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SPEAKER_04 0:02

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

SPEAKER_01 0:08

And it's me, Alicia.

SPEAKER_04 0:10

And today we are here to talk about Harry Potter and the prisoner of Basketband, chapter 19, The Servants of Lord of Baltimore. What an ominous title. Like, who is out here serving the dark lord? We need to know, and we're about to find out because things go down in this chapter. I feel like the last few chapters we've just gotten so much backstory and like building up to, and now it's like all culminating in this chapter where things are revealed, people are exposed, truth comes out, we have professors being crazy, deranged, vengeance filled. So a lot's going on in this chapter, and we'll get to it shortly. But before we do that, Alicia, how are you?

SPEAKER_01 0:46

I'm doing pretty good a little bit under the weather today. We've had like I think seven days in a row of rain in Maryland. Are you in New York right now?

SPEAKER_04 0:57

I am in New York, yes. But I was uh back and forth. Uh so my sister graduated college um this past weekend on Friday at my alma mater or our alma mater. Um, so I was in town in the DMV area for that. So that was nice. So yeah, but it was kind of like rainy and gloomy the whole weekend, so which I usually don't mind when I don't have stuff to do. I like to like stay inside with the rain in the window, you know, stuff like that. But when you have stuff to do, it's kind of like getting in the way of that, and it's kind of like, but yeah, it's been a very interesting weekend or in the on the east coast.

SPEAKER_01 1:31

And did you have a good time at the graduation? How were the speakers?

SPEAKER_04 1:36

I did overall. It was nice being back on campus again. She actually wore my graduation robes because I still had it from when I graduated. Oh, yeah, yeah. So it was more of like a cost-effective thing for her. She's like, I really don't feel like ordering this for one day or whatever. I was like, I still have mine. You know, I'm a little sentimental that way. So I she used mine and just added all her uh little um robes, what are those things called? Tassels and stuff for her things that she was a part of. But yeah, it was nice. The speakers were good. It was long though, it was like two hours, more or less, because they started with the doctoral students and then that were on the stage, and then they went to the master's students that were on the front of the audience, then they got down to the bachelor people. I'm like, oh my god, like let's be real. Like the majority of people here is people here to see the people with the bachelor's, like the doctorals and the master's students. I'm sure you guys put in a lot of work, but you guys need to have your work.

SPEAKER_01 2:23

They put in the most work.

SPEAKER_04 2:25

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 2:27

You're like, get the fuck out of here.

SPEAKER_04 2:29

But it was nice, and I it's crazy how time flies because I remember moving her into her college dorm what was four years ago now, and now to see her graduating with her bachelor's. And she's in this like bachelor's master's program, so she just has one more year before she gets her master's. Wow, yeah. So we'll be back next year for her to get her master's. So it's cool. It's it, yeah. So it was nice. It was something.

SPEAKER_01 2:49

And is she the youngest out of y'all?

SPEAKER_04 2:51

She's the youngest, so she's the last of us. And once she's done, my parents are going free, so to speak, to do whatever they want. But they will have four kids that are college educated. And crazy enough, my two older sisters both have their masters, and then my younger sister will be having their master's too. So, like, they all all have their masters, and I'll be the only one with just my bachelor's child. I was like, child, do I need to cook? You feel like naked, run the I'm like, not maybe the least educated one out of the bunch, chat. But it's okay. I'm the I'm the creative of the family, I guess. So yeah, yeah. So it was nice, but yeah, you're doing well overall. It's just understanding.

SPEAKER_01 3:27

I'm good. I'm good. Yeah, not no major updates for the pod. This chapter was great, though.

SPEAKER_04 3:34

All right, it was a good chapter. I I had, you know, I it was a long chapter, a little bit daunting to like read and kind of like, you know, do my note-taking and stuff on or whatever, but it was good. A lot came to the forefront. And yeah, I'm just ready to get on into it. So, shall we?

SPEAKER_01 3:50

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_04 3:54

Okay, so we ended the last chapter with Snape entering the villa, as you say, the Shrieking Shack villa. It's a surprise, motherfuckers. Uh, so he came into the Shrieking Shack in the midst of all the conversation and stuff that was going on, took off Harry's invisibility cloak and said, Hello, hello, hello. So Snape's surprise arrival startles everyone. Snape had found Harry's invisibility cloak at the base of the Womping Willow, because you remember they threw it off as they were chasing scabbers and all that stuff was going down. So Snape says that he knew Lupin was here because Lupin had forgotten to take his, you know, nightly wolf spin potion to kind of keep him tame or whatever. So Snape, out of the goodness of his heart, more like under Dumbledore's orders, brought some to uh Lupin's office, and that's where he found the Marauders map that he had confiscated from Harry earlier in one of the previous chapters. So he kind of just put two and two together and then he saw Lupin making his way to the tree.

SPEAKER_01 4:45

Thought that this part of the chapter was really creepy because Lupin is said to be sleeping on top, almost like on top of the Marauder's map. And so Snape has to like look over his shoulder, take the map out, and it's just like, ew, you were in my vicinity while I was sleeping, and you're spying on me.

SPEAKER_04 5:05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 5:05

Creeper.

SPEAKER_04 5:07

I actually think at this point Lupin was already gone. I think he Lupin left the map.

SPEAKER_01 5:13

Oh, behind.

SPEAKER_04 5:14

Yeah, I was actually a little, I was a little confused at this chapter because I was like, did Lupin leave the map with the map exposed? So like it was you know how like uh Fred and George told them, like, anytime you're done with the map, make sure you say mischief manage so it it like erases it? Did Lupin leave it open so that Snape saw on the map that a Lupin was making his way to the Wamping Willow? Or did was the map just on the table, like but cleared, cleared, but maybe then Snape saw Lupin like moving out of Hogwarts towards a Wamping Willow.

SPEAKER_01 5:48

And he like followed him.

SPEAKER_04 5:49

And he followed him. That's what I'm thinking. That's what I'm thinking.

SPEAKER_01 5:52

We need cameras in Lupin's office next semester because that's creepy.

SPEAKER_04 5:56

Yeah, because I was like, there's no way Lupin, as one of the people that created the map, would have just left it sitting on his desk willy-nilly. So I'm thinking that Lupin saw the map, or Snape came to the office, saw the map on Lupin's desk, and then saw Lupin like in person with his eyes making his way outside of Hogwarts. He's like, hmm, where's he going? And then that's kind of where things pick up. But yeah, so so Snape feels vindicated in telling Dumbledore not to trust Lupin. And Lupin is pleading with Snape at this point to hear him out and that Sirius is innocent, but Snape is not hearing it. He is gleeful at the idea of both Lupin and Sirius going to Askaban, and he casts a binding spell on Lupin. And before Sirius can react, Snape points his wand at Sirius. So now Lupin is laid out on the floor with like tied up because of Snape. And now Snape has his wand pointed at Sirius Black, his nemesis from way back yonder. So Harry doesn't know what to do at this point or who to believe. Ron is still struggling with Scabra. Hermione steps up and voices to Snape that perhaps he should hear them out. Snape was like, you stupid little girl, all three of you are already at risk of being suspended or worse, expelled. Shout out to the sorcerer stone for being out past curfew. And in the company, not only that, like not only you guys are out past curfew, but you're also in the company of a convicted, murderer, convict, escape thee, and a werewolf. So if I were you, I would just hush. But Hermione, of course, keeps on pressing her point. And now Snape is like belligerent. He's like angry, yelling at her to shut the fuck up, calling her stupid and not to talk about what she doesn't understand. It describes the book describes Snape as being deranged. And I just imagine Snape being so mad with anger that he has that like spit in the corner of his mouth and he's just like looking crazy, like, sir, relax.

SPEAKER_01 7:38

Like absolutely. And this man has called Hermione specifically stupid little girl. You're not helping these incel allegations because you fucking hate women. And out of everyone in this bitch, you could call Ron stupid little Ron for believing that this thing is a rat. After a hundred men in the room are saying, that is not a rat, babe. That's so grown-ass man. And I get that that's traumatizing, but her money is like time and time again the smartest in the room. And you just keep belittling her like this. I understand she's pissing you off, but that stupid little girl comment, no. I don't like it.

SPEAKER_04 8:16

Yeah, fair point. And like, like you said, like here, but also in the classroom setting when she's just trying to be a good student, like telling her, like, just it's not looking good for Snape and his relationship to a woman slash girl. So no bueno. So Snape goes on gloating about how vengeance is so sweet and he hoped he'd be the one to catch Sirius. And Sirius is like, you're doing way too much because as long as Ron brings scabbards up to Hogwarts, I will surrender willingly. But Snape is like, nope, as soon as we step out of the shrieking shackslash womping willow, I'm calling the Dementors to get your ass and give you the Dementor's kiss. Now, at the mention of the Dementor's kiss, that kind of like takes Sirius back a little bit because he's pleading with Snape. Like, just take a look at Scabbers for yourself. And even Harry has noticed that Snape was in his usual like hater self. Like at this point, Snape has a mad, like evil glint in his eyes that like is just not like unrecognizable. Like, you know, Snape is a big hater. We've already established that. But at this moment, it just seems like with Snape, this is like a 20-year-old grudge that is now gonna be fulfilled. Like, like he said in the last uh chapter, like, yeah, y'all tried to kill me, and now I'm finally about to get my look back. Like, no, nothing is sweeter than this moment. So he's not even trying to listen to anything that's he's trying to say because he's just like, you guys are not gonna get one up on me again. Like, I need to have this moment.

SPEAKER_01 9:33

He needs that vindication and that derangedness. We kind of saw it from Harry's uncle, what's his name? Oh, Uncle Vernon. A couple times where like he wasn't really able to anchor himself down. I think it was in the first book when he's like, if these letters keep following us, we're just gonna leave. We're just gonna keep going house to house to house. Like, I will take us to like a mountain hilltop in the storm. Like, it does not matter. And they're just not capable of like listening to proper rationale.

SPEAKER_04 10:04

Absolutely. Well, shout out to the no, not shout out, but I was anytime you like you mentioned the dear sleeves, I'm like, oh yeah, those motherfuckers, but yeah, over there somewhere, whatever. But and again, remember the Dementor's kiss is not like you know how how Harry's been battling the Dementors, you know, kind of sucking some of his happiness out of him and making him go unconscious. The Dementor's kiss is like that final thing that the Dementors could do to you that really just sucks out your whole entire soul and being kind of just leaves you in a vegetative state. And that's kind of what's waiting Sears Black if he gets captured. So that's not like a good sign that Snape is like a threatening him with that. So, so Snape calls for them all to leave the shrieking shack, but Harry moves to the exit and blocks the door, and Snape tells him to get the fuck out of the way as he's already in enough trouble. Says to Harry that he's lucky that he was here in this moment to save him. And Harry's like, not too much, because Professor Lupin has had multiple chances to kill me or turn me over to Sears Black, you know, referencing all the Dementor lessons that they've had privately together and just all the opportunities that Lupin could have like did something to Harry and he didn't. And Snap is like, look, I'm not here to try and reason with you and like work through how a werewolf's mind works, like get out of the way. I just like how now that's out in the open that Lupin is a werewolf. Like, that's the only like it's just an insult after insult. Like they're just like it's it just shows you how being aware of kind of like it's just uh a label that once it's on you, it's like you could just be a perfectly normal, same professor that's done such a good job this whole school year teaching the kids and everything. But now that it's out there that you're aware of, like that just clouds everything. It's crazy. And the fact that that's just a once-in-a-month occurrence, but still that kind of just paints your whole life and how people see you. It's unfortunate.

SPEAKER_01 11:44

It does. Like when we think about Lockhart, he was such a bad teacher, very narcissistic, assigned the students to do assignments on him as a person and his acclimates. If Lupin had done half of what Homeboy had did, like it'd be over already. But he really is such a good teacher. He uplifts his students, he empowers them, he tries to get to know them on a personal level, but still maintains pretty good boundaries, I would say. And he even covered for Harry that one time where he caught him going to hogs me. He's like, listen, I'm gonna do this once, but that's it. This is not a pattern, this is not like don't rely on me, but just this one time, okay, I see you and I'll defend you. And I thought that was very fair.

SPEAKER_04 12:30

Yeah. He's he's like McGonagall in that sense. Like, I care for the students, but I'm also going to be remain impartial and kind of just you know keep that relationship of professor versus like mentor versus friend, even in Harry's case. So shout out to Lupin. It's unfortunate that his secret is not out there in the open. But yeah, so Harry is fed up at this point with Snape shit and just starts spazzing. He calls Snape pathetic, citing that just because you got punked as a kid by Sirius and Lupin, now as a grown-out adult, you won't listen to reason. And Snape yells back at Harry to shut up and not talk to him like that. And now Snape even brings up Harry's dead daddy, stating how he saved Harry and Harry should be on his knees thanking him. Matter of fact, Harry would be better off if he had been killed because he would have died like his father, too arrogant to believe that Sears Black might not be the person he thought he was. And he once again yells to Harry to get the fuck out of the way. I thought that was a crazy remark on Snape's part to say, you know what, you might have been better off dead because then at least then you would have died just like your dad did, believing in Sears Black. What the fuck is wrong with Snape? Oh my god, that is crazy.

SPEAKER_01 13:40

No regard for human life.

SPEAKER_04 13:42

Just just nuts.

SPEAKER_01 13:44

Sounding like Trump when those the the first plane crash, like last year, when they drowned in DC, and he was like, Oh, they passed away. Well, and it's been downhill ever since.

SPEAKER_04 14:00

Truly derangement syndrome.

SPEAKER_01 14:02

Yes, yes.

SPEAKER_04 14:04

So Harry didn't think a second more at the I know what? I'm not mad at Harry, because at this point, he did not, he did not take another second. He pulls out his wand and casts Expelly Armis on Snape, hurling Snape back into the wall behind him, knocking him unconscious, slumped against a wall with blood trickling down from his head. I said, now a nosebleed, you know, that's one thing, but a head bleed, that's when you know shit's real. Because that means you're bleeding from your damn skull, brain, whatever. Like, that's nothing to play with. Now, what's this warranted? Well, yes. Yeah. Honestly, if you talk that much shit about my dead daddy, and then you say that I should be dead too, just like my dad, maybe that's fighting words. I don't care if you're a professor or not, like talk shit, get hit, as they say.

SPEAKER_01 14:53

But to go like celebrity deat match on him, a little crazy. But wasn't it true that, and maybe I misread this or misheard this, that Ron and Hermione had cast the spell at the exact same time. So that's why this was such like a blow to the head, because they had the trio behind him.

SPEAKER_04 15:14

Yes, exactly. So typically the expelling armor spell is just a disarming spell. So, like if you have your one in your hand and my wand and I cast expelling armors on you, it would just take the wand out of your hand and give it to me. So it's just like a disarming spell. But because, like you said, all three of them had the same thought in their minds to cast a spell on Snape all at the same time. That's three different wizards casting the same spell at one person's direction. That's why it flung Snape's ass all the way back and knocked him out. Like I just like that they're so locked in. They're like, oh, you're gonna talk shit about my friend and my friend's dead dad. Bitch, we all coming for you.

SPEAKER_01 15:49

Like, we'll send the wings club on your ass.

SPEAKER_04 15:52

No, literally, like it's on site. So I love that. So, like you said, that's why it kind of had so much force behind it and knocked Snape unconscious. And you know what? It had to be done because Snape will just not listen to reason at this point, and he was just not cooperating with the mission at hand to find the truth, so he had to kind of be rendered incapacitated. Yes. Thank you.

SPEAKER_01 16:14

So from now on, the chapter reads almost as if it's a play because you have this person who's like in the corner knocked out, but now they can really talk amongst themselves. And I I think that that's very play-like, which is cool.

SPEAKER_04 16:26

Yeah, yeah. So Sirius tells Harry that he shouldn't have done that, and Harry's avoiding Sirius's eyes, still not sure what to believe. Hermione, of course, is frantic at the notion that they're brutally attacked a teacher. I'm like, Hermione, you didn't have to do that, but I appreciate that you did, even though now that you're worried. And she's just worried about how much trouble that they're in. The ropes that were like keeping uh Lupin like tied up are now like loose because Snape is unconscious. And Sears helps him up and Lupin thanks Harry. Harry responds that he still doesn't believe them, and Sears is like, well, it's time then we finally show you some proof and commands Ron to give Scabbers to him. Now, Ronald. Ronald is still trying to protect Scabbers with his damn life, stating that even if Peter Pettigrew is a rat, how does he know it's this rat that is Scabbers? And Sears pulls from his pocket a crumpled daily profit page that has a Weasley family pictured in Egypt visiting Bill with none other than Scabbers on Ron's shoulder, and the caption that the Weasley kids will be returning to Hawkwarts at the end of the summer by proxy, so would Peter slash Scabbers. And remember this all the way from the first chapter our post when Harry's getting all the birthday gifts from everyone, and Ron had sent um Harry the article from the Daily Prophet of him visiting or the Weasley's visiting Bill in Egypt. So Black had that same paper. So having seen Peter transform into a rat many times while they're at school together, once Sears saw that picture of Scabbers on Ron's shoulder, he said, Wait a minute, I know that bitch. I've seen him. So he knew it was Peter. But on top of that, also Scabbers had a toe missing from his front paw, just like Peter Pettigrew, who, as reported by the Ministry of Magic, only had a finger remaining after the deadly blast that killed all those muggles. So Scabbers doesn't have a finger. Peter Pettigrew, the only thing that they found of him was a finger. It's just all lining up. So Ron is like Snape at this point, simply not listening to reason. He tries to argue that perhaps Scabbers just got into a fight with some other rats, and then that's how he lost his finger that way. And that even though he's lived unusually long for a rat, 12 years, how convenient, that perhaps it's because he's taking good care of him. Ron, like enough. Give it up. And even though now he's not looking well, it's probably because of Crooks Shanks like being around and all the terror that Crookshanks has caused Scabbers. And Harry thinks to himself, well, actually, no, Scabbers has been looking a little, a little rough even before Crooks Shanks. It's actually since the end of the summer when the news of Sears Black's escape had come out. So Black cites that Crooks Shanks is actually truly a special cat, like one of a kind. Like he may not even be like Crooks Shanks, like is a cat, but like he's definitely more magical than just a cat because Crookshanks was able to sniff out that both Scabbers and Sears Black were not actually like full animals, like they had like human forms. And so once Black was able to gain Crookshanks' trust, Crookshanks decided to help Sears try to get Scabbers many times, as you saw throughout the whole entire book with Crookshanks chasing Scabbers at any. He said, I'm a I'm a cat on a mission, I gotta get you back to Black, uh to Noahville, obviously, because you know, every time the Crookshanks try, he would be thwarted in one way or another. So even at one point, Crookshanks being the smart magical cat that he is, Crookshanks stole a list of Gryffindor common room passwords and gave it to Sirius Black. Now I know if Neville Longbottom finds out that Crookshanks is to blame for him losing the passwords, he will get that cat and squeak it by a snack. Like you fucking bitch. You have the whole my whole house mad at me, and I lost my password privileges because your ass wants to be snooping through my stuff and taking my shit. Crookshanks catass once again strikes again. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_01 20:06

And Scabbers was on the run. He said, fuck. He said, I know when I'm on the most wanted list. I gotta go.

SPEAKER_04 20:16

Literally, literally that. Because once Peter slash Scabbers caught wind of like, oh, this cat is like this cat is in cahoots with Sears Black. He's like, oh shit, I need to like, like you said, get out of here. So he thought to fake his death again, and that's how we got the whole blood on Ron's bed, and we thought Scabbers was dead. The whole fake meow though.

SPEAKER_01 20:34

So literally fake your own death as a rat is crazy. Like as a human, okay. You have this 13-year-old boy crying for you. I gotta put me first, I gotta put me first.

SPEAKER_04 20:48

No scabbards, Peter said it worked for me once, bitch. I'm gonna try it again, bitch. Um so just the thought of so just the mention of Peter faking his death again. So this triggers Harry and brings him to the present where he resumes his line of questioning as to why Peter had to fake his death in the first place. And it was because Peter knew that Sears was going to kill him like Sears had killed his parents. Now, I'm gonna chalk it up at this point to Harry being young and he's in this highly emotional situation revolving his parents with adults that clearly aren't speaking plain, because at this point, I just feel like things should be clear in terms of what's going on here and who's really to blame. But again, I'm just gonna chalk it up to that. There's a lot of information being thrown at Harry all at once. So Lupin tries to continue. So Lupin continues to explain to Harry that Kenny C all this time, everyone thought it was Cyrus who betrayed Harry's parents, and Peter was the one that heroically tracked him down for vengeance for Harry's parents, but it was actually the other way around. But this doesn't make sense to Harry because as he recalled hearing, Cyrus was his parents' secret keeper, the person that, as long as they didn't reveal Harry's parents' location, that they could never be found by Lord Voldemort. That's what that's what Harry's known to be the truth. This whole entire time. But now Sears chimes in stating that he might as well have killed them, as in at the last moment, he convinced James and Lily Potter to make Peter their secret keeper instead of him. Now Sears, I'm gonna have to get you together. Because in my head, I'm like, why the fuck would you do that? And he sees gonna explain his reason later on. But I'm just like, if you I don't know, something about that's like if I only you know only at the end of the day, you know yourself more than anyone else. And if you know the stakes are this high and that the responsibility could lie solely with you to keep your friends safe, I don't know why you would try to pass that off to anyone else. It yeah, we'll unpack it a little bit more when it's a good thing.

SPEAKER_01 22:47

Especially like at the last second, like that.

SPEAKER_04 22:50

At the last second, like we already have a contingency plan in place, we've already laid out everything. Why are you just trying to do a try to pull one out under from the evil Lord of Voldemort? Like, just stick to the plan, like uh and James and Lily too. Like, I'm sorry, like I'm sure like you guys have a lot of trust in Sirius Black, but like at the moment of him trying to like pass off this huge responsibility to someone else, I'll be like, now I'm looking at you kind of sideways because we want to give it to you, want to give you this responsibility of protecting us, and you're trying to give to someone else, you're trying to give it to Ratman over there.

SPEAKER_01 23:20

Like, I give it a Lupin, if anything.

SPEAKER_04 23:23

Yeah, bitch, let give it to Lupin and let it be a full moon so you can turn into a world where I'm like, bitch, try to get it out of me now. Um yeah, so no bueno, no bueno. I didn't I didn't like that, and that's why probably Sears feels so guilty because he he knows that he was the one that made this last-minute decision that ultimately costs his friends their lives. So he definitely has that guilt on his conscience. But yeah, so on the unfortunate night that they died, Sears had planned to check on Peter to make sure that he was safe at Peter's hiding spot once they decide to make Peter the secret keeper. But when he arrived at Peter's hiding place and Peter wasn't there, the place was undisturbed and there was no signs of struggle. He knew that something wasn't right. So he made for Harry's parents' house right away, only for it to be too late and to come upon Harry's parents deceased, realizing that Peter had betrayed all of them because Peter was allegedly friends with, you know, this was their friend, this was his friend group, allegedly, stuff like that. So it's like, yeah, just it was unfortunate. So so now even Lupin is fed up with all this back and forth. So am I. I'm like, just get to it. So Lupin says, enough is enough and commands Ron to give Scabbers to him, citing that if Scabbers is truly a rat-a-tat-tat, you won't be hurt. But it's time to force Scabbers' true form to come out, rat or not. And Ron concedes. In my head, I said, Bitch, why the fuck couldn't we have done this from the motherfucking start? You mean to tell me, like, reveal the rat man first and then explain all this shit? Because I feel like if they just, if the trio just saw the rat turn into a human, then that kind of would have kind of like put all this questioning to rest, and then they could have just explained how they got to this point. But like to go through four chapters of just believe us, don't believe us, come on. Like you, like it's just like, why didn't we start with revealing the rat man first? I don't know. I just thought that was crazy.

SPEAKER_01 25:07

I don't know, because I'm I'm looking at my dog Rico right now. And if someone came in here, hey Rico, if someone came here tomorrow and was like, Rico is Patricia, the woman that killed my mom, I'd be like, honey, you're deranged. Rico is not Patricia, Rico is Rico. But I don't think it would take me four chapters of like pretty good evidence and three like grown ass men telling me, like, no, that's yeah, that's Patricia. For me to hand I'm sorry, Rico, I'm gonna hand your ass over. If you're real, you come back, you won't even know what happened.

SPEAKER_04 25:39

Literally that. And that's the like, because the Lupin literally says if Scalbours is truly a rat, then nothing will happen to him, he'll just remain a rat. So I'm like, okay, there's no harm. It's not like remember, I think it was in this book when Neville was fucking up with his potion in potions class, and Snape made po Snape made Neville feed the potion to his pet Trevor. You know, it's like, oh, if you fuck it up, it's gonna kill him. But if you don't, he'll be fine. It's like that. Like, if you just let us cast a spell on Scabbers to prove it one way or another. But again, four chapters of all this, but finally we're here at the moment. So, okay. Ron finally gives Scabbers over to Lupin, and Lupin holds out Scabbers. And alongside Sirius, on the kind of three, they cast a spell that emits blue sparks from their wands, and of Circus is using Snape's Wand. And for a moment, Scabbers is like suspended in midair before dropping to the floor, and then with a bright flash of white light, Scabbers begins to transform. And what could be described as slow motion, different body parts at a time into a man, into none other than Peter Pettigrew. The man, the rat is a man, Alicia. The rat, the rat is a man. My God.

SPEAKER_01 26:49

He's a man who has not brushed his teeth in 12 years.

SPEAKER_04 26:53

There's just so much to unpack here. What do you mean? Like, people, like there's a grown man living alongside, sleeping alongside a 12-year-old boy, 13-year-old boy for the last 12 years. All his all all of Ron's life, pretty much. Like, just so like, because I'm sure there'll be times Ron is like maybe taking a shower and his bathroom door is open, and the rat maybe came in there. You know how some pets will be like if you leave.

SPEAKER_01 27:17

Yeah, he's seen him naked. 100% in some capacity.

SPEAKER_04 27:22

Okay, thank you. Thank you for making a plage. So it's just there's just a lot to unpack here. Like, what do you mean?

SPEAKER_01 27:30

Like Rico could draw me right now. That just is what it is.

SPEAKER_04 27:36

It is what it is. This is what it is when you have a pet. So to think that this man has been disguised as a pet to a child boy.

SPEAKER_01 27:46

Yeah, I guess.

SPEAKER_04 27:47

Ron is Ron is gonna need some therapy. Ron is going to need some major therapy to unpack this. So trust issues that I would have.

SPEAKER_01 27:55

It's the equivalent of being on the trimming show, in my opinion. Because you knew this whole time that you were not a rat and you played this part in my life throughout my entire life. And then, I mean, not to spoil the chapter, but like this rat doesn't say anything to say, I loved you, Ron. Like, no, I was there for you. He was trying to survive still. So, like, yeah, the connection is was just one-sided.

SPEAKER_04 28:23

Yeah, yeah. So, yeah, yeah. So, now Peter Pettigrew is described as a short, stout, grubby man with thin, colorless hair and a bald patch on top of his head. Now, Lupin greets Peter with a long time no see as if this is a daily occurrence of people just turning into humans from rats. And Peter squeaks out, Peter and Sears' names, adding my old friend. I feel like Lupin, knowing what the truth is, like what the true truth is, just decides to start playing with the rat man because he's like, I'm sure you heard most of what we've been what's been going on as you squeaked about in Ron's hands, but I still needed to clear up a thing or two for me. So, my guy, so Peter Pettigrew's panic, sweating and frantic, exclaiming that Black is here to kill him. And surely he doesn't believe, and surely Lupin doesn't believe us Sirius, pleading that Sears Black killed James and Lily Potter, and now he's back for him as well. Lupin's like, now, no one's going to kill you. Not until we've sorted some things out, sweetie. Like, just relax. And Peter, still frantic, states how he knew Black would be back for him and that he's been waiting 12 years. And Lupin is like, wait a minute, you knew that Sears would break out of Azkaban, a pr a person that no one has ever broken out of before. And Peter's like, Well, shit, maybe you learned some dark arts from his master, he who shall not be named. And this makes Searis laugh. Like, Voldemort taught me something. Like, please. The sound of Voldemort's name causes Peter to flinch because obviously, like, no one likes saying his name. But Sears picks up on this and it's like, Well, you don't like hearing his name? As like, why? Like, why are you getting spoofed by your master's name, the person that you betrayed your friends for? Like, what's that about? Sirius says, Yeah, I wouldn't like hearing that name either, especially since a lot of Voldemort's followers aren't too happy with you, seeing as how you were the one that gave the information that ultimately led to uh Voldemort's demise because you told them where to find Harry's parents, and something went down at that damn house, and it caused the Dark Lord to perish, so to speak, all this time. So there you might you might have some more people looking for you besides me. So I wouldn't be too happy hearing Voldemort's name either. And this whole time, they all thought you were dead to the bed. They thought you were dead down in the ground, but only to find out that you've been a rat man this whole entire time. So yeah, if I don't get your ads, there's a whole bunch of people that might. So just yeah, I'm sure you're definitely not feeling up to snuff right now. So Lupin now asks a question that we all want to know. Miss Patricia, Miss Peter, why in the hell would an innocent man want to live his life as a rat-a-tat-tat for the past 12 years? Now, Peter squeaks out that he's innocent, but he's also scared. As like I said before, Voldemort's supporters could have been after him. Well, you know what? Peter puts his own little spin on it. He says Voldemort's supporters could have been after him for putting one of Voldemort's top spies in reference to Sirius away in Azkaban. Like he is he is trying to You are reaching. He is trying to, he's trying anything to defend himself and try to come out of this clean. I'm like, okay, you know what? I appreciate the delusion, I guess.

SPEAKER_01 31:25

Um like so serious and the reason why that Sirius Black brought up the Voldemort supporters is because he's been in prison with them for the past 12 years. So he knows he knows like some intel on the street that maybe yeah, the the precious hogs meet people and the precious hogs words people won't have access to. Like for the past 12 years, I've seen the ins and outs of what they think and they don't like it.

SPEAKER_04 31:54

Exactly, exactly that. So yeah, so Sears is pissed. Like, bitch, the damn audacity to for you to keep on this trend of me being working for Voldemort. So Sears retorts, when have you ever known me to be a sneaker or a spy, especially for people stronger and more powerful than me? Like, bitch, that's you. Like, you're the one that, like, he's like, I don't know how I didn't see this before. Like, you always like to hang with those that could protect you in school. It was James Lupin and I that was always like guarding you and protecting you from anyone that would try to bother you. And now it would only make sense that later on in life you look elsewhere to Voldemort, who was at the height of his power and had such a mass following at that time. So, like, yeah, it'll I don't know why I even thought to make you the secret keeper. But, anyways, Sirius goes on to say how Lily and James only made him this made Peter the secret keeper because Cyrus had convinced him to thinking it was a perfect bluff. So Sirius says it was too obvious that Sirius would be the secret keeper and surely Voldemort would come after him. But who would ever think to place such trust in a weak, spineless, talentless, shit for brains, ugly, raw thing like Peter Pettig? He says, Your goofy ass must have been so proud when you snivelled up to Voldemort and told him that you could offer up the Potters. And Peter barely has any clapback at this point, just muttering words of denial while looking at the floor and a possible escape. And Harry's just looking at all this mess unravel in front of him.

SPEAKER_01 33:17

It was giving Real Houseways of Atlanta when who was it? Phaedra was reading Kenya Moore. And she couldn't say anything.

SPEAKER_04 33:30

I think it was the season six reunion when it was the whole Apollo and Kenya Moore flirtation thing. And Phaedra had that read about the and you needed to a man to ejaculate a cup for ten dollars so he could buy himself a piece of stuff. You could have a kid now. Check that. Yeah, it it was definitely an entertaining read. Um, but people say that it's like it was rehearsed or practiced beforehand or whatever, but it was still good.

SPEAKER_01 33:55

It felt like a monologue.

SPEAKER_04 33:56

It really was like, It felt like a monologue, but it came out like so smoothly that it just was like, ooh. And Kenya literally is just sitting there like nothing to say. I think that's when Nini does the head turn. Everyone, it was just so it was so silent. Like it was just oh, we're a hot soil.

SPEAKER_01 34:10

Nene turns her head, there's a body on the floor because damn.

SPEAKER_04 34:13

Yeah, so Peter, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 34:15

But okay, so the Summerhouse reunion is good.

SPEAKER_04 34:18

Summer House.

SPEAKER_01 34:19

I've been watching parts of it.

SPEAKER_04 34:20

I've never gotten into Summerhouse.

SPEAKER_01 34:21

I uh Me either, but I'm watching the reunion. And you should too. So you're watching it with no backstory of like who these people are or like no, just clips of Sierra reading the fuck out of Amanda, and I think her name is Leslie, the blonde one, in the red dress. She is really doing a good job with that.

SPEAKER_04 34:41

Now, is this reunion present day to all the scandal that just happened? Present. Okay, so they're talking about everything that happened with the everything.

SPEAKER_01 34:49

Okay, and timelines are very convenient, and they're calling that out.

SPEAKER_04 34:55

Yikes. Okay, interesting. I love me some good messy drama, so maybe I have to tune in. But yeah, so again, this is a part that I want to talk about when it comes to Cirus deciding to make Peter Pettigrew the secret keeper. We've already talked about the fact that your friend is transforming into a rat of all animals. That wasn't a red flag. Like, I'm sorry, but that wasn't a red flag for you that oh, maybe let's not put any trust into him. You already can kind of kind of glean what Peter's character is while you guys are in school together and the fact that he's so like sheepish and like I don't know. And even the fact that, okay, you guys are gonna make him the secret keeper and put him in a hiding place, then you guys need to have guards around him 24-7 until the threat of Voldemort is like done with. Like, why would you make him the secret keeper and then trust that he's just gonna go stay in his hiding place and not like uh betray you guys? I don't know. It's just the logic wasn't logicing, logicing for me. And I'm like, serious, okay, you said that this is supposed to be your bluff plan because you knew that Voldemort would come after you or that you were the obvious choice. Let that be that then. Okay, so if Voldemort comes after you, at least you know you're a skilled wizard. Maybe you can go toe-to-toe with Voldemort, you can defend yourself. Like, I don't know. I just why like I said before, I feel like the best place for such a huge responsibility to be is with you. I yeah, so yeah, I'm sure now him looking back on it, obviously he can't go back and change things. That's probably why he's beating himself up so much because like, damn, I really fucked up thinking I was like doing my big one trying to like change the plan at the last minute and put all our trust in this idiot. But yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 36:29

And not only did two people die, like Harry's parents, but then like a bunch of town people died as well. So like this shit blew up quite literally in his face.

SPEAKER_04 36:39

Yeah, unfortunate. So obviously, Peter's loss of words after being read for filth by Sirius. So now Hermione takes the pause in the conversation to ask Professor Lupin a question. And that question being that if Peter is loyal to Voldemort, why in the three years he's been sleeping near Harry as Ron's pet in the Griff Newcomb room, has he never taken the chance to kill Harry? Now Peter is like, boom. Peter's like, exactly. Thank you, Queen. Thank you for having my back.

SPEAKER_01 37:04

Finally, someone with common sense. And I've always said this about you, Hermione, and I love your cat so much.

SPEAKER_04 37:11

Literally that. Peter says, I have never laid hands on the boy who lived, so kiss my ass, Sirius. So but so Sirius jumps in to say, uh-uh, not too much, because Peter, as I know him, is self-serving and has always been that way. He wouldn't dare commit a murder in Dumbledore's house of all people. Like, he wouldn't have the audacity to do something like that. For especially for an evil wizard, Voldemort, who for all purposes has been defeated and is in hiding. Like, it wouldn't benefit him at all in this present moment to kill Harry for a wizard that's like not even around anymore. So, especially now that he has found refuge and shelter with the Weasleys, he's being taken care of. He may have to live for a rat for the rest of his life, but he's being taken care of. He's being fed rat tonic by his uh owner, Ron. Like, he is good. Like, why does he need to deserve the peace? But I bet, Search as I bet that Peter kept his rat-ass ears to the streets to be in the know if Voldemort did ever return, because if it was safe to rejoin him, then I'm sure Peter would have, you know, easily like snatched Harry up and is like, here, like I got him before you like take him. So Peter again is at a loss for words being read. He's just like mouth again.

SPEAKER_01 38:14

Peter chose a good family to stay in the know because Arthur Whitesley is like works for the Minister of Magic. So he and he's always coming back to the family about news. Like he warned Harry way before, like, hey, Sirius Black is on the loose. Like he's also said other comments that he would know first. So he aligned himself very well.

SPEAKER_04 38:36

Yeah, and it's actually funny. I'm just remembering now, I believe Scabbers was passed down to Ron from one of the older brothers. Maybe what's his name? Maybe Percy. Someone correct me if I'm wrong. But I'm thinking that because they say how rats don't even usually live that long. So I think the rat that Percy owned died, and Peter is somehow. No, that doesn't make sense. So I was gonna say then Peter then swept in to become their pet. Because I'm trying to think of when did Peter I know it's 12 years ago, but it's not like they went to the pet shop and bought Peter there. So I'm thinking the rat that actually was in the Weasley family died, like a natural rat death, and somehow Peter, the time he just lined up for Peter to kind of like weasel his way in and take that rat's place. I don't know. That's just a logic brain. Someone, someone, someone, someone reach out and let me know if I'm uh if I'm making sense. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 39:29

And how how long was Peter gonna live without them really saying something? Because we've already given you 12 years of life and it may be a little side-eyed, sure, but you were gonna wait till this thing was like 40s.

SPEAKER_04 39:41

Um I'm I guess it just believed in the magic of magical animals. Like, I don't I don't know, because the logic is not logic being. Obviously, Ron is delusional in thinking that, oh, just giving him the rat tongue and taking care of him was enough to sustain him, but whatever. So, Hermione, thank you for that question. It didn't really, you know, it didn't really give like he thought it was gonna give, but we appreciate you being studious and trying to cross all the dot all the I's and cross all the T's. So Hermione now addresses Sirius with a follow-up question, asking, How in fact did he escape from Askaban? And again, Peter finds his words for a second time to second this question with another thank you. Like, answer that, you felonious bitch. Like, that's what I was saying earlier. Like, how did you escape Askaban? I'm like, Peter, Hermione's not on your side. She's just trying to, you know, make sure she's crossing, you getting all the information before she makes your final assessment. So Sears ponders the question for a moment and then states that he doesn't fully know how he did it, but he knew that he was innocent, and that did help. And since that wasn't like a happy thought per se, that the dementia's gonna feed off of that, and that kind of helped keep him sane and ground him in the fact that I'm innocent, I'm innocent, I'm innocent. He would also transform into a dog, his dog form from time to time to kind of give him a relief from the dementors because the dog's thoughts and feelings were more docile than the humans, the dementors didn't have like much to feed off of when he was a dog. So that kind of gave him another kind of respite from the dementors.

SPEAKER_01 41:00

And the dementors can't see either. So it wasn't like out of the ordinary that he was a dog all of a sudden because the dementors don't see.

SPEAKER_04 41:09

Exactly. So they're just like, oh, I guess there's no happy memories to feed off of and Cersei's cell today because like he's in his dog form. So it kind of worked out. So he kind of just was able to keep himself standing grounded in the fact that he knew he was innocent. But seeing Peter in the Daily Prophet picture at Scabbers and knowing that both him and Harry would be at Hogwarts, he knew that if the rat man gained a whiff that the dark lord, like I said, was returning to power at any time, Peter would then seize the opportunity to kind of harm Harry and regain his place in the Dark Forces. So seeing as though he was the only one that knew that Peter Pettigrew was actually alive, but in this disguised form, that was enough motivation for him to kind of like kind of like, you know, keep saying and try to make his way to Hogwarts to kind of like save Harry or protect Harry, so to speak. And Harry recalls the Weasley parents saying that how they had heard from the guards of Azkaban that Sears would like be repeatedly be saying to himself, he's at Hogwarts, he's at Hogwarts, he's at Hogwarts, thinking that this whole time they were talking about Harry and trying to come after Harry, but in actual in reality, he was talking about Peter. And so it's just kind of like a little change of perception. So Sears goes on to say that one night when the guards opened the gate to bring him food, he transformed into a dog and he was able to slip past them again because it's hard to sense animal emotions and stuff like that. And he was able to swim from the prison to shore and make his way to Hogwarts where he lived in the forest, keeping a low cover besides the one time that he got close to see Harry play Quidditch, and he compliments Harry's Quidditch ability, citing that he's played just as well as his father. Because of course they were friends at the time when they're at school. Now, speaking directly to Harry, Cyrus pleads for Harry to believe him that and says that he would never betray his parents and begs for Harry to believe him. And at long last, four chapters later, Harry's heard enough. Harry is convinced, and Harry nods silently, accepting Cyrus's truth of his innocence and that he in fact did not betray his parents as Harry for all this time thought. Now, at the sight of Harry's nod, Peter collapses to the floor in front of Harry. As though Harry had just signed his death sentence by agreeing with Sirius. He is pleading for his life. Like, please, please, no, I don't want to die.

SPEAKER_01 43:24

Um, that's what Snape wanted Harry to do. Like, I'm so sorry, forgive me.

SPEAKER_04 43:30

And then uh Peter turns to Sirius and he's grasping at Sirius's robes, and Sirius kicks him away, like, get the fuck off me. Like, I have enough dirt on my robe. I have enough dirt on my robes without you touching it, bitch. And then he goes to Lupin citing, wouldn't Sears had told Lupin of this whole secret keeper change of plan or whatever? And Lupin cites, well, perhaps he would have, unless he thought that I2 may have been a spy. Because again, those dark times, you they didn't know who could be trusted at that time. So, you know, Lupin's kind of like, you know, maybe, but again, maybe under I. I was under suspicion too. He's a werewolf after all. Um, but Sirius sight, yes, this is correct. I didn't tell you because again, I didn't know who I could trust at the time, so it was kind of on a need-to-knows basis. And he asks this for Lupin's forgiveness, and Lupin accepts, and then he also asks uh Sears to forgive him for you know believing he was guilty of like all the crimes that he was accused of and betraying James and Lily and all that stuff. And Sirius also forgives him. So they're kind of making amends, forgiving each other. And at this as they're doing this, they're both rolling up their sleeves so casually, and they're like, Well, now that we've cleared the air, the truth is out. Shall we proceed to the killing? Shall we do it together? And Lupa.

SPEAKER_01 44:41

Everyone have their utensils.

SPEAKER_04 44:42

Everyone wants.

SPEAKER_01 44:43

Let's get ready to dine.

SPEAKER_04 44:45

Everyone wants out, roll up your sleeves. Shall we do it together? We shall. Peter's like, you wouldn't. Like, you won't. Like, no, like, Peter, do you think these people are playing with you? Like, they've waited seriously. We're 12 years from this. Like, this ain't no like, oh, try me if you want to. This is like you're about to die. So now Peter makes his last attempt and he scrambles over to Ron. And he says, Ron, haven't I been a good friend to you? A good pet? Like, you won't let them kill me. Like, I've been your scabby wabby for the last 12 years.

SPEAKER_02 45:10

Ew!

SPEAKER_04 45:12

But no, literally, it says that reaction was perfect because it says Ron was staring at Peter with the utmost revulsion. And Ron says, I let you sleep in my bed, bitch.

SPEAKER_00 45:24

Yeah.

unknown 45:25

E.

SPEAKER_04 45:28

It's so funny adding the E in front of yuck because it just adds that extra emphasis on how disgusted you are. Like, get the fuck. So again, Peter is just like pleading to Ron. He's like, kind boy, kind master. Like, you won't let them kill me. Like, I was your rat. I was a good pet. Black jumps in to say, if you made a better rat than a human, then it's not much to boast about, bitch. Like, you you are like, that is a good arreat. Like, you are saying how good of a rat you are. But what about your human character? Like, please. So Ron is just like, just Ron is just disgusted. And of course, Peter's like grasping onto his broken leg, trying to save himself. And yeah, it's not looking good. So now Peter turns to Hermione and it's like, sweet girl, clever girl, like you won't let like kill me, help me. Obviously, because you know he thought he Hermione was on his side for a second. And Hermione's like, please get the fuck away from me. And she just backs away, like looking horrified at Peter's disgusting ass.

SPEAKER_01 46:17

She's like, Cook Shanks, let's go.

SPEAKER_04 46:19

Literally. And finally, Peter turns to Harry and says, And he tries to pull the you look just like your father card. Bitch, don't even try that.

SPEAKER_01 46:27

The one you had you killed.

SPEAKER_04 46:29

The one that you betrayed, the one that you caused to die, like please.

SPEAKER_01 46:33

Like I have even Aunt Marge wouldn't go that low.

SPEAKER_04 46:37

And Black is so pissed at the thought of Peter even mentioning Harry's father to him. He's like, How dare you speak to him? How dare you face him? How dare you try to like plead to him and like mention James? Like, get the fuck away from him. And again, Peter's just like pleading, pleading, pleading. And Peter says, Harry, James wouldn't have wanted me killed. James would have understood Harry. He would have shown me mercy. Now at this point, both uh Sears Black and Lupin step forward to like get Peter out of Harry's face and throw him back onto the floor, ready to finally kill him. And they're like, You sold Lily and James to Voldemort. Do you deny it? Like, this is your final chance. Like, do you deny it? Like, are you guilty?

SPEAKER_01 47:16

Like, Judas, do you deny it? Yes or no?

SPEAKER_04 47:19

Are you guilty of the crimes that you're being committed of? And Peter just burst into tears. It was just horrible to watch this grown man on the floor pleading for his life, crying like a baby. Like, just very embarrassing. And Peter says, Sirius, like, what could I have done? The Dark Lord, you have no idea. Like, he has all these spells and evil dark arts at his disposal. Like, I was scared. I was never brave like you and Remus and James. Like, I never meant for it to happen, but like Baltimore like forced me to. And Sears lie Sears just like yells out, don't fucking lie. Like, you have been passing information to him for years. A year before Lily James died, you were their spy.

SPEAKER_03 47:54

Hmm.

SPEAKER_04 47:55

Okay, Sirius, if you're saying that you knew, well, maybe this is after the fact that he kind of came to this conclusion that Peter had been passing information to Baltimore. So I was like, you better not have known that information beforehand. Because that wouldn't have made sense then.

SPEAKER_01 48:07

Because then Luke and King.

SPEAKER_04 48:09

Because then that would have been dumb. So maybe after the fact when he had time to think in his time and ask a band. But so he's like, Yeah, bitch, stop it. Because you were being a snake ass, uh sly ass bitch long before the final betrayal. And Peter's like, well, he was taking over everywhere. What was there to gain by like refusing him or trying to like refuse joining him or whatever? And Black Sears is like, what was there to gain by fighting the most evil wizard who has ever existed and kind of like trying to like stop him from like getting more power? Like, you are fucking ridiculous. Like, maybe the goodness of humanity and saving the world, like you are fucking disgusting. And Peter is like, you wouldn't have understood, he would have killed me. And Sears is like, Well, bitch, you should have died then, motherfucker. If he was gonna kill you, you should have motherfucking died. You should have died rather than betray your friends, and that's what we would have done for yours rat ass. And Black and Lupin have shoulder to shoulder, hand in hand, they have their wands raised. And Lupin says, You should have realized that if Voldemort didn't kill you, we would have, after your betrayal, goodbye, Peter. Goodbye. Hermione covers her face because I'm sure this is traumatic as fuck for a 14-year-old about to witness a man's murder. And Harry at the last minute yells no. And he runs.

SPEAKER_01 49:25

They should have ended the chapter right there.

SPEAKER_04 49:27

Yeah, that that was a good one.

SPEAKER_01 49:28

And then picked it up. Come on, Jason.

SPEAKER_04 49:30

Yeah, because what do you mean, Harry saying no, like to this? Like, no, like that. That would have been a great cliffhanger. Because, like, oh, what do you mean Harry saying no? Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 49:37

I would have ripped my page trying to flip that shit.

SPEAKER_04 49:39

So Harry runs forward and places himself in front of Peter Pettigrew and in front of Cyrus and Lupin's wands and says, You can't kill him. You can't. And both Cyrus and Lupin are like, wait a minute, what the fuck? Like, what do you mean? Like, Harry, like this rat, this piece of vermin is a reason why you have no parents. Like, this is what you bitch. If I was serious back, I was like, bitch, you were about to kill me for the same exact thing. What do you mean you get like I can't kill him? Like, what? And Black is like, Well, this filth would have seen you die too without even caring. Like, damn near, actually, if you think about it, yeah, because literally he was okay with not only your parents dying, but you dying as well. It was only because of whatever happened that you didn't die alongside your parents. But he would have been okay with you dying as well if it kept him, if it meant him still being alive. So they're just saying, like, literally, his own saving his own self meant more than your whole family. And Harry's like, I know, but we'll take him up to the castle, we'll hand him over to the mentors. He can go to Azkaban, but we can't kill him. And Harry and Pettigrew flings his arms around Harry's knees and just like, he's like, Oh, thank you so much, kind sir. Thank you, thank you, thank you. It's more than I deserve. Thank you. And Harry's like, get the fuck off me. I'm not doing this for you, bitch.

SPEAKER_01 50:55

Like, he's like, You ain't Dobby. I don't want to hear none of this.

SPEAKER_04 50:59

He's like, I'm not doing this for you. I'm doing it because I don't reckon that my dad would have wanted his best friends to become killers just like you. Like, I'm sure that's not what my dad would have wanted from my friends. Not only that, but also if Peter dies now in this moment, then Sirius Black would all like just remain like he wouldn't be able to clear his name if Peter wasn't alive. So they need Peter alive and they need him to be turned over to Azkaban and for the truth to come out for Sears to be cleared of all charges and stuff like that. So it's smart thinking on Harry's part. And so Sirius and Lupin concede that you know what, you're right. You will have the ultimate say because it is your parents that were killed because of his betrayal or whatever. So they put their wands down and said, he can go to Azkaban. If anyone deserves that place, he does. And Peter's like, shit, I'm not dying, so I'll take that. So he's like, okay. So Lupin tells Harry to stand inside and that he's gonna tie him up, and that's all he's gonna do. He's not gonna hurt him, he's just gonna tie him up. So Harry steps out of the way, and Lupin, some cords shoot out of Lupin's wand, and Peter Pekaroo is all tied up now, on the floor, bound, gagged, imprisoned, ready to go to Azkaban. Now, Cyrus Black says, if you transform Peter, if you even think of turning back into a rat-a-tat-tap, bitch, I will kill you. And Harry says, Can we agree to that, bitch? If he even tries to turn it back into a rat and escape, can we agree to that? And Harry says, Alright, I can agree to that. So finally, Hermione turns their attention to Professor Snape, who is laid out on the floor face down, unconscious. I totally forgot about him, but who cares about him? And Lupin says that there's nothing seriously wrong with him. He'll be alright. After Lupin checks his pulse. And they just uh Lupin says, Y'all were just a little overenthusiast. So they cast the mobili corpus spell, and that kind of levitates Snape's body into the air for it to just like float alongside them back up to the castle. And Lupin picks back up the invisibility cloak, Harry's invisibility cloak, and he just keeps that in his pocket for now. So yeah, so they are now all making their way out of the shrieking shack with Crookshanks leading the way. Ron, Cirrus, Lupin, they're all standing at Peter's side, like holding onto him tight. And it says Ron has such a stoic face, it's almost as if he took this reveal of Peter Pettigrew, like Scabbers being Peter Petigrew, as like a personal insult to him. So he's like, bitch, yeah, you're going to jail for the this traumatic as reveal. And Crookshanks, cat az leads the way out of the shrieking shack, and they all follow out back to Hogwarts. And that is how we end chapter 19 of Harry Potter, the Prisoner of Azkaban, The Servants of Lord of Voldemort, and the Servants Indeed. What do you make of all this?

SPEAKER_01 53:46

That was a lot. That was a lot. I'm glad Snape like got muted really quick because there was so much other stuff to talk about. These are old friends, like they were super, super tight-knit. So this betrayal is personal to them. And yeah, they're ready to kill him. They were ready to kill him. That could have it could have ended the whole book right there. Boop.

SPEAKER_04 54:09

Yeah, absolutely.

SPEAKER_01 54:10

But I'm glad that they made this kind of concession and said no. We do need him, like you said, for Sirius Black's freedom. I mean Ron needs major therapy. Sirius Black also needs major therapy because he really didn't do anything wrong, and he's been in prison in like a very bad he was basically on Riker's Island, the equivalent. And now he's like, Hopefully he'll be free, but I just hope that he'll have someone to talk to. I mean, Lupin seems like a good guy to do that. Oh, Harry, I felt like that was very honorable and noble and mature of him, too. Very Gryffindor. Mm-hmm. Very mature to set that aside and say, no, I still want to do what my parents would want me to do. Even though he doesn't really know his parents. But he gathers this information from the people that know him and know them, and he knows who they're not, and they're not killers. That's for sure.

SPEAKER_04 55:09

So yeah, so we'll see how things continue on. We have three chapters left. So we'll see. We'll see. A really good chapter overall. And we don't get Voldemort Hughes Shall not be named in this book, besides just mentions of him. So it's interesting how he's still connected to the story and still uh a harm to Harry, even just by his mere presence and his past transgression. So we'll see how this continues on into the next chapter, chapter 20, which is titled The Dementor's Kiss. So yeah. Before we go, Alicia, you had a keeping it improv a spin-off.

SPEAKER_01 55:52

So we're trying something different today. This chapter was like a little heavy, so we're gonna end this episode on something kind of light. If you're having a good time, please rate us five stars. So we're trying to complete our goal of the year of 55-star reviews, and we really appreciate it. You can leave us a review on Spotify or on Apple Podcasts. You can send us an OWL post at Harry Sorry I'm late. Podcast at gmail.com. If you have any inquiries for us, we would love to read them on the podcast. But for the game, and y'all can play at home too if you want. We have a little scenario because Ron has really big news to tell his family. So I gave Coda an option to pick a family member to for Ron to talk about this discovery of their pet. This is gonna be a phone call between Ron and Molly Weasley. This is improv, so let's see how we do. Ring ring ring.

SPEAKER_02 56:53

Mom, mom, mom, mom, mom, mom, mom, mom, mom, mom, mom, mom, mom, mom, mom, run, run. Mom, you go, mom. What's happening? Slow down. Slow down.

SPEAKER_00 57:02

Scabus, scabus. I have so much cooking.

SPEAKER_04 57:04

Mom, listen to me. Scabbo's friends. Scabbus. Mom, you know how I said that Scabbus was dead? It turns out he's not dead. It turns out he's a man. It turns out he's a man, mom. He's a grown fucking man, Mom. He's a grown fucking man.

SPEAKER_02 57:20

Mom, you're not listening to me. He's a grown fucking man. He's been a come here.

SPEAKER_04 57:25

Arthur. Now just listen, Mom. I'm gonna put you on screen. Okay, dad, mom, listen. Scabbus, scabbers, my pet rat scabbus has been a grown man this whole fucking time. I've had a grown man sleeping in my bed with me, mom. He's seen me naked. He's seen me walking my wand, mom. He's seen me, he's seen me, he's seen me thinking about Madame Rosmerta, mom. He's seen me thinking about Hermione, Mom, mom, mom, mom. Do you understand what Hermone?

SPEAKER_00 57:51

What about Hermione? Okay, okay, let me focus. Let me focus. Take a deep breath with me.

SPEAKER_02 57:56

Where's Percy? I need someone rational to talk to.

SPEAKER_04 58:01

Mom, listen, excuse my language, but I just have to be frank, Mom. Mom, do you know how wizards can turn into animals? Animagas. You know that concept.

SPEAKER_01 58:11

Like Professor McGonagall and her little catch stick that she likes to do in the beginning of every semester.

SPEAKER_04 58:17

Listen, stop talking. Mom, you know how animals can turn into uh humans. I can't even fucking speak, Mom. I'm so at a loss for words. Okay, you know how wizards can turn into animals, like animakers, like Professor McGonagall turned into cats? Yes. It's just been, I just found out right in front of me, right in front of my bloody eyes, that Scabbus, the pet that has been in our fucking family for the last 12 years, is actually a man by the name of Peter Pettigrew. And you know who Pizza Pettigrew is because you guys went to school with him.

SPEAKER_02 58:47

The man is a Peter, the fucking scummagem's Peter. He's been in our house. Yes, mom. I thought he was a wheezy. I knitted him as well.

SPEAKER_04 58:58

A sweater mama. Fuck your sweater mom. He is a fucking rat, a rat a tat. So we went to the streaking shag because Quickshanks, Harmani's fucking evil ass cat, chased scabbards all the way into the womping willow. So we got into the womping willow and then Sears Black, yes, Sears Black, I know the escaped convict, and I know you sent me the holler in the last year. No, just fucking.

SPEAKER_02 59:22

What were you doing now in the middle of the day?

SPEAKER_04 59:23

I told you, Quickshanks chased scalbous into the womping willow, and I had to go after him. I couldn't lose him again.

SPEAKER_00 59:28

And no one told you to do that. We have given you explicit instructions to stay in the fucking house. In the fucking door.

SPEAKER_04 59:37

Never mind you that. You can beat me for that later. But just listen. So we got into the womping willow and serious black was there, and then he was trying to explain himself, and then Lupin came, and one thing led to another, and they both cast a spell onto Scabbers, and Scabbers turned into a rat right in front of us. So Scabbers turned into a man right in front of us, Mom. And I I I just I I mean, the truth will come out. You'll see it in the paper soon, or Dumbledore will call you, or you need to just come into this motherfucking school, Mom. Come up to this motherfucking school, Mom. There's a fucking man that was posing as a rat this whole entire time.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:06

Arthur, grab the keys to the door. We gotta go.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:09

The Ford Anglia is in the fucking forbidden forest, mom. You guys need the fucking telephone.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:13

Okay, who told you the L4? Because it was not me and it was not your father.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:17

Fuck. Oh mom, okay.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:22

You know I'm about to piss myself. Stop speaking.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:25

Okay, Mom, just get here as soon as you can. Get here as soon as you can. Oh, call fucking Percy. He probably already knows about this from Dome. I just I don't have a pet rat anymore, man. I don't have a pet rat anymore.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:36

Peter, Peter Pettigrew. Oh my god. He had this crush on me and it just felt so insidious. I told you, father, he didn't believe me.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:44

Pizza Pettigrew had a crush on you? Don't you don't you know we don't have to talk about this right now? Because if you think about it, Scabbas always loved going into your room, Mom. He was fucking high.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:55

Oh my god, and I he seen me without my buttons.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:58

He's seen you in all your lady posts.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:00

Oh my god, Ginny! We can't tell Ginny. No matter what, we cannot tell Ginny. She's been through too much. And I'm sorry, Ron, you're just gonna have to keep this a secret. Okay, I think the improv is done.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:14

That was so funny. Wow, okay. Good job, good job, good job. That was overwhelming.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:22

That was really fun. Thank you for that. Oh my goodness. Okay, you see, you see how we just be cutting up on this damn podcast? The least y'all can do is just leave us a possible review, honey. Like just having a good idea.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:32

We earned a performance review, if anything.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:35

A performance, but we'll end it right there. Thank you guys so much for listening to another episode of Harry Star and Mode, the Harry Potter podcast today. We came on to discuss Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Ascomen, chapter 19, The Servants of Lord Voldemort. The servant indeed. Peter Pettigrew, a ratatap man, has been revealed. And who knows what's gonna happen next. But we only have three more chapters to go in this book, and then that's that. That's that. I don't know where we're gonna go from here, but we'll find out next time. Thanks so much. Uh by the time you guys are getting this, probably you're gonna be a day late. Charges to my head, not my heart. Not Alicia's. Look, sometimes an episode is so good it's worth waiting for even if the day late. Okay. Um seriously, I've waited 12 years for his name. We're gonna jump and wait a day after day for an episode. Okay. But it's gonna be something.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:25

And I'm Alicia. We love you.

SPEAKER_04 1:02:27

Thanks for listening.