Hello and welcome to Witch Please, a fortnightly podcast about the Harry Potter world.

I'm Marcel Cosman and I'm Hannah McGregor and since we are talking about giggles today.

Marcel, I want you to tell me about something that has made you giggle lately in the sorting

chat.

I want to tell you about these two students of mine who are so smart and so silly.

They are the classic definition of silly girls and I love them and Neil, friend of the

pod former frequent guest, was their instructor last semester and sometimes we'll just like

talk about how silly and smart they are and how they like, oh, they're just they are such a delight.

I just adore them and so while they do not themselves make me giggle, they giggle so much and it is

just a ray of sunshine in this otherwise very bleak semester. So I want to tell you about them

and I did. Oh, look, they do make me giggle, giggling right now. Yeah, they do. That immediately made

me think about the student who I had the last semester that I taught before my sabbatical.

I had the student who was very, very quiet and very like she was consistently attending. She just

really didn't talk in class and I was doing like little one-on-ones with students just to be like,

how's the class going? Is there anything that like I could be doing more or less of

and she was like, I think it would be helpful if you laughed more. The context here is that I

laughed constantly in class. So she says very seriously, I think it would be helpful if you laughed more

and then she went, it's like incredible. I love it. What a silly goose. What a silly goose.

I love a, I love a giggle. I love a good giggle. A little, a little tee-hee. I make myself laugh

constantly in class and I'm pretty sure that this turns some students like way off of me as an instructor.

But the ones who stick around, they get it. I have really like at this point fully given up

any attempt at like a serious teaching persona and now I'm just like the big gay clown who's teaching

...