Bella! My Loca! (OOTP Chapter 36, The Only One He Ever Feared)

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🗓️ 26 August 2025

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0:00.0	Welcome to Mugelcaster Weekly Ride into the world of Harry Potter. I'm Andrew. I'm Eric.
0:05.1	I'm Micah. And I'm Laura. And the four of us are your Harry Potter friends talking about the books and the movies and the upcoming TV show. So make sure you press that follow button in your favorite podcast app. And that way you'll never miss an episode with your Potter people. And this week we're discussing Order of the Phoenix
0:21.8	Chapter 36, the only one he ever feared. That would be Albus Dumbledore. Thank you very much.
0:30.3	I mentioned the TV show. We do have a bit of a update there. The Harry Potter TV show has
0:36.3	revealed who will be playing some of the
0:39.2	Weasley family. Tristan Harland is going to play Fred Weasley. Gabriel Harland is going to play
0:45.2	George Weasley. Rory Spooner is Percy and Gracie Cochran is Ginny. Any thoughts on these?
0:52.2	We got a cute selfie of them with the actor who's playing
0:55.7	Ron, who is Alistair Stout. They're all redheads. Yeah, they're they're very cute. They
1:01.9	look like a family. I'm glad to see a picture of them bonding. I've seen comments that are
1:08.7	like, this is exactly how I pictured them on my head in the books.
1:11.5	And, you know, it's really nice.
1:12.7	What I loved about this the most, though, is that Chris Rankin had a really sweet story mention of this,
1:18.5	where he talked about it being 25 years since his casting and that yesterday, you know,
1:24.5	these other Weasley's, another Percy was cast.
1:28.2	And he said, so the baton is passed. And that was really lovely. That is sweet. It is great to see the Weasley family
1:35.6	starting to come together. I know we got the casting for Molly not that long ago, but we're still
1:40.7	lacking a few of the Weasley clan, Charlie, Bill, Arthur.
1:46.3	I know none of them really make an appearance till earliest Chamber of Secrets, but given that we got
1:52.1	some characters already confirmed that are in Chamber of Secrets like Malfoy and Fudge,
2:00.0	can we expect an Arthur casting in the not too distant future?
2:04.1	I imagine all these people are already cast because they have the screen test against one
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