Good Harry, Good Harry (OOTP Chapter 33, 'Fight and Flight')

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🗓️ 29 July 2025

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Help MuggleCast grow! Become a MuggleCast Member and get great benefits like Bonus MuggleCast! Patreon.com/MuggleCast Grab official merch! MuggleCastMerch.com Pick up overstock merch from years past, including our 19th Anniversary Shirt! MuggleMillennial.Etsy.com On this week’s episode, we discuss the events of Chapter 33 of Order of the Phoenix, “Fight “and Flight Join Andrew, Eric, Micah, and Laura as they cover the removal of Professor Umbridge from the equation of the greater Sirius rescue mission. Chapter-by-Chapter continues with Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 33: Fight and Flight. Our Time Turner segment takes us back to Episode 471 of MuggleCast, titled “Punk’d.” Does the Ministry really value Umbridge’s life over Harry’s, as she claims? Could Hermione have reasonably predicted to run into the Centaurs, and what was her plan exactly? Overall how brilliant is Hermione’s attempt to be free of Umbridge? It works, doesn’t it? Does Hermione’s talk with Bane show us that she’s prejudiced, when compared to her earlier comment on Firenze to Lavender and Parvati? Do we feel bad for Grawp? A number of threads can be connected between this moment in Book 5 and the end of Book 3. Micah and Laura find a few. Is it right for Harry to allow Ginny, Neville and Luna to tag along to London? Could he have stopped them? Who SHOULD Harry have taken with him to London instead? The hosts discuss. Our Lynx Line patrons answer the question, “Hermione obviously chose the wrong thing to say to the Centaurs explaining why they led Umbridge into the Forest. What should she have said instead? [Wrong answers only]” Quizzitch: Psychologically, human beings respond to threats in one of four ways, all starting with the letter F. TWO of them are “fight” and “flight,” what are the other two? Join in on the fun! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I've ruled out uni because I want to live at home.
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0:30.0	Welcome to Mugglecast, your weekly ride into the world of Harry Potter. I'm Andrew. I'm Eric. I'm Micah.
0:36.3	And I'm Laura.
0:41.7	And we're your Harry Potter friends talking about the books and the movies and the upcoming television show.
0:43.3	Make sure you press that follow button in your favorite podcast app so you never miss an
0:47.4	episode of Muggercast.
0:48.6	We release new episodes every Tuesday.
0:51.3	And this week on the show, we're reminded that karma is a bitch because we're discussing
0:57.8	Order of the Phoenix chapter 33, fights and flights.
1:02.2	Somebody wrote this out in a censored manner at first.
1:04.7	And then I was like, it's in the book.
1:06.5	So, I mean, you know, I say it's fair game.
1:09.6	You're saying it's canon.
1:11.3	Well, I mean, the word bitch because it's in the book, it's, I say it's fair game. You're saying it's canon. Well, I mean, the word bitch, because it's in the book. Of course. It's okay to say in the show. Yeah, that's my role. Okay. I didn't realize that was where we drew the line. Well, remember, last time we were discussing this part of the book, we played Elton John. Yeah. So. Before we jump into chapter by chapter, a couple of important reminders. If you love
1:29.1	this show and want to help us keep it running as reliably as counting on the centaurs to get rid of
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