GTTU 126: Harry Potter Horrors

Guide to the Unknown

Kristen Anderson and William Rogers

Tv & Film, Arts, Comedy

4.7 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2020

⏱️ 81 minutes

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On Episode 126 of Guide to the Unknown: It’s hard to believe we haven’t done this before! LET’S TALK ABOUT HARRY POTTER! WOOOOOOOOO! This week on the show, Will tells the real life stories behind The Hand of Glory and Nagini the snake/lady. Not to mention the odd tales of Borgin & Burkes, The Obscurus, and (shudder) The Trolley Lady. Kristen destroys The Boggart, Thestrals, The Inferius, and Dementors! It doesn’t MATTER if you’re not well versed in Harry Potter, we’ll explain everything you need to know…and then some! SPOILERS! We round it all out with our personal Top 5 Horror Moments throughout the entire franchise! Keep safe, muggles! Be sure to head to BetterHelp.com/gttupod to get 10% off your first month of counseling! Betterhelp can connect with a licensed counselor remotely. You can talk over text or even set up a video chat. Seriously, we've both been doing this and it's great! For full sources and links, visit www.TalkBomb.com/news/gttu126 Find links to every podcast app/twitter account, and every episode at TalkBomb.com/GTTUPod And consider helping us fund the show on Patreon! One-eyed Maestro Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 Vicious by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5013-vicious License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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0:00.0	They do this by administering what's called the Dementers Kiss,
0:04.0	which ain't the kind of thing you lay on your sweetie
0:05.8	in the back of a parked car.
0:07.2	Oh boy.
0:08.7	How that happens?
0:10.1	Cool line.
0:11.1	Is that?
0:11.7	Thank you.
0:20.0	Hello, welcome to Guide to the Unknown. I'm Kristen. And I'm her little brother, William.
0:22.0	And today we are going to be talking about the horror of Harry Potter.
0:26.8	So elements of the Harry Potter series that are actually pretty scary and horror movie-esque, horror-ovel-esque and sweet.
0:34.6	Yeah, if you've been listening to Guy to the Unknown in the past few weeks,
0:37.6	you've probably picked up on a bunch of Harry Potter references.
0:40.4	In these dire times, Kristen and I have been deliberately getting as fun and weird as possible and we keep coming back to Harry Potter in the last few shows so we decided hey
0:49.7	Maybe it's time to do a full on Harry Potter horror dissection.
0:53.6	Right, because there's plenty there if you think about it.
0:56.4	I was pleasantly surprised at how much material we had to draw from here.
0:59.8	A thousand percent.
1:00.8	We've covered Harry Potter a million times before. You may also be familiar if you've kept up with Kristen and my work over the course of years. We used to do another podcast called Book Club Schmuck Club, where we would read and review and discuss books so we covered
1:14.3	all the books there we even did a spin-off podcast that we called Potter Moore just
1:18.6	as you know to have some reason to talk more Harry Potter we We covered the movies that time. So we haven't had a good excuse to get back
1:26.4	into Harry Potter for a while, but Guide to the Unknown has never done a true Harry Potter
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