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Season 3 Episode Breakdown of Prisoner of Azkaban
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Introduction and Episode Breakdown Overview
00:00:20
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Welcome to Peace's Gab Fest, where sometimes we host a chapter by chapter page-to-screen analysis of the Harry Potter series, and sometimes we have a common room chat. I'm Sarah Day. I'm James.
00:00:33
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and i meek And on today's episode, we're going to do a episode breakdown of how we see book three, The Prisoner of Azkaban, turning into season three of the HBO Max show.
00:00:49
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Before we begin, a quick spoiler of warning because we will obviously be spoiling Prisoner of Azkaban and probably the rest of the Harry Potter series as we compare and talk about how we see this series laying out.
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Detailed Episode Breakdown and Key Themes
00:06:02
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Welcome back, listeners. I'm going to go ahead and start with my breakdown, and then Meeks will give her a breakdown, and then James will finish us off um with his breakdown of how we see the series going.
00:06:18
Speaker
so um I'll just dive right in, I suppose. And I believe I talked about this when we talked about the first chapter, but I see episode one. um First of all, episode one, I have titled The Night Bus. And it covers chapters one through three, which is Owlpost, Aunt Marge's Big Mistake, and The Night Bus.
00:06:45
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And I see this season, this episode opening up with sort of a flashback of Wendell and the Weird and all the other witches going through um you know kind of what Harry is reading in his history of magic book here. um And we talked about it when we covered this chapter, but I am bringing it back because I think it would just be a really fun opening to kind of see the history.
00:07:13
Speaker
And then we kind of zoom out and it turns into Harry's book. and we see him doing his homework in the dead of night with a flashlight. And then of course we get the Aunt Marge interaction and the blow up both figuratively and literally. And then we we kind of finish with Harry having ridden the night bus. He sees the the dark um black dog um rides the night bus and he arrives at Diagon Alley.
00:07:47
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And that's how we sort of end the chapter with kind of just, um you know, life at the Dursleys and how terrible it is. And then we end the chapter with that opposite. You know, he's in the Wizarding World. We get our first look of this season of the Wizarding World, and then we we cut to black. Chapter two, I mean, I'm sorry, episode two, I have titled The Dementor, and this will be chapters four and five, which is the Leaky Cauldron and the Dementor. And this episode opens up with life at Diagon Alley. It's all of that stuff that we talked about way back when when we covered this chapter. We just want to see him exploring Diagon Alley. I think he was there like a week or so, and I just want some time to spend exploring the wizarding world.
00:08:43
Speaker
And then, you know, he meets up with his friends and then we board the Hogwarts Express and we get everything with the Dementor. We meet Lupin, all of that. um And then we kind of end this episode with warm fuzzy feelings because Harry is back at Hogwarts and he's looking forward to the year ahead. um Little does he know it will be a pretty grim year.
00:09:08
Speaker
Episode 3 is called Flight of the Fat Lady. And this is chapters 6, 7, and 8, Talons and Tea Leaves, The Bogart in the Wardrobe, and Flight of the Fat Lady, of course. And this is Life at Hogwarts. We meet Trelawney. We we We don't meet Lupin, we've already met him, but we get a look inside his class. We have the Bogart chapter. um And then of course the cliffhanger of this episode is going to be the attack of the fat lady and everything that kind of happens in the wake of that.
Mid-Season Cliffhanger Discussion: Sirius Black Attack
00:09:50
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Episode four is called the Graham defeat and it's chapters nine and 10, which is the grim defeat and the Marauder's map. And it's kind of basically how the chapters play out. And we end with the revelation that black is Harry's godfather. And that is that's the cliffhanger of the episode. Wesley just right into Episode five, which is our mid season because you know, I like to stay with the 10 episode seasons.
00:10:16
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And episode five is chapters 11, 12, and 13. The Firebolt, the Patronus, and Gryffindor versus Ravenclaw. And we open up the episode with Christmas break. Harry gets the Firebolt. Hermione turns them in, and this kind of starts that Ron-Hermaini tension. um We've already seen a little bit of it through scabbers and crookshanks, but this is really where it starts to get intense.
00:10:46
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And then, of course, the Petronas chapter is when um that chapter ends with Ron discovering that Scabbers has been, quote, killed, unquote, and he sees the ginger's hair. So we assume that Kirk Shinkz killed Scabbers, and that's where the tension between Hermione and Ron really ignites.
00:11:07
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So a majority of this chapter is going to be that tension between these two and even Hermione and Harry with the firebolt. um But we're going to end the episode with the Gryffindor Ravenclaw match.
00:11:22
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um in well we're not going to end the episode sorry we're going to have this match but we are going to end the episode like the chapter ends and this is ron waking up in the middle of the night and having been attacked by serious black and that's going to be our mid-season cliffhanger see uh episode six is going to be chapters 14 and 15 which is Snape Scrudge and the Quidditch final and I didn't really write a lot of notes so just um this is when oh Harry gets caught by Snape um after leaving Hogsmeade
00:12:04
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And he calls Lupin and he sees the map and the map's making fun of him. Well, he he doesn't see the map, but you know, he the map is making fun of him and he calls Lupin in and we have the discussion and Lupin kind of says, you know, I'm i'm kind of disappointed in you because everybody's trying to keep you safe, um blah, blah, blah. So this is just more of a life at Hogwarts, a day in the life episode after our big mid-season episode, um kind of getting us back, um you know, the calm after the big storm and the calm before the next big storm.
Buckbeak's Execution Plot Point
00:12:43
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So episode seven is called Cat, Rat, and Dog. And this is chapters 16 and 17, which is Trelawney's prediction and Cat, Rat, and Dog.
00:12:55
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And again, pretty much the same as the chapters, just um life at Hogwarts with the big pieces being her prediction about Peter Pettigrew. And then um the, I don't want to say assassination. um What's it called? Buckbeaks.
00:13:18
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um Beheading. Beheading. um But what's it is it, is it just a beheading? Oh, execution. Execution, that's the word. Thank you very much. Yeah, I'm always happy to help talk about executions. Executions, headings. Buckbeaks, like trial and execution is kind of in the background of this, or not in the background, but happening throughout this episode. And um that's why we end the episode with Cat, Rat, and Dog. And that's when they're leaving,
00:13:52
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That beheading they're seeing it from afar and serious comes and grabs the rat slash Ron and drags him into this tricking shack And that's how we end the episode on another cliffhanger. You know, I love my cliffhangers So that brings us to episode eight which I have called the Marauders. So we've just left episode seven with a big cliffhanger of this big black dog that has been plaguing Harry throughout the entire season, dragging his best friend into the freaking shack.
00:14:23
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um So we open up episode eight, um and this is gonna be chapters 18 and 19, which, no, I'm sorry, this is just going to be um Mooney Wormtail Patford and Prongs Chapter 18. But this is going to be a flashback episode and this episode is called The Marauders. um I just feel like Mooney Wormtail Patford and Prongs is too long of a title. So it's going to be called The Marauders. It's going to be a flashback episode. This is basically everything that they
00:14:57
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tell us in the Shrieking Shack, but instead of us spending an hour inside the Shrieking Shack being told the story, we're going to see it through flashbacks. We're going to see it through Lupin and Sirius' eyes. And we'll end the episode coming back into real time, Lupin and Sirius having that heartfelt um reunion um and kind of going, you know, tying in the flashbacks with telling the trio about what's happening.
00:15:32
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um And then
00:15:38
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that we kind of end the episode with ah Snape showing up, I believe is what i what I wanted to do here. So they have their reunion and then Snape kind of comes up and throws a wrench in the plants and that's how we end the episode. And then we have the servant of Lord Voldemort and the dementor's kiss as episode nine, which is chapters 19 and 20. And again, that's just seeing everything with Snape.
00:16:06
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the turning the rat into Peter Pettigrew, leaving the Shrieking Shack, and then Lupin turning into a werewolf, and then passing out at the lake. um And him, Harry, passing out at the lake will be the end of the episode. And he will wake up at the start of episode 10, our season finale. And this is going to be chapters 21 and 23.
00:16:36
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I'm sorry, 21 and 22, which is Hermione's secret, and I'll post again.
Season Finale Exploration and Time Travel
00:16:41
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It will be called Hermione's secret. And I'm sorry if I didn't say episode nine is called The Servant of Lord Voldemort. So seize the finale, Hermione's secret, Harry wakes up in the hospital wing, and then we have all of the time travel, basically, in this episode. And then we have the repercussions of the time travel as well to kind of close out the episode. um If it can be an hour and a half, I would prefer it to be an hour and a half or like a two episode um finale and make it 11 episodes. But um I don't think our post again needs to be that much of the episode to close it out, close the season out. um I do want to spend, of course, a majority of the season through the time travel stuff. um And then I always want to see
00:17:34
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the Hogwarts Express returning and interactions with the Dursleys, and especially with this one saying, you know, my godfather is a convicted murderer, so y'all better watch out. um But that is my season three, which covers the Prisoner of Azkaban. Yay. Any questions or comments?
00:17:59
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It sounds very interesting. there There are similarities to what I was doing, but what was like the process of you breaking it down? Did you kind of just break it down for like the amount of chapters there were or were you trying to like hit specific story beats? I used the same process as I have the past two books. And what I do is I write down all the chapters and I start grouping them together in a way, um,
00:18:32
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for them I usually start with like episode one and episode 10. What chapters are going to open and close the season? And then I work my way through the rest of the chapters. What's happening? What would make a good episode? um like What's happening in these chapters? And what combination of these chapters would make a good episode? And you know because I like the cliffhangers so much, I try to think, OK, what these chapters, a lot of times chapters will have some sort of small or big cliffhanger. And so I think about that and I'm like, well, what's the big one and what should end the episode? And then I just kind of group them together um based on what I think would work together. A lot of the Quidditch matches um obviously can be grouped together with another um chapter. So what what goes together and what's going to work in the in the overall storytelling of an episodic story?
00:19:27
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All right, it's gone.
00:19:32
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All right, so Migs, you're up.
00:19:37
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Okay. Mine's not that much different, which I feel like is a theme between the two
Episode Structuring and Character Development Approach
00:19:41
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of us. Um, I just have, I had a really hard time and wanted to do 12 episodes. I, I tried to do 10, um, and I couldn't do 10 and then I wanted to do 12, but then I couldn't really figure out how to do 12. And I kept coming up with 11 for how I was breaking it down. Um,
00:20:00
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but I don't necessarily want an 11 episode season because 11 just seems weird for that. But anyways, my main goal with all of these is that I just want more time for everything to breathe, you know more time for the characters to have their development, have the world's building going on. And so i even though I think like a 10 episode um season of something is usually really solid,
00:20:30
Speaker
um I think that there's like the these stories are just getting too long and especially going into the Goblet of Fire or to the Phoenix. Like those are those books are so much longer. There's no way that we can fit everything in 10 episodes. I mean, I guess maybe we could because they fit it all into a movie and by fit it all, I mean, they took out half of it. but Anyways, so for the first episode, I really like the idea of it being almost like a slow burn and being really about um Harry's life on Privet Drive and um the visit with Marge. um And so mainly just those first two chapters and then having it end
00:21:10
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like Part of me wants it to end after the night bus you know to include all three of the chapters, but part of me also doesn't. like I ah kind of like the idea of an almost self-contained episode where it's just really focused on the Privet Drive muggle world stuff, and then um ending with the cliffhanger of blowing up Marge and and Harry leaving.
00:21:32
Speaker
And then I think it would be cool to drop the first two episodes at once so that that way we get that and there's like a full episode where everything can breathe. And then right away though, you get to watch another episode where he enters the magical world. But I did like what you said, Sarah Day, of starting with the muggle world and ending the episode in the um like with the opposite and having him be in the magical world. I did like that concept. but um yeah So then you're welcome.
00:21:59
Speaker
So then I for my next one for my next chapter or episode I did chapters three and four. So he's on the night bus and then the leaky cauldron and I really want them to spend a lot of time in Diagon Alley and like What that's like because they just did such a disservice to Diagon Alley and to a lot of them um Magical world stuff in the films because they just didn't have enough time. So I really want them to like Explore Diagon Alley a lot more especially because this chapter is all about that it's like yes Harry's been to Diagon Alley a couple times now, but
00:22:36
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he's on his own and has so much freedom and he's there for a couple weeks. And so he like really has the time to explore. And so I want us as the audience to be able to go along with him with that. Um, so that for, um, the second episode and then I did, Oh, see, I already bungled up my notes. I wrote three to four. Well, I, I guess,
00:23:02
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Because I don't know, I feel conflicted because I, I like the idea of having an episode end with a Dementor stuff, you know, when they get to the castle, but I don't know if there's quite enough to do three episodes. And then the end ending it with a Dementor, if that makes sense. Like, but I would also be fine if they did like a full episode in Diagon Alley and then did, and then they did the third episode.
00:23:27
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ah I don't know. Okay, so I don't know. I don't know what to do, but I like the idea of ending with a dementor and that experience and then when they get to the school. So however anybody feels like breaking that down. And then for the next episode, whatever number I'm on now. um I think chapters um six seven and eight because they're so heavily based on um just being in the classes and going around the school and again like this would be an episode where they give time for the
00:24:03
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world to breathe and for the characters to just kind of interact with each other just as students and um So I I would love a full episode about classes and like the mundane stuff and then ending with the flight of the fat lady um Serious debacle when he goes into the common room um And I did chapters 9 and 10 grim defeat and the marauders map ah for my next episode um I think that's pretty self-explanatory. I mean You know Quidditch stuff starts, they're playing Quidditch and then you know Harry finds out how to go into Hogsmeade. I really want them to spend a lot of time with him and Hogsmeade and the whole reveal of Sirius ending with that as a cliffhanger, but I just want them to spend time with that.
Hogwarts Life and Quidditch: World-Building Emphasis
00:24:49
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Yeah, for sure. um And then for the next episode, I did chapter 11, the Firebolt, the Petronas, and Gryffindor versus Ravenclaw. Again, I feel like those all just kind of fit well together. And there the Firebolt is a pretty short chapter, if I remember. So I feel like i can those can all be kind of combined together. um And then next episode, chapters 14 and 15, Snape Scrudge and the Quidditch Final. Always good to end on some big Quidditch stuff for an episode.
00:25:18
Speaker
Um, but I, I mean, I just like that we would, if they did something like this, we would get a few solid episodes of what life is like at the school, what Quidditch is like at the school and just, it wouldn't be like, you know, showing us little snippets of it and then just moving on because they think it's not important. So hopefully, hopefully they give all of that time to breathe.
00:25:37
Speaker
um And then ah next episode Professor Trelawney's prediction cat rat and dog again I think the ending with um like you did Saturday with one of your episodes ending with the cat rat and dog where they go into the um go into the Shrieking Shack or like start that process, I think would be a good cliffhanger. And then yes, the marauders for an episode. And I also love the idea of showing it through flashbacks, not just them talking. And they can of course spend an entire episode um doing this.
00:26:08
Speaker
And then um chapters 19 and 20, Servant of Lord Voldemort and the Dementor's Kiss. Those also go really well together. I think we'd all agree. And then Hermione's Secret and Owl Post again to finish it off. So I think that there were a lot of similarities. I just expanded it in the middle a little bit more. But yeah, that's my breakdown.
00:26:30
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That is awesome. I love it.
00:26:36
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Let's see how similar yours is, James, two hours. There are similarities. I will say that for sure. I think that this is a really easy book to break down into 10, 11, so episodes.
Thematic Episode Breakdown by James
00:26:50
Speaker
um But I think I broke mine down a little bit differently than you guys did. um so So I'm interested to kind of like see where that goes. But what was your process?
00:27:06
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my my process was more of a like looking at the entire story as a whole because i knew i had a beginning and i knew i had an end but i needed to define what my points were going to be, what the inspiration of each episode was going to be, and what I was going to be okay with focusing on in those episodes. So I chose mainly, I looked at the chapters in the book and then I chose mainly what the theme of the book should be, and so I chose the chapters that were going to fit with that theme of the episode.
00:27:39
Speaker
ah So with that being said, ah the whole theme for the first episode is Aunt Marge's mistake, which is the title of the episode, which is chapters one through three, because I believe one is a lot of setup to remind the the the people of of everything. So we can still start the episode with Harry reading his magic books and getting hit getting the owl thing but that's not the big focus of the thing the big focus of the thing is him wanting to it's it's harry's harry's desire to go to hog's mead and so he we you know he wake up he'll wake up he'll deliver his thing go to go to verden verden says only if you behave and they do like little comp that little compromise when when he learns that aunt march shows up aunt march shows up
00:28:33
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as the next big thing. I can just see her opening the door and just kind walking right in, being all menacing looking, and Harry's kind of just like, oh boy. And just setting up that conflict because this is gonna be harry one of Harry's big conflict moments throughout the episode because he he's trying to hold on to what he he likes. and ah This is why I want the TV show to focus a lot on the Muggle world within the first episode in all of the books because I want that conflict to be built and it won't work unless seasons two and one have built the Dursleys on on is and in a conflicting relationship with Harry kind of scenario. So we have a montage of Harry dealing with Marge and Marge dealing with Harry and then fighting back and forth.
00:29:29
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to arguably the big conflict of him blowing up blowing up Marge in the end because of that big boilover. We can see we've been with him on this journey through the amount of time that they've been together with Aunt Marge. we We know we've seen the multiple things that she's done. It's very obvious that he's going to blow. It's just a matter of time of weight waiting for something to happen, then it happens.
00:29:57
Speaker
and we get Harry to blow up and as she's blowing up and the Dursleys all freaking out for comedic purposes he's off running to get his stuff we see him leave Vernon Dursley's like you can't leave and he's like make like make me stay uh he leaves and storms off which uh will take about I wanna say 15 to 20 minutes to kind of satisfy our satisfy this entire thing, which leaves us another 15.
00:30:31
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minutes to conclude the episode, which is the night bus. i Harry gets a glimpse of the Grimm, which is actually serious, and so he he gets that glimpse. The night bus comes in. We're thrown right in from this mundane conflict into a, whoa, this is the night bus, this is magical. We're getting those magical properties back, the things that makes Harry Potter exciting. People are going to be like, well that's so cool and he gets on the night bus he gets introduced to Stan Sun Pike we get introduced to Sirius Black they set up all of this terrible stuff in the meantime we have a type of trope or something I don't haven't really decided yet but we have to let the audience know what Harry's thinking uh which is you know part of it is the night bus and like never long about him but he's like I'm I need to get away from the ministry I need to
00:31:28
Speaker
make it so that they don't catch me or he's running away we have to make it very apparent that he's running away so that he doesn't get captured and lose the ability to go to Hogwarts and stuff which will set up the ending of the night bus taking him to the Leaky Cauldron. He gets off the Leaky Cauldron and out the door comes Fudge who's already introduced in season two so we know who he is but it's more of a like surprise because we've built up the running away part and crap like you're you're excited because you're about to see what's gonna happen next but then Fudge comes in and he's like oh crap Harry just got caught and we'll end the episode there.
00:32:13
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ah So season our episode two starts with that process of him talking to Fudge and learning that he's actually not expelled and learning more about Sirius Black, which will take maybe five or so minutes of the of the episode, which leaves the
Exploring Diagon Alley and Character Interactions
00:32:33
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rest of the episode to do what I want it to do, which is establish a baseline of the magical world, explore the leaky cauldron,
00:32:42
Speaker
get to get to see you where Ron and Hermione have been, establish conflict between them because of Crookshanks and Scabbers, do all that lovely stuff for the majority of the episode, and then we i get introduced. Arthur tells Harry about Sirius and that he's looking to kill him and Harry's like, why? And don't necessarily go into that, but it sets up that conflict that Sirius Black is a big uh-oh problem.
00:33:13
Speaker
and it's not necessarily prevalent or focused on in the entire episode because this episode's supposed to be a little fun, it's supposed to be Harry's relaxing and enjoying himself for the first time for the first time ever kind of scenario so this is just kind of reminders to the audience guess what the serious black book is Sirius, you need to remember who he is. We're just throwing inklings in there. And then the episode ends with him going to King's Cross, getting on the train, Harry telling them about Sirius, and the losing all that light and wonder the magical world created, getting sucked dry into a dark gray scene of the Dementor showing up, and the Dementor having an effect on Harry.
00:34:04
Speaker
And then Lupin saves the day, Lupin describes what the Dementor is, and we're back to that colorful feeling, except it's a little bit duller, and it's not as bright, and it's not as happy as it was when we we get established in the leaky and but when we get established in Diagon Alley.
00:34:26
Speaker
It's more muted because Harry now has a fear of the Dementors in the back of his brain. What was that? How do I defend myself against that? And that kind of sets the tone for the rest of for the rest ah of the season kind of scenario. So see episode three, I did Talons and Tea Leaves and the Bogart in the Winter wardrobe, which is just six and seven, which is one of our differences.
00:34:54
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ah Which I will go into because this episode was for me the most important prospect of this episode was building the world of Hogwarts. Looking into the class schedule looking into the students looking looking into the teachers getting to show all that without having to deal with.
00:35:15
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anything serious black related or anything dark to mentor related it's just full on enjoying the the schedule of hogwarts doing that multiple times kind of scenario and we can have multiple montages of just classwork and homework and create a quidditch practice and all this other stuff quidditch gets introduced we have but the first the four main posts of of this episode is post one divination and having that whole thing play out post two care of magical creatures and having that whole thing play out post three potions class and having that get fledged out the way that it needs to and then ending with the defense against the dark arts class
00:36:11
Speaker
where we get just and a reminder we get pulled back into. The the whole thing we're having fun enjoying all these classes and it's classic hog wars because you know hippogriff Draco Malfoy e Etc, etc. We're enjoying ourselves, but then we get a reminder. Oh, everything's not handy dandy and hunky dory because we we've got this new threat looming over harry and I'm actually going to take a page from the movie and have the dementor bhagar the dementor
00:36:44
Speaker
just like it did in the movie because I want the audience to know that Harry has a new fear and it's not Lord Voldemort. And I want people to go, why did Lupin step in front of the Dementor? Why didn't he let Harry do his thing? And like have the episode end with that with Harry kind of just silently pondering the whole Bogart situation and the episode ends there.
00:37:11
Speaker
Which then takes us into episode four, which is called Grim Defeat, which is chapters eight and nine, which we start off with Harry now establishing, well,
00:37:28
Speaker
not establishing because the the relationship between him and Lupin is getting established in episode two when Lupin comes to the rescue and then during the class they can have some moments but this is kind of what's the word I'm looking for solidifying the relationship and creating this relationship that we've all loved from the book and going, this is between Lupin and Harry. This is important. And so we have that conversation. Lupin goes into why he stepped in. They discover that Harry's real feeler is Dementors and not Lord Voldemort. And he's like, oh, okay. And then they kind of build off of that.
00:38:13
Speaker
And then it jumps into the whole Quidditch thing. And so now we're going back and forth between Harry fighting his his his desire to want to be prepared and not face those dementors anymore, but also wanting to enjoy school with his friends. We get a little bit of that through Hogsmeade, him not being able to go through Hogsmeade, and then he goes by and meets Lupin. Then he goes back into preparing for Quidditch, because there's this big game and Oliver is trying to throw them through the rings, and then he goes back into
00:38:46
Speaker
But then this leads back into a reminder of Sirius Black. And so the the whole flight of the fat lady happens. Everyone's in their thing. Everyone's like, what's gonna happen? yeah It's like in the middle of the episode and we're like, crap, what's going on? And then Dumbledore discovers that he's not there. So they go back to normal, have a class without Lupin and Snape you know doing his own little thing. And then we go into Quidditch and the Quidditch episode ah The episode ends with the Quidditch match, Harry seeing the Grimm, having that whole darkness come into play, the Dementors are coming in, and he wakes up to find that his broom is broken, and that's how the episode ends. So essentially, I'm kind of trying to create a balance between this looming darkness
00:39:43
Speaker
that the Dementors and Sirius Black are supposed to represent versus Harry just wanting to have a normal year and trying to do his best to enjoy time with his friends and go do stuff with his friends like go to Hogsmeade and all that other stuff, enjoy Quidditch, enjoy Defense Against the Dark Arts with his new favorite professor like i um I'm trying to create that that balance and I think that that's how it it could necessarily get situated. So chapters five and six are basically the same thing. I made the Quidditch matches, tent poles in each of my episodes because I wanted each i wanted to flesh out Quidditch.
00:40:28
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ah essentially um which this helped the which this helps do that but I also used them as a rallying point for other chapters to go oh cool so this chapter or episode four is when I so might start taking other bits and pieces of other chapters into um into play like the whole conflict between Harry and I mean sorry between Ron and Hermione and the whole Kirk Shanks and Scabbers thing um
Ron and Hermione's Tension
00:41:00
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so that they can see that conflict grow through multiple episodes and not just a couple because the chapters are set up that way but that's essentially the only
00:41:11
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ah bleed through that we're getting through those main three episodes, which is four, five, and six, is is is little plot points like that so that we can actually, as a viewer, see those play out and not kind of just get a full fire hose full of just stuff.
00:41:31
Speaker
being thrown at us for no reason kind of scenario. So that when we get to those big things like crook chain seeding scabbers in the next episode, which is episode five, it's not a surprise because the conflict was growing in episodes three and four, because that stuff was already being established. So 11 and 13, Gryffindor versus Ravenclaw, it's labeled.
00:41:55
Speaker
um We kind of get Harry practicing a Patronus now because he's gone to Lupin and he's confided in and was like, I don't want this to happen again. So we start the Patronus lessons. We, you know, this is more of the episode four was the more of the Halloween ish episode. This is more of a Christmas episode.
00:42:15
Speaker
So we get the whole Christmas stuff, the whole firebolt scenario, building on Ron and Hermione's tension again, being like this main conflict of of the episode. But Harry's preparing, practicing the Patronus, preparing for the match. He gets better at it. The match happens. I think that's the match that drco Draco tries to pretend to be a Dementor. Or is that the Quidditch finale?
00:42:45
Speaker
Am I mixing those two up? I don't know. Maybe it that will happen. But the point is is he's prepping for this entire thing. They win. It's a great thing. We we we live on that happy note, but we end on Sirius Black coming back into play. And so it feels like Harry is overcoming the Dementor problem.
00:43:11
Speaker
But then this other problem comes back into play because now Sirius Black broke into the common room and he was about to stab Ron. And we we go back to, oh crap, there's someone trying to kill Harry. Yeah, so like Harry's dealing with multiple demons right now and he doesn't want to. And this is a this is the whole Hogsmeade episode. ah So the Marauders map gets introduced and stuff like that. So that goes into play here as well.
00:43:41
Speaker
ah But that's kind of more of the first half, whereas I explained the second half, so I guess I jumped the gun. But like the Hogsmeade episode is kind of set up to be the Christmas part of the episode. so um Episode 6 is 14 and 15, which is Snape's Grudge, so we get the Marauder's Map taken by Lupin, Snape's...
00:44:08
Speaker
Snape's and Lupin's relationship is revealed to Harry. um Other things are happening. It's just kind of a bleed through of everything else that I've talked about. It's just all the buildup. But then we have the happy ending of the Quidditch final.
00:44:28
Speaker
they They win the Quidditch Cup, everything's happy, everything's hunky-dory, nothing can beat this, and to kind of show that Harry is no longer worried about anything, and he's come to terms with Sirius Black, that he's feeling confident in his Patronus, there is gonna be nothing at the end kind of throwing a... kind of throwing a...
00:44:58
Speaker
What's it called? Wrench. Like, there's no cliffhanger or, like, dark looming. Uh-oh. Like, what's gonna happen? Like, this is just a happy episode. It ends with a happy episode. And that's where we're going with it, I guess.
00:45:20
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Yeah, so... Four, five, six, there's a lot of semantics involved. ah For me having just come up with this like two hours ago, I have to say that I have gotten a little bit detailed, but ah there is still so many details. I didn't figure everything out, but i just I just know what the whole feeling of the episodes need to be, and that's what episode six ends because we're gonna get a butt ton of everything with 7, 8, 9, and 10. So chapter 7, or episode 7, is cat dog Cat Rat and Dog, um or Trelawney's prediction. I liked both of those as a title and couldn't decide, so I i coin flipped. But I really could go either way for any of them. But it's essentially the whole build up to Trelawney,
00:46:14
Speaker
doing the prediction and we have like because execution and then we have scabbers coming back and that whole ordeal and Then the dog comes takes Ron through the thing They travel through the the whomping willow find serious black serious black Oh, like does that dramatic entrance thing like he does in the movie and the episode ends because I had Previously disclosed on another episode how I wanted the flashback episode to go and I loved it so much that I was like That has to happen that way. So ah If you remember how my flashback episode went Which is which you know, I also kind of was like you could name it Mooney Puffett
00:47:03
Speaker
prongs or or like how however they ah the chapter has it set up or you could just name it the marauders doesn't necessarily matter to me um but you have that whole setup where the beginning of the episode you're flying through the air of hogwarts and you're going back into the whomping willow and it looks like you're about to go back to harry ron but you can't tell what time it is but then it's actually a whole different crew of people and you're like surprised and you're like the viewers like what's going on and you're introduced to young versions of Lupin, James Potter, Sirius Black and Peter Pettigrew and it goes through it goes through their life you kind of time skip through Hogwarts and then you meet Lily and then you bully young Snape if you want to and you kind of just added these things and adding these things so they're the
00:47:57
Speaker
their development, Lily and James getting married, Sirius being the best man at the wedding, um you know Lily being pregnant for a little bit, having you know a Christmas party or whatever, that lurking thing of the war going on and Voldemort like searching for them and then discussing the whole thing. and then yeah All that stuff that I had talked about previously, but fleshing it out into a whole episode And then just not revealing everything, but revealing enough to kind of show who Sirius Black is and his journey and how he got here. And then we lead up to, we even include a few scenes of him being imprisoned and leading up to his his escape. And then we get to we get to him being right there where he talk he has a conversation loop and shows up.
00:48:54
Speaker
Um, they discover who Peter Pettigrew is, and the episode ends with Peter Pettigrew being ousted as Scabbers, and we go from there. Which leads into the next part of the episode, which, uh, then goes into Snape coming in, uh, Harry getting rid of Snape, and, well, actually, no, that's already happened, sorry. Uh, they lead to Peter Pettigrew discussing them, they take him out, Lupin turns into a werewolf,
00:49:24
Speaker
There's that whole fight, and you know, fleshing out that whole entire whole entire scenario of the Dementors at the lake, Harry standing up for himself and passing out the episode ending at him passing out on the lake or ending with him waking up and and hearing that Sirius Black is gonna get the Dementors kiss.
00:49:51
Speaker
um haven't necessarily decided on how I want that to end but episode 9 is Hermione's secret sorry that was episode 9 was the servant of Lord Voldemort episode 10 is Hermione's secret and Hermione it's supposed to be that whole reveal of that's been hinted at throughout the entire season and then boom Hermione has a time turner and this is the convenient thing that we can use to um save serious and so they go in and save serious uh but it's not the way that harry likes it we kind of focus on their relationship that they've developed in the last episode um they risk they save him and then the rest of the episode is just the downwind and the repercussions of what happened but the downwind of ending the year they get their exams back Hermione drops a class uh they you know set up
00:50:51
Speaker
Quidditch World Cup.
Season Closure and Future Setup
00:50:52
Speaker
They talk about um Harry having a godfather now and then that whole ending with the Dursleys at the crinks King's Cross Station obviously has to happen. But that's kind of how I wanted to set up ah the the series because I wanted to kind of highlight that kind of highlight the the antagonist of the episode, which was a fake Sirius Black,
00:51:23
Speaker
um but also like the Dementors, which were really kind of the big thing. But i didn't I didn't want to go full in dark and gloomy like the movie did, because I feel like it defeats the purpose of what the first two seasons are supposed to do, which is set up the magicalness of the magical world.
00:51:44
Speaker
but then fully on get into like what the Dark Arts are and and kind of introduce things that about the Dark Lord we haven't seen before and introduce things, you know, and introduce things like Dementors and other magical creatures that are within the Dark Arts. and But it doesn't, it has this darking aura, but it isn't over encompassing everything about the magical world that's bright and happy and all that other stuff and so I want there to be I want this to be a roller coaster of emotions for the for me and for the viewers and so I felt like having
00:52:30
Speaker
having a combination of just enough of happy things balancing out the dark things, which is why episode six and episode three, the classes, and the whole Quidditch final being overly positive, I wanted those overly positive episodes to balance out the very dark and gloomy episodes that were going to be um the servant of Lord Voldemort, you know, the whole Pettigrew thing.
00:53:00
Speaker
and the whole flashback of Sirius, which is going to be like super super dark at the end. But that's that was my goal. And I think I have it. i Obviously, I wouldn't flesh it out more if I was an actual writer of this series. right ah But I feel like it's good outline, at least. Yeah, a great solid. I think we all had some pretty solid outlines.
00:53:38
Speaker
Any comments or or questions? um I just love how like we all can take the same book and the same you know TV show, I guess, that we're creating. And we can all have different answers and different ways of putting them together. And you know we have our similarities, of course, and we have our differences. And it's just it's always really fun to hear what you two have to say about how you would put stuff together because it's um you know because it's just all different. like We can all take the same thing, but turn it into a different project.
00:54:09
Speaker
It's also going to be fun to see because there are a few things like we all had I think um maybe it was Grim to Defeat and Marauder's Map, I forget. But there's there's a few chapters that we all combined into the same episode. um So it will be interesting to see when the show does come out if they really do combine those three or those those chapters.
00:54:36
Speaker
um that we did. um Because I think if all three of us, like you said, me like we are also different, but we do have certain things that we are all the same on. So obviously, those things are, um like they just work. like they're It's an obvious way for to work if all three of us are pulling those things into one episode. Yeah.
00:55:02
Speaker
Or they can go out of left field and make a movie like The Prisoner of Azkaban.
00:55:10
Speaker
Yeah, that movie was really out of left field. yeah All right. Well, I mean, if that's all we have to say. Yeah, then that's pretty much where I'm at.
00:55:26
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