Chapter 28: The Madness of Mr. Crouch | Goblet of Fire

Through the Griffin Door

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🗓️ 1 June 2025

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Join J and Ben as they dive into Chapter 28 of the Goblet of Fire and discuss King George, Percy’s redundant letter, Winkey and her hiccups, owl talk, Hermione’s hate mail, NIFFLERS!!! Leprechaun gold, Mrs. Weasley’s reaction to the article, Krum taking Harry aside and finding Mr. Crouch raving.

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0:00.0	Welcome, dear listeners, I'm Jonathan Carlin.
0:20.4	And I'm Benjamin Carlin. And we invite you to join us through the Griffin Door, your one-way ticket to the enchanting world of Harry Potter. So grab your wands and dust off your broomsticks and join us as we unlock the riddles inside. Goblet of Fire, Chapter 28, the madness of Mr. Crouch.
0:39.3	All right.
0:40.7	All right.
0:41.2	We're starting to get into some real, some real like endgame situation.
0:46.6	We are absolutely getting there.
0:47.9	The last three chapters have all been, or including this one,
0:50.8	have been very like exposition, lore, dense, heavy, lots of information.
0:58.0	Just, it's almost like a, it's like a, it's like a game of overwhelming the reader with
1:03.0	possibilities. Yes, yes, absolutely. Like it's, it's, I mean, and it's wild to me to think like,
1:11.6	what, because, because, Because the experience of the first time reader
1:16.0	is something that I think that all of us
1:18.5	who have, like, lived inside of this universe for so long.
1:22.5	It's like, it's almost like you covet that opportunity
1:25.1	to, like, go back and not know. And not know. But like there's,
1:29.7	there's no way, there's no way on your first pass to, to be like marking it all up so
1:37.6	aggressively. So it's like, I think a lot of times it's, it's easy to just sort of like
1:42.1	skate right on past all of like the little breadcrumbs that
1:45.8	are being left, all the little Mr. X that might be sort of like shifting your attention
1:50.5	this way or that way. But then it's what's even more interesting is like how then when you are
1:56.5	going through it with the fine tooth, fine tooth comb, just how well executed it all is. I know, I know.
2:02.5	It's like, it's very nicely done. Yes. Yes. It's like very, it's very neatly mapped out.
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