Speaker 1: Welcome to Nertif and hell is everybody doing this? Your
Speaker 1: boy if you y away and not sitting across from me,
Speaker 1: because she's doing big boss things. Danny Fernandez is out,
Speaker 1: but today I am joined our wonderful guests. You may
Speaker 1: have seen her control in people's lives in the sims.
Speaker 1: You may have seen her trying to have a hundred babies.
Speaker 1: She's a good friend of mine. Over with me over
Speaker 1: BuzzFeed multiplayer. You heard me talking about it on the
Speaker 1: pod while I was there. Are day today we have
Speaker 1: Kelsey and Peach k how you don't Hey, I'm doing well.
Speaker 1: Thank you for having me on the pod Man. No,
Speaker 1: of course, you know the moment we knew and people
Speaker 1: have been asking for Harry Potter for a while, but
Speaker 1: I was like, all right, I know the moment I
Speaker 1: met you. I was like, okay, uh, well we had
Speaker 1: a funny story. We met way before we actually met officially,
Speaker 1: and when you held Naomi for a NED video. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: yeah yeah. I always forget. Yeah, like Aurora was so
Speaker 1: she was like she held Naomi and I was like,
Speaker 1: I don't, I don't know. That was a long time ago,
Speaker 1: and you know, you held Naomi. Yes, she was my
Speaker 1: everything that day. It was the best day of work.
Speaker 1: I was an intern still and they were like, oh,
Speaker 1: do you want to help on the shoot? You can
Speaker 1: hold a baby? And I was like, yes, a baby.
Speaker 1: And she was the sweetest and the chilliest baby. She
Speaker 1: was not fuzzy at all that she was. She was
Speaker 1: more chill as a baby. As she got older and
Speaker 1: you know, garnered her attitude. Now she wants things a
Speaker 1: certain way and she doesn't get it. You know, she'll
Speaker 1: let you know. But before we jump into the wizarding
Speaker 1: world of Harry Potter, which I feel like it's the
Speaker 1: only way to say it now that we have so
Speaker 1: many groups, I know, uh, what are you speaking out
Speaker 1: about this week? Well, this week there's only one thing
Speaker 1: to really Well, there's a couple there's actually a lot
Speaker 1: teking out about right now, which is like amazing. But
Speaker 1: the main thing that I'm geeking out about is Game
Speaker 1: of Thrones and also about the Game of Thrones writers
Speaker 1: being it wasn't signed on to write the next trilogy. Man,
Speaker 1: what there could bad timing, the worst timing to announce
Speaker 1: them writing anything. I know, I was like, I saw that.
Speaker 1: I was like and then the first tweet below it
Speaker 1: was of course that Darth Vader gift, Like even if
Speaker 1: you don't watch Game of Thrones, just off of the
Speaker 1: fallout alone, as a Star Wars fan, you had to
Speaker 1: be like, no, no, no, no, no no no no
Speaker 1: no no. But I'm a fan of ball so it's
Speaker 1: just a double day. Oh man. Yeah, big news for me.
Speaker 1: I mean it's you know, as we get closer and
Speaker 1: closer to three and the best of the year, we
Speaker 1: had the announcement of the new Ghost Ghost recoms big
Speaker 1: fan of what Yeah, uh got break Point and it
Speaker 1: looks a lot smoother, a lot better. And then we
Speaker 1: had the new raid for the Division Drop which is
Speaker 1: going to be dropping, well it will be out by
Speaker 1: the time this is out, which will be next Tuesday.
Speaker 1: But so lots of fun stuff in the video game space.
Speaker 1: As far as movies, I saw Detective Pikachu. I really
Speaker 1: enjoyed it. I really really want to see it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, yeah by once again. By now, the Who
Speaker 1: Shot You podcast that I did last week is out
Speaker 1: to where you see me defending my boy Pikachu two
Speaker 1: two folks who weren't the basically who is coming for
Speaker 1: Pikachu people who aren't into Pokemon Pika. Yeah, but I
Speaker 1: had a good time and I my review for it was,
Speaker 1: if you are a poker fan at all, back flip
Speaker 1: into those seats. You're in for a wild fun ride.
Speaker 1: Oh I can't wait now. I've been waiting for a
Speaker 1: free evening to go see it, and I because I'm
Speaker 1: too busy crying over the remnants of my PC. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what a what a while that's been. Yeah, my
Speaker 1: my whole discord was trying to help they. I was like,
Speaker 1: it was like they're like, as she tried this, as
Speaker 1: she tried this, and then we're like, yeah, we did
Speaker 1: it all. And I had like several different people come in.
Speaker 1: I had me on the phone with other people. I
Speaker 1: was like on the phone with the company, and then
Speaker 1: the company is like, can you break open this part
Speaker 1: of the PC and show it to me? And I'm
Speaker 1: just like at that point, I'm like, you know what,
Speaker 1: no fix it. Yeah, I'm gonna send it to you
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna let you do that. And I did
Speaker 1: not want to. Also, the case is not super useful,
Speaker 1: like for certain sections. I was like, I need to
Speaker 1: get a better case next time around. That's the thing is,
Speaker 1: you know, PC gaming is like expensive legos, but you
Speaker 1: know when when the legos fit, they fit, and when
Speaker 1: I do, it's like when they don't step on him,
Speaker 1: and it hurts, bro, It hurts. So let's hop into
Speaker 1: our plane, our wizarding plane and flying over to London
Speaker 1: and then through London and go to a train station
Speaker 1: and go to a platform. What what's the platform? Of course,
Speaker 1: I'm very cool. I was. I was gonna say nine
Speaker 1: and three fis So I'm glad, I asked. Look, I
Speaker 1: was on the Harry Potter train for the movie. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: oh that was very good. I'm glad you caught that.
Speaker 1: I would Yeah, there's lots of puns. Miss I will
Speaker 1: miss a pun. And people tweet and me like why
Speaker 1: didn't you say this? And I was like, why didn't
Speaker 1: I say that? But yeah, no, I was more of
Speaker 1: a movie's follower along guy uh. But it I did
Speaker 1: see it take over everyone around me. And you know
Speaker 1: it when you think of where Harry Potter started and
Speaker 1: then how long it came from, definitely hollows because I
Speaker 1: remember people reading it when I was in high school,
Speaker 1: maybe even before that, and then people reading definitely Hollows
Speaker 1: when I was now was out of school. So that's
Speaker 1: a long running book series. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I I
Speaker 1: actually grew up with it. My mother, uh first purchased
Speaker 1: the book, I believe in what was it? It's uh yeah,
Speaker 1: I believe like when she first published it. Uh so,
Speaker 1: I was quite young and I couldn't read that long
Speaker 1: of a book myself, and so she read it to me,
Speaker 1: and I eventually, as I got older, could read them
Speaker 1: myself for myself. So my mom would actually read all
Speaker 1: the Harry Potter books um to me, like the first
Speaker 1: two or three and then uh, and then I started
Speaker 1: reading them and we'd have to like trade off who
Speaker 1: had the book. So like that also means like Harry
Speaker 1: Potter has that like strong nostalgia bomb too. Like that.
Speaker 1: That's awesome. I We'll jump into the nitty, but start first.
Speaker 1: We're gonna start with the gritty, which is the fact
Speaker 1: that Harry Potter is a series of fantasy novels written
Speaker 1: by British author Jake Rowling. The novels chronicled the lives
Speaker 1: of a young wizard, Harry Potter, and his friends Hermione
Speaker 1: Granger and Ron Weasley, all of whom are students at
Speaker 1: Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The main story arc.
Speaker 1: The main story arc concerns Harry struggle against Lord Voltimore,
Speaker 1: dark wizard who intends to become immortal and overthrow the
Speaker 1: wizard governing body known as the Ministry of Magic. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna stop you. Intends to become immortal, yah, he kind
Speaker 1: of already yeah, is the beginning of story. It seems
Speaker 1: like I think his goal is to like become all powerful,
Speaker 1: but he kind of has reached immortality in a sense, yeah,
Speaker 1: because he he kind of is bouncing around pretty like
Speaker 1: his main goal is the deathly Hollows, which we later learn, ah,
Speaker 1: and that's when we know but that's the conqueror of death.
Speaker 1: I guess yeah, Okay, I'll let it asked. But I
Speaker 1: was just like, you know, I mean, that's just the
Speaker 1: basic nitty and I think the best way to kind
Speaker 1: of like jump into this will be kind of book
Speaker 1: by book. I think that's the easiest way, the smartest way.
Speaker 1: But before we even get into all of that, and
Speaker 1: while I you know, kind of arrange those notes, I
Speaker 1: want to talk about your experience with Harry Potter. So
Speaker 1: you said you kind of grew up, you know, with
Speaker 1: your mom reading it, and it kind of what was
Speaker 1: the point where you like, because you know, as nerds,
Speaker 1: we know there's that difference between like when you're like
Speaker 1: a fan of something and then you become super fan
Speaker 1: and you're like, where's that sweet content outside of the stuff?
Speaker 1: What was that you from the beginning or was there
Speaker 1: a point where you're like, oh no, this is most
Speaker 1: certainly my thing. I think I don't know, Harry Potter
Speaker 1: has felt like I can't even remember, really, I really
Speaker 1: can't remember much a time in my life where I
Speaker 1: wasn't in love with Harry Potter. Like I loved reading
Speaker 1: very young. My mother taught me to read before school started,
Speaker 1: like so, like books and words were a thing that
Speaker 1: I was always really connected to. And Harry Potter was
Speaker 1: the big like the first big fandom or world that
Speaker 1: I dove into and fell in love with the first
Speaker 1: immersive world for me. Uh So, I can't really say
Speaker 1: when the when the moment was. I think it's just
Speaker 1: more like when the Internet started becoming so like when
Speaker 1: the Internet became accessible to me is probably when I
Speaker 1: started kind of diving further into the fandom, like community wise,
Speaker 1: because I was like, oh my gosh, people love this
Speaker 1: as much as I do. But as like a kid,
Speaker 1: I had beanie babies and played out my own fan
Speaker 1: theories of Harry Potter where I shipped Harry and Jenny
Speaker 1: really early, and they were like Jenny was like this
Speaker 1: lion beanie baby, and Harry was like this dog, baby baby,
Speaker 1: He's got to be a dog. He's like loyal and
Speaker 1: sometimes a little dumb, but we love well. That was
Speaker 1: like the beanie babies and stuff like that that that dates,
Speaker 1: that dates the moment and also dates me. Fun fun,
Speaker 1: fun fun, But yeah, I was like my I had.
Speaker 1: I remember the first time I like got my hands
Speaker 1: on like a camera to like film stuff I filmed
Speaker 1: who was right around the time Who Wants to Be
Speaker 1: a Millionaire was was cool? So I rewrote it and
Speaker 1: did a quiz show called who Wants to be a
Speaker 1: Wizard and my cousin did it. It was a Harry
Speaker 1: Potter quiz show. That's sound Harry Potter Potter board games. Like.
Speaker 1: I think my family like loved how much I loved it,
Speaker 1: so they always just kind of like, yeah, let me
Speaker 1: let me have all this stuff, like my I have
Speaker 1: like a vintage Harry Potter cup like mug that's like
Speaker 1: cracked with headwig on it and has the original book art,
Speaker 1: which is super hard to find stuff like that now
Speaker 1: because most of the art is movie based. Um but yeah, man, man,
Speaker 1: I can't even remember when it happened, but I know
Speaker 1: the deep the deepest moment was when I started doing
Speaker 1: Harry Potter of role playing online role playing, which is
Speaker 1: like RPG, so it's it's like, um, it's right writing
Speaker 1: fan fiction, but collaboratively online. So I would be like
Speaker 1: one character at a time and another person would play
Speaker 1: the other character, and you'd write like a thick together. Almost. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's not dirty, it's just nerdy. Um but yeah. And
Speaker 1: I always loved playing the Marauders area. That was kind
Speaker 1: of my area of expertise. I love that, you know,
Speaker 1: nineteen seventies, nineteen sixties, young young hip lads in the
Speaker 1: in the end of the world apocalypse moment of the
Speaker 1: Wizarding World. So good. Anyway, I got real deep, yea. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So let's kick it all the way back and we're
Speaker 1: gonna start with the first Harry Potter book, Harry Potter
Speaker 1: and the Sorcerer's Stone known to us in the US,
Speaker 1: India and Pakistan, uh and everywhere else as Harry Potter
Speaker 1: and the Philosopher's Stone. The book comes out in the
Speaker 1: US and originally came out in June in the U
Speaker 1: k UH. And I was like that, that's why I
Speaker 1: was quiet for a second. I went down a wormhole
Speaker 1: to really delve into this Philosopher's Stones versus socialer stones. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they didn't think it would sell. Yeah, that Little Kids. Yeah,
Speaker 1: JK has always been pretty pretty on top of that
Speaker 1: kind of stuff. Like JK even came up with that
Speaker 1: Moniker because she thought that men like mill writers would
Speaker 1: not sell as well. And she decided upon Harry being
Speaker 1: the main character as a boy because she didn't think
Speaker 1: it would sell as well. Yeah, she's been very much
Speaker 1: one of those types of people to kind of like
Speaker 1: try to be playing the system again. But if you
Speaker 1: it's it's interesting because that is like the interesting game.
Speaker 1: What I kind of compared to is Shonda Rhymes and
Speaker 1: Gray's Anatomy, where like, you know, Shanna Rhyme wants to
Speaker 1: create the story about stories about black women, but first
Speaker 1: you create the successful story led by a white woman
Speaker 1: and then sprinkled people of color and you know, uh, diverse,
Speaker 1: you know, sexualities around this character. And now she makes
Speaker 1: you know how to get away with murderer because now
Speaker 1: she has solidified herself. But also in the end, she
Speaker 1: didn't budget the since that this was just powerful women
Speaker 1: across the board, and she was able to make that happen. Uh.
Speaker 1: And the reason I say that is I can now
Speaker 1: that I've never kind of known that, but you kind
Speaker 1: of feel it when you read or watch Harry Potter
Speaker 1: because her mind, he is the only capable person. Her
Speaker 1: back is tired from carrying these two dumb lads. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like the second book, Wait, yeah, the second book would
Speaker 1: have the whole school. I had to fact check myself.
Speaker 1: Sometimes I get passionate and we'll just say things and
Speaker 1: I'm like, wait, am I right? The whole school in
Speaker 1: the second book would have shut down if not for
Speaker 1: freaking her mindy grains, or of being in that library
Speaker 1: doing God's work. It's like, look, I got to do
Speaker 1: the work. She's willing to put in the time. Thank God.
Speaker 1: These two idiot boys were forgiven by her in the
Speaker 1: first book, and she decided to take pity on them
Speaker 1: and befriend them after they mocked her because otherwise the
Speaker 1: whole Wizarding World would be dead. That's I mean, that's true.
Speaker 1: She had to school all these dames. But yeah, we
Speaker 1: had we had the book. So the book. I actually
Speaker 1: did read Sorcerer's Stone and yeah, the book follows just
Speaker 1: the general introduction of Harry. We see that he's living,
Speaker 1: you know, a life. He's really abused. Yeah, he is
Speaker 1: the kid under the stairwell living with the Dudley's. Dudley's
Speaker 1: this son. Oh, Dudley's the son Litera what a good name? R. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there was deadly and then there's the Dudley boys in
Speaker 1: the w W. Get the tables. You know that you
Speaker 1: just dipped into another fan. You know nothing. He goes along,
Speaker 1: you go where I cannot fall off. Yeah I must.
Speaker 1: I'm essentially just every T shirt site on the internet.
Speaker 1: I'm bringing all the fandoms together and making it one.
Speaker 1: You're like Sherlock Whovian, Sherlockian, what is it again? Which one?
Speaker 1: It's like supernatural Sherlock in Doctor Who. And there's a
Speaker 1: term for it, and I forgot that they will they'll
Speaker 1: be like it's this and I'm like, ash, well now
Speaker 1: we do. But yeah, so he's with the Durstleys they're
Speaker 1: treating It's kind of like when you really and I
Speaker 1: think I break it down, it's worl like it's your
Speaker 1: dead sister's you know, son, and you hate him. Well,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of backstories to why really and this
Speaker 1: Maine book stuff it is it? Oh? Wait? Is it?
Speaker 1: Because they eventually you find out she's jealous of her
Speaker 1: sister because she was a wizard and she isn't. And
Speaker 1: she wrote a letter and got rejected. Oh yeah, what
Speaker 1: book do you find that out in? Uh? Wow? Testing
Speaker 1: my I'm not as good at like this isn't this
Speaker 1: and this isn't that, But I'm pretty sure it's near
Speaker 1: the end. I think it's like probably book six or
Speaker 1: seven that can find that out. But yeah, he's being abused.
Speaker 1: They's essentially a slave for this family. Yeah. And then
Speaker 1: like that tidbit of information that Kelsey just linked you,
Speaker 1: you find out why boiler Sorry, well but you find
Speaker 1: out that's why when the invite comes, they know what
Speaker 1: it is right away and tried to stop it. They
Speaker 1: do not want Harry to become a wizard. Well, I
Speaker 1: also think that part of it too. It's never explicitly said,
Speaker 1: but like the Wizarding World took her sister away from her,
Speaker 1: Like she she was very deeply impacted by like what
Speaker 1: happened and and the fact that they her sister died
Speaker 1: while they were like fighting and like in this war.
Speaker 1: And she's just like, you know what f that and uh, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean they're pretty terrible to to Harry, but I
Speaker 1: feel like she just doesn't have like the she's not
Speaker 1: like the best person, Petunia, but she doesn't have the
Speaker 1: energy to like change that. And her husband's just trash,
Speaker 1: and everyone just accepts that that Vernon Dursley is literal
Speaker 1: trash garden Petunia and yeah, Faily family. But eventually fate
Speaker 1: can't be stopped, no, and neither kind of giant man.
Speaker 1: Our boy, who we learn is Hagard, busts into the
Speaker 1: cabin because they move away, because they try to Yeah,
Speaker 1: they try to escape. So the one one fine day
Speaker 1: when our boy turns a liven, he gets a letter
Speaker 1: from Hogwarts and they do try to hide it and
Speaker 1: then uh and so then eventually the letters get more
Speaker 1: and more persistent. There's more and more of them. It
Speaker 1: is quite fun and magical in the way that they're
Speaker 1: being presented and the at a certain point, after all
Speaker 1: else to stop these letters have failed, they decided to
Speaker 1: just like pick up and leave town and like go
Speaker 1: to like they go to a hotel, they're found there.
Speaker 1: Then they go to a house on a rock that
Speaker 1: they like vernont insane. Yeah, I hate this man, and
Speaker 1: and they go there and uh, Hagrid burst in and says,
Speaker 1: what is known to anyone even if you are unaware
Speaker 1: of what Harry Potter is, You know the line, You're
Speaker 1: a wizard Harry. And they chip off off to uh
Speaker 1: off to and uh and so then we go and
Speaker 1: how do I'm I don't need to hit you with
Speaker 1: all of this. But then he meets it. Does he
Speaker 1: meet Ron first? Or her mind? He does? He mean
Speaker 1: wro first? So he meets um Actually first he meets
Speaker 1: Draco Malfoy. He meets him in which is very interesting.
Speaker 1: He meets him while trying to get his robes. He
Speaker 1: meets him and he's like the and Harry doesn't know
Speaker 1: how to respond because he's just like there, He's in
Speaker 1: a whole new world. He's like wanting to like make
Speaker 1: the best of it, and he's trying to. He's like
Speaker 1: just in a new the Wizarding Town hogs Mead or
Speaker 1: not hogs Mead. He's in diagon Alley, which is like
Speaker 1: this wizarding the small wizarding area of London, and he's
Speaker 1: trying to get all of his like stuff for school,
Speaker 1: and so he goes into, um, I think it's glad Rags,
Speaker 1: but he goes into Wow, I'm just gonna keep dropping
Speaker 1: things and people are gonna be like being like shoot wrong.
Speaker 1: But anyway, he goes to get his his robes and uh,
Speaker 1: DraCos also getting his robes at the same time, and
Speaker 1: they both haven't been sorted yet, and you can kind
Speaker 1: of see like the difference of status already where he
Speaker 1: you know, you know, Draco is just like ordering people
Speaker 1: around owned and talking smack about like certain houses and
Speaker 1: things like that, and kind of really giving a bad
Speaker 1: impression on Harry. Harry is very astute. You can tell
Speaker 1: in that scene that Harry is not the kind of
Speaker 1: kid to be like pushed around, even though he's been
Speaker 1: pushed around his whole life. Like he's he's gonna in
Speaker 1: the end make his own choices from his heart and
Speaker 1: his gut and like what he believes is right and wrong,
Speaker 1: which is quite cool. For an eleven year old. I
Speaker 1: feel like I was very susceptible. Tony. You're like, oh,
Speaker 1: that's cool. Okay, well I want to be cool. But
Speaker 1: Harry doesn't care about being cool. He's never been cool
Speaker 1: in his free in life. He's like, no, I care
Speaker 1: about what right? Yeah, that's why you love him. But
Speaker 1: then yes, he meets Ron. He meets the Weasley family.
Speaker 1: While lost, Haggard takes an eleven year old boy and
Speaker 1: decides I'm gonna leave him at a train station that's
Speaker 1: very confusing with a very confusing letter. Typical Hagard forgotten
Speaker 1: those dats uh and uh. I'm gonna let him figure,
Speaker 1: you know, figure it out how to get onto this
Speaker 1: magical platform alone. And so luckily Harry run into the
Speaker 1: Weasley family on the way there, and they're able to
Speaker 1: help him get onto the platform, which has like a
Speaker 1: magical twist where it's not you know, just any platform
Speaker 1: in a train station, it's actually beyond brick wall. Um, yeah,
Speaker 1: in between two platforms. And so that's actually how he
Speaker 1: met meets Ron is because his Ron's mom is like, oh,
Speaker 1: my son's your your age, and it's his first time
Speaker 1: to look at you. You guys could tell ye be friends. Yeah,
Speaker 1: be friends, which is great. I feel like that reminds
Speaker 1: me a lot of like going to school, Like the
Speaker 1: first person you meet that you're like kind of like, Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna stick with you because I don't know anybody else,
Speaker 1: especially when you're going to a new school. Um. So yeah.
Speaker 1: And then they meet her money on the train and
Speaker 1: she's she's being bossy and looking for a frog. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and so then that's when they're like forget you. And
Speaker 1: then Draco pulls up on them, right, and that's when
Speaker 1: he's you know, being classist yet again, and they team
Speaker 1: up together to be like this guy he's whacked Yeah,
Speaker 1: and Harry and Harry chooses like makes his colors known
Speaker 1: and chooses his loyalties. Yeah. Yeah, then we were going
Speaker 1: to fast forward to another. One of the biggest scenes
Speaker 1: in Harry Potter. One of the biggest things known about
Speaker 1: it is when they get to the sword and Hat
Speaker 1: starts to sort everyone and uh when that, yeah, here's
Speaker 1: your main person personality trait and you're made group of
Speaker 1: friends and just through the smell of your hair, I'll
Speaker 1: know and then yeah, he uh sorting Hat on Harry's
Speaker 1: head is like, I mean, you might want to be
Speaker 1: with the winning team the Slytherinsky whoa first off, he
Speaker 1: would never say the winning team, I mean, but we
Speaker 1: all know that that was. That was Jake's wink to
Speaker 1: everyone was like, just so you'll know Slytherin's they tag
Speaker 1: ones no no, no, are you're a Slytherin. I am, yeah,
Speaker 1: win at any cost, whatever the cost. How the tagline.
Speaker 1: Another thing, I'm a Griffin door, but but I took
Speaker 1: so so some super nerds out there might might also
Speaker 1: know their hybrid, which is like you have your first
Speaker 1: and then your secondary and then like used to have
Speaker 1: traits of the other two. So so a lot of
Speaker 1: people know their order um of like what their secondary is.
Speaker 1: And I'm actually a Griffin door slitherin, so so i
Speaker 1: always make fun of Slitherins. But then I'm like, like
Speaker 1: low key still I'm the very safe. I'm actually like Harry,
Speaker 1: I'm two sides of of that coin, and I can
Speaker 1: kind of flip depending on the situation, and I think
Speaker 1: that's like kind of what Harry deals with it. That
Speaker 1: first um sorting hot moment is kind of choosing I
Speaker 1: think the sorting hat in the end oftentimes isn't like,
Speaker 1: isn't necessarily just about your personality or who you are.
Speaker 1: It's about what you value and what you put above
Speaker 1: other things personally, So it's it's in the end, it's
Speaker 1: kind of also your choice and choice is what makes
Speaker 1: it um, what makes your house like what you're going
Speaker 1: to choose. So if you're going to choose chivalry, if
Speaker 1: you're going to choose cunning and win at every cost,
Speaker 1: if you're going to choose friendship, if you're going to
Speaker 1: choose um, the pursuit of knowledge, that kind of thing.
Speaker 1: So yeah, it's a very cool scene. It's also like
Speaker 1: really smart, because man, do you want to like rep
Speaker 1: your squad like it's the best. It's the best to
Speaker 1: give a bunch of kids and people in general like, uh,
Speaker 1: a little bit of that with a tribalism to be
Speaker 1: like your my squad, let's go. There's a there's a
Speaker 1: bit of here we go. Actually, I got some you know,
Speaker 1: I got some info on houses. Oh yeah, fun Kelsey,
Speaker 1: I know the sorting hat song from the First Bug?
Speaker 1: Is it this one? The you might belong in the
Speaker 1: Griffin Door? Well, it begins you may not think I'm pretty,
Speaker 1: but but the but but it was into that. But
Speaker 1: he has like a full opening part of the monologue. Okay,
Speaker 1: well we're gotting straight to you. Yeah, yeah, we're doing
Speaker 1: the sparknose where it starts with you might belong in
Speaker 1: Griffin Door, where dwell the brave at heart, their daring,
Speaker 1: nerve and chivalry set Griffin doors apart. Griffin Door the
Speaker 1: house values. The brave, courageous, and daring people sorted into
Speaker 1: this house also appear to be ruthless and bold, therefore
Speaker 1: can make also make rough mistakes. The animal represents the
Speaker 1: Griffin doors a lion so attacked right now and I
Speaker 1: just came here for a good time. Well, too bad.
Speaker 1: And the house colors are red and gold. It might
Speaker 1: belong in Hufflepuff, where they are just in loyal, those
Speaker 1: patient hufflepuss are true and unafraid of toil. Hufflepuff Hufflebuster loyal,
Speaker 1: sweet and true, all good finders they are finding things from.
Speaker 1: By the way, the fighting thing is not from the books,
Speaker 1: that really, Yeah, the finding joke is from a Harry
Speaker 1: Potter fan musical with the guy who eventually ended up
Speaker 1: in Glee and Chris I was a Darren Chris O
Speaker 1: g Darren Chris Fan from Very Potter Musical, which now
Speaker 1: I work with someone who worked with Star Kid and
Speaker 1: helped develop that musical, Devon from Lady Like and so yeah,
Speaker 1: such a funny turnaround. But I was like watching that
Speaker 1: freaking musical every day. I remember when it popped up,
Speaker 1: because you know, my ax was a huge Potter head.
Speaker 1: Like I I went to Definitely Hollows premiere, like like
Speaker 1: opening weekend in my Slytherin tie and dressed up when
Speaker 1: this yeah, and it was funny. That's why it was funny.
Speaker 1: At the end of end game how there's no post
Speaker 1: credit scene. It just flashed me back to at the
Speaker 1: end of the Definitely Hollows Part two, the theater was
Speaker 1: waiting for some kind of post credit scene and it
Speaker 1: was nothing, and everyone was like, oh, I was like, well,
Speaker 1: it's really it, yeah, and then it wasn't. It was like, psych,
Speaker 1: that's the now we're doing well. They're also the hardest workers,
Speaker 1: yet the most humble of the bunch. As nice as
Speaker 1: they are, they are often referred as weak by stereotypes.
Speaker 1: The animal representing Hufflepuff is a badger. The house colors
Speaker 1: are yellow and black. They're not yellow and black. Really,
Speaker 1: I don't think so, maybe I'm maybe I'm wrong. You
Speaker 1: know what it actually No, I'm jumping on the wrong train.
Speaker 1: It's us. It's a raven claw. It always gets messed up. Okay, well,
Speaker 1: then let's see if we mess it up. Because or
Speaker 1: yet in wise old raven Claw, if you're a ready mind,
Speaker 1: where those of wit and learning will always find their kind,
Speaker 1: wit beyond measure is a man's greatest treasure, says the
Speaker 1: carvings by the statue of Rowena raven Claw. Raven Claw
Speaker 1: House favors the fair and wise. They're quick witted manners
Speaker 1: brings them respect and at the same time mocking. The
Speaker 1: animal representing raven Claw is an eagle. In the house.
Speaker 1: Colors are blue and bronze. Yeah, that's it. See a
Speaker 1: lot of people always say blue and silver, correct, and
Speaker 1: it's actually blue and brown. Yes, But I jumped in
Speaker 1: the hubble puff too soon because I was like no,
Speaker 1: and then I was like oh no, Kelsie. Well to
Speaker 1: reading this, it seems like raven claws filled with pattants
Speaker 1: who are always I'm actually wing you. So that's my take.
Speaker 1: That's why my third is probably or perhaps in Slytherin
Speaker 1: you'll make your real friends. Those cunning folks use any
Speaker 1: means to achieve their ends. The House of Slytherin represents cunningness, ambition,
Speaker 1: and charm. They live to achieve the goals they most desire,
Speaker 1: but many are consumed by their ambitions, which makes them
Speaker 1: power hungry. The animal representing Slytherin is a serpent. The
Speaker 1: house colors are green and silver. Ah that that sounds
Speaker 1: like a good house right there, probably out of all
Speaker 1: before I read it sounds like the most dangerous. Oh
Speaker 1: my gosh, everyone in Slytherin, uh isn't evil, just everyone
Speaker 1: who's evil happens to come from slitherin the term. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean that's not necessarily true though, even the villains
Speaker 1: in Harry Potter are from like a multitude of houses.
Speaker 1: But it is, it is they do say like you know,
Speaker 1: most they does, you know, the power hungry. The qualities
Speaker 1: kind of come a lot of times from people who
Speaker 1: are a Slytherin. But that's not stially true actually, but
Speaker 1: Peter Pettigrew being a prime example of this, um not
Speaker 1: a Slytherin, totally a villain. So then we go from
Speaker 1: the sorting house, now we're in classes. And this is
Speaker 1: where we meet Professor Several Snape. Who oh the the lore. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: they meet they meet, You meet Several Snape, and they
Speaker 1: really make you believe this man as evil. They also
Speaker 1: he is like I don't even hot takes from Kelsey. No,
Speaker 1: he's not evil, but he's an adult man taking out
Speaker 1: his frustration on children like grow up Snape. But yeah, no,
Speaker 1: he's not a cool dude. He definitely seems like he's
Speaker 1: on the wrong side of the tracks. In the first novel.
Speaker 1: He's always always given Harry a hard time, really likes
Speaker 1: to fail them in class. Yeah. Um, and you'll learn
Speaker 1: out more about why in later books. Uh. And you're
Speaker 1: gonna learn more about the Sorcerer's Stone. And we're going
Speaker 1: to speed through the rest of the six and give
Speaker 1: more curt explanation. This is the intro book, so of
Speaker 1: course it's going to be thicker. But uh, well they
Speaker 1: actually get oppose the physical books thick. But our our
Speaker 1: synopsis is about to get dinner. But we'll get into
Speaker 1: all that after these messages and we're bad you do
Speaker 1: did I do a weird thing? Everyone? Matt on Candy
Speaker 1: Dinner points out the fact that like between breaks when
Speaker 1: I say we're going to break, like I kind of
Speaker 1: powered down, like my eyes closed, and I'm like, all right,
Speaker 1: and we're back exactly all right, I'm back now, Okay,
Speaker 1: but we're talking Harry Potter. I'm here with Kelsey and
Speaker 1: peach k. Your last name is very fun to say, yeah,
Speaker 1: and that rhymes so very fun to say, uh yeah,
Speaker 1: But so are many Harry Potter characters. Yes, I mean
Speaker 1: on bottom, dumb little. It's not dumble at all, but
Speaker 1: I said it. I said it the way Madame Maxine
Speaker 1: says it, professor the little. That's a that's a flex
Speaker 1: when you add extra syllables to people's names. Well, she's French,
Speaker 1: the character's French, so dumb little, it's quite a lot.
Speaker 1: I love all that. I can mimic a lot of
Speaker 1: the character. We're gonna move on. We don't need to
Speaker 1: Kelsey's character impressions, her character voices. So we have this
Speaker 1: description of several state, which you know will be in
Speaker 1: the footnotes where we got it from. But whether you
Speaker 1: love him or hate them or love to hate them,
Speaker 1: several snaps makes for an impact in the Harry Potter series.
Speaker 1: If you're Harry, snap is a nightmare of a teacher
Speaker 1: picking on the boy from the moment he stepped into
Speaker 1: Potions class and showing clear favoritism towards Draco Malfoy and
Speaker 1: other Slytherin students. And yet when Harry and his friends
Speaker 1: thought Snap was the one trying to steal the Sorcerer's stones,
Speaker 1: it turned out he was trying to protect it. And
Speaker 1: every now and again Snape actually seemed like he was
Speaker 1: trying to help these kids. So yeah, yeah, we we
Speaker 1: kind of you know what a turnaround in the first novel. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm gonna take this moment to uh just
Speaker 1: jam through some of the uh people we meet before
Speaker 1: really going through sorcer Stone, because we meet Snape, and
Speaker 1: then after we meet Snape, who else do we meet? Um,
Speaker 1: we meet Snape, who he's whack. We all know that
Speaker 1: you got I mean, so on here, this is not
Speaker 1: like according to like order of meeting people necessarily. But
Speaker 1: then we get Dumbledore, you got Hermony, Gray Injury, got
Speaker 1: Harry Potter, Snape Ron, you got never long Bottom, who's
Speaker 1: a fellow classmate. You meet him on the train Hermony,
Speaker 1: I believe, yes, he is on the train. So what's
Speaker 1: interesting most about Harry Potter Books to me is that
Speaker 1: all of these characters are introduced in the first novel
Speaker 1: with the varying degrees of importance. Also, a lot of
Speaker 1: like subjects are introduced, and it is it is like
Speaker 1: very interesting how all of these things are later like
Speaker 1: have really major payoffs and really major importance to the plot.
Speaker 1: Especially Nevill right especially so very important. So you'd think, like, oh,
Speaker 1: he's just like he's kind of like a comedic character
Speaker 1: at first. He's very much like the kid that like
Speaker 1: is always blown stuff up in class and getting things
Speaker 1: wrong and losing his frog, and like, you know, he
Speaker 1: does have like a really nice moment where he doesn't
Speaker 1: want the kids to to leave the uh the house
Speaker 1: at night and sneak out and he tries to stop
Speaker 1: them and Harry they decide to go anyway. Uh, And
Speaker 1: so he kind of like tries to stick up who
Speaker 1: his friends, but they ignore him anywhere. We almost forgot
Speaker 1: someone very important we meet in this book, which is
Speaker 1: uh cur Quarrel, the Dark Arts teacher. In the rotating
Speaker 1: role of the Dark Arts teacher that happens throughout the series.
Speaker 1: They really can't they really can't nail down their Dark
Speaker 1: Arts teachers. But yeah, so yeah, we meet Albert dumb
Speaker 1: dumb quarrel you meet before Harry goes to school. He
Speaker 1: meets him in a in a bar in a pub
Speaker 1: with Hagrid, and they introduced him and they're like, oh,
Speaker 1: here's like professor Karl. He stutters a lot. He seems
Speaker 1: like a very nervous dude, and Hagrid says, oh, he's
Speaker 1: going to be one of your teachers at Hogwarts. Uh,
Speaker 1: and yeah, he teaches defense against the Dark Arts. Seems
Speaker 1: very squirrelly and kind of lame in comparison to a
Speaker 1: Snap who's very like menacing and strong and like pushy
Speaker 1: and and like just like cold. We got Professor McGonagall, yeah,
Speaker 1: who is the head of Harry's house and teaches transfiguration.
Speaker 1: We have Dumbledore, who's the head of the school. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and he's kind of the Harry's mentor and kind of
Speaker 1: he becomes yeah, kind of, but he's at first seems
Speaker 1: like this goofy fun professor do. Yeah, he's very fun
Speaker 1: at first, but eventually what happens in the first book
Speaker 1: is we find out two things. One Harry's get out
Speaker 1: on the brunstick. He's really nice with that tool and
Speaker 1: he becomes like this star star quarterback. The silliest game
Speaker 1: you've ever heard of with it like so silly quidditch.
Speaker 1: Quidditch is the most Like even J. K. Rowling was like,
Speaker 1: I sat down after a fight with my boyfriend at
Speaker 1: the time and wrote the dumbest game that doesn't make
Speaker 1: any sense and the funniest thing. I feel like that's
Speaker 1: what sold the movies, Like seeing those Quiddit scenes, like
Speaker 1: even if you weren't involved, you're like, oh, I need
Speaker 1: to know what this is about, this chasing this golden snitch.
Speaker 1: Oh dang. The rules are like weird, but the game
Speaker 1: itself is cool. Man. It's like violent, It's got like
Speaker 1: a lot of markings of popular sports that you already enjoy,
Speaker 1: so you already feel kind of like kind of connected
Speaker 1: to it where you're like, oh, I can pick. It's
Speaker 1: like this and this and this mixed together. And through
Speaker 1: the first Quidditch match, Harry starts to have issues with
Speaker 1: his broom. They look over see Snake Snap doing some
Speaker 1: magic and they think it's him. We eventually find out
Speaker 1: that it's quarrel Um. He was wearing a rap and
Speaker 1: on the back in the in the book was it
Speaker 1: was it's a turban in the book as well. Y. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he unwraps that turban and who none other than the
Speaker 1: name who shall not be spoken Voldemort pulling up on
Speaker 1: the back of his head. Yeah. At the very beginning
Speaker 1: of the novel, you learned that the reason So Harry
Speaker 1: was taken in by his his his his aunt and
Speaker 1: her family as a baby and raised by them, and
Speaker 1: they told him that his parents died in a car crash.
Speaker 1: You later find out that that is not true. He's
Speaker 1: a he's a wizard, and his parents were killed by
Speaker 1: a dark wizard named Baltimore. But he was vanquished that
Speaker 1: day mysteriously. Um, when Harry was a baby, and when
Speaker 1: Voltimore tried to kill him, So he killed his parents first,
Speaker 1: and then he tried to kill Harry, and for some reason, uh,
Speaker 1: he did not succeed, and Harry ended up with a
Speaker 1: lightning both scar on his forehead. He was delivered to
Speaker 1: his um aunt and her family by Dumbledore and um
Speaker 1: left on a doorstep. So the chill uh and um.
Speaker 1: So then you find out later it is none other
Speaker 1: than Baltimore back from the dead on the back of
Speaker 1: Quarrel's hand. Plot twist. Yeah, So in this the the
Speaker 1: Star is very important because that's what protects Harry. When
Speaker 1: Quarrel grabs him, his his skin starts to burn, and
Speaker 1: Dumbledore reveals that it was his mother's kind of last
Speaker 1: gift to Harry as this charm that protects him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's old magic, but it's essentially that. So the order
Speaker 1: goes that Voltimore killed the father who was trying to
Speaker 1: fight him, and then Baltimore actually was not supposed to
Speaker 1: kill Lily the mother, and she sacrificed her life to
Speaker 1: protect her son, and so that sacrifice, that sacrifice was
Speaker 1: so powerful in her love that it it actually did
Speaker 1: a very old magic that didn't actually need to be
Speaker 1: spoken of a protection charm on her son, and so
Speaker 1: then rebounded that spell back onto Baltimore and that was
Speaker 1: what kept him from being able to kill Harry. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and so this all leads to the Sorcerer's Stone being destroyed,
Speaker 1: Coral left for dead, and we in the school year.
Speaker 1: Let me let me see if there's any like eventful
Speaker 1: stuff wins the house Cupid rigged kind of rig um. Yeah. There,
Speaker 1: you know, there's a lot of details in every book
Speaker 1: that's going to come into major play later, but I
Speaker 1: think you hit all the high notes. Yeah, and and
Speaker 1: the one big note is when he goes back to
Speaker 1: the Dursley's even though uh, you can't use uh magic
Speaker 1: in the Muggles world, He's like, they don't know that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it is a rule that you are not allowed as
Speaker 1: a student to use magic in the Muggle when you're
Speaker 1: out of school, because you know you're new to it.
Speaker 1: They don't want them like kind of there's like being
Speaker 1: magic a secret, so they don't want to be outed
Speaker 1: by a bunch of teens, rowdy teens running around with
Speaker 1: So then this leads us to the Chamber of Secrets.
Speaker 1: This one was I remember when I was first my
Speaker 1: mother read this to me. It was much spookier than
Speaker 1: this first and um, the big snake thing was so scary.
Speaker 1: If you read it now, it's still messed up the
Speaker 1: things that snakes get says, well, not a sneak, but
Speaker 1: we'll get into it. But and my my at a
Speaker 1: certain point I asked my mom was like, Mom, can
Speaker 1: we read this during the daytime instead of right before?
Speaker 1: Because I was too spooky for the first of a
Speaker 1: Dark Descent for Harry Potter begins a children's story ends
Speaker 1: a war time, but this is also where we meet Dobby.
Speaker 1: Dobby pulls up yeah but yeah, so yeah, this opens
Speaker 1: with a dinner party with the Dursley family that they
Speaker 1: don't invite Harry too, and Harry's like, no, he's invited.
Speaker 1: Oh he's not. He isn't like he's like there as
Speaker 1: an excess, like to help serve them. Yeah, but he's
Speaker 1: like when he serves them, he's like, all right, I'm out.
Speaker 1: And then he goes to his bedroom and he's kind
Speaker 1: of sad that he hasn't got any cards with presents
Speaker 1: from his home. He's at school. Oh you know what
Speaker 1: I was, I was mixing up in my head. You're right.
Speaker 1: It's a dinner party. He's not invited because it's with
Speaker 1: his boss. Yeah, and he doesn't want any wizard tom
Speaker 1: foolery popping off. So he's like, I don't trust you.
Speaker 1: And if Young Metro don't trust you, you you don't get
Speaker 1: to eat chicken with its downstairs. But yeah, he's filings
Speaker 1: in his room and Dobby, yeah, so they have noticed.
Speaker 1: They the first novel. They were like, oh shoot, they
Speaker 1: know he's living in under the stairs. So they gave
Speaker 1: him a room after they were found out from the letters.
Speaker 1: So that's why he's got a room. Now, that's such
Speaker 1: a funny. I didn't even catch that. Then Dobby's like, yo,
Speaker 1: don't come back to Hogwarts. Uh, Dobbie, a house elf,
Speaker 1: like a little elf man appears in Harry's room and
Speaker 1: just as like, you shouldn't come back. Yeah, and he said,
Speaker 1: I've been taking all your mail. Yeah. So all of
Speaker 1: the summer, Harry feels very isolated. He feels like he
Speaker 1: made all these like true blue friends and in her
Speaker 1: Mighty and um Ron and he has her from him
Speaker 1: all summer and he's like, dude, you knew that I
Speaker 1: hate these people, and it's doys like, oh, well it
Speaker 1: was me because I wanted you to feel set alone
Speaker 1: and not want to go back. It seems like you
Speaker 1: don't want to go to back, so like I'm here
Speaker 1: to explicitly tell you, even though it might hurt me later,
Speaker 1: which I can't explain, don't come back. And then he's
Speaker 1: like I'm still coming. So then he's like all right.
Speaker 1: Then magic time and he does magic to frame Harry
Speaker 1: and get him try and get him expelled from school
Speaker 1: for using magic outside of school. Yeah, but Luckily, Harry
Speaker 1: is Harry Potter and he's famous in the wizarding world,
Speaker 1: and so he's got an immedia out with the Minister
Speaker 1: for Magic. He's like, oh, it's fine, Yeah, Harry Potter's fine,
Speaker 1: You're Harry Potter. You're gonna be the first draft pick
Speaker 1: of the Knicks. Oops. That was a Zion basketball reference
Speaker 1: that you know, I know who the Knicks are, but
Speaker 1: but but yeah, it's so yeah sports sidebar new uh new, uh,
Speaker 1: you know what, I'm so Zion Williams Williamson. But he
Speaker 1: was like, he's the star high school player, and so
Speaker 1: everyone was so sure he was going to go to
Speaker 1: the Knicks. But it all relied on Nick's getting the
Speaker 1: first draft pick in the lottery, and today it was
Speaker 1: announced that they do not get the first draft pick.
Speaker 1: So the Knicks are very hurt. And the whole big
Speaker 1: thing is that other Like, I mean, do you really
Speaker 1: think another team is gonna be like, well, here's because
Speaker 1: here's the whole thing. And it's so funny because, like
Speaker 1: you know, I often say this a lot. The parallels
Speaker 1: between sports fan and nerds are right here. You have
Speaker 1: fan theories, which which I'm about to explain. One of
Speaker 1: the biggest fanthers. You have cosplay, which is every time
Speaker 1: you wear a jersey, you're cosplaying as your favorite player.
Speaker 1: And uh and you got conventions, which I'll just say
Speaker 1: are your basketball games. I mean yeah, as growing up
Speaker 1: as a fan of sports and nerd culture, I feel
Speaker 1: like there's like a similar like feeling of euphoria that
Speaker 1: you can get from just participating as a spectator and
Speaker 1: like a joy from like you know, get diving into
Speaker 1: these people's lives and like who goes where and things
Speaker 1: like that. Yeah, no, I see it. And fantasy fantasy
Speaker 1: sports is just competitive fan fiction. That's all that. Uh So,
Speaker 1: So anyway, the big theory was that the Knicks wanted
Speaker 1: um to get Zion, and this big fan theory was
Speaker 1: that it was so they can trade uh New Orleans
Speaker 1: for Zion for Anthony Davis. New Orleans has the first
Speaker 1: draft pick now, so not only do they not have
Speaker 1: the bargaining power, but now New Orleans have Anthony Davis
Speaker 1: and Zion. So it's been a So that's the big
Speaker 1: sports drama right now. There are there there's a you know,
Speaker 1: I there's a few people in the discord who who
Speaker 1: are real into sports. So I'm not even gonna pretend
Speaker 1: like no one in who listens to this care uh care,
Speaker 1: like people do care. Uh. But anyway back to Harry Potter,
Speaker 1: Uncle Vernon punishes Harry for that. He said, they're like,
Speaker 1: you're not going back. Yeah. Yeah, So in a way,
Speaker 1: Darby's plan does seem when it gets working, they put
Speaker 1: locks on the door. But Weasley, my guy, no, not
Speaker 1: even just run the Weasley twins. The fave boys are
Speaker 1: in the whip and the whip is flying. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: they got a flying car. They got that Ford Anglia
Speaker 1: yo in a light blue and they come up. They
Speaker 1: could they like find out. They're like, Harry, we haven't
Speaker 1: heard from you. Oh no, we've been sending you letter.
Speaker 1: We thought they were kidnapped. We thought things were bad,
Speaker 1: but my god, are they worse than we anticipated. We're
Speaker 1: breaking you out. But there were literal bars on those
Speaker 1: kid's window. Yeah. They the way they locked it up,
Speaker 1: it was like, oh my gosh, it was. It was
Speaker 1: so funny jail break Harry. Yeah, which is which is
Speaker 1: good because in his owl friend in a weird way,
Speaker 1: it's the first thing in a a like Wizarding World
Speaker 1: kind of story that was relatable because everyone had that
Speaker 1: moment where your friends break you out, where they're like,
Speaker 1: we're going to sneak you out, And this was that.
Speaker 1: I had it once. I was such a good I
Speaker 1: was at home reading Harry Potter. Oh man, so uh
Speaker 1: so basically, they fly the whole car, the whole car
Speaker 1: to Hogwarts, and then we meet the whomping Willow. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: there's also a very important character for the third book,
Speaker 1: oh which one. Oh yeah, the willow is a character.
Speaker 1: I thought that it is. So it's got a personality,
Speaker 1: and its personality is of a woman's scorn. The willow
Speaker 1: is here to protect. What to protect, we don't know yet,
Speaker 1: but that willow is packing a punch and we'll wallop
Speaker 1: your car. And that's what it did. And they got
Speaker 1: in trouble for it. They definitely definitely got Yeah. So
Speaker 1: now they so they're punished. Ron has to clean the
Speaker 1: school trophies, and Harry has to help celebrity teacher Professor Lockhart,
Speaker 1: whose classes are chaonic by an They has to address
Speaker 1: his fan mail. Yeah, oh my gosh, I love that teacher.
Speaker 1: He's all all the quote villains are like weird characters.
Speaker 1: They're so good he's such a person you know in
Speaker 1: Hollywood that's like, oh, let me tell you a fame.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you a fame. And it's like it's
Speaker 1: like Harry is so much fame, more famous because he
Speaker 1: defeated the greatest dark Wizard of all time. It's like
Speaker 1: it's like it's like if you know, uh, let me
Speaker 1: give it. I'm trying to think of an example. Yeah,
Speaker 1: what would be a good example of like a person
Speaker 1: that's like historically relevant and a person that's like like
Speaker 1: a Kardashian is like, let me tell you about to
Speaker 1: like Obama, You're like, uh, I would even put I
Speaker 1: would even put it. He's probably less famous than a
Speaker 1: Kardashian could probably be more like like snooky, like being
Speaker 1: like let me tell you about So then this is
Speaker 1: also where we learned the term mud blood, which is
Speaker 1: a Mimi term that blood purist. Uh I think that's
Speaker 1: Draco refers to uh mine, and Harry Potter is like,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't know anything about wizards, so I
Speaker 1: don't even know what just happened, and Ron had to
Speaker 1: be like some stuff just went down. Yeah, and so
Speaker 1: you get your first hint of like well not even
Speaker 1: first hint. But you get like a really strong sense
Speaker 1: of that there's like disparity in the wizarding world. It's
Speaker 1: it's a full world. It's not just like, oh, happy
Speaker 1: rainbows and we're all wizards like they're there's definitely classism
Speaker 1: being on. Uh and then uh then they then there's uh.
Speaker 1: Then like Harry Potter hears a voice from the walls
Speaker 1: that no one else hears, yes, and it says the
Speaker 1: scariest crap. It says like, let me rip you, let
Speaker 1: me cut you, let me kill you. Like that's this
Speaker 1: kind of stuff. And he's hearing from the walls. This
Speaker 1: kid is feeling like he's going insane. And then he
Speaker 1: tells his friends and they're like, dude, that's bad. Like
Speaker 1: you live in a world where they are talking elves
Speaker 1: that are small, and we're telling you this is not good.
Speaker 1: And then they see the riding on the walls which
Speaker 1: says the Chamber of Secrets has has been opened. Enemies
Speaker 1: of the Air beware. I still have to rhyme huh.
Speaker 1: And then so now people are like rumors are going
Speaker 1: around the school about the Chamber of Secrets history and
Speaker 1: you know the Lord and and also a big note
Speaker 1: someone's been petrified during that the cat Mrs Norris, Oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: because she was a cat. Mrs Norris is always a cat.
Speaker 1: Which one I'm mixing up Mrs Norris with McGonagall because
Speaker 1: I remember she chose into the and I think I
Speaker 1: remember watching the movie and thinking that happened. There's theories
Speaker 1: that that Mrs Norris isn't really a cat. That is,
Speaker 1: there's a little bit more than Mrs Norris than the
Speaker 1: average cat. Interesting, but yeah, but yeah. They discovered from
Speaker 1: Cuthbert Bins, the ghostly Professor of the History of Magic,
Speaker 1: that it houses a terrible monster that was created by
Speaker 1: one of the school's founder, Salazar Slytherin, after a fundamental
Speaker 1: disagreement with the other founders goadra Griffindor HeLa Huff Hufflepuff
Speaker 1: and Rowen a Raven Claus Letherin believe that students of
Speaker 1: non magical parentage should be refused entry to the school
Speaker 1: during the and then we have a quidditch game pop
Speaker 1: up after that, and a blood your One of the
Speaker 1: balls involved in quidditch chases after Harry instead of zig
Speaker 1: zagging toward any player can hit breaking his arm an
Speaker 1: attempt to mend it, Lockhart accidentally removes all of the
Speaker 1: bones like an idiot, and Harry's broken arm, which then
Speaker 1: requires a skelly grow and and over overnight stay in
Speaker 1: the hospital to heels. So Harry's going through it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he can't go a year without like having a major
Speaker 1: accident by an outside source in a quidditch game. Uh.
Speaker 1: Dobby pulls up yet again to say, yeah, this is
Speaker 1: me ruin in your life. And Dobby is so cute,
Speaker 1: but he's like, hey, yeah, I told you not to come,
Speaker 1: and then I had to break your arm because I
Speaker 1: thought maybe they'd send you home and they didn't. So
Speaker 1: I don't want to kill you. I just wanted you
Speaker 1: to like kind of like not be able to go
Speaker 1: to school anymore. And Harry is like, why why leave
Speaker 1: me alone? I do know why your help. I don't
Speaker 1: know why you're here or why you chose me. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Then this leads to another attack happening, and this this
Speaker 1: happens to Colin Creavy, who was the first year Griffin door.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, a little annoying baby Colin always taking a
Speaker 1: fan boy of Harry Potter. Then a dueling classes set
Speaker 1: up for the students because now it's like all right, well,
Speaker 1: we got to teach you how to have that thang
Speaker 1: on you. And that's when we learned that Harry has
Speaker 1: parcel mouth because the snake pulls up and he just
Speaker 1: starts talking to it. Yeah. So, so Draco uses a
Speaker 1: charm to like throw a snake at Harry during their duel,
Speaker 1: and Harry, instead of like letting the teachers take care
Speaker 1: of it like they try to, he just like sees
Speaker 1: that it's going to talk, like like come up on
Speaker 1: one of his his classmates and is like and says
Speaker 1: like stop. And the reason why he does that is
Speaker 1: because in the first book, he is he's on a
Speaker 1: fun trip for Dudley's birthday at a zoo and he's
Speaker 1: a pleasant conversation and then yeah and so and so
Speaker 1: he thinks, like this is just because and weird things
Speaker 1: happened to him as a kid all the time, and
Speaker 1: he kept like not being able to explain it. And
Speaker 1: then when they were like you're a wizard, he's like,
Speaker 1: it all makes sense. And it's only later that they're like,
Speaker 1: that's not normal, and he's like, oh, I thought that
Speaker 1: was a thing wizards do. I just assumed all the
Speaker 1: weird stuff about me was normal for everybody else, and
Speaker 1: they're like, no, that's weird to the point where people
Speaker 1: thought like, we're scared, because all of a sudden they
Speaker 1: hear Harry speaking another language that sounds like a snake
Speaker 1: and it's very like creepy sounding, and Harry can't explain
Speaker 1: like why he has this gift. But the only other
Speaker 1: wizard that is known with that gift is of course
Speaker 1: Salazar Slytherin, which makes a lot. Do people think that
Speaker 1: he is the one that opened the Chamber of Secrets
Speaker 1: and is the air Yeah, and it starts all the
Speaker 1: drama drama. They're just all around the school. Uh yeah,
Speaker 1: and uh so this this act, this actually starts almost
Speaker 1: like big time drama in the school, you know. Uh.
Speaker 1: And people are afraid of him, and there's more attacks
Speaker 1: from this thing and people are trying to figure out
Speaker 1: who who's done it doing it And then they find
Speaker 1: the diary that belongs to Tom Riddle, Yeah, in a
Speaker 1: toilet and they found it in a toilet and uh
Speaker 1: and Tom Riddle was alive during the time of the
Speaker 1: first uh chamber opening attacks, so they want to dive
Speaker 1: into it, yeah and uh and then so they dive
Speaker 1: into it and they and as you mentioned, so Ron
Speaker 1: at the beginning, remember when he had attention had to
Speaker 1: clean the art, like the awards. One of those awards
Speaker 1: was a service to the school, awarded to Tom Riddle.
Speaker 1: And so they were like, oh that is there's always
Speaker 1: this little thing, Harry Potter. They're like, oh, A connects
Speaker 1: to be. There's so many details though, so it's easy
Speaker 1: to be like huh yeah. And then they said that
Speaker 1: the culprit of the death was none other than Rubus Hagrid.
Speaker 1: Yeah r BFF from Book one guy. And you're like, no,
Speaker 1: he could never do this, yeah. Uh. And then this
Speaker 1: leads to an attack on Harmony and the schools put
Speaker 1: on lockdown and Dumbledore and Haggard are forced to leave
Speaker 1: the premises. Hagard left a set of instructions to follow
Speaker 1: the spiders currently fleeing into the Forbidden Force, and they
Speaker 1: do it, only to find the monster that was blamed
Speaker 1: for the attacks fifty years before, a master, a massive
Speaker 1: spider name Aragogue, who explains to the duo that the
Speaker 1: real monster is uh, not the spiders, uh, the real monsters,
Speaker 1: that that spider's fear above all others. And when Harry
Speaker 1: and Ron trying to leave. Ari Dox says they cannot
Speaker 1: leave because his sons and daughters have not eaten for
Speaker 1: a long time, and they tried. He's like, this is
Speaker 1: oh yeah, like we're we protect our friend Hagrid because
Speaker 1: he raised us. But like, dude, you crush me. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're going down. And so they have to escape, and
Speaker 1: then luckily for them, that beat up ford Anglia that
Speaker 1: transported them to school escaped and has been living in
Speaker 1: the wilderness the beginning of the book and said helps
Speaker 1: him get out of jail free. Yeah, so they get um.
Speaker 1: So they pull they pull out of there, and they
Speaker 1: find out that the monster is a Basilis and thanks
Speaker 1: to our girl her money and uh, they find out
Speaker 1: that it kills with a stare, which is a giant snake,
Speaker 1: which is why Harry has been hearing these voices and
Speaker 1: no one else is hearing it because it's a snake.
Speaker 1: It's talking parcels tongue to him snake language. And Harry
Speaker 1: figures out from hints that Eric dropped that a student
Speaker 1: who died during the previous text is Myrtle. And when
Speaker 1: the very Myrtle where we found the diary and the
Speaker 1: toilets and when Jenny is taken by the monsters into
Speaker 1: the chamber, they discovered that the entrance is in the
Speaker 1: bathroom they have been using to make poly juice potion
Speaker 1: and Harry, Ron and Lockhart entered the chamber. But the
Speaker 1: but the dunder headed Professor, which this is what the
Speaker 1: article is saying, who reveals that he's a fraud, causes
Speaker 1: a rockfall while attempting to erase the boy's memories with
Speaker 1: Ron's damaged one. Oh yeah, because Ron's not in his damage,
Speaker 1: he takes it, tries to use it the spell blast
Speaker 1: him back. Yes, Ron's one breaks in uh from the
Speaker 1: wamping willow him up at the beginning of the buck
Speaker 1: and yeah, it's it's uncovered that this celebrity professor actually
Speaker 1: has done nothing that has made him a celebrity. Uh
Speaker 1: and and it's completely useless in the in the quest
Speaker 1: to you know, defeat the evil within the Chamber of Secrets,
Speaker 1: and he's like, I can't have people spilling this te by.
Speaker 1: But he grabbed the wrong wand and tragically lost his
Speaker 1: own mind. So then Harry ens up injuring the Chamber
Speaker 1: of Seekers alone to find Jenny and Tom Riddle, who
Speaker 1: claims to be a memory preserved in his diary for
Speaker 1: the last fifty years, and Riddle shows Harry that is
Speaker 1: full name Tom Marve. Riddle can be made into the
Speaker 1: anagram I am Lord Voldemort, surprise, proving that Lord Boldemore
Speaker 1: is a big nerd. He's like Tom Riddles, Like, I
Speaker 1: wonder what cool thing I can name out of my
Speaker 1: own letters of my name? Oh, I want to make
Speaker 1: a new name of like what kid is? Like, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna make a new name because I hate my dad's
Speaker 1: name that I was given. So I'm going to use
Speaker 1: the letters from my current name to make a new name,
Speaker 1: which with the words I am in front of it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I am Lord. So yeah, he based really find out
Speaker 1: that he's been possessing Jenny through the diary to basically
Speaker 1: open ye open those chambers secrets, and Harry's Loyaly Dumbadore,
Speaker 1: in face of Riddle, summons Dumbledore's phoenix Fox, who arrives
Speaker 1: with the sorting hat and Fox blind the Basilisk, allowing
Speaker 1: Harry to remove the sword of God Griffin Door from
Speaker 1: the sorting hat and slay that basilist. It blinds the
Speaker 1: bassilisk is the thing that's been attacking everybody and making
Speaker 1: everyone paralyzed because of its eyes. Yeah, so it blinded
Speaker 1: it so that Harry had a fighting chance against it
Speaker 1: and wouldn't have to like be blind. Unfortunately, he does
Speaker 1: get fatally poisoned by the bassilist, but Fox's healing tears
Speaker 1: save Harry, who uses a basilist thing to stab Riddle's diary.
Speaker 1: But the diary and Riddle are destroyed and Guinea is restored.
Speaker 1: Jennywise it Guinea Jenny's yeah life. He was draining her
Speaker 1: life to come back to life. Yeah, baka Baltimore. So yeah,
Speaker 1: this is two for two. He's tried, uh, stone that
Speaker 1: gives you immortality didn't work. Harry got there in the end,
Speaker 1: and now he's tried to drain the life out of
Speaker 1: a child through the memory his own memory in a
Speaker 1: book failed again. And then the students come back to life.
Speaker 1: Lockhart is discharged because he's a fake and uh and
Speaker 1: we go back to Private Drive, which is where the live.
Speaker 1: Uh So then after these breaks, we have what four
Speaker 1: more books left? Yeah? The books are dense many so
Speaker 1: you're reading a very like detailed summary as well. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I said that we were going to do a smaller synopsis,
Speaker 1: and I lied, But this time after this break, yes,
Speaker 1: these synopsis are going to be way quicker yea, because
Speaker 1: it just gets less dense further in you go. Uh see, y'all,
Speaker 1: let this break. Welcome back to Nerdificent. I'm here with
Speaker 1: Kelsey and PG game. We're talking to Harry Potter and
Speaker 1: we're getting through with these books and we're gonna make
Speaker 1: it real fast for this last portion so we can
Speaker 1: get into the movies, talk about the future, what's going on,
Speaker 1: and a little fun thing. I know that Kelsey did that.
Speaker 1: Y'all don't know yet. Uh you'll know, you'll when I
Speaker 1: say it, you'll know. Uh. So, next we have the
Speaker 1: Goblet of Fire. So how does Voldemort come back in
Speaker 1: this one? Kelsey? Not the Goblet of Fire. Next, Prisoner
Speaker 1: of Azkaban, my bad. So in this one, this story
Speaker 1: kind of is about Harry comes back to his third
Speaker 1: year at school. Um and uh, there's a he finds
Speaker 1: that there is a man on the loose that has
Speaker 1: broken out of Big Wizard jail, and so that's kind
Speaker 1: of like the main story is that there's a bunch
Speaker 1: of creatures called the Mentors that are on hunt and
Speaker 1: they're also kind of like they think that he might
Speaker 1: go back to the school. Why, we don't know until
Speaker 1: later when it's uncovered that he is at Actually he's
Speaker 1: helped betray Harry's parents to Baltimore, and he's like a
Speaker 1: big Baltimore fan, so he might become for Harry to
Speaker 1: finish the job. So then Harry eventually has a face
Speaker 1: off with this character. The character does get into Hogwarts.
Speaker 1: It has revealed the reason why he is able to
Speaker 1: do that is because he can transform into a dog.
Speaker 1: And then but the truth is unrevealed that actually he
Speaker 1: never betrayed the parents. It was he was always their friend.
Speaker 1: It was another one of their friend that betrayed those parents.
Speaker 1: But then he was framed. Yeah, it wasn't the jail
Speaker 1: the dark Arts teacher. It was Peter Pettigrew that framed him.
Speaker 1: Ron's Rat since book one one's Stupid Rat has because
Speaker 1: now we're introduced we were also introduced in book one
Speaker 1: two characters that could be Um could be animegus that
Speaker 1: transformed into animals, but Um Professor McGonagall. And so it
Speaker 1: turns out the runs rat was animegus the whole time,
Speaker 1: and it was actually Peter Pettigrew, the s really horrible
Speaker 1: person that betrayed his friends and got him killed. UM.
Speaker 1: The professor in this is uh Rima's lupin who his
Speaker 1: friends was friends with all of them and kind of
Speaker 1: helps Harry deal with like a lot of his tragic
Speaker 1: past and also teaches Harry how to um use the
Speaker 1: patronist charm against the de mentors because they keep coming
Speaker 1: for him because he got a lot of sad stuff
Speaker 1: and the mentors feed off of sad stuff and so
Speaker 1: in the end, Harry is reunited with his godfather, who
Speaker 1: is Serious Black, the man that was framed for killing
Speaker 1: Harry's parents. UH. He saves a hippogriff and Serious Black
Speaker 1: and Hippogriff escaped. Serious Black and the hippogriff escape through
Speaker 1: a series of misadventures with Harry and harmony and time
Speaker 1: travel and UH. But he is not publicly announced to
Speaker 1: be a good guy because Peter Pettigrew gets away, so
Speaker 1: they're unable to out Peter Pettigrew as the reason that
Speaker 1: UH that his parents died, and so technically Serious Black
Speaker 1: unfortunately still on the run by the end of the book,
Speaker 1: and unfortunately Double unfortunately Uh, there is a prophecy that
Speaker 1: says that the the servant of the Dark Lord will
Speaker 1: return to him, and that is Peter Pettigrew, and he
Speaker 1: returns to the Dark Lord at the end of that
Speaker 1: novel too, so he now has a helper. So now
Speaker 1: we but so, but there wasn't no real Voldemort action
Speaker 1: in this So there's not a lot of hot Voldemore
Speaker 1: action until the which is The Goblet of Fun exactly
Speaker 1: so fun and Tom Foolery comes to Hogwarts when they've
Speaker 1: just when when in the first in the beginning they
Speaker 1: go to a quidditch World Cup. It's super fun and
Speaker 1: it's kind of like the Super Bowl but like a
Speaker 1: big deal. Actually it's more like the World Cup. I
Speaker 1: don't know why, but anyway, so Harry goes to that.
Speaker 1: But there during it, there is a dark mark put
Speaker 1: into the sky and that was Voldemore's sign, and so
Speaker 1: they're like, oh my gosh, there's like unrest. It seems
Speaker 1: like he's rising again. Scary, but the Minister for Magic says, no,
Speaker 1: that's not happening. He would never uh. And so anyway,
Speaker 1: they go to school and it's the Triwizard Tournament is
Speaker 1: announced where they want to like, have you know, you
Speaker 1: find out there's not just a Wizarding World in London.
Speaker 1: There's a Wizarding World everywhere. And there's a bunch of
Speaker 1: different schools, more than just Hogwarts, and three of them
Speaker 1: come in and they all have like a fun but
Speaker 1: very dangerous competition that Harry is a like unwittingly added
Speaker 1: into as the fourth member of what should have been
Speaker 1: a three person competition. Uh. And they don't know why,
Speaker 1: and he's also too young for it, and he keeps
Speaker 1: being put into these dangerous situations and they're thinking, is
Speaker 1: someone coming for him? And so by the end of it,
Speaker 1: it turns out someone was coming for him. He Uh.
Speaker 1: He's helped out by Matti Moody, who's the current professor,
Speaker 1: and the whole time matt I was like, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: help you out. And then at the end turns out
Speaker 1: matt I is actually a another Voldemort supporter and was
Speaker 1: actually doing it so that he would get to the
Speaker 1: end and touch the Goblet of Fire and be transported
Speaker 1: directly to Voldemort, who is who has now garnered enough
Speaker 1: followers back to have them help him with a restoration spell. Uh.
Speaker 1: And they use Harry's blood to restore Voldemort to his
Speaker 1: former body, and also to take down Harry's protection because
Speaker 1: now Harry's blood is running through Voldemort's veins, so he
Speaker 1: can now touch Harry where he couldn't before without being burns.
Speaker 1: So the book ends in a bad place. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: Voltimore is risen again and Harry has witnessed it, but
Speaker 1: unfortunately no one else has because he has been transported
Speaker 1: there alone. And then we are in which is the
Speaker 1: Order of the Phoenix. Yeah, Harry is super angsty book
Speaker 1: because Harry has seen some stuff. He's seen friends die,
Speaker 1: he saw Baltimore brought back to life, and he still
Speaker 1: has to go back to the Dirk slate. He's like,
Speaker 1: I'm a grown man, I'm tempting. I want to be
Speaker 1: a part of it all, and they're like, no, we can't,
Speaker 1: we can't tell you anything, and he's like, So he's
Speaker 1: very angsty. And also, meanwhile, the whole Wizarding world is
Speaker 1: in denial that Boltimore is back, so they keep kind
Speaker 1: of like throwing him in Dumbledore's name through the mud.
Speaker 1: They're like, these two people that I just really took
Speaker 1: over these summaries from you. I'm sorry, No no, it's
Speaker 1: all good. No, this is what it's for. People like
Speaker 1: you who are super hyped can burn through this so
Speaker 1: that I don't spend most of the podcast just reading
Speaker 1: every nooks and crannies, and I get the best parts that,
Speaker 1: like you pointed out. So one of the things I
Speaker 1: do remember about Order of Phoenix. That's the name of
Speaker 1: like this supergroup, right, yes, So he finds out the
Speaker 1: Order of the Phoenix is a group of wizard in
Speaker 1: the First Wizarding War that like got together, um when
Speaker 1: you know it seemed to like the Ministry for Magic
Speaker 1: wasn't doing enough, and also it was kind of being
Speaker 1: infiltrated by the Dark Wizards known as the Oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: i'm blinking the I'll look it up. I'll look it up.
Speaker 1: That's why. That's why the Dark Wizards back in the day.
Speaker 1: But now but pretty big part of it. He's like
Speaker 1: a big part of the infiltration into the the the Ministry.
Speaker 1: But so so yeah, so, so Harry Potter learns of
Speaker 1: this old school group. It included his godfather, Serious Black
Speaker 1: like who's on the run, and included uh, Dumbledore. It
Speaker 1: included his own parents and a lot of other characters.
Speaker 1: But now it's also including the we the adult Weasley's,
Speaker 1: and it's including you know a lot of people that
Speaker 1: believe Harry and believe Dumbledore and believe that Baltimore is back,
Speaker 1: and they're like, Okay, it's time to get the gang
Speaker 1: back together and do this right. And they're doing it
Speaker 1: in um in Serious Blacks family home that was actually
Speaker 1: Serious is from a family of dark wizards or of
Speaker 1: you know, just like bad people in general, and not
Speaker 1: all of them were um technically part of the Death Theaters,
Speaker 1: but they all kind of were supporters. They were like
Speaker 1: kind of not the best. But so anyway, he inherited
Speaker 1: this house and it's under a lot of like cool
Speaker 1: old protections so they can't be found. So that's kind
Speaker 1: of being the headquarters right now. And Serious Black is
Speaker 1: stir crazy because he can't leave the house and he's
Speaker 1: super bored and honestly same understandable. So yes, so Harry
Speaker 1: is like kind of being excluded from this supergroup because
Speaker 1: he's young. He's also kind of like really reaching out
Speaker 1: a lot to Dumbledore for like guidance in this and
Speaker 1: Dumbledore is really pulling back. He's not really giving him
Speaker 1: a lot. He's kind of ignoring him. Harry in this
Speaker 1: book is also like on trial for a bit of
Speaker 1: it um because of he was caught doing magic outside
Speaker 1: of school grounds to save his uh his cousin Dudley
Speaker 1: from the mentors. And they're like, what the mentors aren't
Speaker 1: running a muck doing whatever they want. This couldn't possibly
Speaker 1: be true. You're wrong, and that that support he used
Speaker 1: to have from the Minister of her magic is gone
Speaker 1: because the Minister is currently trying to make Harry look
Speaker 1: like an idiot because he doesn't He doesn't want Boltimore
Speaker 1: to be back. No one does, and so they're like,
Speaker 1: this must be crazy. So it's just like this huge denial. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so the whole book is just Harry and Harry kind
Speaker 1: of feeling isolated, and we meet Belatric's less strange right
Speaker 1: in this Yes yes, because she pulls up and she
Speaker 1: kills serious Yes in this novel, unfortunately are much beloved boy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Harry starts having some some bad dreams um predictions and one.
Speaker 1: But sometimes he can't tell the difference between what's real
Speaker 1: and what's not. He has kind of always had him,
Speaker 1: but now it's even worse so and he's kind of thinking, oh,
Speaker 1: I can see what Baltimore's up to because of our connection.
Speaker 1: And so in one of the dreams, it looks like
Speaker 1: Mr Weasley is being hurt. It ends up being true,
Speaker 1: and so then the next dream he has looks like, seriously,
Speaker 1: I think someone else is in danger. So he's like,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take this into my own hands, and so
Speaker 1: he in his squad of friends, uh from Hogwarts, decide
Speaker 1: to leave to go to the ministry after hours is
Speaker 1: like no one there to try to stop whatever is
Speaker 1: going down, And it turns out it was a ruse.
Speaker 1: It was like them trying to bait them out and uh,
Speaker 1: and so Belatrick's is there. She's escaped from Azkaban. Actually
Speaker 1: there's like a massive breakout that it was rallied by Baltimore,
Speaker 1: but it was pinned on Serious Black and so in
Speaker 1: that battle, Serious Black falls and it is unfortunate because
Speaker 1: he's like Harry's big father figure. Harry has limited parents
Speaker 1: and so it's very very sad. But the but it's
Speaker 1: a sad moment, you know, but don't the door pulls
Speaker 1: up and then Doubledoor in Baltimore fix a big face
Speaker 1: off moment. Yeah, in the ministry and then I mean
Speaker 1: everyone kind of like arrives and they're like, oh, Baltimore
Speaker 1: is bad and they see him there and they're like, oh,
Speaker 1: he's in the middle of the Ministry for Magic, battling
Speaker 1: double door, Like we can't even deny this anymore, Frank.
Speaker 1: And then that leads us to Harry Potter and the
Speaker 1: Half Blood Prince. Oh yeah, and I remember when that
Speaker 1: was first announced. We're like, who is half Blood? Who
Speaker 1: is it? It could be Harry, but it's definitely not Harry. Yeah.
Speaker 1: This came out in two thousand and five too, so
Speaker 1: this yeah, so and yeah it's the so what goes
Speaker 1: down in this one? What does Baltimore do now? So?
Speaker 1: So yeah, so now he's outed. Uh half Blood print,
Speaker 1: you know what. That's one of the ones that came
Speaker 1: out later that I was like so much, let's interested
Speaker 1: o the ones I had years and years and years
Speaker 1: to reread and reread and reread. And then Half bloods
Speaker 1: Prince is kind of like I remember reading it when
Speaker 1: it first came out, like waited up for it and everything,
Speaker 1: and uh, it's you know, a lot a lot happens,
Speaker 1: but I think it's just so sad that I block
Speaker 1: out a lot of it, so I might need your
Speaker 1: help a little bit. Yeah, oh yeah, so yeah. Dumbledore
Speaker 1: picks up Harry from his aunt and uncle's house, hoping
Speaker 1: to escort him to Burrow Uh, to the borough home
Speaker 1: of Harry's best friend Ron and his large family, but
Speaker 1: then on the way they make a detour to the
Speaker 1: Tipporary home of horse Slughorn, former Potions teacher, and then
Speaker 1: Harry helps persuades Lughorn to return to teach potions, which
Speaker 1: is interesting because up until now the only available slot
Speaker 1: in the lineup has been the Defends against the Dark
Speaker 1: Arts teacher, and there's already a Potions master severa Snape,
Speaker 1: and so that's kind of telling of like what is
Speaker 1: going on with Dumbledore right now? Yeah? Yeah, well, either way,
Speaker 1: we find out Snape meets with Narcis Mouth for Draco's
Speaker 1: mother and her sister, Belatrick's last straight and he makes
Speaker 1: a vow to them, a mysterious vow. Yeah, mysterious vow. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: an unbreakable vow to be yes. But they don't say exactly. Okay,
Speaker 1: so they don't let you know at the time. It's
Speaker 1: just what the unbreakable vow is. But yeah, it's a
Speaker 1: it's a vow that if you break it, you die.
Speaker 1: It's for real, you have to you have to not
Speaker 1: do it. So uh Then the next morning, Harry, Ron
Speaker 1: and Hermione get their ordinary Wizarding Level results along with
Speaker 1: the come back in and it, and they figure out
Speaker 1: what classes they're going to be taking. Yeah, and they
Speaker 1: see Draco, who they're like, this dude is definitely a
Speaker 1: death eater. Yeah, so's the world is kind of like
Speaker 1: up in arms right now. People are kind of on
Speaker 1: a witch hunt. The forces are growing and uh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: they're definitely thinking, oh, Draco's joined up, like he's for real,
Speaker 1: real now, he's not just a juror, he's actually a
Speaker 1: powerful and evil jerk and so on the Hogwarts Express
Speaker 1: they're talking about that suspicion, but Ron and Harmony are like,
Speaker 1: I don't know, he's a kid. Yeah, Like they're like,
Speaker 1: there's no way. Uh So then they get to it's
Speaker 1: all coming back to me now what this book is?
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, oh yeah. They get back to school and
Speaker 1: Dumbledore announced that Snape is the defense against the Dark
Speaker 1: Art Teacher, which up until this point we always apparently
Speaker 1: wanted the job. Yeah, but we've always known that everyone
Speaker 1: who's been a defense against the Dark art teacher either
Speaker 1: something's always up. Yeah, always actually at the end of
Speaker 1: the year, so yeah, yeah, and now Harry actually does
Speaker 1: well in potions. Uh. And then he but this is
Speaker 1: because he uh used received a used potion book that
Speaker 1: once belonged to someone named the half Blood. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: it has all these writings in it of like, don't
Speaker 1: do that, that's dumb. Do this instead, and he's like okay,
Speaker 1: and he does it, and all of a sudden horace
Speaker 1: s Longhorns like, whoa, You're the most brilliant person at
Speaker 1: potions I've ever seen. Why you remind me of your
Speaker 1: mother at your age, she was the most brilliant potions
Speaker 1: person I've ever seen. And he's like, oh dope. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So then he ends up using the tips to win
Speaker 1: a bottle of Felix. Felice is more commonly known as
Speaker 1: liquid luck, and uh this pleases Slughorn and uh so,
Speaker 1: believing Harry needs to learn Baltimore's passed again advantage in
Speaker 1: the battle, Dumbledore schedules regular meetings with Harry in his office. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So it turns out that like Dumbledore kept Harry definitely
Speaker 1: at arm's length in the book before, and it's because
Speaker 1: of his link to uh to Voldemorre. But Voldemore is
Speaker 1: kind of like figured it out now, so Dumbledore's like,
Speaker 1: I gotta step in. I gotta make sure that your
Speaker 1: brain is protech from this weird, crazy connection thing and
Speaker 1: also be like kind of training you up to make
Speaker 1: sure that you're ready for this upcoming war which feels
Speaker 1: like it is brewing. It's coming. Yeah. Uh. So that
Speaker 1: that potion not told you about, well, Harry uses it
Speaker 1: uh and use gets slughorns unedited memory. And this is
Speaker 1: where he learns that Slughorn told Riddle Tom Riddle a
Speaker 1: ka Voldi about the process of splitting one's soul and
Speaker 1: hiding it in several objects called horcruxes. Only by committing
Speaker 1: a murder can a wizard turn an object into a
Speaker 1: horr crux. Voldemort has created six of them, making himself
Speaker 1: virtually immortal by placing a piece of his soul in
Speaker 1: each one, which means he did six murders uh, and
Speaker 1: then he kept the last, the seventh and last one
Speaker 1: within his body. Dombador explains that in order to destroy Voldemort,
Speaker 1: all the horr cruxes must first be destroyed. Two hor cruxes,
Speaker 1: Riddle's diary uh, and a ring belonging to Volda More's
Speaker 1: grandfather Marvel Marvolo Gaunt. I've already been destroyed before others remain.
Speaker 1: That's how you see. At the beginning, You're like, what's
Speaker 1: up with Dumbledore's hand, And it turns out that he's
Speaker 1: been hunting horcruxes. Yeah, he's like, I gotta take care
Speaker 1: of this dude. Yeah. Seeing the decline of Dumbledore too,
Speaker 1: it seems like he's weaker. He's not quite on his
Speaker 1: a game. He's not quite as funny and loving and jovial.
Speaker 1: And we're not loving, but he's not quite as funny
Speaker 1: and jovial as he once was for sure. In this book, Yeah,
Speaker 1: things are started getting bleak and dark. Yeah. And then
Speaker 1: some other side business is going on. Is Ron's dating
Speaker 1: someone in her mind, he is very obviously jealous, and
Speaker 1: they're they're fighting about only after her money dates someone
Speaker 1: and Ron is super obviously jealous and book far, Yeah,
Speaker 1: this goes this, this, this will they won't. They continues,
Speaker 1: and they're actually fighting through most of the books until
Speaker 1: Ron is almost killed in an attempt on Dumbledore's life. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Then near the end of the You're Harry and Doubledore
Speaker 1: journey to a cave to retrieve a suspected horcrux uh
Speaker 1: Slytherins locket and Doubledore expertly finds a secret passage away
Speaker 1: to a large, pitch black underground lake, which Harry and
Speaker 1: Double Door crossed in a small boat. I just realized
Speaker 1: we forgot to talk about Umbradge. But that's fine. Oh
Speaker 1: what happened with Umbradge? She was like the defense. She
Speaker 1: was the teacher in book five and she like made
Speaker 1: everyone's life. Hell she's but my summary I skipped her,
Speaker 1: but she was the very very important character and I
Speaker 1: was like, wait, where was Umbridge? And then I'm like
Speaker 1: she was in and what happened to her at the
Speaker 1: end of book five. At the end of book five
Speaker 1: she is um I thought she was like carried out
Speaker 1: by a bunch of forest creatures, but I could be wrong. Oh,
Speaker 1: we also forgot to mention Double Door's army, which was
Speaker 1: technically his band of friends. They make their own so okay,
Speaker 1: so rewind book five. There's uh, the ministries kind of
Speaker 1: stepping in. They're like, no, We're not gonna let you
Speaker 1: spread rumors. We're not gonna let you spread lives. We're
Speaker 1: gonna put Unbridge in place. We're gonna force you know,
Speaker 1: we're gonna bring you up to code and put Unbridge
Speaker 1: in place to make sure that you're all learning the
Speaker 1: right thing. She's kind of like becoming more and more,
Speaker 1: seeking more and more power as they go, and so
Speaker 1: ends up like becoming actually the headmaster of Hogwarts eventually,
Speaker 1: and kind of instruction like enforcing all of these terrible
Speaker 1: rules and so to like rebel. They make this group
Speaker 1: called double Doore's Army, and uh and Dumbledore's army includes
Speaker 1: Luna left Good includes them, you know, Nev long Bottom,
Speaker 1: and then Um Dumbledore's Army is the one that ends
Speaker 1: up going to try to go fight Doubled. The goal
Speaker 1: of the army is for Harry to help train them
Speaker 1: to protect themselves because because of um Umbridge as the teacher,
Speaker 1: She's like, I'm not gonna I'm gonna only teach you
Speaker 1: theory because your children and you don't need to actually
Speaker 1: know how to protect yourself because there's nothing to protect
Speaker 1: yourselves from. And Harry's like, yeah, yeah, you're right, Dolores
Speaker 1: got abducted by sim Yeah, she gets like she's like
Speaker 1: she gets taken into the wooden Yeah, like you wink.
Speaker 1: And Dumbledore eventually saves her, but she eventually kind of
Speaker 1: steps back. Yeah, she's so terried. She's like at the
Speaker 1: one of the greatest evil characters ever written in my opinion,
Speaker 1: She's so terrible. But yes, back to book six. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: it's all good. So they try and get this uh
Speaker 1: Slytherin locket. Uh. They go into the island. Oh, yeah, Harry.
Speaker 1: So Dumbledore decides to take Harry on a horror CrOx
Speaker 1: field trip. His training has been enough, but he's like, Harry,
Speaker 1: before we go, you have to see yes to everything
Speaker 1: everything from now until you know until the end. You
Speaker 1: have to do what I say. And he's like, okay.
Speaker 1: So they go to this like little Death Island and
Speaker 1: uh they and he forces Harry to have him drink
Speaker 1: this potion that weakens the person drinking it. And so
Speaker 1: because they go together, they are able. If one person
Speaker 1: went alone, they would have drink all the potion and
Speaker 1: not been strong enough to get the Horcrux. But they
Speaker 1: went together. So Dumbledore takes all the potion, weakens himself
Speaker 1: Harry finds the Horcrux, except for it's not a horror crux.
Speaker 1: It's a phony. Someone else had already gotten that horror
Speaker 1: Crux and it was all for nothing. And so they
Speaker 1: go back to Hogwarts and they find out in their
Speaker 1: absence that the Death Eaters have invaded Hogwarts and are
Speaker 1: holding it a hostage. And they go into a tower
Speaker 1: and they find uh. They find Draco Malfoy and salads.
Speaker 1: They find Draco Malfoy and Snape and uh it is.
Speaker 1: It is uncovered that it was Draco's job to be
Speaker 1: killing Double Door, which is why there was the accidental
Speaker 1: attempt on Ron's life that was misguided. It was because
Speaker 1: the boy was trying to do it, and Snape had
Speaker 1: made the unbreakable vow that he would help Um, that
Speaker 1: he would help keep Draco from messing up and being
Speaker 1: killed by Voltimore. It looks like he m it looks
Speaker 1: like that Dumbledore is going to reason his way out
Speaker 1: with Draco, but it doesn't go right and Snape ends
Speaker 1: up killing Dumbledore and Dumbledore falls from the tower, leaving
Speaker 1: Harry Um hidden the whole time because because because Dumbledore
Speaker 1: tells Harry to hide, Yeah, and Snape reveals that he
Speaker 1: is the half Blood Prince. Yes, yeah, and so he
Speaker 1: has written that, but he like, we're all the notes
Speaker 1: in that book, and he is the one that killed
Speaker 1: Dumbledore and chose his true colors. Finally as being a
Speaker 1: day facto death eater, and all the death Eaters run off.
Speaker 1: They have killed the headmaster of Hogwarts. Everybody's in an uproar.
Speaker 1: Harry shook it, we all shook. We're all shook. I
Speaker 1: remember when I read that, I was crying for days.
Speaker 1: But but now here he's like, I'm not going back
Speaker 1: to Yeah, He's like, it's time. I'm gonna Yeah. He's like,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take this hor Crux field trip and make
Speaker 1: it a camping trip. Yeah. So you know, I'm not
Speaker 1: going back to school. Like I'm gonna take a year
Speaker 1: off to find myself. He's like, now I'm taking a
Speaker 1: year off to find pieces of Voldemort's soul and put
Speaker 1: him in the dirt. And so that's what he does.
Speaker 1: All of books seven. It's him and Ron and Hermione
Speaker 1: is saying they're coming to and it's a it's a
Speaker 1: it's a time to be alive, where he tries to
Speaker 1: hop down through various means various trophies that Voldemort has
Speaker 1: putting his soul onto. Uh, and they all mean different
Speaker 1: things to voldemorret. It is a very like difficult time
Speaker 1: that the relationships are all tested. Meanwhile, the Greater World
Speaker 1: and Wizarding World is all in in turmoil, to the
Speaker 1: point where the Minister for uh, like the actual Prime
Speaker 1: Minister of England and like actual muggles are having to
Speaker 1: like powerful Muggles are having to be informed of the
Speaker 1: situation because it's like it's affecting muggles. It's affecting people,
Speaker 1: are dying people, people in the school. It's the school itself.
Speaker 1: The Ministry for Magic has fallen. It's now in control
Speaker 1: by these death Eaters, and so is Hogwarts. Hogwarts is
Speaker 1: being run by several snape I believe in the Caro
Speaker 1: twins Electo, it's like two other death eaters and Carro
Speaker 1: I'm very sometimes sometimes uh and uh. And so Harry
Speaker 1: eventually tracks down most of them. He has to return
Speaker 1: to Hogwarts for a couple of them. Uh. And do
Speaker 1: you want to wrap it up therapy? Yeah, yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean yeah, yeah, well no, it's fine. So, yeah, this
Speaker 1: is the main thing that happens in this one is
Speaker 1: the mysterious R A B that kind of carvers from
Speaker 1: the house. So the one. Yeah, so in the Half
Speaker 1: Blood Prince that that locket that they were like, psych
Speaker 1: it's not really a horror Crux, someone else had already
Speaker 1: taken it and it was R A B. And that
Speaker 1: was like what we all had to sit for and
Speaker 1: make the theories about between that. So yeah, who ends
Speaker 1: up being a it's a Regulus, our tourist Black who
Speaker 1: was serious as Black's brother who was a death theater
Speaker 1: so Serious and his brother got obviously they had a
Speaker 1: falling out when his brother became a death theater, but
Speaker 1: Regulus ended up turning on the dark Lord thinking this
Speaker 1: is not what I wanted and trying to help destroy
Speaker 1: that lock it. So he took it um and it
Speaker 1: ends up being I believe in creatures possession. Who's a
Speaker 1: householf the yeah so yeah, so this eventually lead leads
Speaker 1: to them both eight trying to find the rest of
Speaker 1: the Horror Crux is and be finding the Deadly hollows. This, yes,
Speaker 1: so it's there's Oh, I'm glad that you brought up
Speaker 1: the bath because that's a book. Final book. But it's
Speaker 1: it's a So it turns out that now Voldemore is
Speaker 1: seeking these deathly hollows that are a way to be
Speaker 1: master of death and like a very powerful wizard. There
Speaker 1: the story goes it's kind of a children's story that
Speaker 1: a lot of people don't believe, but it ends up
Speaker 1: being real, and it turns out that Dumbledore was a
Speaker 1: big like U in his day, wanted to look like,
Speaker 1: was a searcher of them, and he also was connected
Speaker 1: to another dark wizard who was a searcher of them, Grindewald,
Speaker 1: who comes into major play in later movies. Um but
Speaker 1: so yes, So we find out that we've actually been
Speaker 1: in contact with a lot of these hollows throughout the
Speaker 1: book series and had no idea. Harry had a invisibility
Speaker 1: cloak that was gifted to him in book I think,
Speaker 1: uh was the book? Yeah, Yeah, So there's Harry has
Speaker 1: had this invisibility cloaks that was gifted in book one.
Speaker 1: That's a deathly hollow because there's like no other cloak
Speaker 1: that Um can turn a person invisible, and that is
Speaker 1: belonged to the Pruitt brother who wanted to be Um
Speaker 1: invisible from death. There is a wand that this third
Speaker 1: the second Pruett brother, I think they're the prue It's anyway,
Speaker 1: there are three brothers who get gifts from death. The
Speaker 1: first brother asked for an invisibility cloak to hide himself
Speaker 1: from well the last brother but I'm getting a little complicated.
Speaker 1: One brother asked for an invisibility cloak to hide himself
Speaker 1: from death. One asked for an all powerful wand, and
Speaker 1: then the third brother asked for the ability to recall
Speaker 1: people from death. So he gets a stone the Peverrell
Speaker 1: thank you, the Prue It's are are different family and
Speaker 1: Harry Potter um the So the stone we haven't we
Speaker 1: hadn't seen yet, but the the wand actually turned out
Speaker 1: to be Um Dumbledores one and the cloak and was
Speaker 1: Harry's in Harry's possession this whole time. So Harry has
Speaker 1: a decision to make if he's going to hunt hor
Speaker 1: cruxes to battle uh Voltimore, or if he's gonna runt
Speaker 1: hollows to battle horr Cruxes or to battle Baltimore. And
Speaker 1: that's kind of the big thing, like does he want
Speaker 1: to be pow powerful ope, master of death man or
Speaker 1: does he think that the best um you know, offense
Speaker 1: is a good defense to like throw down on those
Speaker 1: horr cruxes. And meanwhile, you know, Hogwarts is in disarray.
Speaker 1: All of his friends are still under the you know,
Speaker 1: under the oppressive regime there with the death theaters. But
Speaker 1: he chooses in the end to actually go for the horcruxes.
Speaker 1: He returns to Hogwarts and um the It is that
Speaker 1: around that point that Voltimore realizes he's hunting the horcruxes,
Speaker 1: so he so everyone is kind of culminating into this
Speaker 1: final battle of Hogwarts where all of the students and
Speaker 1: teachers and people there are trying to protect the school
Speaker 1: long enough for Harry to finish the job so that
Speaker 1: they can all kill Voldemore at last. Meanwhile, Voldemorre does
Speaker 1: have the wand uh and Harry comes upon the stone,
Speaker 1: it's given to him. It's actually um like he gets uh.
Speaker 1: Voltimore has the one, but it's not one working for
Speaker 1: him and he doesn't know why. And it turns out
Speaker 1: that it's actually it was one Um, not by Voldemorre
Speaker 1: like he thought, but it was actually won by Harry,
Speaker 1: and so Harry is the true possessor of the one.
Speaker 1: Because you can only win the wand if you like
Speaker 1: if you win, it's like if you get it from
Speaker 1: its previous master. Harry unwittingly becomes the only known possessor
Speaker 1: of all three hollows and master of death Um, which
Speaker 1: becomes important later. But so he's gifted that stone Um
Speaker 1: in like a way throwback to his his first quidditch match.
Speaker 1: It's inside of a golden snitch and uh he has
Speaker 1: he gets the wand because he's technically the possessor of it,
Speaker 1: and he already had the cloak Um. But so he's
Speaker 1: back at Hogwarts and everybody's kind of having a kerfuffle
Speaker 1: over him trying to track down the last few hollows,
Speaker 1: and uh Neville blong Bottom, in a stroke of brilliant
Speaker 1: freaking throws down and cuts off the head of the
Speaker 1: snake Neguini, who is one of the Deathly Hollows with
Speaker 1: the Sword of Slithering or with the sort of griffin
Speaker 1: door which technically has embedded in it Basilisk venom, which
Speaker 1: is able to destroy horror Crux is because of Harry's
Speaker 1: earlier fight with the Basilisk. Harry is killed by Baltimore,
Speaker 1: but actually isn't debt dead because he is the Master
Speaker 1: of Debt, so your resurrects and then he ends up
Speaker 1: killing Baltimore in the Yeah, and then he breaks the
Speaker 1: wand it's like all powerful wanting he uses it to
Speaker 1: fix his old wand it breaks it. Yeah, like he
Speaker 1: deep like Baltimore tries to zap Harry but it doesn't
Speaker 1: work on him and it knocks him out for a bit,
Speaker 1: and he goes into kind of this like in between
Speaker 1: the second time the second time, Yeah, And it says
Speaker 1: like there's a second time when he tries to in
Speaker 1: the final on slot when it's like post post dead
Speaker 1: Harry he's back, and then Baltimore tries to use the
Speaker 1: death curse on him, but it refuses to use it
Speaker 1: on Harry because it cho the wand yes, yes, yes, yes,
Speaker 1: you're right, you're right, you're right. Yeah, I mean Terry
Speaker 1: doesn't have possession of the one, but he technically is
Speaker 1: the true owner of that wand because if he won
Speaker 1: the Ones allegiance, I mean it seems like also like
Speaker 1: was there a lot of differences between the books and
Speaker 1: the movies, Yeah, especially like the later um Ones. There's
Speaker 1: some plot differences which like also as a fan that
Speaker 1: you know, maybe hasn't read those last two novels in
Speaker 1: in a minute, it does like like kind of mess
Speaker 1: with your brother. What actually happens? Um? I know in
Speaker 1: the in the like in the books, in the movies,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of discrepancies, especially and like the last
Speaker 1: but for the most part it stays pretty true like
Speaker 1: um plot wise, but you know, tragically, like like I mentioned,
Speaker 1: in the books, he fixes his one and then he
Speaker 1: breaks the other one. In the movies he doesn't. Yeah silly,
Speaker 1: We're going to keep it. Yeah. So the one thing
Speaker 1: I wanted to talk about is you went to London
Speaker 1: to see what was it? Was it a Harry Potter play?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, what was that about? Was great? So,
Speaker 1: you know, we see Harry Potter ends. We get an
Speaker 1: epilogue of like years later, and it's like Harry at
Speaker 1: the train station with his two sons. Now one's already
Speaker 1: assorted Griffin or it's eleven year old's birthday. He's like,
Speaker 1: what if I get put into Slytherin And Harry's like, oh,
Speaker 1: it's it's not that bad. Actually. Uh. It turns out
Speaker 1: Snape was good the whole time and was actually um
Speaker 1: working with Dumbledore to overthrow Baltimore and was you know,
Speaker 1: on their side, and actually had made a promise to
Speaker 1: to Dumbledore that he would kill him if he needed
Speaker 1: if Dumbledore said to and he did. Um. So he's like, no,
Speaker 1: you know, one of the greatest, most brave wizards I've
Speaker 1: ever known, Severus snape Um was a it was a
Speaker 1: you know, Albus Severus which he named his kids weird names.
Speaker 1: But he's like, you know, he he was a Slytherin,
Speaker 1: so like, it doesn't matter what your house is, like,
Speaker 1: you know, so there is still fine and Um, so
Speaker 1: that's how the books end. And so then The Cursed
Speaker 1: Child is a play that JK. Rowling helped like inspire.
Speaker 1: I don't I don't think she actually wrote it. Um,
Speaker 1: there were other writers on it, but she helped develop it.
Speaker 1: And it's a play that happens after that epilogue and
Speaker 1: it actually like follows those the kid albas Severus um
Speaker 1: into that year of all warts after the uh and
Speaker 1: it's like a it's a play Broadway play like performance. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so I went to so I really wanted to go
Speaker 1: see it. Um. When it came to New York, I
Speaker 1: read the book, I read the screenplay when it dropped,
Speaker 1: So they dropped the screenplay for all those people who
Speaker 1: were fans that couldn't go physically see the play, And
Speaker 1: when it happened, there was a lot of disappointment and
Speaker 1: confusion because of like how it was written. It didn't
Speaker 1: feel like rolling ruling throughout the or rowling throughout the novels.
Speaker 1: It felt like, like I said, there was all these
Speaker 1: like things that were mentioned in book one that had
Speaker 1: huge payoffs in book seven, and you're like, this was
Speaker 1: clearly all like mad like a mad woman put all
Speaker 1: this stuff together and had all these through lines and
Speaker 1: it was amazing and really well thought out. And the
Speaker 1: rules of the world it was so rich. Uh, and
Speaker 1: where in the player of the play felt short as
Speaker 1: it felt like it took a lot of those rules
Speaker 1: that were already made and like didn't adhere to them.
Speaker 1: It took like it felt like very often like can
Speaker 1: using but so but so I was kind of disappointed.
Speaker 1: A lot of people, me included, kind of felt like
Speaker 1: it felt like a little bit closer to fan fiction.
Speaker 1: It didn't really feel it felt like it took a
Speaker 1: lot of liberties. It felt like it didn't really feel
Speaker 1: like the same voice, and it but seeing it in
Speaker 1: person was really incredible. It's a two part, two part play,
Speaker 1: and I honestly would say to those who did not
Speaker 1: enjoy it, I like the writing. If you see it
Speaker 1: in person, it really comes to life with the characters,
Speaker 1: and it's a really fun way to UM reinteract with
Speaker 1: the story and some a new generation and see these
Speaker 1: characters like it's not it's a new version. I like
Speaker 1: to think of it as like it's kind of own
Speaker 1: separate thing. It doesn't you know, it's not exactly the
Speaker 1: same Harrier, exactly the same roun and but it is like,
Speaker 1: you know, a really cool extension of the universe and
Speaker 1: and a really cool thing that I haven't seen a
Speaker 1: lot out of other um fandoms. I haven't seen a
Speaker 1: lot of like like play versions that were official like
Speaker 1: that tell a new story um adding to the world.
Speaker 1: So it's it's really And also the way it's like
Speaker 1: it's it's the actors, the the way the spectacle is
Speaker 1: done and magic is shown on stage. It's so cool,
Speaker 1: like the way that they handle the magic and the
Speaker 1: transitions of movement of of the the world. It's just
Speaker 1: it feels so as a big fan for a life
Speaker 1: it feels so cool to watch like magic in front
Speaker 1: of you on stage and I feel like physically a
Speaker 1: part of the world in a way that you never
Speaker 1: have before. So I loved it. I loved it. But
Speaker 1: I will say like it has its flaws plot wise. Okay, well,
Speaker 1: you know, I think that's a great place to leave it.
Speaker 1: I mean, we could. I mean there's more outside of
Speaker 1: what we talked about that goes way ahead of that.
Speaker 1: But the trilogy whatever it ends up being. Yeah, there's
Speaker 1: now a new Wizarding World. They've expanded it so that
Speaker 1: it's just called Wizarding World. I believe, or was Yeah,
Speaker 1: I believe it's that and uh, and now they have
Speaker 1: all of these new movies that are taking a different
Speaker 1: times so so that but this is the perfect way
Speaker 1: to kind of, you know, hopefully watch your whistle a
Speaker 1: bit and get you to jump in. Thank you so
Speaker 1: much Kelsey for sitting through all of this with me.
Speaker 1: It was it was a lot, I do. I forgot
Speaker 1: how long that book series was until we were going
Speaker 1: through and I was like, oh, yeah, this is a
Speaker 1: long one. But where can people find you? Yeah, so
Speaker 1: that you can find me on all platforms at Kelsey dangerous.
Speaker 1: I am. Yeah, I am on Twitch, I'm on YouTube,
Speaker 1: I'm on Twitter, I'm on Instagram. You name it, your
Speaker 1: girls on it, Kelsey dangerous. I Also my main job,
Speaker 1: as you mentioned before, is working for BuzzFeed multiplayer YouTube
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Speaker 1: d's drop those Twitch Prime subs. A few of y'all
Speaker 1: have been coming through. I truly love when you'll come in,
Speaker 1: say nerd fam, drop the Twitch Prime sub and then
Speaker 1: disappear into the night. Uh but you know if you
Speaker 1: ever want to do that for me, which not TV
Speaker 1: slash Kelsey. Yeah, we're all playing games. We're playing we're
Speaker 1: game friends too. But yeah, that's been Harry Potter. I
Speaker 1: hope you enjoyed today. What are your favorite moments from
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