Pickup On Aisle 97 (OOTP Chapter 34, The Department of Mysteries)

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🗓️ 5 August 2025

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Help MuggleCast grow during our birthday month! To celebrate MuggleCast turning 20 this month, listeners can get 20% off an annual subscription to our Patreon with promo code 20YEARS. We’ve never offered this large a discount before, but this large of an anniversary calls for a very special deal. So visit Patreon.com/MuggleCast and pledge today! Patrons can also get a 20% discount on official merch at MuggleCastMerch.com! Pick up overstock merch from years past, including our 19th Anniversary Shirt! MuggleMillennial.Etsy.com On this week’s episode, we're headed to the Ministry to save Sirius! Join Andrew, Eric, Micah and Meg as we cram into a telephone booth, descend below the streets of London and explore our way through the Department of Mysteries! Happy Birthday, Harry! Don't miss our birthday wishes to our favorite Boy Wizard. Chapter-by-Chapter continues with Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 34: The Department of Mysteries. Our Time Turner segment takes us back to Episode 471 of MuggleCast, titled “Punk’d.” Should Harry have considered alternative transportation to the Ministry of Magic given half the traveling party can't see their ride? Could they have doubled up? So cold! Do thestrals have seat warmers? Did anybody bother to ask them? Where do thestrals rank among the modes of magical transportation? Why didn't Harry notice his Voldemort meter was on low? Inside the Ministry of Magic - another security nightmare! The Brain Room: what exactly is being studied here? And why do these brains seemingly have minds of their own? The Love Room aka The Break Room! Apparently, it's an Amortentia rager! The Death Room: was the Ministry of Magic built around The Veil? Meg offers a theory that will blow your mind! And we analyze why each of the characters present react so differently. Our Lynx Line patrons answer the question, “What other rooms should be represented at the Ministry of Magic / Department of Mysteries?” Quizzitch: When entering the Dept. of Mysteries, Harry and friends first encounter a room with many unmarked doors. Similarly, the Winchester Mystery House in San Jose, CA (USA) has over 2,000 doors in its mansion, which contains 160 rooms. How many windows are present in the Winchester Mystery House? a) 2,001 b) 10,000, c) 665, or d) 4,000? Join in on the fun! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Mugglecast, your weekly ride into the world of Harry Potter for 20 years and counting.
0:05.8	I'm Andrew. I'm Eric. I'm Micah. I thought you were going to say, I'm old.
0:12.9	Old. I was trying not to say it, but gosh, you guys, 20 years of Mugglecast next week. I want to remind everybody that we're your Harry Potter
0:24.1	friends talking about the books, the movies, the upcoming TV show for the next 20 years as well.
0:29.0	So make sure you press that follow button in your favorite podcast app so you'll never miss a week
0:34.3	with your Potter people. And this week we've got one foot on the ledge of the
0:39.3	stone dais because there's voices coming from inside the veil. There are people in there.
0:44.9	We swear, we hear them. We're discussing order to the Phoenix chapter 34, the Department of
0:50.5	Mysteries. Laura couldn't make it this week, but we are very excited to be joined by Eric's wife, Meg.
0:58.3	Welcome back, Meg.
1:00.6	Hi, thank you.
1:01.6	It's great to be back in here to talk about some mysteries and some departments.
1:05.5	Is this the first time you've been on since you two got married?
1:09.9	I think it is.
1:11.9	I was on with the hype and we talked about cozy games, but I think this is the first
1:15.6	muggle cast that I'm on.
1:17.6	Nice.
1:18.0	The first muggle cast marriage with current panelists.
1:22.6	I wondered who would get that first, that accolade.
1:27.7	Eric's like it's got to be me. I got to make it happen. Yeah, yeah, quick, quick, quick, make. Come over here. So how is married life? Tell us. Oh, gosh. We hang out with our cat. Yeah. That was Martha. Martha's good. She's locked out of both of our rooms, though, right now. Oh, no. If we hear a loud bang, she's gone wrong. Usually she hangs out with me during vocal cast hours, but, uh, yeah. No, I'm on the job tonight. Well, we appreciate you, Meg, hopping on at the last minute. You know your stuff, though. I feel like you're ready at any moment to discuss Harry Potter, any chapter, any time. We'll see. We'll hope. And she just transcribed,
2:03.1	because Meg is our transcriber, she just transcribed the big Department of Mysteries episode we did.
2:08.5	So she's more familiar with our thoughts from eight years ago than we are. Yeah, I know the theories
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