7.17 Bathilda's Secret

The Real Weird Sisters: A Harry Potter Podcast

Alice Asleson & Martha Krebill

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4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2019

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

The Christmas fun continues as the bald man and the little woman head to old Batty's house. To be fair, she was very persuasive and acting totally normal! This is one of Voldemort's weakest plans that should have never worked, but to Hermione's surprise, Harry's mistake was not failing to close his mind, but failing to learn what Parseltongue actually sounds like. This chapter is powerful stuff, and not even just for a house elf, sir.

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0:00.0	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Chapter 17,
0:04.0	Bethilda's Secret.
0:06.0	May I have your attention please.
0:09.0	May I have your attention please.
0:12.0	May I have your attention please.
0:13.0	Will the real weird sisters please stand up?
0:19.0	We're going to have a problem here.
0:22.0	Were the real weird sisters all you are the weird sisters. We're the real weird sisters. All you are the weird sisters are fine,
0:25.3	but not the Vickers. Will the real weird sisters please stand up. Please stand up. Please stand up.
0:30.5	Please stand up. Hi and welcome to the Real Weird Sisters.
0:35.0	I'm Martha and I'm Alice.
0:37.0	And today we're here to talk about Chapter 17 of Harry Potter and the Deathly
0:40.8	Hallows.
0:41.8	You are Potter?
0:44.0	Yes, I last.
0:48.0	I guess I should have rephrased that into my other language like you answered in. Well I'm just saying like I heard it correctly when you said that so it makes sense but then when I responded that's how I responded. I see yeah well I should also say come. Oh so
1:08.1	creepy yeah this is a weird chapter Alice a real weird I would say no I don't know you were saying that you thought it was
1:17.0	very weird I do find it weird in an extremely creepy way it definitely is one of the darkest chapters of the
1:25.5	series. I really really enjoy it though. I like it to I think I'm maybe not quite as high on it as you are. I think it's interesting
1:36.0	but I'm kind of, I don't know, I'm not super high on the chapter itself. I think it's kind of just a little too strange for my liking.
1:45.0	It's kind of perfect that we're reading this during the Halloween season because even though this is set at Christmas,
1:50.0	it is definitely a very Halloweeny feel to it. It's very a very halloweeny feel to it.
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