The Wizarding World is Fudged (GOF Chapter 36, The Parting of the Ways)

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🗓️ 13 August 2024

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This week, the battlelines are officially drawn between Dumbledore and Fudge! Join us as we try our very best to convince the Minister for Magic that Voldemort has indeed returned! News: MinaLima will not be releasing further editions of their illustrated books (we'll discuss this story in more detail in Bonus MuggleCast) 7-Word Summary: Fudge makes disastrous decisions about Lord Voldemort Chapter-by-Chapter continues with Goblet of Fire, Chapter 36: The Parting of the Ways Sympathetic Grandfatherly Figure or Master Manipulator: Is what Dumbledore says to Harry truly heartfelt and genuine? Does Fawkes know what went down in the graveyard? Should Harry tell his story without other Ministry officials present? The Gleam of Triumph and its connection to Deathly Hallows Why, specifically, did Voldemort and Harry’s wand cores come from Dumbledore’s pet phoenix? Ollivander has Dumbledore on speed dial! Comparing parental figures: Sirus and Molly's love for Harry is on full display, foreshadowing things to come in Order of the Phoenix Why did Fudge feel the need to bring a Dementor to Hogwarts to face Barty Crouch Jr.? Where are all the Aurors? COMPLETE DENIAL: Can Fudge find anyone in the Hospital Wing he believes? Why does nobody force Fudge to see the truth? Why doesn’t Dumbledore go get the Pensieve or Veritaserum? Snape takes a major risk in showing Fudge his Dark Mark tattoo! Dementors & Giants: Does Dumbledore overstep his bounds? Does he go too far? Or is Fudge already lost? With Fudge a lost cause, Dumbledore begins moving his chess pieces against Voldemort Quizzitch: What does Harry ask Viktor Krum, when they shake hands before going to the Hogwarts Express? Visit MuggleCast.com for episode transcripts, social media links, our full episode archive, our favorite episodes, and to contact us! For twice-monthly Bonus MuggleCast, as well as other great benefits, including the chance to co-host the show, a new physical gift every year, and a video message from one of the four of us visit Patreon.com/MuggleCast! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Welcome to Muggle Castor Weekly Ride into the Wizarding World fandom. I'm Andrew.
0:20.0	I'm Eric. I'm Micah.
0:22.0	And I'm Laura.
0:23.2	And this week witness the beginning of the end for Cornelius Fudges political career
0:29.7	as we tackle chapter 36, The Parting of the Ways.
0:34.3	This chapter title is actually kind of appropriate for this episode because we're talking
0:39.5	about the Parting of the Ways in our little news block, right?
0:43.0	Eric, something dramatic happened over the last week.
0:46.0	Yes, yes, there are many partings of the ways underway,
0:51.0	and the most notable of which in news this week is the parting of
0:56.7	Mina Lima that's Mira for Mena and Edoorda Lima the graphic designers of many things in the
1:04.4	Wizarding World with Scholastic's print editions of their
1:10.0	interactive meinolima versions of the Harry Potter books.
1:14.1	They have done three and this week it came to light that they have quote not been commissioned
1:20.3	for a future mea lema book and will not be doing the rest of the Harry Potter series in
1:27.0	Meanalima edition.
1:28.4	Yeah, so there have been two
1:30.9	Illustrated series running right now. We've had the Jim K Harry Potter
1:35.4	illustrated editions. They're up to book five, but now, but he announced I
1:39.8	guess last year or two years ago now that he's left and somebody else is supposed to be coming in but
1:45.2	we haven't heard anything about Half Blood Prince and then at the same time there have been these
1:49.2	Mina Lima editions and now Scholastic doesn't want them back and there was another
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