I like that it don't believe in a show. Yeah.

Yeah. Hello and welcome to witch please a fortnightly podcast about the Harry Potter

world I'm Hannah McGregor and I'm Marcel Cosmon and which is we owe you an apology. We know we promised in the last episode that we are going to start talking about

book five in this episode but that book is too goddamn long so we're gonna play

video games instead. That's right. In an attempt to extend witch pleas infinitely into the future, we're adding a third kind of

episode with a third kind of episode numbering just to make life as hard as possible for all of you.

Our extended universe episodes will feature discussions about

games, fan fiction, and other non-canon expansions of the Harry Potter world. In this first episode we're going to be playing or recently have played

Lego Harry Potter years one to four and here to help us out and by help us out I mean

Invite us into their home and provide the television and the game and the expertise and the snacks are our dear friends and coven mates

Alexandra Carruthers and Brent Bellamy. Hi. Hello. Yep that's them. I guess.

And because this is a whole new kind of episode, we're going to have a whole new set of segments.

So here we go. Listen.

Adaptation isn't always about accuracy and sometimes our favorite representations of the world are those that most stretch reality. At least, that's our favorite representations of the world are those that most stretch reality.

At least that's our theory in The Quibler, our segment on non-canon adaptations,

intermediateity, and refusing to follow the rules.

We love not following the rules.

Is that true? Do we like subversion?

So I had a lot of trouble if that word suggests I don't like it.

It depends.

It depends who makes the rules.

Was it the white man?

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