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MuggleCast: the Harry Potter podcast

628: Did the Dursley's Gifts to Harry Foreshadow 'Deathly Hallows'? And More MuggleMail

MuggleCast: the Harry Potter podcast

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

4.64.4K Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2023

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

It's time to reflect on our recent re-read of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban! Join Andrew, Eric, Micah, and Laura as they open the MuggleMail bag once more to tackle an array of voicemails, e-mails and chicken soup submissions following our recent excursion into Book 3's Chapter-By-Chapter.

  • The MuggleCast 2023 Listener Survey is HERE and is open to all listeners through October 6th! We want to know what you love about the show, what you think could improve it, and what other content you’d be interested in us making.
  • Check out Parts 1 and 2 of Belated Binge Podcast's "Harry Potter: A History" and "Harry Potter: A Fandom" series with Eric!
  • We begin our Book 3 wrap-up by revisiting our 7 Word Summaries and voting on which one should get a re-do!
  • 7-Word Summary of Book 3: Sirius prevails over Ministry officials and Snape
  • Voicemails include: Is there a connection between the Deathly Hallows and the gifts Harry receives from the Dursleys?
  • Does the prophecy's existence explain why Snape picks on Neville? Is there another reason why Voldemort doesn't have hair?
  • Lupin's werewolf depiction may be referenced elsewhere, and the phases of the moon are more gradual than you may think!
  • A listener writes in about Micah's criticism of Time-Turning.
  • Why are Lupin's lesson plans so creature-centric?
  • Is there a reason behind the many strained paternal relationships in HP?
  • Would Veritaserum help crack a Fidelius Charm? And, is being someone's Godfather a special magical bond?
  • Listeners also point out: McGonagall's anti-Divination stance goes back to Book One. And, how does Professor Binns grade papers?
  • One 13-year-old listener made her parents detour around Mount Greylock (we 100% support this).
  • Quizzitch: Who found the Riddle family dead?
  • Next week: Goblet of Fire movie commentary!
  • This week’s episode is brought to you by Better Help (Visit BetterHelp.com/mugglecast today to get 10% off your first month.)!
  • And don't forget you can join our community at Patreon.com/MuggleCast and receive magical benefits, including Bonus MuggleCast! This week, we discuss moments that were cut from Book 4 for the movie!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to MuggleCaster Weekly Ride into the Wizarding World fandom. I'm Andrew. I'm Eric. I'm Micah. And I'm Laura. And this week we're getting Alpost again as we bust open the Muggle Mailbag to get your feedback on Harry Potter and the Prisoner Vask Band.

0:29.8

And boy did we get a lot of great feedback. Micah once again curated it all. And boy do we have according to Micah the best theory he may have ever heard. Oh yeah, coming up. But first we do have a couple of announcements and then we're going to wrap up Prisoner Vask Band.

0:48.8

Laura, you have a important reminder for everybody. That's right. As a reminder, the MuggleCaster 2023 listener survey is live now.

0:57.8

The survey is going to be open through October the 6th. And we want to know what you love about the show. What you think we could do to improve it and what other content you'd be interested in us making in the future.

1:09.8

We're also asking anyone who supports us on our Patreon about their experiences. So we can improve the bonus content over there as well.

1:18.8

The survey is open to all whether you're a Patreon supporter or not. And it will be available through our website in our show notes and across our various social channels.

1:28.8

Again, thanks to everyone who's taken the survey so far and thanks in advance to everyone who will take it here over the next couple of weeks. We couldn't do this without you.

1:38.8

The survey question for non patrons is really simple as two questions question one is are you a patron question to is why not in a way it's like that it's a little more intricate.

1:47.8

Yeah, but yeah, no, it's interesting like this genuinely Laura. You did an amazing job with this. I enjoyed filling it out under various names. And it really does help us. It really helps us.

1:59.8

Yes, you're submissions definitely help us. We'll see now I'm going to have to go through the data and figure out which bogus responses to omit.

2:09.8

I put little easter eggs in there. Don't do that little easter egg. No, no, no. And we shouldn't I we don't want to encourage listeners to start playing around.

2:17.8

No, I'm only I'm only adding humor. So like people like it sparks the engagement of like people going and doing guys do this Laura worked really hard on it and we're going to use it.

2:25.8

We're going to use the info for for growing the show in a way that you desire for a lot of fun things.

2:31.8

You can help us shape the future of the show. So please don't hesitate to fill that out. And so we mentioned Patreon. Micah, we do bonus bonus bonus twice a month.

2:39.8

And we're recording a new one today, right? What can listeners expect later this week?

2:43.8

Yeah, we're recording a new addition of bonus muggle cast today. And given that we are just about to start goblet of fire.

2:52.8

We did our goblet of fire movie commentary last night. I think a time turner has to be involved in some way to have this all make sense as we talk about it here.

3:04.8

But yeah, given that inspiration, I thought it'd be fun to talk about what didn't make the movie.

3:12.8

So it's actually a good thing we watched the movie last night. And now we're going to talk about what we love so much in the goblet of fire book that didn't make the cut for the film.

3:22.8

But certainly could be a possibility for the Harry Potter TV reboot. Yes. And should be in many cases. Yeah.

3:30.8

It's going to be a long season of that show. But yeah, so that'll be a lot of fun to discuss at patreon.com slash muggle cast this week.

3:37.8

So Micah, you also dropped a new playlist on Spotify. We've all done playlists and last but not least you created a playlist for us for listeners.

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