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MuggleCast: The Harry Potter Re-Read Podcast

499: Life As An Adult Harry Potter Fan

MuggleCast: The Harry Potter Re-Read Podcast

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News, Arts, Tv & Film, Entertainment News, Books

4.64.5K Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2021

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to our listener and Patron Julia, whose son Wyatt sent us a great question a few weeks ago. News: As we predicted, a Potter television series is reportedly in the works. And, Fantastic Beasts 3 finishes filming this week! In Bonus MuggleCast, available on our Patron, we'll discuss when to expect more news and updates about the third Fantastic Beasts movie. Today we discuss the trials and tribulations of being an adult fan of the Harry Potter series! The hosts discuss whether they've received backlash for liking Harry Potter as adults. How the New York Times Bestseller List  cleverly sidelined Harry Potter back in the heyday to make room for more "adult" book series Eric discovered a 2003 Telegraph article overflowing with derision for adults who like "kids movies" We discuss the United Kingdom "adult edition" book covers, and ask why Scholastic never did the same thing in the United States. Listeners who got into Harry Potter as adults weigh in over on Twitter! When is the best time to get your child into Harry Potter? Julia gives her thoughts! Troll in the Dungeon: Andrew takes on 3 incredible personas and grills the hosts to defend their love of Harry. Quizzitch: What statue resides next to the Prefect’s Bathroom? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:43.9

Welcome to Muggo Cast, you're weekly ride into the Wizarding World fandom. I'm Andrew.

0:48.1

I'm Eric. I'm Micah. And I'm Laura.

0:51.1

This week we're going to be talking about being an adult Harry Potter fan and what it means

0:55.0

to still like Harry. And we're also going to talk with one of our listeners who's parenting

0:59.7

and up and coming Harry Potter fan and that listener is Julia. Hi, Julia. Welcome to the show.

1:05.4

Hi. Thank you. I'm thrilled to be here. Awesome. Yeah. Now you are the mom of Wyatt

1:13.5

who rode in a couple weeks ago and we thought, well, since we want a Harry Potter parent

1:19.8

on the show today, why won't we call up Wyatt's mom and see what's up? The famous Wyatt.

1:25.7

Oh, my goodness. That was hysterical. You guys, your discussion about his question was

1:31.9

it made our day. What was a great question? Honestly, I'm still thinking about it. Yeah.

1:37.4

Let's get your fan to my day. All right. My favorite book is Half Blood

1:41.2

Prince. My favorite movie is Sorcerer Stone. I am a proud Hufflepuff. I don't actually

1:47.0

know my Ilver Morning House and my patronus is a dolphin. I am so glad you said you don't

1:53.4

know your Ilver Morning House because I was just reminded this week that they took down

1:58.1

the Ilver Morning quiz. They did. Is that why you don't know it? Partially. Yeah. I think

2:03.3

I just never took it when it was still there. Guys, this is America's like wishing school.

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