603: Hi Marge, Bye Marge (POA Chapter 2, Aunt Marge's Big Mistake)
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🗓️ 21 March 2023
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
- Welcome Slug Club member, Sherry! Sherry, who is blind, shares her story of finding the Harry Potter series! Be sure to check out her fan fiction: Sirius Black and Becoming a Father and her book: Haven!
- Andrew and Laura will be discussing the potential ban of TikTok in the U.S. on their podcast, #Millennial. Follow the show for free in your favorite podcast app!
- Main Discussion: Prisoner of Azkaban, Chapter 2: Aunt Marge's Big Mistake
- 7-Word Summary: Aunt Marge enjoys abusing Harry every minute
- What do we make of Vernon's assessment of Sirius Black?
- What do muggle relations offices look like at the Ministry?
- Hogsmeade Permission Slip: Harry learns how to play on Vernon's prejudices
- Aunt Marge was based on J.K. Rowling's grandmother, who preferred her dogs to human relatives
- While Marge is generally nasty to Harry, the gloves really come off when she starts to drink; is this an indictment on abuse levels rising (both verbal and physical) when family members have a drinking problem?
- Did Harry have to sit with Marge on multiple occasions during her visit? Is it actually to protect Vernon?
- Why doesn’t Petunia stand up more for her sister?
- Is Colonel Fubster, Marge’s boo?
- Quizzitch: What name does Harry give to Stan Shunpike when he boards The Knight Bus?
- Next week: We continue with Prisoner of Azkaban, Chapter 3: The Knight Bus
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to MuccoCaster Weekly Riding to the Wizarding World fandom. I'm Andrew. I'm |
| 0:19.0 | Micah. And I'm Laura. This week we are popping open a bottle of brandy and we will analyze |
| 0:25.1 | Prisoner of Azkaban chapter 2, Aunt Marge's big mistake. And to help us with today's discussion, |
| 0:31.6 | we're joined by one of our supporters over on Patreon. Sherry! Hi Sherry, welcome to the show. |
| 0:37.4 | Thank you for having me. I'm very excited. Awesome. It's great to have you. Let's start by getting your |
| 0:44.4 | fandom ID. I am a orphaned door and I'm really a orphaned door. So I do have a strong side of |
| 0:51.9 | helpful stuff too. My favorite book is this book, Prisoner of Azkaban. Yes. My favorite movie, I'm not |
| 0:59.5 | super fond of the movies, but I do love the first one because it brought the magic and the |
| 1:05.6 | wonder to life. My wand is Hazel and Unicorn. My patronus is a horse and I was incredibly disappointed |
| 1:14.3 | because I wanted it to be a dog. I've had guide dogs since I was 17 and I thought my spirit animal |
| 1:20.9 | would be a dog. So I'll just claim, you know, serious or something as my patronus. You know what, |
| 1:28.8 | Sherry? They do say it as our choice as though. So I think you can choose a dog patronus. Yeah, a |
| 1:35.2 | lapardoor like my dog is a yellow lap. And Sherry, when you and I met a few days ago, you told me this |
| 1:42.1 | great story about how you got into Harry Potter. So can you share that with everybody as well? |
| 1:46.8 | Absolutely. So I am totally blind. And most of my life, I read books from the National Library |
| 1:54.8 | Service for the Blind on records or later on cassettes. In 1999, my best friend, and at that time, |
| 2:03.5 | I was 42, so I'm one of those adult fans when the books were first out. My best friend said, |
| 2:11.2 | you want to read this book with me? I said, well, okay, but I thought, what kind of a book is |
| 2:16.4 | called Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone? That sounds pretty stupid. But the joke was on me |
| 2:22.6 | because I fell in love from the first sentence and was overhills, head over heels, and obsessed by |
| 2:29.1 | the end of the first chapter. Harry Potter, the series really, really changed my life before Harry |
| 2:36.0 | Potter came along. In the 90s, we had commercial audio cassettes books, but they were mostly |
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