October 28, 2024 • 62 mins
Welcome to the final installment of everything HARRY POTTER! In part 1 of this 2-part episode, Dave, Jon, Ben, and super special guest experts Kathy and Kayla, discuss everything about Half Blood Prince and start into Deathly Hallows Part 1 (more in part 2 of this episode). As always, they start by sharing a food related to the topic. Then they dive into Half Blood Prince by discussing themes, favorite heroes and villains, as well as favorite scenes and quotes. Find out about differences between the book and movie. Laugh with us as we discuss what each person would do with their own bottle of liquid luck. Find out what our single guests would smell in their love potion and who Kayla would snog if she was in the film. Good times! Be sure to catch more fun in Part 2!
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Whatever really happened to dudes calling each other best friends?
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Dave and John grew up in the 80s in New Jersey and they did everything together.
They were the quintessential best friends until they became teenagers and Dave moved
away.
Fast forward to today and these two 40-somethings reconnected and decided to not only be besties
again but to put on a podcast and share their reunion with anyone who will listen.
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Welcome to Fat, Dumb and Happy.
All right, welcome back.
We've got the final magical episode of Fat, Dumb and Happy where we will cover Harry Potter
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6 and 7.
It's kind of sad.
I'm not going to lie.
This has been a blast so far but with me as always is my bro-host Dave.
Hey Dave, what do you get when you mix Home Alone and Harry Potter?
I don't know man, what do you get?
Keep it changed.
You sell the whole plot!
Nice.
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All right, also in studio is our pure blood in-house special guest expert Ben.
Ben, what's going on my brother?
Doing great man.
I'm just happy to be here.
Now Ben, as the eldest on the podcast, why do you think you should get the elder one?
You just said it right there.
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Oh, okay.
Okay, I see.
I see how it is.
Just like my brother.
True question.
All right.
Yeah, I know, right?
All right, well returning to the crew for more Harry Potter fun is our special special
special guest experts.
We got Kathy.
Kathy, if your kids were under attack from an escaped Death Eater from Azkaban, would
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you or would you not treat them the same as Mrs. Weasley did?
Oh, you better believe it.
Oh, yes.
Oh yeah, and my daughter is a good witness probably.
I don't have magical powers but I have mama bear powers.
Mama bear powers, there you go.
Mama bear powers activate.
Mama deletis, okay.
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Mama deletrius.
All right, and back by popular demand is Dave's eldest daughter, Kayla.
Kayla, welcome back.
Which of the Deathly Hallows would you most want?
Probably the book of invisibility.
Great choice.
I would go with number three.
Great great choice.
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I can't argue with that one whatsoever.
All right, well here we go.
Let's get started.
All right, well let's start off with everybody's favorite part is the food section.
Where we share our foods that most connect with our topic today.
And of course with the Harry Potter six and seven.
What do you got Dave?
Why don't you start us off?
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All right, cool.
I just happen to have a giant glass vial of liquid luck.
You guys see this in the camera?
So I'm just gonna pour this into my Harry Potter mug.
You can see that too.
But that should hopefully help with the episode.
We're all gonna have a good time.
I'm gonna know which way to go and conducting the interviews and things.
Let's see how it tastes.
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Hold on.
Oh yeah.
Are you feeling lucky?
Felix Felicious.
Dude, you need to share that around.
I need a little luck today.
Yeah.
It's funny.
Your background screen is all blurred out because of the zoom setting or whatever.
So when you go to hold up your Haritos, your Haritos bottle, it looks like it's blocked
out because we're not sponsored by them.
Yeah, exactly.
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What is that?
Strange liquid.
It's not on you.
It's liquid luck.
Yeah, Haritos.
Pineapple soda.
So good.
All right.
How about you, Kathy?
What do you got?
Well, I have chocolate gold coin right here for, you know, like Gringotts.
That's so smart.
I like that.
And then a throwback actually from Lupin, you know, when the Dementors were attacking
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and he would give Harry chocolate and then tell Harry like, eat, you'll feel better.
Because woman, yes, chocolate does feel better.
So, yes.
And fatties too.
And fatties too.
Yeah.
John and I can attest.
Kathy, I just want to say that I like your gold coin.
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That's brilliant.
I like that a lot.
And you probably stole my Harry Potter vault because he didn't bother to spend any of that
money.
I know.
Yeah.
And Kathy, the other day found one of those, you know, like the signs that are like live,
laugh, love, but instead it says what Lupin says, right Kathy?
Yeah.
Someone had made like a kitchen sign with Lupin's quote, like, eat, you'll feel better
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in their kitchen.
I'm like, I love it.
That's awesome.
We need that.
Yeah.
Take our money.
All right.
What about you, Kayla?
So I got the idea of licorice wands or Twizzlers, something you'd find in the trolley on the
express.
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Are you doing the black licorice?
Just the red.
I don't really like black licorice.
You're smart.
It's fine.
That is Dave.
Yeah, you're dead.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I'm glad you don't take after your father like that because those are disgusting.
They have dragon heart string in them or something.
How about you, John?
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What you got today?
Okay, so this has actually been sitting in my fridge for like two weeks, but last time
I did the Harry Potter cake that Hagrid brought to Harry and because this hadn't come in time,
so and it came broken by the way, but I bought a chocolate Harry Potter wand.
Oh, man.
That's awesome.
It's like legit.
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Yeah, man.
It's like, it's already melting in my hand.
It's only been out of the fridge.
You did great for the wand in the end, didn't you?
Not this one.
This isn't the older one.
They did have that, but it was like 20 bucks and I was this was 10.
So I went with this one.
It got cursed by Hermione.
The spell rebounded.
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Oh, right, right, right.
Yes.
Yes.
That's actually a Wally chocolate.
I'm not going to lie.
That's actually pretty good.
That's awesome.
Is it magical?
Magically delicious.
Copyright.
What about you, Ben?
Well, you know, I'm a fan of Harry Potter.
I'm a fan of Harry Potter.
I'm a fan of Harry Potter.
I'm a fan of Harry Potter.
I'm a fan of Harry Potter.
I'm a fan of Harry Potter.
I'm a fan of Harry Potter.
I'm a fan of Harry Potter.
I'm a fan of Harry Potter.
I'm a fan of Harry Potter.
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Well, you know, my original plan was to do cotton candy and it was supposed to like represent
like the invisibility cloak, like it just disappears in your mouth, man.
And I went to the store and, you know, I guess it's the end of summer.
And so there wasn't in the store anymore.
So I ended up doing kind of what Kathy did, the golden coin thing.
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Different spin on it that this also disappears in my mouth.
Nice.
My invisibility point, I guess you could say.
When it just disappears in my mouth.
How is it?
It's just about gone now.
Wish it would have that multiplying curse, right?
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Oh, yeah.
Oh, I'm going to talk about that in a minute.
How did they ever run out of money if they have like spells like that?
I know, right?
Just go swim in your money and it multiplies like crazy.
If it didn't work on money, just like sell the goblets or whatever it is, you know?
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Or just multiply it and free stuff to sell, you know?
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But it's like the antique road show.
They're like, you see how this has this little whatever?
That's how you know it's a replica.
It's been duplicated.
It's not a real authentic vase or whatever it is.
Yeah.
Melt it down, who cares?
Yeah, exactly.
All right, Jay, why don't we have you start off with the main event, man?
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All right. I'm so excited.
I mean, I'm sad, too.
Like John said, I mean, this is our last one, but it's just kind of fun.
And culminated to these last three movies, the last two books.
We're going to start off with Half-Blood Prince.
It's a great movie.
So first of all, what are some of the themes you guys picked up on for the whole movie?
For me, I thought I liked to see in this one, there was a lot of just normalcy
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for Harry Potter, meaning he was still a normal kid apart from all the magic.
So just some examples, like, you know, when he was trying to get the date
with the waitress, right, right.
He was reading his paper and Dumbledore trying to get the hot gas.
If him and Hermione were dating,
yeah, Ron and Harry talking about like Hermione and Ginny having their fair skin.
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You know, she's got nice skin.
Skin?
You're saying Dean's dating my sister because of her skin?
Well, no, I mean, I'm just I'm just saying it could be a contributing factor.
Hermione's got nice skin.
Wouldn't you say?
Her skin goes, I mean.
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I've never really thought about it.
But I suppose, yeah.
Very nice.
You know, Harry and Hermione after the Quidditch match,
when they're on the stairwell and realizing they can't be with the people
they wanted to be, you know, it just totally takes it out of the magic world.
And they're still teenagers, right?
Yeah.
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Kind of. And then everyone will get to this.
But Harry Potter enjoying the Felix Felices.
Yeah, it's like he was so carefree and he didn't have to care about
Voldemort in that moment.
And it was just it was nice to see him being normal,
even though he was on his little high from the Felix Felices.
But, you know, it was just nice to see him not be stressed out for a minute.
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That was just one of the themes of that.
I like it, John. That's really good.
I like all those scenes and all those parts,
but I hadn't really thought about the fact that, yeah, it's kind of like normal,
normal life. Yeah, appreciate it.
All right, Ben, what about you?
You know, for me, I think the thing that stood out to me was this allure
of power throughout.
So you have Harry with this book that is helping him
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be like the best, you know, and how is that getting to him?
You know, then you have Ron with the liquid luck, you know,
and how it gets to his head when he gets all of it.
That's like that. And, you know, really, I mean, Voldemort,
you see like the lengths that he's going to to like protect his
horcruxes and things like that.
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I mean, just Snape.
And I felt like the Malfoys even like really, I feel like so many of them
are presented with this opportunity to have greater power.
And what are they going to do about that?
You know, how are they going to face that and how is that going to change them?
I feel like one of the only ones I don't really see it
applies as much to was Hermione.
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And I think she had that chance with with the time thing, you know,
time turner, yeah, at the time turner.
And so she had that chance of, OK, now I'm going to go to every class
and learn everything and stuff like that.
And she had her own experience or brush with like,
what am I going to do with power earlier?
But it feels like so many of the others had it in this book.
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And it just just kind of stood out to me as a kind of a theme.
Yeah. Oh, man, that's interesting. That's a good point.
All right. What about you, Kayla?
What do you think? What are some themes from this one for you?
For this movie, I kind of saw how each character had a choice
to make in like the consequences, like Draco joining the Death Eaters
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and like what that meant for him and how it would be for his life
and how Harry had to either choose to help Dumbledore
or not in destroying Voldemort and choices in relationships,
whether they're platonic or romantic and how that affects them and others.
Ah, it's good. It is good.
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I like it. What about you, Kathy?
So that like just growing up, you know, like John was talking about that normalcy,
the their adolescence and just and I saw a lot of like infatuation versus like love,
you know, like seeing that with the different characters, you know,
with the teenagers, a lot of the infatuation, but then
maybe like realizing the deeper connection and love that just seeing that play out
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and then letting go of things that aren't good for us with Harry, with his potions book.
Just letting go of those things and then just bravery again, sacrifice and then honesty.
Like trying to get Slughorn the truth of like what happened was so critical
and like how important that is.
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I'll talk more about that later, too, with my coat.
But yeah, those things came up.
Oh, awesome. Good ones. All right.
So, yeah, for me, this is a stretch to call it a theme, but it's in the movie quite a bit.
And I wanted to do something different from what you guys had.
So I'm just going to say snogging.
I hadn't like even heard of that word before this book, this movie.
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And it's just funny to me, kind of.
And yeah, I mean, it's something on the teenager's minds and it's something that happens
a fair bit. And this is kind of funny.
So that's what I was going to share about that.
All right. What about your favorite heroes?
Let's go with Kathy this time.
I think Dumbledore, you know, he's just love him from the other books or movies.
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He, you know, wasn't connecting with Harry kind of on purpose
because he wasn't sure, like, what would happen.
And then he was trying to repair that in the end.
I feel like like I did this wrong, you know.
So I felt like you try to repair that with Harry this time and just really connecting with him
and being with him and mentoring him, you know.
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So repairing that, you know, he burned his hand trying to get rid of Horcrux.
Like he's looking for Horcruxes.
He has such compassion for Draco.
It's like trying to kill him, but like he gets it.
Like he sees the big picture and wants to help him.
And so I love that, that he extends that to Draco and his moment of death.
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And then his brilliant plans, his brilliant mind that he was willing to sacrifice his life.
And he paved a path for Harry to destroy Voldemort.
And that he didn't do it for the glory or praise.
He had this mission and yeah, so he's just, just a hero to me that way.
Yes.
Yes.
Yep.
Amen.
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That's awesome.
What about you, Kayla?
I also said Dumbledore, kind of what my mom said.
I agree with everything that she said.
Yeah, just the fact that Dumbledore was willing to do it.
Willing to risk his life just to ensure that Harry would have a chance at living to the fullest.
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Stopping Voldemort, making sure that he is safe and protected.
Yes.
Yes, it's huge.
It's like the sign of like the truest hero, right?
They're willing to die for the greater good.
Yeah.
All right, John, what about you?
Yeah, so I actually said Snape was the hero of this one.
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And it's crazy because, you know, at the time and until the last movie,
you can't really see everything Dumbledore knew and how everything had to play out just perfectly.
But Snape, because he followed through with Dumbledore's plan,
even though you could tell he was hesitant to even go along with it in the first place.
And then not putting it on Drake to have to kill Dumbledore.
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I love, I mentioned this, I think in the very first episode,
but I love Draco Malfoy's character arc, like from the beginning all the way to the end,
how he gets dark and just, I love it.
I think he does a fantastic job, man.
Tom Bell did really good in the movie as Draco.
And I just think that his Snape also at that time had the Unbreakable Vow.
And he had saved his own life to do it too, so because Draco wasn't going to do it.
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But he also didn't want that for Draco.
He really didn't.
So I think for him killing Dumbledore and for not making Draco do it,
I think Snape is the hero of this movie.
Yeah. Yeah. Nice.
What about you, Ben?
I felt like Harry, I just loved how Harry's growth as well.
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He gets sucked in with, like I said, the allure of power when he finds this book
that helps him just do amazing and reaching the point where he has to set that aside
and recognize that that isn't so good for him.
I don't know. I feel like that development was, I don't know, just stood out to me.
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So I really liked it.
I've got a counterpoint to that.
He did try to kill two people using that book.
No. Although one of them he didn't know what that would do,
but he did know when he tried to use it against Snape.
Yeah.
He definitely, you saw him kind of turn to the dark side a little bit there.
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You know what I mean?
You saw him get sucked in by it all and then get himself out.
And that's a hard thing to do once you're in it.
You know what I mean?
To be able to say, wait a minute, I've gone too far.
I got to get out of this.
Well, that's what I feel impressed by.
You know, like you're right.
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He totally went bad in a sense.
You know, like you see almost the worst side of him in this book and movie.
And yet you also see him escape it.
All right.
Yeah.
I wish I got a book in school where they had all the answers in it.
That would have probably would have done a lot better.
Yeah, it'd be hard to give that up.
The other thing about it to me, it makes me resent Snape a little bit more because it's like,
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dude, you know this stuff so well.
Why didn't you publish your own book or something or like share this knowledge with your students?
Like help them all be this good.
Yeah.
That's the thing that he happens to sneak upon, you know?
Yeah.
That's a good point, Ben.
It's like protecting his own power kind of thing.
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You know, like I want to be the best and I don't want my students to get anywhere near as good as me.
Yeah.
And yet he's so careless.
He leaves it in like the used book pile.
Man, I imagine Ron was stronger and he got the book instead of Harry.
Oh, man.
Things have changed.
Dude, that's one of my favorite scenes is them wrestling over that book.
Yeah.
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I love it.
They both look at each other.
They look at each other, yeah.
And then they grab the book and they're like.
Just dive for it.
It was definitely a good acting there.
Yes.
That's awesome.
Well, I agree with everybody's.
You guys got all the best ones, honestly.
And I just want to add Luna.
Luna was pretty good in this one, you know.
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She joins the group.
She fights alongside.
She's a good friend to Harry.
And I just think she's another hero that may get overlooked sometimes.
All right.
Now on to the villains.
Who are some of your favorite or least favorite villains for this movie?
Let's start with John.
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All right.
So just kind of a non villainous character.
I just find this person super annoying throughout the whole movie.
Yeah.
I was ready for her just to go away.
And eventually she does.
But Lavender Brown.
Annoying.
That whole thing with Ron was just annoying.
But as far as villain goes, for me, Draco.
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And I can just mention, I love the fear and the self torment he had about.
It was just, you could tell that, you know, becoming a death eater or whatever.
It was, it was kind of eating him up inside, man.
He didn't really want to do it, but because of who his family was, he had to.
I just, I thought he played it perfectly.
Definitely.
All right.
Ben, what about you?
For me, I've got to say, Voldemort.
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I mean, it just becomes revealed about all the Horcruxes and like all the evil he did.
Like, and then when you get to the cave and you see all the lengths he went to protect it,
you know, and it just makes him loom larger when you see all this than previously.
Like it just expands how evil and how dangerous this is going to be.
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The eventually face this guy, you know.
And what he had to do to create the seven Horcruxes.
Exactly.
You're right.
Yeah, that's a good point.
Good one.
Good one.
What about Kayla?
All right.
So I think my favorite villain for this movie would probably be Snape.
It's kind of weird because, you know, he kills Dumbledore in the end, but like,
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I like how, like in the beginning of the movie, he's like,
yeah, does this unbreakable vow with Draco's mom to ensure the safety and wellbeing of her son
and just how he would, yeah, go through everything.
Even if Draco makes a mistake, like is able to step in and defend him real quick.
And real quick, yeah, Viltrix is my least favorite.
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I mean, he nearly destroyed the Weasley's home, which what the heck, that's messed up.
And she's a psycho.
I don't like that.
I liked that scene with Bellatrix and Narcissa and Snape.
I thought that whole thing was really good.
I remember when we first read it, I was like, what?
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He did an unbreakable vow?
It blew me away.
So yes.
What about you, Kathy?
So like John, I have a non-villain character, but Hormack McClaggen,
I mean, typical teen boy, but he needs to not use her objectified girls.
And like Hermione said, he's got more tentacles than a snarf-a-lump plant.
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Yeah.
In my opinion, he's one of them.
Like, oh my gosh, he's the boy version of Lavender Brown, I guess.
And then Voldemort, I just, what an evil guy.
You know, like I think Ben mentioned it previously in episode Voldemort, for sure.
You know, villain every time.
But this time he uses Draco.
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He's such a coward because he uses Draco.
He couldn't kill Dumbledore himself.
So he's going to just use and threaten and manipulate Draco, you know,
and threaten his dad's life on the line and his family's life and his life to try to kill Dumbledore.
So yeah, because he couldn't.
Voldemort, evil.
He's the worst.
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He's the worst for sure.
For sure. So for me, all those again, I agree with all of you for sure.
I'm going to say it's not even a non-villain character.
I'm going to go with Lavender Brown 100%.
She tried to break up the trio, you guys.
Like she got in the way of Harry and Ron and Hermione mixing that up.
And you know, she was terrible when she's in the train blowing on the glass, that scene.
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And she does the heart.
I love how Harry is playing with the armrest, not wanting to look at her because she's evil.
Awkward.
Worst.
And then when they do break up and she's over there with just like a fork and she's like fuming.
It's so funny.
Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah, she's terrible.
That's right.
All right.
Let's talk favorite scenes guys.
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Start with Kayla.
So my favorite scene for this one was probably the introduction of Fred and George's joke shop
because I feel like it's the only part that was, well, it's not the only part, but it was the only
part in the movie that was kind of comical and fun and like uplifting and how they're
distracting people from the dark and bringing them into the light, kind of bringing the fire.
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That's kind of the thing, Kayla.
Yeah, I believe in the book, the money one from the Goblet of Fire, he gave it to the twins.
Oh, see.
The tri-wizard tournament earnings.
Everybody just so you know, that hasn't, you know, I know you all have seen the movies,
but they went out and wrote books after them.
So, you know, check those out.
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Added to the movies a little, you know.
Yes, the tri-wizard tournament earnings went to Fred and George to build their shop.
I didn't know that.
I thought all they got was eternal glory.
And some cash.
Oh, hard cash.
All right.
No.
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Yeah, and it's kind of, I don't know, I thought about that more too, that like,
what you said about how Harry did share his money with Ron,
and then he gives his money to his brothers.
And then in the movie, Ron's like, hey, man, what's the discount for me?
I'm your brother.
And they're like, more than, it's twice as much.
Ten gallons.
Ten gallons.
Yep.
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Awesome. Good one, Kayla.
I like that scene too.
Yeah.
All right, Kathy, what about you?
I love all of the scenes with Ron in this movie.
I think Rupert Grint does such a good job.
Just all of his expressions and his acting with Quidditch, with Lavender,
with Hermione, with the love potion.
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He does such a good job.
He just makes me laugh.
So there's that bit of like humor, you know, it's dark, it gets darker.
But I think I just love all of his scenes.
They just made me laugh.
Yeah, I just wanted to real quick.
It's funny that you say that because Ron's scene with Lavender and all that.
I think, and this isn't my answer, but I love Hermione's acting right there
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when Ron and Lavender come running up to them in the little stairwell.
And then she shoots her little birds at him or whatever.
Showing her true emotions, how she really felt for Ron right there.
I thought she did a phenomenal job.
Yeah, she did.
I guess I don't like the snogging scenes with Ron.
Let me clarify that.
Like those, but just the way he acts around, like it's just so funny.
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But yeah, I agree with Hermione too on that with her acting there.
I did something else.
Yeah.
Also his acting when he was like nearly dying was also great too.
Yeah, exactly.
Like there's this range of like so many expressions, emotions and acting.
Yeah, like dying and then about nine.
I saw like one of the bloopers, he like really fell off the couch.
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Oh, yeah.
Like that was real.
That happened.
Oh, really?
Poor guy.
I love it.
I want to see the green screen version of him like on the broom where he's like hanging
on it and like climbing all over.
Like he does such a good job there too, for sure.
All right.
What about you, Ben?
I just love that whole scene in the cave to get the horcrux.
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Oh, yeah.
Like it's just an intense scene.
And there's just one thing after another.
And I love Dumbledore's acting there is just so good when he's trying to force himself
to drink more.
And I don't know, the whole thing was really good and intense.
It was visually stunning as well.
Like just even from like when they first get there and you see the waves crashing and everything
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and then get them going in there and then yeah, it was beautifully done.
Yeah, I noticed this last time we watched it that the color scheme of the horcrux was
different.
And I would say it's arguably one of the scarier parts was when they were on Fury, grab them
from in the water.
Like, oh man, creepy.
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Really creepy.
All right.
What about you, John?
You know, and I talked about this in all the other movies, so I'll continue it here.
But the theme of Harry's love for magic and bewilderment of what can be done through magic.
I'm going to mention this again here in just a little bit.
But at the very beginning, when they go searching for slugs, they're like, oh, I'm going to
do this thing when they go searching for slughorn and they finally, you know, slughorn comes
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out of the chair or whatever.
And he says, you know, well, you know, the Death Eaters were after him and they made
the house a disaster.
And so Dumbledore puts the house back in order and he's just sitting there watching everything
happen and then they got the little part of the chandelier under his foot.
But him just watching that he was just again, he was just amazed.
I love that whole theme.
Yes.
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Although, and that's not Harry's thing, but why does Dumbledore have to lick the blood?
I mean, come on, man.
He's like, I know, like, don't do it.
Don't do it.
Smell it or something.
You don't have to taste it.
That's disgusting.
But yeah, I love that.
You know what that already tastes like?
Like how would he already know?
Ah, dragon's blood.
Maybe, you know, we have like Gator tail and stuff.
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Maybe he's had dragon steak before.
Something tells me it might be kind of good.
That's like a good knitting pattern.
That's true.
That's right.
The knitting magazine.
I love it.
All right.
So so many good scenes in this movie, but I'm going to say one of my favorites is Harry
actually using the Felix Felicis and he totally goes different from the plan.
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Just goes where he thinks he needs to go.
And the way he reacts to Slughorn and talks to him and just seems like he just doesn't
care.
And Felix is just taking him on this journey that works out perfectly.
And I love that whole eulogy for Aragog and all of it.
Yes.
Yes.
So that's my favorite.
I love that.
Yeah.
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Harry, I must insist you accompany me back to the castle immediately.
Would be counterproductive, sir.
But what makes you say that?
No idea.
All right.
Favorite quotes.
Let's start with John.
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Okay.
So we know that Draco made Harry almost miss getting to Hogwarts.
And one of my favorite things is when Harry and Luna come walking up to the gate where
everybody's stuff is getting searched and everything.
And they see Professor Flitwick and they're the last two to arrive at the school.
Professor Flitwick is like, oh, about time.
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I've been looking all over for you to names.
Professor Flitwick, you've known me for five years.
No exceptions, Potter.
Little tiny scene, just the levity.
And I just thought it was funny.
Yeah, I love it.
I love it, too.
No exceptions, Potter.
Exceptions, Potter.
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All right.
What about you, Ben?
Probably when Professor McGonagall, he says to Harry, Ron and Hermione.
Why is it when something happens, it is always you three?
Believe me, Professor.
I've been asking myself the same question for six years.
Yes.
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Yeah, I love it.
Great. Yeah, such a great little interaction there.
Yeah, I had lots of favorite quotes, but one of them was when Ron gets
drugged with the love potion.
And, you know, he's just like, isn't the moonlight beautiful and all this other stuff?
Harry teases him a little and he's like, OK, very funny.
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What's that for?
It's no joke.
I'm in love with her.
Oh, fine.
You're in love with her.
Have you ever actually met her?
Oh, can you introduce me?
I just love that part.
And then honorable mention, too, is Slughorn's eulogy.
In our family, we quoted a lot.
It's like, farewell, Aragog, king of arachnids.
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Oh, your body made you gay.
He kind of like sings it, you know.
You have a family, I presume.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Yep.
All right.
Kayla, what about you?
What's your favorite quote?
This part was also from Aragog's funeral where, you know, they go in and we see Aragog and
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there's this one mention where Aragog tells them like,
Seriously misunderstood creatures spiders are.
The eyes, I reckon, they unnerve some folk.
Oh, not to mention the pincers.
Yeah, I reckon that too.
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I saw that scene.
It like genuinely made me laugh out loud because there was this
I've never seen Harry act like that.
Yeah, him being all goofy with the little, yeah.
Nice.
All right, Kathy, what about you?
All right.
Mine is okay on the serious side.
And then I have a funny, okay.
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So Slughorn, you know, when Harry is taking a portion of the film releases and he's talking
to Slughorn says, I know why you're here, but I can't help you.
It's what you really mean.
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Do you know why I survived, Professor?
The night I got this because of her, because she sacrificed herself,
because she refused to step aside, because her love was more powerful than Voldemort.
Don't say his name.
I'm not afraid of the name, Professor.
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I'm going to tell you something, something others have only guessed at.
It's true.
I am the chosen one.
Only I can destroy him.
But in order to do so, I need to know what Tom Riddle asked you all those years ago in
your office.
And I need to know what you told him.
Be brave, Professor.
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Be brave like my mother.
Otherwise, you disgrace her.
Otherwise, she died for nothing.
Otherwise, the bowl will remain empty for ever.
Forever.
And I love that.
And then he holds Slughorn's hand while he pours in the memory, just helping him be brave
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to tell the truth.
And the truth was so essential.
I think that was an important theme in this movie.
And then the funny quotes, yeah, what you guys mentioned, Dumbledore.
Hardus, do you mind if I take this?
I do love knitting patterns.
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And then Ron, when he's like lavender and grimy and the love potion that he accidentally
like ate the chocolates and he almost died and he gets up and he's like,
These girls, they're gonna kill me.
A good one.
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So good.
Awesome.
Good quotes, guys.
Good job.
All right.
Now we're going to take a look at some differences between the book and movie.
Kayla, are you going to share those with us?
Yes.
So yeah, for the first one, we have Harry's train savior in the movie.
Harry is found by Luna in her Tetris fix.
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And the book he is found by Tonks.
Yeah.
Then for Tonks and Remus, the books dedicate pages to Tonks and Remus's relationship development
or crush on him and his hesitancy to love her back.
And the movie, they are just together.
Right.
And then we got flashbacks are cut down.
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The movie we see two scenes with young Tom Riddle, but in the book, we get a lot more.
We learn more about Tom's father and mother among other characters never even mentioned
in the movie.
Yeah, Tom's mom and dad.
That's a lot of stuff about it.
It's interesting.
Yeah.
Origin story.
Yeah.
Next, we got Harry when Dumbledore dies.
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Dumbledore actually freezes Harry under his invisibility cloak to stop him from
interfering in his plan to be killed by Snape.
That's right.
Yeah.
Different than the movie.
Yeah.
Didn't I know that?
All right.
Next, we got Dumbledore's funeral.
The book includes a funeral for Dumbledore, which brings together many characters from
the series Warner Bros opted against it because they believed it would have gone against
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the tone of the movie.
That would have been kind of cool to see, you know, just gathering everybody and this
huge thing for Dumbledore and see how like the magical people do it, you know?
Yeah.
So you would like that instead of them all honoring them by raising their wands?
Both.
I want it all.
Who's buried on such a tiny little island?
Yeah.
Nobody would fit everybody there?
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No.
That's true.
That's true.
That's cool.
The wands in the air.
Oh, that's a moving scene for sure.
Yeah, I love that part.
Yeah.
This is when people did that when they were at Disney when they found out that Hagrid died.
Oh, really?
Yeah, they took pictures of people out there putting up their wand and everything.
Oh, Universal?
Yeah, Universal.
They did that for Snoop too.
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Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
I think they did that for Dumbledore.
Oh, did they?
This last year.
Yeah, they did it for Dumbledore last year too.
Oh.
Sweet.
That's sweet.
Yeah, and we also have to give a shout out to Maggie Smith, you know, the actress who
played McGonagall.
She was so awesome and she passed away unfortunately this year, September 27th, 24.
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Coincidentally, it was the same date as Michael Gambon, the guy who played the second Dumbledore
last year.
So he passed away last year in 2023.
So anyways, McGonagall, Maggie Smith, great actress, such a great character.
She did so well with it.
And yeah, definitely got to give a shout out to her.
Well, thanks, Kayla.
That's interesting.
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Maybe we can get John to read them someday.
We'll see.
No worries.
So we've talked a bunch about Felix Felicis.
What would be a fun or funny way that you guys would use liquid luck?
Let's start with Kathy.
So I thought of a couple.
I was like, man, what would I do?
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And I was like, I don't know.
I would, okay, if I have to go to the DMV, lines at Disney parks and Black Friday sales.
Yes.
Just get ahead of everybody, the whole crowd.
What about you, Kayla?
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For me, I put success in dating.
Hopefully, it gives me more confidence and just help me know what to say and do to get.
I'll allow you to use that, but no love potion.
Okay.
You want it to be real.
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Felix Felicis, 100% acceptable.
Love potion, absolutely not.
That's awesome.
What about you then, John?
I'll play on the lottery, man.
That's all I need.
I'll be done.
I'll be set.
Simple, simple.
Nice.
Ben, what about you?
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I want to invent a Felix Felicis factory, wishing for more wishes.
Look at that, or run for president, like a la Brewster's millions.
You don't even have to try.
From all you youngsters, that's a wonderful Richard Pryor movie that you know nothing about.
Back in the day.
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Oh, man.
That's hilarious.
Just gallons and gallons of liquid life that you're just making.
Drink that every morning.
You just have perfect days.
Like a gallon of milk.
Yeah.
Yeah, exactly.
Put it in your cereal.
Right.
That's awesome.
I thought it'd be kind of cool to document myself on a dangerous mission, to take out
a terrorist leader or something.
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But I just have a little handgun and I'm in shorts and flip flops.
I think that'd be kind of awesome.
It's like, all right, guys, I'm going to go take care of this guy.
I'm getting some Bill and Ted Expo adventure vibes there.
Yeah, exactly.
They're going after famous figures and that's what you're doing with the shorts and the
trunkless.
Yes.
Yes.
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All right.
And I got a special question for our single folks here.
What smells do you smell from your love potion?
We'll go with Kayla first.
So I went with vanilla lavender from Back to Body Works.
That smells very, very nice.
Yes.
The smell of Chipotle.
Like when you walk in the smell.
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Yes.
That stuff.
Oh, so good.
And the weird one I have is the smell of chlorine.
I like the smell of chlorine.
Not like strong chlorine, but like when you walk in an indoor pool, like that smell.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, that's a good one.
Oh, yeah. Yeah, totally get it.
That's awesome.
That's good.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I'm like, oh, yeah, that would be Kayla's love potions and else.
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What about you, John?
You know, my favorite Bath and Body Works is the smell of barbecue.
That's what I'm smelling.
I'm gonna get you a brisket candle, dude.
Nice.
I will burn it.
Yes.
That's awesome, man.
Love it.
Love it.
All right, and Kayla, who would you snog from this movie?
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So snogging is a theme.
I'd probably say Daniel Radcliffe.
I had a crush on him for a bit.
Yeah, understandable.
I mean, he is the chosen one.
As long as your answer isn't shameless, we're good.
Hagrid, heck yeah.
No, I was kidding.
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He's all Dumbledore.
Nice.
All right, so just a couple thoughts ahead.
So presumably, right, most people in Diagon Alley, they have a wand.
That's just what I believe.
They're all walking around with wands, but none of them even bothered to try and help
save Ollivander from getting snatched.
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What a bunch of wimps.
Yeah.
He's like out there.
They take him.
They throw him in the street and then they take him away.
But nobody's like, you know, I got a wand too.
Yeah, terrific.
They're still talus.
Come on.
Yeah, geez, leaders.
I mean, they all got their wands from him.
So come on.
Exactly.
That's how you return the favor.
OK, my second thought on this movie was I love how Dumbledore, as Snape says,
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Dumbledore is a great wizard.
Only a fool would question it.
But when it comes time to drop Harry off in the burrow at the Weasleys,
he isn't very accurate at all.
He just drops him in the marsh.
You can get him on Dry Land.
Come on, dude.
He doesn't tell him.
This is Weasley.
OK.
Yeah, he doesn't give her the heads up.
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That's terrible.
Yeah.
Like, hey, I'm just going to work it out.
And you're just going to get all wet.
Like, what a terrible way to go to somebody's house.
I mean, the fact that he is a great wizard makes you think,
so he did that on purpose.
And why?
I know.
It's like, take this, Harry.
I mean, if you saw in other movies when they're coming back from
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getting Harry to go back to the burrow,
some of them land on Dry Land.
It's like, it's possible to do.
I'm just saying.
So kind of skipping ahead towards the end of the series.
So you know, in the last one, I'm just going to kind of just
dive into this movie.
But at the end of the movies themselves, the very end,
you see Argus Filch with the broom just sweeping up all the mess
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after the post-war battle.
Why can't they use the same magic that Dumbledore uses to clean up the house?
To clean up, like, I mean, you got all these powerful wizards that are still alive and still there.
You're going to tell me that they can't just put Hogwarts back together?
Come on.
I think it's like how Dumbledore dropped off Harry in the marsh.
It's like they want to get Filch to do, you know, some dirty work.
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They don't like him.
Imagine, and this is just a stupid little thought I had, but what if Harry Potter
saved his Felix Felicis for the last movie?
Oh.
Like he just busted out, like, right?
He's like, all right, we got this battle.
Just a thought.
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Why can't he get another one in the Room of Requirement, right?
I know.
Right?
You know.
Fence factories in there, man.
Yeah.
All right.
Well, that's all the silly thoughts I had on that one.
Good ones, though.
I like it for sure.
All right.
How about the movie?
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I like it.
How about let's go over to Deathly Hollows Part One.
Caleb, why don't you lead us out on this one?
All right.
So first, we'll start the Deathly Hollows Part One with the themes.
All right.
So first, we'll go with Dave or Dad.
What you got?
All right.
So this one, honestly, it's kind of hard.
Like if I'm going to watch the two last two movies, I have to pick between them.
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I would pick the last one because there's just a lot more action, I feel like.
But I do love it.
I still like it.
It's a lot of buildup.
And so almost with that is just because there's the theme of like endurance and making it
through this difficult, difficult time.
They're listening to the radio and hearing about people going missing and dying.
And it's just the three of them.
They have no idea where to go.
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And it's just really hard.
And so being able to endure that and endure it well at times for sure.
Good job, Dave, Dad.
Thanks.
Thanks, son.
All right.
Next, we'll go with Kathy or Mom.
So just, yeah, like what Dave was saying, Dad, Dave, just the fear, the threat,
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you know, we kind of got a taste of that with COVID-19, you know, everyone's on edge.
And then just this force of like controlling and the power.
Everyone's under stress, especially like the threesome friends.
There's a lot of stress, but there's also a lot of resilience, but there's loyalty,
hope.
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There's still hope.
And I love that, the theme in this movie too.
And I think too, they all had to destroy, like at some point they each destroyed a Horcrux.
And me, that was like their inner demons or lies, stories that they tell themselves or
they make up, you know, we all have those things.
So I felt like that was kind of, this is happening in their outside world, but also
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inwardly, you know, those fights within ourselves.
And then just the connection and friendship that they have in this movie too.
Yeah.
Good ones.
I thought of, I guess, just growing up as a theme, I guess.
So the first movie where they have to go out in the real world,
they're not a student anymore in Hogwarts.
They are basically just kicked out.
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Yeah.
Oh, that's true.
That's true.
Yeah.
I saw it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Good one.
They're all like growing stubble and stuff, right?
Yeah.
Like Harry Ryan.
Yeah.
Yeah.
All right.
We'll go to the next part.
Favorite heroes and why.
All right, John, you want to go first?
All right, look, so I know you all have great answers because I've read them, but
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Dobby is the true hero of this movie.
In order to get the result that we need to get in the end of the movie for Harry Potter
to kill he who shall not be named, Harry has to be alive.
And that does not happen without Dobby with an honorable mention of credit to Draco and
Avaforth who saves them at the Malfoy Mansion.
So Dobby is my answer.
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Yeah, nice.
Good answer.
Good answer.
Everybody says.
All right, Ben, how about you go next?
All right.
Well, for me, it was I think I would say Ron is similar to how I was saying Harry in the last one.
Like you see Ron not at his best, you know,
when the influence of the Horcrux is really getting to him, but he doesn't give up and
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he turns it around and like he could so easily get discouraged and say, I just blew it and
they're better off without me.
But he does everything in his power to try to get back to them.
And I think that was really awesome about how even though he wasn't the best of friends
at one moment in time, he doesn't let that define himself.
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He decides on his own to be that good friend back no matter what, even when he was on his own.
Yeah.
He just wanted to be in the last movie.
Good answer, Ben.
I like it.
All right, mom, Cassie, you want to go next?
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So let's see.
I think I definitely agree with John on Dobby protecting everyone and he helped find
Mundungus too for the locket.
They needed that Horcrux, you know, so he helped with that and then just giving his life
for his friends, you know, and then connect to that Aberforth, like helping them escape
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and watching over them for sure.
He was an unsung hero there.
Hermione, dang, she erased her parents' memories.
Oh my goodness.
To be able to help Harry.
She was such a loyal friend.
And her extendable purse, like she saved Ron's life, you know, like from the splenching
and like literally helping carry Harry's burdens, you know, the Horcrux.
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And just such a smart witch, just with her enchantments and figuring out Dumbledore's
clues with the Deathly Hollows.
And she's like, why did he give me this like children's book, you know, like stories and
had never read them, but like he knew that she would get it.
And she did to help the Voldemort.
Yep.
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She definitely put Harry's burdens in her purse with the extension charm for sure.
Yeah.
All right, Ted, would you like to go next?
Yeah.
So Cathy said it great, but I agree.
Hermione was super prepared, loyal and resolved all those problems.
And I definitely want that extendable charm.
That thing is awesome.
I wonder if that works like in wallets, if it was like, it's stuff one in my pocket.
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I don't want to carry a bag around, just pull out like whatever, but very, very cool.
She was so level-headed and just the best member of the team for sure, VIP.
Yeah, real quick.
My favorite hero was Hermione.
I mean, she stuck with Harry the whole time.
She didn't leave him once.
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She was strong and continued on.
And just like everyone else has said, like she was just a genius and very helpful to the journey.
Super loyal, loyal to the end.
Yeah.
Good friend.
Yep.
All right.
Next, we'll start talking about favorite or least favorite villains and why.
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All right.
Uncle Ben, would you like to go first this time?
Bellatrix.
I mean, you just see how evil she is in this movie.
And I don't know, her acting is just so amazing.
It just blows me away.
But yeah, she gives those really evil vibes, you know, when she acts.
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So I loved it.
Yeah.
All right.
John, do you have to go next?
Yeah, sure.
I mean, I agree 100% with Ben.
She played her role so perfectly in this.
You know, it falls under the same category of, you know, Dolores Umbridge.
Like she did such a great job that we hated her.
And that was the point, right?
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And for her playing Bellatrix, the strange playing that role was just perfectly done.
The whole Malfoy Manor scene was just for her was so well done.
But she is definitely the villain on this one.
And, you know, they come back up the stairs and you see blood carved into her mind.
He's arm and yeah, definitely Bellatrix.
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All right.
Mom.
So yeah, Dolores Umbridge for me, like she does a good job.
The actress, she's such a good job of being the villain.
And just like her obsession with control and like eradicating people that don't fit the mold,
you know, that aren't pure bloods or other magical creatures,
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like in the books that talks more about that too.
And then so sad, like when Harry discovers she's got these folders with their pictures
and like X's on them and they're making pamphlets about the dangers of my bloods.
And oh my gosh, I just, I don't like her.
She's terrible.
And then interrogating all the witches and wizards about, are you really a witch or wizard?
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Oh my goodness.
So she just gets my blood boiling.
For sure Bellatrix, the strange did a really good job to the actress for her.
And then she killed Dobby.
Yeah, that too.
Good call.
Terrible.
Terrible. All right, Dan, what'd you get?
(52:58):
So you guys saw all the good answers, but I'm just kidding.
But I added just, you know, it's kind of small,
but the Death Eaters that ruined Bill and Fleur's wedding reception.
Church.
Terrible. A bunch of jerks, man.
They just pick on the Weasleys. They destroy the burrow.
They mess up their wedding. Like just let them have that day.
Just a bunch of punks.
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So they're on the high up on the list for me.
What about you, Kayla?
All right. So for me, I put Draco as my favorite in this one.
I mean, I saved Harry's life, who's once again sticking to a little bit of the good side,
but still staying with the bad. So I like that.
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And again, yeah, Umbridge was my least favorite in this one.
Oh, she was terrible.
Oh.
Was by the fact that like in the fifth movie that she thinks that Harry is lying about
Voldemort's coming back. And then in this one, Voldemort's back and she sides with him
in the ministry, which I'm like, really? Okay.
Like you say Harry's a liar. Now you're going to side with Voldemort after calling Harry a liar.
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Oh, why?
Oh, bad.
That's a good point, Kayla.
That is a good point.
I do like, and because you said that just there, though, how she saved Harry's life.
I wish we had an answer because it's so,
I wish we had an answer because, you know, in the next movie he says, why didn't you tell,
you knew it was me. Why didn't you say anything? But we don't get an answer from Dreggo.
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We don't get an answer, yeah.
Is it in the books? I don't remember.
Maybe. We need to look again.
Yeah. You know, another thing too about Umbridge, she's wearing that locket that's evil.
Just like, oh, this is a nice accessory.
She's already so evil. We can't even tell that she's wearing it.
We can't even like tell.
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Doesn't even faze her.
It's like, affecting her. Yeah, she's, okay.
No.
One thing though that I did read, yes, I read something. It was just a snippet though.
I don't want to, you know, alarm you, but, you know, it was interesting because, you know,
they talk about like, you know, how can people like Dolores do a Patronus charm when they've
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got no joy in their life? Like they're just pure evil. And they said, the answer was your
most favorable moment. It didn't have to not be evil. So like for her, torturing Harry could
have been her favorite moment that produces the Patronus.
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That's her joy.
Nasty.
I saw they're going to have a new ride at Universal Studios and she came back, I think,
to it's supposed to be like escape from the ministry ride or something. And it's Dolores
Umbridge like escaping. And I think she came back to do some of the scenes for it, like,
right? Like videoing and stuff. So I think that's what I'd seen.
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Yeah. She's from Azkaban or something like that.
I wonder if she gets crap outside of the, like in real life.
Like people that recognize her, like, yeah.
Karen.
She's a good ass. She can sing too, apparently.
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Don't humanize her, Kathy.
Another world.
Dolores. And that's it. I don't care what world she's living in.
All right. Next we'll move on to favorite scenes. Mom, how about you go first?
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Okay. So I had a few. Sorry. I'm gonna try to just be brief, but I couldn't pick a favorite,
but like I loved just the intensity of like Harry just trying to get to the burrow
and then meeting Voldemort and their wands connecting. That was like a well done. So intense.
Oh yeah.
That moment, that whole scene. And then trying to figure out the ministry magic.
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The actors were so awkward. It just was so great. I just loved
it. Like all of that, just how awkward it was. And the adults that played them,
that they under the polyjuice potion, they did such a good job. And then that escape.
And then by the pond when the sword appears and then Ron saves Harry's life, like
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Snape's Patronus comes. Like I really love that scene too.
Oh yeah. All good answers.
All right, John, how about you go next?
All right. So my favorite, I just loved at the very end, the animation of the story
about how the Deathly Hallows came about and how Hermione is sitting there reading it and
Ron just trying to see correct her on Twilight.
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A lonely winding road at Twilight.
Midnight. Mama always said midnight, but Twilight's fine. Better actually.
Do you want to read it?
But just watching the animation was one of my favorite scenes. It really gave life to
the Deathly Hallows. I want you to read in the tales of Beetle to Bard.
Yeah. Yeah, that was pretty. We love that too.
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Yeah. All right, Ben.
Me, I love that scene where there's the transformation of all his friends into the seven potters.
Yes.
First of all, I just love how it's showing how many people care about him and he's not on his
own. They believe in him and they know he's important and they're not leaving him onto his
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own. I love that. But also just, I don't know, there's humor in there and just the way they all
act, the acting is done so well with the characters.
Bill, don't look at me. I'm hideous.
Yes.
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Yeah, it's just fun.
Yeah.
Yeah. All right, Dad, how about you?
Oh, the same as Ben, actually. It's one of my favorite scenes. It's so funny and just like he
said, just showing that loyalty and Harry tries to almost stop them and they're like, no, you know,
yeah, of course, Daniel Radcliffe. Yeah, playing those different parts as those people is great.
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I love when Fred and George are like,
Wow, we're identical.
Yeah.
They're awesome.
Oh, just a quick note on that little scene.
They said it took over 90 takes to get that done.
Wow.
Oh my goodness.
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All the different parts of him doing it. That's crazy. Yeah.
I feel like in the whole series, every time they do the Polyjuice potion, they nail it so good.
It's among my favorite scenes, you know?
Yeah.
Caleb, what was your favorite part?
So yeah, my favorite part was the scene where Harry and Hermione are dancing. I mean, it was kind of a small moment in the movie, but I like how it was just kind of like a heart belt.
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Like, let's take a break from all the stress and just have fun.
Yeah, totally. I will let you know that every single time I've watched that movie, I fast forward that part because I find it extremely boring.
I do. I don't know why. I just can't stand that scene.
I just like, you're a dude or something. I don't know.
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I know. But I literally fast forward every single time because it just takes forever.
There's differences. It's all good.
I like it how you can tell they're like, they're just friends too. It's not like this. Oh, are they, is this romantic? Like, no, they're just trying to get through this thing. And, you know, at least that's what I get from it.
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I didn't dance with anybody during COVID. I was just trying to get through that.
That's true.
You gotta dance with yourself, man.
I didn't bring any of my friends over and dance with them.
Six feet.
Hey, Dave, can I add something?
Of course.
This is going back to the scene with the seven Harry Potters. But did you guys know that the actor that plays Mad Eye Moody and the actor that plays Bill Weasley, they're father and son.
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Nice. Oh, snap. I didn't know that.
That's cool. It's a fact, for sure.
But I was like, oh, that's really cool. That's cute. That's awesome. Yeah.
Aren't there a few family members? Yeah.
There's also the actor that plays Voldemort, Ralph Finnis. His nephew plays the young Voldemort in that scene.
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So that's his nephew. Isn't that cool?
That is crazy. It's awesome.
I also think Tom Filton's grandpa or something like that. Draco's grandpa is in there too.
What?
Nice.
I feel like that's something I've seen. We're not going to fact check it. We're just going to take it for truth.
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That's what we do in Fat, Dumb and Happy.
That's right. That's why sometimes we stay dumb. But, you know, I'm pretty sure I read through that in the IMDB.
I didn't know you could read.
Okay, so I heard it.
I'm just quoting.
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Hey, thanks so much for listening to part one of this episode. Stay tuned for more fun in part two.
Whatever really happened to dudes calling each other best friends?
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Dave and John grew up in the 80s in New Jersey and they did everything together.
They were the quintessential best friends until they became teenagers and Dave moved
away.
Fast forward to today and these two 40-somethings reconnected and decided to not only be besties
again but to put on a podcast and share their reunion with anyone who will listen.
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Welcome to Fat, Dumb and Happy.
All right, welcome back.
We've got the final magical episode of Fat, Dumb and Happy where we will cover Harry Potter
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6 and 7.
It's kind of sad.
I'm not going to lie.
This has been a blast so far but with me as always is my bro-host Dave.
Hey Dave, what do you get when you mix Home Alone and Harry Potter?
I don't know man, what do you get?
Keep it changed.
You sell the whole plot!
Nice.
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All right, also in studio is our pure blood in-house special guest expert Ben.
Ben, what's going on my brother?
Doing great man.
I'm just happy to be here.
Now Ben, as the eldest on the podcast, why do you think you should get the elder one?
You just said it right there.
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Oh, okay.
Okay, I see.
I see how it is.
Just like my brother.
True question.
All right.
Yeah, I know, right?
All right, well returning to the crew for more Harry Potter fun is our special special
special guest experts.
We got Kathy.
Kathy, if your kids were under attack from an escaped Death Eater from Azkaban, would
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you or would you not treat them the same as Mrs. Weasley did?
Oh, you better believe it.
Oh, yes.
Oh yeah, and my daughter is a good witness probably.
I don't have magical powers but I have mama bear powers.
Mama bear powers, there you go.
Mama bear powers activate.
Mama deletis, okay.
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Mama deletrius.
All right, and back by popular demand is Dave's eldest daughter, Kayla.
Kayla, welcome back.
Which of the Deathly Hallows would you most want?
Probably the book of invisibility.
Great choice.
I would go with number three.
Great great choice.
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I can't argue with that one whatsoever.
All right, well here we go.
Let's get started.
All right, well let's start off with everybody's favorite part is the food section.
Where we share our foods that most connect with our topic today.
And of course with the Harry Potter six and seven.
What do you got Dave?
Why don't you start us off?
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All right, cool.
I just happen to have a giant glass vial of liquid luck.
You guys see this in the camera?
So I'm just gonna pour this into my Harry Potter mug.
You can see that too.
But that should hopefully help with the episode.
We're all gonna have a good time.
I'm gonna know which way to go and conducting the interviews and things.
Let's see how it tastes.
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Hold on.
Oh yeah.
Are you feeling lucky?
Felix Felicious.
Dude, you need to share that around.
I need a little luck today.
Yeah.
It's funny.
Your background screen is all blurred out because of the zoom setting or whatever.
So when you go to hold up your Haritos, your Haritos bottle, it looks like it's blocked
out because we're not sponsored by them.
Yeah, exactly.
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What is that?
Strange liquid.
It's not on you.
It's liquid luck.
Yeah, Haritos.
Pineapple soda.
So good.
All right.
How about you, Kathy?
What do you got?
Well, I have chocolate gold coin right here for, you know, like Gringotts.
That's so smart.
I like that.
And then a throwback actually from Lupin, you know, when the Dementors were attacking
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and he would give Harry chocolate and then tell Harry like, eat, you'll feel better.
Because woman, yes, chocolate does feel better.
So, yes.
And fatties too.
And fatties too.
Yeah.
John and I can attest.
Kathy, I just want to say that I like your gold coin.
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That's brilliant.
I like that a lot.
And you probably stole my Harry Potter vault because he didn't bother to spend any of that
money.
I know.
Yeah.
And Kathy, the other day found one of those, you know, like the signs that are like live,
laugh, love, but instead it says what Lupin says, right Kathy?
Yeah.
Someone had made like a kitchen sign with Lupin's quote, like, eat, you'll feel better
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in their kitchen.
I'm like, I love it.
That's awesome.
We need that.
Yeah.
Take our money.
All right.
What about you, Kayla?
So I got the idea of licorice wands or Twizzlers, something you'd find in the trolley on the
express.
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Are you doing the black licorice?
Just the red.
I don't really like black licorice.
You're smart.
It's fine.
That is Dave.
Yeah, you're dead.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I'm glad you don't take after your father like that because those are disgusting.
They have dragon heart string in them or something.
How about you, John?
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What you got today?
Okay, so this has actually been sitting in my fridge for like two weeks, but last time
I did the Harry Potter cake that Hagrid brought to Harry and because this hadn't come in time,
so and it came broken by the way, but I bought a chocolate Harry Potter wand.
Oh, man.
That's awesome.
It's like legit.
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Yeah, man.
It's like, it's already melting in my hand.
It's only been out of the fridge.
You did great for the wand in the end, didn't you?
Not this one.
This isn't the older one.
They did have that, but it was like 20 bucks and I was this was 10.
So I went with this one.
It got cursed by Hermione.
The spell rebounded.
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Oh, right, right, right.
Yes.
Yes.
That's actually a Wally chocolate.
I'm not going to lie.
That's actually pretty good.
That's awesome.
Is it magical?
Magically delicious.
Copyright.
What about you, Ben?
Well, you know, I'm a fan of Harry Potter.
I'm a fan of Harry Potter.
I'm a fan of Harry Potter.
I'm a fan of Harry Potter.
I'm a fan of Harry Potter.
I'm a fan of Harry Potter.
I'm a fan of Harry Potter.
I'm a fan of Harry Potter.
I'm a fan of Harry Potter.
I'm a fan of Harry Potter.
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Well, you know, my original plan was to do cotton candy and it was supposed to like represent
like the invisibility cloak, like it just disappears in your mouth, man.
And I went to the store and, you know, I guess it's the end of summer.
And so there wasn't in the store anymore.
So I ended up doing kind of what Kathy did, the golden coin thing.
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Different spin on it that this also disappears in my mouth.
Nice.
My invisibility point, I guess you could say.
When it just disappears in my mouth.
How is it?
It's just about gone now.
Wish it would have that multiplying curse, right?
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Oh, yeah.
Oh, I'm going to talk about that in a minute.
How did they ever run out of money if they have like spells like that?
I know, right?
Just go swim in your money and it multiplies like crazy.
If it didn't work on money, just like sell the goblets or whatever it is, you know?
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Or just multiply it and free stuff to sell, you know?
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But it's like the antique road show.
They're like, you see how this has this little whatever?
That's how you know it's a replica.
It's been duplicated.
It's not a real authentic vase or whatever it is.
Yeah.
Melt it down, who cares?
Yeah, exactly.
All right, Jay, why don't we have you start off with the main event, man?
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All right. I'm so excited.
I mean, I'm sad, too.
Like John said, I mean, this is our last one, but it's just kind of fun.
And culminated to these last three movies, the last two books.
We're going to start off with Half-Blood Prince.
It's a great movie.
So first of all, what are some of the themes you guys picked up on for the whole movie?
For me, I thought I liked to see in this one, there was a lot of just normalcy
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for Harry Potter, meaning he was still a normal kid apart from all the magic.
So just some examples, like, you know, when he was trying to get the date
with the waitress, right, right.
He was reading his paper and Dumbledore trying to get the hot gas.
If him and Hermione were dating,
yeah, Ron and Harry talking about like Hermione and Ginny having their fair skin.
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You know, she's got nice skin.
Skin?
You're saying Dean's dating my sister because of her skin?
Well, no, I mean, I'm just I'm just saying it could be a contributing factor.
Hermione's got nice skin.
Wouldn't you say?
Her skin goes, I mean.
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I've never really thought about it.
But I suppose, yeah.
Very nice.
You know, Harry and Hermione after the Quidditch match,
when they're on the stairwell and realizing they can't be with the people
they wanted to be, you know, it just totally takes it out of the magic world.
And they're still teenagers, right?
Yeah.
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Kind of. And then everyone will get to this.
But Harry Potter enjoying the Felix Felices.
Yeah, it's like he was so carefree and he didn't have to care about
Voldemort in that moment.
And it was just it was nice to see him being normal,
even though he was on his little high from the Felix Felices.
But, you know, it was just nice to see him not be stressed out for a minute.
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That was just one of the themes of that.
I like it, John. That's really good.
I like all those scenes and all those parts,
but I hadn't really thought about the fact that, yeah, it's kind of like normal,
normal life. Yeah, appreciate it.
All right, Ben, what about you?
You know, for me, I think the thing that stood out to me was this allure
of power throughout.
So you have Harry with this book that is helping him
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be like the best, you know, and how is that getting to him?
You know, then you have Ron with the liquid luck, you know,
and how it gets to his head when he gets all of it.
That's like that. And, you know, really, I mean, Voldemort,
you see like the lengths that he's going to to like protect his
horcruxes and things like that.
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I mean, just Snape.
And I felt like the Malfoys even like really, I feel like so many of them
are presented with this opportunity to have greater power.
And what are they going to do about that?
You know, how are they going to face that and how is that going to change them?
I feel like one of the only ones I don't really see it
applies as much to was Hermione.
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And I think she had that chance with with the time thing, you know,
time turner, yeah, at the time turner.
And so she had that chance of, OK, now I'm going to go to every class
and learn everything and stuff like that.
And she had her own experience or brush with like,
what am I going to do with power earlier?
But it feels like so many of the others had it in this book.
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And it just just kind of stood out to me as a kind of a theme.
Yeah. Oh, man, that's interesting. That's a good point.
All right. What about you, Kayla?
What do you think? What are some themes from this one for you?
For this movie, I kind of saw how each character had a choice
to make in like the consequences, like Draco joining the Death Eaters
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and like what that meant for him and how it would be for his life
and how Harry had to either choose to help Dumbledore
or not in destroying Voldemort and choices in relationships,
whether they're platonic or romantic and how that affects them and others.
Ah, it's good. It is good.
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I like it. What about you, Kathy?
So that like just growing up, you know, like John was talking about that normalcy,
the their adolescence and just and I saw a lot of like infatuation versus like love,
you know, like seeing that with the different characters, you know,
with the teenagers, a lot of the infatuation, but then
maybe like realizing the deeper connection and love that just seeing that play out
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and then letting go of things that aren't good for us with Harry, with his potions book.
Just letting go of those things and then just bravery again, sacrifice and then honesty.
Like trying to get Slughorn the truth of like what happened was so critical
and like how important that is.
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I'll talk more about that later, too, with my coat.
But yeah, those things came up.
Oh, awesome. Good ones. All right.
So, yeah, for me, this is a stretch to call it a theme, but it's in the movie quite a bit.
And I wanted to do something different from what you guys had.
So I'm just going to say snogging.
I hadn't like even heard of that word before this book, this movie.
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And it's just funny to me, kind of.
And yeah, I mean, it's something on the teenager's minds and it's something that happens
a fair bit. And this is kind of funny.
So that's what I was going to share about that.
All right. What about your favorite heroes?
Let's go with Kathy this time.
I think Dumbledore, you know, he's just love him from the other books or movies.
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He, you know, wasn't connecting with Harry kind of on purpose
because he wasn't sure, like, what would happen.
And then he was trying to repair that in the end.
I feel like like I did this wrong, you know.
So I felt like you try to repair that with Harry this time and just really connecting with him
and being with him and mentoring him, you know.
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So repairing that, you know, he burned his hand trying to get rid of Horcrux.
Like he's looking for Horcruxes.
He has such compassion for Draco.
It's like trying to kill him, but like he gets it.
Like he sees the big picture and wants to help him.
And so I love that, that he extends that to Draco and his moment of death.
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And then his brilliant plans, his brilliant mind that he was willing to sacrifice his life.
And he paved a path for Harry to destroy Voldemort.
And that he didn't do it for the glory or praise.
He had this mission and yeah, so he's just, just a hero to me that way.
Yes.
Yes.
Yep.
Amen.
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That's awesome.
What about you, Kayla?
I also said Dumbledore, kind of what my mom said.
I agree with everything that she said.
Yeah, just the fact that Dumbledore was willing to do it.
Willing to risk his life just to ensure that Harry would have a chance at living to the fullest.
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Stopping Voldemort, making sure that he is safe and protected.
Yes.
Yes, it's huge.
It's like the sign of like the truest hero, right?
They're willing to die for the greater good.
Yeah.
All right, John, what about you?
Yeah, so I actually said Snape was the hero of this one.
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And it's crazy because, you know, at the time and until the last movie,
you can't really see everything Dumbledore knew and how everything had to play out just perfectly.
But Snape, because he followed through with Dumbledore's plan,
even though you could tell he was hesitant to even go along with it in the first place.
And then not putting it on Drake to have to kill Dumbledore.
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I love, I mentioned this, I think in the very first episode,
but I love Draco Malfoy's character arc, like from the beginning all the way to the end,
how he gets dark and just, I love it.
I think he does a fantastic job, man.
Tom Bell did really good in the movie as Draco.
And I just think that his Snape also at that time had the Unbreakable Vow.
And he had saved his own life to do it too, so because Draco wasn't going to do it.
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But he also didn't want that for Draco.
He really didn't.
So I think for him killing Dumbledore and for not making Draco do it,
I think Snape is the hero of this movie.
Yeah. Yeah. Nice.
What about you, Ben?
I felt like Harry, I just loved how Harry's growth as well.
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He gets sucked in with, like I said, the allure of power when he finds this book
that helps him just do amazing and reaching the point where he has to set that aside
and recognize that that isn't so good for him.
I don't know. I feel like that development was, I don't know, just stood out to me.
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So I really liked it.
I've got a counterpoint to that.
He did try to kill two people using that book.
No. Although one of them he didn't know what that would do,
but he did know when he tried to use it against Snape.
Yeah.
He definitely, you saw him kind of turn to the dark side a little bit there.
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You know what I mean?
You saw him get sucked in by it all and then get himself out.
And that's a hard thing to do once you're in it.
You know what I mean?
To be able to say, wait a minute, I've gone too far.
I got to get out of this.
Well, that's what I feel impressed by.
You know, like you're right.
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He totally went bad in a sense.
You know, like you see almost the worst side of him in this book and movie.
And yet you also see him escape it.
All right.
Yeah.
I wish I got a book in school where they had all the answers in it.
That would have probably would have done a lot better.
Yeah, it'd be hard to give that up.
The other thing about it to me, it makes me resent Snape a little bit more because it's like,
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dude, you know this stuff so well.
Why didn't you publish your own book or something or like share this knowledge with your students?
Like help them all be this good.
Yeah.
That's the thing that he happens to sneak upon, you know?
Yeah.
That's a good point, Ben.
It's like protecting his own power kind of thing.
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You know, like I want to be the best and I don't want my students to get anywhere near as good as me.
Yeah.
And yet he's so careless.
He leaves it in like the used book pile.
Man, I imagine Ron was stronger and he got the book instead of Harry.
Oh, man.
Things have changed.
Dude, that's one of my favorite scenes is them wrestling over that book.
Yeah.
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I love it.
They both look at each other.
They look at each other, yeah.
And then they grab the book and they're like.
Just dive for it.
It was definitely a good acting there.
Yes.
That's awesome.
Well, I agree with everybody's.
You guys got all the best ones, honestly.
And I just want to add Luna.
Luna was pretty good in this one, you know.
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She joins the group.
She fights alongside.
She's a good friend to Harry.
And I just think she's another hero that may get overlooked sometimes.
All right.
Now on to the villains.
Who are some of your favorite or least favorite villains for this movie?
Let's start with John.
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All right.
So just kind of a non villainous character.
I just find this person super annoying throughout the whole movie.
Yeah.
I was ready for her just to go away.
And eventually she does.
But Lavender Brown.
Annoying.
That whole thing with Ron was just annoying.
But as far as villain goes, for me, Draco.
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And I can just mention, I love the fear and the self torment he had about.
It was just, you could tell that, you know, becoming a death eater or whatever.
It was, it was kind of eating him up inside, man.
He didn't really want to do it, but because of who his family was, he had to.
I just, I thought he played it perfectly.
Definitely.
All right.
Ben, what about you?
For me, I've got to say, Voldemort.
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I mean, it just becomes revealed about all the Horcruxes and like all the evil he did.
Like, and then when you get to the cave and you see all the lengths he went to protect it,
you know, and it just makes him loom larger when you see all this than previously.
Like it just expands how evil and how dangerous this is going to be.
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The eventually face this guy, you know.
And what he had to do to create the seven Horcruxes.
Exactly.
You're right.
Yeah, that's a good point.
Good one.
Good one.
What about Kayla?
All right.
So I think my favorite villain for this movie would probably be Snape.
It's kind of weird because, you know, he kills Dumbledore in the end, but like,
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I like how, like in the beginning of the movie, he's like,
yeah, does this unbreakable vow with Draco's mom to ensure the safety and wellbeing of her son
and just how he would, yeah, go through everything.
Even if Draco makes a mistake, like is able to step in and defend him real quick.
And real quick, yeah, Viltrix is my least favorite.
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I mean, he nearly destroyed the Weasley's home, which what the heck, that's messed up.
And she's a psycho.
I don't like that.
I liked that scene with Bellatrix and Narcissa and Snape.
I thought that whole thing was really good.
I remember when we first read it, I was like, what?
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He did an unbreakable vow?
It blew me away.
So yes.
What about you, Kathy?
So like John, I have a non-villain character, but Hormack McClaggen,
I mean, typical teen boy, but he needs to not use her objectified girls.
And like Hermione said, he's got more tentacles than a snarf-a-lump plant.
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Yeah.
In my opinion, he's one of them.
Like, oh my gosh, he's the boy version of Lavender Brown, I guess.
And then Voldemort, I just, what an evil guy.
You know, like I think Ben mentioned it previously in episode Voldemort, for sure.
You know, villain every time.
But this time he uses Draco.
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He's such a coward because he uses Draco.
He couldn't kill Dumbledore himself.
So he's going to just use and threaten and manipulate Draco, you know,
and threaten his dad's life on the line and his family's life and his life to try to kill Dumbledore.
So yeah, because he couldn't.
Voldemort, evil.
He's the worst.
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He's the worst for sure.
For sure. So for me, all those again, I agree with all of you for sure.
I'm going to say it's not even a non-villain character.
I'm going to go with Lavender Brown 100%.
She tried to break up the trio, you guys.
Like she got in the way of Harry and Ron and Hermione mixing that up.
And you know, she was terrible when she's in the train blowing on the glass, that scene.
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And she does the heart.
I love how Harry is playing with the armrest, not wanting to look at her because she's evil.
Awkward.
Worst.
And then when they do break up and she's over there with just like a fork and she's like fuming.
It's so funny.
Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah, she's terrible.
That's right.
All right.
Let's talk favorite scenes guys.
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Start with Kayla.
So my favorite scene for this one was probably the introduction of Fred and George's joke shop
because I feel like it's the only part that was, well, it's not the only part, but it was the only
part in the movie that was kind of comical and fun and like uplifting and how they're
distracting people from the dark and bringing them into the light, kind of bringing the fire.
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That's kind of the thing, Kayla.
Yeah, I believe in the book, the money one from the Goblet of Fire, he gave it to the twins.
Oh, see.
The tri-wizard tournament earnings.
Everybody just so you know, that hasn't, you know, I know you all have seen the movies,
but they went out and wrote books after them.
So, you know, check those out.
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Added to the movies a little, you know.
Yes, the tri-wizard tournament earnings went to Fred and George to build their shop.
I didn't know that.
I thought all they got was eternal glory.
And some cash.
Oh, hard cash.
All right.
No.
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Yeah, and it's kind of, I don't know, I thought about that more too, that like,
what you said about how Harry did share his money with Ron,
and then he gives his money to his brothers.
And then in the movie, Ron's like, hey, man, what's the discount for me?
I'm your brother.
And they're like, more than, it's twice as much.
Ten gallons.
Ten gallons.
Yep.
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Awesome. Good one, Kayla.
I like that scene too.
Yeah.
All right, Kathy, what about you?
I love all of the scenes with Ron in this movie.
I think Rupert Grint does such a good job.
Just all of his expressions and his acting with Quidditch, with Lavender,
with Hermione, with the love potion.
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He does such a good job.
He just makes me laugh.
So there's that bit of like humor, you know, it's dark, it gets darker.
But I think I just love all of his scenes.
They just made me laugh.
Yeah, I just wanted to real quick.
It's funny that you say that because Ron's scene with Lavender and all that.
I think, and this isn't my answer, but I love Hermione's acting right there
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when Ron and Lavender come running up to them in the little stairwell.
And then she shoots her little birds at him or whatever.
Showing her true emotions, how she really felt for Ron right there.
I thought she did a phenomenal job.
Yeah, she did.
I guess I don't like the snogging scenes with Ron.
Let me clarify that.
Like those, but just the way he acts around, like it's just so funny.
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But yeah, I agree with Hermione too on that with her acting there.
I did something else.
Yeah.
Also his acting when he was like nearly dying was also great too.
Yeah, exactly.
Like there's this range of like so many expressions, emotions and acting.
Yeah, like dying and then about nine.
I saw like one of the bloopers, he like really fell off the couch.
(26:22):
Oh, yeah.
Like that was real.
That happened.
Oh, really?
Poor guy.
I love it.
I want to see the green screen version of him like on the broom where he's like hanging
on it and like climbing all over.
Like he does such a good job there too, for sure.
All right.
What about you, Ben?
I just love that whole scene in the cave to get the horcrux.
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Oh, yeah.
Like it's just an intense scene.
And there's just one thing after another.
And I love Dumbledore's acting there is just so good when he's trying to force himself
to drink more.
And I don't know, the whole thing was really good and intense.
It was visually stunning as well.
Like just even from like when they first get there and you see the waves crashing and everything
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and then get them going in there and then yeah, it was beautifully done.
Yeah, I noticed this last time we watched it that the color scheme of the horcrux was
different.
And I would say it's arguably one of the scarier parts was when they were on Fury, grab them
from in the water.
Like, oh man, creepy.
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Really creepy.
All right.
What about you, John?
You know, and I talked about this in all the other movies, so I'll continue it here.
But the theme of Harry's love for magic and bewilderment of what can be done through magic.
I'm going to mention this again here in just a little bit.
But at the very beginning, when they go searching for slugs, they're like, oh, I'm going to
do this thing when they go searching for slughorn and they finally, you know, slughorn comes
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out of the chair or whatever.
And he says, you know, well, you know, the Death Eaters were after him and they made
the house a disaster.
And so Dumbledore puts the house back in order and he's just sitting there watching everything
happen and then they got the little part of the chandelier under his foot.
But him just watching that he was just again, he was just amazed.
I love that whole theme.
Yes.
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Although, and that's not Harry's thing, but why does Dumbledore have to lick the blood?
I mean, come on, man.
He's like, I know, like, don't do it.
Don't do it.
Smell it or something.
You don't have to taste it.
That's disgusting.
But yeah, I love that.
You know what that already tastes like?
Like how would he already know?
Ah, dragon's blood.
Maybe, you know, we have like Gator tail and stuff.
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Maybe he's had dragon steak before.
Something tells me it might be kind of good.
That's like a good knitting pattern.
That's true.
That's right.
The knitting magazine.
I love it.
All right.
So so many good scenes in this movie, but I'm going to say one of my favorites is Harry
actually using the Felix Felicis and he totally goes different from the plan.
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Just goes where he thinks he needs to go.
And the way he reacts to Slughorn and talks to him and just seems like he just doesn't
care.
And Felix is just taking him on this journey that works out perfectly.
And I love that whole eulogy for Aragog and all of it.
Yes.
Yes.
So that's my favorite.
I love that.
Yeah.
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Harry, I must insist you accompany me back to the castle immediately.
Would be counterproductive, sir.
But what makes you say that?
No idea.
All right.
Favorite quotes.
Let's start with John.
(29:35):
Okay.
So we know that Draco made Harry almost miss getting to Hogwarts.
And one of my favorite things is when Harry and Luna come walking up to the gate where
everybody's stuff is getting searched and everything.
And they see Professor Flitwick and they're the last two to arrive at the school.
Professor Flitwick is like, oh, about time.
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I've been looking all over for you to names.
Professor Flitwick, you've known me for five years.
No exceptions, Potter.
Little tiny scene, just the levity.
And I just thought it was funny.
Yeah, I love it.
I love it, too.
No exceptions, Potter.
Exceptions, Potter.
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All right.
What about you, Ben?
Probably when Professor McGonagall, he says to Harry, Ron and Hermione.
Why is it when something happens, it is always you three?
Believe me, Professor.
I've been asking myself the same question for six years.
Yes.
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Yeah, I love it.
Great. Yeah, such a great little interaction there.
Yeah, I had lots of favorite quotes, but one of them was when Ron gets
drugged with the love potion.
And, you know, he's just like, isn't the moonlight beautiful and all this other stuff?
Harry teases him a little and he's like, OK, very funny.
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What's that for?
It's no joke.
I'm in love with her.
Oh, fine.
You're in love with her.
Have you ever actually met her?
Oh, can you introduce me?
I just love that part.
And then honorable mention, too, is Slughorn's eulogy.
In our family, we quoted a lot.
It's like, farewell, Aragog, king of arachnids.
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Oh, your body made you gay.
He kind of like sings it, you know.
You have a family, I presume.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Yep.
All right.
Kayla, what about you?
What's your favorite quote?
This part was also from Aragog's funeral where, you know, they go in and we see Aragog and
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there's this one mention where Aragog tells them like,
Seriously misunderstood creatures spiders are.
The eyes, I reckon, they unnerve some folk.
Oh, not to mention the pincers.
Yeah, I reckon that too.
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I saw that scene.
It like genuinely made me laugh out loud because there was this
I've never seen Harry act like that.
Yeah, him being all goofy with the little, yeah.
Nice.
All right, Kathy, what about you?
All right.
Mine is okay on the serious side.
And then I have a funny, okay.
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So Slughorn, you know, when Harry is taking a portion of the film releases and he's talking
to Slughorn says, I know why you're here, but I can't help you.
It's what you really mean.
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Do you know why I survived, Professor?
The night I got this because of her, because she sacrificed herself,
because she refused to step aside, because her love was more powerful than Voldemort.
Don't say his name.
I'm not afraid of the name, Professor.
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I'm going to tell you something, something others have only guessed at.
It's true.
I am the chosen one.
Only I can destroy him.
But in order to do so, I need to know what Tom Riddle asked you all those years ago in
your office.
And I need to know what you told him.
Be brave, Professor.
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Be brave like my mother.
Otherwise, you disgrace her.
Otherwise, she died for nothing.
Otherwise, the bowl will remain empty for ever.
Forever.
And I love that.
And then he holds Slughorn's hand while he pours in the memory, just helping him be brave
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to tell the truth.
And the truth was so essential.
I think that was an important theme in this movie.
And then the funny quotes, yeah, what you guys mentioned, Dumbledore.
Hardus, do you mind if I take this?
I do love knitting patterns.
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And then Ron, when he's like lavender and grimy and the love potion that he accidentally
like ate the chocolates and he almost died and he gets up and he's like,
These girls, they're gonna kill me.
A good one.
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So good.
Awesome.
Good quotes, guys.
Good job.
All right.
Now we're going to take a look at some differences between the book and movie.
Kayla, are you going to share those with us?
Yes.
So yeah, for the first one, we have Harry's train savior in the movie.
Harry is found by Luna in her Tetris fix.
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And the book he is found by Tonks.
Yeah.
Then for Tonks and Remus, the books dedicate pages to Tonks and Remus's relationship development
or crush on him and his hesitancy to love her back.
And the movie, they are just together.
Right.
And then we got flashbacks are cut down.
(35:32):
The movie we see two scenes with young Tom Riddle, but in the book, we get a lot more.
We learn more about Tom's father and mother among other characters never even mentioned
in the movie.
Yeah, Tom's mom and dad.
That's a lot of stuff about it.
It's interesting.
Yeah.
Origin story.
Yeah.
Next, we got Harry when Dumbledore dies.
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Dumbledore actually freezes Harry under his invisibility cloak to stop him from
interfering in his plan to be killed by Snape.
That's right.
Yeah.
Different than the movie.
Yeah.
Didn't I know that?
All right.
Next, we got Dumbledore's funeral.
The book includes a funeral for Dumbledore, which brings together many characters from
the series Warner Bros opted against it because they believed it would have gone against
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the tone of the movie.
That would have been kind of cool to see, you know, just gathering everybody and this
huge thing for Dumbledore and see how like the magical people do it, you know?
Yeah.
So you would like that instead of them all honoring them by raising their wands?
Both.
I want it all.
Who's buried on such a tiny little island?
Yeah.
Nobody would fit everybody there?
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No.
That's true.
That's true.
That's cool.
The wands in the air.
Oh, that's a moving scene for sure.
Yeah, I love that part.
Yeah.
This is when people did that when they were at Disney when they found out that Hagrid died.
Oh, really?
Yeah, they took pictures of people out there putting up their wand and everything.
Oh, Universal?
Yeah, Universal.
They did that for Snoop too.
(36:59):
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
I think they did that for Dumbledore.
Oh, did they?
This last year.
Yeah, they did it for Dumbledore last year too.
Oh.
Sweet.
That's sweet.
Yeah, and we also have to give a shout out to Maggie Smith, you know, the actress who
played McGonagall.
She was so awesome and she passed away unfortunately this year, September 27th, 24.
(37:19):
Coincidentally, it was the same date as Michael Gambon, the guy who played the second Dumbledore
last year.
So he passed away last year in 2023.
So anyways, McGonagall, Maggie Smith, great actress, such a great character.
She did so well with it.
And yeah, definitely got to give a shout out to her.
Well, thanks, Kayla.
That's interesting.
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Maybe we can get John to read them someday.
We'll see.
No worries.
So we've talked a bunch about Felix Felicis.
What would be a fun or funny way that you guys would use liquid luck?
Let's start with Kathy.
So I thought of a couple.
I was like, man, what would I do?
(38:00):
And I was like, I don't know.
I would, okay, if I have to go to the DMV, lines at Disney parks and Black Friday sales.
Yes.
Just get ahead of everybody, the whole crowd.
What about you, Kayla?
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For me, I put success in dating.
Hopefully, it gives me more confidence and just help me know what to say and do to get.
I'll allow you to use that, but no love potion.
Okay.
You want it to be real.
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Felix Felicis, 100% acceptable.
Love potion, absolutely not.
That's awesome.
What about you then, John?
I'll play on the lottery, man.
That's all I need.
I'll be done.
I'll be set.
Simple, simple.
Nice.
Ben, what about you?
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I want to invent a Felix Felicis factory, wishing for more wishes.
Look at that, or run for president, like a la Brewster's millions.
You don't even have to try.
From all you youngsters, that's a wonderful Richard Pryor movie that you know nothing about.
Back in the day.
(39:23):
Oh, man.
That's hilarious.
Just gallons and gallons of liquid life that you're just making.
Drink that every morning.
You just have perfect days.
Like a gallon of milk.
Yeah.
Yeah, exactly.
Put it in your cereal.
Right.
That's awesome.
I thought it'd be kind of cool to document myself on a dangerous mission, to take out
a terrorist leader or something.
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But I just have a little handgun and I'm in shorts and flip flops.
I think that'd be kind of awesome.
It's like, all right, guys, I'm going to go take care of this guy.
I'm getting some Bill and Ted Expo adventure vibes there.
Yeah, exactly.
They're going after famous figures and that's what you're doing with the shorts and the
trunkless.
Yes.
Yes.
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All right.
And I got a special question for our single folks here.
What smells do you smell from your love potion?
We'll go with Kayla first.
So I went with vanilla lavender from Back to Body Works.
That smells very, very nice.
Yes.
The smell of Chipotle.
Like when you walk in the smell.
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Yes.
That stuff.
Oh, so good.
And the weird one I have is the smell of chlorine.
I like the smell of chlorine.
Not like strong chlorine, but like when you walk in an indoor pool, like that smell.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, that's a good one.
Oh, yeah. Yeah, totally get it.
That's awesome.
That's good.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I'm like, oh, yeah, that would be Kayla's love potions and else.
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What about you, John?
You know, my favorite Bath and Body Works is the smell of barbecue.
That's what I'm smelling.
I'm gonna get you a brisket candle, dude.
Nice.
I will burn it.
Yes.
That's awesome, man.
Love it.
Love it.
All right, and Kayla, who would you snog from this movie?
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So snogging is a theme.
I'd probably say Daniel Radcliffe.
I had a crush on him for a bit.
Yeah, understandable.
I mean, he is the chosen one.
As long as your answer isn't shameless, we're good.
Hagrid, heck yeah.
No, I was kidding.
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He's all Dumbledore.
Nice.
All right, so just a couple thoughts ahead.
So presumably, right, most people in Diagon Alley, they have a wand.
That's just what I believe.
They're all walking around with wands, but none of them even bothered to try and help
save Ollivander from getting snatched.
(41:53):
What a bunch of wimps.
Yeah.
He's like out there.
They take him.
They throw him in the street and then they take him away.
But nobody's like, you know, I got a wand too.
Yeah, terrific.
They're still talus.
Come on.
Yeah, geez, leaders.
I mean, they all got their wands from him.
So come on.
Exactly.
That's how you return the favor.
OK, my second thought on this movie was I love how Dumbledore, as Snape says,
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Dumbledore is a great wizard.
Only a fool would question it.
But when it comes time to drop Harry off in the burrow at the Weasleys,
he isn't very accurate at all.
He just drops him in the marsh.
You can get him on Dry Land.
Come on, dude.
He doesn't tell him.
This is Weasley.
OK.
Yeah, he doesn't give her the heads up.
(42:39):
That's terrible.
Yeah.
Like, hey, I'm just going to work it out.
And you're just going to get all wet.
Like, what a terrible way to go to somebody's house.
I mean, the fact that he is a great wizard makes you think,
so he did that on purpose.
And why?
I know.
It's like, take this, Harry.
I mean, if you saw in other movies when they're coming back from
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getting Harry to go back to the burrow,
some of them land on Dry Land.
It's like, it's possible to do.
I'm just saying.
So kind of skipping ahead towards the end of the series.
So you know, in the last one, I'm just going to kind of just
dive into this movie.
But at the end of the movies themselves, the very end,
you see Argus Filch with the broom just sweeping up all the mess
(43:22):
after the post-war battle.
Why can't they use the same magic that Dumbledore uses to clean up the house?
To clean up, like, I mean, you got all these powerful wizards that are still alive and still there.
You're going to tell me that they can't just put Hogwarts back together?
Come on.
I think it's like how Dumbledore dropped off Harry in the marsh.
It's like they want to get Filch to do, you know, some dirty work.
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They don't like him.
Imagine, and this is just a stupid little thought I had, but what if Harry Potter
saved his Felix Felicis for the last movie?
Oh.
Like he just busted out, like, right?
He's like, all right, we got this battle.
Just a thought.
(44:07):
Why can't he get another one in the Room of Requirement, right?
I know.
Right?
You know.
Fence factories in there, man.
Yeah.
All right.
Well, that's all the silly thoughts I had on that one.
Good ones, though.
I like it for sure.
All right.
How about the movie?
(44:27):
I like it.
How about let's go over to Deathly Hollows Part One.
Caleb, why don't you lead us out on this one?
All right.
So first, we'll start the Deathly Hollows Part One with the themes.
All right.
So first, we'll go with Dave or Dad.
What you got?
All right.
So this one, honestly, it's kind of hard.
Like if I'm going to watch the two last two movies, I have to pick between them.
(44:49):
I would pick the last one because there's just a lot more action, I feel like.
But I do love it.
I still like it.
It's a lot of buildup.
And so almost with that is just because there's the theme of like endurance and making it
through this difficult, difficult time.
They're listening to the radio and hearing about people going missing and dying.
And it's just the three of them.
They have no idea where to go.
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And it's just really hard.
And so being able to endure that and endure it well at times for sure.
Good job, Dave, Dad.
Thanks.
Thanks, son.
All right.
Next, we'll go with Kathy or Mom.
So just, yeah, like what Dave was saying, Dad, Dave, just the fear, the threat,
(45:37):
you know, we kind of got a taste of that with COVID-19, you know, everyone's on edge.
And then just this force of like controlling and the power.
Everyone's under stress, especially like the threesome friends.
There's a lot of stress, but there's also a lot of resilience, but there's loyalty,
hope.
(45:57):
There's still hope.
And I love that, the theme in this movie too.
And I think too, they all had to destroy, like at some point they each destroyed a Horcrux.
And me, that was like their inner demons or lies, stories that they tell themselves or
they make up, you know, we all have those things.
So I felt like that was kind of, this is happening in their outside world, but also
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inwardly, you know, those fights within ourselves.
And then just the connection and friendship that they have in this movie too.
Yeah.
Good ones.
I thought of, I guess, just growing up as a theme, I guess.
So the first movie where they have to go out in the real world,
they're not a student anymore in Hogwarts.
They are basically just kicked out.
(46:41):
Yeah.
Oh, that's true.
That's true.
Yeah.
I saw it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Good one.
They're all like growing stubble and stuff, right?
Yeah.
Like Harry Ryan.
Yeah.
Yeah.
All right.
We'll go to the next part.
Favorite heroes and why.
All right, John, you want to go first?
All right, look, so I know you all have great answers because I've read them, but
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Dobby is the true hero of this movie.
In order to get the result that we need to get in the end of the movie for Harry Potter
to kill he who shall not be named, Harry has to be alive.
And that does not happen without Dobby with an honorable mention of credit to Draco and
Avaforth who saves them at the Malfoy Mansion.
So Dobby is my answer.
(47:25):
Yeah, nice.
Good answer.
Good answer.
Everybody says.
All right, Ben, how about you go next?
All right.
Well, for me, it was I think I would say Ron is similar to how I was saying Harry in the last one.
Like you see Ron not at his best, you know,
when the influence of the Horcrux is really getting to him, but he doesn't give up and
(47:49):
he turns it around and like he could so easily get discouraged and say, I just blew it and
they're better off without me.
But he does everything in his power to try to get back to them.
And I think that was really awesome about how even though he wasn't the best of friends
at one moment in time, he doesn't let that define himself.
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He decides on his own to be that good friend back no matter what, even when he was on his own.
Yeah.
He just wanted to be in the last movie.
Good answer, Ben.
I like it.
All right, mom, Cassie, you want to go next?
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So let's see.
I think I definitely agree with John on Dobby protecting everyone and he helped find
Mundungus too for the locket.
They needed that Horcrux, you know, so he helped with that and then just giving his life
for his friends, you know, and then connect to that Aberforth, like helping them escape
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and watching over them for sure.
He was an unsung hero there.
Hermione, dang, she erased her parents' memories.
Oh my goodness.
To be able to help Harry.
She was such a loyal friend.
And her extendable purse, like she saved Ron's life, you know, like from the splenching
and like literally helping carry Harry's burdens, you know, the Horcrux.
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And just such a smart witch, just with her enchantments and figuring out Dumbledore's
clues with the Deathly Hollows.
And she's like, why did he give me this like children's book, you know, like stories and
had never read them, but like he knew that she would get it.
And she did to help the Voldemort.
Yep.
(49:37):
She definitely put Harry's burdens in her purse with the extension charm for sure.
Yeah.
All right, Ted, would you like to go next?
Yeah.
So Cathy said it great, but I agree.
Hermione was super prepared, loyal and resolved all those problems.
And I definitely want that extendable charm.
That thing is awesome.
I wonder if that works like in wallets, if it was like, it's stuff one in my pocket.
(50:01):
I don't want to carry a bag around, just pull out like whatever, but very, very cool.
She was so level-headed and just the best member of the team for sure, VIP.
Yeah, real quick.
My favorite hero was Hermione.
I mean, she stuck with Harry the whole time.
She didn't leave him once.
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She was strong and continued on.
And just like everyone else has said, like she was just a genius and very helpful to the journey.
Super loyal, loyal to the end.
Yeah.
Good friend.
Yep.
All right.
Next, we'll start talking about favorite or least favorite villains and why.
(50:41):
All right.
Uncle Ben, would you like to go first this time?
Bellatrix.
I mean, you just see how evil she is in this movie.
And I don't know, her acting is just so amazing.
It just blows me away.
But yeah, she gives those really evil vibes, you know, when she acts.
(51:01):
So I loved it.
Yeah.
All right.
John, do you have to go next?
Yeah, sure.
I mean, I agree 100% with Ben.
She played her role so perfectly in this.
You know, it falls under the same category of, you know, Dolores Umbridge.
Like she did such a great job that we hated her.
And that was the point, right?
(51:21):
And for her playing Bellatrix, the strange playing that role was just perfectly done.
The whole Malfoy Manor scene was just for her was so well done.
But she is definitely the villain on this one.
And, you know, they come back up the stairs and you see blood carved into her mind.
He's arm and yeah, definitely Bellatrix.
(51:50):
All right.
Mom.
So yeah, Dolores Umbridge for me, like she does a good job.
The actress, she's such a good job of being the villain.
And just like her obsession with control and like eradicating people that don't fit the mold,
you know, that aren't pure bloods or other magical creatures,
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like in the books that talks more about that too.
And then so sad, like when Harry discovers she's got these folders with their pictures
and like X's on them and they're making pamphlets about the dangers of my bloods.
And oh my gosh, I just, I don't like her.
She's terrible.
And then interrogating all the witches and wizards about, are you really a witch or wizard?
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Oh my goodness.
So she just gets my blood boiling.
For sure Bellatrix, the strange did a really good job to the actress for her.
And then she killed Dobby.
Yeah, that too.
Good call.
Terrible.
Terrible. All right, Dan, what'd you get?
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So you guys saw all the good answers, but I'm just kidding.
But I added just, you know, it's kind of small,
but the Death Eaters that ruined Bill and Fleur's wedding reception.
Church.
Terrible. A bunch of jerks, man.
They just pick on the Weasleys. They destroy the burrow.
They mess up their wedding. Like just let them have that day.
Just a bunch of punks.
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So they're on the high up on the list for me.
What about you, Kayla?
All right. So for me, I put Draco as my favorite in this one.
I mean, I saved Harry's life, who's once again sticking to a little bit of the good side,
but still staying with the bad. So I like that.
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And again, yeah, Umbridge was my least favorite in this one.
Oh, she was terrible.
Oh.
Was by the fact that like in the fifth movie that she thinks that Harry is lying about
Voldemort's coming back. And then in this one, Voldemort's back and she sides with him
in the ministry, which I'm like, really? Okay.
Like you say Harry's a liar. Now you're going to side with Voldemort after calling Harry a liar.
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Oh, why?
Oh, bad.
That's a good point, Kayla.
That is a good point.
I do like, and because you said that just there, though, how she saved Harry's life.
I wish we had an answer because it's so,
I wish we had an answer because, you know, in the next movie he says, why didn't you tell,
you knew it was me. Why didn't you say anything? But we don't get an answer from Dreggo.
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We don't get an answer, yeah.
Is it in the books? I don't remember.
Maybe. We need to look again.
Yeah. You know, another thing too about Umbridge, she's wearing that locket that's evil.
Just like, oh, this is a nice accessory.
She's already so evil. We can't even tell that she's wearing it.
We can't even like tell.
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Doesn't even faze her.
It's like, affecting her. Yeah, she's, okay.
No.
One thing though that I did read, yes, I read something. It was just a snippet though.
I don't want to, you know, alarm you, but, you know, it was interesting because, you know,
they talk about like, you know, how can people like Dolores do a Patronus charm when they've
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got no joy in their life? Like they're just pure evil. And they said, the answer was your
most favorable moment. It didn't have to not be evil. So like for her, torturing Harry could
have been her favorite moment that produces the Patronus.
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That's her joy.
Nasty.
I saw they're going to have a new ride at Universal Studios and she came back, I think,
to it's supposed to be like escape from the ministry ride or something. And it's Dolores
Umbridge like escaping. And I think she came back to do some of the scenes for it, like,
right? Like videoing and stuff. So I think that's what I'd seen.
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Yeah. She's from Azkaban or something like that.
I wonder if she gets crap outside of the, like in real life.
Like people that recognize her, like, yeah.
Karen.
She's a good ass. She can sing too, apparently.
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Don't humanize her, Kathy.
Another world.
Dolores. And that's it. I don't care what world she's living in.
All right. Next we'll move on to favorite scenes. Mom, how about you go first?
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Okay. So I had a few. Sorry. I'm gonna try to just be brief, but I couldn't pick a favorite,
but like I loved just the intensity of like Harry just trying to get to the burrow
and then meeting Voldemort and their wands connecting. That was like a well done. So intense.
Oh yeah.
That moment, that whole scene. And then trying to figure out the ministry magic.
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The actors were so awkward. It just was so great. I just loved
it. Like all of that, just how awkward it was. And the adults that played them,
that they under the polyjuice potion, they did such a good job. And then that escape.
And then by the pond when the sword appears and then Ron saves Harry's life, like
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Snape's Patronus comes. Like I really love that scene too.
Oh yeah. All good answers.
All right, John, how about you go next?
All right. So my favorite, I just loved at the very end, the animation of the story
about how the Deathly Hallows came about and how Hermione is sitting there reading it and
Ron just trying to see correct her on Twilight.
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A lonely winding road at Twilight.
Midnight. Mama always said midnight, but Twilight's fine. Better actually.
Do you want to read it?
But just watching the animation was one of my favorite scenes. It really gave life to
the Deathly Hallows. I want you to read in the tales of Beetle to Bard.
Yeah. Yeah, that was pretty. We love that too.
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Yeah. All right, Ben.
Me, I love that scene where there's the transformation of all his friends into the seven potters.
Yes.
First of all, I just love how it's showing how many people care about him and he's not on his
own. They believe in him and they know he's important and they're not leaving him onto his
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own. I love that. But also just, I don't know, there's humor in there and just the way they all
act, the acting is done so well with the characters.
Bill, don't look at me. I'm hideous.
Yes.
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Yeah, it's just fun.
Yeah.
Yeah. All right, Dad, how about you?
Oh, the same as Ben, actually. It's one of my favorite scenes. It's so funny and just like he
said, just showing that loyalty and Harry tries to almost stop them and they're like, no, you know,
yeah, of course, Daniel Radcliffe. Yeah, playing those different parts as those people is great.
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I love when Fred and George are like,
Wow, we're identical.
Yeah.
They're awesome.
Oh, just a quick note on that little scene.
They said it took over 90 takes to get that done.
Wow.
Oh my goodness.
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All the different parts of him doing it. That's crazy. Yeah.
I feel like in the whole series, every time they do the Polyjuice potion, they nail it so good.
It's among my favorite scenes, you know?
Yeah.
Caleb, what was your favorite part?
So yeah, my favorite part was the scene where Harry and Hermione are dancing. I mean, it was kind of a small moment in the movie, but I like how it was just kind of like a heart belt.
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Like, let's take a break from all the stress and just have fun.
Yeah, totally. I will let you know that every single time I've watched that movie, I fast forward that part because I find it extremely boring.
I do. I don't know why. I just can't stand that scene.
I just like, you're a dude or something. I don't know.
(01:00:38):
I know. But I literally fast forward every single time because it just takes forever.
There's differences. It's all good.
I like it how you can tell they're like, they're just friends too. It's not like this. Oh, are they, is this romantic? Like, no, they're just trying to get through this thing. And, you know, at least that's what I get from it.
(01:01:02):
I didn't dance with anybody during COVID. I was just trying to get through that.
That's true.
You gotta dance with yourself, man.
I didn't bring any of my friends over and dance with them.
Six feet.
Hey, Dave, can I add something?
Of course.
This is going back to the scene with the seven Harry Potters. But did you guys know that the actor that plays Mad Eye Moody and the actor that plays Bill Weasley, they're father and son.
(01:01:36):
Nice. Oh, snap. I didn't know that.
That's cool. It's a fact, for sure.
But I was like, oh, that's really cool. That's cute. That's awesome. Yeah.
Aren't there a few family members? Yeah.
There's also the actor that plays Voldemort, Ralph Finnis. His nephew plays the young Voldemort in that scene.
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So that's his nephew. Isn't that cool?
That is crazy. It's awesome.
I also think Tom Filton's grandpa or something like that. Draco's grandpa is in there too.
What?
Nice.
I feel like that's something I've seen. We're not going to fact check it. We're just going to take it for truth.
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That's what we do in Fat, Dumb and Happy.
That's right. That's why sometimes we stay dumb. But, you know, I'm pretty sure I read through that in the IMDB.
I didn't know you could read.
Okay, so I heard it.
I'm just quoting.
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Hey, thanks so much for listening to part one of this episode. Stay tuned for more fun in part two.
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