One Page at a Time: Book 6, Page 388

The Real Weird Sisters: A Harry Potter Podcast

Alice Asleson & Martha Krebill

Tv & Film, Arts, Books

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

This week's One Page at a Time takes Alice and Martha to the 388th page of Half-Blood Prince, which takes place in "Birthday Surprises" but doesn't include any actual birthday surprises. Harry obsesses over Malfoy on the Marauder's Map, while Alice and Martha obsess over the feasibility and scale of the map.

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0:00.0	Book 6, page 388.
0:03.0	May I have your attention, please.
0:09.0	May I have your attention, please?
0:15.0	Will the real weird sisters please stand up?
0:17.0	We're gonna have a problem here.
0:19.0	We're the weird sisters, We're the real weird sisters.
0:21.7	All you are, the weird sisters are fine, but not the vickers. Will the real weird sisters,
0:25.3	please stand up, please stand up, please stand up.
0:30.0	Hi, and welcome to the real weird sisters. I'm Alice. And I'm Martha. And today we're here
0:34.8	to talk about the 388th page of Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince.
0:40.1	Martha, we're back to Half Blood Prince.
0:42.5	And I think your prediction of where we were going to be in the book has once again come fairly true.
0:49.3	Well, I'm very proud of myself.
0:51.1	I predicted it would be from the Birthday Surprises chapter.
0:54.1	And it is, in fact, in Chapter 18, birthday surprises. However, it is not from the titular birthday surprises scene, which I'm sad about because I was really hoping it would be. What did I predict? I don't remember. I don't even remember, but... I don't remember either. I think you
1:11.1	might have said that you guessed or you agreed with me, but... No, I think I made you guess first,
1:15.8	because I usually guessed first. I think I said like a slughorn lesson or something. Yeah, you did.
1:19.9	You said a slughorn lesson. That's right. But you were definitely right about approximately
1:24.6	where in the book we would be. And yes, like you said, not actually
1:29.2	from that scene, but I think we'll make a meal out of this no matter what. Yes, I think so too.
1:36.2	Before we get too far, we do have quite a bit of housekeeping because we have our two band name
1:42.4	and album name polls that we haven't updated the listeners on, Martha.
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