524: 'Cursed Child' Downsizing, A Wild Snape Observation, Sorting Hat Biases and other MuggleMail

MuggleCast: The Harry Potter Re-Read Podcast

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4.6 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2021

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

It's another MuggleMail episode, folks! But first: The Cursed Child's North American productions are being condensed into one part! What does this mean for the show's future? It's time to announce this year's MuggleCast Patreon physical gifts: Throwback socks and a "Sweet 16" customizable wooden model car! Listeners must sign up to our Patreon and choose their gift by September 1st to be eligible to receive them. Voicemails from listeners concern Petunia's motivations for spying on her neighbors, character maturities, a big fandom moment, and fond memories from the Deathly Hallows, Part 2 red carpet. It's DumbledoreMail galore as listeners write in about the hiding of Ariana, the blood pact and 12 uses of dragon's blood being related, and when phoenixes appear. Could Travers already be working for the Dark side in the time of Crimes of Grindelwald? He's got family history. Bellatrix's comment about Snape's neighborhood leaves one listener asking if his home town puts Snape in hot water with the Death Eaters. That same listener asks why NOBODY told Harry that Snape and Lily were childhood friends! Lupin, Sirius, and Dumbledore all hide that fact for their entire lives. Did the Hogwarts Sorting Hat always reflect Salazar Slytherin's bias? The hosts reflect on which scenes from the Potter films most improved on the books. In this month's Throwback Email, an Australian listener details WW2 references present in Grindelwald's backstory. A new game, "Who Said It?" has us identifying which of us said the excerpt read by Andrew. The participants do not do particularly well! Quizzitch: What is the name for the double agent, working for the British MOM as a bounty hunter, who is secretly taking orders from Grindelwald? Visit MuggleCast.com/Quizzitch to submit your answer! This week’s episode is sponsored by MeUndies! Get 15% off your first order, free shipping, and a 100% satisfaction guarantee at MeUndies.com/mugglecast Support us on Patreon and receive magical benefits, including our new physical gifts! Also access to our recording studio, Bonus MuggleCast, a personalized thank you video from one of the hosts and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to MuggleCast, you're weekly riding to the Wizarding World fandom. I'm Andrew.
0:19.0	I'm Eric.
0:20.0	I'm Micah.
0:21.0	And I'm Laura.
0:22.0	Today's episode is a Muggle Mail episode, and we have a variety of topics to discuss.
0:27.7	Not just the emails, not just voicemails, but also we have two news items to talk about,
0:33.3	and we're announcing the 2021 physical gift for MuggleCast patrons.
0:38.4	And then later we'll play a game in which we try to guess who said certain things on
0:42.4	MuggleCast in the early days of the show.
0:45.4	This game was created by one of our listeners, Micah.
0:48.2	First up, a news item that broke a few weeks ago, but we've been waiting for this Muggle
0:52.2	Mail episode to talk about it.
0:54.6	The Curse Child is going to return to Broadway, Toronto, and San Francisco as one show, no
1:01.1	more two-part Curse Child in North America.
1:05.2	This is following Sagging Ticket Sales, which we've spoken about on the show before.
1:09.3	Here's the thing, according to the site's Q&A page, the new show will be three and
1:13.5	a half hours long, including intermission.
1:16.6	The original two-part show combines those five hours and 15 minutes, including two
1:21.9	intermissions.
1:23.2	So intermissions aside, if we go with my math, which isn't always perfect, but it's
1:29.3	okay.
1:30.3	I did put some thought into this.
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