Episode 58: Intro to Harry Potter

pod while I was there. Are day today we have Kelsey and Peach k how you don't Hey, I'm doing well. Thank you for having me on the pod Man. No, of course, you know the moment we knew and people have been asking for Harry Potter for a while, but I was like, all right, I know the moment I met you. I was like, okay, uh, well we had a funny story. We met way before we actually met officially, and when you held Naomi for a NED video. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah,

yeah yeah. I always forget. Yeah, like Aurora was so she was like she held Naomi and I was like, I don't, I don't know. That was a long time ago, and you know, you held Naomi. Yes, she was my everything that day. It was the best day of work. I was an intern still and they were like, oh, do you want to help on the shoot? You can hold a baby? And I was like, yes, a baby. And she was the sweetest and the chilliest baby. She was not fuzzy at all that she was. She was

more chill as a baby. As she got older and you know, garnered her attitude. Now she wants things a certain way and she doesn't get it. You know, she'll let you know. But before we jump into the wizarding world of Harry Potter, which I feel like it's the only way to say it now that we have so many groups, I know, uh, what are you speaking out about this week? Well, this week there's only one thing to really Well, there's a couple there's actually a lot

teking out about right now, which is like amazing. But the main thing that I'm geeking out about is Game of Thrones and also about the Game of Thrones writers being it wasn't signed on to write the next trilogy. Man, what there could bad timing, the worst timing to announce them writing anything. I know, I was like, I saw that.

I was like and then the first tweet below it was of course that Darth Vader gift, Like even if you don't watch Game of Thrones, just off of the fallout alone, as a Star Wars fan, you had to be like, no, no, no, no, no no no no no no. But I'm a fan of ball so it's just a double day. Oh man. Yeah, big news for me. I mean it's you know, as we get closer and closer to three and the best of the year, we had the announcement of the new Ghost Ghost recoms big fan of what Yeah, uh got break Point and it

looks a lot smoother, a lot better. And then we had the new raid for the Division Drop which is going to be dropping, well it will be out by the time this is out, which will be next Tuesday. But so lots of fun stuff in the video game space. As far as movies, I saw Detective Pikachu. I really enjoyed it. I really really want to see it. Yeah,

you know, yeah by once again. By now, the Who Shot You podcast that I did last week is out to where you see me defending my boy Pikachu two two folks who weren't the basically who is coming for Pikachu people who aren't into Pokemon Pika. Yeah, but I had a good time and I my review for it was, if you are a poker fan at all, back flip into those seats. You're in for a wild fun ride. Oh I can't wait now. I've been waiting for a free evening to go see it, and I because I'm

too busy crying over the remnants of my PC. Yeah, that's what a what a while that's been. Yeah, my my whole discord was trying to help they. I was like, it was like they're like, as she tried this, as she tried this, and then we're like, yeah, we did it all. And I had like several different people come in. I had me on the phone with other people. I was like on the phone with the company, and then the company is like, can you break open this part

of the PC and show it to me? And I'm just like at that point, I'm like, you know what, no fix it. Yeah, I'm gonna send it to you and I'm gonna let you do that. And I did not want to. Also, the case is not super useful, like for certain sections. I was like, I need to get a better case next time around. That's the thing is, you know, PC gaming is like expensive legos, but you know when when the legos fit, they fit, and when I do, it's like when they don't step on him,

and it hurts, bro, It hurts. So let's hop into our plane, our wizarding plane and flying over to London and then through London and go to a train station and go to a platform. What what's the platform? Of course, I'm very cool. I was. I was gonna say nine and three fis So I'm glad, I asked. Look, I was on the Harry Potter train for the movie. Yeah, yeah, oh that was very good. I'm glad you caught that. I would Yeah, there's lots of puns. Miss I will miss a pun. And people tweet and me like why

didn't you say this? And I was like, why didn't I say that? But yeah, no, I was more of a movie's follower along guy uh. But it I did see it take over everyone around me. And you know it when you think of where Harry Potter started and then how long it came from, definitely hollows because I remember people reading it when I was in high school, maybe even before that, and then people reading definitely Hollows when I was now was out of school. So that's

a long running book series. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I I actually grew up with it. My mother, uh first purchased the book, I believe in what was it? It's uh yeah, I believe like when she first published it. Uh so, I was quite young and I couldn't read that long of a book myself, and so she read it to me, and I eventually, as I got older, could read them

myself for myself. So my mom would actually read all the Harry Potter books um to me, like the first two or three and then uh, and then I started reading them and we'd have to like trade off who had the book. So like that also means like Harry Potter has that like strong nostalgia bomb too. Like that. That's awesome. I We'll jump into the nitty, but start first. We're gonna start with the gritty, which is the fact that Harry Potter is a series of fantasy novels written

by British author Jake Rowling. The novels chronicled the lives of a young wizard, Harry Potter, and his friends Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley, all of whom are students at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The main story arc. The main story arc concerns Harry struggle against Lord Voltimore, dark wizard who intends to become immortal and overthrow the wizard governing body known as the Ministry of Magic. I'm gonna stop you. Intends to become immortal, yah, he kind

of already yeah, is the beginning of story. It seems like I think his goal is to like become all powerful, but he kind of has reached immortality in a sense, yeah, because he he kind of is bouncing around pretty like his main goal is the deathly Hollows, which we later learn, ah, and that's when we know but that's the conqueror of death.

I guess yeah, Okay, I'll let it asked. But I was just like, you know, I mean, that's just the basic nitty and I think the best way to kind of like jump into this will be kind of book by book. I think that's the easiest way, the smartest way. But before we even get into all of that, and while I you know, kind of arrange those notes, I

want to talk about your experience with Harry Potter. So you said you kind of grew up, you know, with your mom reading it, and it kind of what was the point where you like, because you know, as nerds, we know there's that difference between like when you're like a fan of something and then you become super fan and you're like, where's that sweet content outside of the stuff? What was that you from the beginning or was there a point where you're like, oh no, this is most

certainly my thing. I think I don't know, Harry Potter has felt like I can't even remember, really, I really can't remember much a time in my life where I wasn't in love with Harry Potter. Like I loved reading very young. My mother taught me to read before school started, like so, like books and words were a thing that I was always really connected to. And Harry Potter was the big like the first big fandom or world that I dove into and fell in love with the first

immersive world for me. Uh So, I can't really say when the when the moment was. I think it's just more like when the Internet started becoming so like when the Internet became accessible to me is probably when I started kind of diving further into the fandom, like community wise, because I was like, oh my gosh, people love this

as much as I do. But as like a kid, I had beanie babies and played out my own fan theories of Harry Potter where I shipped Harry and Jenny really early, and they were like Jenny was like this lion beanie baby, and Harry was like this dog, baby baby, He's got to be a dog. He's like loyal and sometimes a little dumb, but we love well. That was like the beanie babies and stuff like that that that dates, that dates the moment and also dates me. Fun fun, fun fun, But yeah, I was like my I had.

I remember the first time I like got my hands on like a camera to like film stuff I filmed who was right around the time Who Wants to Be a Millionaire was was cool? So I rewrote it and did a quiz show called who Wants to be a Wizard and my cousin did it. It was a Harry Potter quiz show. That's sound Harry Potter Potter board games. Like.

I think my family like loved how much I loved it, so they always just kind of like, yeah, let me let me have all this stuff, like my I have like a vintage Harry Potter cup like mug that's like cracked with headwig on it and has the original book art, which is super hard to find stuff like that now

because most of the art is movie based. Um but yeah, man, man, I can't even remember when it happened, but I know the deep the deepest moment was when I started doing Harry Potter of role playing online role playing, which is like RPG, so it's it's like, um, it's right writing fan fiction, but collaboratively online. So I would be like one character at a time and another person would play the other character, and you'd write like a thick together. Almost. Yeah,

it's not dirty, it's just nerdy. Um but yeah. And I always loved playing the Marauders area. That was kind of my area of expertise. I love that, you know, nineteen seventies, nineteen sixties, young young hip lads in the in the end of the world apocalypse moment of the

Wizarding World. So good. Anyway, I got real deep, yea. Yeah, So let's kick it all the way back and we're gonna start with the first Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone known to us in the US, India and Pakistan, uh and everywhere else as Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. The book comes out in the US and originally came out in June in the U k UH. And I was like that, that's why I was quiet for a second. I went down a wormhole

to really delve into this Philosopher's Stones versus socialer stones. Yeah, they didn't think it would sell. Yeah, that Little Kids. Yeah, JK has always been pretty pretty on top of that kind of stuff. Like JK even came up with that Moniker because she thought that men like mill writers would not sell as well. And she decided upon Harry being the main character as a boy because she didn't think it would sell as well. Yeah, she's been very much one of those types of people to kind of like

try to be playing the system again. But if you it's it's interesting because that is like the interesting game. What I kind of compared to is Shonda Rhymes and Gray's Anatomy, where like, you know, Shanna Rhyme wants to create the story about stories about black women, but first you create the successful story led by a white woman and then sprinkled people of color and you know, uh, diverse,

you know, sexualities around this character. And now she makes you know how to get away with murderer because now she has solidified herself. But also in the end, she didn't budget the since that this was just powerful women across the board, and she was able to make that happen. Uh. And the reason I say that is I can now that I've never kind of known that, but you kind of feel it when you read or watch Harry Potter because her mind, he is the only capable person. Her

back is tired from carrying these two dumb lads. Yeah, like the second book, Wait, yeah, the second book would have the whole school. I had to fact check myself. Sometimes I get passionate and we'll just say things and I'm like, wait, am I right? The whole school in the second book would have shut down if not for freaking her mindy grains, or of being in that library doing God's work. It's like, look, I got to do the work. She's willing to put in the time. Thank God.

These two idiot boys were forgiven by her in the first book, and she decided to take pity on them and befriend them after they mocked her because otherwise the whole Wizarding World would be dead. That's I mean, that's true. She had to school all these dames. But yeah, we had we had the book. So the book. I actually did read Sorcerer's Stone and yeah, the book follows just the general introduction of Harry. We see that he's living, you know, a life. He's really abused. Yeah, he is

the kid under the stairwell living with the Dudley's. Dudley's this son. Oh, Dudley's the son Litera what a good name? R. Yeah, there was deadly and then there's the Dudley boys in the w W. Get the tables. You know that you just dipped into another fan. You know nothing. He goes along, you go where I cannot fall off. Yeah I must. I'm essentially just every T shirt site on the internet. I'm bringing all the fandoms together and making it one.

You're like Sherlock Whovian, Sherlockian, what is it again? Which one? It's like supernatural Sherlock in Doctor Who. And there's a term for it, and I forgot that they will they'll be like it's this and I'm like, ash, well now we do. But yeah, so he's with the Durstleys they're treating It's kind of like when you really and I think I break it down, it's worl like it's your dead sister's you know, son, and you hate him. Well, there's a lot of backstories to why really and this

Maine book stuff it is it? Oh? Wait? Is it? Because they eventually you find out she's jealous of her sister because she was a wizard and she isn't. And she wrote a letter and got rejected. Oh yeah, what book do you find that out in? Uh? Wow? Testing my I'm not as good at like this isn't this and this isn't that, But I'm pretty sure it's near the end. I think it's like probably book six or seven that can find that out. But yeah, he's being abused.

They's essentially a slave for this family. Yeah. And then like that tidbit of information that Kelsey just linked you, you find out why boiler Sorry, well but you find out that's why when the invite comes, they know what it is right away and tried to stop it. They do not want Harry to become a wizard. Well, I

also think that part of it too. It's never explicitly said, but like the Wizarding World took her sister away from her, Like she she was very deeply impacted by like what happened and and the fact that they her sister died while they were like fighting and like in this war. And she's just like, you know what f that and uh, yeah, I mean they're pretty terrible to to Harry, but I feel like she just doesn't have like the she's not like the best person, Petunia, but she doesn't have the

energy to like change that. And her husband's just trash, and everyone just accepts that that Vernon Dursley is literal trash garden Petunia and yeah, Faily family. But eventually fate can't be stopped, no, and neither kind of giant man. Our boy, who we learn is Hagard, busts into the cabin because they move away, because they try to Yeah,

they try to escape. So the one one fine day when our boy turns a liven, he gets a letter from Hogwarts and they do try to hide it and then uh and so then eventually the letters get more and more persistent. There's more and more of them. It is quite fun and magical in the way that they're being presented and the at a certain point, after all else to stop these letters have failed, they decided to just like pick up and leave town and like go to like they go to a hotel, they're found there.

Then they go to a house on a rock that they like vernont insane. Yeah, I hate this man, and and they go there and uh, Hagrid burst in and says, what is known to anyone even if you are unaware of what Harry Potter is, You know the line, You're a wizard Harry. And they chip off off to uh off to and uh and so then we go and how do I'm I don't need to hit you with all of this. But then he meets it. Does he meet Ron first? Or her mind? He does? He mean

wro first? So he meets um Actually first he meets Draco Malfoy. He meets him in which is very interesting. He meets him while trying to get his robes. He meets him and he's like the and Harry doesn't know how to respond because he's just like there, He's in a whole new world. He's like wanting to like make the best of it, and he's trying to. He's like just in a new the Wizarding Town hogs Mead or

not hogs Mead. He's in diagon Alley, which is like this wizarding the small wizarding area of London, and he's trying to get all of his like stuff for school, and so he goes into, um, I think it's glad Rags, but he goes into Wow, I'm just gonna keep dropping things and people are gonna be like being like shoot wrong.

But anyway, he goes to get his his robes and uh, DraCos also getting his robes at the same time, and they both haven't been sorted yet, and you can kind of see like the difference of status already where he you know, you know, Draco is just like ordering people around owned and talking smack about like certain houses and things like that, and kind of really giving a bad

impression on Harry. Harry is very astute. You can tell in that scene that Harry is not the kind of kid to be like pushed around, even though he's been pushed around his whole life. Like he's he's gonna in the end make his own choices from his heart and his gut and like what he believes is right and wrong, which is quite cool. For an eleven year old. I feel like I was very susceptible. Tony. You're like, oh, that's cool. Okay, well I want to be cool. But

Harry doesn't care about being cool. He's never been cool in his free in life. He's like, no, I care about what right? Yeah, that's why you love him. But then yes, he meets Ron. He meets the Weasley family. While lost, Haggard takes an eleven year old boy and decides I'm gonna leave him at a train station that's very confusing with a very confusing letter. Typical Hagard forgotten those dats uh and uh. I'm gonna let him figure, you know, figure it out how to get onto this

magical platform alone. And so luckily Harry run into the Weasley family on the way there, and they're able to help him get onto the platform, which has like a magical twist where it's not you know, just any platform in a train station, it's actually beyond brick wall. Um, yeah, in between two platforms. And so that's actually how he met meets Ron is because his Ron's mom is like, oh, my son's your your age, and it's his first time to look at you. You guys could tell ye be friends. Yeah,

be friends, which is great. I feel like that reminds me a lot of like going to school, Like the first person you meet that you're like kind of like, Okay, I'm gonna stick with you because I don't know anybody else, especially when you're going to a new school. Um. So yeah. And then they meet her money on the train and she's she's being bossy and looking for a frog. Yeah,

and so then that's when they're like forget you. And then Draco pulls up on them, right, and that's when he's you know, being classist yet again, and they team up together to be like this guy he's whacked Yeah, and Harry and Harry chooses like makes his colors known and chooses his loyalties. Yeah. Yeah, then we were going to fast forward to another. One of the biggest scenes

in Harry Potter. One of the biggest things known about it is when they get to the sword and Hat starts to sort everyone and uh when that, yeah, here's your main person personality trait and you're made group of friends and just through the smell of your hair, I'll know and then yeah, he uh sorting Hat on Harry's head is like, I mean, you might want to be with the winning team the Slytherinsky whoa first off, he would never say the winning team, I mean, but we

all know that that was. That was Jake's wink to everyone was like, just so you'll know Slytherin's they tag ones no no, no, are you're a Slytherin. I am, yeah, win at any cost, whatever the cost. How the tagline. Another thing, I'm a Griffin door, but but I took so so some super nerds out there might might also know their hybrid, which is like you have your first and then your secondary and then like used to have

traits of the other two. So so a lot of people know their order um of like what their secondary is. And I'm actually a Griffin door slitherin, so so i always make fun of Slitherins. But then I'm like, like low key still I'm the very safe. I'm actually like Harry, I'm two sides of of that coin, and I can kind of flip depending on the situation, and I think

that's like kind of what Harry deals with it. That first um sorting hot moment is kind of choosing I think the sorting hat in the end oftentimes isn't like, isn't necessarily just about your personality or who you are. It's about what you value and what you put above other things personally, So it's it's in the end, it's kind of also your choice and choice is what makes it um, what makes your house like what you're going

to choose. So if you're going to choose chivalry, if you're going to choose cunning and win at every cost, if you're going to choose friendship, if you're going to choose um, the pursuit of knowledge, that kind of thing. So yeah, it's a very cool scene. It's also like really smart, because man, do you want to like rep your squad like it's the best. It's the best to give a bunch of kids and people in general like, uh, a little bit of that with a tribalism to be

like your my squad, let's go. There's a there's a bit of here we go. Actually, I got some you know, I got some info on houses. Oh yeah, fun Kelsey, I know the sorting hat song from the First Bug? Is it this one? The you might belong in the Griffin Door? Well, it begins you may not think I'm pretty, but but the but but it was into that. But he has like a full opening part of the monologue. Okay,

well we're gotting straight to you. Yeah, yeah, we're doing the sparknose where it starts with you might belong in Griffin Door, where dwell the brave at heart, their daring, nerve and chivalry set Griffin doors apart. Griffin Door the house values. The brave, courageous, and daring people sorted into this house also appear to be ruthless and bold, therefore can make also make rough mistakes. The animal represents the Griffin doors a lion so attacked right now and I

just came here for a good time. Well, too bad. And the house colors are red and gold. It might belong in Hufflepuff, where they are just in loyal, those patient hufflepuss are true and unafraid of toil. Hufflepuff Hufflebuster loyal, sweet and true, all good finders they are finding things from.

By the way, the fighting thing is not from the books, that really, Yeah, the finding joke is from a Harry Potter fan musical with the guy who eventually ended up in Glee and Chris I was a Darren Chris O g Darren Chris Fan from Very Potter Musical, which now I work with someone who worked with Star Kid and helped develop that musical, Devon from Lady Like and so yeah, such a funny turnaround. But I was like watching that

freaking musical every day. I remember when it popped up, because you know, my ax was a huge Potter head. Like I I went to Definitely Hollows premiere, like like opening weekend in my Slytherin tie and dressed up when this yeah, and it was funny. That's why it was funny. At the end of end game how there's no post

credit scene. It just flashed me back to at the end of the Definitely Hollows Part two, the theater was waiting for some kind of post credit scene and it was nothing, and everyone was like, oh, I was like, well, it's really it, yeah, and then it wasn't. It was like, psych, that's the now we're doing well. They're also the hardest workers, yet the most humble of the bunch. As nice as they are, they are often referred as weak by stereotypes.

The animal representing Hufflepuff is a badger. The house colors are yellow and black. They're not yellow and black. Really, I don't think so, maybe I'm maybe I'm wrong. You know what it actually No, I'm jumping on the wrong train. It's us. It's a raven claw. It always gets messed up. Okay, well,

then let's see if we mess it up. Because or yet in wise old raven Claw, if you're a ready mind, where those of wit and learning will always find their kind, wit beyond measure is a man's greatest treasure, says the carvings by the statue of Rowena raven Claw. Raven Claw House favors the fair and wise. They're quick witted manners brings them respect and at the same time mocking. The animal representing raven Claw is an eagle. In the house.

Colors are blue and bronze. Yeah, that's it. See a lot of people always say blue and silver, correct, and it's actually blue and brown. Yes, But I jumped in the hubble puff too soon because I was like no, and then I was like oh no, Kelsie. Well to reading this, it seems like raven claws filled with pattants who are always I'm actually wing you. So that's my take. That's why my third is probably or perhaps in Slytherin you'll make your real friends. Those cunning folks use any

means to achieve their ends. The House of Slytherin represents cunningness, ambition, and charm. They live to achieve the goals they most desire, but many are consumed by their ambitions, which makes them power hungry. The animal representing Slytherin is a serpent. The house colors are green and silver. Ah that that sounds like a good house right there, probably out of all before I read it sounds like the most dangerous. Oh my gosh, everyone in Slytherin, uh isn't evil, just everyone

who's evil happens to come from slitherin the term. Yeah, yeah, I mean that's not necessarily true though, even the villains in Harry Potter are from like a multitude of houses. But it is, it is they do say like you know, most they does, you know, the power hungry. The qualities kind of come a lot of times from people who are a Slytherin. But that's not stially true actually, but Peter Pettigrew being a prime example of this, um not a Slytherin, totally a villain. So then we go from

the sorting house, now we're in classes. And this is where we meet Professor Several Snape. Who oh the the lore. Yeah, yeah, they meet they meet, You meet Several Snape, and they really make you believe this man as evil. They also he is like I don't even hot takes from Kelsey. No, he's not evil, but he's an adult man taking out his frustration on children like grow up Snape. But yeah, no, he's not a cool dude. He definitely seems like he's on the wrong side of the tracks. In the first novel.

He's always always given Harry a hard time, really likes to fail them in class. Yeah. Um, and you'll learn out more about why in later books. Uh. And you're gonna learn more about the Sorcerer's Stone. And we're going to speed through the rest of the six and give more curt explanation. This is the intro book, so of course it's going to be thicker. But uh, well they actually get oppose the physical books thick. But our our

synopsis is about to get dinner. But we'll get into all that after these messages and we're bad you do did I do a weird thing? Everyone? Matt on Candy Dinner points out the fact that like between breaks when I say we're going to break, like I kind of powered down, like my eyes closed, and I'm like, all right, and we're back exactly all right, I'm back now, Okay,

but we're talking Harry Potter. I'm here with Kelsey and peach k. Your last name is very fun to say, yeah, and that rhymes so very fun to say, uh yeah, But so are many Harry Potter characters. Yes, I mean on bottom, dumb little. It's not dumble at all, but I said it. I said it the way Madame Maxine says it, professor the little. That's a that's a flex when you add extra syllables to people's names. Well, she's French, the character's French, so dumb little, it's quite a lot.

I love all that. I can mimic a lot of the character. We're gonna move on. We don't need to Kelsey's character impressions, her character voices. So we have this description of several state, which you know will be in the footnotes where we got it from. But whether you love him or hate them or love to hate them, several snaps makes for an impact in the Harry Potter series.

If you're Harry, snap is a nightmare of a teacher picking on the boy from the moment he stepped into Potions class and showing clear favoritism towards Draco Malfoy and other Slytherin students. And yet when Harry and his friends thought Snap was the one trying to steal the Sorcerer's stones, it turned out he was trying to protect it. And every now and again Snape actually seemed like he was trying to help these kids. So yeah, yeah, we we

kind of you know what a turnaround in the first novel. Yeah, you know, I'm gonna take this moment to uh just jam through some of the uh people we meet before really going through sorcer Stone, because we meet Snape, and then after we meet Snape, who else do we meet? Um, we meet Snape, who he's whack. We all know that you got I mean, so on here, this is not

like according to like order of meeting people necessarily. But then we get Dumbledore, you got Hermony, Gray Injury, got Harry Potter, Snape Ron, you got never long Bottom, who's a fellow classmate. You meet him on the train Hermony, I believe, yes, he is on the train. So what's interesting most about Harry Potter Books to me is that all of these characters are introduced in the first novel

with the varying degrees of importance. Also, a lot of like subjects are introduced, and it is it is like very interesting how all of these things are later like have really major payoffs and really major importance to the plot. Especially Nevill right especially so very important. So you'd think, like, oh, he's just like he's kind of like a comedic character

at first. He's very much like the kid that like is always blown stuff up in class and getting things wrong and losing his frog, and like, you know, he does have like a really nice moment where he doesn't want the kids to to leave the uh the house at night and sneak out and he tries to stop them and Harry they decide to go anyway. Uh, And so he kind of like tries to stick up who his friends, but they ignore him anywhere. We almost forgot someone very important we meet in this book, which is

uh cur Quarrel, the Dark Arts teacher. In the rotating role of the Dark Arts teacher that happens throughout the series. They really can't they really can't nail down their Dark Arts teachers. But yeah, so yeah, we meet Albert dumb dumb quarrel you meet before Harry goes to school. He meets him in a in a bar in a pub with Hagrid, and they introduced him and they're like, oh, here's like professor Karl. He stutters a lot. He seems like a very nervous dude, and Hagrid says, oh, he's

going to be one of your teachers at Hogwarts. Uh, and yeah, he teaches defense against the Dark Arts. Seems very squirrelly and kind of lame in comparison to a Snap who's very like menacing and strong and like pushy and and like just like cold. We got Professor McGonagall, yeah, who is the head of Harry's house and teaches transfiguration. We have Dumbledore, who's the head of the school. Yeah, and he's kind of the Harry's mentor and kind of he becomes yeah, kind of, but he's at first seems

like this goofy fun professor do. Yeah, he's very fun at first, but eventually what happens in the first book is we find out two things. One Harry's get out on the brunstick. He's really nice with that tool and he becomes like this star star quarterback. The silliest game you've ever heard of with it like so silly quidditch. Quidditch is the most Like even J. K. Rowling was like, I sat down after a fight with my boyfriend at the time and wrote the dumbest game that doesn't make

any sense and the funniest thing. I feel like that's what sold the movies, Like seeing those Quiddit scenes, like even if you weren't involved, you're like, oh, I need to know what this is about, this chasing this golden snitch. Oh dang. The rules are like weird, but the game itself is cool. Man. It's like violent, It's got like a lot of markings of popular sports that you already enjoy, so you already feel kind of like kind of connected to it where you're like, oh, I can pick. It's

like this and this and this mixed together. And through the first Quidditch match, Harry starts to have issues with his broom. They look over see Snake Snap doing some magic and they think it's him. We eventually find out that it's quarrel Um. He was wearing a rap and on the back in the in the book was it was it's a turban in the book as well. Y. Yeah, he unwraps that turban and who none other than the name who shall not be spoken Voldemort pulling up on

the back of his head. Yeah. At the very beginning of the novel, you learned that the reason So Harry was taken in by his his his his aunt and her family as a baby and raised by them, and they told him that his parents died in a car crash. You later find out that that is not true. He's a he's a wizard, and his parents were killed by a dark wizard named Baltimore. But he was vanquished that

day mysteriously. Um, when Harry was a baby, and when Voltimore tried to kill him, So he killed his parents first, and then he tried to kill Harry, and for some reason, uh, he did not succeed, and Harry ended up with a lightning both scar on his forehead. He was delivered to his um aunt and her family by Dumbledore and um left on a doorstep. So the chill uh and um. So then you find out later it is none other than Baltimore back from the dead on the back of

Quarrel's hand. Plot twist. Yeah, So in this the the Star is very important because that's what protects Harry. When Quarrel grabs him, his his skin starts to burn, and Dumbledore reveals that it was his mother's kind of last gift to Harry as this charm that protects him. Yeah,

it's old magic, but it's essentially that. So the order goes that Voltimore killed the father who was trying to fight him, and then Baltimore actually was not supposed to kill Lily the mother, and she sacrificed her life to protect her son, and so that sacrifice, that sacrifice was so powerful in her love that it it actually did a very old magic that didn't actually need to be spoken of a protection charm on her son, and so then rebounded that spell back onto Baltimore and that was

what kept him from being able to kill Harry. Yeah, and so this all leads to the Sorcerer's Stone being destroyed, Coral left for dead, and we in the school year. Let me let me see if there's any like eventful stuff wins the house Cupid rigged kind of rig um. Yeah. There, you know, there's a lot of details in every book that's going to come into major play later, but I

think you hit all the high notes. Yeah, and and the one big note is when he goes back to the Dursley's even though uh, you can't use uh magic in the Muggles world, He's like, they don't know that. Yeah, it is a rule that you are not allowed as a student to use magic in the Muggle when you're out of school, because you know you're new to it.

They don't want them like kind of there's like being magic a secret, so they don't want to be outed by a bunch of teens, rowdy teens running around with So then this leads us to the Chamber of Secrets. This one was I remember when I was first my mother read this to me. It was much spookier than this first and um, the big snake thing was so scary. If you read it now, it's still messed up the things that snakes get says, well, not a sneak, but

we'll get into it. But and my my at a certain point I asked my mom was like, Mom, can we read this during the daytime instead of right before? Because I was too spooky for the first of a Dark Descent for Harry Potter begins a children's story ends a war time, but this is also where we meet Dobby. Dobby pulls up yeah but yeah, so yeah, this opens with a dinner party with the Dursley family that they don't invite Harry too, and Harry's like, no, he's invited.

Oh he's not. He isn't like he's like there as an excess, like to help serve them. Yeah, but he's like when he serves them, he's like, all right, I'm out. And then he goes to his bedroom and he's kind of sad that he hasn't got any cards with presents from his home. He's at school. Oh you know what I was, I was mixing up in my head. You're right. It's a dinner party. He's not invited because it's with his boss. Yeah, and he doesn't want any wizard tom

foolery popping off. So he's like, I don't trust you. And if Young Metro don't trust you, you you don't get to eat chicken with its downstairs. But yeah, he's filings in his room and Dobby, yeah, so they have noticed. They the first novel. They were like, oh shoot, they know he's living in under the stairs. So they gave him a room after they were found out from the letters. So that's why he's got a room. Now, that's such a funny. I didn't even catch that. Then Dobby's like, yo,

don't come back to Hogwarts. Uh, Dobbie, a house elf, like a little elf man appears in Harry's room and just as like, you shouldn't come back. Yeah, and he said, I've been taking all your mail. Yeah. So all of

the summer, Harry feels very isolated. He feels like he made all these like true blue friends and in her Mighty and um Ron and he has her from him all summer and he's like, dude, you knew that I hate these people, and it's doys like, oh, well it was me because I wanted you to feel set alone and not want to go back. It seems like you don't want to go to back, so like I'm here to explicitly tell you, even though it might hurt me later, which I can't explain, don't come back. And then he's

like I'm still coming. So then he's like all right. Then magic time and he does magic to frame Harry and get him try and get him expelled from school for using magic outside of school. Yeah, but Luckily, Harry is Harry Potter and he's famous in the wizarding world, and so he's got an immedia out with the Minister for Magic. He's like, oh, it's fine, Yeah, Harry Potter's fine, You're Harry Potter. You're gonna be the first draft pick

of the Knicks. Oops. That was a Zion basketball reference that you know, I know who the Knicks are, but but but yeah, it's so yeah sports sidebar new uh new, uh, you know what, I'm so Zion Williams Williamson. But he was like, he's the star high school player, and so everyone was so sure he was going to go to the Knicks. But it all relied on Nick's getting the first draft pick in the lottery, and today it was announced that they do not get the first draft pick.

So the Knicks are very hurt. And the whole big thing is that other Like, I mean, do you really think another team is gonna be like, well, here's because here's the whole thing. And it's so funny because, like you know, I often say this a lot. The parallels between sports fan and nerds are right here. You have fan theories, which which I'm about to explain. One of the biggest fanthers. You have cosplay, which is every time you wear a jersey, you're cosplaying as your favorite player.

And uh and you got conventions, which I'll just say are your basketball games. I mean yeah, as growing up as a fan of sports and nerd culture, I feel like there's like a similar like feeling of euphoria that you can get from just participating as a spectator and like a joy from like you know, get diving into these people's lives and like who goes where and things like that. Yeah, no, I see it. And fantasy fantasy

sports is just competitive fan fiction. That's all that. Uh So, So anyway, the big theory was that the Knicks wanted um to get Zion, and this big fan theory was that it was so they can trade uh New Orleans for Zion for Anthony Davis. New Orleans has the first draft pick now, so not only do they not have the bargaining power, but now New Orleans have Anthony Davis and Zion. So it's been a So that's the big

sports drama right now. There are there there's a you know, I there's a few people in the discord who who are real into sports. So I'm not even gonna pretend like no one in who listens to this care uh care, like people do care. Uh. But anyway back to Harry Potter, Uncle Vernon punishes Harry for that. He said, they're like, you're not going back. Yeah. Yeah, So in a way, Darby's plan does seem when it gets working, they put locks on the door. But Weasley, my guy, no, not

even just run the Weasley twins. The fave boys are in the whip and the whip is flying. Oh yeah, they got a flying car. They got that Ford Anglia yo in a light blue and they come up. They could they like find out. They're like, Harry, we haven't heard from you. Oh no, we've been sending you letter. We thought they were kidnapped. We thought things were bad, but my god, are they worse than we anticipated. We're breaking you out. But there were literal bars on those

kid's window. Yeah. They the way they locked it up, it was like, oh my gosh, it was. It was so funny jail break Harry. Yeah, which is which is good because in his owl friend in a weird way, it's the first thing in a a like Wizarding World kind of story that was relatable because everyone had that moment where your friends break you out, where they're like, we're going to sneak you out, And this was that. I had it once. I was such a good I

was at home reading Harry Potter. Oh man, so uh so basically, they fly the whole car, the whole car to Hogwarts, and then we meet the whomping Willow. Oh yeah, there's also a very important character for the third book, oh which one. Oh yeah, the willow is a character. I thought that it is. So it's got a personality, and its personality is of a woman's scorn. The willow is here to protect. What to protect, we don't know yet, but that willow is packing a punch and we'll wallop

your car. And that's what it did. And they got in trouble for it. They definitely definitely got Yeah. So now they so they're punished. Ron has to clean the school trophies, and Harry has to help celebrity teacher Professor Lockhart, whose classes are chaonic by an They has to address his fan mail. Yeah, oh my gosh, I love that teacher. He's all all the quote villains are like weird characters. They're so good he's such a person you know in Hollywood that's like, oh, let me tell you a fame.

Let me tell you a fame. And it's like it's like Harry is so much fame, more famous because he defeated the greatest dark Wizard of all time. It's like it's like it's like if you know, uh, let me give it. I'm trying to think of an example. Yeah, what would be a good example of like a person that's like historically relevant and a person that's like like a Kardashian is like, let me tell you about to like Obama, You're like, uh, I would even put I

would even put it. He's probably less famous than a Kardashian could probably be more like like snooky, like being like let me tell you about So then this is also where we learned the term mud blood, which is a Mimi term that blood purist. Uh I think that's Draco refers to uh mine, and Harry Potter is like, you know, I don't know anything about wizards, so I don't even know what just happened, and Ron had to

be like some stuff just went down. Yeah, and so you get your first hint of like well not even first hint. But you get like a really strong sense of that there's like disparity in the wizarding world. It's it's a full world. It's not just like, oh, happy rainbows and we're all wizards like they're there's definitely classism being on. Uh and then uh then they then there's uh. Then like Harry Potter hears a voice from the walls that no one else hears, yes, and it says the

scariest crap. It says like, let me rip you, let me cut you, let me kill you. Like that's this kind of stuff. And he's hearing from the walls. This kid is feeling like he's going insane. And then he tells his friends and they're like, dude, that's bad. Like you live in a world where they are talking elves that are small, and we're telling you this is not good. And then they see the riding on the walls which says the Chamber of Secrets has has been opened. Enemies

of the Air beware. I still have to rhyme huh. And then so now people are like rumors are going around the school about the Chamber of Secrets history and you know the Lord and and also a big note someone's been petrified during that the cat Mrs Norris, Oh, yeah, because she was a cat. Mrs Norris is always a cat. Which one I'm mixing up Mrs Norris with McGonagall because I remember she chose into the and I think I remember watching the movie and thinking that happened. There's theories

that that Mrs Norris isn't really a cat. That is, there's a little bit more than Mrs Norris than the

average cat. Interesting, but yeah, but yeah. They discovered from Cuthbert Bins, the ghostly Professor of the History of Magic, that it houses a terrible monster that was created by one of the school's founder, Salazar Slytherin, after a fundamental disagreement with the other founders goadra Griffindor HeLa Huff Hufflepuff and Rowen a Raven Claus Letherin believe that students of non magical parentage should be refused entry to the school during the and then we have a quidditch game pop

up after that, and a blood your One of the balls involved in quidditch chases after Harry instead of zig zagging toward any player can hit breaking his arm an attempt to mend it, Lockhart accidentally removes all of the bones like an idiot, and Harry's broken arm, which then requires a skelly grow and and over overnight stay in the hospital to heels. So Harry's going through it. Yeah, he can't go a year without like having a major

accident by an outside source in a quidditch game. Uh. Dobby pulls up yet again to say, yeah, this is me ruin in your life. And Dobby is so cute, but he's like, hey, yeah, I told you not to come, and then I had to break your arm because I thought maybe they'd send you home and they didn't. So I don't want to kill you. I just wanted you to like kind of like not be able to go to school anymore. And Harry is like, why why leave me alone? I do know why your help. I don't

know why you're here or why you chose me. Yeah. Then this leads to another attack happening, and this this happens to Colin Creavy, who was the first year Griffin door. Oh yeah, a little annoying baby Colin always taking a fan boy of Harry Potter. Then a dueling classes set up for the students because now it's like all right, well, we got to teach you how to have that thang on you. And that's when we learned that Harry has parcel mouth because the snake pulls up and he just

starts talking to it. Yeah. So, so Draco uses a charm to like throw a snake at Harry during their duel, and Harry, instead of like letting the teachers take care of it like they try to, he just like sees that it's going to talk, like like come up on one of his his classmates and is like and says

like stop. And the reason why he does that is because in the first book, he is he's on a fun trip for Dudley's birthday at a zoo and he's a pleasant conversation and then yeah and so and so he thinks, like this is just because and weird things happened to him as a kid all the time, and he kept like not being able to explain it. And then when they were like you're a wizard, he's like, it all makes sense. And it's only later that they're like, that's not normal, and he's like, oh, I thought that

was a thing wizards do. I just assumed all the weird stuff about me was normal for everybody else, and they're like, no, that's weird to the point where people thought like, we're scared, because all of a sudden they hear Harry speaking another language that sounds like a snake and it's very like creepy sounding, and Harry can't explain like why he has this gift. But the only other wizard that is known with that gift is of course

Salazar Slytherin, which makes a lot. Do people think that he is the one that opened the Chamber of Secrets and is the air Yeah, and it starts all the drama drama. They're just all around the school. Uh yeah, and uh so this this act, this actually starts almost

like big time drama in the school, you know. Uh. And people are afraid of him, and there's more attacks from this thing and people are trying to figure out who who's done it doing it And then they find the diary that belongs to Tom Riddle, Yeah, in a toilet and they found it in a toilet and uh and Tom Riddle was alive during the time of the first uh chamber opening attacks, so they want to dive into it, yeah and uh and then so they dive into it and they and as you mentioned, so Ron

at the beginning, remember when he had attention had to clean the art, like the awards. One of those awards was a service to the school, awarded to Tom Riddle. And so they were like, oh that is there's always this little thing, Harry Potter. They're like, oh, A connects to be. There's so many details though, so it's easy to be like huh yeah. And then they said that the culprit of the death was none other than Rubus Hagrid. Yeah r BFF from Book one guy. And you're like, no,

he could never do this, yeah. Uh. And then this leads to an attack on Harmony and the schools put on lockdown and Dumbledore and Haggard are forced to leave the premises. Hagard left a set of instructions to follow the spiders currently fleeing into the Forbidden Force, and they do it, only to find the monster that was blamed for the attacks fifty years before, a master, a massive spider name Aragogue, who explains to the duo that the real monster is uh, not the spiders, uh, the real monsters,

that that spider's fear above all others. And when Harry and Ron trying to leave. Ari Dox says they cannot leave because his sons and daughters have not eaten for a long time, and they tried. He's like, this is oh yeah, like we're we protect our friend Hagrid because he raised us. But like, dude, you crush me. Yeah,

you're going down. And so they have to escape, and then luckily for them, that beat up ford Anglia that transported them to school escaped and has been living in the wilderness the beginning of the book and said helps him get out of jail free. Yeah, so they get um.

So they pull they pull out of there, and they find out that the monster is a Basilis and thanks to our girl her money and uh, they find out that it kills with a stare, which is a giant snake, which is why Harry has been hearing these voices and no one else is hearing it because it's a snake. It's talking parcels tongue to him snake language. And Harry figures out from hints that Eric dropped that a student

who died during the previous text is Myrtle. And when the very Myrtle where we found the diary and the toilets and when Jenny is taken by the monsters into the chamber, they discovered that the entrance is in the bathroom they have been using to make poly juice potion and Harry, Ron and Lockhart entered the chamber. But the but the dunder headed Professor, which this is what the article is saying, who reveals that he's a fraud, causes a rockfall while attempting to erase the boy's memories with

Ron's damaged one. Oh yeah, because Ron's not in his damage, he takes it, tries to use it the spell blast him back. Yes, Ron's one breaks in uh from the wamping willow him up at the beginning of the buck and yeah, it's it's uncovered that this celebrity professor actually has done nothing that has made him a celebrity. Uh and and it's completely useless in the in the quest to you know, defeat the evil within the Chamber of Secrets, and he's like, I can't have people spilling this te by.

But he grabbed the wrong wand and tragically lost his own mind. So then Harry ens up injuring the Chamber of Seekers alone to find Jenny and Tom Riddle, who claims to be a memory preserved in his diary for the last fifty years, and Riddle shows Harry that is full name Tom Marve. Riddle can be made into the anagram I am Lord Voldemort, surprise, proving that Lord Boldemore is a big nerd. He's like Tom Riddles, Like, I wonder what cool thing I can name out of my

own letters of my name? Oh, I want to make a new name of like what kid is? Like, I'm gonna make a new name because I hate my dad's name that I was given. So I'm going to use the letters from my current name to make a new name, which with the words I am in front of it. Yeah,

I am Lord. So yeah, he based really find out that he's been possessing Jenny through the diary to basically open ye open those chambers secrets, and Harry's Loyaly Dumbadore, in face of Riddle, summons Dumbledore's phoenix Fox, who arrives with the sorting hat and Fox blind the Basilisk, allowing Harry to remove the sword of God Griffin Door from the sorting hat and slay that basilist. It blinds the bassilisk is the thing that's been attacking everybody and making

everyone paralyzed because of its eyes. Yeah, so it blinded it so that Harry had a fighting chance against it and wouldn't have to like be blind. Unfortunately, he does get fatally poisoned by the bassilist, but Fox's healing tears save Harry, who uses a basilist thing to stab Riddle's diary. But the diary and Riddle are destroyed and Guinea is restored. Jennywise it Guinea Jenny's yeah life. He was draining her life to come back to life. Yeah, baka Baltimore. So yeah,

this is two for two. He's tried, uh, stone that gives you immortality didn't work. Harry got there in the end, and now he's tried to drain the life out of a child through the memory his own memory in a book failed again. And then the students come back to life. Lockhart is discharged because he's a fake and uh and we go back to Private Drive, which is where the live. Uh So then after these breaks, we have what four more books left? Yeah? The books are dense many so

you're reading a very like detailed summary as well. Yeah. Yeah, I said that we were going to do a smaller synopsis, and I lied, But this time after this break, yes, these synopsis are going to be way quicker yea, because it just gets less dense further in you go. Uh see, y'all, let this break. Welcome back to Nerdificent. I'm here with

Kelsey and PG game. We're talking to Harry Potter and we're getting through with these books and we're gonna make it real fast for this last portion so we can get into the movies, talk about the future, what's going on, and a little fun thing. I know that Kelsey did that. Y'all don't know yet. Uh you'll know, you'll when I say it, you'll know. Uh. So, next we have the Goblet of Fire. So how does Voldemort come back in this one? Kelsey? Not the Goblet of Fire. Next, Prisoner

of Azkaban, my bad. So in this one, this story kind of is about Harry comes back to his third year at school. Um and uh, there's a he finds that there is a man on the loose that has broken out of Big Wizard jail, and so that's kind of like the main story is that there's a bunch of creatures called the Mentors that are on hunt and they're also kind of like they think that he might

go back to the school. Why, we don't know until later when it's uncovered that he is at Actually he's helped betray Harry's parents to Baltimore, and he's like a big Baltimore fan, so he might become for Harry to finish the job. So then Harry eventually has a face off with this character. The character does get into Hogwarts. It has revealed the reason why he is able to do that is because he can transform into a dog. And then but the truth is unrevealed that actually he

never betrayed the parents. It was he was always their friend. It was another one of their friend that betrayed those parents. But then he was framed. Yeah, it wasn't the jail the dark Arts teacher. It was Peter Pettigrew that framed him. Ron's Rat since book one one's Stupid Rat has because now we're introduced we were also introduced in book one two characters that could be Um could be animegus that

transformed into animals, but Um Professor McGonagall. And so it turns out the runs rat was animegus the whole time, and it was actually Peter Pettigrew, the s really horrible

person that betrayed his friends and got him killed. UM. The professor in this is uh Rima's lupin who his friends was friends with all of them and kind of helps Harry deal with like a lot of his tragic past and also teaches Harry how to um use the patronist charm against the de mentors because they keep coming for him because he got a lot of sad stuff and the mentors feed off of sad stuff and so in the end, Harry is reunited with his godfather, who

is Serious Black, the man that was framed for killing Harry's parents. UH. He saves a hippogriff and Serious Black and Hippogriff escaped. Serious Black and the hippogriff escape through a series of misadventures with Harry and harmony and time

travel and UH. But he is not publicly announced to be a good guy because Peter Pettigrew gets away, so they're unable to out Peter Pettigrew as the reason that UH that his parents died, and so technically Serious Black unfortunately still on the run by the end of the book, and unfortunately Double unfortunately Uh, there is a prophecy that says that the the servant of the Dark Lord will return to him, and that is Peter Pettigrew, and he returns to the Dark Lord at the end of that

novel too, so he now has a helper. So now we but so, but there wasn't no real Voldemort action in this So there's not a lot of hot Voldemore action until the which is The Goblet of Fun exactly so fun and Tom Foolery comes to Hogwarts when they've just when when in the first in the beginning they go to a quidditch World Cup. It's super fun and it's kind of like the Super Bowl but like a big deal. Actually it's more like the World Cup. I don't know why, but anyway, so Harry goes to that.

But there during it, there is a dark mark put into the sky and that was Voldemore's sign, and so they're like, oh my gosh, there's like unrest. It seems like he's rising again. Scary, but the Minister for Magic says, no, that's not happening. He would never uh. And so anyway, they go to school and it's the Triwizard Tournament is announced where they want to like, have you know, you find out there's not just a Wizarding World in London.

There's a Wizarding World everywhere. And there's a bunch of different schools, more than just Hogwarts, and three of them come in and they all have like a fun but very dangerous competition that Harry is a like unwittingly added into as the fourth member of what should have been a three person competition. Uh. And they don't know why, and he's also too young for it, and he keeps being put into these dangerous situations and they're thinking, is someone coming for him? And so by the end of it,

it turns out someone was coming for him. He Uh. He's helped out by Matti Moody, who's the current professor, and the whole time matt I was like, I'm gonna help you out. And then at the end turns out matt I is actually a another Voldemort supporter and was actually doing it so that he would get to the end and touch the Goblet of Fire and be transported directly to Voldemort, who is who has now garnered enough

followers back to have them help him with a restoration spell. Uh. And they use Harry's blood to restore Voldemort to his former body, and also to take down Harry's protection because now Harry's blood is running through Voldemort's veins, so he can now touch Harry where he couldn't before without being burns. So the book ends in a bad place. Oh yeah, Voltimore is risen again and Harry has witnessed it, but unfortunately no one else has because he has been transported

there alone. And then we are in which is the Order of the Phoenix. Yeah, Harry is super angsty book because Harry has seen some stuff. He's seen friends die, he saw Baltimore brought back to life, and he still has to go back to the Dirk slate. He's like, I'm a grown man, I'm tempting. I want to be a part of it all, and they're like, no, we can't, we can't tell you anything, and he's like, So he's

very angsty. And also, meanwhile, the whole Wizarding world is in denial that Boltimore is back, so they keep kind of like throwing him in Dumbledore's name through the mud. They're like, these two people that I just really took over these summaries from you. I'm sorry, No no, it's all good. No, this is what it's for. People like you who are super hyped can burn through this so that I don't spend most of the podcast just reading every nooks and crannies, and I get the best parts that,

like you pointed out. So one of the things I do remember about Order of Phoenix. That's the name of like this supergroup, right, yes, So he finds out the Order of the Phoenix is a group of wizard in the First Wizarding War that like got together, um when you know it seemed to like the Ministry for Magic wasn't doing enough, and also it was kind of being infiltrated by the Dark Wizards known as the Oh my gosh, i'm blinking the I'll look it up. I'll look it up.

That's why. That's why the Dark Wizards back in the day. But now but pretty big part of it. He's like a big part of the infiltration into the the the Ministry. But so so yeah, so, so Harry Potter learns of this old school group. It included his godfather, Serious Black like who's on the run, and included uh, Dumbledore. It included his own parents and a lot of other characters.

But now it's also including the we the adult Weasley's, and it's including you know a lot of people that believe Harry and believe Dumbledore and believe that Baltimore is back, and they're like, Okay, it's time to get the gang back together and do this right. And they're doing it in um in Serious Blacks family home that was actually Serious is from a family of dark wizards or of you know, just like bad people in general, and not all of them were um technically part of the Death Theaters,

but they all kind of were supporters. They were like kind of not the best. But so anyway, he inherited this house and it's under a lot of like cool old protections so they can't be found. So that's kind of being the headquarters right now. And Serious Black is stir crazy because he can't leave the house and he's super bored and honestly same understandable. So yes, so Harry is like kind of being excluded from this supergroup because

he's young. He's also kind of like really reaching out a lot to Dumbledore for like guidance in this and Dumbledore is really pulling back. He's not really giving him a lot. He's kind of ignoring him. Harry in this book is also like on trial for a bit of it um because of he was caught doing magic outside of school grounds to save his uh his cousin Dudley from the mentors. And they're like, what the mentors aren't running a muck doing whatever they want. This couldn't possibly

be true. You're wrong, and that that support he used to have from the Minister of her magic is gone because the Minister is currently trying to make Harry look like an idiot because he doesn't He doesn't want Boltimore to be back. No one does, and so they're like, this must be crazy. So it's just like this huge denial. Yeah, so the whole book is just Harry and Harry kind of feeling isolated, and we meet Belatric's less strange right in this Yes yes, because she pulls up and she

kills serious Yes in this novel, unfortunately are much beloved boy. Yeah, Harry starts having some some bad dreams um predictions and one. But sometimes he can't tell the difference between what's real and what's not. He has kind of always had him, but now it's even worse so and he's kind of thinking, oh, I can see what Baltimore's up to because of our connection. And so in one of the dreams, it looks like

Mr Weasley is being hurt. It ends up being true, and so then the next dream he has looks like, seriously, I think someone else is in danger. So he's like, I'm gonna take this into my own hands, and so he in his squad of friends, uh from Hogwarts, decide to leave to go to the ministry after hours is like no one there to try to stop whatever is going down, And it turns out it was a ruse. It was like them trying to bait them out and uh,

and so Belatrick's is there. She's escaped from Azkaban. Actually there's like a massive breakout that it was rallied by Baltimore, but it was pinned on Serious Black and so in that battle, Serious Black falls and it is unfortunate because he's like Harry's big father figure. Harry has limited parents and so it's very very sad. But the but it's a sad moment, you know, but don't the door pulls up and then Doubledoor in Baltimore fix a big face

off moment. Yeah, in the ministry and then I mean everyone kind of like arrives and they're like, oh, Baltimore is bad and they see him there and they're like, oh, he's in the middle of the Ministry for Magic, battling double door, Like we can't even deny this anymore, Frank. And then that leads us to Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. Oh yeah, and I remember when that was first announced. We're like, who is half Blood? Who is it? It could be Harry, but it's definitely not Harry. Yeah.

This came out in two thousand and five too, so this yeah, so and yeah it's the so what goes down in this one? What does Baltimore do now? So? So yeah, so now he's outed. Uh half Blood print, you know what. That's one of the ones that came out later that I was like so much, let's interested o the ones I had years and years and years

to reread and reread and reread. And then Half bloods Prince is kind of like I remember reading it when it first came out, like waited up for it and everything, and uh, it's you know, a lot a lot happens, but I think it's just so sad that I block out a lot of it, so I might need your

help a little bit. Yeah, oh yeah, so yeah. Dumbledore picks up Harry from his aunt and uncle's house, hoping to escort him to Burrow Uh, to the borough home of Harry's best friend Ron and his large family, but then on the way they make a detour to the Tipporary home of horse Slughorn, former Potions teacher, and then Harry helps persuades Lughorn to return to teach potions, which is interesting because up until now the only available slot in the lineup has been the Defends against the Dark

Arts teacher, and there's already a Potions master severa Snape, and so that's kind of telling of like what is going on with Dumbledore right now? Yeah? Yeah, well, either way, we find out Snape meets with Narcis Mouth for Draco's mother and her sister, Belatrick's last straight and he makes a vow to them, a mysterious vow. Yeah, mysterious vow. Yeah, yeah, an unbreakable vow to be yes. But they don't say exactly. Okay, so they don't let you know at the time. It's

just what the unbreakable vow is. But yeah, it's a it's a vow that if you break it, you die. It's for real, you have to you have to not do it. So uh Then the next morning, Harry, Ron and Hermione get their ordinary Wizarding Level results along with the come back in and it, and they figure out what classes they're going to be taking. Yeah, and they see Draco, who they're like, this dude is definitely a death eater. Yeah, so's the world is kind of like up in arms right now. People are kind of on

a witch hunt. The forces are growing and uh yeah, yeah, they're definitely thinking, oh, Draco's joined up, like he's for real, real now, he's not just a juror, he's actually a powerful and evil jerk and so on the Hogwarts Express they're talking about that suspicion, but Ron and Harmony are like, I don't know, he's a kid. Yeah, Like they're like, there's no way. Uh So then they get to it's all coming back to me now what this book is?

Yeah yeah, oh yeah. They get back to school and Dumbledore announced that Snape is the defense against the Dark Art Teacher, which up until this point we always apparently wanted the job. Yeah, but we've always known that everyone who's been a defense against the Dark art teacher either something's always up. Yeah, always actually at the end of the year, so yeah, yeah, and now Harry actually does well in potions. Uh. And then he but this is because he uh used received a used potion book that

once belonged to someone named the half Blood. Yeah, and it has all these writings in it of like, don't do that, that's dumb. Do this instead, and he's like okay, and he does it, and all of a sudden horace s Longhorns like, whoa, You're the most brilliant person at potions I've ever seen. Why you remind me of your mother at your age, she was the most brilliant potions person I've ever seen. And he's like, oh dope. Yeah. So then he ends up using the tips to win

a bottle of Felix. Felice is more commonly known as liquid luck, and uh this pleases Slughorn and uh so, believing Harry needs to learn Baltimore's passed again advantage in the battle, Dumbledore schedules regular meetings with Harry in his office. Yeah. So it turns out that like Dumbledore kept Harry definitely at arm's length in the book before, and it's because of his link to uh to Voldemorre. But Voldemore is kind of like figured it out now, so Dumbledore's like,

I gotta step in. I gotta make sure that your brain is protech from this weird, crazy connection thing and also be like kind of training you up to make sure that you're ready for this upcoming war which feels like it is brewing. It's coming. Yeah. Uh. So that that potion not told you about, well, Harry uses it uh and use gets slughorns unedited memory. And this is where he learns that Slughorn told Riddle Tom Riddle a ka Voldi about the process of splitting one's soul and

hiding it in several objects called horcruxes. Only by committing a murder can a wizard turn an object into a horr crux. Voldemort has created six of them, making himself virtually immortal by placing a piece of his soul in each one, which means he did six murders uh, and then he kept the last, the seventh and last one within his body. Dombador explains that in order to destroy Voldemort,

all the horr cruxes must first be destroyed. Two hor cruxes, Riddle's diary uh, and a ring belonging to Volda More's grandfather Marvel Marvolo Gaunt. I've already been destroyed before others remain. That's how you see. At the beginning, You're like, what's up with Dumbledore's hand, And it turns out that he's been hunting horcruxes. Yeah, he's like, I gotta take care of this dude. Yeah. Seeing the decline of Dumbledore too, it seems like he's weaker. He's not quite on his

a game. He's not quite as funny and loving and jovial. And we're not loving, but he's not quite as funny and jovial as he once was for sure. In this book, Yeah, things are started getting bleak and dark. Yeah. And then some other side business is going on. Is Ron's dating someone in her mind, he is very obviously jealous, and they're they're fighting about only after her money dates someone and Ron is super obviously jealous and book far, Yeah,

this goes this, this, this will they won't. They continues, and they're actually fighting through most of the books until Ron is almost killed in an attempt on Dumbledore's life. Yeah. Then near the end of the You're Harry and Doubledore journey to a cave to retrieve a suspected horcrux uh Slytherins locket and Doubledore expertly finds a secret passage away to a large, pitch black underground lake, which Harry and Double Door crossed in a small boat. I just realized

we forgot to talk about Umbradge. But that's fine. Oh what happened with Umbradge? She was like the defense. She was the teacher in book five and she like made everyone's life. Hell she's but my summary I skipped her, but she was the very very important character and I was like, wait, where was Umbridge? And then I'm like she was in and what happened to her at the end of book five. At the end of book five she is um I thought she was like carried out

by a bunch of forest creatures, but I could be wrong. Oh, we also forgot to mention Double Door's army, which was technically his band of friends. They make their own so okay, so rewind book five. There's uh, the ministries kind of stepping in. They're like, no, We're not gonna let you spread rumors. We're not gonna let you spread lives. We're

gonna put Unbridge in place. We're gonna force you know, we're gonna bring you up to code and put Unbridge in place to make sure that you're all learning the right thing. She's kind of like becoming more and more, seeking more and more power as they go, and so ends up like becoming actually the headmaster of Hogwarts eventually, and kind of instruction like enforcing all of these terrible

rules and so to like rebel. They make this group called double Doore's Army, and uh and Dumbledore's army includes Luna left Good includes them, you know, Nev long Bottom, and then Um Dumbledore's Army is the one that ends

up going to try to go fight Doubled. The goal of the army is for Harry to help train them to protect themselves because because of um Umbridge as the teacher, She's like, I'm not gonna I'm gonna only teach you theory because your children and you don't need to actually know how to protect yourself because there's nothing to protect

yourselves from. And Harry's like, yeah, yeah, you're right, Dolores got abducted by sim Yeah, she gets like she's like she gets taken into the wooden Yeah, like you wink. And Dumbledore eventually saves her, but she eventually kind of steps back. Yeah, she's so terried. She's like at the one of the greatest evil characters ever written in my opinion, She's so terrible. But yes, back to book six. Yeah, no, it's all good. So they try and get this uh

Slytherin locket. Uh. They go into the island. Oh, yeah, Harry. So Dumbledore decides to take Harry on a horror CrOx field trip. His training has been enough, but he's like, Harry, before we go, you have to see yes to everything everything from now until you know until the end. You have to do what I say. And he's like, okay. So they go to this like little Death Island and uh they and he forces Harry to have him drink this potion that weakens the person drinking it. And so

because they go together, they are able. If one person went alone, they would have drink all the potion and not been strong enough to get the Horcrux. But they went together. So Dumbledore takes all the potion, weakens himself Harry finds the Horcrux, except for it's not a horror crux. It's a phony. Someone else had already gotten that horror Crux and it was all for nothing. And so they go back to Hogwarts and they find out in their absence that the Death Eaters have invaded Hogwarts and are

holding it a hostage. And they go into a tower and they find uh. They find Draco Malfoy and salads. They find Draco Malfoy and Snape and uh it is. It is uncovered that it was Draco's job to be killing Double Door, which is why there was the accidental attempt on Ron's life that was misguided. It was because the boy was trying to do it, and Snape had made the unbreakable vow that he would help Um, that he would help keep Draco from messing up and being

killed by Voltimore. It looks like he m it looks like that Dumbledore is going to reason his way out with Draco, but it doesn't go right and Snape ends up killing Dumbledore and Dumbledore falls from the tower, leaving Harry Um hidden the whole time because because because Dumbledore tells Harry to hide, Yeah, and Snape reveals that he is the half Blood Prince. Yes, yeah, and so he has written that, but he like, we're all the notes in that book, and he is the one that killed

Dumbledore and chose his true colors. Finally as being a day facto death eater, and all the death Eaters run off. They have killed the headmaster of Hogwarts. Everybody's in an uproar. Harry shook it, we all shook. We're all shook. I remember when I read that, I was crying for days. But but now here he's like, I'm not going back to Yeah, He's like, it's time. I'm gonna Yeah. He's like, I'm gonna take this hor Crux field trip and make it a camping trip. Yeah. So you know, I'm not

going back to school. Like I'm gonna take a year off to find myself. He's like, now I'm taking a year off to find pieces of Voldemort's soul and put him in the dirt. And so that's what he does. All of books seven. It's him and Ron and Hermione is saying they're coming to and it's a it's a it's a time to be alive, where he tries to hop down through various means various trophies that Voldemort has putting his soul onto. Uh, and they all mean different

things to voldemorret. It is a very like difficult time that the relationships are all tested. Meanwhile, the Greater World and Wizarding World is all in in turmoil, to the point where the Minister for uh, like the actual Prime Minister of England and like actual muggles are having to like powerful Muggles are having to be informed of the situation because it's like it's affecting muggles. It's affecting people, are dying people, people in the school. It's the school itself.

The Ministry for Magic has fallen. It's now in control by these death Eaters, and so is Hogwarts. Hogwarts is being run by several snape I believe in the Caro twins Electo, it's like two other death eaters and Carro I'm very sometimes sometimes uh and uh. And so Harry eventually tracks down most of them. He has to return to Hogwarts for a couple of them. Uh. And do you want to wrap it up therapy? Yeah, yeah, I

mean yeah, yeah, well no, it's fine. So, yeah, this is the main thing that happens in this one is the mysterious R A B that kind of carvers from the house. So the one. Yeah, so in the Half Blood Prince that that locket that they were like, psych it's not really a horror Crux, someone else had already taken it and it was R A B. And that was like what we all had to sit for and

make the theories about between that. So yeah, who ends up being a it's a Regulus, our tourist Black who was serious as Black's brother who was a death theater so Serious and his brother got obviously they had a falling out when his brother became a death theater, but Regulus ended up turning on the dark Lord thinking this is not what I wanted and trying to help destroy that lock it. So he took it um and it

ends up being I believe in creatures possession. Who's a householf the yeah so yeah, so this eventually lead leads to them both eight trying to find the rest of the Horror Crux is and be finding the Deadly hollows. This, yes, so it's there's Oh, I'm glad that you brought up the bath because that's a book. Final book. But it's it's a So it turns out that now Voldemore is seeking these deathly hollows that are a way to be

master of death and like a very powerful wizard. There the story goes it's kind of a children's story that a lot of people don't believe, but it ends up being real, and it turns out that Dumbledore was a big like U in his day, wanted to look like, was a searcher of them, and he also was connected to another dark wizard who was a searcher of them, Grindewald,

who comes into major play in later movies. Um but so yes, So we find out that we've actually been in contact with a lot of these hollows throughout the book series and had no idea. Harry had a invisibility cloak that was gifted to him in book I think, uh was the book? Yeah, Yeah, So there's Harry has had this invisibility cloaks that was gifted in book one.

That's a deathly hollow because there's like no other cloak that Um can turn a person invisible, and that is belonged to the Pruitt brother who wanted to be Um invisible from death. There is a wand that this third the second Pruett brother, I think they're the prue It's anyway, there are three brothers who get gifts from death. The first brother asked for an invisibility cloak to hide himself from well the last brother but I'm getting a little complicated.

One brother asked for an invisibility cloak to hide himself from death. One asked for an all powerful wand, and then the third brother asked for the ability to recall people from death. So he gets a stone the Peverrell thank you, the Prue It's are are different family and Harry Potter um the So the stone we haven't we hadn't seen yet, but the the wand actually turned out to be Um Dumbledores one and the cloak and was

Harry's in Harry's possession this whole time. So Harry has a decision to make if he's going to hunt hor cruxes to battle uh Voltimore, or if he's gonna runt hollows to battle horr Cruxes or to battle Baltimore. And that's kind of the big thing, like does he want to be pow powerful ope, master of death man or does he think that the best um you know, offense is a good defense to like throw down on those horr cruxes. And meanwhile, you know, Hogwarts is in disarray.

All of his friends are still under the you know, under the oppressive regime there with the death theaters. But he chooses in the end to actually go for the horcruxes. He returns to Hogwarts and um the It is that around that point that Voltimore realizes he's hunting the horcruxes, so he so everyone is kind of culminating into this final battle of Hogwarts where all of the students and teachers and people there are trying to protect the school long enough for Harry to finish the job so that

they can all kill Voldemore at last. Meanwhile, Voldemorre does have the wand uh and Harry comes upon the stone, it's given to him. It's actually um like he gets uh. Voltimore has the one, but it's not one working for him and he doesn't know why. And it turns out that it's actually it was one Um, not by Voldemorre like he thought, but it was actually won by Harry, and so Harry is the true possessor of the one. Because you can only win the wand if you like if you win, it's like if you get it from

its previous master. Harry unwittingly becomes the only known possessor of all three hollows and master of death Um, which becomes important later. But so he's gifted that stone Um in like a way throwback to his his first quidditch match. It's inside of a golden snitch and uh he has he gets the wand because he's technically the possessor of it,

and he already had the cloak Um. But so he's back at Hogwarts and everybody's kind of having a kerfuffle over him trying to track down the last few hollows, and uh Neville blong Bottom, in a stroke of brilliant freaking throws down and cuts off the head of the snake Neguini, who is one of the Deathly Hollows with the Sword of Slithering or with the sort of griffin door which technically has embedded in it Basilisk venom, which is able to destroy horror Crux is because of Harry's

earlier fight with the Basilisk. Harry is killed by Baltimore, but actually isn't debt dead because he is the Master of Debt, so your resurrects and then he ends up killing Baltimore in the Yeah, and then he breaks the wand it's like all powerful wanting he uses it to

fix his old wand it breaks it. Yeah, like he deep like Baltimore tries to zap Harry but it doesn't work on him and it knocks him out for a bit, and he goes into kind of this like in between the second time the second time, Yeah, And it says like there's a second time when he tries to in the final on slot when it's like post post dead Harry he's back, and then Baltimore tries to use the death curse on him, but it refuses to use it on Harry because it cho the wand yes, yes, yes, yes,

you're right, you're right, you're right. Yeah, I mean Terry doesn't have possession of the one, but he technically is the true owner of that wand because if he won the Ones allegiance, I mean it seems like also like was there a lot of differences between the books and the movies, Yeah, especially like the later um Ones. There's some plot differences which like also as a fan that you know, maybe hasn't read those last two novels in in a minute, it does like like kind of mess

with your brother. What actually happens? Um? I know in the in the like in the books, in the movies, there's a lot of discrepancies, especially and like the last but for the most part it stays pretty true like um plot wise, but you know, tragically, like like I mentioned, in the books, he fixes his one and then he breaks the other one. In the movies he doesn't. Yeah silly, We're going to keep it. Yeah. So the one thing I wanted to talk about is you went to London

to see what was it? Was it a Harry Potter play? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, what was that about? Was great? So, you know, we see Harry Potter ends. We get an epilogue of like years later, and it's like Harry at the train station with his two sons. Now one's already assorted Griffin or it's eleven year old's birthday. He's like, what if I get put into Slytherin And Harry's like, oh,

it's it's not that bad. Actually. Uh. It turns out Snape was good the whole time and was actually um working with Dumbledore to overthrow Baltimore and was you know, on their side, and actually had made a promise to to Dumbledore that he would kill him if he needed if Dumbledore said to and he did. Um. So he's like, no, you know, one of the greatest, most brave wizards I've ever known, Severus snape Um was a it was a you know, Albus Severus which he named his kids weird names.

But he's like, you know, he he was a Slytherin, so like, it doesn't matter what your house is, like, you know, so there is still fine and Um, so that's how the books end. And so then The Cursed Child is a play that JK. Rowling helped like inspire. I don't I don't think she actually wrote it. Um, there were other writers on it, but she helped develop it.

And it's a play that happens after that epilogue and it actually like follows those the kid albas Severus um into that year of all warts after the uh and it's like a it's a play Broadway play like performance. Yeah, so I went to so I really wanted to go

see it. Um. When it came to New York, I read the book, I read the screenplay when it dropped, So they dropped the screenplay for all those people who were fans that couldn't go physically see the play, And when it happened, there was a lot of disappointment and confusion because of like how it was written. It didn't feel like rolling ruling throughout the or rowling throughout the novels.

It felt like, like I said, there was all these like things that were mentioned in book one that had huge payoffs in book seven, and you're like, this was clearly all like mad like a mad woman put all this stuff together and had all these through lines and it was amazing and really well thought out. And the rules of the world it was so rich. Uh, and where in the player of the play felt short as it felt like it took a lot of those rules that were already made and like didn't adhere to them.

It took like it felt like very often like can using but so but so I was kind of disappointed. A lot of people, me included, kind of felt like it felt like a little bit closer to fan fiction. It didn't really feel it felt like it took a lot of liberties. It felt like it didn't really feel like the same voice, and it but seeing it in person was really incredible. It's a two part, two part play, and I honestly would say to those who did not

enjoy it, I like the writing. If you see it in person, it really comes to life with the characters, and it's a really fun way to UM reinteract with the story and some a new generation and see these characters like it's not it's a new version. I like to think of it as like it's kind of own

separate thing. It doesn't you know, it's not exactly the same Harrier, exactly the same roun and but it is like, you know, a really cool extension of the universe and and a really cool thing that I haven't seen a lot out of other um fandoms. I haven't seen a lot of like like play versions that were official like that tell a new story um adding to the world. So it's it's really And also the way it's like it's it's the actors, the the way the spectacle is

done and magic is shown on stage. It's so cool, like the way that they handle the magic and the transitions of movement of of the the world. It's just it feels so as a big fan for a life it feels so cool to watch like magic in front of you on stage and I feel like physically a part of the world in a way that you never have before. So I loved it. I loved it. But I will say like it has its flaws plot wise. Okay, well, you know, I think that's a great place to leave it.

I mean, we could. I mean there's more outside of what we talked about that goes way ahead of that. But the trilogy whatever it ends up being. Yeah, there's now a new Wizarding World. They've expanded it so that it's just called Wizarding World. I believe, or was Yeah, I believe it's that and uh, and now they have all of these new movies that are taking a different times so so that but this is the perfect way to kind of, you know, hopefully watch your whistle a

bit and get you to jump in. Thank you so much Kelsey for sitting through all of this with me. It was it was a lot, I do. I forgot how long that book series was until we were going through and I was like, oh, yeah, this is a long one. But where can people find you? Yeah, so that you can find me on all platforms at Kelsey dangerous. I am. Yeah, I am on Twitch, I'm on YouTube, I'm on Twitter, I'm on Instagram. You name it, your

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