589: 2022 Holiday Gift Guide: If You Like Harry Potter...

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🗓️ 29 November 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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It's our fourth Harry Potter holiday gift guide episode! Join Andrew, Eric, Laura and Micah as they share their latest favorites Harry Potter-adjacent merchandise. Autobiographical works from several of the films' biggest stars are now published, and certain handcrafted and fan-made items are too good to resist. Looking for the gift that your HP-obsessed friend doesn't already have? Start here, with us, on this week's MuggleCast!

This year's holiday gift guide episode features largely Harry Potter-adjacent items for the HP-obsessed friend who has everything, or so they think!
We'd like to draw attention to BookShop.org, where with their special Store Locator page you can support your local bookstore through the purchase of books mentioned on this episode, and all books in general. Check it out!
This year's fiction recommendations include 'The Magicians' by Lev Grossman, the 'Percy Jackson' series by Rick Riordan, the 'Simon Snow' trilogy of books by Rainbow Rowell, Michael Scott's 'Immortal Nicholas Flamel' series, and the 'Eerie-on-Sea' mystery books by the delightful Thomas Taylor.
MuggleCast Patrons chime in with their favorite fiction recommendations, including a series by a familiar name for some of us.
In our "From the Stars" category, Evanna Lynch's Kinder Beauty Box subscription service, her deeply personal autobiography, Bonnie Wright's how-to book 'Go Gently', the posthumously released diaries of Alan Rickman, and Tom Felton's hilarious memoir.
Friend of the show Tylor Starr has recently released The Unofficial Harry Potter Vegan Cookbook, with over 75 mouth-watering recipes we can't wait to try.
Our fanmade recommendations include Heartwood Wands on Etsy, customized HP Bobbleheads for you or your friends, Expedition Roasters' 'Accio Coffee', Frostbeard Studio's magical assorted candle line, and even these flameless floating candles for your home decoration.
Finally, we go truly wild with celebrity prayer candles, celebrity Cameo videos, toilet decals, vintage HP merch from eBay, and more favorites from The New York Puzzle Co.!
If you want even more gift ideas, check out our previous gift guides on Episode 444, Episode 493, and Episode 540.
If you want to support us, consider asking someone to gift you a subscription to our Patreon!
Next week: We return with Chapters 3 and 4 of Chamber of Secrets Chapter-by-Chapter!
This week's episode is brought to you by MeUndies! Visit MeUndies.com MuggleCast for 20% off your first order, and free shipping, with a 100% moneyback guarantee!

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0:00.0	Welcome to Muggle Caster, Weekly Ride Into The Wizarding World fandom, and with the holiday season now in full swing, we thought we'd drop a bonus episode of the show.
0:24.0	Normally we're off this week because of Thanksgiving, but we thought we'd do a little extra one this year to highlight some cool Harry Potter inspired gift ideas.
0:34.0	Did everybody survive Thanksgiving here?
0:36.0	Yeah.
0:37.0	Yeah, I am.
0:38.0	I am so full.
0:39.0	We're totally recording this after Thanksgiving.
0:42.0	I see I'm the only one who like, I have wardrobe changed.
0:46.0	I background changed. Nobody else did anything.
0:49.0	Damn, I consider doing that.
0:51.0	Well, let me take this shirt off for Chloe because you know, I'm sure she's going to be clipping something from social media.
0:57.0	It's more dynamic.
0:58.0	I thought about doing that.
0:59.0	Well done, Micah.
1:00.0	Yeah, we're definitely not recording this right after episode 588.
1:05.0	Wink, wink, hashtag sarcasm.
1:09.0	But anyway, we've done gift guides for four years now, including this year.
1:15.0	The first was our favorite official Harry Potter items, the second and third gift guides were our favorite fan made Harry Potter items.
1:23.0	And this one is going to look at gifts that are going to be great for Harry Potter fans, but not necessarily screaming Harry Potter.
1:29.0	So we're going to start with Harry Potter adjacent and then naturally we're going to get into some Harry Potter stuff, whether official or fan made.
1:37.0	But for more gift ideas, do check out those older episodes. We'll have them in the show notes and we'll plug them again later in today's episode.
1:45.0	Yes, specifically they were 444 493 and 540.
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