Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by JK Rowling

The Book Pile

Kellen Erskine and David Vance

Comedy, Arts, Books

4.8 • 598 Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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The longest Harry Potter book, and the only one that is named after a city in Arizona. We explore how the emotions of this book resonate so forcefully, why it pays off so effectively, and why Professor Umbridge is basically worse than Voldemort (fun fact, Stephen King called her, "...the greatest make-believe villain to come along since Hannibal Lecter"). Plus, Dave thinks the prophecy changes nothing, and Kellen barely makes it through discussing the most bonkers section of the Departm...

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0:00.0	Hey everyone. Today we cover the last book in the five-part Harry Potter series, Order of the Phoenix.
0:05.3	Going to be honest, it leaves things unresolved. I'm Kellaner Skin. I'm a comic, a father,
0:11.7	and while I was reading this long book to my kids, they grew up, went to college, got married,
0:17.2	and had their own kids. All with a lot of angst.
0:21.2	And I'm David Vance.
0:22.3	I wear glasses and once lived in South America, and I kid you not, the neighborhood
0:25.9	kids all called me Harry Potter.
0:35.6	Harry Potter in the Order of the Phoenix is a 5,000-page Russian novel about a Leningrad serial killer murdering journalists.
0:42.1	It won the Newberry Medal.
0:44.2	And this is the bookpile.
0:46.9	So a quick reminder to please rate and review the bookpile.
0:49.3	This week there's a special deal where if you leave a review, you get to Snog Kellyn.
0:53.7	Offer only applies to the first
0:55.2	10,000 reviews. Snogging has got to be the slang word for kissing that has the least
1:04.5	onomatopoeia. Not the way I do it. Snogging is the word that parents gave to kissing to make it sound gross so kids wouldn't do it.
1:15.7	A reviewer named Shisha says,
1:19.2	These guys are very funny.
1:20.5	I've never enjoyed a podcast as much as I enjoy listening to the book pile.
1:24.6	If you're feeling down, these two are the perfect pick me up.
1:29.5	That's great.
1:30.7	Yeah, very nice.
1:31.7	It's hard to, like, I don't want to make fun of someone who is, like, using us as an antidepressant.
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