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Listen in as we discuss Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Chapter 12 The Patronus and Chapter 13 Gryffindor vs Ravenclaw.  

Harry begins his Patronus Charm lessons and gets the chance to use his new skills on some nasty 'dementors'! Harry's new Firebolt gets returned, much to Oliver Woods joy! Harry, Ron & Hermione have a friendship make up only to fall out again over Scabbers murderrrrr! Not to mention Sirius Black broke into the Gryffindor Common Room and was standing over the boys bed with a knife, word to Neville Longbottom! 

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Harry, Sorry I’m Late follows two childhood friends reading, discussing & diving deep into the Wizarding World of Harry Potter for the first time. 

Alicia is entering the wizarding world for the first time, having never read the books or watching the movies, being raised with a strict religious upbringing. A brand new experience and one she is excited to embark upon. 

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SPEAKER_00 0:02

Hello, hello, hello, and welcome back to another episode of Harry. Sorry I'm late at Harry Potter Podcast. It's me, Coda.

SPEAKER_06 0:08

And it's me, Alicia.

SPEAKER_00 0:09

And today we are here to do a double trouble recap discussion episode of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Ask Band, chapter 12, The Patronus, and chapter 13, Gryffindor versus Ravenclaw. And what two chapters these were. Oh my. We have Harry developing new skills, new spells, new cut, new color. Shout out to Professor Lupin. And then we also have this Quidditch match that we've been hearing so much about, and it finally comes to fruition, and things kind of end on a happy note in some ways and a troubling note in others, but we'll get to that. Oh, and we also have we need a funeral. We have a funeral that we need to like attend because Gabiana has perished. So we will get to all of that. And yeah, some friendship fallouts again. You know, what else is new when it comes to Ron and Hermani? So we'll get to all of that. But before we get to that, Alicia, how are you?

SPEAKER_06 1:02

I'm doing really good. My dad is back from El Salvador. So my dad's from El Salvador and he lives there. He's gonna be selling his US home now and permanently moving there. So I got to spend some time with him, and it was very, very healing to be honest. And his birthday's this weekend, and I just feel like we've we've come a long way, and I'm very proud of him for kind of owning some things that needed to be owned, and then I'm also proud of myself for kind of letting down my wall a little bit, and we just kind of both made space for one another, and ultimately I want my dad to be happy and have peace. And I know that this country has kind of not been so great to him, and he's dealt with a lot of racism here since he got here, and now with all the ice stuff happening, it just makes him feel very uncomfortable and not safe. My dad is a US citizen, but that doesn't really matter anymore. And he was telling me that a lot of people are moving back to El Salvador because of deportations, but they're also just saying, you know what, I want my freedom back. So what they're doing is actually really cool. They buy these shipping containers and then they ship their car, everything that they need back to their home in El Salvador. And El Salvador right now has very low taxes on those things. But it used to be a huge tax to do that. And if you buy the shipping container flat out for 3,000, you could sell it over there for 6,000. And people are using those shipping containers to make tight like beautiful tiny homes with. And for me, that just felt so healing to hear because my people have been through a lot, a lot, and they work so hard, and then just to be kicked out, it's like, you know what? I'm gonna take my ladder, I'm gonna take my cars, I'm gonna take my propane gas, I'm taking everything. I'm buying the container and I'm gonna make a profit when I get back home. And I thought that was really amazing and resilient, and I just felt like really proud to be Salvadorian in that moment when he told me that. That's what I wanted to tell you.

SPEAKER_00 3:16

I love that. No, I'm glad that you you're able to find that and share that with us. Oh, thank you for sharing that.

SPEAKER_06 3:22

Yeah. Um, how are you doing?

SPEAKER_00 3:26

Oh god, now I feel like what I'm gonna say is so stupid and compared.

SPEAKER_06 3:30

You're like, what I gotta say is shallow, honey.

SPEAKER_00 3:33

No, literally.

SPEAKER_06 3:34

That's okay. You didn't know I was gonna go all sentimental.

SPEAKER_00 3:38

Right, yeah. No, no, yeah, yeah. We don't discuss, you know, we do a little pre-episode discussing in terms of the episode, like Harry Potter stuff, but never in terms of like how we're doing. So hearing my friends share this with me and with you guys for the first time. So, yeah, thank you for sharing that. Yeah, shout out to Pops. Well, yes. So I am on a work trip and I turn on the TV, and there's actually Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban playing.

SPEAKER_03 4:04

Ooh.

SPEAKER_00 4:05

The movie. So I kind of just was watching the tail end of that last night. They're doing like a USA Hare Potter Mary Found thing or whatever. I mean, obviously, like we're reading the book right now, so I was like watching the movie, like there's something about like reading the books with a fresh set of eyes. Like, this is my second time reading the books, and like just not watching the movies, I can kind of understand why people have such critiques of the movies in terms of like how much they skip and like how it just cuts so many things out or whatever. So I was like, I don't know, I was just watching with a different perspective. Now, I'll I I I'll stand by the movies 10 toes down because like I said, I'm very easy to please when it comes to Harry Potter and just seeing it on screen or whatever. But I was just like, this is interesting. This is interesting having this fresh perspective. So yeah. But besides that, I'm doing well. You can follow us over on Instagram at Harry Star I'm Late over on Instagram. And then make sure if you're so inclined, you leave us a five-star review. We are on our road/slash challenge to 50 new reviews. So if you guys leave us a five-star review, that would be great to help us on that journey. And finally, send us an email over at HarryStar I'm Late Podcast at Gmail.com.

SPEAKER_06 5:11

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SPEAKER_00 5:21

Now, without further ado, we got two chapters to get through. It's two really good chapters. So settle in, grab a snack, and let's go on and get on into Harry Potter, the Prison of Ascaban, chapter 12, The Patronus.

SPEAKER_06 5:37

All right, as the last chapter wrapped up, we saw Hermione basically rat out Ron and Harry for having this fireball and telling McGonagall, I want you to check it for Jinx's because I think that Sirius Black might have interfered with this. And that hasn't set well with Ron and Harry. So they're still very blown about what she did. And Ron even thought that what Hermione did was borderline criminal. The trio as a collective were relieved when the remaining students rejoined them after the holiday break. A little buffer never hurts, right? Oliver Wood takes the opportunity to go to his star player, Harry. And he asks Harry, How is your holidays? And before Harry could even answer, he interrupts him. All he wants to talk about is this big match that they're gonna have between Hufflepuff and themselves. As we recall, the Gryffindors lost their last match, so they really, really need a win. Oliver Wood then says, Have you gotten a new broom? Because your basic broom is not gonna cut it against the Ravenclaws. They have really good brooms. And Harry said, Well, for a moment I had a firebolt, but McGonagall took it away. Wood is like, No! Because Wood was so excited that he got the firebolt, and then just immediately that crash. And Harry can relate. That's exactly what happened. He was so excited, and then boom. So Wood's like, you know what? How could Sirius Black even buy this broom? This man is on the run. That doesn't make any sense.

SPEAKER_02 7:14

That's a great point.

SPEAKER_06 7:15

It is a good point. Now, could he have gotten someone else to get it for him? Maybe. But Wood is very confident that he can convince McGonagall to give it back. Huh?

SPEAKER_01 7:27

Chow. Delusional. Delusional.

SPEAKER_06 7:30

And he's like, well, McGonagall loves Quidditch and loves Gryffindor team, so I got it like that. Harry's like right, right, right. Okay. I don't think Harry believes him, and I I don't believe him either. You'll see what she says later on. Wood was like, thank God that you got this other broom because I was gonna replace you.

SPEAKER_03 7:52

Huh?

SPEAKER_06 7:53

He was like, I was thinking having to replace having to replace you. Oh, and then Wood is really worried because he's like, you know, what happened with the Dementors, that can't happen again. We can't lose. Not that Harry can't end up in the hospital, not that Harry can't die. It's that you cannot be at one of my players and fall down. That's not happening. And Harry says, Well, I've kind of worked this out where Professor Lupin is gonna mentor me and how to kind of tackle the Dementors and Wood is like perfect. So I will talk to McGonagall and you'll get with Lupin and everything will be okay. What do you think? Do you think he's overconfident?

SPEAKER_00 8:36

Who? Oliver Wood?

SPEAKER_06 8:38

Oliver Wood.

SPEAKER_00 8:39

I think he's so he got quiddish on his brain so damn much that he can't even see reason or common sense to think that he, of all people, could convince Stern as strict as Professor McGonagall to ease up on what she's trying to do when it comes to Harry's safety. Like, would you might not care about Harry's safety, but you know McGonigal does not play about the boy who lives. Like, so but we'll let him be delusional for now and see. Make him feel like he's doing something, I guess.

SPEAKER_06 9:04

Yes. I don't know why, but this reminded me of when. Do you remember when Justin Timberlake got his DUI last year? And immediately he goes, This is gonna affect the toy. That's wood when it comes to anything Quidditch. He's like, This is gonna affect the Quidditch. I know we're kind of tangenting, but like Reese Witherspoon, her ex-husband, some similar situation. Brian Phillips, yeah. The one that cheated on her with the babysitter later on. Damn, damn. You lost the rich woman because she went on to make all these books to movies and production companies out the ass. Like she is in the pocket.

SPEAKER_00 9:42

But but it was when they were younger, right?

SPEAKER_06 9:44

They were younger, and she was like, Do you know who I am? Because he was getting arrested. She was like, How dare you do this in front of me? Do you not know sweet home Alabama? Okay, back to Hogwarts. Back to Hogwarts. So the first official class back is Haggard's Care of Magical Creatures, and it's honestly one of their favorite classes so far because Haggard set out this fire in January and just had them share some salamanders. So easy. Next class, not that easy. It was the Venation. They're learning palmistry, and Professor Treloney looks at Harry's palm and says, damn, this is the shortest lifespan I have ever seen in dismissal class.

SPEAKER_00 10:27

Alice, do you have any specialty or knowledge of palmistry? Is that anything you're in your skill set?

SPEAKER_06 10:32

The only thing that I can share that I know is that if you have an M, that typically means you are magical in some way. So if you turn your hand parallel and you see an M, that's typically like connection to the divine.

SPEAKER_00 10:47

I have an but it's not connected.

SPEAKER_06 10:50

I think it counts. I see, I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 10:52

Can you see? Like, is it?

SPEAKER_06 10:54

Whoa! It's strong. Yeah, it's huge.

SPEAKER_01 11:00

Okay.

SPEAKER_06 11:01

Mine, you can see mine. Well, I'm so white you can't really see it on the zone. But I have an M2.

SPEAKER_01 11:07

Okay, okay. Ooh, I always knew I was a witchy child.

SPEAKER_06 11:10

You are witchy. Witchier than me. Okay, and then the next class is Professor Lupin's Defense Against the Dark Arts class, and Harry at the end of it reminds Lupin, hey, we gotta we gotta talk with these dementors. They set up for next Thursday. Cool. After Lupin's class, Ron and Harry are in the hallway, and Ron is like, What do you think is the matter with this man? Because even after holiday break, Lupin still looks disheveled and kind of sick. And in the distance, you hear Hermione, who's gathering her books, kind of suck her teeth. And Ron whips his head, like, what's all that noise about? Hermione's like, oh nothing, but isn't it obvious? And Ron doesn't give her a chance to answer. He's like, Well, if you don't want to answer, you could fuck off. So she's like, fine, and she fucks off. And Harry's just like, damn. What were you gonna say?

SPEAKER_00 12:07

No, honestly, I'm I'm with Ron on this one because like you know we're upset with you. You know we're not fucking with you right now because you're a fucking snitch. So don't even try to come and try to wooze your way back into conversation and friendship with us by trying to like hint at information that we don't know about. Like, I'm with Ron in this one. Like, fuck off Romani. Like, bye.

SPEAKER_06 12:22

Well, then are you are you with Ron with what he says? He tells Ron she doesn't know, she just wants us to talk to her again.

SPEAKER_00 12:32

Well, no. Well, no, we know her money is not to be messed with. I know she probably knows what's going on when it comes to loofing, but I just don't like her trying to like uh breadcrumb it in front of them, like because they obviously want to know too. But like, I don't like her using her knowledge and intellect in this moment to try to weasel her way back in. Like, we need an apology. Like, I don't like people that don't apologize when they do wrong.

SPEAKER_06 12:51

Like, no, like apologize first before you try to get back in our good graces, or at least acknowledge acknowledge what you did at the minimum.

SPEAKER_00 12:59

She doesn't think she did anything wrong, so she's she doesn't feel like she needs to apologize. So yeah.

SPEAKER_06 13:04

Uh very Christmas girl. That apologize. Yes, yeah. I said now Ron, when in your three years of Hogwarts has Hermione ever not known something? Boy bye. All right, now we're at Lupin's first tutoring session with Harry, and it's gonna be very intense. Lupin has captured another bug art, which is great because now the bug art can turn into the Dementor. Because we're not bringing a real Dementor in this classroom. Dumbledore is very, very fiercely against that, and also that's just not safe. It's not a safe thing for a student. This spell is very advanced magic and well above his student level. It's called the Patronus Charm. When casted correctly, the spell conjures a Patronus, which is sort of this anti-dementor shield of light. It provides this shield between the wizard and the dementor. It's a positive force, you know, think hope, light energy, love, and happiness, and it cannot feel any despair. And that's good because the dementors essentially eat despair or like they feed on that. So if they don't have anything to eat, then maybe they won't have the energy to attack you. Harry asks what a Patronus spell looks like, and Lupin explained that every Patronus is unique to the wizard that casts it, and it just depends on what you are thinking of. In order to conjure this, you must use an encantation, and this will require great attention and might. So Harry starts to think of the first memory he could use, and he says, Oh, the first time that I rode a broom, the first time I flew, I felt free, I felt happy, this is a perfect thing. And Lupin says, All right, I need you to say expect a patronum three times, think of your happy memory, and let's go. He thinks of it, he opens his wand, and a silver gas whisps out of it. So he did it correctly. And now it's time for the real bugger to come out. So let's go. Lupin opens the case to let out the bug art, and the dementor starts to sweep toward Harry, and Harry instantly feels this wave of coldness that he's felt before with Dementors. Expect a patronum, Harry says three times. And he starts to hear his mother's voice, which turns into her scream not Harry, please, not Harry. I will do anything. And then another voice says, Stand aside, girl. Then suddenly Harry opens his eyes. He was on the floor, and Lupin was standing over him.

SPEAKER_00 15:44

It's not funny, but it's just like Rawlda on the floor, Shah.

SPEAKER_06 15:49

Back on the train. Harry mutters a sorry and he breaks out into a beat of cold sweat. Lupin hands him a chocolate to help him recover, and Harry tells him about the voices that he heard, his mom, and then he realizes the other voice must have been Voldemort. Lupin says, Harry, I know that this is a lot. You know, you might not get it in one day, and if you don't want to keep going, let's wrap this up. Not on Harry's watch. He's gonna try again. He's a very determined boy, you know. He doesn't he doesn't give up on the first chance. He's been through a lot, he's resilient, and he has a lot on the line because he literally fell off 60 foot because of the last mentor exchange. So he needs he needs this to work out for him.

SPEAKER_00 16:39

Yeah, I appreciate that about him. Like not only with Quidditch does he want to like tackle this, but also just in his personal life. Like he doesn't want to keep having to pass out around a mentor. So I I appreciate his tur determination at this specific challenge.

SPEAKER_06 16:53

And Lupin does too. So with this determination intact, Harry says, I have to do this, I can't afford to fall off this broom again, and I need this Quidditch Cup. Lupin says, All right, let's pick a happier but stronger memory. And speaking of the Quidditch Cup, Harry won the Quidditch Cup last year, so he remembers how he felt that that time and it felt stronger. Ready? asked Lupin. Let's go. The room gets cold again. Expecto Patronum three times. Now a white fog appears and a new voice is unlocked. This time it's a man's voice, different than Voldemort. The man is saying, Lily, take him. I'll hold him off. Then high-pitched laughter, maybe that's serious black. Harry, wake up, says Lupin. And Harry tells Lupin that that was my dad's voice, and he tried to save me and my mom from Voldemort. It was the first time that Harry ever heard his dad's voice. That's so fucked. Because it's like, in a way, you want to be connected to your dead parent, but it's in such a survival tragic way. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 18:08

Yeah. Like not like this.

SPEAKER_06 18:11

Not like this. And like, remember how many times he wanted to visit the mirror of Arisad just to see his parents? So, like, is he gonna be almost addicted to hearing their voice?

SPEAKER_03 18:22

I don't know.

SPEAKER_06 18:25

He realizes that he's actually crying. And Lupin says, You heard James? That's when it clicks to Harry. Did you know my dad? And so he asks him, Did you know him? And Lupin says, Yeah, we were friends at Hogwarts. Lupin then says, Honestly, let's wrap this up. This is getting too advanced. This is too intense. And Harry's like, No, no, no, one more, one more. I'll I'll really think of a strong one. And he goes back to when he received the letter from Hogwarts saying that he was a wizard and that he was to enroll in school. And it was a pivotal moment for his life because for the first time he was going to be free from the Dursleys. And he was going to kind of go into something new and be accepted. And it was this opportunity for him that changed his life. So he thinks of this. And this is really, really good. Now, this time when he's going through the process, he hears his mom's voice again, but it's almost like a radio. You can turn it in, tune it in, or tune it out. And so he's having some sort of power. But as he's getting more into the process, Lupin stops it by saying, ridiculos. And both Harry's Patronus and the bug art, the mentor, disappear. And the bug art turns back into its silvery orb. Lupin puts it in the crate. And essentially, Lupin says, That's enough for today. Harry accepts this because he's also really drained. At this point, Harry's like slumped over in a chair. These mentors can be really draining. This is a hard process, just like Lupin says, it's a mentally taxing and spiritually taxing thing. And then before Harry leaves, he says, Did you know Sirius Black? And this made Lupin kind of uncomfortable. He wasn't expecting the question. And he said, Yeah, I didn't know him. And he says, You better go now. And that's how their lecture, their mentorship ends.

SPEAKER_00 20:25

This was good. I like that Harry was able to get this new skill set in terms of developing this Patronus and the Patronus charm of it all. And I think it's very interesting that in order to defend off against the Dementors who feed on despair and your saddest moments, you have to, like you said, spiritually give something in terms of like thinking about your happiest moments and really trying to channel that to and putting that out there to kind of like ward off this evil force in the dementors or whatever. So it's like a yin and a yang, like a good and a bad type situation. So I think that I think that's very interesting.

SPEAKER_06 20:56

Totally. It like balances out the good and evil.

SPEAKER_00 21:00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 21:05

Speaking of, are you ready for keeping it, Coda?

SPEAKER_01 21:09

Yeah, let's do it.

SPEAKER_06 21:12

What happy memory would you conjure up in order to create your Patronus shield from a Dementor?

SPEAKER_00 21:21

Yeah, I could think of a few moments. Okay, I'll maybe I'll give one or two, like Harry did. But the first one, I know I'm gonna sound cheesy saying this, but I I definitely would think back on my Harry Potter group meetup that I did back in October of last year. And I think I've talked about this in depth in one of the episodes, maybe for too long, chat. But just being around that community of people that we all have the common interests for Harry Potter, they're all black. And just just having good time and fellowship and just seeing that come to fruition was really, really joyous for me. I even still think back on it finally. They're we're doing it again this year in October, but unfortunately I won't be able to go this year because Um scheduling conflicts, but it's okay. Hopefully, this will be a yearly thing. But so just looking back on that whole memory, and I think on the last night of the event, they all came together to gift me with a wand uh for one of my favorite characters, and it was just I never felt so appreciated and loved and that way. And it was just a very nice, I'm even smiling, just thinking about it now. So I feel like that would definitely be one that I could think of to really get that Patronus out there. And another one I'll say really quickly is a real long time ago. Well, let me know, age myself, but back in college, I was I was on House of Cards. I was an extra on the House of Cards on Netflix, and that whole experience of it all was really cool. Um, it had its ups and downs, but it culminated in a moment where I got to like have direct interaction with the director that was filming that episode, and he asked me what my name was, and he gave me some direction of what I was gonna be doing and just all this stuff. And then like in the scene with Robin Wright, and she was like, Okay, when he she comes down this way, you go this way. And it was just a really cool moment. Now, when the episode came out, child, I said, child, you could barely see me, but it was the experience of it that was really joyous for me because it just felt really cool at that age when I was really at the beginning of my acting journey to like be on set and just really be in the midst of all of that. So those would be two moments for me that would really bring me a lot of joy. That's really sorry I didn't mention any, I didn't mention any family or friends or any family chat, you know. I gotta worry about me, Lucius.

SPEAKER_06 23:27

And if anyone wanted to see you in the background of House of Cards, what episode do they need to click on?

SPEAKER_00 23:34

I will I'll have to source that. I'll have to pull it up somewhere and I'll put on our Instagram, Harry Sarmley. I'll make a story out of it. So make sure you check us out over there to find that. But Alicia, what about you? What would be yours?

SPEAKER_06 23:45

So it was the summer where when I met you in the summer by Calvin Harris came out.

SPEAKER_00 23:51

I thought you said when you met me. I was like, oh, I've been like this moment now. Okay, go ahead.

SPEAKER_06 23:55

Again, I'm not talking about friends and family. I gotta put me first. I just could be this actually does involve family. So I met my walk walk with me, okay? My grandma's sister's grandkids. All right. And my grandma and her sister, they look like twins. So when I I was really excited to meet the grandkids, they're from Boston. And at this point, I was in college, and I'm sorry, but like kids from Boston and kids from New York, they age like eight years before everyone else. So like these were city girls down. Okay, I was kind of intimidated by them because I'm like, fuck, you're like so much younger than me, and yet you're like kind of rough, you know? So we take them to the fair, and they've never been to a fair before, and they were so excited. And we take them to this ride called the Gravitron, which like shifts on its access and it makes you float up and down, and there's so much collective joy in there, and that song was so big, and so we're all singing it, and I'm looking at them with like they have little kid smiles, like it's it looked like their inner child was like finally for you to come out, and we just had the best day, and everyone around us was just laughing. We made friends with people on the ride because we were already in line with them, and I think of that moment as like you know, when you're in a concert and you just feel everyone else's energy sometimes. Oh, yeah, it was one of those moments that I can look back on and just like fully smile. Like that was connection right there.

SPEAKER_00 25:22

I love that. I'm even smalling just visualizing that memory for you. Yeah, I love that. I love that. Yeah, it's nice. Sometimes life can be hard or whatever, and there can be dementia about, but really I feel like just like Harry, like when you think about these moments, it can really help to kind of ward that, you know, ward the sadness off and stuff like that. So yeah, I love that. Thank you for this. Let us know what your happy moment would be to cast your patronis. We'll put out a poll on our Instagram at Harry Sharmweight. So go ahead and do that, or send us an email letting us know what your happiest moment would be as well. We'd love to hear from you guys and share that on the next episode. So we continue the chapter with the news that Slytherin beat Ravenclaw House in their Quidditch match against each other after the start of term. This is good news, according to Oliver Wood, because if Gryffindor was able to beat Ravenclaw in their upcoming match, that means they would move up to second place and all would not be lost in the effort to win the Quidditch Cup. But because of this, Wood has increased Quidditch practice to five times a week. So between that, the Quidditch practices plus Lupin's anti-dementor lessons, it only gave Harry one week to do his homework. And mind you, the anti-dementor lessons are already like so draining, plus the physical toll of like the Quidditch practices. So just like a lot, Harry's going through mentally and physically everything. So again, only one night to do homework a week. But even with that, he didn't appear as strained as our girl Hermione did because her huge workload had finally caught up to her. Like this workload that we've seen Hermione with throughout the whole book so far, with her carrying all these books around and just being here, there, everywhere, it's finally caught up to her. Hermione was seen in the Gryffindor comma room surrounded by several tables and piles of books from all her classes, and she's not speaking to anyone, and she's snapping at anyone who dares to even talk to her. So I'm like, okay, Hermione. So Ron is observing from a distance and asks Carrie how is she doing it in terms of getting to all her classes? Ron goes on to explain how logistically it just doesn't make sense. As he once heard her talking to Professor Vector about arithmetic class, and then but that class is at the same time of care of magical creatures, which she attended with them. And then Ernie Yta, shout out to Ernie. Um, I love that she gave him that nickname, Ernie Ernieetta. That title was so funny. Call me Ernie Edda. Um, but Ernie McMillan, he's telling he was also telling Ron how she has never missed a monkle studies class, but that's at the same time as divination. So Harry doesn't even bother to try to like theorize with Ron about what Hermione's impossible schedule is and how she's managing it because he himself needs to finish essay for Snap's class on undetectable potions. And like I said, he only he only has one free night, so he doesn't have time to be like leisurely talking to Ron about Hermione shenanigans. But of course, here comes Oliver Wood.

SPEAKER_06 28:01

But is Hermione splitting herself like magically? Can can you be in two different places at the same time?

SPEAKER_00 28:09

That's a good question, and I will say anything is possible with magic, but I don't know how I don't know if that's within her skill set right now. I am I don't know. I would like to think that Hermione is just such a good student that maybe they're allowing her to be self-teach? Self-teach, something like that, like self-teach or come after hours to get the lesson notes or something, and as long as she can turn in her work on time, I don't know. Cause I guess realistically, there's not enough time in your seven years at Hogwarts to take every single class. That's why they're elective. So, but because again, Hermione is like such a great witch or whatever, they they are giving her the opportunity, like, okay, you really want to learn it all. Like, we're gonna try to help you in any way we can. So I don't know.

SPEAKER_06 28:51

So I'm like, either she's splitting herself or she might have like a groundhog spell where you live the same day, but now you can attend one class and then you live it again, you can live attend another. Kind of excited to figure out what the answer is. I mean, it's probably what you're saying, you've read the books, but yeah.

SPEAKER_00 29:10

Oh no, trust me. Trust trust, I will never give it away fully child. But the ground the groundhog's day, doesn't that reset the day?

SPEAKER_06 29:21

Yeah, so she would live the same day, but she would be able to go to a different class.

SPEAKER_01 29:25

Oh, I see.

SPEAKER_06 29:27

Oh, I've oh, you're saying she in my head, she would have all the knowledge of the full day, even if it restarts, because she's in the power.

SPEAKER_00 29:36

I see, I see, I see. I'm taking this to a whole other ask for projections, honey. I see, I see what you mean. It's like happy death day. I don't know if you've seen that movie, but okay, okay. I see. Okay, okay, okay. Okay. So Oliver Wood, uh, yeah. So Harry's like, doesn't have any time for that, but here comes Oliver Wood with his shenanigans. So he has an update with in terms of how his conversation went with Professor McGonagall about Harry's broom. So let's just say it did not go well because Oliver Wood describes that McGonagall got a bit shirty with him. I've never heard that phrase before. A bit shirty. I was like, okay, interesting. That must be some British slang. But McGonagall told Oliver Wood that he had his priorities wrong, and it seemed as though he cared more about winning the Quidditch Cup than Harry's safety and staying alive. Which proves to be a fair point because McGonagall said that Wood had told her that he didn't care if Harry got thrown off his broom as long as he caught the snitch first. Now, Wood, you know you are dead wrong for saying that, especially to a teacher of all people. Like, please, like, let's like, and he didn't even say it in a joking manner. He was like dead ass, like, oh, like, even if this broom is hijinkt or whatever, as long as he catches the snitch first, then okay, we'll deal with what happens after that. Like, Wood, please. So, Wood is like truly dumbfounded that Magongal was even yelling at him over these like sentiments. And Wood is pushing his lug, and he asks how much longer she'll be keeping the broom and imitating a scrunched up Magongo's face. He says, as long as necessary, Wood. That's a oof. That's a Magonal is not playing. And you know, Magonal is a big fan of Quidditch, so it must like, you know, she she's not playing around. Like, yes, she loves Quidditch, she wants girlfriend to succeed, but not at Harry's expense. So fair.

SPEAKER_06 31:08

So with she has a job to do, she's responsible for their safety, and that it takes priority. Especially since I feel like Wood lacks perception the same way that Percy does. Like they can be so one note. Like Percy just wants to be the best head boy, but like he's not really well-rounded, the best, yeah, yeah, well-rounded, flexible. Like they're both kind of straight edge in their own way.

SPEAKER_00 31:35

Yeah, interesting. Single-minded focus, or like, yeah, I know what you mean. Now, why would Percy get have to get whacked?

SPEAKER_06 31:42

It was a mid a mid-wack. Wood is worse. Wood is worse.

SPEAKER_00 31:47

But with that con so, with that convo, would suggest that Harry orders a new broom, which financially speaking, he could. I mean, because you know Harry got money, so I don't know why Harry's like, you know, he got money, got money in those pockets.

SPEAKER_06 31:57

And I don't know if these bitches know, which is even better. Okay, and what's shout out to all the lotto winners that have held that secret.

SPEAKER_00 32:05

Oh my. Oh, bless them. All I'll say is if I ever win the lottery, you'll notice.

SPEAKER_06 32:12

I don't think we will.

SPEAKER_00 32:14

Oh.

SPEAKER_06 32:15

You're already so secretive. You know, you'll be fine. You'll be fine. Your life would your life would change in the background, but not in front of everyone's faces. You already be going on hella trips, so it's like, oh. I'm not gonna say where you're going next, but listeners, stay tuned, child.

SPEAKER_00 32:32

Okay, all right. So you got me all distracted, child. Okay. Uh so would suggest that Harry orders a Nimbus 2001, similar to Malfoy, which Harry's even disgusted at even the idea of that, like using the same broom as Malfoy or just using a broom that Malfoy thinks is worth having. He's like, absolutely not. Like, I will just wait on this fireball. I'm good. So we now move from January into February with no change in the cold weather, and the Gryffindor match against Ravenclaw draws closer. Harry, still not having ordered a broom, has taken it upon himself to now ask M'Gongo after every chance of regretation class about the return of the fireball with Ron by his side and support and and hopes of a yes. And hermione's just like rushing by avoiding eye contact. Oh, I just really want to go back and say, yeah, especially when it comes to you said that Magonal has a job to do when it comes to Harry's safety and stuff like that, especially since Hermione told her about the broom, she had knowledge of it. So, like her not doing anything with that information, and if something was to happen to Harry, that could come back on her as head of Griffindor house and stuff like that. So now that because Hermione said something, she has to like take it seriously. So, yeah, okay. But yeah, so Harry continuously is asking McGongo after every transfer version class about the broom. And before Harry could even open his mouth to axe, which would be now his 12th attempt, McGonagall says no. As even though they've cleared the broom of all the normal possible curses that it might have, there's a possibility of a hurling hex that Professor Flitwick is now checking for, so he shouldn't ask anymore, and she would let him know. Now, to add to this, Harry's anti-dementor lessons with Lupin hasn't been improving as much as Harry would have wished. Several sessions in, Harry was able to produce a little of Patronis, but it's not strong enough to completely drive the Dementor away, but just kind of like keep it at bay. So it's kind of like a shield almost, and but even still, it's still like draining all of Harry's energy as he tries to maintain the patronis because you have to like continuously project out that memory of happy feelings to keep the patronis alive. So it's a very powerful spell that requires a lot of skill. So Harry's like angry at himself, but he also, like I said earlier, feels guilty about secretly wanting to hear his parents' voice again, even if it comes by way of Dementor, and perhaps that's why he's not progressing. Because I feel like every time he hears his parents, he's hearing something new. So like he's like, hmm, what more can I glean from my parents by listening to them, even if it's from a Dementor? It's it's a it's a fucked up situation. But Lupin, on the other hand, thought Harry was doing quite well for a 13-year-old learning such an advanced spell, not to mention the fact that Harry wasn't passing out anymore. So at least there's that progress there. So Lupin goes on to mention to Harry's concern over not completely getting rid of the Dementor, is that a true Patronus does do that. And for now, Harry at the very least can keep the Dementors at bay long enough to get back to the ground if they do appear at another Quidge match. Now, Lupin surprises Harry with a celebratory drink for his hard work thus far, mentioning it's something that Harry hasn't been able to try before. And without a second thought, after Lupin pulls out two bottles, Harry says, Oh, butterbeer. Yeah, I like that stuff. Mind you, butterbeer is only hogs meat, and Harry hasn't been there yet, allegedly. So Lupin raises an eyebrow, like, wait a minute, but Harry recovers saying that Ron Hermani brought him back some. To which Lupin says, Oh, I see, but he's still not fully believing it. He's like, mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_06 35:38

So Lupin knows what time it is.

SPEAKER_00 35:41

He's just but he's a cool teach. He's a fun mother.

SPEAKER_06 35:43

Yeah, he's not gonna rot you out for knowing what this tastes like. Right.

SPEAKER_00 35:47

So they cheer to Gryffindor winning the match and drink the butterbeer in silence. So Harry breaks the silence to ask what's under a Dementor's hood. All right, now shit's about to get serious. Okay, straight enough.

SPEAKER_06 35:58

The Clitoris.

SPEAKER_00 35:59

Oh my god. So Lupin thinks for a moment before answering that, and he says that the only people who would know what's under Dementor's hood are in no condition to tell because the Dementors only lower their hoods to use their last and worst weapon, the Dementor's kiss. Something they do to those that they want to destroy completely. So Lupin goes on to guess that there must be some kind of mouth under the hood because they clamp their jaws onto the mouth of their victims to suck out their soul. That visual is very disturbing.

SPEAKER_06 36:31

Like two fishes puckering in the night. Ew.

SPEAKER_00 36:34

Lord, great, great, great symbolism. So Harry spits out his button rear thinking about what this means, thinking that this means that the adventures kill their victim, but Lupin explains no, it's actually worse than that. Someone can live without their soul as long as their brain and heart are still working, but you'll have no more sense of self anymore. Inside Out 2, the Disney animated movie does a great job of depicting sense of self, you know, the emotions and stuff like that. I watched that recently. Um, but yeah, you'll have no sense of self anymore, no memory, nothing. And there's like no chance of recovery either. So you'll just exist as like an empty vessel with your soul gone forever. Alysia, have you heard of this phrase called 21 pounds lighter or 21 something? Have you heard of that before? Okay, I was in a I was in my movement class. I'm in my acting conservatory thing, and we're discussing it. Apparently, like when you die, within like maybe like a few, I don't know, minutes or hours after you die, your body gets 21 pounds lighter. And people say, like instantly, and people say that's your soul leaving your body. So it's just phenomenal. I don't know if it's 21 pounds or a different number, but it's something pounds lighter, and it's this phenomenon of when people pass away and they weigh them or what their current weight was, and then after like an hour after they die, they're this amount lighter, and it's people describing that that's your soul leaving your body. So I just thought that was a good thing.

SPEAKER_06 37:56

It's weird because when people talk about dead weight, like, oh, you're dead weight, it's like this implication that you're heavier, but you it's actually the opposite, you're lighter.

unknown 38:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 38:07

Oh my god. Okay, I'm not gonna sleep because of this. I need to listen to it.

SPEAKER_00 38:11

I was fascinated. I was like, I've never heard of that before, but so interesting. Okay.

SPEAKER_06 38:14

And I have a friend now that works at a funeral home, so I'm gonna talk to her about this.

SPEAKER_00 38:17

Oh, yeah, they can give us some information.

SPEAKER_06 38:19

She's telling me stories. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_00 38:23

Stories. I was like, start the book.

SPEAKER_06 38:26

Start the book.

SPEAKER_00 38:27

I love having friends that do like cool things. So I'm like, yes, give me some insight.

SPEAKER_03 38:31

Niche things, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 38:32

Even like I have a friend that's a teacher, and I that's not, you know, even that has its own uniqueness to it in terms of how to like deal with kids and the what the kids have gone through, especially these. I don't know if they're Gen Z anymore. I don't know what the one under Gen Z is, but yeah, it's just very interesting. Very interesting.

SPEAKER_06 38:46

I think it's Gen Alpha is the next one, I believe.

SPEAKER_00 38:51

All right.

SPEAKER_06 38:51

Because it starts from Z and then we go back to A.

SPEAKER_00 38:55

Oh, so we're back to A now. So Lupin goes on to mention that this would be the fate that awaits Sirius Black as the ministry has now given the Dementors permission to use the Dementor's kiss on him once they catch him. So Harry's horrified of the thought of the Dementor's kiss, but then remembers who it may be used on in Sirius Black and says, Well, yes, he deserves it. So Lupin is now curious of Harry's stance and asks Harry if he really thinks so, if anyone deserves that. And Harry says, Well, yes, certainly for some things. Now Harry wanted to have told Lupin about the conversation he overheard in the three broomsticks in regards to Sirius' portrayal of his parents, but it would have revealed he was in Hog's need when he shouldn't have been. And even though he was cool with Lupin, he didn't want to push his luck. So after finishing his butter beer, he thanks Lupin and Harry leaves. As Harry made his way to the common room, Harry was so disturbed by the idea of the Dementor's kiss that he wasn't even watching where he was going and walked straight into Professor McGonagall, who was in fact looking for Harry to return the coveted firebolt broom. Oh Jesus. Thank you, thank you. Harry has his broom back in his possession. We'd love to see it. McGonagal lets Harry know that the fireball is hex free. It thankfully is being returned in perfect condition. And Magonal lets Harry know that he has a very good friend somewhere and advises Harry to get some practice on it before their next match as Gryffindor hasn't won eight years in a row. And she was annoyingly reminded of this by Professor Snape. And I'm just like visualizing Professor Snape talking sports to Magonagle. Like, what does that look like? Like, I don't even know what it looks like for Snape to have fun or like be leisurely. So I thought that was interesting.

SPEAKER_06 40:24

I think he'd be swinging his bob a little, he'd be a little happy.

SPEAKER_00 40:29

Yes. So Harry continues on to the Griffindor comma room, encountering Ron, who is also thrilled to see what's in Harry's hand. Ron asks if he can uh still write it, to which Harry says yes, and Harry now suggests that they make up with Hermione as she was only trying to help, and Ron agrees. I was like, I noticed I was kind of sad having like a Hermione-less chapter because like they're obviously the Ron and Harry aren't talking to her, so we're not seeing much of her this chapter. But again, I don't feel too bad because I still don't like what she did, like what she did. But yeah, I was kind of like, oh, this Hermione just this chapter feels different without Hermione in it as much. So yeah, my brain.

SPEAKER_05 41:05

But she's also really busy with all her shit. She probably didn't have time. Sometimes it's just like okay, fair point.

SPEAKER_00 41:10

Kind of thank God. Fair point, fair point. So they arrive at the entrance to the Gryffindor common room to Neville pleading with Sir Kadagan to be let in. Now remember, Sir Kadagan is the uh portrait that took over for the phalet because she's she's been gone ever since there's black shot to get in and scratch her all up. So the Kardagan's the portrait, and he's just been getting on everyone's nerves with all his night stuff and just being annoying when it comes to the password. Neville goes on to explain to Ron and Harry, who've now approached, that he asked Sir Kadagan for all the passwords for the week as he kept on changing it so frequently, but now he's lost the paper. I said, Neville. So yeah, so Harry tells the current password, which is odds bodicins, which is one I don't even remember. That's definitely a great trivial question. So stay tuned for that for my trivia people, because I won't be easy with that. And Sir Kurdag and lets them all in. So not a moment after Harry enters the common room, he is swarmed by Gryffindors, all excited to see the fireball up close. After about 10 minutes, everyone's had their fix and you know they disperse or whatever. And now it's Harry and Ron and Hermione in her crowd of work by a table over there. So Harry and Ron approach Hermione, who was the only person that didn't show any interest in the return of the broom. Partly petty, probably on her part, but also probably because she's busy with her work. So okay. So Harry lets Hermani know that he got the broom back, holding it out for her to see. I'm like, as if she hadn't noticed. I was like, okay, Harry. Like, thank you for the information. So Ron chimes in, pointing out the obvious that there was nothing, in fact, wrong with the broom. And Hermani retorts, Well, there might have been, and at least now you know it's 100% safe, to which Harry agrees. I like Harry, I like that Harry's reasonable. Like, you know, obviously, I'm sure he was very annoyed with getting his broom taken away, but I think he can see the logic and the reasoning why her why Hermione did it, and even him just suggesting that they make up with her. Like, I like that he's he's he's a very Harry's just so reasonable, so practical at times. Now he has his own issues. Well, you know, I'll be sure to point that out too. But I like when the Harry's good traits uh shine through.

SPEAKER_06 43:04

So Ron is very petty, holds grudges, and he's not always the first to apologize. So I'm glad that Harry is the buffer between the two of them sometimes. In in trios, you know, the triangulation of it all happens where it's like 2v1, but then it's it's a person who is not in the beef. They have to be the mediator, they have to be the person say, Hey, you know, let's take an opportunity to make up. You know, we're all friends here.

SPEAKER_02 43:35

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 43:35

And they take turns doing that.

SPEAKER_02 43:37

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 43:38

Do Ron and Harry ever get into it? I'm excited. I wanted them to rumble.

SPEAKER_00 43:45

Well, we'll we'll have to see. Okay. Boys will be boys. Okay. So Harry's about to get up to go put the fireboat away upstairs, but Ron jumps at the opportunity to do it instead, adding that he needs to give Scabbers his rat tonic. Now. There's two things about this. The idea of Ron trying to nurse a damn rat back to health is hilarious. Like, yeah, I can imagine Ron holding like a little bottle of something up to scarbage and like feeding it like a damn baby. Like, that's so sweet. Like, oh, I love that. But then also knowing what we know about Ron and his family's like financials, I wish someone would give Ron something out of like just out of this world, like something that's so expensive, that's out of his reach that he'd really, really want. Because the way he's just so excited for Harry and his broom, and like, oh, he's like, Oh, I'll take a read here, like I'll put it back. And he's like, I just like I want some him to have something like that of his own, especially since Harry can afford he could afford to buy himself. Like, so the fact that he was gifted this, I was like, damn, like I'm I'm happy for Harry too. He's a very skilled Quidditch player, but I want Ron to have something nice like this too. But I guess it's nice to have a friend that has it and that's one to let you use it.

SPEAKER_06 44:48

So like it would have been nice when Ron was spending almost an entire academic year with a broken wand if someone had sent him one.

SPEAKER_00 44:57

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_06 44:57

That's yeah, or if Harry said, you know what, let me check the account and wire some money to my friend.

SPEAKER_00 45:05

Okay, well, I was with you for the first time. Now, people have made the argument that, like, people have definitely pointed out that Harry may be considered a bad friend because he's so financially well off and he sees that Ron and his family's in dire straits, and he doesn't really offer to financially help them in any type of way, whether it be like, I don't know. And but people are like, he's a 13-year-old boy, he shouldn't be putting the responsibility, uh, financial responsibility on him, especially when it's his parents' money. To like, I don't know. I guess two things can be true at once. Financially, he doesn't really need shouldn't be supporting. I don't know. It's it's how how can I say this?

SPEAKER_06 45:41

Because you know, remember when I'm telling him to take on a Weasley mortgage. I'm telling him, you could have pitched in a little bit. We could have started a GoFundMe for your friend's bro, yeah, for your friends one.

SPEAKER_00 45:53

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 45:54

Put the foot in some some galleons, 10 galleons, something.

SPEAKER_00 45:57

Yeah, like here, or buy it for him and like do the whole pay me back when you get a chance, knowing that he will probably won't be able to pay you back, but just let it like pass by, like, oh, don't worry about it. Something like that. You're you're right. Cause like, or I don't know, send uh send Hadrugina with some money over to the Weasley's anonymous gift of some galleons, and then they they use that money to buy Ron the new wand. Something so it's kind of like they don't even know that it came from him. Something, something. I don't know if maybe a 12 or 13 year old is thinking about that, but I definitely see like in the struggle of your friend not having a wand the whole year and knowing that your bank account is full, honey. Something could have been done. Something could have been done. So um that's interesting, yeah. But that will be an ongoing discussion. So we'll see how that look. I'm telling you, as the books go on, more things come up. So we'll see. Okay, all right. And it okay, I'll leave it there. But anyway, so Ron carries a fireball upstairs to the boys' room as if he's holding like some fragile glass because it's so coveted. As Ron does this, Harry takes the opportunity now to finally ask Hermione about the core her coursework, asking Hermione if he can sit down at the cluttery table. Hermione says, I suppose so. That's like girl, that's definitely a little shady, but she clears some tape, she clears some papers off a chair to allow Harry some room to sit. Harry looks around at all everything that's just around her. There's an arithmetic essay with this ink still drying on the parchment. There's a muggle studies essay titled Explain Why Muggles Need Electricity, and then there's a current runes translation Hermione's currently working on. So she's got a lot going on. Harry asks how she's doing all of it, and she answers, Oh, you know, working hard. Harry observes that Hermione looks as tired as Lupin. Mind you, Lupin looks tired because he's been sick damn near the whole year. Hermione looks tired because she's been like basically killing herself with this workload. So it's it's uh definitely a difference. But Harry goes on to ask why she doesn't drop some of drop a couple subjects, to which Hermione besides herself at the idea, says she couldn't possibly do that. Harry suggests, oh, why don't you drop her infancy? It looks terrible, but Hermione says never, as that's her favorite subject, because of course it is. Like, before Hermione can explain why it's her favorite subject, she's interrupted by a blood-cuddling scream coming from the boys' dorm and echoing down the boys' stairwell until it grows louder and louder. And Ron comes barreling down the steps into view with the bed sheet in his hands and rushes over to Hermione and Harry and shouts, Look! Harry and Hermione are confused as to what they're looking at, and he yells, Scabbers! Look, Scabbers! There was something red on his sheets that he was holding in his hand. Ron proceeds to yell, Blood! He's gone, and you know what was on the floor. Hermione answers no with a nervous tremble. Ron throws something on top of Hermione's ancient ruins homework, and it's none other than several long ginger cat hairs. And that is where we end chapter 12 Patronus, the Patronus, with Scabbiana going on to glory.

SPEAKER_06 48:51

Scabbiana turning into Scrabiana.

SPEAKER_00 48:54

Oh my goodness.

SPEAKER_06 48:56

Oh no.

SPEAKER_02 48:57

Oh, oh, oh.

SPEAKER_06 48:59

It's honestly ginger on ginger crime when you think about it.

SPEAKER_02 49:02

No, that is.

SPEAKER_06 49:03

Because Scabbers, okay, because I really believe that our pets are like the ethnicity or the races that we are. Okay. So Scabbers is a ginger at heart. And then we got this Crookshanks coming in with this ginger hair, and it's like, it's your people. You can't do this.

SPEAKER_00 49:21

You can't do this. And look, it's been chapter after chapter of Crookshinks trying to go after Scabbers, and it looks like he finally got what he wanted. And like that is must be traumatic as hell for Ron to go up to his room to think that he's about to give his sweet baby sick rat its rat tonic and to find blood, blood at a crime scene and his rat gone, swallowed up whole. And then to find the evidence of the person that did it and it, or not the person, but the animal that did it is crazy. Like, I don't look, Hermione is just, I don't know how they're gonna recover from this. Like, not only did you snitch and get our fireball taken away for a whole three chapters, but then now this on top of it, when Ron has consistently trying to tell you to get that fucking cat away from me and mine. Lord have mercy. What the hell are we gonna do?

SPEAKER_06 50:10

If Hermione was a boy, she would have gotten at least two of those books thrown in her face.

SPEAKER_00 50:15

That's true.

SPEAKER_06 50:16

Because you know, Ron is scrappy, or her head like slammed into a book and closed book. Like, yes, no, but it's 432 pages, bam.

SPEAKER_00 50:23

Because Ron is definitely scrappy, he's been ready to go at it with Draco. So if Romani, like you said, was a boy, like, ooh, I feel bad. I I do feel bad for Ron. It's it's rather unfortunate. But yeah, that was I'm over here like sitting. I'm like, I'm like besides myself. No, that's how it ends. We got a dead rat child. But yeah, so that was chapter 12, the Dement the Patronus. Oh my gosh, just the Dementor Patronus seems to be my ass. That was chapter 12, the Patronus. Like I said, I love that Harry learned a new skill in casting the Patronus Trump. I think that's gonna help him a lot when it comes to fending off these Dementors during Quidditch and elsewhere. And then, yeah, Hermione. Well, I was gonna say Ron and Harry had made up with Hermione, but that was short-lived because not a moment after they made up in terms of the fireball debacle, now we have this fresh new tragedy on our hands. So it's not looking good for the trio. The trio's friendship has been rocky this whole entire chapter with the series of it all and the firebolt and now Scabiana. So yeah, rest in peace, Skaver. So you you were you you were you were uh I'm not really a rap person, I don't think a lot of people are, but Ron was, you know, you were Ron's and Ron was yours, so it's unfortunate.

SPEAKER_06 51:28

Someone with the hamster back in the day, my first pet, Speedy, Teddy Bear hamster, or yeah, whatever the black and white ones are called. I cried so much that my dad came in and was like, you know, it wasn't a human. Fuck you. I know we've healed, but like you call back to the beginning of the episode.

SPEAKER_00 51:51

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 51:52

Did he die a bold angel?

SPEAKER_06 51:57

We got buried. Oh okay.

SPEAKER_01 52:00

It was a tragic death. Oh lord.

SPEAKER_06 52:01

It was a tragic death. Okay, Sunday morning, going downstairs. My mom is telling us get ready for church, but I need to go check on my baby. Go downstairs, and I see Speedy in his glass cage, and he's in the corner, mouth puckered, just like a fish on the side. I'm like, what the heck? And I see that the glass was kind of sharp, like shattered a little. And I was like, Mom! She comes downstairs. See that this thing is clearly dead. She's like, Well, if we go to church, you can ask God to bring it back to life. Karen. And now you you're surprised that I don't believe in God all these years later. So I go to the Sunday service. I'm praying on my knees with my sister. We're holding hands, this whole thing. Go back downstairs, same position, if not worse. So it's like she built my hope up just to have it come away. Then I was crying so much, my dad came and gave me a lecture. And then I was like, Can y'all just let me grieve? If you just had to let me accept that it was dead from the beginning, we skip one Sunday, things will be okay. I would have been okay. But it's like the gaslighting and then the saying, like, oh, you're being too dramatic. Well, my baby Speedy was too. I love my baby so much.

SPEAKER_02 53:18

And Ron. I don't think I could do a rat though.

SPEAKER_06 53:21

Hamster, hamster is cute.

SPEAKER_01 53:24

Yes. Uh well.

SPEAKER_06 53:26

It's the tail.

SPEAKER_01 53:26

It's that thick ass coil tail.

SPEAKER_00 53:28

Like well, well, we got a funeral to plan. So let's take a little break before we come back for chapter 13, Gryffindor versus Ravenclaw. Okay, so chapter 13, Gryffindor versus Ravenclaw. So we start this chapter with the sentence, it looked like the end of Ron and Hermione's friendship. Due to what has happened, Ron and Hermione are both very angry with each other. Harry doesn't see how they can make up at this point. Ron is furious that Hermione never took his worries over Crookshanks eating Scabbers seriously, never properly looked after Crookshanks, and the fact that she was trying to pretend that Scabbers was just lost pissed him off even more. Hermione insists that's Hermione insists that there's no real proof that Crookshanks ate Scabbers as the Harris might have been there since Christmas, and that Ron hasn't liked Crookshanks ever since he landed on his head at the magical menagerie. Harry personally thought Crookshanks had indeed ate Scabbers, citing the evidence, causing Hermione to be fierce with Harry as well, stating that of course he'd take Ron's side. First the firebolt, now scabbards. Everything is my fault, apparently, and she actually be left alone to work.

SPEAKER_06 54:39

Let's have her enroll in an accountability class. Let's add that to her course studies.

SPEAKER_00 54:48

No, really. Because Hermani, what are we talking about here? Like, can you like just look at things practically? Like I again, this goes back to my whole Hermione not being able to apologize. Like I said, take accountability. Like, Ron is coming to you pleading, like distraught, pleading like there's a blood, there's cat hairs, and his cat or is a rat is literally missing. Like, all three things point to the fact that your cat, your responsibility ain't mine. Like, why is she? I don't like that. Like, she's just not being very empathetic, not apologetic, like, not it's not a good look for her at all. Like, girl, yes, Harry is taking Ron's side in his moment because he's looking at the evidence, he's being practical. Like, leave the fireball out of it. Like, no, don't even and then the whole everything is my fault, apparently. Like, girl, yes, in this in this instance, it is. Like, what are you what are we talking about here? So, yeah, it's just not it's just not looking good for them. But Ron had taken the loss of scabbards very hard, as if he had lost his own flesh and blood. Everyone is trying to cheer him up. Fred reminding Ron of how he thought scabbards was boring and he had been ill for a while, so it's probably best he was snuffed out quickly and once swallow. Jenny's like, Fred, like that's something like I would say, like, try to find reason in it. Like, please, this is not the time to be practical about someone's death. George seconds this though, saying how Ron said all he all scabbage would ever do was eat and sleep. And Ron comes to Scabbage defense, citing how he did bite Goyle once, to which Harry says, Yeah, he remembers that, trying to make Ron feel better. Harry offers to let Ron join him at Griffin or Quidditch Practice and offers he that he could ride the fireball after to get his mind off of Scabbers, which looks to like have worked. So that's good. So they arrive at Quidditch Practice later, later on, and Madame Hooch is there to oversee the practice slash watch over Harry because you know Siers Black is on the loose. So she's going on and on about the fireball broom before Wood has to interrupt her and it's like, hey, we need a practice. Like, she go go on, go on, sit in the stands. So her and Ron go sit in the stands. As the team huddles, Wood lets the team know that the Raven Claw seeker is fourth year, Cho Chang, and that she's pretty good. Wood was hoping that she wouldn't be fit to play as she's had some injuries, but at last she's in good health, which she kind of says in disappointment. Like, Oliver Wood is a mess. He's a mess. I love his win at win at all costs. He's definitely giving slither in when it comes to his Quidditch, but maybe he's just a Griffner overall and the rest of his life when he's not so focused on Quidditch. But but with that being said, she's flying a comet 260, which is like nothing compared to Harry's firebolt. So he's not too worried about her. They start practice, and the fireball broom is better than Harry could have imagined. Fast, agile, almost as if the fireball broom was in line with Harry's thoughts, as opposed to him having to like navigate the broom himself. So that's kind of cool. Needless to say, once they released the snitch into practice, Harry caught it repeatedly very quickly. So it was the best practice they had ever had, and it left the entire team in good spirits. Wood is sure that they'll win with no trouble as long as Harry has got the Dementor situation under control. To which Harry answers, yeah. Though he wishes Feeble Patronus was a little bit stronger. After practice, the Gryffindor team disperses, and Harry stays behind on the Quidditch pitch with Ron and Madame Hooch, who had fallen asleep in the bleachers. Great monitor, you are. So Ron gets on the field, and Harry hands over his firebolt to let Ron ride it, and off he went, zooming through the sky. And I thought that was very nice of Harry helping a friend out and need get his mind off things, just like they of Ron tried to do with him when it came to the whole series black of it all. So I love that balance in their friendship. They're both support each other in their times. So night soon came, and Madame Hooch had finally woken up, and she told Harry and Ron off for not waking her up and told them to go back up to the castle. So as they headed back up to the castle talking about the awesomeness that is the firebolt, Harry sees something, a pair of eyes gleaming out of the darkness, and it kind of stops him dead in his tracks with fear. Ron casts a lumus light spell, and it's none other than Crookshanks.

SPEAKER_06 58:33

The culprit, the criminal, the killer, not the killer showing up at the funeral.

SPEAKER_00 58:40

Okay, so Ron yells for Crookshanks to get out of there, and he reaches down to get a stone to throw at Crookshanks, but before he could, Crookshanks was gone. And seeing Crookshanks brought all of Ron's anger back to the forefront, citing how this is what he's talking about when it comes to Hermione not looking after that damn cat. And that's probably why Crookshanks ate scabbards, and Crookshanks is probably now washing down scabbards with a few birds, so like he's eating good. So Harry doesn't say anything as he's so just relieved that it wasn't the grim that he saw, it was just Crookshanks. So they continue on to the castle. Harry's a bit ashamed of his moment of panic, but he just looks straight on till he arrives at the well-lit castle. The following morning, Harry heads down to breakfast with the firebolt in hand and his own little guard squad of the rest of the Gryffindor boys, more so for the firebolt's production, but than him, but still. The sentiment's appreciated. So everyone is in awe of the broom. The Slytherin team's face drop when they see Harry and what he's holding. Ron was ever so giddy to point out my foy's shocked expression over the firebolt. People from Ravenclon Hufflepuff even came over to the Gryffindor table to congratulate them and look at the broom. Oliver Wood making sure to place the fireball on the table ever so delicately with the name of the broom facing up for view. It's like I love how everyone's taking such pride in this uh broom. Um, so Cedric Diggory from Hufflepuff, who's uh a Hufflepuff seeker. And you remember he played against Harry in the Quiddish match earlier that he fell off the broom and all that stuff. So yeah, so Cedric.

SPEAKER_06 1:00:03

The hot one.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:03

Yes, yes, the hot one that all the girls love. Yeah. So Cedric Diggory from Hufflepuff congratulates Harry on the excellent replacement for the Nimbus 2000. And Penelope Clearwater from Ravenclaw, Percy's girlfriend, asks if she can touch it. Percy jokingly says no sabotage as they have a bet of 10 galleons going for whichever team wins since their houses are facing off against each other. After putting the broom, I'm gonna say I was gonna say it make a joke. I'll make it after putting the broom back down again. Penelope heads back to her table with Percy following after her, but not before whispering to Harry to make sure he wins as he doesn't have 10 galleons. I said, Child, now we know you're a Weasley child, so we know you don't got it. We know you don't got it, Percy. So uh I thought that was interesting that he would make a bet with his girlfriend for money that he doesn't have, but we'll see how that progresses. Poor girl. What he doesn't have financially, he has an ambition. So I guess that's something. He'll become a career man one day.

SPEAKER_06 1:01:02

Yeah, but then he's gonna leave her for a younger girl. We'll see. We'll see. We'll see.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:07

We'll see. We'll see. I feel like I don't know. High school college is not a bad person. I feel like high school college is when you're supposed to like, if you get with someone and they're not like they don't have everything all the way together, it's okay because it's a like the developmental phase, right? Yeah, but then at one point does that become like okay, we we're not doing developmental anymore.

SPEAKER_06 1:01:26

Like mid-20s, 30s, like it's like Abbott Elementary with who's the main girl? Is her name Janine?

SPEAKER_00 1:01:35

Janine, yeah. Oh, with the boyfriend that's her ex.

SPEAKER_06 1:01:38

Okay, yeah, and having to cover all the bills, like at a certain point. You gotta see you gotta see it through. Like, if is this gonna be your life? And if you don't want that, then get out. All the listeners that are dating potential, if you're above the age of 26, get out. And I'm saying that with love and like chop chop honey.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:01

But then you see, with my thing with that, is then what if the person turns, what if you break up with them because of the it just it doesn't look like it's happening, but then once you break up with them, it does start to kick off or happen, and then it's like, oh well, I do you try to get back with them, or do you have to be like, okay, well, I I forsake, I forsook that love because I am making sense, you know what I mean?

SPEAKER_06 1:02:23

You can get back with them later on, right? Especially if you guys didn't have other problems, but sometimes your role in people's life is to prepare them for their future, and that is okay, and you have to accept that. And they've prepared you for the next person.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:39

I don't know.

SPEAKER_06 1:02:40

I know this is harsh, y'all, but this is like this is one-on-one.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:44

Preparing someone and bringing someone's foundation for them to go off and be successful with someone else is not surprised in my life.

SPEAKER_06 1:02:49

That's why you have to practice the art of de-attachment. You have to understand that your life is yours and their life is theirs. If he's in it, cool. If they're in it, cool. If not, also okay.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:03

I like that. Okay.

SPEAKER_06 1:03:05

It's hard, it's hard to accept.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:07

Yeah. Because you know, okay. All right, that's interesting. Okay, all right. I'll leave it there. Okay, well, we need to have some side combo because you you drop a gems. Okay, so so now here comes hate here comes the hater squad, Draco and uh Crab and Goyle, and they're approaching the Gryffindor table. And and Draco asks Harry if he's sure he can handle that broom, to which Harry answers, well, yes. Uh Malfoy goes on to say that broom has plenty of special features, doesn't it? If only it came with a parachute in case Harry gets too close to Dementor, making fun of the fact that Harry fell out the broom that other time with the Dementors. But Harry's quick with the clapback saying, It's a shame your broom doesn't come with an extra arm. Perhaps that perhaps then it could catch the snitch for you. And everyone starts laughing at the clapback, and my so everyone starts laughing at Malfoy and the goons stalk away, rejoin the rest of the Slytherin team in a huddle, plotting, most likely, and we'll see how that comes to fruition. A little pregame sports trash, you know, what are you gonna do? And it's just crazy to me that Malfoy and the rest of the Slytherin, y'all aren't even playing in this match, and you're still being nasty. Like, damn, you can't even just give Harry his property like, oh, Harry, nice broom, something. Like, you guys aren't even playing in this match. Like, you have no reason to be nasty.

SPEAKER_06 1:04:14

And I know, like, like let Ravenclaw talk shake. Like, it's their turn.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:18

Oh my goodness, it's crazy, it's craziness. Okay, so at around 10 45, the Griffin Quidditch team makes their way to the lockers, and the weather today was lovely and much better compared to what it was when they faced it off against Hufflepuff. It's a clear, cool day with a light breeze and great visibility. So it's a good sign that you know things are going to be good. And it even instilled more confidence in Harry that today would be the day to win. But Harry changed into his Quidditch gear and made sure to tuck his wand in with him this time. Prepare for the Dementors if they did appear. Harry is now thinking about if Professor Lupin would be in the crowd watching. So Wood tells Harry that if they lose this master out of the runnings, so so just fly as he did at practice and they've got it. Oliver Wood's captain leadership abilities. I've called into question a few times, but I'm I'm gonna let him, I'm gonna let him have it. I'm okay, sure. Sure. The Gryffindors make their way out onto the quiddish uh field to roaring applause, approaching the Ravenclaw team that was already there. Harry takes note of Cho Chang, the seeker for Ravenclaw, and the only girl on the team. And Harry observes that she's he's she's slightly shorter than Harry and also extremely pretty. Now, extremely is quite a descriptor to describe someone as extremely pretty. That is like, oh, okay.

SPEAKER_05 1:05:30

Extremely got a baddie on the field extremely pretty baddie alert.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:37

So Cho smiles at Harry, and Harry feels a lurch in his stomach that he doesn't think has to do with his nerves around the game. A lurch.

SPEAKER_06 1:05:48

Also, JK, you're gonna name her Cho Chang? Are you fucking kidding? The only Asian person we've had so far is Cho Chang.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:00

Well, we also have And I'll let that sit.

SPEAKER_06 1:06:02

Oh, oh, I guess the Southeast Asian Pavardi. Yeah, the Patel twins.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:07

I don't know if their names are any better, but I admin on Patar Pavarti.

SPEAKER_06 1:06:11

But I guess she likes alliteration.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:14

Yeah, that's what I'm thinking. I don't know. People like get on her or get on JK about like you know the names sometimes. I'm like, this is a British white woman from the 1980s, or whenever she wrote this, where has she come across an Asian person to get? I don't know. Like, could the name have just been a more general name? Sure, but maybe she was trying to play into the whole diversity of the school angle by giving them those names. I don't know. I'm not I'm not writing for her as much as I once would have, but I don't know. Cho Chang.

SPEAKER_06 1:06:43

Cho is also a last name. You gave her two last names.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:49

Yeah, it could have been like Michelle Chang or something, just a little bit more. But then is that Americanizing an Asian? I don't know. I see what you mean. I see which I see what you mean. Yes, Cho Chang. Okay, so shout to Cho girl.

SPEAKER_06 1:07:02

At least she made her hot.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:04

Okay. For all we know, she could call her Mulan. Okay. All right.

SPEAKER_03 1:07:07

So okay, okay. Stop, stop, stop.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:10

So, um, anyways, so this is the first time I think we're seeing Harry's feelings or observations of the opposite sex in this way. So that's interesting. The boy who lives is getting older, child. So we'll see how that develops. So the team captains, Oliver Wood and Roger Davies, shake hands, and both teams mount their brooms, and at the sound of Madame Hooch's whistle, they set off into the air, and the match that we've been waiting for has finally begun. So Harry's zooming around immediately on his new handy-dandy state-of-the-art broom, looking for the snitch while also listening to the game commentary by the Weasley's twins friend Lee Jordan, who has taken it upon himself to big up Harry's new Fireball broom. He's citing fun facts about the broom, like the fact that the fireball broom would be the broom of the national teams at the Quidditch World Championship this year. And this is annoying Professor McGonagall. She's like, Are you here to commentate on the game? Because if so, please do that. So Lee's like, right, right, right. But he's like, I just want to give some information on what the players are working with. And he goes on to say, mention how the fireball has a built-in auto break. And then he's just caught off by McGonagall and is like, return to the actual fucking game commentary right now. Like, stop it. Um, so the match progresses. Alicia Spinnett scores Gryfnoor their first 10 points. At one point, Harry sees the snitch and he makes after it with Cho Chang on his tail. But a Ravenclaw bludger comes out of nowhere towards Harry and kind of causes him to fear off course, and the snitch gets away. The match continues on with Gryffindor now leading 80 to zero. Here goes Lee Jordan again, continuing on with his commentary, very biased, and saying that the firebolt's position balance is very noticeable, and Cho Chang's common 260 is no match for it. McGonagall is fed up.

SPEAKER_06 1:08:44

Is he saying that in front of all the kids? If I was Cho Chang, I would look up like fuck you.

SPEAKER_00 1:08:51

Like, not only are you a girlfriend or Lee Jordan, but you're also like you're not being bouncing your commentary. You're just it's just a mess. It's just a mess. So McGonagall is fed up. He's she's yelling at Lee now, asking if he's being paid to advertise the fireball because of the way you're talking about it so much. Like, damn, like is this a sponsorship? But I love how McGonagall. Literally a brand sponsor. I love how passionate McGonagall is about the quiddish though. So Ravenclaw now has scored three goals, so the score is now 80 to 30. So if Ravenclaw is does catch the snitch, they would win. So we can't have that. So Harry catches side of the snitch again, this time near the Gryffindor goalpost. So Harry's eyes are fixed on it, but then Cho Chang comes out of nowhere in front of him, blocking his view and distracting him with her beauty. And Wood is not having it. He essentially says, Now I'm paraphrasing, pretty girl or not, knock that bitch off her brim, okay? Like you know, you know what, you know how Wood is when it comes to this question. I know that's what he was really thinking. Like he said, get that hell out of here. He said, Beyonce, move out the way.

SPEAKER_06 1:09:49

Um, he's definitely calling her Mulan.

SPEAKER_00 1:09:53

Look, okay, so but it was too late. The snitch was gone once again, out of sight. And now Cho is like grinning at this. So I feel like she definitely was being a little strategic herself and using her womanly ways to kind of distract Harry. She said, Oh, this little third year is kind of taken with me. Let me let me use that to my advantage to try to distract him. So I said, Oh, who says a Ravenclaw girl can't have both brains and beauty? Okay, so so now Harry's like, oh, okay, like and then two last names. Episode title, Two Last Days. So now Harry is like, oh, okay, this is the type of time we're on. So now that he's realized that Cho was in fact just like following him everywhere he goes, as every time Harry has his sight on the snitch, Cho was right there, like telling him. And so instead of looking for the snitch herself, she was gonna go wherever Harry went, which is an interesting good strategy, I guess. So Harry made a deep dive on his room as though he had seen the snitch going in one direction, and Cho, of course, followed him. But then Harry was quick to pull back up before reaching the ground as he had actually seen the snitch in the opposite direction near the Ravenclaw goalposts, and he zoomed that way. But in that moment, as Harry's headed towards the snitch, Cho screams as and points at three Dementors looking up at Harry. Now Harry doesn't even stop to think. He pulls out his wand and he casts that patroliness charm that he was top at Professor Lufin, shots of Lufin, and he shoots it directly in the Dementor's direction, and he just keeps on flying, like his arms outstretched towards the snitch, his hands grasp it. Harry had caught the snitch. Madam Hooch's whistle blows to signal the end of the match and Gryffindor's victory. Ugh, won't he do it? Won't he do it? We've come such a long way from Harry Fung off his broom during the Huffle Patch Hufflepuff match to now him not even giving the dementors a second thought. He said, Child, I don't got time for this. I prepare for this moment. Like, this is my time to shine. I just love it for him. Like, just a beautiful, beautiful thing. I love it.

SPEAKER_06 1:11:43

It's like I wish that I could have this moment with life.

SPEAKER_00 1:11:48

No, literally. Oh my goodness. Oh, Nikki. So the celebration. Oh my god. Oh my god, Billy Porter.

SPEAKER_05 1:12:02

Is anyone still listening? We're like three hours in, but you know what? We're having a good time.

SPEAKER_00 1:12:08

So the celebration is huge as everyone crowds around Harry. We have Oliver Woods shouting, That's my boy. The ladies of the Grifford team, Alicia, Angelina, and Katie are all planting kisses on Harry, and Fred is having Harry in such a tight neck grip. Once they make their way over to the stands, all of Gryffindor and their supporters are making their way over to Harry, led by Ron, who is full of joy and excitement. Percy congratulates Harry citing his 10 gallons win and he makes off to find Penelope. Brookie, Harry. If you and your boyfriend made a bet, and it doesn't have to be your current boyfriend, I don't want to cause no trouble, child. If you and a boyfriend passed whatever, made a bet, financial bet, and he ends up winning and he wants to collect on his money, would you be upset with him?

SPEAKER_06 1:12:59

No.

SPEAKER_01 1:13:00

Oh okay. You're just like, okay.

SPEAKER_06 1:13:03

Because I I accepted that when I made the bet. Also, going back to like the potential thing, y'all. I am not in a financial stable place, so I should not be saying anything. I just want to put that out. Also, like my man pays for so much, so like, yeah, I'll give him the 10 galleons.

SPEAKER_00 1:13:21

Yeah, and it's like fair and square. It's like, I don't know. It's fair. I feel like some woman would look at it like, oh, you as a man, you're like taking money from me, but it's like, no, it's not like that. It's like we made a deal, like a game, like it was a bet, and I won.

SPEAKER_06 1:13:33

So now if he's always trying to start a bet, right, to collect now you're trying to come up. This is not monopoly. Like we are not competing financially. That's weird. But if it was my idea, right? Or like if every once in a while, like, yeah, gonna pay that. And knowing my man is gonna come back to you. He'll probably yeah, he'll probably use that money for like us somehow.

SPEAKER_00 1:13:56

Yeah, okay, okay, fair.

SPEAKER_06 1:13:57

Like, okay, let's get ice cream with this or something.

SPEAKER_00 1:13:59

Oh, that's I love that. That's a good way to look at it. You know, Percy's pocketing that shit. Like, I need this for my fucking books next year.

SPEAKER_06 1:14:04

It's deep in the pocket.

SPEAKER_00 1:14:08

So Seavis and Haggard both congratulate Harry, followed by Lupin, who was in fact in the stand. So that's good, and notes how great Harry's Patronus was. Harry notes that the Dementors didn't affect him at all. He didn't feel anything. No, Harry's like on a high, he's like, Oh, I won. I took out the Dementors, like, life is good. And Lupin explains, well, that's because they weren't actually Dementors, and he leads Harry out of the crowd to the edge of the field. So Harry could see the bunch of losers made up of Malfoy, Crab, Goyle, and Slytherin, quidditch Captain Marcus Flint in hooded black robes, sprout out on the floor, struggling to get the robes off. McGonagall standing over them in disgust. She's shouting at them, what an unworthy trick it was. Like y'all are low-down, dirty, no-good cowards for doing that, trying to sabotage Harry. And he gives, and McGonagall gives them all the attention and takes 50 points away from Slytherin. Now, McGonagall, I have to get you together because now you know Slytherin is my house. And I, you know, I'm not eager to see them lose house points. But I do recall, was it the first book that Harry and them were caught out of bed? And she took 50 house points away from each of them. Each? Harry, I think it was Harry, Ron, and Neville. I don't know if her mind was here, but he took a house, like he each. That was 150 whopping house points. Now, Slytherin, you're only taking 50 collectively. So I'm not, I'm just pointing that out, okay? Y'all, I can be fair. I can be fair. I may be Slytherin, but I can be fair. Okay. All right.

SPEAKER_06 1:15:33

If the trio had put three cloaks on, called it a day, and Snape went out there, 50 wouldn't even come up. It'd be like 100 each.

SPEAKER_00 1:15:45

Look. Look. Especially since it really could have caused Harry to get harmed again, like, even though they weren't actually dementia. Like, you, it could, I it no. Definitely punishment shouldn't have a crime.

SPEAKER_06 1:15:57

50 each and bring me that paddle.

SPEAKER_00 1:16:01

Marty Supreme's.

SPEAKER_06 1:16:02

I mean, it's still the 90s, right? We could do it.

SPEAKER_00 1:16:04

Literally, literally, literally. Okay. She goes on to say that she will be speaking to Dumbledore about this. And speaking of Dumbledore, he's approaching. So Mogango sets off to talk to him. If anything could have made Gryffindor's victories sweeter with this Quidditch match, it would have been this moment right here with the Draco and Goons getting punished. So George ushers Harry towards the castle as there's a party about to go down in the Gryffindor common common room coming off of their victory, and Harry follows, and he's feeling happier than he has ever felt in ages. So life is good for Harry in this moment.

SPEAKER_06 1:16:36

It's a party, it's a party, it's a party. And they all go to the Gryffindor Tower. Fred and George disappear as they do, and they come back a couple hours later with bottles and bags in hand. But not those kind of bottles and bags. They have bottles of butterbeer, so we know they clearly went to Hogsmead, and bags of Honey Duke sweets. One of the students said, How did you do this? And one of the twins answered, Well, we had some help from our friends Warmta and whoever's else on the grudges, Marauders.

SPEAKER_01 1:17:09

Yes, yes.

SPEAKER_06 1:17:11

Marauders, Marauders. Everyone was celebrating the big victory, minus Hermani, who is still deep in her studies. Harry goes over to her and asks if she even attended the game, and she nervously says yes, but I don't believe her. And I don't blame her either. She's got a lot to do. Come have some food, Hermani. He tells her. And she says, I can. I have 432 pages left. And Ron doesn't want me over there anyways. Correct. Ron, yes, Ron tells her from across the room if Skabers was here, we'd be enjoying these snacks together, but now I have to eat here alone. That made Hermione cry, and she left to the girls' room. Womp womp.

SPEAKER_00 1:17:59

Womp womp. No sympathy over here.

SPEAKER_06 1:18:03

Slightly. Like I want to see Hermione's friendship with girls. Because these two boys, it's okay. But like she needs a girls be like, it's gonna be okay. You know, take a deep breath. Boys can be a lot. Like, I want to see in the girls' dorm what they talk to her about.

SPEAKER_00 1:18:24

Yeah, especially when you mentioned the whole trio dynamic thing. I think, like you said, like Ron and Harry often, you know, they're boys, they're often on the same page, and then it leaves her. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:18:33

So and Harry calls out Ron for his attitude, and Ron says, Look, the girl has acts as if my dead rat is on vacation. That's the problem. There's no accountability, there's no acknowledgement, and so it's on site around one in the morning. So these kids have been partying, they're letting loose with the beers, popping bottles. Professor McGonagall rolls in PJs in toll and says, Shut it down. It's 1 a.m. Go to sleep. Once all the kids fall asleep, Harry has a really strange dream. He has his firebolt over his shoulder and he's walking towards the silver white thing in the direction of the forbidden forest. As he gets closer and he starts to kind of trail it faster, he hears hooves like horses' hooves, and then he hears galloping. So it's getting faster and faster, and he's chasing, chasing. Now he turns at the corner when all of a sudden he screams, Ah, and he wakes up. At the same time that he screamed that there were these curtains that ripped. And Harry is now surrounded by some of his classmates. They're like, Are you okay? And Ron answers, Fuck that. I am not okay. And he quickly quotes, but he's like panting. And he says, Black, serious black, with a knife, slash the curtains. Whoa. Now the boys, none of them believe him. They're like, oh no, you made that up, like you're going crazy. And he's like, No, I'm serious. That's what happened. That's what happened. They take the conversation back to the tower because they were in their dorms. And so they're all like talking. And some of the girls even woke up and like joined them in the discussion. And Percy's one of the students that also joined them. And Percy's like, Come on, Ron, like, calm down. That's not what happened. Percy's like putting his head boy pin on because he's at work, apparently.

SPEAKER_00 1:20:40

He gotta remind folks, y'all. He's back on duty.

SPEAKER_06 1:20:43

And Professor McGonagall returns. And this time she's really upset because I already told y'all. It's time to wrap this up.

SPEAKER_00 1:20:50

To go to bed. It's like three in the morning now. It's a witching hour. What y'all doing on the house?

SPEAKER_06 1:20:53

Yeah, no, it's witching hours. So she's furious that these kids are still up after her last warning. And Ron tells her what happened. She also doesn't believe him. Borderline calls it nonsense. And then she's like, look, we'll ask Sir McKnight. Brian McKnight. Let's go ask him.

SPEAKER_03 1:21:14

Oh Lord.

SPEAKER_06 1:21:15

If he let a man in. And McNighty says, Oh, yeah, he had all the passwords. He had a paper of all the passwords. Damn it, Neville. And this is why we wanted to do two chapters together because they tie in so perfectly. So you're welcome, listeners.

SPEAKER_01 1:21:36

Yes.

SPEAKER_06 1:21:37

Neville's crumbled piece of paper that he lost. Serious Black picked up. One man's trash, another man's treasure.

SPEAKER_01 1:21:46

Okay.

SPEAKER_06 1:21:46

He walked in. Fuck. There's been a lot of violence that has gone in the boys' dormitory. We gotta sage that.

SPEAKER_00 1:21:56

A big old sage. Big old sage. Big old sage. I mean, like. Fuck. So not only Yeah, there's a lot, there's a lot here because okay, so you mean to tell me not only was Harry having a nightmare, but you mean to tell me Sirius Black was in the grip, not only in the Griffin or comma room, but in the boys' dormitory standing over Ron. Or Harry. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:22:26

And Ron saw him with a knife.

SPEAKER_02 1:22:29

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:22:30

Well, someone needs to take the knife away from him because he slashed up the fat lady's portrait with that same knife. I still have no predictions. I mean, is he Lupin wrapped up? Is he scabbers? I don't I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 1:22:50

Yeah. No, but just the way that everyone is making it seem like, oh, he wants Harry, he wants Harry, he wants Harry. Okay, so now in this moment he's literally standing over a Harry that's literally sleeping. So this is the perfect time to do what he needs to do.

SPEAKER_06 1:23:01

And so he holds back. He has a conscience.

SPEAKER_00 1:23:07

But Neville, Neville Neville needs his ass whooped. I feel bad because Neville had good intentions with like writing down the passwords because he couldn't remember them all. But then you need to be responsible for the for that piece of paper and keep them with you because that's the way people get access to your your home, your Gryffindor common room, and then for you to lose that. You didn't report it lost or anything. And then what are they that but then that also means Sears Black was roaming around the damn castle? Like, how would he have come across that piece of paper? Where could have Neville have lost it for Sears Black to have gotten it? Then Sears Black to come back into the castle, come back to Gryffindor common room. I feel like the Griff Gryffindor common room needed like an actual physical guard standing in front of it, like an actual like teacher. But who wants to be there around the clock to you know guard that? So I don't know about that. But but maybe like just after hours, like you know, like nighttime or something.

SPEAKER_06 1:23:54

Is this only Neville's responsibility? Because Neville told the Neville told Harry and Ron that he lost the paper with the passwords. So they knew that there was a paper on the loose, and they should have just turned to Brian and said, Brian, you love changing the passwords, let's just reset them again.

SPEAKER_00 1:24:12

That's a good point. Like, yeah, the he the portraits are just changed to something that wasn't on the paper. That he that's a good point. If yeah, if Sir Cardagan was a good uh guard of Griffin McCracken, he would have changed the password again to something that wasn't on the paper. That way, whoever would have found that paper wouldn't, it would have been like null and voice. So that's a good point. But then also like the fact that Sir Kardagan, you know that the school's on high alert for Sirius Black, even if he did have the password, something in your mind should have said, I'm not opening it, even though you have your password. So, because I feel like the portraits do have some agency, so they could perhaps choose not to open it, even if the person gave them the password. So in this moment, you have a mass murderer criminal standing in front of you, and because he gave you the password, you just let him in. You're like, actually, you're not you don't even go to the house.

SPEAKER_06 1:24:56

Did he have the knife in his hand while he was waiting for saying the passwords?

SPEAKER_00 1:25:00

Circle said, Child, you ain't about to slice up my portrait. No way. He said, Go on, go on in, go get what you need today.

SPEAKER_05 1:25:06

And can you blame him? Fuck it, probably plays minimum wage.

SPEAKER_00 1:25:11

No. Chow. Oh my god, what a uh chaotic two chapters. Not only did Scabiana go on to glory last chapter, but Ron was damn near close to going on to glory to meet uh meet his uh rat in heaven, child. Like, Lord, had a damn murderer's hovering over his bed. Like, I don't know if Molly Weasley, I don't remember if Molly Weasley finds out about this or not, but if I was if it was my kid and you I found you, I found out that you mean to tell me there was a mass murderer prisoner escapee standing over my child's bed as he was sleeping at school. Oh, come and get him out of here right the fuck now.

SPEAKER_06 1:25:46

Shame on all the parents who re-enrolled all these kids because how many petrifications did we have last year, and now we have a mass murderer? The Hogwarts brand is going in the dumpster. We need a PR spin-off, we need therapists on deck, we need a hotline, we need more communication between the parents and the students.

SPEAKER_00 1:26:08

We need someone to come and set things right at Hogwarts, and they're coming. In the fifth book, chat. You gotta wait a little bit, but they're oh my god, five years. Look, okay, but with that, look, this was a nice, lengthy episode. We thank you guys so much for joining us for chapter 12. Oh my god, I keep fucking it up. We got we thank you guys for joining us for Harry Potter, the Prisoner of Ask Man, chapter 12, the Patronus and chapter 13, Gryffindor versus Ravenclaw. Two great chapters for the whole bunch of stuff. We got we got Dead Animals, we got uh Friendship Fallouts, we got uh prisoner escapee breaking into the Gryffindor common room, we got victory for Harry and Quidditch, we got uh Harry mastering or continuing and learning a really advanced follow just a lot from these two chapters every day. It was really good to come and discuss them both in tandem together. And again, at least you're thank you for saying about your dad and all that. And again, I'm still thinking about that a little bit very soon. Um but yeah, so make sure to leave us a five-star review. I think we've I think we've earned it after being here with you guys for so long. So leave us one on our road to 50 new reviews. Follow us over on Instagram at Harry Starry Omlate, and send us to the email at HarrystarMolate Podcast at gmail.com as well as if you have any questions, if you need advice, anything like that, you can send that over to the email so we can go on and do that for you guys. Anything else, please?

SPEAKER_06 1:27:35

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