One Page at a Time: Book 6, Page 488

The Real Weird Sisters: A Harry Potter Podcast

Alice Asleson & Martha Krebill

Tv & Film, Arts, Books

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Martha gets to practice her singing (and just so you know, she actually can carry a tune, unlike Slughorn) as Harry gets some implied help from Felix following Aragog's burial on this week's episode! Plus, find out which legendary character Odo the Hero is definitely based on and what Slughorn most likely did with the acromantual venom he procured.

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0:00.0	Book 6, page 488.
0:03.3	May I have your attention, please.
0:08.3	May I have your attention, please?
0:13.4	Will the real weird sisters please stand up?
0:17.1	We're going to have a problem here.
0:18.7	We're the weird sisters, we're the real weird sisters.
0:20.8	All you are, the weird sisters are fine, but not the v sisters we're the real weird sisters all you are the
0:21.3	weird sisters are fine but not the vickers will the real weird sisters please stand up please stand up
0:26.5	please stand up please stand up hi and welcome to the real weird sisters i'm alice and i'm martha
0:34.6	and today we're here to talk about the 488th page of Harry Potter and the
0:38.9	Halfblood Prince. Oh, Martha, this is going to be a good one. For you, you don't have to do much
0:45.8	on this page when we read it out loud. There's my definition of a good one. There's one, quote,
0:51.4	unquote, paragraph of non-dialogue, and it's one and a half lot, one and a
0:56.9	eighth lines.
0:59.2	Yeah, this is, I feel like I kind of forget frequently about this plot in Halfwood Prince.
1:05.2	So when we were making our predictions, I kind of totally blanked on forgetting the
1:10.4	Aragog side plot.
1:12.0	Yeah, I totally did too.
1:14.2	So just this is in the chapter after the burial.
1:17.3	And we're going to get to hear some singing here, which I'm excited about.
1:20.7	And I had to honestly, like, I couldn't, I know I had predicted like Septum Semper.
1:25.5	I don't remember what you predicted.
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