Ep. 43—Bartys All the Way Down

The Quibbler: A Harry Potter Book Club

Heather Price-Wright & Alex Dalenberg

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4.8 • 783 Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2017

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Oh dear, we are not nice to darling Jo this week. Barty tells an implausible story; McGonagall makes friends with a dog; Dumbledore's eyes do a lot more than sparkle; Harry is appropriately nonplussed; Ron and Hermione are still not really part of it; and Snape helps, I guess? Plus: A piping hot Peter Pettigrew take. This week's chapter: Veritaserum Next week's chapters: The Parting of the Ways & The Beginning

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0:00.0	Barty Jr. would have gotten away with it, too, if it weren't for you meddling kids.
0:06.9	You're listening to the Quiddler podcast, the Harry Potter Book Club for amateur sleuths.
0:12.4	The Dark Lord didn't manage to kill you, Potter, and he so wanted to.
0:18.8	Imagine how he will reward me when he finds I have done it for him. I gave you to him
0:25.6	the thing he needed above all to regenerate, and then I killed you for him. I will be honored
0:32.3	beyond all other death-eaters. I will be his dearest, his closest supporter, closer than a son.
0:42.7	I'm Heather Pricewright.
0:44.4	And I'm Alex Dallenberg.
0:45.9	And we are in the absolutely bat-shit crazy chapter of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
0:54.0	called Veritasirum.
0:55.9	There has already been cursing in this episode, so I guess that must be some kind of record,
1:00.9	but there will continue to be bad language, and there will be spoilers in this episode of the Quibbler.
1:07.1	There will also be some adult themes.
1:09.6	This week's adult themes are self-incrimination, impersonating an officer, bait and switch, parent-aside, and gaping plot holes.
1:20.6	It's actually patricide, isn't it, specifically?
1:23.4	Yeah, it doesn't kill his mom.
1:24.4	It's patricide.
1:24.9	Okay, so patricide.
1:25.9	He kind of kills his mom. In a way.
1:28.1	And gaping plot holes.
1:29.8	Alex, good God, what happened?
1:33.3	In this week's chapter, Harry, Cedric's corpse, and the Tri-Wizard Cup go clunk outside of the maze.
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