Episode 58: Intro to Harry Potter

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Speaker 1 (00:09):
Welcome to Nertif and hell is everybody doing this? Your
boy if you y away and not sitting across from me,
because she's doing big boss things. Danny Fernandez is out,
but today I am joined our wonderful guests. You may
have seen her control in people's lives in the sims.
You may have seen her trying to have a hundred babies.

(00:29):
She's a good friend of mine. Over with me over
BuzzFeed multiplayer. You heard me talking about it on the
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

(00:51):
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,

(01:12):
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

(01:36):
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

(01:57):
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,

(02:19):
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

(02:41):
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

(03:03):
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.

(03:27):
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

(03:48):
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

(04:10):
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

(04:31):
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,

(04:53):
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

(05:14):
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,

(05:34):
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

(05:55):
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

(06:15):
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

(06:35):
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

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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

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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

(07:39):
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

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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

(08:21):
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

(08:43):
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

(09:05):
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,

(09:31):
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

(09:52):
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

(10:14):
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

(10:37):
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

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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

(11:26):
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

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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

(12:09):
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

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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.

(12:50):
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

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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

(13:34):
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

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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

(14:20):
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,

(14:40):
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

(15:02):
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

(15:26):
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,

(15:49):
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

(16:10):
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,

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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,

(16:52):
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

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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.

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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

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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.

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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

(18:45):
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.

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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

(19:32):
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

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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

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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

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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,

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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,

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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,

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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

(21:57):
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

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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,

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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

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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

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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.

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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,

(26:19):
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.

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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,

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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,

(27:28):
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

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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

(28:13):
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,

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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

(28:57):
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

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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,

(29:42):
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,

(30:06):
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

(30:26):
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

(30:49):
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

(31:11):
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

(31:35):
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

(31:56):
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

(32:18):
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

(32:38):
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

(33:00):
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

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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

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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

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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

(34:28):
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

(34:51):
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,

(35:14):
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

(35:35):
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

(35:56):
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

(36:17):
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

(36:37):
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

(36:58):
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

(37:19):
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.

(37:41):
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

(38:03):
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

(38:25):
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,

(38:48):
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

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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.

(39:30):
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

(39:51):
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

(40:14):
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.

(40:35):
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.

(40:55):
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

(41:17):
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

(41:38):
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

(42:01):
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

(42:23):
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

(42:44):
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

(43:05):
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

(43:26):
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

(43:47):
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

(44:08):
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

(44:30):
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,

(44:52):
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

(45:15):
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

(45:37):
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

(46:00):
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

(46:24):
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,

(46:44):
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

(47:05):
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.

(47:29):
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

(47:51):
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

(48:12):
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

(48:35):
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

(48:57):
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

(49:18):
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

(49:41):
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

(50:04):
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

(50:27):
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,

(50:51):
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

(51:12):
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,

(51:35):
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

(51:56):
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.

(52:18):
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

(52:39):
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

(53:00):
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

(53:22):
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

(53:43):
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

(54:04):
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

(54:24):
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

(54:47):
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

(55:10):
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

(55:32):
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

(55:55):
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,

(56:18):
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

(56:42):
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

(57:04):
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

(57:28):
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

(57:50):
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

(58:12):
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

(58:32):
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,

(58:55):
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

(59:19):
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

(59:40):
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,

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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

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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,

(01:00:45):
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

(01:01:06):
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

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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

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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

(01:02:11):
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

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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

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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

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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

(01:03:40):
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

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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

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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

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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,

(01:05:07):
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

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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.

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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

(01:06:11):
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.

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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

(01:06:53):
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

(01:07:14):
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

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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

(01:07:59):
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.

(01:08:23):
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

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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

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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

(01:09:29):
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

(01:09:52):
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

(01:10:14):
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

(01:10:39):
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,

(01:10:59):
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

(01:11:21):
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,

(01:11:43):
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

(01:12:04):
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

(01:12:26):
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?

(01:12:47):
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,

(01:13:10):
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

(01:13:33):
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,

(01:13:57):
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,

(01:14:18):
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

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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

(01:15:01):
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

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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

(01:15:47):
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

(01:16:09):
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,

(01:16:35):
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,

(01:16:56):
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

(01:17:16):
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

(01:17:40):
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

(01:18:00):
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,

(01:18:21):
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

(01:18:42):
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

(01:19:04):
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,

(01:19:26):
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

(01:19:48):
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

(01:20:08):
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

(01:20:30):
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

(01:20:51):
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

(01:21:15):
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,

(01:21:38):
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

(01:22:01):
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

(01:22:21):
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

(01:22:42):
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

(01:23:05):
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

(01:23:28):
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.

(01:23:48):
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,

(01:24:08):
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

(01:24:31):
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

(01:24:53):
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.

(01:25:16):
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

(01:25:40):
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

(01:26:02):
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

(01:26:23):
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

(01:26:46):
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

(01:27:07):
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

(01:27:28):
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

(01:27:50):
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

(01:28:11):
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.

(01:28:32):
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

(01:28:52):
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

(01:29:13):
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.

(01:29:33):
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,

(01:29:56):
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,

(01:30:19):
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

(01:30:39):
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.

(01:31:00):
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

(01:31:21):
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,

(01:31:43):
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,

(01:32:05):
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,

(01:32:28):
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

(01:32:49):
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

(01:33:10):
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?

(01:33:31):
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,

(01:33:53):
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,

(01:34:16):
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

(01:34:37):
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

(01:35:00):
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

(01:35:23):
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

(01:35:44):
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

(01:36:06):
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

(01:36:26):
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,

(01:36:47):
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

(01:37:11):
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

(01:37:32):
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

(01:37:54):
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.

(01:38:15):
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,

(01:38:35):
I'm on Twitter, I'm on Instagram. You name it, your
girls on it, Kelsey dangerous. I Also my main job,
as you mentioned before, is working for BuzzFeed multiplayer YouTube
dot com slash bussfeed Multiplayers, so you can see all
my contact but content everywhere. Yeah, and you know me
is your boy. If you f Y n W A

(01:38:57):
D I W E on Twitter and instant ram, the
discord is Discord dot g G slash Salt Squad. And
if you like to watch me play video games, come
through on the Twitch. That's Twitch dot tv slash. If
d's drop those Twitch Prime subs. A few of y'all
have been coming through. I truly love when you'll come in,
say nerd fam, drop the Twitch Prime sub and then

(01:39:19):
disappear into the night. Uh but you know if you
ever want to do that for me, which not TV
slash Kelsey. Yeah, we're all playing games. We're playing we're
game friends too. But yeah, that's been Harry Potter. I
hope you enjoyed today. What are your favorite moments from
Harry Potter? Tweet them at us tag us. Let's keep
the conversation yeah, I know. There's so much food from

(01:39:41):
Harry Potter. Do you want to eat? Hit us up
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