581: What if Petunia Had Been Accepted to Hogwarts? And More MuggleMail
MuggleCast: the Harry Potter podcast
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4.6 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 4 October 2022
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
- Hey, Apple Podcast users! You can now subscribe to the show right within the Apple Podcasts app. For $2.99/month, you'll receive early episode releases and ad-free MuggleCast! Thanks in advance for your support.
- We're opening up our Chapter-by-Chapter MuggleMail bag!
- Why was Hagrid sent for Harry?
- How big is the student body at Hogwarts?
- What happened to both sets of Harry's grandparents?
- How did Dudley's pigtail finally get removed?
- Did Harry's Horcrux impact the Dursley's treatment of him?
- What if... Petunia had magical ability and had been accepted at Hogwarts?
- What if... Dudley was a wizard? Would Vernon have disowned him?
- Could House-Elves be responsible for sending the Hogwarts letters?
- Other MuggleMail covers Leta Lestrange, The Elder Wand, Narcissa Malfoy and Remus Lupin
- Should Dumbledore have been sorted into Slytherin?
- Why wasn't Dobby asked to be in The Order?
- Quizzitch: In one of their very first History of Magic classes, which two famous wizards do the students in Harry's class get mixed up?
- On next week's episode: Chapters 9 & 10 of Sorcerer’s Stone: The Midnight Duel and Halloween
- In this week’s Bonus MuggleCast available exclusively to Patrons, we discuss excerpts from Alan Rickman's recently released diary, Truly Madly!
- This week's episode is brought to you by The Happiness Lab Podcast, BetterHelp (get 10% off your first month at BetterHelp.com/MuggleCast) and HelloFresh (use code muggle65 for 65% off plus free shipping at HelloFresh.com/Muggle65)!
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on Mugglecast, it's a MuggleMail episode, but first, since you're a part of fandom and you know what it's like to geek out or something, |
| 0:07.0 | did you know that loving something, anything, like your life depends on it, has a ton of mental health benefits. |
| 0:12.8 | On a special episode of the Happiness Lab podcast, Yale professor Dr. Laurie Santos explores how being part of fandom, |
| 0:19.5 | like Harry Potter, has the power to boost your sense of self, increase your joy, and foster meaningful connection. |
| 0:26.0 | She'll share the scientifically proven happiness perks that being a fan can bring, and why we shouldn't feel guilt or shame over adoring something seemingly frivolous. |
| 0:34.8 | Along the way, she's joined by some top-match nerds, like why author Jennifer Lynn Barnes and Star Trek's Will Wheaton, |
| 0:41.3 | to explore the joy of letting your geek flag fly. |
| 0:44.6 | Check out the Happiness Lab, listen wherever you get your podcasts, we also have a link in the show notes. |
| 1:04.8 | Welcome to Mugglecast, you're weekly ride into the Wizarding World fandom, I'm Andrew. |
| 1:08.6 | I'm Eric. |
| 1:09.7 | I'm Micah. |
| 1:10.7 | And I'm Laura. |
| 1:11.9 | And today we're opening up the Muggle Mailbag to see what listeners have to say about our chapter by chapter series so far. |
| 1:19.6 | It's nice to take this little pause in chapter by chapter and see what our listeners think and spend a little more time with these chapters, |
| 1:27.0 | because we don't want to fly through them too fast. |
| 1:29.9 | I mean, we're not on a fireball after all. |
| 1:32.1 | We're just on a, Nimbus 2000. |
| 1:35.7 | Or a clean sweep. |
| 1:36.8 | Yes. |
| 1:37.3 | We're almost halfway through Book 1 already. |
| 1:39.7 | Can you believe that goes? |
| 1:40.8 | We're going too fast. |
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