Hermione Granger Is ACTIVATED! | Prisoner of Azkaban

We're Back to Discuss Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Chapter 15 The Quidditch Final.

Who is this new Hermione Granger? WE LOVE HER! From slapping Draco Malfoy to telling Professor Trelawney and her Divination class to kick rocks! The Quidditch Final is here, and it's all eyes on Harry Potter, our Gryffindor Quidditch Seeker. Which Hogwarts house will come out on top? Gryffindor or Slytherin? Buckbeak's life hangs in the balance! Will Hagrid be successful in his appeal?

Other Things we discuss is Alicia's New Job, Megan The Stallion & Klay Thompson's break up, White House Correspondents Dinner Debacle & More!

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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. 

Koda is a lifelong fan of Harry Potter, having read the book series recently for the first time and having seen the movies more times than he can count. Also the creator of a large Harry Potter group and host Harry Potter trivia! 

Together they come together weekly to discuss Harry Potter chapter by chapter, play quirky games and test their HP trivia knowledge alongside conversations on current events, pop culture and anything that magically comes about! 

Join them as they start upon this once in a lifetime magical journey! 

Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:03

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

SPEAKER_04 0:09

And it's me, Alicia.

SPEAKER_01 0:10

Did you miss us? You know, actually, I think I jinxed myself because I was talking to you about how we're going so consistently with not missing a week. Like every week we had an episode coming out. And then, of course, we had to end up missing a week because, you know, life, life be life. But we're back and we're here to discuss Harry Potter and the Prisoner Basketball chapter 15, the Quidditch Final, and what a Quidditch final it was. I'm happy for my boy Harry. He finally came out on top after all that he's been through when it's come to the Dementors and Quidditch and just everything that's been going on. And also, we still have the bugbeak of it all happening in the background. But in this moment, Harry comes out victorious. So I'm excited to talk to you, Alicia, about it. But before that, how are you?

SPEAKER_04 0:49

I'm doing pretty good. I have some exciting news to share. I finally got hired at a spa. So I will be starting very, very soon.

SPEAKER_01 1:02

Imagine not telling me this before we got on. I know.

SPEAKER_04 1:05

I was just I have two good news. I was like, let me share this one. The other one I'm gonna I'm gonna keep a little later. But when I tell you I cried during the interview, it somehow got the job. It's a story time. It's a story time. Basically, I get interviewed by the head manager of the massage therapist and then the owner, of course, of the establishment. I go and I do a practical after the interview, so I have to massage the person in charge of the massage therapist.

SPEAKER_03 1:32

Oh wow.

SPEAKER_04 1:33

And after he's like, How did you think you did? And I was like, Well, I think I kind of lacked some time management skills, but I did okay. And he was like, I feel like you lacked a little bit of confidence and this and that. And I said, Oh, okay, no problem. Like, I get it. I don't know what happened, but he was like, I'm gonna get dressed, you're gonna come back in the room. And I get in the room and he's like, So go ahead and get on the table. And I just said, Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_00 2:01

Wait a minute.

SPEAKER_04 2:03

I was like, Oh, okay, face up or face down. And he was like, You're the client, you need to know this. Excuse me. I'm like, Okay, so I'll I'm gonna be on my back then. I need to see the premises, right? So then he was like, Why'd you choose this way? I was like, Oh, so I could see you, you're a man, I'm a woman, I don't know you. I just straight upset that.

SPEAKER_00 2:20

That's right, per.

SPEAKER_04 2:21

And he was like, You're very hyper-vigilant. Okay, yeah, because it's called a survival skill, mama. Yeah, you're not gonna get me. I've watched Wendy Williams from the conception of the show. We were the killer, always, and then I don't know why. I think I was just on my period or something, but he just kept asking me like very like intrusive questions to like me as a person, and so now I just kind of start like weeping. I fucking wept, and I am I am face up, everyone. And then I since I'm starting to cry, I put my knees up, I sit up. He is sitting facing a wall, but on the table, and now we are doing like a bend over hug, fully dressed. It was so fucking weird. So I come home, I tell my family, they're like, Oh, what happened? But somehow they want to hire me. So much happened. But I am employed, but maybe a suspicious person and more to come. That's all y'all need to know. That's kind of how my life goes. Like, somehow I end up at the place I was supposed to be in.

SPEAKER_01 3:27

Yeah, but it all works out for the better. You've been on this journey of getting your certification and schooling and everything, and you landed your first job. And it like depend, no, uh, who knows how long you'll be at this specific spa, but it's always a stepping stone. It's gonna be on your resume, you'll get more experience, and you'll go from there.

SPEAKER_04 3:44

So I love it. How are you doing?

SPEAKER_01 3:47

I'm doing well. You know, I've had a lot going on, a lot of life changes are happening at once. Uh see, I'm still in school, working, kind of sort of. Um, but I'm also moving. So I currently I I live in a lot of places, but like I'm moving from one spot in New York to the upper west side of Manhattan. So, like literally near Central Park, it kind of happened, like, kind of like I don't want to say out of nowhere, but I was looking to move anyways, and then opportunity landed in my lap or whatever, and I was like, oh, I gotta take it. So moving to the upper west side near Central Park, which is always is I've always wanted to live in Manhattan proper. I've lived in Brooklyn, I've lived in Queens for my New York is out there, so but I've never lived in Manhattan. But I always am in Manhattan, whether it's like for classes or you know, meeting nights out or movies. I go to movies a lot in Manhattan or Broadway and stuff like that. So it just makes sense for me to be in Manhattan. So I'm looking forward to that. So I'm in the process of doing that now. So I'm looking forward to that. That's gonna be exciting. But aside from that, I also have this fun little story time that I want to share with you. I gave you a little preview of, but I want to go more into depth now that we're back reunited on the podcast. I miss talking to you. I feel like it's been a little bit. I don't know what I'm gonna do when we're in between books and we're taking a little vacation. I'm like, where's my girl, Lucia? But uh, but yeah, okay, so pretty much. So I went to the sexual health clinic to do some STI testing. I'd go every three months. You guys don't have that.

SPEAKER_04 5:12

And listeners, Clawkin, if you've been thinking about going, here is your sign from the universe. Get your ass over there.

SPEAKER_01 5:20

Yeah, absolutely. And New York does this really cool thing where it's free, like whether you have health insurance or not, you just have to show up, fill out some forms, and you can go and get it done. Free testing. It's a really great program. So I take advantage of it every three months.

SPEAKER_04 5:31

I go to all the things take her ass over there, or you gotta be from over there.

SPEAKER_01 5:37

Yeah, I think you you can if you come, you can get free testing. So the ladies that's doing my testing this time, I go into her office and she like steps out to go get some paperwork or something, and I see a Harry Potter, a few Harry Potter figurines in her office. Like it's her office is decorated with a whole bunch of shit, but I see like a Harry Potter Funko Papa thing. I see a little figurine of Professor Trelawney, so I'm like, oh my gosh. Like I was like, I was like, oh my gosh. So instantly I like perked up. I was like, she must be a Harry Potter fan. But obviously, this is like a medical environment. Like, I don't know if this is the appropriate place to be like, are you a Harry Potter fan? Like, oh, like you know what? I was just like, maybe she's just especially when she's doing my testing and stuff. I'm like, I don't know if this is right, but I couldn't help myself. So when she came back in, I let her get my intake information or whatever. And I was like, oh, are you a fan of Harry Potter? She instantly like lit up, like so excited to talk to someone about this. Um, so then we just start shooting the shit about Harry Potter, talking about our both our fandoms of it, just you know, just going, going like it just it made both of our days of talk about Harry Potter and just everything about it. And she's talking to me about how she discovered Harry Potter and how she's been a lifelong fan and trying to get her kids into it and everything. And it just and then, of course, I had to bring up the podcast. I was like, oh, well, if you love Harry Potter, you will love my podcast. She's like, What's it about? And I explained the concept to her about my friend who was reading it for the first time and me, a lifelong fan. She's like, I'm sold. And you know, sometimes people like you'll tell someone about something, and they're like, Oh, yeah, I'll like look into it or whatever, like, I'll look it up. No, she pulled out her phone right there, opened up her Spotify, uh, typed it in, and then pulled it up and saved it and everything. I think she already listened to the first episode because she commented on it. And yeah, so her name's Leslie. She's like, next time I go back to get my testing, I'm like, is Leslie here? Like, I want her to do my testing. Um, but it was so funny because as we're talking about Harry Potter and stuff, she's like pricking my hand to the HIV test or whatever. Um, so we'll be talking about Harry Potter, and she's like, put your hand out for me, prick pricks my hand, and then she'll put it in the little rapid testing thing, and then she'll like, oh, you're HIV negative. And then she's like, Okay, but anyways, uh, back to Harry and stuff. So I'm like, it's just the most funniest thing. I was like, only me, only a multitasker. No, literally. So yeah, so we're just shooting this shit about Harry Potter, having a good time. So this is your official shout-out, Leslie. Shout out to you. Can't wait to see you again and you can talk more about Harry Potter. Um uh, she said she's gonna listen from the beginning, so she is it might take her a while to get to this episode, but here's your shout-out now. So once you finally do get to the episode, here it is.

SPEAKER_04 7:59

Hey girl, if you're still here, amazing. We hope you're doing really well.

SPEAKER_01 8:04

Exactly. So it was just a really cool experience, and like you never know where you're gonna meet someone that's a Harry Potter fan. And yeah, so that was a really cool moment for me. So I thought that was really cool.

SPEAKER_04 8:14

Okay, we were gonna talk about one more thing.

SPEAKER_01 8:17

Just in the pop culture world, the girls are just we are pop culture, current events, media news. There's a lot going on. So before we get to the chapter, we need to get through some things. And like we always say, this is a Harry Potter, you know, focused podcast, but you know, we are children of Wendy Williams, so sometimes we gotta mix in current events and pop culture into it. Okay, go go ahead and let the people know what's going on.

SPEAKER_04 8:39

So Megan Villian posted on her Instagram story yesterday that her ex-boyfriend now has been cheating on her. And I just at first I was speechless. I s well no, I screamed and I'd show my boyfriend, he was like, Oh my god, it's shocking, it's shocking. A man with that face, a woman with that face-this is what your boyfriend said? No, this is what I said.

SPEAKER_01 9:10

This is what I'm saying.

SPEAKER_04 9:11

A man with that face, a woman with that stature, and that like presence. Y'all don't belong together in the first place, and this is why they say don't give ugly men chances. Now, my type tends to skew on that side, but it's because they can be really nice, but this man is just goofy. Goofy is fun. So Klay Thompson apparently is a great basketball player. I have no I have nothing to do with that career. I've never made him a dollar. I don't watch sports, but Megan Sally and I listen to her every single day in the morning. I listen to the song Herr as I walk my dog Rico. So he knows, he knows Megan. I've even listened to the song My Ma'am My Ma'am My Ma'am That's My Baby. I sing it to my dog. I can never sing that song again. I'm going through it. How do you feel about this?

SPEAKER_01 10:09

I saw the news. I thought it was quite disappointing because I just instantly it came back into my mind two instances. I think when they were working out together in the gym, I was like, oh, that is so cute. A couple that stays healthy together, working out, like look at them on their fitness goals, like, oh, I wish that could be me. And then also I recalled when I don't know if it was Thanksgiving or some other occasion, and she was like cooking at his house for the whole family and stuff like that. I was like, look at that love and commitment. Like, we love to see it. So those are just my two things that came into my mind instantly. So then when I think back on though that stuff, and then think about the fact that they broke up because of alleged cheating. Obviously, this is all very fresh, so who knows what the truth is, and all that I'm sure will come out in you know the coming days or whatever. But I said, Oh, you just, you, you just never. I'm like, men are just, you just, you just, you think you know someone? Like, what or like I don't even, it's just crazy. Like, that just goes to show you if a man wants to cheat, he will cheat. It doesn't matter who you are. And I think that's been proven time and time again throughout history with like, you know, Arnold Schnorr with Schnorr Snaker and the uh maid or whatever. But like, it's just crazy, it's just sad. And uh, Megan Sally's on Broadway right now, Mulan Rouge. She's playing uh Ziegler, so she's having to work through that because that's like a Broadway contract she can't take off because she got broken up with. So she's having to work through this breakup while also having to be on Broadway at the same time. I think I just saw a reel of the end of the show when they're doing the applause and she's like tearing up and crying. Now, I don't know if that is specifically like from a present day clip of post-breakup or not, because sometimes people like repost clips of old performing, you know, to try to make it seem like it's connected. But, anyways, so if that is the case, then I do feel bad that she's having to like, you know, go through this while also performing. But also, like, girl, come on. Brown actors get broken up with every day and they still show up eight times a week. So, like, get it together.

SPEAKER_04 11:52

It hasn't even been 24 hours.

SPEAKER_01 11:54

I know, I know, but I'm just like a little professionalism goes a long way. Like, you know, you gotta leave that stuff backstage, come on, do your show, and leave. Like, that's just my personal opinion. Don't let the hotties don't come for me. Oh, I still I still feel for the girl. But I do also want to um, would people be calling him ugly if this didn't transpire? Because sometimes people do that thing where it's like, because I remember before the whole Jonathan Majors stuff happened with him and the white girl and all that stuff that came out, people were like trying to like convince me and the general public that Jonathan Majors was attractive, and I never thought he was attractive. But if you did say that he wasn't attractive, then people say you're anti-black or like, oh, whatever, you don't like uh black features or whatever, that you don't have to comment that part because you're not black. Um but it was just the whole thing. But then as soon as all that stuff came out about him, then people were like starting to dog pawns and oh he's ugly, yada yada. So I just think it's interesting sometimes. Once the tide turns against you, then people's true films about you come out, or they just feel like they cannot be more vocal about it. But I don't know, when it comes to this Clay Thomas, clay-achec guy, I don't know, like like I guess he's tall, tall, a light-skinned basketball player. I they said he has a long face or something. I don't know, girl.

SPEAKER_04 13:02

I'll take it back. You're not ugly on the outside, but vile on the inside, and we can leave it right there. Also, Megan, remember you're bisexual. Give a woman a chance, she'll never fucking do this to you. We're done with the men. Put them away, put them away for a while. Get a woman that's obsessed with you and watch she's gonna be cooking for you. Just watch. He even named her boat after him, her.

SPEAKER_01 13:32

Oh.

SPEAKER_04 13:32

Like he did so much for her. Like one time he was late to picking her up at the airport, so he was like, I'm so sorry. And then he like bought her so many flowers, and she's just laughing, like, ah, my man.

SPEAKER_01 13:44

And so, why do all that and then just to cheat? Or like, so like relationships and love is just so interesting to me because you would think someone loves you and you would become so vulnerable with them, and then just to do you dirty, like, what is this all for? And I'm very like, time is so precious, like, we're only going in one direction when it comes to time. So, like, don't waste my time, don't bullshit me. Like it it it it's it's rather unfortunate.

SPEAKER_04 14:08

But do you think distance and touring and work creates that wedge?

SPEAKER_01 14:16

Perhaps, but they're both professionals, and they both went into this relationship knowing each other's careers. One's uh an athlete and one's a successful performer, whatever. So, like you can't like date someone of these professions, not thinking that you're gonna have be able to be with each other all the time and stuff like that. So I'm sure that came with it, but yeah, it's unfortunate. It's unfortunate. So we'll see what happens. And I just yeah, the people are dragging him up and down the uh timeline. People are saying, bring his ACL to me right now. Oh my god, Achilles tendon.

SPEAKER_04 14:48

And I'm sure Megan's mom in heaven is about to do her big one on him, too.

SPEAKER_01 14:53

Yeah, how dare he? Yeah, so that was the one big headline that, you know, that was the more important headline of out of the things that are happening right now. Now, this other thing that's happening, current events related, but apparently at the White House correspondence dinner, there was another alleged assassination attempt. And when I say alleged, I'm saying alleged because I don't want them to come and get me. But between this one and the one that happened last time, I don't think any of these are actual true assassination attempts. I think this is very scandal. B613, let's create a little fake thingy medie commotion to kind of boost uh politic ratings or whatever. I just I think this is all bullshit, especially in the last one. The person that did it or allegedly did it, and then they he got taken out. I feel like they like I feel like the powers that be, like they got him under the guise of like, we're gonna pretend like you're gonna I don't know how to put this into words, but I just felt like they made him think that he was going to do it and like somehow like be rewarded for it in some type of way. But in actuality, they plan on killing him the whole entire time because they didn't want any like loose lips in terms of him actually like saying what the actual plot was, the premise was. In this case, did the guy end up dying too?

SPEAKER_04 16:05

Or I thought he did, but my mom said no. So we'll find out more. This just happened yesterday, y'all. So by the time y'all are listening to it, we'll have some more answers and fake stories.

SPEAKER_01 16:20

Yeah, and someone just like it's like, what are the chances that this man does not attend any White House correspondence dinners? And the first one he attends, this happens. I said, Oh yeah, okay, sure. So I it's just a whole bunch of it's just like you guys are not, you're so transparent. Like you're trying to distract the public from the Epstein files or like the filling economy or all of your administration floundering and just being useless, a war in Iran, like Palestine, like all the things that people are actually focused on and are like adamant about like getting justice for, like bringing people's attention to, trying to distract from that with all this tomfoolery. Like, no one gives a fuck about someone trying to take this man out, like respectfully, like no one cares. Respectfully, like what else is going on?

SPEAKER_04 16:59

No, because at this point, who's gonna be the assassin? Like, if y'all keep faking, who's gonna do sorry, don't put me on the list. They keep trying to put wool over our eyes, but we're not even in the fucking room when they come and enter with the wool. Like, we're not here for this shit. So many people are like, anyways, like doing something else. This happens.

SPEAKER_01 17:18

There's a video, there's yeah, there's a video of like post-all the commotion, a journalist going back to the table to grab one of the wine bottles to take with her. That's that end. What do you mean? Uh, my whole uh evening's been disrupted, and I'm not leaving with some good champagne. Like, excuse me.

SPEAKER_04 17:33

So that is that's really funny. Imagine all the staff, like, like the actual like servers and everything, they're just like, wait, what?

SPEAKER_01 17:42

What is happening? Like, uh, and the last thing I'll say about it, uh, at his post post post-chaos debrief, he was talking about, oh, and this is why we need the White House ballroom because it's gonna have more security and whatever. I said, So you mean to tell me someone just tried to kill you? And the first thing on your mind is this ballroom that everyone's been telling you that you're not allowed to build. I said, This is how I know this shit is bullshit. And even in the last time when he almost got taken out and he's trying to stop to post for the picture and also, I said, This shit is just so transparent. It's just like you can't make this shit up.

SPEAKER_04 18:15

Some of the pictures that they got, some of the angles people are recreating. Like, did what did the photographer have to like do a lunge on the floor to get this angle? Like, how do we have so many angles of this?

SPEAKER_03 18:26

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 18:27

Oh, the show, the show continues. I mean, as much as it sucks to live in the United States right now, like we really are just witnessing such craziness. And if you can separate yourself from it for like a second, it it's really fucking entertaining.

SPEAKER_01 18:44

As entertaining as all this tomfoolery is in the real world, you know what's even more entertaining? The world of Harry Potter. And that's why we're here every week to talk about it because this make-believe magical world is just what keeps us going and it gives us a nice distraction from the foolishness. So without further ado, are you excited and are you ready to jump into Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Basketband? Chapter 15, The Quidditch Final.

SPEAKER_04 19:07

Let's get into it. All right, so this chapter starts off right after Hermione tells Ron and Harry that Hagrid did in fact lose the case with Bugbeak that he presented at the ministry committee for the disposable of dangerous creatures. Hermione reads a letter that Hagrid wrote the trio that was so smudged from his tears that it was really hard to determine what it said. But she managed to make out, dear Hermione, we lost. The execution date for Buckbeak will be announced soon. She breaks down into tears, and Ron consoles her in a really awkward and very round way. And he tells her, You did all this work on the case, we weren't really there for you. I'm gonna do the work to get this appealed. I thought that was very honorable of him, so shout out Ron. Because of this more soft side that Ron has presented to his friend Hermione, she can finally feel safe enough to tell him for once and for all, I'm sorry for your loss of Scabbers. Because it's been chapters. We've been recovering covering all this stuff. Scabbers been dead in the grave and she hasn't said shit. So finally she's able to kind of cut her losses and say that to him. Ron tries to look on the bright side of of this and tells her, Well, maybe at this point I can get an owl now. Because honestly, Scabbers was really old and a bit useless if he's being a good one.

SPEAKER_01 20:37

You know, you don't got no money to buy no owl child.

SPEAKER_04 20:39

You're gonna have to scoop an owl up from from somewhere.

SPEAKER_00 20:43

Which we're thinking.

SPEAKER_04 20:44

You're gonna have to breed an owl and see what happens.

SPEAKER_00 20:47

No, really.

SPEAKER_04 20:49

In their next class of Hagrid's magical creatures, of course, Hagrid seems really off and even numb, according to the trio. Hagrid admits that he was a hot mess at this trial. He kept shuffling all his papers and forgetting everything that Hermione had helped him prepare. He got stage right essentially, and then he just looked like a hot mess. Lucius Malfoy, Draco's dad, honestly shined in court, and the committee ended up signing with him. And Ron tells Hagrid we want to appeal, but Hagrid makes a note that this could be pointless because he thinks that the court is in Lucius's pocket, meaning they could be bought. And that's really shitty. That's really shitty. And I mean, we already talked about what's going on in our world, but money really equates to power here, even if you're not on the morally justified side.

SPEAKER_01 21:47

Yeah. And it's like, damn, I already know the odds are stacked against me, but I can't not try to save this magical creature's life. That's my responsibility. So it's adamant of Hagrid to try. But it's unfortunate that it feels like, you know, no matter what he does, it's not going to make a difference.

SPEAKER_04 22:05

But I know.

SPEAKER_01 22:06

The cheer is going to try to help anyways.

SPEAKER_04 22:08

He is. And so an emotional Hagrid end up exiting the class after it was done. And Draco comes around with his classically insensitive remarks. He basically calls out Haggard for being so sensitive. How could he be taken seriously as a teacher if he's crying over a pet? Ooh. Harry and Ron move to Draco with a swiftness, but Hermione was quicker. I'm telling you from one moment to the next, she bitch slaps this man. She sends him all the way back to second year. I don't know what happened. And she said, Don't you dare call him pathetic. You foul evil. And she's about to say, motherfucker. But Ron tries his best to stop her. Hermani then takes her wand out because she's ready for round two. And Draco backed off because at this point he's scary. Like Hermani has snapped, and you'll see that this can be a theme for this chapter. She is she is a whole new bitch. Like, I don't know what happened to her, but she's like, I'll apologize to Ron. Everyone else can get it.

SPEAKER_00 23:13

Right.

SPEAKER_04 23:13

So Draco backs off and he takes Graven Goyle with him because he's scared.

SPEAKER_01 23:19

Mind you, his cheek is still pink with a fresh slap mark on his face. Like, oh, I know he's upset, child.

SPEAKER_04 23:25

I know he liked it too. He was like, Hold on. We're gonna do that again one day. And Hermani basically says, You better fucking beat him in the Quidditch final and leaves. The next class is Professor Fletwick's charms class. And even though Hermione was right there next to them, she didn't enter the class. She just kind of vanished. She didn't show up to the lesson. She was also not at lunch. So could Malphi have have done something to her? They're theorizing, like, what's going on with our girl? When Ron and Harry go back to the Gryffindor Tower after their lunch, they find that Hermione is sleeping on her arithmetic book. So she's just really exhausted from all the courses that she's taking. She wokes up and she's really startled and in a panic. Oh my god, am I late to class? What lesson is next? Like, I don't know if you've ever slept through an exam before or something like that, but it's a scary feeling.

SPEAKER_01 24:27

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 24:28

And she's just having one of those moments. The boys tell her, Mama, divination is next, but are you okay? Why did you skip charms class? And where were you at lunch? She says, Oh my god, I was so distracted. Think of how mad I was at Draco. And now her friends start to express concern over her large mental note. They're like, Hermani, you're taking too many classes. We told you that this is just too much for one person. But she doesn't want to listen to this again and says, I honestly just need to go and apologize to Professor Flitwick, and she leaves them. Finally, it's time for divination. So Hermani does make it to class. Ron and Harry make it to class as well. And when they walk in, they notice that this week's lesson is going to be crystal balls, which was supposed to be way later in the term, but I guess they're going to do it now. The students have wrapped up Palmistry, which is really good for Harry because Harry is sick of being told that he's going to die or he has only moments to live from his teacher. And Professor Trelani has decided to introduce the orbs or crystal ball early, as what she calls the fates have informed her they will be on the student exam. Hermani doesn't want to hear this because the fates, lady, that's you. You write the exam. So you could have just said, I'm putting the crystal.

SPEAKER_00 25:53

Why are we talking in the third person? Like, what's going on?

SPEAKER_04 25:56

Like, why are we subtweeting yourself? What's happening? And Hermani just has a pretty bad attitude in this class already, but this day is something special. Crystal gazing is very refined, Professor Trelani expresses. And much like Lupin did when introducing Harry to the Patronus bell, she does not expect her students to understand this right away. So if it doesn't come to you, that's normal, that's fine. Perhaps those with what she calls an unblocked inner eye will be able to see something though. Ron and Hermione are giggling at this and giggling at the crystal balls. Clearly, they do not have the eye. 30 minutes in, Professor asks if anyone needs help, and most deny her, including Ron. But as she's walking by Harry's crystal balls, she takes a moment to pause there. Harry is used to negative omens by now and he braces for impact. What is she gonna say now? But she says, Oh my, not the grim. Even though it's not of Hermione's business, Hermione cuts in and says, For God's sake, not this motherfucking grim reaper again. Professor Trelawney, Pavardi, and Lavender all snap their heads and glare at critic Hermani. Now a very pissed-off Professor Trilani gathers Hermani all the way together. She tells her that she simply does not have what it takes to pass this class, and goes even further by telling Hermani, You are the only student that I've ever taught who was so hopelessly mundane.

SPEAKER_00 27:35

Caught her a basic ass, no third eye feeling.

SPEAKER_04 27:42

Professor Trelani invented the term basic bitch in the 90s.

SPEAKER_00 27:46

Hopelessly meant mundane, honey.

SPEAKER_04 27:49

I had to put the book down. I said, oh, clocked.

SPEAKER_01 27:54

Not trying to put the book down. Mundane is such a like to call someone mundane. Ooh, that's like that takes extra effort. Like, not just basic, not just boring, mundane.

SPEAKER_04 28:02

Mundane. She said, Hun, it ain't my fault. You're a snooze fist, mama. Her money takes this L and goes and dismisses herself. She basically says, All right, I've had enough of this bullshit class. Out, I'm stressed. Goodbye. And I said, Damn, her attendance today is headed in a downward spiral because now she's missed two classes.

SPEAKER_00 28:29

Two classes.

SPEAKER_04 28:30

And bitch slapped a student.

SPEAKER_00 28:32

Right.

SPEAKER_04 28:32

Her money, they're gonna put you on a list. Your muggle parents are about to hear about this.

SPEAKER_01 28:38

No, like what is going on with daughter? My Virgo sister's acting out. Honestly, sometimes when you push the Virgo to their limits, chat.

SPEAKER_04 28:46

It's because Virgos, y'all can handle a lot of pressure.

SPEAKER_03 28:50

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 28:51

But you're still human. And it's bound to explode. And if you're Virgo listening, just see if that message was for you.

SPEAKER_03 29:04

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 29:05

Once the class settles down from this dramatic exit, Lavender remembers that it was Professor Trelone who predicted that around Easter time, which is around now, one of their own classmates would leave. Lavender is simply gagged by this, and she's truly amazed by Professor Trelone's like psychic powers. She's just like, My girl, my beautiful lady.

SPEAKER_01 29:28

That did gag me a little bit because she did foresee that. She said during Easter, one of us would leave us forever. And obviously, when she first said that, it kind of gave like, oh, someone's going to die. She didn't really say in what way that they would leave. But for it to come true and for it to be Hermione, it's like, oh shit, okay, maybe you do got a little third eye going on. So because she really couldn't have predicted that. That's why like I feel like Professor Trelani, it's like half bullshit, half not. Because like sometimes I think she should be saying, I'm like, girl, did you know ahead of time this or that? So that's obviously why I'm saying that. But in this case, there's really no way she could have pinpointed that Hermione was going to end up quitting this class at this exact moment in time. So I I'll give her, I'll give Trelani her tens this this one time.

SPEAKER_04 30:07

Tens on the board for her. And Professor Trelani said, Listen, I knew she was leaving, but I hope that it wasn't so. An open inner eye can also be a burden. So she's teaching the girls, like, listen, yes, I'm powerful, yes, I'm that girl, but also sometimes it hurts. Lavender and Pravardi were extremely impressed by this again. Ron comments to Harry that Hermione is having some day, right? But Harry was a little distracted by yet another grim appearance. Like, once again, y'all be having your dramatics, your antics, and I'm over here predicted to die. And no one seems to care. It's now Easter at Hogwarts, and the third years are very stressed as a collective for their upcoming exams. The professors were stacking up homework for their students to prepare, so much so that it didn't even feel like a holiday at this point. Hermione's coursework was already high and somehow managed to get even higher. She started to resemble Lupin's tired eyes and was all by all counts rendered exhausted. Since she was so stressed, Ron has taken over for securing Bugbeak's appeal and really takes this role seriously. So serious that he even forgot to be mean to Crookshanks, the cat responsible for his pet's sacred death. Harry had to deal with the stress of school and also such a strong pressure to be a good seeker for his Gryffindor team and win the House Cup. The House of Slytherin at this point in the season was up 200 points, which means, as Wood has relentlessly told Harry and constantly is pointing this out to him, they would have to capture the 150-point seeker if Gryffindor was up by 50 points in the game. So they won the match but lose the cup. Honestly, forgot that. He needs to catch the seeker. Boom.

SPEAKER_00 32:10

I'll I'll explain it more in depth when we get to the back of the stuff. There you go.

SPEAKER_04 32:13

More, more Kodo will cover the sports later on. If only Wood knew, Harry had a very personal reason to win, and that was his personal feud with Malfoy. If anything, he wanted to seek revenge for Malfoy's direct involvement in getting Bugbeat literally executed in the future. Safe to say, if it's up, then it's stuck. On the days leading up to the match, several small rival fights break out between Gryffindors and Slytherins. It's very West Side story. It's very like, ooh, if the teams are fighting, everyone in this bitch is fighting. When we were reading this chapter, there were seven planets in Aries, and I was also fighting with almost everyone in my life. So I was like, oh period. And it's about Easter time. Like the dates were correlating. Captain Wood told Harry not to be alone in case a Slytherin tried to attack him. Finally, he's worried for this boy's safety. Took him all the way till April.

SPEAKER_01 33:18

Only to his benefit, child. Just trying to keep Harry's safe toe after the match.

SPEAKER_04 33:22

That's true. That's true. So Harry starts to travel with like a lot of students around him, and because he's traveling with such a large group, he often felt a need to check if his firebolt was still safe, like attached to him, because this is a very valuable item that he's carrying, and you never know. And he's also gotten it taken away one time and he's he vows never never ever ever again. The night before the match in the Gryffindor Tower, all the Gryffindor students were very excited for the match to come. However, Harry was very nervous and maybe not the good kind. His stomach started to signal is something wrong? And Money and Ron tried to anchor him and remind him, babe, you have this fireball, you're gonna be fine. Like you're gonna be perfect. And as Harry went to sleep later that night, he had night terrors. The first was that he overslept for the match and that Neville had to fill in for him as seeker. Fuck no. The second was that during the match, the Southern team were riding dragons instead of brooms. And in a true nightmare, Harry had forgotten his fireball at the house. Harry wakes up to get some water and takes a moment to appreciate some stillness when he sees an animal crossing the field outside his window. As the animal was headed to the field, he realized this is not just any animal. This is Crookshanks. No, there's someone else here as well. It's a gigantic black dog. AKA maybe the Grimm. But what does this mean? What does this mean? Harry wakes Ron up, who is asleep by his side. Ron, can you see this too? But Crock Crookshanks and the dog were gone by the time Ron got to the window and they fell back asleep.

SPEAKER_01 35:11

Now Crookshanks the fucking alleged grim, but Crookshanks, what the fuck are you doing out there? And the but Crookshanks is a cat. Cats are good, cats are gonna cat. So it's like, on one hand, it's I guess it would be less weird if it was just Crookshanks by himself, just roaming out there. Because you remember last time when Ron and Harry were on the Quidditch pitch, Crookshanks was in the bushes or something. So you know, cats are gonna cat, but why are you in this case with this big large black dog creature? And this is kind of like a callback all the way to I think the first or second chapter when Harry like left the proof of drive and he thought he saw some black shadowy figure. So this this is all like I don't know. It feels like such a long time ago we were done with Art Marge's bullshit at the beginning of the book, but yeah, so that's interesting to say the least.

SPEAKER_04 35:57

So for this week's Keeping It Coda, I wanted to ask you something. As we saw, Hermani dropped divination studies because it just did not align with her spirit. Have you ever dropped either a sport or a class where you knew this was not for me?

SPEAKER_01 36:16

Okay, I actually have one in each. That is funny that you say that. Okay, I'll start with class first. So this is college. I've had so many educational tracks, I feel like a lot of us do. But once upon a time, I was gonna be, I wanted to be like an ER surgeon, ER doctor, ER physician, whatever. So I had been on that track since like high school. High school that I went to, like we could do like foundations of medicine, then I think um medical anatomy, like whatever. But it was a four-year track, and then during like junior, senior year of high school, you can go to the hospital and get your clinical nursing hours to become a CNA, which was like not that was my end goal, but that would just be nice on medical applications and yada yada yada. So I was on that whole track during high school, whatever. Got to college, and even like, you know, I'll also volunteer at the hospital in my leash, like my uh free time as another medical school uh resume booster. So that like that's just where I was mentally in high school in terms of just like med school, med school, med school. Then I got to college, freshman year, and I was on that pre-med school track, so I was taking y'all bio 101, the bio lab, chemistry 101, and chemistry lab, and some other classes. When I tell you, after a few classes of Gen Chem 1, I said, all right, cut the camera Z. I'm pulling Hermione. Shout out to everybody. I have fun because I don't know what's going on. This all sounds like gibberish to me. And I did fairly okay in high school chemistry, but I don't know what about college-level chemistry. I was just like, what is happening here? What are these numbers? And it was uh it was too much. I yeah, and I it was a lecture style call class. It was like 300 people, and it was called a weed off class because a lot of people end up dropping it or changing majors, whatever, after trying to take that. And I I I honestly wasn't as committed to it as I could have been. Because if I really wanted to lock in, I would have been sitting in first row, like right in front of the teacher's face, like trying to like actually learn it. But I used to sat at the back to the damn class even with a friend that I knew from high school, like, yeah, we were paying attention, but I don't know. I wasn't as locked in as I could have been. But it was also good that I knew then that this was it for me because then I didn't want to continue down that track and only to find out later. So yeah. So Gen Chem 1 was the class where I pulled up her mind and said, I'm good on this, and I pivoted from there. But that's what college is for you. You're trying to find yourself and what your true interests are. So that was that. Well, yeah, sports-wise, I would have to say it's actually funny because because I was on that med school track in my mind of trying to like, and I was really just trying to make sure, or at this time I was like, oh, college, like, how can I make my college applications more desirable? So it's like I need a sport on there, I need a sport on there. Um you could tell this what type of student I was. So I was like, what's more can I do? What's more can I do?

SPEAKER_03 39:06

So hungry.

SPEAKER_01 39:07

No, literally. So at the time, I was like, oh, let me try it for lacrosse. So I was like, looking back on it now, I was like, lacrosse is a thing here. Yeah, looking back on it now, boy. Oh, so I was I went to these, it wasn't even the tryouts, it was like the pre-tryouts. It was just a kind of get your body conditioning shape or whatever. So it was just like the pre-trial or whatever. When we had to do those suicides, I don't know if you're familiar with like what suicides are, but it's like when you have to run to a certain yeah, run back and forth on the street. Sprinting a little. I said, Lord have mercy. I was so done. And like the people that are, I knew some of the people, like some of the people that are also going out for, so they're encouraging, like, you know, whatever. I was like, I don't want to do this shit. Like, what the fuck? Like, no. So I think I I yeah, uh, some of my friends jokes joked like clown me a little bit because they're like, oh, you went for one day and never came back. I was like, that's absolutely right. Like, I need to be tasting blood in my mouth. Like, I do not need it that bad. Like, I will find another way in. So I was done after like one or two days of that shit. But I did end up playing uh varsity tennis. So I played tennis in high school. So I that was more my speed, and it's also more of an individual sport kind of so I you know I kind of result like uh that more aligned with me. But yeah, so lacrosse and general chemistry one were my harmonies. I gotta go. Yeah. What about you?

SPEAKER_04 40:26

The only class I've ever dropped, oh well, that's not fucking true. High school, I dropped IB philosophy. I had no business with my reading level taking that fucking class. Let me tell you something. And I was so close-minded, I still kind of am. And I was like, why is everyone complaining? Just shut up at work. Like it's very, like, I don't think that way now. But I was like, how do you have all this time to like philophysizing? Like, just just do your part in society, call it a day. I understand that's super ignorant.

SPEAKER_00 40:57

But it's not so easy, right?

SPEAKER_04 40:59

Yeah, and then they tried to get me to meditate. I was like, this is not for me. Now I would love to do that. And then college, I took, I think, the second English class three different times. So I kept dropping it because I was like, I'll try another professor, I'll try another professor, and then it's the common denominator, it's me. But I finally I paid, I paid for that class two times out of pocket because I paid for it in the summer, and so it was like extra. Yeah, and I still couldn't find myself to keep it. I was like, I'll just take the L. I paid, I think$2,200 total on English class alone, the same English class.

SPEAKER_01 41:40

What was it about the English class that you couldn't work?

SPEAKER_04 41:46

I mean to write and read. Oh, you really like I think I might have dyslexia.

SPEAKER_01 41:53

That's what I was thinking. I was like, I wonder if she has dyslexia. Yeah. Interesting. Oh, okay. Well, shout out to uh you and I and her mind for knowing when a class isn't for us and where we need we no longer need to waste our time being somewhere that isn't serving us anymore. So there's that. So the following morning, after Harry saw Kirkshanks and Krukshanks' friend mosing about in the field, he it was as if Gryffinder, the Gryffindor Critish team had already won their match against Slytherin. Because as Harry and the rest of the team entered the Great Hall, they were greeted with uh large applause from not only fellow Gryffindors, but Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff Houses as well. Of course, Lytherin was scowling and hissing at them at the team's arrival, whatever. But just the way everyone was acting when the Gryffinder Quiddish team came into the Great Hall, it would be as if they had already won. So I was like, I love, I love this pre-game uh support that Griffiner Quiddish team is getting. So it would, of course, being Captain of the Year, he was urging everyone to eat and fuel up. Meanwhile, he was too nervous to eat himself. And then he rushed everyone out to the field for some like pre-match preparation. And as Harry left the Great Hall, I thought this was interesting. Cho Chang, the Ravenclaw seeker, wished Harry good luck, causing Harry to blush and perhaps get a slight erection.

SPEAKER_04 43:11

Oh, you had to say that.

SPEAKER_01 43:14

It was in my notes. I'm sorry. Okay, I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_04 43:17

But I mean, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 43:19

He's a teenage boy. Come on, boys will be boys. Yeah, come on. We we've all been 13 ones.

unknown 43:25

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 43:26

Oh, don't try to get all prudish on me now, honey.

SPEAKER_04 43:29

You're right.

SPEAKER_01 43:29

You're right.

SPEAKER_04 43:30

It's just fun on the other side.

SPEAKER_01 43:32

Right. Um so the Griffith or Quidditch team felt like a military unit at this point, from Wood assessing the weather and the field to ushering the team into the locker rooms once the school started to make their way to the Quidditch field, to them getting dressed in their gear silently. Then Wood finally instructed them it was time to head out. It was just a little, it was very tense. I I feel like Wood's nervous energy about this match like was kind of like going out to the rest of the team. Like I don't know. Everyone has their own way of being a leader or whatever. But like, what you should be hyping your team up, put some pregame music on, something, but it was just so so rigid and so stiff. But I guess the end results, so I won't complain too much. But okay, so once out on the field, Harry could see that three-fourths of the stands were in Gryffindor attire. So that means the claws and puffs also came out in Gryffindor gear and a pair to like root on Gryffindor, which I love. I love how the other houses not like don't give a fuck about being biased or hurting Slytherin's feelings. Like they're like, no, we're out of the two of y'all, we're not rooting for you. Like, like if there's no chance of our own house winning, then we want Gryffindor to beat your ass. So to be a Slytherin. What can you do? So we have Lee Jordan commentating up the match again. He wasn't fired after the last time after he showed his ass. So here he is again commentating. He makes note of how Slytherin's team seemed to be going for size rather than scale, as everyone on the team besides Malfoy was like rather large, which is like who knows if that's going to work to their advantage. Because for Quidditch, like you're flying on brooms and Bob and Weaven, you think you'd want people that are a little bit more like nimble and agile, but this is the Slytherin's approach for this game. So the team captains Oliver Wood and Marcus Flint shake hands. Madam Hooch blows her whistle, and both teams rise into the air, and the Quidditch match of the century begins. The Quidditch final is here. Now remember, with this match, it requires a little bit more strategy than most in order to secure the overall win for Gryffindor in the Quidditch tournament. So every Quidditch match, the points that are won from that Quidditch match or what the final score is, that goes towards the final score in the Quidditch tournament. So Slytherin's Quidditch team is up by 200 points overall in the tournament. So the golden snitch, what Harry is tasked with capturing as Seeker, it's only worth 150 points. So if Harry catches the golden snitch right away, then it would only give them 150 points. So that wouldn't be enough to win them the whole entire tournament. That would only be enough for them to correct the game. Exactly.

SPEAKER_03 45:59

Exactly. Thank you.

SPEAKER_01 46:00

Yeah, yeah. So if he caught the snitch right away, it'd only be 150 points. There would still be 50 points down from Slytherin in terms of winning the overall tournament. So they would win the match, but not the tournament. So essentially, Harry needed to wait until Griffnore scores at least 50 points to tie, but really 60 points, and then he catches a snitch, then that would put them over the edge and it'll be 210 to 200. Then they would win the match and the tournament. So that's what they're trying to do. So perhaps it's easier said than done when you also have your opponent Malfoy, who's also gunning for the snitch. So it's like, how do you not catch the snitch until a certain amount of points? But you also have someone on the other team that's also trying to catch the snitch right away. So it's tricky. So there's definitely some strategy here. Now I will say discussing critic matches are probably my least favorite part of the recaps. Um, so y'all are gonna get like the clip notes version of it with my thoughts mixed in. I'm gonna do the best I can because there's just a lot going on. Um, but okay, so bear with me. So Angelina Johnson scores the first 10 points of the game, and the crowd are ups and applause. After she had already scored the goal, Slytherin captain Marcus Flint slams into her, nearly knocking her off her broom and gives a half-ass apology. So we can just deduce by this that Slytherin team just plans on playing dirty this game. So, like, it's just like she didn't even have the ball anymore or whatever, and you just like ram into me for no reason. Like, yeah. So, and you know what they say about playing dirty, right, Alicia? Okay. Well, we're Tanini leaks. You can never win when you play dirty, okay? We're my Royal Housewives of Atlanta fans. It's okay. So Fred said, not on my watch. So seeing what went down, he with his teammate Angelina and Marcus, he struck his uh bludger club at Flint, who didn't see it coming, and it smacked him right in the nose, causing his nose to bleed. So now, of course, Madam Hooch sees this and not Flint's previous foul, I guess, or whatever. So both teams get a penalty shot. So Alicia scores hers for Gryffindor, earning them another 10 points, while Flint's penalty shot, his foul shot or whatever, is blocked by Oliver Wood because Oliver Wood is a keeper, the goalie, or whatever. So Alicia's looking at me like, what am I talking about? Just stick with me.

SPEAKER_04 48:07

I get the snack machine right now during the game.

SPEAKER_01 48:12

Socializing. So now Griffner is up 20 points. So Harry's observing all this, and he's also listening to Lee Jordan's commentary and continues to search for the snitch. Okay, so further along in the game, Katie Bell and another chaser have the quaffle, and that's the ball that's used to score the points. And Montagu literally like flies up near her and grabs her by her head, like literally grabbing her, and he starts swinging her around midair. Yeah, I guess. Literally. So she's able to stay on her broom. She's able to stay on her broom, but loses grasp of the coffles, the quaffle. So at this point, like I can just imagine. I'm trying to like picture it. Like, it's just basically like someone having up the basketball in their hand, and someone just comes and like grabs them to get it, like just plain dirty. So Madame Hooch whistles rings and she's chewing Montague out, the Slytherin player, and this earns Gryffindor another like foul shot and they score it. So now Gryffindor has even a stronger lead of 30 to 0. So if Gryffindor wasn't being or if Slytherin wasn't being so nasty with how they were playing, like Gryffindor wouldn't even get be getting the chance to get all these foul shots and like gain a better lead. So it's on them. But Lee Jordan is like ecstatic as he yells into his commentator, Mike, 30-0. That's what you get, you dirty cheating. And he's a but he cuts off by McGonagall, who says, if he can't concentrate, commentate in an unbiased way, to which he replies, I'm telling it like it is. And honestly, facts. So Slytherin's team at this point was getting so mad that Griffinder, like I said, had gained such an earlier lead that they began to play even more dirtier and more or more aggressive than they had been up until this point. Slytherin players, Derek and Boyle, they try to like sandwich Harry in at one point. So Boyle literally hitting Angelina with his club, stating that he thought it was a bludger. So just like outright physically harming people, and George is like not having it. So he's like elbowing people in retaliation. By the end of all this, the score was now 40-10. Both teams also like scoring another foul shot. So Harry is still searching for the snitch with Malfoy staying annoyingly close to him, like just trying to leech off of Harry's search for the snitch. Katie Bell for Griffinor scores another 10 points, bringing the score to 50 to 10. Fred and George are by her side in case the Slythens want to like keep being violent or whatever. But unfortunately, this left Oliver Wood, the goalie slash keeper, wide open for an attack. And both the Slytherin chasers, Derek and Bowl, they like just uh hurl their bludgers at Wood at the goalpost, one after the other, both hitting him right in the stomach. So basically, mind you, Wood is the goalie, and there was no need for that as there was no like quaffle near his net at that point or whatever. So there was no reason for them to do that. So literally it's just an unpro unprovoked attack. So Madame Hooch is yelling out, but gets Griffnor another foul shot, to which Angelina successfully scores, bringing the score now to 60 to 10, followed by Alicia. Uh Alicia scoring another one. So now it's 70 to 10. So Griffnor is like in a huge lead at this point. Now, this was what Harry was waiting for. This was his time to bring it home for Griffnor to capture the snitch because you have such a great lead. So Harry could feel all eyes on him as everyone knew what he knew as well in terms of like him needing to catch the snitch in this moment. So he takes off on his broom, Speedy Gonzalez trying to like find this damn snitch. But as he's nearing the snitch, because he now has eyes on it, his broom starts to slow down. So he turns around and he sees none other than Draco Malfoy literally holding onto the back of his broom like a fucking bumper car. Like you cheating as bitch. Like, what is wrong with you?

SPEAKER_04 51:36

Like that's so pathetic.

SPEAKER_01 51:38

So pathetic. It's like not only okay, you see that I see the sanction I'm going after. Instead of you trying to use your own skills to like try to get there before me or something, you decide to grab onto my broom to slow me down. Like you are such a cheater as loser as hoe. So Harry walked up.

SPEAKER_04 51:56

It's like tripping someone that you're racing. It's yeah, it's fucked up.

SPEAKER_01 52:00

It's shameful. So Harry wanted to smack Malfoy away, but he couldn't reach. But what Ma Foy was going for was successful. As once Harry turned back to try to get the snitch again, it was gone. So everyone was fed up from Harry to Madame Hooch, who was shot on penalty, yelling she's never seen such tactics before, to Lee Jordan, who at this point is screaming into the mic, you cheating scum. And he's like trying to uh he's trying to like outmaneuver Professor McGonagall who's like trying to run it with the mic. No, literally, he's running with the mic, he's cheating scum, you filthy cheating bitch. Like, but funny enough, Professor McGonagall wasn't even trying to stop Lee this time. She sat in agreement, uh respectfully shaking her finger at Malfour. So I it definitely gave Professor McGonagall's like, I'm gonna scoot over, I'm gonna let you whack him and get it.

SPEAKER_04 52:40

I would have taken the mic from that little boy and said, let see how the professionals read this woman, and then I would have gone down the stadium like Keith Ledger and 10 Things I Hate About You. Fuck you, baby, bitches, bitch.

SPEAKER_01 52:55

Oh, 10 things about you. Rest in peace, pleasure. That was good.

SPEAKER_03 52:57

I need to watch that movie again.

SPEAKER_01 52:59

Yeah, it's timeless. So Alicia misses her penalty shot as she's flustered over everything that's going on, and the Slytherins are able to score another point, bringing the score now to 7 and 20. We're back to Griffin needing to score one more point before Harry catches the snitch. So Angelina gets a hold of the Quaffle and is trying to score for Gryffindor, but all the Slytherin players besides Malfort are like surrounding her, making it impossible. And with the Snitch now out of sight, Harry takes the opportunity to put the fireball to use and he shoots off in Angelina Johnson's direction like a missile and without breaking or swerving, all the Slytherins like scatter to avoid like colliding. And this gives Angelina Johnson the room needed to score another point. So now they're 80 to 20. Now Harry can catch the snitch again. So Harry, now away from Draco. Moments after sees the snitch and he darts in that direction. And thanks to his handy-dandy state-of-the-art fireball broom, he's able to dart in that direction and he grabs the golden snitch. Griffindor wins the match, and Gryffindor has now won the Quidditch tournament for the first time in years.

SPEAKER_03 54:01

Wow.

SPEAKER_01 54:01

Okay, I got through it. That was a lot of sports talk. It wasn't the most enjoyable. I hope it was easy to follow along. To summarize, just know that Gryffindor basically won because Southern was decided to play so dirty and so violently that half the score, half the points that they scored were from penalty shots, and that Harry did what he needed to do to bring it home. Yes.

SPEAKER_04 54:21

And if Lee Jordan ever needs to go on vacation, he needs to hand you the mic.

SPEAKER_00 54:27

Oh, screw reading that.

SPEAKER_04 54:28

I didn't give a fuck. But I was actually in it with you.

SPEAKER_00 54:31

Oh, I appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you.

SPEAKER_04 54:34

Thank you. Thank you for your services.

SPEAKER_01 54:36

I appreciate it. So a truly joyous celebration now is taking place on the Quidditch field in that moment from Oliver Wood, teary-eyed. You know, Oliver Wood, this was his last chance to win the Quidditch tournament. So it's nice to have for him now that he's about to graduate, he's able to have this memory of winning. So all his hard work paid off. So he's teary-eyed, he's embracing Harry. All of Griffindor Quidditch team are embracing each other. Haggard is excited to share the news of the win with Buckbeak. I said, Hagrid, you need some human friends. Like that's the first thing I thought. I said there's all this excitement going on. People are joyously celebrating, and you're talking about some I can't wait to tell Buckbeak. An animal that doesn't know what Quidditch is. I said, okay, Hagrid.

SPEAKER_04 55:17

An animal that's not about to be here next week.

SPEAKER_01 55:20

No, literally.

SPEAKER_04 55:21

Let's get a replacement, Bogba.

SPEAKER_01 55:22

Buckbeak is like, fuck, do I care about a Quidditch match? Bitch, I'm about to die. You need to be fucking prepared for my fucking trial, bitch.

SPEAKER_04 55:29

Buckbeak is the hairy of Hagrid's life. Because he's always like about to die. And everyone's just celebrating around him. Buckley's like, no.

SPEAKER_01 55:39

Like, you must have lost your mind. Like, what do you mean? Oh, so Hagrid's like sad to do that. Percy's jumping up and down maniacally. He's lost all headboy decorum because he's just as excited as everyone else. Professor McGonagall is crying even harder than Wood, which is an interesting site. Because Professor Mugonagh really loves her Quidditch. And the fact that her house is able to finally bring it home, I'm sure that brings a lot of excitement to her. And Domador is there with the enormous Quidditch cup ready to present it to them. So, all in all, the chapter ends beautifully for Gryffindor House and really all the houses besides Lettering because everyone was happy to see Gryffindor win this momentous trophy and achievement and sports match or whatever. So the chapter ends with Harry thinking to himself, if only there was a Dementor around, as in this moment, as he holds a Quidditch trophy and is hoisted into the air amidst celebration, he would be able to produce the world's best patronus. And I just thought, ah, what a beautiful way to end this chapter. Like I said at the beginning, all that Harry's been through when it is been when it comes to we we how many he said he's had a few Quidditch matches. Yeah. So this book alone had three different Quidditch matches. It had the first one against Hufflepuff when Harry was in the tumultuous rainy conditions and fell off his broom, damn near died. We had the second one against Ravenclaw where Draco and them were pretending to be the mentors and he kind of was able to usher them away or whatever. And then we have this final one where he comes out on top. So a Quidditch was like throughout this book in a big way, and I just like to see that progression, well the journey that Harry had when it comes to Quidditch and for him to come out on top. It was nice. It was nice. I liked it a lot.

SPEAKER_04 57:16

Congratulations to the Gryffindor team. I'm thinking, who's gonna be the captain next year?

SPEAKER_01 57:23

Yeah, that's true. Yeah, someone's about to get a promotion. Someone is about to get a promotion. Oliver Wood, yes, we must all get older and graduate and stuff. So no more Oliver Wood after this book, but you know, his time in the first three books was well served as Gryffindor Quidditch captain. And I'm glad he's able to go out on top in this way. So yeah, so that was this chapter. We had Hermione acting a fool, but in the best way possible. Like I like this new Hermione. We had Harry coming out on top when it comes to Gryffindor Quidditch. We have Professor Trelani still at her shenanigans, and overall, a really good, enjoyable chapter. Do you have any final thoughts?

SPEAKER_04 58:04

Do you think Percy placed another bet on this game since he was celebrating so crazily?

SPEAKER_01 58:10

Perhaps, perhaps. Either, yeah, maybe he did, but maybe no. You know what? No, maybe not. Because I think the last time he did it was because his girlfriend's at Raven Claw and they're facing each other, so kind of like a little foreplay. This time I feel like because they're all ready for girlfriend. It's kind of just like, oh, whatever.

SPEAKER_04 58:26

And his two brothers are on the team too.

SPEAKER_01 58:28

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Before we get out of here, we had some new reviews, and you know, I love new reviews. I tell you, I check every morning. I feel like before I even pray, I check out the Apple Podcast reviews to see if any new ones have come in. So I was happy to see. I was happy to see that we had uh two new reviews, and we are what was our challenge to get 50 new reviews by the end of the year? Yeah. Okay, so with these two new reviews, that means we're I I can't do math, but 47. Okay, 50 minus three, 47 to go. Okay, there we go. Uh so make sure to leave a five-star review over on Apple Podcasts. This first review came comes from okay, the name is cut off, but the beginning of it is Garland, and it's five stars, and it says amazing podcast, great host, love the concept of a new reader and veteran, and the hosts are people of color, thank God, with black hand-raised emojis in the air.

SPEAKER_04 59:30

I'm a white Latina, but well, because we got this email saying, like, congratulations on being a black podcast. Did you read that?

SPEAKER_03 59:39

And I was like, We was like, Am I gonna get canceled?

SPEAKER_01 59:45

I'm black enough for the both of us, black leads, black lead or something.

SPEAKER_03 59:51

Yeah, yeah, you are a person of color.

SPEAKER_01 59:54

Yeah, but I appreciate that you, you know, you don't you because I I'm gonna say your wife passing. You wouldn't you say your wife passing? Well, I'm not thinking it's your whole identity right now, so but I don't know. I I I I I think you can take the person of color moniker, but I well, thank you, Garland, for that review. Now you gotta be all so introspective to that. And then the other review, another five-star review, Apple Podcast. This just came in three days ago from at the time of me reading it. This comes from Naya Darling. Now, I don't know if this is Leslie from the Sexual SCI Clinic, because I remember her saying that she's gonna leave a review, but I don't know if she left it here on Spotify. But okay. It's five stars and it's fantastic. And it says, I have listened to several podcasts with a similar format, but I can tell just in book two that this one is special. I look forward to catching up with current episodes. Ah, so we have a newer listener because you're still listening to our chamber of secrets discussions, but you decide to leave a review for us. And once you get to Prison of Escalan, you're gonna be hearing your review read on the podcast. So thanks so much, Naya, for this journey, and thank you for saying that though. You know, you've had other podcasts like this. Ours is special, honey. So we appreciate that. I love that. I love that. That's sweet. But yeah, so make sure to leave us a five-star review over on Apple Podcasts. We'd really, really appreciate it on our road to 50 new reviews. It would mean the world to us. Now, finally, before we get out of here, I want to give a shout out to my Spotify people. My Spotify listeners, I feel like I've been neglecting y'all because I totally forgot that Spotify, you can literally leave comments on individual episodes. So, like, I like never you because you can't leave written reviews on Spotify, you can just rate the podcast overall with the five stars, which we also appreciate. But you can leave comments on each individual episode. So I was just going through the episodes and I was like, Oh my gosh, I've been missing all these comments that people have been saying on the individual episodes. So I'm not gonna read all those comments now, they're all there if you guys want to go look at the comments and stuff like that. But I did want to just shout you guys out by name for being my Spotify listeners. So we have I saw comments from Caliborn Beauty, Sharonda Brie, Katie86, Ketia C. Hopefully I'm pronouncing that right, Jasmine P Zavi Me7. Is that your boyfriend? Um Chanel Jade and Caliette, Ruby Zeta76, and Key. So shout out to all my Spotify, shout out to all of our Spotify listeners. Thank you for leaving comments on the episodes. Uh, we do see all of them, maybe not right away, but we do see them, we do read them, we heart them when we can, and we appreciate you guys for listening as well. So I say all that to say, make sure to leave us a five-star review on whatever platform you're listening to. Follow us over on Instagram at Harry Sarm Late. Um, and that would be a good way to know if we're ever miss a week or if the episode's ever going to be late, you can find out why over there. At least get a little notification so you're not waiting all day on Wednesday. Um, and send us an email over on Harry Saramlate Podcast at gmail.com uh with any comments, inquiries, advice needed, or anything like that. We'd love to hear from you guys. Um, but at least anything before we get out of here?

SPEAKER_04 1:03:00

And we might be posting the whiz quiz from this week on Instagram since Coda has it prepared, ready to go.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:08

That should give me home, which uh speak locking.

SPEAKER_04 1:03:10

You can edit that out if you don't feel like it.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:12

No, no, no. I can I can I can do it. I can do it. That is so funny. Okay.

SPEAKER_04 1:03:17

Thank you guys for listening. We missed you so much.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:19

Yes, I feel so refreshed. I feel like I I needed that week. I know, like I'll talk, I'll talk about in the next episode why you didn't get an episode last week. Um, but it was nice to I I feel like we came back better than ever, especially since the last episode we're shitting on ourselves about before the episode was. So we said, honey, we need a reset. Let's just take a week to get our get our mind right.

SPEAKER_04 1:03:43

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:44

But without further ado, I'm Coda.

SPEAKER_04 1:03:46

And I'm Alicia.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:49

Bye.