Why Didn't Voldemort Choose To Become a Ghost? And More MuggleMail

MuggleCast: The Harry Potter Re-Read Podcast

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4.6 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Help MuggleCast grow! Become a MuggleCast Member and get great benefits like Bonus MuggleCast! Patreon.com/MuggleCast Listeners can browse our official merch at MuggleCastMerch.com and pick up overstock items from years past at MuggleMillennial.Etsy.com! On this week's episode, we're as excited as Dedalus Diggle bumping into Vernon Dursley after Voldemort's downfall, as we bust open our Muggle Mailbag to hear directly from YOU - our listeners! Filming News: We react to new behind-the-scenes footage from around Little Whinging before and after the first downfall of Voldemort. It's our Order of the Phoenix Muggle Mail episode! How will HBO adapt lengthy books like Order of the Phoenix and Half-Blood Prince for the new Harry Potter TV show? Is eight episodes truly enough? Why didn't Voldemort choose to become a ghost? Were Arthur Weasley's early career ambitions derailed by the Imperius Curse? We Declare Canon: Crookshanks is the Potter's cat! Listeners make the case for and against ♥️ Voldemort & Bellatrix ♥️ How did the Diary Horcrux have knowledge of Voldemort's future self? And by the way... does the basilisk ever eat? We're concerned about its diet. Lynx Line: With the new Harry Potter audiobooks on the horizon, we asked supporters on Patreon to take a line from one of their favorite characters in Order of the Phoenix or Half-Blood Prince and submit their best impression! AND THEY DO NOT DISAPPOINT! Participate in our weekly trivia segment by answering this week's Quizzitch question at MuggleCast.com/Quizzitch! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I personally accept that Belatrix and Voldemort really did conceive a child.
0:05.3	Well, and you also never see her with her husband, Rodolphus.
0:08.5	Because Voldemort was a better man, and she saw that.
0:12.1	Be your friend, a better man.
0:14.5	Welcome to Mugglecast, your weekly ride into the world of Harry Potter.
0:17.8	I'm Andrew.
0:18.5	I'm Eric.
0:19.4	I'm Micah.
0:20.4	And I'm Laura. We are your Harry Potter friends talking about the books of Harry Potter. I'm Andrew. I'm Eric. I'm Micah. And I'm Laura. We are your
0:22.3	Harry Potter friends talking about the books and the movies and the upcoming TV show. So make
0:27.2	sure you press that follow button in your favorite podcast app and you'll never miss an episode.
0:31.9	And this week, before we get to chapter by chapter, half blood prints, chapter one.
0:36.2	Next week,
0:39.4	we have a muggle mail episode for everybody. And
0:40.9	we have a update
0:43.4	concerning the Harry Potter TV show.
0:45.6	Filming continues and
0:47.2	scenes set around little winging
0:49.1	before and after the first
0:51.2	downfall of Voldemort were
0:53.1	shooting last week. Most notable, in my opinion,
0:57.6	we saw Vernon Dursley in a scene with Daedalus Diggle. And it appears to be right out of
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