One Page at a Time: Book 1, Page 138

The Real Weird Sisters: A Harry Potter Podcast

Alice Asleson & Martha Krebill

Tv & Film, Books, Arts

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2026

⏱️ 56 minutes

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This week's episode features Snape's first speaking appearance, both in the books and in the One Page at a Time series. Alice and Martha discuss the wonderful pedagogy behind Snape's Potions lesson as well as Seamus's inherent charisma. Plus, find out which unlikely character is most like a bird!

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0:00.0	Book 1, page 138.
0:03.2	May I have your attention, please?
0:08.2	May I have your attention, please?
0:13.3	Will the real weird sisters please stand up?
0:17.0	We're going to have a problem here.
0:18.6	We're the weird sisters, we're the real weird sisters.
0:20.7	All you are, the weird sisters are fine, but not the v sisters we're the real weird sisters all you are the weird
0:21.5	sisters are fine but not the vickers will the real weird sisters please stand up please stand up
0:26.4	please stand up please stand up hi and welcome to the real weird sisters i'm alice and i'm martha
0:32.8	and today we're here to talk about the 138th page of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.
0:38.7	We both nailed it.
0:40.0	We were exactly where we said we were going to be.
0:43.1	It's kind of crazy because this is much earlier than we both thought it was as far as the plot goes.
0:50.3	I think that I forget.
0:51.5	Spoiler alert, we're in the Potions Master.
0:53.9	Yeah, chapter 8. I guess I just forget how much is packed into the last like three chapters of this book. I guess more like maybe five. And I think also a big part of it is that it takes quite a while before they get to Hogwarts. Right. That makes sense. We've got so much time with the Dursleys and Diagon and all of that. So yeah, I mean, it does make sense. But it definitely like is kind of crazy that we're a third of the way into the book and we're like at Harry's first potions class. Right. His first week of school. It's literally, it's actually more like halfway through the book because there's only 309 pages. True. Yeah, 309 pages. So we're just a little under halfway through. Yeah. I mean, this is, I'm excited for this page, but definitely not where either of us thought it was going to be. Yeah. Well, you live and you learn. And, you know, we don't have a lot of reference pages to go from.
1:44.2	That's exactly right. All we had was that later page when Haggard gave the photo book to Harry. Yeah. Next, next guess in Sorcerer's Stone is going to be better. And I do have to say, like, not to get ahead of ourselves with page ranking, but this is a pretty good page. It's a very good page.
2:01.5	I'm very excited.
2:02.7	Agreed.
2:03.4	Yeah.
2:15.9	The next page would have been really good, too. I just glanced at it. And the previous page, too. I glanced at it when I was flipping to it. And I was like, oh, shoot, I wish it had been that page. But, because, yeah. Yeah. But this page is really good, too.
2:21.2	All of the pages in the Potions Master, I think we probably could have just picked any, and it would have been great.
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