Chapter 31: O.W.L.s | Order of the Phoenix
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🗓️ 5 April 2026
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Join J and Ben as they dive into Chapter 31 of the Order of the Phoenix and discuss Ron riding the high of the Quidditch win, Ernie comparing studying times, the crazy exam schedule, the ancient examiners, the callbacks to other books, the attack on Hagrid and McGonagall and the “vision” of Sirius.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome, dear listeners, I'm Jonathan Carlin. |
| 0:20.7 | And I'm Benjamin Carlin. And I'm Benjamin Carlin. |
| 0:22.5 | And we invite you to join us through the Gryffindor, your one-way ticket to the enchanting world of Harry Potter. |
| 0:28.3 | So grab your wands and dust off your broomsticks and join us as we unlock the dark corridors inside. |
| 0:34.0 | Order of the Phoenix chapter 31. |
| 0:36.7 | O.W.Ls. All right. All right. Big one. Ordinary wizarding levels. Yeah. Yes. So as I was looking at the, at the title of this chapter, O period, W, period, L, period. S. I was like, wait a second, wait a second. Because I feel like the, the S could be like maybe like lowercase or something. I don't know. Right. But then I was like, I think that the chapter titles are just in all caps. So I was like ordinary wizarding levels. S. Skills. Yeah, skills. Well, then I was also like, oh, but there's no period at the end of S. So it's like, |
| 1:11.2 | it is just like an S like owl, like owls. Right. And so I, I like scribbled a little note on my |
| 1:17.5 | page here. And then I was like, wait a second. No, I guess this just works. So whoever gets this |
| 1:24.0 | page is going to see me being just like an idiot. |
| 1:29.5 | Like, wait a minute, wait a minute. |
| 1:44.4 | Work through it. Work through it. I think I did something like that in this chapter as well where I was like, oh, look at this. And then I just crossed it out. And it was like, never mind. That was dumb. I've caught you now. I know. I know. I feel like at this point in time where, you know, in the beginning of this, I feel like our pitch was like, you know, we are Harry Potter experts. And then like sometimes I'm like, wow, this was a really dumb Harry Potter mistake I made. So, um, anyway, that's my bad. But, uh, just as a fun reminder, if you sign up for an annual membership over on our Patreon, we will, uh, basically cut the spine off of our books and we will mail you one of our pages that we will also sign. |
| 2:02.1 | And I will say that with that in mind, because I think we talked about it in the last episode, I just uncorked all of my highlighters and just grab them at random to highlight stuff in this one. |
| 2:12.7 | So it is a very colorful chapter. |
| 2:15.4 | So if you get one of my OWL chapters, I don't know if you could see on the video, it is multicolored and fun. And I love it. And I'm like, I'm just going to do this all of the time moving forward because it looks so much cooler. It's fourth and for always. I literally, I tried to do the same thing. I was going to go watermelon with like pink and green on this one. And I busted out my, I uncorked because I really liked your phrasing it. I uncorked my pink highlighter and it immediately started failing on me. Oh no. And there's this thing where like I will walk through the office to go and get like a new highlighter from like the bin. And the the staff looks at me every single time and they're're just sort of like, you went through another one? |
| 2:51.4 | And it's like, you know, yeah. Nothing has taught me how quickly you can go through a highlighter than this project. That's exactly it. Like, I don't know if it's the paper or if I'm just highlighting way more than I've ever highlighted in my life. I mean, this paper just drinks in the ink, you know. Yeah, you uncork your highlighter. |
| 3:07.8 | The page's drink it in. |
| 3:09.2 | They can't drink it that much. |
| 3:10.2 | It doesn't go through to the other side, though. You're right. Yeah, absolutely. Well, that would be a real problem. That would be dastardly, yeah, to say the least. Okay, so anyway, all of our housekeeping aside, we're going to take a look at the chapter art for OWLs, which is going to feature Harry looking positively appalled while not looking through a telescope. Hermione looking. It's like he was just looking through and he's like, well, my word. |
| 3:33.9 | But of goodness me. Meanwhile, whoever is, whoever is down beyond Hermione is just like nothing to see. I'm still taking my test. I literally wrote, who even is this guy? Who even is this guy? Pay more attention. Probably Ernie McMillan. You know, listen, in my head, it now is. Yeah. Yeah. Then you've got Hermione looking at Harry and she's got like a very like, what's looking at Harry? You know, so Harry's |
| 3:57.6 | looking at the scene. Hermione's looking at Harry and the other guy's looking at the |
| 4:00.4 | guy like a total dork. Right. Hermione's like, what are you doing? Harry's just like, I say |
| 4:04.9 | Hermione. There's commotion of foot down at Hagrid's. All I say. Oh man, but otherwise |
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