It's Morfin Time! (HBP Chapter 10, 'The House of Gaunt')

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🗓️ 16 December 2025

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Help MuggleCast grow! It’s the holiday season and you can get 20% off your Patreon membership at Patreon.com/MuggleCast. Just use code HOLIDAY at checkout and receive a slew of great benefits instantly! And don’t forget, Patreon memberships can be gifted! Get cozy this winter with a MuggleCast hoodie, Laura’s pants, or a long-sleeve tee! And if you’re Down Under, stay cool this summer with a short sleeve tee or crop top. Get 20% off all official merch at MuggleCastMerch.com when using code HOLIDAY at checkout! Pick up overstock items from years past at MuggleMillennial.Etsy.com! This week, we're taking a trip down Gaunt memory lane. Join Andrew, Eric, Micah, Laura, Bob, Harry and Dumbledore as they visit the outskirts of Little Hangleton for a mighty Morfin good time! The new Chamber of Secrets audiobook is now out, featuring Game of Thrones star Kit Harington as Gilderoy Lockhart. Chapter-by-Chapter continues with Half-Blood Prince, Chapter 10: The House of Gaunt. The MuggleCast Pensieve segment highlights our last discussion of this chapter back on MuggleCast #390! With Harry continuing to use the Half-Blood Prince's Potions book, the hosts revisit their original positions about the ethics of Harry’s work. Does the Half-Blood Prince's handwriting provide any clues to their true identity? What conclusions can be drawn from the cards Harry overhears Trelawney reading? Dumbledore claims that much of his lesson time with Harry will be based on the wildest of guesswork. We beg to differ! Marvolo, Morfin and Merope: we analyze the Gaunt family dynamic and their connection to Salazar Slytherin What is the main reason Dumbledore chose to show Harry this memory? MVP: Best Bob Ogden Moment The Lynx Line asks our patrons what Salazar Slytherin would have thought about the Gaunts as his direct descendants. 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	Think about cheese. Make your thoughts cheesier. Now add 100% chicken breast fillet, Chipoplae sauce and amadea cheese melt. And it's giving the new cheesy chicken stack at McDonald's. Did we mention it's cheesy? Cheese. Availments of the 4th of Jan, 226 from 11 a.m. Plus and participation may vary. Subjects availability. Morphan is just like hissing at him literally. Like, you're not welcome here. Get out. Still, if a guy is hissing at me, I'm probably going to back up a little bit. You've been on the New York City Subways too. I think if a rando, like brandishing a bloody knife and a dead snake is hissing at me. I've received the message.
0:41.1	Welcome to Mugglecast, your weekly ride into the world of Harry Potter. I'm Andrew. I'm Eric.
0:46.4	I'm Micah. And I'm Laura. And we're your Harry Potter friends talking about the books and the movies and the upcoming TV show.
0:53.5	So make sure you press that follow button in your favorite podcast app so you never miss an episode.
0:58.7	And this week, prepare your best organic door decorations.
1:03.2	No snakes, please, because we're getting ready to visit the Gaunt family in chapter 10 of Half Blood Prince,
1:08.2	the House of Gaunt.
1:10.2	And before we get to that, just wanted to let everybody know,
1:14.1	Audible's Chamber of Secrets full cast audiobook is out Tuesday, December 16th,
1:19.9	the day that this episode will be released.
1:22.7	Wanted to bring this up because we were very pleasantly surprised by Swisher Stone and very much looking
1:29.1	forward to Chamber of Secrets and the rest of the series. As a reminder, each book is going to be
1:34.1	released on a monthly cadence. So Prisoner of Ascaband will be out in January, gobbled of fire
1:39.5	in February, so on and so forth. With each new book, of course, comes some new characters.
1:45.3	So Kit Harrington,
1:46.8	who you'll know from Game of Thrones,
1:48.6	joins the cast as Gildaree Lockhart.
1:51.9	And Daniel Mays debuts as Dobby.
1:55.4	So looking forward to those.
1:57.7	And we plan to do a review
1:58.9	of the first three audiobooks,
2:00.7	and then again, once the rest of the first three audiobooks and then again once the rest
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