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MuggleCast: The Harry Potter Re-Read Podcast

Fame W...alrus (HBP Chapter 4, Horace Slughorn)

MuggleCast: The Harry Potter Re-Read Podcast

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News, Arts, Tv & Film, Entertainment News, Books

4.6 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Help MuggleCast grow! Join us at Patreon.com/mugglecast, and receive a slew of great benefits instantly, including bonus episodes, recording studio access, ad-free episodes, and much more! Listeners can browse our official merch at MuggleCastMerch.com and pick up overstock items from years past at MuggleMillennial.Etsy.com, now more affordable than ever! This week, get ready to apparate to the charming village of Budleigh Babberton - but keep your wands at the ready because something is afoot! Join Andrew, Eric, Micah and Laura as they attempt to find... and recruit an old friend out of retirement! Chapter-by-Chapter continues with Half-Blood Prince Chapter 4: Horace Slughorn The MuggleCast Pensieve segment, highlighting our last discussion of this chapter on MuggleCast #381, features some raspberry jam analysis! Why don’t Dumbledore and Harry simply Apparate into Slughorn’s home? Should Harry have so willingly trusted that Dumbledore was, in fact, Dumbledore, given the danger and uncertainty of the times? What do we think of Dumbledore’s plan to use Harry to lure Slughorn back to Hogwarts—is it clever strategy or subtle manipulation? What does it say about Slughorn that he isn’t aligned with Voldemort, yet refuses to take a stand against him? Slughorn “The Collector” is one of the most morally gray Slytherins of the series How does Slughorn’s casual bigotry—his need to say “You musn't think I'm prejudiced!”—reveal a subtler form of bias in the wizarding world? Does Slughorn’s “collector” mentality mirror real-world networking culture? Isn't the Slug Club just Hogwarts’ version of a professional society? MVP: What's the best perk Slughorn gets from his Slug Club alumni? Lynx Line: Patreons tell us about a talent/accomplishment that would get them recruited to the Slug Club! Participate in our weekly trivia segment by answering this week’s Quizzitch question at MuggleCast.com/Quizzitch! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Micah thinks he's going to make it in the Slug Club.

0:02.2

This is your audition.

0:04.2

There genuinely are academic societies for high-performing students.

0:10.6

Oh, I wouldn't know.

0:12.1

I'm not saying whether or not that's fair, but like it is a thing.

0:16.0

As Ravenclaw's, Laura and I would find ourselves invited by Professor Slughorn.

0:20.0

Spoken like a true slug club member. You got to get an end somehow. True. Welcome to Mugglecast, your weekly ride into the world of Harry Potter. I'm Andrew. Hello, everyone. I'm Eric. I'm Micah. And I'm Laura. We're your Harry Potter friends here to talk about the books and the movies and the upcoming TV show.

0:38.5

So make sure you follow us in your favorite podcast app so you never miss a week with your Harry Potter friends.

0:43.8

And this week, we hope you've studied up on Albus's favorite jam because chapter by chapter continues with chapter four of half blood prints, Horace Slughorn. That's how I imagine

0:55.8

that, who-hoo, sounds. I was going to say, as a unique take on that. Yeah, like the Pillsbury

1:03.3

doughboy. Like, who-hoo. Yeah, it kind of sounds like Super Mario. What? Woo-hoo.

1:07.6

Yeah. If you love Mugglecast and want to help keep this show tidier than a home slughorns blown through,

1:14.0

we invite you to become a member of our community at patreon.com slash Mugglecast.

1:18.7

And by joining, you'll get instant access to two bonus Mugglecast episodes every month,

1:23.6

plus add free episodes, access to our live streams, a personal video thank you message from one of the four mugglecasters, a new physical gift delivered by Al each year, and much more.

1:34.3

Laura, what are we doing in bonus mugglecast this week?

1:37.4

In bonus this week, we're going to be playing an old school game of would you rather, except it's going to be wizarding world edition. So think

1:45.3

things like, would you rather have Snape as your head of house or Umbridge as your defense against

1:50.9

the dark arts teacher? Um, I heard from a little bird before we started recording that the

1:58.1

lineup of would you rather scenarios we have for this week is not dirty enough to go behind the paywall.

2:06.1

So I have a feeling there's going to be a follow-up segment to this one where we get a little more a little more fast.

2:13.1

Who are you calling little?

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