Fudge's Therapy Session (HBP Chapter 1, The Other Minister)

MuggleCast: The Harry Potter Re-Read Podcast

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🗓️ 7 October 2025

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Help MuggleCast grow! Join us as our patron at Patreon.com/mugglecast, and receive a slew of great benefits instantly, including more than 60 hours of bonus recordings, 30 hours of chapter readings, and much, much more! Listeners can browse our official merch at MuggleCastMerch.com and pick up overstock items from years past at MuggleMillennial.Etsy.com! That new assistant named Kingsley is a high performer! This week we're starting our Chapter by Chapter re-read of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, and discussing all the problems that Cornelius Fudge has just dumped on the British Prime Minister's doorstep. It's a rare Harry-less chapter this week, titled "The Other Minister." News: Congratulations to SIR Gary Oldman! (He really puts the Sir in Sirius) Chapter by Chapter continues with Half-Blood Prince Chapter 1: The Other Minister Where were the hosts when the sixth Potter book came out? It was only 3 weeks shy of MuggleCast's first episode! The MuggleCast Time-Turner segment is now the MuggleCast Pensieve! It's Book-6-themed and, this week, flashing back to MuggleCast #376, from July 16, 2018! The hosts compare favorite chapters and discuss this is one of them. The poor British PM believes the chaos was his to own, only to find out that the wizards are at fault for all of it! Do wizards have a superiority complex? It sure seems like it, around the Muggle PM. Is this chapter tied to a particular politician or administration from years past, when the book was set? Or perhaps when it was written? The hosts speculate. Is the portrait of the "frog-like" man (Umbridge's dad?) a privacy concern for the Muggles? MVP of the Week: Who was the best working man in this chapter? Lynx Line: What event from human history was magical in origin, but was covered up between the two governments? Participate in our weekly trivia segment by answering this week's Quizzitch question at MuggleCast.com/Quizzitch! On Bonus MuggleCast, we discuss the newly released album art for the upcoming full cast production audiobooks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:15.0	And the fact that Fudge would be a little bit looser with the Muggle Prime Minister,
0:20.7	one reason could just be because he knows that this person's not going to share any of this
0:25.9	information with anybody else.
0:28.0	So even if he praises Dumbledore, it's not like the Muggle Prime Minister is going to go run and tell
0:32.9	him.
0:33.5	It's like his therapist.
0:35.0	Dumbledore is so cool.
0:35.6	It's almost like a therapy session for Fudge. Welcome to MuggoCast, your weekly ride into the world of Harry Potter. I'm Andrew. I'm Eric. And I'm Micah. And we are your trio this week. We're your Harry Potter friends talking about the books and the movies and the upcoming TV show. So make sure you press that follow button in your
0:54.8	favorite podcast app. And that way you'll never miss a week with your Harry Potter friends.
0:59.2	And this week, a new chapter, if you will, of Mugglecast because we are kicking off our
1:04.6	chapter by chapter reread of Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. But first, if you love this show and want to help us keep it running as smoothly as
1:14.4	Scrimgeurs' lion-esque luck's feel, we invite you to become a member of our community at patreon.com
1:20.8	slash mugglecast.
1:21.8	And by supporting us there, you can get instant access to two bonus episodes every month,
1:27.9	plus add free episodes of Muglcast, access to our live streams,
1:31.8	a personal video thank you message from one of the four Muglcasters,
1:35.8	a physical gift delivered by Al each year, and a lot more.
1:41.0	We'll actually have a new bonus out this week in which we're analyzing the full cast
1:45.0	audiobook covers, which were just released by Audible. They are beautiful and very unique.
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