Ep. 78—No Fawkes Left to Give

The Quibbler: A Harry Potter Book Club

Heather Price-Wright & Alex Dalenberg

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4.8 • 787 Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2019

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Wow, it’s over! Dumbledore gets one last moment of pure theatricality; Fleur knows she’s got it going on; Hagrid mourns like a Greek chorus; Harry makes an overly noble breakup speech that don’t impress Ginny much; Ron and Hermione canoodle, I guess?; and J.K. goes for yet another ill-advised hetero romantic pairing. Plus: Merpeople! Centaurs! And some random rent-a-priest! This week’s chapters: The Phoenix Lament & The White Tomb Next week: Movie Mini!

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0:00.0	Who's buried in Dumbledore's Tomb?
0:05.7	You're listening to the Quibbler podcast, the Harry Potter Book Club for Undertakers.
0:12.7	Bright white flames had erupted around Dumbledore's body and the table upon which it lay.
0:18.1	Higher and higher they rose, obscuring the body.
0:23.6	White smoke spiraled into the air and made strange shapes. Harry thought for one heart-stopping moment that he saw a phoenix fly joyfully
0:30.0	into the blue, but next second the fire had vanished. In its place was a white marble tomb, encasing Dumbledore's body and the table on which he had rested.
0:43.6	I'm Heather Pricewright.
0:45.3	And I'm Alex Dallenberg.
0:47.7	Can you believe it, Alex?
0:49.4	We made it to the end of book six of the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Half Blood
0:56.3	Prince.
0:56.9	Harry Potter and the Penultimate Prince.
0:59.4	Book Harry Potter and the penultimate installment.
1:02.5	I just love the word penultimate.
1:04.2	It's really satisfying and I remember exactly when I learned what it meant and it was
1:09.2	when I was reading a series of unfortunate events
1:11.8	and one of them is called like the penultimate chapter or something. Anyway, it's a great word.
1:17.5	Very good vocabulary. Congratulations.
1:20.3	Yay.
1:21.0	This week we are reading the chapters called the Phoenix Lament and the White Tomb in this podcast.
1:30.8	We already spoiled everything, so, you know, we might not actually spoil anything this time around.
1:36.1	We might. We will also curse.
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