Curses to right of them, curses to left of them, curses in front of them,

volleyed and thundered, stormed at with charms and spells, boldly they rode and well,

into the jaws of death, into the mouth of hell, strode the three wizards.

You're listening to the Quibbler podcast, the Harry Potter Book Club that's not to reason why.

The romping willow, said Harry.

Go!

Somehow he walled it all up in his mind,

crammed it into a small space

into which he could not look now.

Thoughts of Fred and Hagrid

and his terror for all the people he loved,

scattered in and outside the castle,

must all wait.

Because they had to run, had to reach the snake and Voldemort, because that was, as

Hermione said, the only way to end it.

He sprinted, half believing he could outdistance death itself.

We are back.

We are reading the tail end of the tail end of the Harry Potter series,

aka we're in the final throws of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. This week the chapter is called the Elder Wand. There will be spoilers. There will also be some sort of half

spoilers because in preparing for this episode, we realize that we forget the outcome of a few

kind of key moments here. So we'll spoil what happens and then you all will scream into your

phones as you listen to us not remember

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