Ep. 9—President-elect Gilderoy Lockhart

The Quibbler: A Harry Potter Book Club

Heather Price-Wright & Alex Dalenberg

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4.8 • 783 Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2016

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Heather and Alex talk howlers, mandrakes, and racing brooms, and then things get serious. What does Mudblood mean in 2016? And what other "golden"-haired narcissist who can't stop plugging his books does the new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor remind us of?

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0:00.0	Just a friendly reminder, it doesn't matter who the Minister of Magic is, it's never okay to call someone a mudblood.
0:06.7	You're listening to The Quibbler Podcast, the Harry Potter Book Club for people with hands big enough to reach out.
0:12.7	Me, Gilderoy Lockhart, Order of Merlin, third class, honorary member of the Dark Force Defense League, and five-time winner of
0:23.3	Which Weekly's Most Charming Smile Award?
0:26.6	But I don't talk about that.
0:29.2	I didn't get rid of the abandoned banshee by smiling at her.
0:39.0	I'm Heather Price Wright.
0:40.4	And I'm Alex Dallenberg.
0:42.0	Hey guys.
0:43.0	Yo.
0:44.4	So, sorry, we had it.
0:46.8	We took a hiatus.
0:48.4	It was election week.
0:49.5	We're recording this on Sunday, November 13th.
0:52.8	The election was November 8th. It's been a rough week. So first
0:58.1	things first, before we even do the general top of show stuff, and we just wanted to say
1:05.8	hello. And if you like us are reeling and experiencing some intense emotions and trying to make sense of the world that those of us in the U.S. now live in and seem to have created for ourselves, you know, us too.
1:23.7	And we're here and we're in that with you.
1:36.9	And anybody who's feeling scared or vulnerable know that you have a friend in Heather and I,
1:45.9	and don't be afraid to reach out if you want someone to chat with or just, I don't know, just we're here to listen.
1:51.8	I also just wanted to say at the top of this episode, we weren't sure on Wednesday morning whether continuing to make a podcast about the Harry Potter books was a good use of our time
1:56.9	and was an important way to express ourselves.
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