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Arthurs Values, Battle of Wits, and Surprise we are doing Chapter 4 as well.
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Introduction and Spoiler Warning
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Welcome to Peeves Gebfest, where sometimes we host a chapter-by-chapter page-to-screen analysis of the Harry Potter series, and sometimes we just have a common room chat. I'm James. I'm Meeks. I'm Faraday.
00:00:39
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And today, we are analyzing chapter three of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Before we start gabbing, we wanted to give a spoiler warning. We will be using our vast knowledge of the wizarding world to compare the page to the screen, and we will gab about moments that happened later in the books or films. So you have been warned, Ickles first days.
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Film Adaptation Critique
00:06:37
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Welcome back listeners. Do we have a very, very short chapter for you? I think I did the math and it is 13 pages long.
00:06:50
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out of a whole seven hunt a whopping 745, I think, somewhere around there. And? Oh, no portion of the film. like So what are we going to talk about? There's obviously no comparing this chapter to anything because the Dursley didn't even show up in the movie.
00:07:15
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snow
00:07:18
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Yeah. I think this is one. i Was this the only one where they were cut out or was there was did they not show up in Half Blood Prince or Order of the Phoenix? I know they're in Deathly Hallows but... No, at Order of the Phoenix are definitely in because of the Dementors in Deadly. Yeah, okay.
00:07:40
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And then half left prince. Does it just start with him meeting Dumbledore and that like train station? Yeah at the train station he's in the subway and Dumbledore just picks him up in the subway. Right so we we skip them. We don't even see the Dursleys at all. Because in the book he comes and Dumbledore really lays into the Dursleys and how they're mistreating Harry. Definitely.
00:08:06
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that's the That's the chapter where the glasses are like hitting them in the head and they're like pretending the glasses don't exist. Which is a perfect opportunity for the meagues style comedy. Yes. No, it really is. And yeah so not too slapstick comedy. They can still make it be kind of dry but silly. Oh, definitely. So yeah, this is the first movie out of two.
00:08:34
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that they don't have the Dursleys in it at all. So that kind of just is sad because this and chapter four are like hilariously funny. I was laughing when I was reading it.
00:08:49
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Yeah. And I forgot like that these two chapters were separate. I was thinking the whole time I was reading chapter three, I'm like, I can't wait until the fireplace scene. And then as I'm reading and I'm like, this is not going to happen in this chapter. And sure enough, it's actually the next chapter, which also does not have a film cut apart.
00:09:12
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Yeah, I forgot how short each of these beginning chapters are um in this book, because it feels like you know we get a solid amount of time before you know the big Quidditch World Cup stuff starts happening. So I forget how many how many chapters there are, but there but they're short.
Chapter Three Analysis
00:09:31
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I mean, overall, this book has 37 chapters, and it's about over 700 pages.
00:09:38
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But like even even with that in consideration, these are very short chapters. And so it makes you realize that there are going to be some very huge chapters later down the line with just so much content in it ah in it at all. but
00:09:58
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I mean, since we don't have a lot to compare, i got what's the one thing out of this chapter that you were kind of like, I can't believe they took that out of the movie. Besides all of it. Like a specific thing. I think the whole breakfast thing will be fun. um Especially when... Well, no. Okay, so let me back up. The the whole breakfast thing kind of leads into the main piece of information from this chapter that get that is cut from the film, right? And that's the letter. And I mean, this chapter is just pure comedy. the The next two chapters are, um which is such a shame that it was cut from the film, but the the miserable breakfast is such a like juxtaposition to his excitement afterwards and knowing that he's about to go spend the rest of the summer with the Weasley's
00:10:55
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he's gonna see the World Cup, which is like his, Quidditch is his element, right? And so it's just a really nice contrast. So, um you know, just to see that cut from the film and we just skip all of the Dursleys, it's just very jarring. i You bring up a good point because Harry and this entire encounter for breakfast is just going like,
00:11:25
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life could be the most miserable right now but it's not because he has things to look forward to and so everybody else is miserable but really he's enjoying himself so like it doesn't even faze him that he has to be in on this diet that everybody else is on because he's got food in the floorboards that he can just go eat on because his friends love him and send him food And so he he has that to rely on. He has this relationship he's developing with his godfather that he's that gives him a little edge in his confrontation with the dis like with Vernon particularly. And like going forward and being able to spend time with his friends a couple weeks earlier than then waiting for school to start is also like a bonus. and so
00:12:17
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But like in comparison, the Dursleys are very, very miserable. Cause they're all having to do the, this, they're all having to do the diet and they're all having to do this and that. And it's just, they're the ones that aren't happy. And it's normally the other way around where the Dursleys are making Harry miserable, but I don't know. It's kind of just a nice little reverse Uno reverse card type situation.
00:12:47
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Exactly.
00:12:50
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What about you, Migs? What was something that you wanted out of this portion of the chapter? Like to be adapted to film? To film, to the TV show. um I just really like they um how this is a slow chapter, right? It doesn't span very much time at all. It's just a lot of like dialogue and then just hairy thinking.
00:13:14
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And I really like when a story can do that and have it still be interesting and captivating and I think that this is. So I i really love especially when a TV show or a movie can do that. I would say it's more common in TV shows because TV shows have more time.
00:13:33
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But when I'm watching some type of show like no matter what the genre is and there's like, you know, 10 or 15 minutes where it's just like conscious kind of slow conversation or just like somebody doing something but like in real time, not Adding in like just like quick little snippets of stuff just to make the plot move along faster when it when the show actually gives The dialogue or the internal monologue um like room to really really breathe it's almost like us as the audience like we feel it going in real time rather than things like rapidly happening and so we also breathe along with it and And so I feel like this simple little chapter is ah is excellent with how it's just Harry and the Dursleys, Harry's internal monologue, kind of explaining what's going on and what his feelings are. And it just is nice. And so
00:14:30
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It doesn't need to be that long in the TV show, but I want them to add this in because I think it's important for just building those characters and like, so you know, slowly building up the plot rather than just like skipping ahead like they did in the film to the Quidditch World Cup and then cutting out all of the background context.
00:14:52
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I agree. This is a very, ah like when when you think about it in TV terms, this is a very big contrast to chapter one in the Goblet of Fire where we get like that dark foreboding backstory of Frank Bryce and just his death and seeing Lord Voldemort and they're planning something conniving and then all of a sudden Harry wakes up, he's worried,
00:15:20
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about what that could mean. He's writing serious and all that stuff, but then he runs into that day and, you know, I think the chapter ends with him just feeling elated and he's like, wow, what's the exact word? Wording. The exact wording is...
00:15:47
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it was hard just now to feel worried about anything, even Lord Voldemort. So like to have like that feeling be portrayed in the in like maybe the same episode or even the next episode when we go into the Dursleys is just feeling that feeling that how can he be worried about Lord Voldemort, this darkness that's looming over like that we can practically see. How can you worry be worried about that when everything seems to be going your way? Everything seems to be going in a light that makes you feel happy. So yeah.
Chapter Four Introduction
00:16:29
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it This chapter has like barely anything and we kind of just covered all of it. Why not just I mean I've already read it, I don't know about you guys, but i it just kind of just goes handin hand in hand. I just want to just talk about chapter 4 too since we're here and since it also doesn't have a Movie adaptation it kind of just it goes with the theme of what we're talking about in like it It's getting hairy excited the idea of them coming But then like the comedic moment of it all just the Weasley's coming in through the fireplace I mean, I couldn't stop laughing when I was reading it. I Was just smiling the entire time right and I feel like that's kind of like the the me main
00:17:19
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part of that chapter. um it's i'm I'm familiar enough with the chapter that we could talk about chapter four as well. I mean, the fireplace, like I said, is is the bulk of that discussion. um wizard wizer wizards Weasleys, Wizard, Weezes, um a little bit of a tease towards that as well. um I guess, James, can you remind us, Meeks, I'm not sure if you've read it, but how where does chapter four end?
00:17:48
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so Chapter 4 ends specifically at Harry going into the fireplace, saying the burrow and traveling to the burrow. I don't think it has him walking out of the burrow fireplace. It just has him going into the fireplace. and just Let me look at the exact wording here.
00:18:17
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Next moment, Harry had begun to spin very fast and the Dursleys living room was whipped out of sight in a rush of emerald green flames. Okay, so they don't um They don't touch, but so he sees Dudley with the tongue and then um Mr. Weasley's like, go Harry, go, let me fix this. And then that's the end. Okay. All right. Yeah. Yeah. So basically what I said, the the fireplace, like them arriving in the fireplace, blowing up the living room and then the
00:18:50
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Fred and George dropping, dropping the candies and i'm doing the air quotes accidentally dropping. Right. Um, so yeah, I mean, the, I think, and I'm glad that we're actually going to talk about both chapters because they go hand in hand really, like it's the invitation to go, um, like get picked up by them and go to the, um, the borough and then the,
00:19:15
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Quidditch World Cup and then it's them arriving to pick him up. And it's just, I mean, these like I said, they go hand in hand. So um obviously this needs to be in the show. It's a travesty that they cut it from the film because like we said at the top, this is comedic gold. And I mean, like it was funny with the interaction between Harry and Vernon with like the whole,
00:19:41
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confrontation, can I go to the wizard world? if like It was written really well to the like to kind of like have Vernon's thinking process going. like harry has his Harry has his uncle's thinking down to a T because he's just like weighing options. like do I let Harry go and be happy? Or do I let him go and have two weeks of Harry Potter free, free-ness from my house? ah It's just kind of like, dang it. And then like he asks these questions because he's like trying to like work a minefield for himself. And so he's just like, who is this lady asking you to to come over?
Weasleys' Arrival Chaos
00:20:21
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And what is this Quidditch thing? It's just like, oh, it's a sport that you ride around on, but never mind. i know what but he just like it's it It's kind of just this fun little back and forth. and So even that is fun, but it goes on to another whole arena of funness as their as they've agreed to let him go. But now, like they are this is...
00:20:48
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I think this is their official first official interaction with Wizards coming into their home.
00:20:56
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Yeah, well, this this is likeie's first interaction with Wizards coming into their homes. I mean, unless there was something with Dumbledore and Petunia that we don't know about, because they kind of alluded to that in Well, it's the it's the um he sent her the letter. He left a letter with Harry. Yeah, but I've always felt like there was potentially. I think it was supposed to be open ended enough that there that we don't know for sure if they're if they've ever talked. OK, you know what I mean?
00:21:35
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Sure. yeah But okay, nevermind. But like, but like I get where you're coming from because like, we don't necessarily know but too much about that encounter ourselves at this moment. But like,
00:21:54
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the only the ah The only real encounter is what they've heard and you know the first chapter in the entire series is Vernon seeing weird things happening when the Potters died and like all the wizards are celebrating the death of Voldemort and he was like he's seeing all this unusual stuff and that's his experience with that but they've never had that come into their home to this point because anything magic-wise has only been from Harry.
00:22:23
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Like they haven't had anybody come, come in. They've only had Harry doing stuff. So like the letter from the ministry of magic came in after Dobby did his thing. And so that, so they were like a little like backed up, like there's govern, there's wizard government. What is this? Uh, and then like Harry blew up aunt Marge.
00:22:50
Speaker
Harry's the one that responsible for the zoo. like they have had and They haven't really, they've seen the Wizards in the train station when they've dropped and pick them up, but they haven't interactive. Two thoughts. Two thoughts. You just mentioned Aunt Marge. They came, they had to reverse her memory. Ah, yeah, that's right. Yeah. And then, not that this is necessarily interacting, but he saw all of the wizards the day Harry's parents died around town. Yeah, that's what I was mentioning at the beginning. Oh, sorry. Chapter one of the series is him seeing the wizards.
00:23:28
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Okay, well then scratch that, but the ant margin having to erase your memory is probably about yeah, they probably, you know, the ministry probably came to erase her memory. So they they interacted with them. Fudge mentioned that they had sent some people over there to fix the the spell.
00:23:46
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So never mind, this isn't their first time with Wizards in their home. The first time was after Harry blew up Aunt Marge. Yeah, that was probably it. But this is our first time seeing them interact, and I think that's the more hilarious part.
00:24:01
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is that they're all angry because and they haven't showed up. They're expecting them to show up the muggle way through a car, driving up into their driveway, hoping they're dressed in normal clothes so that the neighbors don't talk and then all of a sudden voices from their fireplace. Which, can I just say, is their fireplace still locked up from the time that they received all those letters?
00:24:29
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No, no, there's no way that Petunia and Vernon would live in a home like that. They would have fixed like no, because they Harry says they have an electric fireplace. So the normal fireplace is boarded up. Well, she's replaced by the electric fireplace.
00:24:55
Speaker
Because that's how they got stuck behind the the fireplace. Yeah. So a normal fireplace is going to be like a few feet deep, right? But an electric fireplace is probably only going to be, however, I mean, it's not going to be a few feet. It's probably like a foot at the most. I don't know. I don't have an electric fireplace. But I can imagine it's not going to be that large. Like you only need enough space to create a fire, it it just needs to be a strip basically. It doesn't have, you don't have all the pieces of wood pile that a fireplace would have. So there's enough space, there's at least two feet behind. i am I am just trying to make sense of this myself. I have no idea if this is accurate. So if you are a builder, any of our listeners, if you're a builder or like ah a house flipper or a contractor or whatever, write in and let us know. please I am imagining. here is
00:25:46
Speaker
They have their fireplace, like you said, from book one where the letters are actually coming in. And then I don't know if that's why they decided to change to an electric fireplace, but... I think it'd be funny if it was the reason. Yeah, it would, yeah.
00:26:02
Speaker
Okay, but so the way you explained it now makes me think that the electric fireplace was covering up the normal fireplace, so they were behind the electric one. That is what I'm telling myself, yes.
00:26:15
Speaker
Okay. Cause when I was first reading it, I imagined the fireplace being boarded up and then having an electric fireplace in front of that fireplace kind of scenario. Cause I wasn't expecting it to be big at all. Cause like, I don't think an electric fireplace would have been deep or anything like installed in the wall. I think it would have just been something you can put somewhere to be a fireplace. Hmm.
00:26:45
Speaker
No, I imagine the fireplaces, like the electric fireplaces coming the original fireplace. That makes sense. That's what I assumed too, is that it was in, in lieu of a regular fireplace.
TV Series Adaptation Debate
00:26:59
Speaker
What else does anybody else enjoy with the, uh, what it was chapter four? Any favorite parts?
00:27:09
Speaker
um I obviously can't wait to see just the interaction between the Weasley family being themselves and be like having that be such a contrast with how the Dursleys are. um And I also really want to see Arthur like getting really excited about the eccentricity and about a plug. like They do a little bit of that and when he first meets Harry in the second book, well, second film.
00:27:38
Speaker
um but not as much as like we know Arthur to be really like silly and goofy like that and the films dim that side of him as they do with every character so I really want to see that like um that you know just like the goofy kind of nerdy part of him come out in the show. I have a collection of batteries. Yeah exactly like I want to see all of those and like when he gets so excited hearing about a plug um I want to see that.
00:28:11
Speaker
Well, you guys wanna see that part, but I wanna see him get very serious with the Dursleys and go. I have never seen such weird behavior from anybody that's supposed to be family. Like, you're not going to see this guy for...
00:28:27
Speaker
over a year until next summer and you're not going to say goodbye. like like Well, and it's like it's not the first time we're going to see that. like I said Dumbledore gives it to them later on and I just love seeing somebody put them in their place with their mistreatment of Harry. No, like the statement where it says like Vernon Dursley looks aghast because it's like, who is this person to teach him consideration when he's not being considered at all, obviously.
00:28:56
Speaker
But like, it's just a nice little oxymoron of the guy being taught manners, who knows all about manners, being taught manners by a guy he's he he overly despises, I guess, is a good word to put it. He's just being like, I'm being taught by a wizard how to be respectful? What?
00:29:23
Speaker
Yeah, I agree. I want to see that too, like the call out and how, you know, how Arthur gets like serious about it and he's defending Harry and we don't get to see that very often in that way where Harry's like, he's that, you know, him with the Dursleys, he's the only one that really knows what it's like. Obviously he talks with Ron about it, but That's like Harry's like such a big part of Harry's world, you know, and to see or to see what that interaction would be like where others who are this completely other part of his world finally see that mix, I guess, and to see how Arthur defends him. I definitely want to see that.
00:30:08
Speaker
i it's It's interesting. Because you make it makes you wonder like how much do they like actually really take into consideration with Harry's experiences with his aunt and uncle like I keep thinking about they put bars on his window and like I'll put bars on your window and kind of like comment like did she like take into that did Mrs. Weasley take into account the full extremity of that comment like did she actually understand what that meant or was it like just in the heat of the moment bypass like i would would not be offended if they took like 20 seconds or a minute to like have a conversation between mrs and mr weasley and talk about harry's like living situation and be like
00:30:59
Speaker
how How can people do that to him? other Kind of like fawn over Harry a little bit in the sense of like wanting to take care of him in any way that they can kind of scenario. I don't know, I think it would be interesting. Because essentially i yeah essentially, I think they're basically an adoptive family for Harry. Right.
00:31:23
Speaker
Mrs. Weasley immediately brought him into the fold without hesitation.
00:31:31
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Makes me wonder if they've just ever had a conversation about it between themselves as like a, you know, as like a couple. Mm-hmm. I'm sure.
00:31:44
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Well, unless there's anything else, like, is there a lightning round, Meeks? No, not really, because most of my stuff is just wanting to see all of the nuances of how the conversations go. Like I love when, as I said earlier, a TV show can do like that slow dialogue and can really make a captivating scene just with the way that people are interacting. um So I really want to see how they're able to hopefully include all of these moments in these chapters into the show and make it still like interesting and gripping to watch. Yeah. Well, in the spirit of trying to keep our content consistent,
00:32:31
Speaker
Even though we are not comparing anything from page to screen, we will still kind of discuss something we would like to see be adapted from these chapters to the the TV show. Something we are probably okay to live without. And the art our consistent weasly Weasley salute, something that we salute.
00:32:55
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um from the story overall and just like something that we really liked from these two chapters. So ah Sarah Day, what is your peeves? Future pleasure, I guess. yeah um It's hard to pick from these two chapters because I think they go so fluidly, but um chapter four more than chapter three, I think I just want to see, you know,
00:33:24
Speaker
the Weasley's piling into the fireplace, blowing up the living room, the Dursley's reactions to that, and then the the chaos that breaks out when Dudley eats the candies. Oh yeah, man. That chaos would be fun to do. That would be a fun acting moment, I think, for anybody.
00:33:48
Speaker
a Meigs. Um, I agree. I want to see that more, um, the, just the dynamic and how they all interact. I think it's going to be so much fun to see. I think for sure my future pleasure is going to come from.
00:34:10
Speaker
just come from Harry's interaction with Vernon, kind of playing that mental chest, chest, sorry, I said chest for some reason, playing that mental chest with Vernon and kind of just going like, I'm going to get what I want. And there's no way like you're going to be able to like come around it and just like playing the Godfather card is like the trump card of all cards for him right now.
00:34:36
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and Vernon's kind of just like on fine fine fine this is when you can go tell your godfather you're going it's just like but but being able to like see that as they're like doing their back and forth banter i think would be one of my more favorite parts out of the out of both chapters what is one thing out of these chapters that you're probably okay with not having in the TV show if they decide, if they decide to cut anything at all.
00:35:13
Speaker
They're great fruit. Yeah, I was gonna say that. Well, just in general, like the the diet discussion. Yeah. Yeah.
00:35:25
Speaker
I love how that was a very unanimous, i because I agree. I was like, do we have to care that Dudley's on a diet? I don't really think so. If they put a nice little meal in front of everybody, probably not a big deal. I don't think we would be very upset about Dudley eating his grapefruit.
00:35:49
Speaker
Yeah. Like I don't think that they need, the Dursleys are bad enough people, um, mentally and like the way that they treat Harry. So I don't think that there needs to be descriptions, which we've talked about, but I don't think that there needs to be descriptions of like the, how much they eat or how little they eat or how fat they are or whatever. I don't, I don't think we need any of that. I think that we know that they're bad people. And so we don't need body size and diets and stuff like that to reinforce any of it.
00:36:21
Speaker
ah Agreed.
Arthur Weasley Appreciation
00:36:25
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So that leaves us to our Weasley salutes Saturday.
00:36:32
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Um, you know, I might have to say author.
00:36:46
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commenting on the fact that they did not say bye to Harry and his confusion in that. It just shows such a contrast between the two families and um he's just so appalled at their behavior. And um you know we've talked in depth about our feelings on the Dursleys in the past, and I'm just so glad that somebody's finally able to call them out on it.
00:37:18
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i think that I think that's what makes the the funniest parts of the series is seeing Arthur and Dumbledore call call out the Dursleys on their behavior. Like, you guys are not very good people. And then going like, oh, oh, oh. It's kind of nice to see what you're going for.
00:37:43
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um What would I really want to see? Um, yeah, I don't want to like say the same thing.
00:37:56
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But, um, I guess, yeah, I want to see. Well, I think I'll, I'll just stick with the Arthur being excited about stuff because I don't want to copycat Saturday for the third time. Just him being excited about the eccentricity and stuff.
00:38:17
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My, yeah, I'm going to have to say my Weasley salute is also going to be Arthur, but just Arthur's character in general. Um, cause I think it takes it says something about somebody who gets really excited and nerdy about something and is like, just like associated with that thing. Cause like Harry's automatically like thinking like, Oh yeah, like Mr. Weasley loves muggle stuff. Like that's just his like little quirk, but.
00:38:48
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to then just go but to know your like values as well and like being able to like see those values come up like immediately when something he knows is common courtesy or decency or just like even just the simple level of respect and it's not happening you kind of go oh well let me stand up for Harry in this way of going you should at least give your nephew goodbye, because you're not going to see him for a very long time. And like being able to kind of show that he's more than just this quirky nerd who loves muggle stuff and and all this other and all this other things kind of just shows that he's still a father, he's still a husband, he still has these familiar value, like
00:39:44
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some familiar? Is that the word I want to look for? it Like family family values that he he he stands behind and and and kind of just but holds people accountable to that because it's, it's you know, for him it's decent ah enough to to at least say goodbye. So I think I'm gonna go with that. and Just in his character in general.
00:40:13
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You really get to see both sides of that really quickly and in in tandem with each other of just him being nerdy, trying to be courteous with the Dursleys, the fact that they're seeing magic. They probably don't see magic all the time. Someone just came through their living room. He's like being very kind and courteous, but then immediately goes, Harry's leaving. like Aren't you going to say goodbye back? He said goodbye to you. Are you going to say goodbye back? And like seeing all of that roll out is pretty cool.
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