Premium: Harry Potter And The Fan Fiction Freak-Out
Blocked and Reported
Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal
4.6 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 7 August 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
This week on the Primo show, Jesse and Katie wade into the melodramatic world of Harry Potter fan fiction, the early-2000s cancellation of fan fic star Cassandra Claire/Clare, and a more recent controversy in the booming subgenre of Potter–inspired romance known as “Dramione.”
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, you're listening to a preview of a premium episode of Blockter Reported. |
| 0:03.7 | It's about a crazy sprawling fantasy involving fan fiction and Harry Potter and J.K. ruling |
| 0:08.9 | and the last vestiges of BPD cases from the 2020. |
| 0:15.1 | I don't even know where to begin. You're going to want to hear the whole thing. |
| 0:18.4 | Go to Blockroomported.org, become a premium subscriber. |
| 0:21.4 | You can hear the whole thing. |
| 0:23.1 | Either way, I hope you enjoy the premium. |
| 0:31.3 | What's the good word, Katie? |
| 0:32.7 | Are you asking me a Bible question? |
| 0:34.3 | That sounds religious. |
| 0:35.8 | As I said that, what's the good word sounds a little |
| 0:39.5 | bit like, have you heard the good news? Yeah, I think you combine what's good and what's the word |
| 0:44.7 | into a new thing. Nope. What's the good word is, it might be from New England. Hold on. Let me Google it. |
| 0:49.7 | Hold on. Jamie? 10 seconds in, let's do some Googling. What's the good, Jamie, what's the good word? |
| 0:56.1 | Yeah, it's a casual, according to AI. It's a casual way of asking for news or updates, similar to asking what's new or what's happened. Okay, well, I got an email I would like to read to you. Okay. All right, this one was in response to our last show. we discuss Seafar, which is like second on my list of things that I hate. |
| 1:14.0 | I mean, really loud noises in general, but Seafair, I said, was an air show in Seattle. |
| 1:18.9 | It was over the weekend. |
| 1:20.3 | And we had a quick, we had to Google if Marines have planes because we don't know anything about this. |
| 1:26.2 | This was one of our lower |
| 1:28.1 | moments. Yeah. For the record, I'm the daughter of a vet. Did your dad, was your dad in Vietnam? |
| 1:33.2 | No, he lotteried his way out of that. Your dad was in Vietnam? Well, he didn't, he didn't go to |
| 1:38.8 | Vietnam. He did enlist in the Army so that he wouldn't be drafted. But his, this will be in his obituary for sure. |
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