Draco Malfoy in Slughorn's office with the poisoned mead.

You're listening to the Quiddler podcast, the Harry Potter Book Club for The Clueless.

Chamber of Secrets all over again, isn't it?

There'll be panic.

More parents taking their kids out of school.

And next thing you know, the board

of governors will be talking about shutting us up for good. I mean, it's always been a bit of a risk

sending a kid to Hogwarts, hasn't it? You expect accidents, don't you? With hundreds of

underage wizards all locked up together, but attempted murder,

that's different. I'm Heather Pricewright. And I'm Alex Dallowberg. Hi, welcome to the Quibbler.

We're back. I am a little less sick, but my voice might still be a little off. So, apologies. This week, we are

reading chapters once again from Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. They are Elf Tales and

Lord Voldemort's request. As usual, spoilers and cursing, you all are used to this drill.

Someone's hammering in the apartment next to us, but apparently random apartment sounds don't always pick up on the episodes.

Yeah, you guys can't hear that loud-ass bird, so...

Which I'm sorry for. It's a nice bird.

Yeah, it's a good bird, but it's very noisy.

We also have some adult themes. This week's adult themes are

ivory towers, toxic masculinity, sports medicine, love triangles, and job interviews. So, Alex,

goodness gracious, what happened this week? In this week's chapters, Ron is recovering in the hospital wing after a near-death experience.

He was poisoned by some mead that wasn't even just slightly off.

It was literally poisoned.

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