Grab a pumpkin spice pasty and get cozy.

You're listening to the Quilver podcast, the Harry Potter Book Club for people who are really worried about Neville.

Ah, yes, Harry Potter, our new celebrity.

Butter, what would I get if I added powdered root of Asphodel to an infusion of

wormwood? I don't know, sir. Fame clearly isn't everything. I'm Heather Pricewright, and I'm Alex Dallenberg.

Welcome to episode three. This week, the chapters we are discussing from Harry Potter and

the Sorcerer's Stone are the potion master, the midnight duel, and Halloween.

This podcast will contain...

Explicit language.

Spoilers.

And adult themes.

This week's adult themes include misogyny, literal and figurative trolling, skin lesions in the form of boils all over poor Neville's body.

I'm worried about Neville.

Neville had a rough three chapters.

Lacks safety regulations and adults with creepy and deeply misplaced vendettas against children they have never met.

Because folks, we all come into this world with baggage and whether or not we know it the grownups around us sure as

fuck do so uh buckle your seatbelts for some fox some spoilers and some really really frightening

grownups yeah and yeah no fucks given by some Fox and no fucks given by the grownups.

By Snape in particular.

Yeah, and Dumbledore. Let's be real.

Let's get into it.

When we last left our intrepid heroes, classes were starting at Hogwarts School for

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