hosts Sarah and Delaney kick off the long awaited controversial characters series with the man himself: Albus Dumbledore! Joined by special guest Kelsey, the trio (get it) talk about the life and times of Dumbledore that shaped him into the beloved yet controversial character he is. Next weeks episode, part 2, will cover the most controversial topics related to the Headmaster.  We...

SURPRISE! We've started a new thing! Every now and then, we want to take a step away from the lovely world of the boy who lived, and analyze and discuss some other great books/movies/fandoms. We are calling it Nox: Lumos Maxima After Dark (Get it? Do ya get it?). For our first Nox episode, we step into the dystopian world of The Hunger Games.  Credits to our new intro music that, sort of like...

SPOILERS! SPOILERS! SPOILERS! We've talked and talked about it... so now it's time. This week, we finally tackle Cursed Child! Hear our ratings, a ~super good~ summary, and the good, bad, and ugly of Cursed Child. Spoiler: there is not a lot of good in our eyes.  We love feedback, comments, critiques and questions! Get in touch at: Instagram:  @lumosmaximapodcast  Twitter: @Lumosmax...

In this weeks episode, Hosts Sarah and Delaney deep dive into the moments of sheer desperation that changed the path of Harry Potter irrevocably. Join us as we chat about Mrs. Crouch, Xenophilius, Merope and more. Spoiler alter: you're going to identify with a lot of these feelings and situations.   We love feedback, comments, critiques and questions! Get in touch at: Instagram:  @l...

This week, your hosts answer part 3 of the Q&A's where they tackle topics like which Potter Parent they'd save and if they would rather fight a Dementor or a Basilisk. Spoiler alert: we disagree on nearly everything this week.   We love feedback, comments, critiques and questions! Get in touch at: Instagram:  @lumosmaximapodcast  Twitter: @Lumosmaximapod Email: Lumosmaximap...

This week is a PACKED episode...... We talk J.K's back writing (and disagree?!?), why on earth there is no entertainment in the Wizarding World, who our "all time saddest deaths" are and of course assess the final set of justified and unjustified deaths in the OG series (including animals)! Catch a preview of our upcoming episode topics at the end of the episode.  We love feedback, comments,...

In this weeks episode, we have a mini audio party to celebrate our 30th episode! Then it gets morbid and we analyzed the first 15 justified and unjustified deaths in the Harry Potter series. Tune in to hear all the characters you've been missing, including Lestrange, Flamel and Quirrell! 

We are moving right along with the Death Series, and this week includes some more emotional deaths (here's looking at you, Dobby and Fred).  Credit for transition music https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAHIZkAEsztItpmnmaeVdYg Channel Replace Media

This week on Lumos Maxima, we are entering the race for longest podcast episode name.... we also want you to cry. We are BACK with our next installment of the Death Series, and yeah, it's going to get emotional. 

This week, we are going to be talking about a super light and happy subject.... just kidding. We are back with Part 2 of the Plot Device Death segment of our Death Series. This week, we get into some of the BIG deaths in the series (AKA Dumbledore and Snape). Credit for transition music https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAHIZkAEsztItpmnmaeVdYg Channel Replace Media

IT'S HERE! The Death Series is finally here! The series will discuss the darkest, heaviest parts of the series... character deaths. To start it off, we discuss deaths used mainly as plot devices. These deaths may be important to the plot, but that doesn't make them hurt any less. Credit for transition music https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAHIZkAEsztItpmnmaeVdYg Channel Replace Media

We all may want to be wizards and witches, but hosts Sarah and Delaney are here to remind us that even the wizarding world of Harry Potter isn't perfect. This week, Lumos Maxima is back with part two of the Stereotypes in Society episode.    Credit for transition music https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAHIZkAEsztItpmnmaeVdYg Channel Replace Media

The Wizarding World may be different in some ways, but there are many things our two worlds share... one of them being that we both still have stereotypes and prejudices that put people into boxes and affect the way we interact with each other. This week, hosts Delaney and Sarah talk about the serious stereotyping in Harry's society, and the parallels to our own.  Credit for transition music...

You can choose your friends, but you can't choose your family. If we could choose our family, I think we would all want to be a Weasley. This week, we round out our Relationship Series with one of the most complex and prevalent type of relationship in Harry Potter.    Credit for transition music https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAHIZkAEsztItpmnmaeVdYg Channel Replace Media

Lumos Maxima is back this week with another episode in our Relationship Series. This week, we tackle one of the main center points of the entire series... Friendship! We also go down a rabbit hole about movie ratings.... but that's at the end so you can skip that.  Credit for transition music https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAHIZkAEsztItpmnmaeVdYg Channel Replace Media

Get ready Harry Potter fans, this is the week that hosts Sarah and Delaney talk about one of the most controversial topics in the Harry Potter universe.... Should Ron and Hermione actually have ended up together. This week, Lumos Maxima is back with part 2 of the romantic relationship portion or the relationship series.    Credit for transition music https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAHI...

It's a new year and we are back with a new series! To start off the year, we start with our relationship series. This week's episode will focus on adult romantic relationships within the Harry Potter world.  Credit for transition music https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAHIZkAEsztItpmnmaeVdYg Channel Replace Media

This week we do some "house keeping", chat about how no one seems to know Voldemort's true identity, and give our FAB listeners a homework assignment for the Holidays! Note: Enjoy your holiday and we'll be back with Series 2: Relationships Tuesday January 1, 2019! NOX!

No music. No clever intro. No asking for ratings or reviews on the way out. Just a brief and frank conversation about the current climate of the Harry Potter Universe. There may be a lot of uncertainty, but we can say with a great degree of certainty that we love FanFic. #SavePotterotica

This week's episode contains conversion rates, economic terminology, and some financial advice. No, this is not an online business course. In this episode, hosts Sarah and Delaney dive into the (weird) world of Wizarding money and finance.

We've talked about our favorite and least favorite classes at Hogwarts, well now we are going to talk about the professors of those classes. In this week's episode, we rank all of the professors from worst to best. Credit for transition music: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAHIZkAEsztItpmnmaeVdYg Channel Replace Media

Well we've waited until the last possible second to talk about the Fantastic Beasts Movie so if you haven't seen it yet.... literally what have you been doing? In honor of the second installment of the series being released this week, we talk about the plot, the characters, what we learned from the first movie, and what we expect from the next one. Credit for transition music https://www.youtube.c...

This week, we are taking you to school... a wizard school in Scotland, to be exact. Episode 14 of Lumos Maxima is a deep dive into the curriculum at Hogwarts. We talk about what classes we would want to take and which we would avoid, but let's be real, we would suffer through as many divination classes as possible if it meant we actually got to go to Hogwarts. Credit for transition music https://w...

Well we made it like 6 episodes without discussing our hatred for Snape.... but we're back! On this week's episode, we discuss our opinions on overrated, underrated, and down right WTF characters in the Harry Potter series. Credit for transition music https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAHIZkAEsztItpmnmaeVdYg Channel Replace Media