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"Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" by JK Rowling: Chapters 5 -7
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Join us this week as we discuss chapters 5 through 7 of “Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets” by JK Rowling. Don't forget to answer our “Question of the Week” on our Instagram!
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Transcript
Introduction and Movie Discussion
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This is being screamed at the top of her lungs to all of the great hall. That would be wild. It's one of my favorite scenes in that movie too. Run on Weasley!
00:00:19
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facing an inquiry at the ministry and it's entirely your fault. If you put another toe out of line, we'll bring you straight back. Oh Ginny dear, congratulations on making Gryffindor. Your father and I are so proud.
Podcast Introduction and Book Coverage
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Hello everyone and welcome back to Family Fiction with Hallie and Carmen. Plan for today is chapters five through seven of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by JK Rowling. I'm very excited. Not a whole lot happened in these chapters but I really didn't want to go past chapter seven because at the end of chapter eight is when they find the first.
00:01:31
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petrification and then it continues into chapter nine and i didn't want to go i didn't want to have to stop and like try to pick back the whole thing so chapters 5 through 7 but it's i mean it's a pretty good good set of chapters we're back at hogwarts and you know all that jazz um before we get started do want to give a spoiler warning for all who have not read the harry potter series we will be discussing this book what happens in this book maybe stuff that happens throughout the book that we haven't gotten to yet um and spoilers for the series so if you don't want to be spoiled on anything harry potter that is not up to this point then we suggest you go read the books and then come back to us
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But before we get into today's discussion, we're going to do our currently reading.
Current Reads and Book Anticipations
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Hallie, what are you currently reading? Okay, so I've been in a kind of a switcheroo. So I started with After We Collided, as I said in last week's episode, but then Onyx Storm came out by Rebecca Yarrows. So naturally,
00:02:36
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I put it on pause and I read Onyx Storm no no because I'm impulsive, I know. Carmen was very mad at me when I highly texted the group and said I'm putting after we collided on pause so I can read Onyx Storm and I sent in all caps, you never put a pause on hardened Scott. Never.
00:02:56
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But I did. yeah um And so I read Onyx Storm and then, that's all I'm gonna say, and then now I'm back to after we collided. Poor Hardin. He deserves so much better. I was like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. We don't do that.
00:03:17
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I was reading A Rising Throne by Cave and Hearning. Alanic Storm came out and I continued to read A Rising Throne by Cave and Hearning.
00:03:28
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I also like I cannot put a pause on books and come back to it because I will forget what I've read. And my problem is is if I haven't finished out a story, I will get storylines mixed up. My brain does not do well with that. But need I remind you, I was also the kid that would read five books at one time. So I can do that. yeah if i'm doing that it's because i'm listening to an audiobook and reading a book like at different times obviously but normally the audiobook is a non-fiction and that's the only way i can do that because obviously like the things that are happening in the fantasy book that i'm reading didn't happen in the non-fiction book that i'm reading so my brain can better separate them yeah but i can't do that
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Anyways, my current read is Onyx Storm by Rebecca Euros because I finished A Rising Throne last night at like 10 o'clock and read the prologue of Onyx Storm. That's all I've gotten so far. I had to then go back and reread a synopsis of what happened in Iron Flame because I was like, hold on, we might need a recap because I do not remember everything that happened. It's been so long.
Discussion on Upcoming Books
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um it was 2023 yeah and i read it right after it came out so and apparently the rumor is the next one's not coming out until 2027 and i want to cry that sounds about right well you know look at it this way we may have to wait till 2027 for the next fourth wing but by then we will have had the next sarah j moths book touche so we do get rewarded for our patience it's the little things we will also have the sunrise on the reaping like two months from now and hopefully another book i'm really hoping that she's got another one in the store for us i'm a afraid my fear is that she's not because her whole thing has been that this book will connect with the ballad of songbirds and snakes and the hunger games and so my fear is that she's putting this out to connect and then she's not going to do it date anymore
00:05:36
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I know but I'm so excited for this book for sunrise on the reaping but I am also terrified because I know it's gonna break my heart. I just don't like the fact that hey Mitch has a family because no he very clearly does not have a family and the hungry and so I'm like okay and he has a girl and he has a girl and I'm like oh Coriolanus what have you done? Piece of trash. the reason He's a drunk.
00:06:01
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no it's not going to be good um I Really just want her like I've been begging for hey Mitch's games forever So I'm so excited, but I also like I'm greedy to the point of okay. Yes, we're getting that. That's great Okay, what's next Suzanne? Please tell me we're getting Phoenix games. I want Joanna. I want Finnick and Annie and mags I want Literally anything you can give me PETA and Katniss's kids because the games did not end. So now what? It's gonna be a time I need it all please. Thank you anyways my UK cover I Ordered them pre-ordered so when they come out, I can't wait for them to get to here. I cannot wait I'm and so excited, but I have now I have
00:06:56
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at least two copies of each book in the series but I have three copies of the Hunger Games trilogy. Technically four of the Hunger Games because I have the illustrated edition too. It's a whole thing.
Foreshadowing and Plot Points in Harry Potter
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I'm, yep, I'm excited to continue to grow to the collection. I've been learning French this year and Thrift Books has the books in French so I really want to get them and have them.
00:07:23
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It's going to be a time. Anyways, um, okay. So I guess we'll get back on topic and then get into today's discussion. Um, we start out in chapter five, the whomping Willow. Hi with a whomping Willow.
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um When we start out the chapter, it's the end of summer vacation and we have Arthur gaslighting Molly into thinking that all muggle cars are like the Fort Anglia. He has spell it to have excessive trunk storage.
00:07:55
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and extra seats in the car and she is fully convinced that all muggle cars are like this and like you would never thank you from the outside this is incredible what muggles can do with it and Arthur's just telling Harry don't tell Molly I'm like Arthur you're gaslighting your wife this is a problem um they are running late to the train they were going to be early but then percy had to go back because he forgot something they got halfway there and then jenny needed to turn around because they had almost reached the highway when jenny shrieked that she left her diary
00:08:36
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And we all know what diary that is.
Flying Car Adventure
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Foreshadowing. Thank you. You get to be in control of the foreshadowing jingle this time. um Yeah, that's a little crazy. Wow. Thank you for that Easter egg. Harry, they get to the King's Cross station. They're running late. Molly and all the rest of the family go through the pillar to get to the other side.
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That so felt like a setup for a joke, I'm not really sure why. um To get to Hogwarts Express, all that's left is for Harry and Ron to go through. They run to the pillar and crash into each other, which is hilarious in the movies, and I think it's so funny.
00:09:21
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um they get in trouble by a train station attendee and when they try to push through the pillar again they realize that they can't get through um so they make the genius decision that hey we can't get through what if mom and dad can't get back let's take the flying car oi i don't yeah They watch the time take down and realize that the Hogwarts Express has officially left, so they are late. They do take the car. They get the invisibility booster going and get up in the air. um Once they get up in the air, they find the train, get on track with the train, and then they go up into the clouds to use the clouds for cover because the invisibility booster goes out.
00:10:13
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We love it. um The fun soon wears off as they've eaten all the candy that was in the glove box of the car but they have nothing to drink and then they realize that they wish they could be on the train.
00:10:28
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where they could have some nice ice cold pumpkin juice. They could be talking to their friends. It's air conditioned and they could just be having the best time but instead they're up in the clouds in this car that doesn't have AC and they have nothing to drink and they've been eating candy. Way to go boys. Typical teenagers. Yes.
00:10:49
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um Finally, they dart below the clouds to find the Hogwarts Express again, makeur their making sure they're still on track and realize that they've happened upon the Black Lake and they can see the castle ahead. um As they reach the Black Lake, the car begins to give up essentially and decides hey I'm not going to continue to fly and they almost crash into the lake. um Luckily they make it across the lake narrowly avoiding a pillar on the castle um and instead they crash into a tree. While sitting in the tree they try to they are sitting there they realize that Ron has broken his wand
00:11:34
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but ronald um His wand's broken and they can't use any magic to get out of the car um but just then the car lurches to the side feeling like they've been knocked into by something and Harry looks out the window to see that the branches on the tree are alive and are attacking the car.
00:11:55
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Just then a large branch doubles over and knocks the hood of the car almost sending them into the tree further. Here he yells for them to hit reverse. um They crash out of the tree narrowly avoiding the tree trying to chop them in half essentially. um The car then ejects them both from the vehicle and all of their luggage and, you know, speeds off into the distance, into the sunset, per se, um and leaving them stranded outside the castle.
Confrontation with Snape and McGonagall
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They run inside hoping to make it in time for the feast. They get upstairs, they can see through the window, they can see first year's being sorted. um And they are making jokes about Snape when just so happens Snape is behind them. His ears were burning. Maybe he's left, said Harry, because he missed out on the defense against the dark arch job again.
00:12:58
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Or he might have been sacked, said Ron enthusiastically. I mean, everyone hates him. Or maybe, said a very cold voice right behind them, he's waiting to hear why you two didn't arrive on the school train. and This is the perfect representation of Snape, as Harry spun around. There, his black robes rippling in a cold breeze stood Severus Snape.
00:13:24
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Na na na, Diva is the female version of the hustler. I just love him so much. He's so dramatic. But um they get caught by Snape and he takes them to his classrooms downstairs in the dungeon and interrogates them telling them that they were seen by two muggles um as he reads out A headline on the Daily Prophet flying Fort Anglia mystifies Muggles. Two Muggles in London convinced they saw an old car flying over the post office tower at noon in Norfolk. Miss Hetty?
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Bayless, while hanging out her washing, Mr. Angus Fleet of Peebles reported to police. Six or seven muggles in all. I believe your father works in the misuse of muggle artifacts office, he said, looking up at Ron and smiling still more nastily. Dear, dear his own son. Love it. um So they realize that they've been caught and that muggles have seen them. They're both thinking That's it. We've been sacked. We're getting shipped back home. Snape goes and finds McGonagall since they are not Slytherins and he can't punish them directly. McGonagall comes downstairs and is very disappointed. Ron tells her, go ahead, tell us, you know, we're expelled. And she's like, no, no, we're not expelling you. You're just going to get detention.
00:14:58
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um when they're trying to explain to the to McGonagall that they you know what was happening Harry it says Harry gaped at her now she said it that seemed the obvious thing to have to to have done I I didn't think that said Professor McGonagall is obvious I just think it's funny it's funny when you imagine it coming out of Maggie Smith's mouth um so she starts to take points away from them just then Dumbledore comes downstairs and he's very disappointed with the boys Harry feels even worse because he does not want to disappoint Dumbledore um but Dumbledore tells them that they're not expelled and that they will be sent to their dormitories and not be allowed to go to the feast
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Um, he then tells Snape, let's return. I'm missing a treacle tart that I want or something like that. Hold on. I must go back to the feast Minerva. I've got to give out a few notices. Come Severus, there's a delicious looking custard tart I want to sample. And that is Dumbledore fashion folks.
00:16:08
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He exits from the office with Snape, who looks very upset, um and McGonagall tells them that the sorting ceremony is over and that Ginny was sorted into Gryffindor.
00:16:21
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love it um She's just about to get take points away from them when Harry tells her, Professor, when we took the car, term hadn't started. So, Gryffindor shouldn't really have points taken from it, should it?
00:16:36
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She kind of gives them a stern look, but slightly smiles, realizing that, hey, got a point there, Mr. Potter, um and says that she will not take any points from Gryffindor, but you will both get a detention. um She doesn't tell them what the detention is, but instead she raises her wand again and points it at Snape's desk, a large plate of sandwiches, two silver goblets, and a jug of ice pumpkin juice appeared with a pop.
00:17:02
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um she tells them that they'll have to eat there and then go up straight up to their dormitory um they realize that they don't want them at the feast so they can't go in boasting about it which kind of defeats the purpose because i'm like they're all going to be waiting to hear about it in the Gryffindor comment room like i feel like just let them go to the feast at that point yeah um
00:17:28
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They go back upstairs to get to the common room and realize they can't get in because they don't have the password.
Gryffindor's Reaction to Harry and Ron
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Just then Hermione comes up behind them because she's been looking for them. um She is very disappointed with them um and is very upset with them, starts giving them a lecture.
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um Ron stops her, tells her, skip the lecture and tell us the new password. She tells the password and they go to enter the common room. Just then Harry and Ron are being shoved into the common room by everyone waiting inside. um They all want to hear about the story. George and Fred seem very upset that they weren't involved and didn't get to do it with them. Lee Jordan has won all the dates.
00:18:20
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um But Ron is very embarrassed about it and Harry realizes that there's one person in the room that doesn't look happy at all. Percy was visibly was visible over the heads of some excited first years and he seemed to be trying to get near enough to start telling them off. Harry nudged Ron in the ribs and nodded in Percy's direction. Ron got the point at once.
00:18:44
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um right then ron decides like he's really tired and would like to go to bed so that they don't get the lecture from percy same um they head upstairs and they're just about to get tucked in for the night when shamus neville and dean burst in wanting to know all about it and harry couldn't help it he grinned too and that was the end of chapter five notes i just love the friend order Wanted to be involved. They are constantly looking for ways to get in trouble. Yes um And I'm sure Lee Jordan would have probably been right behind him Honestly, yes, and I just love that like they're like we've got to avoid Percy They get upstairs and then their friends who share the room with them burst in and they're like, okay Now you can tell us all about it and they spend the whole night talking about it And see that's where I'm like, they should just let them go to the feast. Yeah
00:19:42
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Cause maybe it was controlled chaos cause then it's just the Gryffindors and not like everybody get up and go to the Gryffindor table. yeah Plus they weren't in their robes or anything when they got there. Which that always really bothers me. I don't know why. I'm a person that I don't like to be late to things. And so the idea that they were about to walk into the great hall and they didn't even have their robes on, that stresses me out to no end.
00:20:11
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anyways chapter six gilderoy lockhart oh boy um it's the next day um they're receiving mail from the owls are dropping by and doing all the you know mail call um and weasley's got himself a howler yeah um ariel comes in and crashes into the table and has a red envelope in his beak for Ron.
Molly's Howler and Class Schedules
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Ron says she sent me a howler. You'd better open it Ron said Neville in a timid whisper. It'll be worse if you don't. My gran sent me one once and I ignored it and he gulped. It was horrible. Poor Neville. So easily Ron opens up his howler
00:21:03
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to Molly Weasley screaming, stealing the car. I wouldn't have been surprised if they'd expelled you. You wait till I get ahold of you. I don't suppose you stopped to think what your father and I went through when he saw it was gone. Letter from Dumbledore last night. I thought your father would die of shame. We didn't bring you up to behave like this. You and Harry could both have died. Absolutely disgusted. Your father's facing an inquiry at work. It's entirely your fault. And if you put another toe out of line, we'll bring you straight back home. Mind you.
00:21:43
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This is being screamed at the top of her lungs to all of the great hall. That would be wild. It's one of my favorite scenes in that movie too. Ronald Weasley.
00:21:55
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How dare you steal their car! I'm absolutely disgusted. Your father's now facing an inquiry at the ministry and dear, congratulations on making Gryffindor. Your father and I are so proud.
00:22:21
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I love that scene so much. If I ever got a howler, I would crawl under the table and never come out. I love it. I would throw myself into Black Lake. Hermione deciding that that feels like sufficient punishment for the boys is no longer angry with him.
00:22:42
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I love um they get their class schedules handed out by McGonagall um and realize they've got double per potions first with her um sorry what am i saying they've got double herbology first with the Hufflepuffs um this is the only book that like features Hufflepuffs predominantly
00:23:06
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and they get tortured pretty much. yeah um They start heading down to Herbology and run straight into Gilderoy Lockhart who stops Harry and thinks that Harry was trying to fly the car as a stunt to get attention and to attract his attention. Harry tries convincing him that that's not what happened um but Gilderoy will not hear of it.
00:23:33
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He sends him off to join his classmates at Herbology. um When they get in there, um Professor Sprout has cuts all over her arm and Harry looks and sees that the Whomping Willow has been bandaged up and he feels very guilty.
00:23:52
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um They get in and Professor Sprout starts talking about the lesson that they're going to be learning. um When Harry had taken his place between Ron and Hermione, she said, we'll be repotting Mandrakes
Mandrakes and Class Challenges
00:24:06
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today. Now, who can tell me the properties of the Mandrake? To nobody's surprise, Hermione's hand was first into the air. Mandrake, or Mandragora, is a powerful restorative.
00:24:18
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her mom said Hermione, sounding as usual as though she had swallowed the textbook. It is used to return people who have been transfigured or cursed to their original state. Foreshadowing. Thank you. Um, yes, so we get some very subtle foreshadowing into what's going to be happening in the book and how we're going to fix it. Yep. Um,
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She tells them to split up into groups and gives them four mandrakes to a tray um after she shows them a demonstration of what's going to be happening. She tells them all to put on ear muffs and when they put them on she tells them not to take them off until she gives them the signal that all is clear.
00:25:06
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um when she yanks a mandrake out of the pot it looks like a baby with leaves sticking out of his head essentially and he can Harry can see that it's wailing but he can't hear anything she sticks it in a pot and repots it with soil and then she tells them they can take their stuff off um she explains that if it was an adult mandrake their scream could kill you but since it's a baby it would just knock you out which i had this thought too of like i wonder why they didn't use mandrakes to take down the death eaters if the scream will kill you boy use a magic pop on some earmuffs and bring out a mandrake like what they'll never see it coming like you hold a pot and it's like want to see me do a magic trick abracadabra pull out they all die like yo that's it that's the that's there's your solution that's the move
00:26:06
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I would do it. When they get broken up into groups, um Harry, Ron, and Hermione are joined by Justin Flinch Fletchley, who is a Hufflepuff. He says, know who you are, of course, the famous Harry Potter, and you're Hermione Granger. Always top in everything.
00:26:23
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And Ron Weasley, wasn't that your flying car? um So they meet Justin, Justin seems to be a little bit of a, I know everything about you, I've been studying it all, here's all I know. um He says, that Lockhart's something, isn't he? Said Justin happily as they began building their plant pots with dragon dung compost. Awfully brave chap, have you read his books? I'd have died of fear if I'd been cornered in a telephone booth by a werewolf.
00:26:49
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but he'd stay cool and zap! Just fantastic. My name was down for eating, you know. I can't tell you how glad I am I came here instead. Of course, Mother was slightly disappointed, but since I made her read at Lockhart's books, I think she's begun to see how useful it'll be to have a fully trained wizard in the family.
00:27:10
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and then it says after that they didn't have much chance to talk their earmuffs were back on and they needed to concentrate on the mandrakes so Justin's giving a little bit of note all vibes Justin I'm going to need you to calm down you're giving up a bad rep calm it down bud anyways um they move on from herbology and go straight to transfiguration um where Ron is having Yeah, we're on is having multiple troubles with his wand.
Ron and Draco's School Troubles
00:27:42
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um He can't get his beetle to transfigure like everyone's supposed to be doing, and he accidentally squishes it instead. Squish it just because I don't want to touch one.
00:27:53
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He is trying to use spello tape to repair the wand, but it's not working. um It kept crackling and sparkling at odd moments. Every time Ron tried to transfigure his beetle, it engulfed him in thick grey smoke that smelled of rotten eggs. ah um um Harry tells him to write home and ask for a new wand. and Ron says oh yeah and get another howler back it's your own fault your wand got snapped so he knows that that's not gonna work which to that point so Ron's wand he never like
00:28:33
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That's the wand that, well, no, nevermind. I was gonna say that's the wand that chose him. So then does he never get like, he'll never have a wand that fully serves him again, but that wasn't a wand that chose him. That was a family wand. Yes, and it was passed down to him. And I, from what we've read so far, I don't remember if he ever gets to go to all of Anders and get a new wand. So I don't think Ron's ever had a wand that chose him.
00:29:01
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saturday but it makes you think like look at how Ron probably how good Ron probably could have been because your wand choosing you immediately makes spells more powerful you're more accurate with your spell casting so think how good he could have been if he would have just had his own wand um as they're leaving to go to Lockhart's lessons They run into Colin Grebe who is a new Gryffindor student. He is a first year and he is obsessed with Harry freaking Potter like everyone else. He wants to take a picture with Harry and have Harry sign it. He's figured out how to use magic to make the photos photograph move.
00:29:49
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um Just then Draco overhears it and comes in and Starts mocking Harry Potter. Signed photos. You're giving out signed photos, Potter.
00:30:02
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Uh, everyone line up, Malfoy roared at the crowd, Harry Potter's giving out signed photos. So then, um, they get into a bit of an argument. Colin mentions that Draco is just jealous of Harry Potter. Draco says that he doesn't want a foul scar right across his forehead. Thanks. I don't think getting your head cut open makes you that special myself.
00:30:27
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Crab and Goyle are snickering with him. ah Ron threatens Malfoy. Again? Just as they're about to get into an argument and they all out raw. Lockhart shows up and then lectures Harry on the fact that he should not be giving out signed photos of himself. It comes off a bit selfish and big-headed. And you're just like, caught me pedal.
00:30:56
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That's an inside joke with our family. We know it's pot meat kettle, but you know, anyways. Um, so Lockhart then tells Colin that he'll get, he'll do him one better. He'll take a picture with Harry and it'll be worth even more and we'll both sign it. Um, so Colin takes the picture and then they head off to defense against the dark arts.
00:31:23
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When they get inside Lockhart traipses in um When the whole class was seated Lockhart cleared his throat loudly and silence fell He reached forward picked up Neville Longbottom's copy of travels with trolls and held it up to show his own winking portrait on the front Me he said pointing at it and winking as well.
00:31:46
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Gilderoy Lockhart, Order of Merlin, third class, honorary member of the Dark Force Defense League, and five time winner of which weekly's most charming smile award. But I don't talk about that. I didn't get rid of the band and banshee by smiling at her. I love him um He then passes out a pop quiz which ah is questions about himself such as what is Gilderoy Lockhart's favorite color? What is Gilderoy Lockhart's secret ambition? What in your opinion is Gilderoy Lockhart's greatest achievement to date? When is Gilderoy Lockhart's birthday and what would his ideal gift be? So he hands out a pop quiz to basically see how much they know about him. um When he gives the results
00:32:36
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He says, tut tut. Hardly any of you remembered that my favorite color is lilac. I say so in Year with the Yeti, and a few of you need to read Wanderings with Werewolves more carefully. I clearly state in Chapter 12 that my ideal birthday gift would be harmony between all magic and non-magic peoples, though I wouldn't say no to a large bottle of Ogden's old fire whiskey.
00:33:03
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Um, he then says, but miss Hermione Granger knew my secret ambition is to rid the world of evil and market my own range of hair care potions. Good girl. In fact, full marks. Where is her miss Hermione Granger? Hermione raises a trembling hand, which is never happened. That girl's usually like, I'm right here. Um, he gives 10 points to Gryffindor. Um,
00:33:32
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and then tells them that it's his job to arm all of them against the foulest creatures known to Wizardkind. You may find yourselves facing your worst fears in this room, not only that no harm can befall you whilst I'm here.
00:33:49
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All I ask is that you remain calm." Harry leaned around his pile of books for a better look at the cage that was in the center of the room. um Lockhart says, I must ask you not to scream. It might provoke them. As the whole class held its breath, Lockhart whipped off the cover.
00:34:06
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to reveal Cornish Pixies and it's not in the book but it's my favorite line from the movie. I don't know why, I just love the little scenes of Cornish steak hot Cornish Pixies. I don't know why but I just love that so much.
00:34:22
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So they the whole class starts laughing at the fact that it's Cornish pixies and they're supposed to be dangerous. um The pixies were electric blue and about eight inches high with pointed faces and voices so shrill it was like listening to a lot of budgies arguing. I have no idea what budgies are. I assume it's a British thing. and The moment in the cover had been removed they had started jabbering and rocketing around rattling the bars and making bizarre faces of the people nearest them.
00:34:51
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I swear, I think that if I lived in the Wizarding World, the first pet I'm getting, I'm not getting any cat, I'm not getting a rat, I'm not getting an owl. If I could do it, I would have a pet Cornish Pixie because they sound like so much fun. They sound fantastic. I'm actually surprised.
00:35:13
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that when Fred and George open up Weasley's Wizard Weezes that they don't have them like running around them or um oh gosh what's the other pet that we love nim nifflers nifflers I would get I would have a niffler I would have a niffler and Cornish Pixies could you imagine the madness I just Fred and George are Cornish Pixies in human form yep I love it. um Lockhart um jokes about them not understanding the real danger so he says let's see what you make of them and he opens the cage. Chaos ensues and to give you a straight out of the book paragraph
00:36:02
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It was pandemonium. The pixies shot in every direction like rockets. Two of them seized Neville by the ears and lifted him into the air. Several shot straight through the window, showering the back row with broken glass. The rest proceeded to wreck the classroom more effectively than a rampaging Rhino.
00:36:18
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They grabbed ink bottles and sprayed the glass with them, shredded books and papers, tore pictures from the wall, upended the wastebasket, grabbed bags and books and threw them out of the smash window. Within minutes, half the glass was sheltering under desks and Neville was swinging from the iron chandelier in the ceiling.
00:36:37
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You have no idea. That describes what I want to do during the work week. Just imagine destroy everything. I just imagine ah either being a floor below or like on the Hogwarts grounds a window shatters and you just start seeing books and papers just flying out of the window like what the heck's going on? You'd be like you'd open the door and you would see all that and then be like Close the door. Close the door. Close the door. I didn't see anything. Not today. Not today. But yeah, be in the classroom and be like, what's going on out there? What the heck? Lockhart attempts to wrangle them by bellowing pesky pesky Pester Nomi.
00:37:19
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say that five times fast um and it doesn't work shocker um and ends up that Hermione has to step in and use a immobulus spell and render them all immobile um bless her Ron then gives us some
00:37:42
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boeshadow yes When Hermione says, you've read his books, look at all those amazing things he's done. He says he's done. Ron muttered. And that's bowing shadowing that is how we end chapter six. um Chapter seven, mudbloods and murmurs.
00:38:05
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ah you
00:38:08
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This is the illustration. on yeah This has a moment, this is probably one of the worst moments in the book that makes me just visibly sick. I'm like oh good yes you'd have to kill me. um It's been quite a few days. Harry's been dodging Lockhart and Colin for those days, hiding around corners when he sees either of them coming.
00:38:33
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um
00:38:37
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it says harder to avoid was Colin Creevy who seemed to have memorized Harry's schedule. Oh no. um Harry is in his dormitory safely asleep when Oliver Wood bursts in and wakes Harry up for early morning Quidditch practice. Can't hide from Oliver Wood, Harry. Harry states that the season hasn't even started yet and Oliver wants to get a head start on the practices because it's all part of his new strategy He's been working on the entire summer vacation and this just makes so much sense. um It's so accurate. I do wonder, like, and I don't know. I don't actually know that I know. I'm sure it's mentioned and there's a thing out there that says somewhere. I wonder what Oliver Wood did after he graduated. Did he go on to play Quidditch somewhere? I don't know. Or be like a Quidditch coach.
00:39:33
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Yeah, I don't know. I'm sure it's mentioned somewhere. I just don't remember. That's interesting. um When Harry starts to leave the common room, he gets caught by Colin Creevy, who would like to join him and wants to know all about Quidditch. On the way to the field, um Harry explains to him all the rules and spots in Quidditch. And Colin basically, you know, kisses his rear the whole time there. um They get to the pitch and Colin goes up into the stands to watch.
Quidditch Rivalries and Insults
00:40:08
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When Harry gets to the locker room, He finds the rest of the team basically asleep um while Oliver Wood pulls out all of his posters with all of his new plays and strategies on them and they are bewitched to move so that the players on the board will move like how he is explaining. um He has several of these to go over.
00:40:31
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And by the time he's done, it's basically midday and Ron and Hermione show up thinking that Harry should be finished with practice by then. And Harry tells them that he hasn't even started.
00:40:46
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um he mounts his broomstick going into the the air um they do some warm-ups and and Harry um gets stopped by Fred who hears a clicking noise they look over and Colin was sitting in one of the highest seats his camera rays taking picture after picture the sound strangely magnified in the deserted stadium and he's yelling at Harry look this way look this way like freaking paparazzi um he is the wizarding paparazzi just then slitherins show up on the pitch boo and they when oliver goes to basically barrage them with questions of i've booked the field why the heck are you here because if anybody's dedicated to quidditch it's oliver wood um fun fact the guy who played oliver wood in the movies
00:41:43
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The guy who was doing our tours when we went to Scotland yeah to the tour like knew him and he was going to come meet up with our tour and go to the spots with us but he was like he had like a scheduling conflict and i was filming somewhere and couldn't come. We almost went all over but wouldn't that have been so cool.
00:42:01
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Especially because he was gonna go with us to Anik and Anik is where they filmed the first movie and where they filmed like the broomstick flying lesson Yeah, and we were gonna go do that. We could have broomstick flying lessons with Oliver Wood Darn oh well um
00:42:20
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Where was I? They're arguing with the Slytherins about them having the field. Marcus Flint steps forward and gives him gives Oliver a letter from Professor Snape that says, I, Professor S. Snape, give the Slytherin team permission to practice today on the Quidditch field, owing to the need to train their new seeker.
00:42:40
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When Oliver questions who their new secret is, Draco Malfoy steps forward. Double boo. And um he shows off the fact that him and the entire team have Nimbus 2001s that were gifted by Lucius. Kiss up. Hermione and Ron come down onto the field to find out what's happening. And when they are told what's happening, Hermione, we have some Hermione sass.
00:43:09
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she sayss the hermione sass it's her turn yes she says at least no one on the Gryffindor team had to buy their way in said Hermione ah sharply they got in on pure talent the smug look on Malfoy's face flickered no one asked your opinion you filthy little mudblood he spat o Harry knew at once that my Malfoy had said something really bad because there was an instant uproar in his words. Flint had to dive in front of Malfoy to stop Fred and George jumping on him. Alicia shrieked, how dare you. How dare you.
00:43:46
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And Ron plunged his hand into his robes, pulling out his wand, yelling, You'll pay for that one, Malfoy, and pointed it furiously under Flint's arm at Malfoy's face. A loud bang echoed around the stadium, and a jet of green light shot out ah of the wrong end of Ron's wand, hitting him in the stomach and sending him reeling backward onto to the grass. I just love it. It's so funny because in the books, they just, Gryffindor's immediately like squaring up, ready for a fight, and then there's the Gryffindor in Starkid that couldn't care less. Yeah, immediately like, i can't draw yeah, they really would not have fought Draco over Hermione and Starkid. They would have been like, yeah, well, yeah, you're right. She does suck. Thank you. She's the worst.
00:44:35
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um I do want to point out, so there was a whole thing. We've discussed this. I don't know if we discussed it on the podcast. There was people who obviously wanted Hermione and Ron, people who wanted Hermione and Draco, people who wanted Hermione and Harry. There is a subgroup that wanted Hermione to end up with one of the twins. And this might be the moment that backs it up. Yeah. And where the theories started.
00:45:03
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of the fact that they he calls her Mudblood and Fred and George are trying to get to Draco to pummel him into the ground. And Hermione doesn't even know what that means. Yeah.
00:45:17
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That's where the theories started. I'm on, I kind of am on board with this train of thought. So I think now that I've had that theory in my brain, reading these books, I'm going to fill a certain type of way. That's a moment. And then I think a lot of people where they get that other moment is in the scene in Goblet of Fire. Yeah, i I am going to be reading these books with a new set of eyes. Mm hmm. For both Drameini and Frameini and Jemini. Horge. I don't know. What do we call them? Do we, can we just do like grins? Jermini. Jermini. Can we do grins? Hermini and the twins. Granger and the twins. I don't know. Griezly. There we go. Griezly. Griezly. That's what, that's what we're calling them folks.
00:46:08
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mark it down greasily that is our trope yep it's my it could be remember would you say never mind i was gonna say it could be a reverse harem oh no you've read way too you've read way too much dark romance oh no never mind never mind you've read way too much dark romance i didn't say it You didn't hear it. It didn't happen. Anyways, um, maybe that's, the I mean, that could be the trick. I don't know who people are shipping her with. They might be shipping her with both.
00:46:43
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um Listen, if we can have manacled, we can have that. Yeah, okay. I'll give you that one. Manacles was rough. They did, she did it out, they did give the publication date for the actual book. Popped up on my Kindle suggested last night. It's called alchemy, isn't it? Or alchemist. It popped up on my Kindle suggested last night. I will read it. Because it sounds my because it sounds fit another because it sounds good. It's not gonna be, but it won't be Draco it won't be draecon and Hermione, so you can give it another shot.
00:47:17
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It wasn't Draco and Hermione to begin with, to be fair. Manicled? Yeah.
00:47:26
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Wait a minute. I was like, i I know that what I was trying to say is it was a drake it's a Draco and Hermione fanfic, but when you read it, you said it didn't feel like Draco and Hermione. No, it felt like Tom and Emma as who I really wanted to be together. And so then when I was reading it, I was like, okay, I think I realized that I ship Tom and Emma more than I ship Draco and Hermione.
00:47:49
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Yes. Okay. That's what I was trying to get to. Am I having a stroke? Wasn't it about Draco and Hermione? That's what I was trying to get to, which is very weird, roundabout way. Well, because I think this is supposed to be... She's changed things, hasn't she? She's like, condensed it? I don't know. We can talk about it later. Yeah. I think I'll give it another shot if it's like, if she's edited.
00:48:16
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yeah because i think for me manacles was just too much i don't know i was still like going on i couldn't get into it big book i also think part of the issue is i really wasn't into it when i was reading it so i switched to an audiobook version which was basically a playlist on spotify and the people reading it were not like professionally recording it so that might have been part of the issue too yeah 100 so i think i just When she comes out with a published version, I'll give it another shot. My goal this year, though, I really want to read all the young dudes. That's my fan fiction goal this year. Anyways. Ron gets blasted back on his rear and starts vomiting
Mudblood and Wand Mishaps
00:48:56
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slugs. oh So Hermione and Harry take him down to Hagrid's. Just as they get to Hagrid's, Lockhart is leaving and giving Hagrid a lecture.
00:49:08
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um when they go inside they ask why Lockhart was here and he Hagrid tells them that he was lecturing him about how to keep up with his magical creatures that he takes care of while he was while he's on the grounds when Hagrid says if one word of it was true I'll eat my kettle he then says Hermione then says I think you're being a bit unfair professor Dumbledore obviously thought he was the best man for the job
00:49:41
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Hagrid says he was the only man for the job, said Hagrid, offering them a plate of treacle toffee while Ron coughed squelchly into his basin. And I mean the only one. Getting very difficult to find any anyone for the dark arts job. People aren't too keen to take it on sea. They're starting to think it's jinxed. No one's lasted long for a while now, so tell me, said Hagrid, jerking his head at Ron. Who was he, Troniker?
00:50:16
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left the They're starting to think it's jinxed. No one's lasted for a long while now. Oh, yeah. Because it is jinxed. It's because it's cursed, courtesy of a certain Tom Riddle. God love him. We like Tom Riddle. We don't like Voldemort. Let's be clear. Yes.
00:50:36
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um
00:50:39
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Hagrid asks who Ron was trying to curse and Hermione explains that it was Malfoy, but she didn't understand why Ron goes on to explain that Malfoy had called her a mudblood. Hagrid looks outraged and Hermione explains that she doesn't know what that means, which is very different from the movie.
00:50:59
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And I think the movie probably got it a little bit more accurate, to be honest. Why wouldn't Hermione know what that is? Yeah, because she's literally read every single witch book known to man. It's crazy to me that she wouldn't know what that is. So I think the book got it a little bit more accurate, to be fair. which maybe that's not in any books, but I just feel like she would know about it. Um, Rod goes on to explain it's about the most insulting thing he could think of. My blood's a really foul name for someone who is muggle born, you know, non magic parents. There are some wizards like Malfoy's family who think they're better than everyone else because they're what people call pure blood. Um, he goes on to say, I mean the rest of us know it doesn't make any difference at all.
00:51:42
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Look at Neville Longbottom. He's pureblood and he can hardly stand a cauldron in the way right way up. Poor Neville. Leave Neville out of it. We need us some t-shirts that says, poor Neville. We should. We need to like, as we start to read those, if we have common themes that pop up, we need that and we need foreshadowing. Yeah. It's like that from Peter Pan, poor Nana. Poor Neville. We need a hashtag greasily shirt.
00:52:15
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anyway um They explain what the mudbloods are and Harry and Hermione realize why they were so upset. um Hagrid tries to distract Ron from his predicament by taking them outside and showing them the giant pumpkins he's been growing for the feast. I want the giant pumpkins for my house one day.
00:52:37
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ag um When Harry questions how they got so big, Hagrid says, well, I've been giving them, you know, a bit of help.
00:52:49
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um Harry noticed Hagrid's flowery pink umbrella leaning against the back wall of the cabin. Harry had reason to believe before now that this umbrella was not else all it looked. In fact, he had the strong impression that Hagrid's old school wand was concealed inside it. Hagrid wasn't supposed to use magic. He had been expelled from Hogwarts in his third year, but Harry had never found out why. Foreshadowing!
00:53:19
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Big foreshadowing! And he mentioned the matter and Hagrid would clear his throat loudly and become mysteriously deaf until the subject was changed. Don't be suspicious. Don't be suspicious. Don't be suspicious. They go to leave Hagrid's and run into McGonagall who gives them their detention assignments telling Rhyme.
Detention and Mysterious Voices
00:53:40
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He'll be with Filch polishing things in the trophy room and that Harry he will be with Lockhart. And Harry is not at all thrilled by this. Rather be with Filch. They go off to their detention assignments.
00:53:57
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and Lockhart has Harry answering helping him answer his fan mail by addressing the envelopes and set like just you know basically continues the rest of the evening by giving Harry these like phrases like fame's a fickle friend Harry or a celebrity is a celebrity does remember that and I just love Lockhart so much. um As they're sitting there, Harry hears a voice. It was a voice, a voice to chill the bone marrow, a voice of breathtaking ice cold venom. Come, come to me. Let me rip you. Let me tear you. Let me kill you for shadowing. Not at all ominous of just like
00:54:49
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know how Harry lasted so long at this school and I don't know how he calls it his home because honestly as much as I want to be at Hogwarts too if I was having Harry's experience at Hogwarts I don't think I'd still be there. First of all after I just the day before essentially not really the day before just recently found out I was a wizard go to this school everything's magical I'm like man this is great I just found out I was a wizard this is really cool I'm with a bunch of people I don't know anything about but it's all chill yeah that part I mean he was slightly kidnapped um but it's all fine we get there and this man is standing up here telling me that I can't go to a certain corridor because I'll experience a painful death
00:55:35
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I'm out. I can't go up some a certain set of stairs because some stairs disappear. I can't go into a forest because there's all sorts of monsters that were creatures love to kill me. So you got the forest on one side that has all these things that could kill me or there's the lake on the other side that has a giant octopus in it.
00:55:57
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Or you have- Giant squid. Or there's a professor that walks around with a dark swisher on the back of his head that would love to kill me. It just wasn't the way I just wouldn't be there anymore. If I was one of the other students, fine. But if I was hairy, no. And there's a literal torture chamber underneath Hogwarts. No way.
00:56:19
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um Harry hears the voice and speaks up saying, didn't you hear that? um Lockhart doesn't hear the voice at all, but realizes that it's really late and sends Harry off to bed. It was so late that the Gryffindor common room was almost empty. Harry went straight up to the dormitory. Ron wasn't back yet. Harry pulled on his pajamas, got into bed and waited. Half an hour later, Ron arrived nursing his right arm and bringing a strong smell of polish into the darkened room.
00:56:49
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Ron explains that he was in the trophy room for hours. He had to scrub a trophy several times over um because Filch wasn't satisfied and then
00:57:03
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um He had thrown up slugs on one of the trophies and it took forever to get the slime off. too um And then he tell Harry tells Ron all about what happened. Ron asks, and Lockhart said he couldn't hear it, said Ron. Harry could see him frowning in the moonlight. Do you think he was lying? But I don't get it. Even someone invisible would have had to open the door. I know, said Harry, lying back in his four poster and staring at the canopy above him.
00:57:33
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I don't get it either and that's how I conclude chapter seven. and I do I did forget to mention too whenever they were getting their detention assignments it was kind of funny because Harry was like I would love to be polishing the trophy room.
Character Impressions and Foreshadowing
00:57:48
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I'm so good at cleaning you don't even know. I'm basically Cinderella. I am housekeeper of the year. I might as well be a house elf.
00:58:01
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harry the house el um The only other thing that I really had to point out too was that like Hermione getting so many points consistently for Gryffindor and they get so mad at her for being such a know-it-all and people find her so annoying and I'm like Gryffindor, y'all literally owe your house cup to Hermione because she is the reason y'all have any points at all.
00:58:30
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Cause Harry and Ron just consistently get in trouble with their points taken away. Gryffindor is the frat house of Hogwarts. And I hate that it's the best way to describe it. I've never heard that before. That is the perfect way to describe it. It's the, each house, it's, it's literally the frat house or the, Ravenclaw Slytherin.
00:58:53
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Honestly, it's... Yes. It's Slytherin. They are the sorority house. And then, because half of them are just there. Slytherin is a sorority house because they're catty and they're mean.
00:59:09
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Gryffindor is a frat house. Not saying that all sororities are that. I know. You're a stereotype. Well, let's think movie versions. the Movie version of a sorority house. Think the lifetime of but lifetime sorority houses. um The Lifetime Channel movies. so but um But the Gryffindors are the frat house because they're loud.
00:59:35
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they're boastful and they're immature a majority of the time and they're pranksters i mean it's perfect way to describe it and i think so they're just so dramatic yep they're so driven doors look at sevra snape if that's not the head of a sorority house i don't know who is and griffin door's like whatever I don't know. Um, but I just love that Hermione is the reason that they have so many points because everyone else just gets them taken away. So it's like y'all owe everything to Hermione. Leave her alone. I would also be the Hermione. Yes. Um, okay. So after coming off that, we do have a couple first impressions this week. Um, we have Justin flinch, Fletchley, my good old Hufflepuff bud. Um, I think know it all. Yep.
01:00:28
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I don't have a great first impression of Justin, and that's sad because he is Hufflepuff. He gives Hufflepuff a bad rap, which is not a good thing. He gives Know-It-All, which is surprising because he isn't Ravenclaw. Yeah. As much as he brags about he was supposed to go somewhere else. I don't know that it's really Know-It-All so much as just like he's braggy and wants to be perceived as... He's very confident.
01:00:58
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he wants them to see him as cool who um calling creevy fangirl fangirl but he's just he's so sweet he's sweet innocent child i think he he has like he picks an area and by golly he's there for it he takes something and runs with it yeah he is number one fan of whatever he decides to put his mind to um i don't know that he really gives me gryffindor vibes i'm gonna be honest it's a little surprising if you could where would you put him if he wasn't okay yeah i would get behind that level buff
01:01:38
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sweet baby boy like sweet energy um justin i would stick him in roe mclaughlin to resort him based off first impressions yeah i think colin goes on to like be a little bit cooler further into the books i'm pretty positive he like participates in the final battle all that um yeah i would think yeah um chapter themes um i just kind of gave like these chapters were so foreshadowing packed yeah that's my that was my themo too i just forgot to put it in the notes and like new status because now like especially the way that hair harry and ron show up
01:02:21
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They have a little bit of some new status. Everyone's like, they got a little bit of a um boost. And then, you know, Lockhart with his vibes. New status and foreshadowing is my theme. the These chapters were just so chock full of foreshadowing. It was ridiculous. So, yeah. um Okay. All right. I think that,
01:02:48
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wraps up our discussion um i have the answer from last week oh okay that's what i was looking for um all right so um i'm going to give out our answer from last week's question um because we only got one um thank you amy yes so that was a taylor schwist song thank you amy RIP to Kim. Not intentional. um So the question from last week was, what was your first impression of the Weasleys and the borough? And we got an answer from 94LoveAmy.
Weasley Home Discussion
01:03:27
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Thank you, Amy. Oh, Kim Kardashian.
01:03:33
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i paid kim So her answer was chaos, but the good kind. It's a safe place that's home and accepts imperfection, which is such a lovely way good to wrap it up. It's a lovely way to sum up the burrow. I agree with that. it's i It's imperfect, but also it's imperfect It's perfect for the imperfection. Here we go. Yeah. Yeah. I was trying to find, I was like, how do I say this? Dunk died. It's a fun chaos. Yeah. It's a chaos in a good way. It, I think it's, it's the only time that Harry genuinely sees feels at home. A healthy family dynamic. He never sees a healthy fa family dynamic from anybody else. And it's just sad because Ron,
01:04:21
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ron is kind of like i guess you he's so ashamed he's so ashamed of his family and embarrassed but i don't think he realizes like who he's telling this to like harry to a person that did not have a good home life he literally lived in a cupboard under the stairs for a majority of his life yeah until he got promoted to a bedroom, a small closet. I think, I don't know that he's so much like ashamed of his family, but I, I guarantee you a lot of that comes from like the childhood trauma of like,
01:04:57
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I mean, look at how the Malfoy's view Ron's family and his dad's status. And I'm sure that's something that he grew up with a lot was like that type of prejudice. So I think that he just immediately his instinct is to be like, yeah, I know my family is not that cool and all this stuff. When I think he's just like embarrassed to not have his own one to not have his own robes when everybody else is getting these new things all the time.
01:05:28
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but I mean at some point Molly quit popping out the redheads like yeah quit popping them out he's got the money but I don't know I think they they get by they live in a literal skyscraper so it's fine yeah they have fun and I think that's what's so much fun about Fred and George is that they literally made the most of what they had and still are the coolest characters in Harry Potter and they come from the poorest family Yeah, they were constantly making the most of what they had. Yeah, it was great. Unlike, it's just like, they made, the Weasleys made the best of what they had and you could just feel the love between the family, unlike the Malfoy's who have, they can have whatever they want, but there's no love. Right. In that house. They, no. None. None. Maybe.
01:06:22
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narcissa and drako yes i think she genuinely cares she genuinely cares for her son but lucious nothing belatrix nothing nothing that whole family go the mouthways and the blacks um loco yeah um well and i think it's just kind of sad because I am Harry when reading these books as far as like why the heck is Ron so ashamed? A, he lives in a skyscraper. His family is this like magical family. They're so cool. His brother works with dragons and his other brother works at Gringotts. But I mean like he's like going to the pyramids and stuff for Gringotts. Like he does like a really cool job. So it's just kind of incredible of like all the
01:07:16
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things he's so ashamed of. I am Harry as far as like, are you kidding? This is awesome. This is the best family ever. So it's kind of funny. Yeah. Um, this week's question of the week. Do you think Harry and Ron should have found a different way to the school other than the Fort Anglia?
Should Harry and Ron Have Taken the Car?
01:07:32
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100%. Yes. I think it's McGonagall who brings it up to them of like, they could have sent a letter, go back home and send a letter like we would have come for you. we would have come and got you. Like, I get it, it was in the moment they were desperate to get there that they were just like, okay, we'll just take the car. But they should have stopped and thought for at least i like, surely there's another way to do this other than stealing.
01:07:57
Speaker
a flying car and eventually crashing it into the Whomping Willow. like Well, especially because they're in London. They could have went to the Leakey Cauldron and been like, Hey, we can't i couldn't get on the train. Can somebody please just like call my dad?
01:08:15
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yeah not even like my dad works for ministry can you my dad worked for the ministry go to diagon alley and be like hey need some help like you don't have to like i get i get the anxiety of being like because ron even says do you have any money and harry says i i have no pocket change i've not which was crazy because he said they haven't given the dairies haven't given him pocket change in six years and i'm like okay harry's 12 why did they give him pocket change at six years old
01:08:46
Speaker
I could change for I don't know if that was that was I thought I but I Mean, yeah, I get that but like you're in London walk to the leaky cauldron Find other magical people and be like, hey, we need help and figure it out Yeah, which maybe some of it was too like I mean, what did what would they do with their luggage? But I mean took that sucker around like I got nothing for you like I can't help you much like there was so many things they could have done and yeah there was a lot um so yeah i don't i don't know but then again look at who we're talking about we're talking about harry and ron they they're they are so impulsive they are the epitome of i gave into my intrusive thoughts yep so they did but also friend george would have done the same thing if they could 100 they would have but friend george would have pulled it off yeah they would have pulled it off no
01:09:48
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no complications. Fred and George, there's one of two ways that they would have taken it. Fred and George either would have gotten there, nobody would have known, and they would have been so cool arriving at Hogwarts in such a smooth fashion, or they would have crashed into the Great Hall, gotten out and eaten food and act like nothing happened. There are only two ways that would have went.
01:10:07
Speaker
a And then they would have crashed into the great hall it would have been on purpose an easy way or I can't I 100% think they probably would have crashed into the great hall on purpose just to make an entrance to be extra. they want to one up the Their goal would have been to one up the Slytherins. so That or like they would have smoothly glided into the Hogwarts castle grounds right as everyone's arriving so that everyone sees them. But they roll up like, hey. Would have popped some shades. yeah like They would have acted like the coolest kid, the coolest people ever. They would have been that scene from The Office where Michael pulls up and it's playing. Oh God, was it?
01:10:53
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Lady Gaga. When it's playing Lady Gaga's telephone and he goes, it's Britney, bitch. That would have been them. Anyways, if or they could have pulled in the circus, all eyes on me, just like a circus. So funny. Anyways, that's my answer. for that That should be our new Instagram reel. Yes, it's Britney bitch. Okay, so Hogwarts House poll. Has it changed? I can't remember. No. It's not changed. So we're still at three Hufflepuff, two Gryffindor, two Ravenclaw, and one Slytherin. Slytherin in dead last as it should be. I can take Gryffindor being in second place. I can take it. Hufflepuff's in first.
01:11:44
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um Yeah, but next week we are going to be reading chapters 8 through 11. Yes, and this will be our first petrification and the Chamber of Secrets has been opened. the the um we're goingnna This is going to be the first episode of Ginny's active terrorism. Yes, yes. Oh no.
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