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The Quibbler: A Harry Potter Book Club

Ep. 39—Bubotuber Pus Remix

The Quibbler: A Harry Potter Book Club

Heather Price-Wright & Alex Dalenberg

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4.8783 Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2017

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

There are only two actually funny things in this episode; sorry. They are bubotuber pus and nifflers. Otherwise, it's hate mail, torture, authoritariamism, more torture, family drama, enslaved elves, alcoholism, trauma, literally even more torture, and oh, Sirius is starving to death. Cool. This week's chapters: Padfoot Returns & The Madness of Mr. Crouch Next week's chapters: The Dream & The Pensieve

Transcript

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0:00.0

Blow winds and crouch thy cheeks.

0:05.6

You're listening to the Quiddler podcast, the Harry Potter Book Club for tragic heroes.

0:12.4

Don't leave me.

0:15.4

I escaped.

0:17.4

Must warn, must tell.

0:20.1

See Dumbledore.

0:21.8

My fault.

0:23.3

Oh, my fault.

0:25.3

Bertha.

0:26.6

Dead.

0:27.6

Oh, my fault.

0:29.2

My son.

0:30.9

My fault.

0:32.8

Tell Dumbledore, Harry Potter, the Dark Lord, stronger.

0:39.3

Harry Potter.

0:42.2

I'm Heather Pricewright.

0:43.6

And I'm Alex Dallenberg.

0:45.0

And for those of you keeping score at home, that is a King Lear reference, which is significantly older than Alex's references in general, but also, thank God, not an 80s movie.

0:55.4

So.

0:55.9

There was probably an adaptation in the 80s.

0:58.3

I mean, as soon as an actor with a British accent gets kind of salt and peppered, he's going to be, he's asked to play King Lear, so I'm sure there was.

1:06.9

Gary Oldman certainly is playing Lear somewhere.

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