You've got owls.

You're listening to the Quiddler podcast, the Harry Potter Book Club for people who remember dial-up.

Wush!

With a clattering, a whirring of wings, and a soft fall of dust, a fourth owl came shooting

out of the kitchen fireplace.

For God's sake, roared Uncle Vernon, pulling great clumps of hair out of his moustache,

something he hadn't been driven to in a long time.

I will not have owls here. I will not tolerate this, I tell you!

I will not have any more owls in my house.

I'm Heather Price, right? And I'm Alex Dallenberg. And I remember Dialup. I also remember

dial-up. I would talk to my boyfriend on AOL Instant Messenger for hours and hours and hours after school,

and I would totally tie up my family's phone lines. So if something bad had happened, we just never would have known because I would have been aiming.

I think they just, they finally shut down A AOL instant messenger like pretty recently.

That's tragic.

RIP.

That was a major part of my adolescent awakening.

Yeah, mine too.

I think all of ours.

I have a very certain like late millennial experience to be having.

We are on a little vacation this week.

So we have a mailbag episode to tide you over until we do our next chapters.

So you will continue to hear spoilers and plenty of cursing on this episode, but we are not discussing particular chapters of Harry Potter.

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