Crookshanks Cat Ass! | Prisoner of Azkaban

We're Back to Discuss Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Chapter 17 Cat,Rat and Dog!

What do you mean Peter Pettigrew is still alive? Lupin & Sirius what yall got going on? Everyone is bloodied and bruised this chapter and Crookshanks we blame you! Night has fallen and it's going down in the shrieking shack!  Sirius Black IS HERE and he wants revenge on Scabbers?

We also have an update Listener Letter from Noah & Kendra, Alicia's Masseuse work, some nostalgic call backs and Wayfairrrr, the "furniture company"!

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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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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! 

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Transcript

SPEAKER_03 0:00

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

SPEAKER_00 0:06

And it's me, Alicia.

SPEAKER_03 0:08

And today we are here to talk about Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkavan, chapter 17, Cats, Rats, and Doll.

SPEAKER_01 0:16

JK, did you forget how to write?

SPEAKER_03 0:21

Well, let's talk about it. Let's talk about it. Alicia, before we do anything else, I now that we're reaching the climax of this third installment in the Harry Potter book series, what were your thoughts on this chapter? The things that were revealed? We're gonna talk about it more in detail, but just what were your, you know, as a first-time reader, what were your impressions on this chapter?

SPEAKER_00 0:36

The chapter itself is phenomenal. The chapter title is we what happened to the creativity? Like, did some six-year-old like, I want to, I want to turn it right in this chapter. Like that's so simple, but the chapter itself was really good. I like the plot twists, and we'll get into it. But uh one of my favorite characters from this whole book has been Professor Lupin. And so having him involved in this plot twist was not really on my bingo board, but he still seems to be a good person at the end. We'll see. So that kind of caught me by surprise. Rereading it. Okay, did you enjoy it just the same?

SPEAKER_03 1:20

Yeah, yeah. It was a very succinct chapter, but ended on a good cliffhanger. It was a lot of Tussling, a lot of action going on that we didn't get in the movie, so it was nice reading it. Crookshang's definitely like star player in this chapter, I also feel like. And also in the movies, a lot of the things that Ron does in the book is given to Hermione to do. So it was just interesting to see how it was depicted in the book versus how it's depicted in the movie. And yeah, so sometimes depending on if you're a movie watcher or book watcher, you can see the characters differently. So I'll leave it there. But it's just interesting reading it again and seeing it in this context and stuff like that. But I'm sad to get on into it. But we'll do that shortly. But before we do, Alicia, how are you doing overall?

SPEAKER_00 2:03

I'm doing really good. Yesterday was Mother's Day at the spa, and I had my first full day of working on my old clients. I have four clients, three of them were back-to-back, five-minute breaks, like what? And I had our client lunch on my fourth client. I'm working on my feet. I checked to see if she was sleeping. Coda, I closed my eyes and I kept rubbing that woman's feet. I literally went to sleep.

SPEAKER_03 2:32

Those hands were tired, honey.

SPEAKER_00 2:34

And right after I woke up, right? I was like, I can't wait to do that again to someone else because I'm gonna be exhausted with this job. It's a very physical being massage therapist. I'm happy I got away with it. I will 10 out of 10 be doing that again.

SPEAKER_01 2:49

I'm still working, I just had to close my eyes. How have you been doing?

SPEAKER_03 2:55

I'm doing okay. Yeah, since last we spoke, I'm fully moved in. Well, not fully. Um, you know, uh moved to my new place of residence on the upper west side. So I'm getting acclimated with my neighborhood still, furnishing my room. Thank you for the Wayfair gift card, by the way. That was very nice of you. I haven't used it yet, but I think I might use it on a chair. So I think because I'm sitting on the floor right now.

SPEAKER_00 3:16

It was home goods, not wafair. Don't cancel me. Oh, right, no, wafair.

SPEAKER_02 3:21

Wasn't that the one involved in the money laundering or the child something? Not wafair.

SPEAKER_01 3:30

Like$20,000 closets named Emily.

SPEAKER_03 3:34

We are not involved in any child scheme. I rescend that comment. I did not mean Wayfair, I meant home goods. Okay. Yes, but I'm gonna be using your home goods uh gift card that you gave me on possibly a chair because I'm sitting on the floor as we record this job. Um, but yeah, so just getting settled in and yeah, overall it's good. Summer summering. I, you know, this is gonna be one of our more express episodes because I got a doctor's appointment coming up in like an hour or two, and you know, with doctor's appointments, you miss it, or you try to reschedule, you're gonna have to wait another six months. So trying to get there and get what I need done, done. But yeah, so I'm doing good. But something exciting came into our listener email inbox that I was just smiling from ear to ear when I read. And I tell you guys all the time that when you guys send in letters, emails, whatever, it just makes me the happiest person in the world because it puts names to the listeners and it just gives us it just gives me all the warm feelings inside. So this one really brought a smile to my face. So Alicia, take it away.

SPEAKER_00 4:38

So earlier in this season, we wished a happy anniversary to a specific couple named Kendra and Noah. Kendra reached out to us, he sent us a listening owl, and like the Hedwiginas inside of us, we were able to deliver the message to her boyfriend. A beautiful, beautiful man, a beautiful, beautiful woman, in a beautiful, beautiful relationship. Just from these emails, they're lovely people. And Noah decided to reach out to us. Coda and Alicia. In the summer of 2025, I randomly got a Harry Potter itch and started looking up Harry Potter podcasts. Y'all popped up and only had two episodes at the time. I golf listening to your banter though, and you made me fall in love with the magic all over again. So thank you. Earlier this season, I was surprised to hear my own name out of y'all's mouth. It turns out my long-distance girlfriend outdid me on anniversary gifts and decided to give me a shout-out via our favorite podcast. I am simply returning the favor to her and wishing my greatest love is what he calls her.

SPEAKER_04 5:46

Ah the greatest love.

SPEAKER_00 5:53

So sweet. And wishing my greatest love, Kendra, the happiest birthday ever. Whether we are joined at the hip in college or communicating cross-country in graduate school, you make every day even better. Coda and Alicia, I swear you get funnier every season. My only complaint is that each episode should be at least an hour and 15 minutes long. What else am I supposed to be doing on my morning commute? Then you kind of give us a little PS PSS. One of them says, I'm excited to see you guys, see you get your big break, Coda. Kendra and I are both performers, opera, and musical theater singers. So we're back the grind. And he also says, Y'all joked about inviting us on your trip to Universal, but we would happily join you. And that would be a newsworthy story. Just the thought. So, with that being said, happy fucking birthday, Kendra. You are a Taurus, a May Taurus, which means you're a phenomenal person. You know how to eat, you know how to appreciate the pleasures of life. I hope that this Taurus season is doing wonders for your life. And I'm so grateful that the two of you listen to our podcast. You mean the world to us, and I love how you guys are going through us to get these messages out.

SPEAKER_01 7:13

I really feel like Hedwagina in this bitch.

SPEAKER_03 7:16

Yes, absolutely. Yes. Like I said, I was smiling ear to ear when I saw this. So thank you, Noah. Thank you, Kendra. I look, I've been telling Alicia, Alicia beginning on me about the episodes being too long, but I'm like, the people enjoy the Harry Potter content. They love us going off the rails. They love, and this is it. I know you guys use this for your car wreck and used to work and so on and so forth. So don't worry. We got you. We got you. Yeah. And then also thank you for you know understanding the actor struggle. Not well, not struggle, but the actor pursuit and the grind and the time dedication dedication that takes. And I love that you guys are also in that area as well. And yeah, so yeah, no, this is really sweet. Happy anniversary, slash, happy birthday, slash, all the things. And if you guys want to be like Kendra and Noah, our faves, go on and send us a letter so we can read it aloud on the podcast and just be geeking and smiling that people are listening and having a good time with us over here. So thank you again. Now that we have done all our uh pleasant treats, it is time for us to go ahead and jump right on into a great action-filled plot revealing climactic chapter 17 of Harry Potter and Prisoner of Ask Man Cats, Rat, and Dog. So we start this chapter off with the aftermath of the trio witnessing Buckbeak's execution. They actually went through with it. The trio is saying to each other, Buckbeak has been beheaded. The trio is like frozen in disbelief underneath their invisibility cloak. They kind of snap out of it when they hear Hagrid's like wails and moans of grief ringing out across the Hogwarts grounds. I can only imagine what he's going through seeing his dearly beloved bird that he's come to love be killed through no fault of his own. That damn Draco and Draco's father Lucius Shell, but what are you gonna do? So they start to make their way back up to Hogwarts Castle underneath the invincibility cloak. Now the sun is setting, it is getting dark, and soon night had fallen. Now, remember, Ron had found Scabbers at Haggard's hut of all places and was now trying to keep him still close to his chest, but Scabbers was frantic as hell, wriggling madly and not cooperating with Ron's request for him to stay still. So there's that going on. Mind you, we're talking about a rat here and the way rat's just handling him and uh like me personally, if I was like Ron's friend, I would like never want to even like receive anything from Ron. I wouldn't touch his hand to wrap him up. Like, I don't like no, as long as you have that pet rat, like if you don't have hand sanitizer right next to you anytime we interact, like do not touch me because that it's just gross, gross.

SPEAKER_00 9:48

And Draco has kind of given him shit, like in the first book, for having a rat as a pit, but no one else really has. Yeah, you would definitely be with the slithers, like that rat boy Ron.

SPEAKER_03 10:00

No, rat boy, no, literally, like, not enough shit talking about Ron and his rat for me. Like, and I know you're not bat bathing him daily, and it's a rat. Oh, hell no. Yeah, no, gross. So, especially like you know, I live in New York, I've seen some big motherfucking rats. I can only imagine, and they'd be fighting over pieces of bread and scrapping. Like, I've seen rats jumping each other, like it'll be like three on one fighting for a piece of piece of that's what throw it on the trade tracks. It's crazy.

SPEAKER_01 10:25

The rats are in late stage capitalism in New York City.

SPEAKER_03 10:29

Very much that, very much that. You would think they would like all like take it together to go home and eat it together or like split it. No, they'd be pulling at it, like fighting each other for a slice of it. It's crazy. Okay, anyways.

SPEAKER_01 10:40

Uh they need to be more like some gorilla rats, make a dress, no, okay, and a dream come true.

SPEAKER_03 10:48

I know that's right. Um, but scabbers is going crazy, and in his attempts to break free from Ron's grasp, he bites Ron. They're all wondering what the hell is wrong with Scabbers, but it's in that moment Harry sees why Scabbers was acting like that. Crick Shanks has emerged from who knows where, and you know it's on site when it comes to the cat and the rat. So scabbers said absolutely not and slips out of Ron's hands and bolts. Crookshanks says bet and he starts to chase after him. And this time Ron says, Not my rat, you bitch, and also joins in on the chase to save his rats from Crookshanks. So now it's full pursuit. Scabbers is running for his life. Crookshanks is chasing after him, and Ron is trying to save his damn pet for the fifth millionth time. And then, of course, at this point, Ron has thrown off the invisibility cloak and was in full sprint across Hogwarts grounds. So not caring if anyone even saw them. I'll have to care if curfew, just a mess. Harry and Hermione, of course, they join in on this pursuit, taking off the invisibility cloak, so now they're just all exposed, running around Hogwarts after hours. It's just a mess. So Ron's yelling for Crookshanks to leave Scabbers alone, calling after Scabbridge, and finally he's able to leap and grab Scabbridge before he can run any further. Now Scabbers is tightly secured in Ron's pocket. Harry and Hermione damn near fall into Ron with all the running and the commotion. It's just a mess. Before they could put the back on the visibility cloak and finally make their way back up to this damn castle that they've been trying to get back to for like so long, they hear the sound of gigantic paws. Something was bounding towards them at a breakneck speed, and out of the darkness, a huge, pale-eyed jet black dog has arrived. The Grim. The Grim.

SPEAKER_00 12:30

Were you trying to be like The Grinch?

SPEAKER_02 12:33

No, but that's a good reference.

SPEAKER_03 12:35

Shout out to the Grinch. The Grinch is so Christmas. Shout out to Jim Carrey. Um, I love the uh I love there's this one clip when he's uh trying to figure out what to wear to the party that he was invited to by the townspeople. He's like, what am I gonna wear? He's like, fuck it, I'm not going. I was like, honestly, a mood. I love that. Okay, so Harry tries to reach for his wand, but it was too late. The dog made an enormous leap onto Harry, hitting him with great force with his paws right in his chest, knocking Harry backward and taking the wind out of him, leaving Harry feeling dazed and perhaps with a broken rib or two. The dog didn't stick to Harry as it has now changed his focus to grabbing Ron's arm, and it began to drag Ron away like a damn rag doll across the Hogwarts grounds. Come on. And this is the big dog. This is your standard on like think of the biggest dog you know, and then it's like it's kind of like, yeah, so like it's pulling Ron with some great force.

SPEAKER_00 13:31

It's like the Sanlot dog. They're like, come on, come on, keep up.

SPEAKER_03 13:35

Yeah, drag it. You are you are pulling all the nostalgic references. I love that. Shout out to the Sandlaw. Um, the Sandlaw and the Little Rascals, those were like my movies back in the day.

SPEAKER_00 13:45

But um are you gonna watch Lord of the Flies on Netflix?

SPEAKER_03 13:49

Did it already come out?

SPEAKER_00 13:51

Uh yeah, I've I've seen it on my homepage, but I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 13:55

I'll see. If I'm hearing good things about it, I'll check it out. I really don't put a lot of stock into Netflix shows and movies nowadays because the quality is just usually not there, but I'll see. Was that Shafe? Was that Shay page?

SPEAKER_00 14:07

Maybe an observation.

SPEAKER_03 14:09

Look, I'm an HPO Max Apple TV kind of guy because they give you quality content. Okay, Netflix is just that's good to know. Ever since they canceled Mindhunter on Netflix after two brilliant seasons, they could have done one more. I'm like, I'd just be looking at them sideways and I will die on that hill. But, anyways, okay.

SPEAKER_00 14:26

So our podcast will never be on Netflix then.

SPEAKER_02 14:31

And you know what? And I think it's okay.

SPEAKER_03 14:34

All right, you know what? It's good to have boundaries, okay. To add to this chaos um of now the dog now appearing and dragon Ron away, something now had come out of nowhere and hit Harry so hard across the face and knocked him off his feet again, as well as Hermione, leaving them both in pain and on the floor. Mind you, it's nighttime at this point, and so it's very dark, so it's hard for them to even see what's going on. So they get their wands out and they cast a lumus ball for some light, and they can finally see that they had chased Scabbrets and Crooks Shanks right to the damn Womping Willow. Now, Alicia, you remember the Womping Willow from Chamber Secrets chat? I did it was flinging that damn car, the Ford Anglia, all over the place. So this is not the place they want to be right now. So it was a womping willow that gave Harry and Hermione a good whack for approaching, and they see now that at the base of the trunk of the Womping Willow, the dog has dragged Ron into like a large gap in the roots. Now Ron is fighting for his life, he's trying to resist being pulled fully underneath the tree. So Ron even tries to like hook one of his legs around like a root in an effort to like keep himself from being pulled all the way down. But then we hear like a horrible crack, as if Ron's leg had been like broken or snapped. Moments later, his foot and his entire being vanished out of sight underneath the tree. I said, that sounds painful. I can only imagine. Like you're trying to hold on so tightly, and that dog says, Come on, and just yanks him and just ooh, pulls up.

SPEAKER_00 15:54

They've had a lot of like traumatizing sounds tonight because they heard Buckbeak's execution, now they hear Ron's legs snap.

SPEAKER_04 16:03

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_03 16:04

Mm-hmm. Who's gonna go to sleep tonight? Well, we know one person that can't fix broken bones, if you remember from the last book. You know what I'm talking about.

SPEAKER_01 16:17

I should.

SPEAKER_03 16:18

You forgot him, Professor Professor Lockhart.

SPEAKER_01 16:22

Oh, lie, the liar.

SPEAKER_03 16:25

Try to fix it. Oh, I miss it.

SPEAKER_01 16:28

He feels so far away now.

SPEAKER_03 16:30

I know, isn't that crazy? A whole uh book of shenanigans with him in the last book. Now he's in the damn mental home. Okay. Because you hate to see it. Okay. So Hermione in a panic is now telling Harry that they have to go for help, but Harry doesn't think there's time with the size of the dog and the aggression that this dog has. Like, they're like, they don't know what that dog is doing to Ron right now. Like, they just have to go after Ron. But they don't know how they're going to get close to the Womping Willow with the way that it's swinging its branches ready to kill. Mind you, at this point, everyone is wounded in some way. Harry possibly has a broken rib or two. Hermione is bleeding from a cut on her shoulder, and we can assume Ron now has a broken leg. So there's a lot going on, to say the least. Hermione is calling out for help, like just to herself, and just like, oh, what are we gonna do? And here comes Crookshanks to the rescue, who I feel like is partly to blame for all this chaos because I feel like because Crookshanks arrived on the scene, that's why Scabbers ran and then distracted them. I don't know. Crookshanks, we'll see more Crookshanks in a bit, but he's being chaotic. Um, so Crookshanks darts forward in this moment to the roots of the tree and places its paw on a knot on the trunk, and that almost abruptly stops the womping willow in its place, and the womping willow becomes completely still, not a leaf twitch or a branch shook in that moment once Crookshanks put his paw on the knot in the tree. So Hermione is completely shook. Like, how did my cat know how to do that? And Harry answers that Crookshanks is friends with the dog as he's seen them hanging about together, and that's a callback to when Harry looked out the window and saw them mosing about Hogwarts. So Harry was like, hmm, that's strange. But now it's kind of coming together.

SPEAKER_00 18:00

So like your loved one is on the streets, honey.

SPEAKER_03 18:04

Out and about doom, who knows what? So they take their wands out and they make their way into the same opening that Ronald's dragged under. And Crookshanks leads the way through this dark tunnel passage, and Harry compares it to the long passage that he had to take to get to Honey Duke's. So just very dark, closed in and whatnot. But eventually the tunnel had an opening that Crookshanks went through, disappearing out of sight, and there was light up ahead. So Harry and Hermione rise out of the tunnel and enter a dusty and disorderly rundown room. The paper was peeling from the walls, there were stains on the floor, all the furniture broken. They leave that room and enter the hallway, and it's from there Hermione tells Harry she thinks they're in the shrieking shack. Now Harry's eyes fall to a wooden chair that has large bite chunks torn out of it, siding he doesn't think ghosts did that. Now remember, the rumor was, or the running theory was around a shrieking shack that it was an abandoned building haunted by ghosts based off of the noises that could be heard coming from there at night, all the way from Hogsmead. So no one really ever went near the shrieking shack. They could just look at it from afar and they'll just always hear these crazy sounds coming from there at night. But so happens that that's where they might be right now. So as they make their way down the hall, Hermione's holding onto Harry so tight. At one point, Harry has to give her a look, like, can you ease the fuck up? Like, I know you're scared, but we're in public. No, literally, like my fingers are about to go down. But there was a door open up ahead and some noise coming from within the room. So, with one more glance at each other, and with Juan's out, Harry kicks the door open and enters the room. Okay. So upon entering the room, we see Crookshank sprawled out comfortably on a four-poster bed, purring. And on the floor beside him was Ron clutching his injured leg. Harry and Hermione run over to Ron, asking if he's okay and where the dog is. Ron groans in pain but replies that it's not a dog, telling Harry it's a trap, that the dog is an Anamagus, looking past Harry towards the door. In that moment, the door that they came through is closed behind them, and a filthy man with matted hair, dark eye sockets, corpse-like and a yellow tea yuck emerges from the shadows. The dog was none other than Sirius Black.

SPEAKER_00 20:18

Ugh. No, I don't want to hear that. I don't want to hear that. The dog is already scary enough, and now it's serious black. No. May I ask a Harry Potter series question? Can Harry turn into a snake eventually?

SPEAKER_02 20:40

Oh I'm not gonna answer that.

SPEAKER_00 20:43

Thank you. Why why why would we be hearing the voices and he can communicate with them? So there's like as long as he can learn how to do this, I feel like he's he's on the trajectory.

SPEAKER_02 20:53

Anything's possible. Okay, okay.

SPEAKER_03 20:57

Actually, I'll just answer. No, he can uh he does not learn that ability, right? That's not something that happens in the book or in the story. Okay, but interesting thought. But you'll you'll that will develop more in terms of his ability with the snakes and stuff like that. So stay tuned. Um but yes, so it's just interesting now having it be revealed that this dog is serious black because we've seen this dog before or a lot throughout the story. Like if you think call think back all the way to the beginning when Harry left Privilege Drive because Aunt Marge was getting on his nerves and he thought he saw a black dog in the alleyway. That could have been Sirius Black. Obviously, we saw the dog and Crookshanks are moving about Hogwarts, so that could have been Sears Black. And I think there had to be like another time or two where he saw a dog or something. So Sirius Black's been around this whole book as it's being revealed to us now. But so we'll see. But Sears Black wasted no time casting the disarming spell, Expelly Armis using Ron's wand to disarm and claim Harry and Hermani's wand. So Sirius says hoarsely as though he wasn't using. To speaking to Harry, that he knew Harry would come to help his friend, just as James, Harry's father, would have done for him. And it was very brave of him not to go looking for a teacher, as this will now make everything easier for him. At the mention of his father, a hate that had been simmering for Sears Black had reached a full boil. Harry wanted nothing more to have his wand back, not to defend himself, but to kill. Harry fearlessly starts to lunge for Sears Black, but he's restrained by Hermione and Ron. Ron jumps in to say to Sears Black that if he wants to kill Harry, he'll have to kill them too. As he tries to like stand on his broken leg before collapsing back to the ground. Valley, we we appreciate the effort, Ron.

SPEAKER_00 22:34

You're almost there, honey. Like, I don't really have to do anything. I could just move your shoulder and it's over for you.

SPEAKER_03 22:40

It's the thought that counts, honestly. But also, if I was Hermione, I'll be like, wait a minute, what do you mean kill us too? Like, don't include me in that. I don't know how to do it.

SPEAKER_00 22:48

Me and my cat are not leaving this planet.

SPEAKER_03 22:50

Like, but anyway, so Sears Black tells Ron to lie his ass down before he enters his leg even more. And Ron reiterates and says, I said what I said. If you want Harry, you'll have to kill all three of us. Again, if I was Hermione, I was like, three, like dose, like face, like, I don't understand what you're talking about right now. Like, speak for yourself, honey. Um, but Sears Black replies that there will only be one murder here tonight. Now Harry frees himself from Ron and Hermione's grasp and begins to taunt Sears Black, asking why only one. After killing Peter Pettigrew and all of those muggles had his time away and Ask Ben caused him to go soft. Hermione is pleading with Harry to be quiet, but Harry yells out that Sears Black killed his mom and dad, and he fully lunges at Sirius Black. Now here we go. Here comes the Tusslin. So Harry says, Fuck magic. These hands are E for everybody. He says, These hands helped me survive 11 years at Primit Drive, and it's gonna help me in what I need to do right now. So Harry's not even caring that he's a short and skinny 13-year-old. He's about to throw hands with a full-grown murderous man. All Harry knew was that he wanted to hurt Sears Black as much as he had hurt all these years. Honestly, I get that. Harry charges at Sears Black and they fall backwards into the wall behind them. Hermione and Ron are screaming, sparks are coming out of all the wands, some nearly missing Harry's face. Harry is punching any part of Sears Black's body that his hands can meet. And eventually Sears Black's hands find Harry's throat, choking Harry, as he says, no, he's waited too long. I said, Lord have mercy. Choking the child, not the godfather choking his godson. Oh, you hate to see it. So Hermione joins in and she's like swinging her foot out to trip Sears Black, causing him to release uh his grasp on Harry. Ron lands himself on top of Series Black's wand hand. Harry sees his wand roll in one direction and goes to get it. Now here comes Crookshanks' cat ass to join the scuffle. Crookshanks sinks his claws into Harry's arm, and Harry says, fuck this cat and flings uh Crookshanks off of him, tossing the cat across the room. But Crookshanks, as Kat does, rebounds and tries to go for Harry's wand. Harry kicks in Crookshanks' direction to get him to back the fuck up. I'm like, where is Hedogina and all this? Like, Harry, like Hedogina, your owner is getting fucked up by animals and murderous godfathers alike. Like, we need you to come and claw someone's eyes out. But it's just crazy. There's a lot going on.

SPEAKER_00 25:12

If anything, Hedogina could be here to fight off Crookshank's animal on animal versus while Harry takes care of his black, but now why would Hedwigina lift her head up from her pillow when Harry had no business leaving Hogwarts that night? No one told him to go to Hog to what's his name? Howdy's house? Howdy's house.

SPEAKER_02 25:34

I'm screaming.

SPEAKER_00 25:35

And now you're expecting her to be at the beacon call? I mean, they should have like some sort of air tag. She needs to know where he is at all times. Give her a mini version of the map, the McGridd's map.

SPEAKER_03 25:48

Yeah. So Harry finally gets his wand and turns to face Serious Black. He yells at Ron and Hermione to get the fuck out of the way, and they obey. They said, You don't need to tell me twice, child. Um, Hermione is grasping for breath, her lip is bleeding, her hair is a mess. Ron crawls back to the bed, his face is now gone from white to green, and he's grasping at his broken leg. And Sirius Black is laid out on the floor looking at Harry as Harry points his wand straight at him and asks Harry if he's going to kill him. To which Harry replies, You killed my parents. And Sirius Black says, I don't deny it, but if you knew the whole story, and Harry's like, Bitch, the whole story, you sold them out to Voldemort. That's all I need to know. And with more urgency in his voice now, Sirius Black says, You've got to listen to me. You'll regret it if you don't. You don't understand. Harry retorts that he understands a lot better than Sirius thinks, and that he never had to hear his mother's cries as he tried to protect him from Voldemort because of his actions and what he did. Before another word could be spoken, Crookshanks leaps onto Sears Black's chest, settling right on top of Sears Black's heart. Sears Black tries to get Crookshanks off of him, but Crookshanks secures himself, not budging. Crookshanks turns to look at Harry. Hermione's crying behind them because her cat is about to go into glory if it does not get out of the way in 0.5 seconds. Harry stares down both Sears Black and Crookshanks, thinking to himself, So what if I have to kill this cat? Clearly, this cat has been in cahoots with Sears Black this whole year. So Hermione be damned, this cat might just have to be a two for one uh uh travesty in this moment. So Harry raises his wand, working up the courage to commit the vengeful deed of killing Sears Black, the person who was to blame for his parents' death. This was his chance. This was his chance. A second goes by, then another, then another. Harry still stood there frozen, wand squarely aimed on its target. Black staring at Harry, crooked strengths on Black's heart, Ron's ragged breathing in the background, Hermione silent. And then came a new sound.

SPEAKER_00 27:52

This new sound was a new set of footsteps. We're up here screamed Hermione to this new person in the shaking shack. Sirius Black is here. Quick! Sirius instinctually tries to get up, and Harry hears an inner voice tell him, Do late now, as in kill this man. Right now. Out of all people, Professor Lupin comes bolting in just in time. His wand's ready for any challenge. He sees lying on the ground an injured Ron, and then he sees his student Harry with a wand ready to hurt Sirius Black, who is already bleeding at Harry's feet. Lupin shouts Expelliones and Harry's wand flies out of his hand, along with the two wands that Hermione was holding. I think she was holding her wand and then was holding Ron's wand at this point. Harry felt empty thinking he had the chance to end Sirius Black's life and did not use it. He's so mad at himself. And now Black will be handed to the Dementors alive. Fuck that. Lupin then says very dominantly, Where is he, Sirius? Harry's aghast. What is this man talking about right now? And after a while, Sirius limply raises an injured hand and points to no other than Ron Weasley, who looked bewildered at this blood twist. But Lupin asks another question to Sirius Black. Why has he not shown himself before? Unless he was the one. Wow, you switched and told me nothing? Sirius Black slowly nods in agreements with what Lupin just said. At this point, Harry breaks the fourth wall and asks Professor Lupin, what the fuck is going on up in the shrieking shack? Keep in mind, Harry has had a day. He had to hear an execution of his friendslash teacher's beloved pet. His best friend Ron got his leg snapped up by the womping willow. He just had the chance to kill the man that was probably responsible for his parents' death, and ended up fumbling the bag. And then two seconds later, his favorite professor snatched his wand out of his hands. But instead of answering this question, Lupin goes up to Sirius Black, helps him off the floor, and gives him like a brotherly embrace. What? I don't believe it, screamed Hermione. Who might not have had a wand to point at Lupin at this point, but she was pointing her fingers at him and shaking them. You and him? I didn't even tell anyone, and I covered for you. Hermione says. But now Harry said, I trusted you. And this whole time you've been his friend. Like I thought you were my favorite professor. And this is this is someone that you know, love, like embrace in front of me. How fucking disrespectful can you be?

SPEAKER_03 31:14

And kept it a secret this whole time, this like secret relationship that you had with him. Or like, I don't know he could who he could have divulged it to that he knew Sears Black in some type of way, or if it was anyone's right to know that, but I don't know. Like you've gone through this whole book and this whole like talking to Harry, giving Harry these Patrona Sharm lessons, knowing that uh Harry is dealing with this whole Sears Black of it all in the background, and he couldn't give Harry any insight into the fact that you knew this man. I don't know. It feels a little uh little shady, or I don't know. I could I could understand why they felt betrayed by this.

SPEAKER_00 31:48

But in Lupin's uh Lupin's mentorship of Harry, didn't he say, Did you know Sirius Black?

SPEAKER_03 31:57

Yes, and I think he's he did say yes.

SPEAKER_00 32:01

I think he said yes, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 32:02

I think he said yes, like he knew like I'll try to find the exact uh page, but I I'm pretty sure he said yes, but not like outright, but it it it gave that he knew him, but not like they went to school together, yeah. Not like a warm embrace knowing him, so yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 32:20

So and then Lupin says, Harry, this is like very confusing. Harry, I was not his friend, but I am now. Play what's going on by Alanis Alanis Morissette. Hermani then says, Harry, three things. Number one, he's been helping Black get into Hogwarts. Number two, he wants you dead. And number three, he's a werewolf. Lou Pen says, Hermani, this is not like you, baby. Only one of those three accusations were even true. I am a werewolf, yes, but I've never helped Black, nor do I want Harry dead, like at all. Ron, who's on the ground, tries to pop back up again, but quickly fell down from pain. Lupin walks up to him to help him, and damn, you really cannot tell everyone your secrets because immediately Ron goes, get away from me, you werewolf.

SPEAKER_03 33:21

He was definitely giving like a slur. Like, Ron, you just found this out two seconds ago, and you're already using it with such venom, like, my god. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_00 33:32

And then Lupin says, Hermani, how long have you known like that he's a werewolf? And she says, Ever since Professor Snape assigned us that essay on werewolves, let's go back, let's take a flashback to Hermione being unique.

SPEAKER_04 33:49

Rewon.

SPEAKER_00 33:50

Re-won. Hermione was the only student who actually completed the assignment on the werewolf essay. And Professor Lupin came in and said, Class, you don't, you guys don't have to turn it in, it's fine, because they were all complaining about it. But she took the assignment very seriously. And Lupin says, Ah, yes. Snape was trying to get you all to catch on. Did you notice I was always sick around the full moon? Or maybe you realize that the bug art changed into a moon when he saw me. Hermani said both. And then Lupin looks back at her and says, Wow, you are the cleverest witch. And that wasn't a read, that was a compliment.

SPEAKER_03 34:31

What were your thoughts on that? Like the fact that all, like, I don't know, all this coming together, like from Snape being petty and making them do an assignment to try to out Lupin, to the fact that you remember we thought his bogart was just like a crystal orb or something like a pearl or something, but the fact that it was actually a wound and he's afraid of that because you know that's gonna incite his transformation or whatever. All these little like and him always being out, like sick and stuff like that.

SPEAKER_00 34:56

Yeah, the sickness is definitely because we never had an explanation so far. And then you're like, wow, but Snape was responsible for giving you the potion that makes you feel better. Bitch. And then he's trying to like turn your students against you.

SPEAKER_03 35:10

I feel like the him helping Lupin feel better was like on Dumbledore's orders, like, this is your co-faculty member. You're gonna make this damn potion for my uh my teacher, whether you like it or not. So Snape like made it begrudgingly in his spare time. Like, oh, this motherfucking werewolf, I gotta treat his ass. But I don't think he did it out of the kindness of his heart.

SPEAKER_00 35:28

Yeah, the ingredients on that list were not love in the potion, that's for sure. I thought he was using the potion to like kill him. I thought it was giving like the roommate, you know. Bringing it back to the present moment, Hermione looks down and says, if I was actually clever, I would have told the staff. And Lupin cuts in by saying, But they already know Hermione. Now, some people have not been very happy about having a werewolf on the premises, but they do know. Dumbledore himself had to prove to some particular teachers that I'm trustworthy. Harry interrupts and says, And he was wrong. All this time you've been helping Sirius Black. That feels like a slap in the face from Harry right there. I mean, I I understand, like, he's had a day, his nervous system is very activated. And Lupin's like, I have not been helping him. Look. He takes the three wands that he had collected from the trio and he walked, he returns them each and puts his own wand away. If you haven't helped Sirius, how did you know Sirius Black was here? asked Harry, which is a great point. And Lupin says the Maruder's map. Apparently Lupin helped create this map. And he is or he was known at school as Mooney. So this makes a lot of sense. When Harry had snuck back from Hogsmead, and Snape kind of caught him, Lupin kind of knew to come to his defense, and it seemed like Lupin knew more than what he was leading on. And you're like, How did you know about all this? But he is the OG writer. Yes, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 37:19

Calling back to so the chapter, Snape's Grudge, like you said, when uh Harry got caught up with Snape or whatever, and when uh Lupin was chewing Harry out a little bit, Harry asked if he knew the Mooney, worm toe, Patha, and prongs, and Lupin replied with we've met. So that was kind of his way of kind of like saying something without saying something. So that was the only time, yeah. So I'll leave it there. But yeah, so he said, We've met.

SPEAKER_00 37:46

He said, I was watching the map because I had a feeling you guys wanted to go to Haggard's tonight because of Buckbeak's final hour. Just because you might have worn a specific invisibility cloak doesn't mean that the map cannot trace you. I saw your dad so many times on that map when he was wearing his cloak. Now here he's like, okay, so you want to bring up my dad again. But also, hmm, should I trust should I trust what you're saying? Lupin continues by saying, anyways, I saw you leave Hagrid's hut and about 20 minutes later saw that you were now accompanied by someone else. That's not possible, said Harry. No one was even around us. Then I saw another dot labeled serious black moving very quickly towards y'all. I saw y'all collide with him, and he pulled two of you into the womping willow. Now Ron is saying, Two? You mean one? I was alone. Like no one else broke their leg on this stage. It was just me and me alone. And Lupin says, no, no, Ron. Let me see your rat. Huh? What does Scabbers have to do with any of this? asked Ron. Everything, said Lupin. Scabbers try to make a break for it. I mean, you know, he he's quick with it. But Ron held him setting. That's not a rat, Ron. He's a wizard. Please say the word that you said earlier on the podcast. What kind of thing is he that you can transform?

SPEAKER_03 39:27

An animagus.

SPEAKER_00 39:28

He's an animagus named Peter Pettigrew. And the chapter ends.

SPEAKER_03 39:36

At least you're that's there's a lot revealed in this chapter. Things are starting to come together. What are you making of all of this? Kookiness. Cat rat and dog.

SPEAKER_00 39:45

Now I have to go back to when Bugbeak was beheaded and Scabbers started acting crazy all of a sudden. I know Crick Shakespeare was around, but he's been kind of weird this whole book, Scabers. Scabbers was. So it's like, has he always been like this? Is this a new thing? Was he recently switched into Peter? Has Peter just been on like a crazy spy mission for 12 years? I have questions. But I'm interested.

SPEAKER_03 40:15

Okay. This was a nice brief chapter. I feel like it is leading right into the next one. So that's gonna be good to kind of get more into this explanation of what they're talking about. Because up until this point, we had just assumed that Peter Pettigrew was dead because that was a story that was being told to us that he died along with all those other muggles because Sears Black killed him, whatever. So for them now to think that Ron's Rat Scabbers is Peter Pettigrew is like, what? And then Lupin is coming into the fray and he's being revealed that he's a werewolf, and we'll have to get more into what it means to be a werewolf. And then the fact that Lupin and Sears Black are friends. There's a lot going on. And Sears Black feels like he needs to explain himself. It's like it's not as simple as you may think it is when it comes to me killing your parents, Harry. Like, give me a chance to explain. Crookshank's messy ass is like somewhat of Sears Black's protector, like inkahoos, like Cara and Doc. For such an interesting interesting title name, this chapter I feel like gives a lot in terms of like what the hell is going on at this school. And the fact that Hermione knew that Lupin was a werewolf this whole time, but didn't say anything to anyone. She obviously had a lot going on with her coursework and buckbeak and everything, but she just kept that in the back of her mind and she was ready to use it for Mad Day. She said, Oh, I was gonna reveal your secret, but now that I see that you switched sides, bitch, you was a dirty ass werewolf. So yeah.

SPEAKER_00 41:40

Because Hermione had said after maybe Lupin's class, she was like, Isn't it obvious, y'all? And then Ron was like, She doesn't know anything, she's just trying to get us to talk to her. And she's like, Alright, and she turned around.

SPEAKER_02 41:55

I remember that.

SPEAKER_00 41:57

So I think that's when she was trying to say, y'all, he's sick all the time because he's a fucking werewolf and there's a full moon right now. He's going through hell in a handbasket, and he's still has to teach a class. Of course he's struggling.

SPEAKER_03 42:12

That's a great point.

SPEAKER_00 42:13

I want to tell you, Coda. You were fucking hilarious this episode. I can't wait to listen to it.

SPEAKER_03 42:20

I thought you gave me my flowers for my comedian timing, honey. Really good. Thank you. I appreciate it. You know, Harry Potter brings you to life, and when shit starts going off in these books, I'm like, the drama's just good. Thank you. I appreciate it. That was very nice of you. Okay, well, we'll leave it there. We have just a few more chapters of this book, Harry Potter and Prisoner of Askaban. Things are reaching a boiling point. So wands are drawn, fists have been thrown. Revenge is just around the corner for maybe one, maybe two, maybe three people. And who knows what other characters might show up in this damn shrieking shack. So stay tuned as we continue on to close out Hair Pot and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Thank you. Shout out to Noah and Kendra again. Of course, go ahead and send us a listener email at Harry Starmlight Podcast at Gmail.com. Leave us a five-star review over on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. We'd really, really appreciate it. We are on the road, the journey to 50 new reviews. So we really appreciate you guys will help us out with that. And Elise, anything else before we go?

SPEAKER_01 43:22

That's all, folks.

SPEAKER_03 43:24

That's all, folks. And until next time, shout out to Cat Rat and Dow. Shout out to Crick Shakespeare Messy, Messy Feline. And until next time, be well.