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title: "3.5 The Dementor"
date: 2021-03-01T05:00:14-04:00
draft: false
tags:
- Prisoner of Azkaban
episodeTitle: "The Dementor"
episodeSubtitle: "An intense cold swept over them all. Harry felt his own breath catch in his chest. The cold went deeper than his skin. It was inside his very heart..."
episodeLength: 82778114
episodeURL: https://cdn.podtrificustotalus.com/prisoner/305TheDementor.mp3
episodeDuration: 1:54:56
episodeSeason: 3
episodeNumber: 5
featuredImage: /pottermore/305.webp
---
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It's Monday -- you know us, you love us, it's time for Podtrificus Totalus, a Harry Potter podcast done book by book, chapter by chapter.
This week we cover chapter five of *Harry Potter and Prisoner of Azkaban*, in which Harry encounters a clumsy metaphor for depression -- I mean, a new and foreboding creature in the magical world! -- meets his new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher, and eats some chocolate.
We make a number of references to outside sources and popular culture, which are listed below:
- [Friends at the Table](https://friendsatthetable.net/) and [The Adventure Zone](https://www.themcelroy.family/theadventurezone)
- *Brookyln 99* (TV Series)
- *The Lord of the Rings* series
- The scary *Beowulf* movie from 2007
- *Romeo + Juliet* (1996)
- *A Storm of Swords* by George R.R. Martin
- *Kushiel's Dart* by Jacqueline Carey
- *An Ember in the Ashes* by Sabaa Tahir
- *Ender's Game* by Orson Scott Card
- *Finding Nemo* (2003)
- [Lupin's personality type is ENFJ](https://mobile.twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/580047164807749632), per J.K. Rowling's Twitter (transphobia warning if you visit her account)
- [JKR's "Idle Jottings,"](https://www.hp-lexicon.org/source/other-canon/jkr/jkr-com-scrapbook/jottings1/) preserved by the Harry Potter Lexicon, which reference that the Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher in *Prisoner of Azkaban* may have been a woman at some point in the writing process
- [Q&A with J.K. Rowling at the Edinburgh Book Festival](http://www.accio-quote.org/articles/2004/0804-ebf.htm) (15 August 2004) on Accio Quote
- [Ann Treneman interview with J.K. Rowling](http://www.accio-quote.org/articles/2000/0600-times-treneman.html) for *The Times* (30 June 2000) on Accio Quote
- [Dementor](https://harrypotter.fandom.com/wiki/Dementor) on the Harry Potter Wiki
- [Dementors and Chocolate](https://www.wizardingworld.com/writing-by-jk-rowling/dementors-and-chocolate) on Wizarding World
Our Spell of the Week for this episode is chocolate, which seems to have some magical properties in the Harry Potter universe.
You can hear more from our guests, Kevin Rizza and Lauren Kelley, on the [Why Can't We Be Wizards podcast](https://www.whycantwebewizards.com/). Check out the show on [Twitter (@WhyNotWizards)](https://twitter.com/WhyNotWizards) and [Instagram (@WhyNotWizards)](https://www.instagram.com/whynotwizards/). You can also find Kevin on Twitter as [@RizzaKevin](https://twitter.com/RizzaKevin).
<img class="chapterArt" src="/chapter/305.webp" />