Great video, thank you very much!

I love your analysis of Harry Potter characters! Question for Q&A: physical or digital and why? 🤠👍

Awesome video! For a question for the Q&A, do you write fiction? If so, what kind and who are your primary influences?

I have tried numerous times to read/listen to/watch the Harry Potter stories and while I can jive with the early parts, where his family hates him, and he has no friends because it reminds me of my own childhood, the author loses me when the magic starts to show up. All this magic being used Willy-nilly, without any consequence. Kids flying around on brooms playing a sport, when’re they could potentially fall to their deaths. One character alters time itself so she can take an extra class in school. There are many examples of flagrant magic use. It’s not really my kind of story. No disrespect to J.K. Rowling, you don’t sell millions of books without being a great writer. My question is this: What is the price of magic? What has to happen in order for someone to use this energy in order to bend reality to their will? If you look at folklore magic usually comes at a high price. Aladdin’s Genie usually gets him into more trouble. As does the Monkey’s Paw. Some magical items in stories give you benefits at little or no cost and sort of insulate the user from the costs of magic. But many more magic items come with a caveat, or restriction. In the real world, we use energy and technology to do amazing things but a price is paid. Inventors spend years perfecting their inventions. Coal and gas and oil have to be dug out of the ground, electricity must be harnessed with complex machinery. And there are always losses. You can never get more energy or work out of something than you put into it. So what price should the magician pay for their magic?