Ep. 33—Never Trust a Cup to Do a Hat's Job

The Quibbler: A Harry Potter Book Club

Heather Price-Wright & Alex Dalenberg

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4.8 • 787 Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2017

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Are you ready for more: DANGEROUS CLASSES! DRAMATIC ENTRANCES! INSANE METHODS OF TRANSPORTATION! TEEN HEARTTHROBS! MONSTERS! NONSENSICAL PLOT TWISTS!? Then you've come to the right place. The foreigners have arrived, and everyone at Hogwarts is losing their mind. Hagrid uses hair gel, Ron mumbles incoherently about French stew, and a stupid cup decides the fate of all our heroes. This week's chapters: Beauxbatons and Durmstrang & The Goblet of Fire Next week's chapters: The Four Champions & The Weighing of the Wands

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0:00.0	You know when you lie on your resume, but you get the job anyway, and then you're fighting
0:04.9	dragons? Yeah, it's kind of like that. You're listening to the Quibbler podcast, the Harry Potter
0:10.1	Book Club for the underqualified. I wish to impress upon any of you wishing to compete that
0:15.6	this tournament is not to be entered into lightly. Once a champion has been selected by the goblets of fire,
0:24.5	he or she is obliged to see the tournament through to the end. There can be no change of heart
0:31.9	once you have become a champion. Please be very sure, therefore, that you are wholeheartedly prepared to play before
0:41.6	you drop your name into the goblet. I'm Heather Pricewright. And I'm Alex Dallenberg. I guess
0:49.2	Harry doesn't really lie on his resume, but we'll get to that. Friend George, too. Somebody lies on Harry's resume for him.
0:55.8	Yeah.
0:56.3	Which is a weird plot twist.
1:00.8	We're reading Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire in case you couldn't tell.
1:04.2	Our chapters this week are Bo Boutin and Dermstring and The Goblet of Fire.
1:09.6	Isn't it fun when the name of the book is in the book itself?
1:13.5	Sorry about our unscheduled absence last week. We just like, we needed a minute. And this is a
1:22.0	public service announcement that all of y'all should take a minute when you need it too. We are
1:26.8	trying to be good models of mental health and hygiene.
1:30.4	Don't be like Harry.
1:31.5	Or Hermione.
1:32.2	Or Hermione.
1:33.0	More to the point, Hermione.
1:34.3	Yeah.
1:34.8	Give yourselves a break.
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