Behind The Wand and Friends - Em Wallbank (and Maple)

This week, I’m joined by the incredibly talented Em Walbank — a social media sensation with millions of followers across her platforms. Not only is Em known for her captivating content, but she also has an amazing Draco Malfoy impression that’s bound to leave you laughing! Our friendship began when my son mistook Em for me (a huge ego boost on my part, I must say!). But beyond her beauty, both inside and out, Em’s warmth, humor, and passion for all things Wizarding World shine through in this episode.Tune in for an unforgettable conversation that’s as magical as it is funny — Em truly is a gem in this fandom!

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:12):
Hello, and welcome to episode five of Behind the wand
and Friends, a podcast where I chat to some of
my loveliest friends from the Wizarding World about the Harry
Potter fandom. This week, the wonderful em Wallbank is my guest.
Em is literally a social media star and has millions
of followers across all her social media accounts, and among

(00:36):
her many talents is her ability to do an incredible
impression of Draco Malfoy. We met when my son confused
her for me, which was such an ego boost because
Em is beautiful both outside and in and I think
this chat proads it. So this is me chatting with me. Okay,

(01:00):
let's just start with do you remember your first ever
interaction with the Harry Potter world, whether that's reading the books,
seeing the film, do you remember that moment? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:11):
My I came to Harry Potter like really untraditionally because
I was one of those kids that thought it was
for losers. I got it and I was like nah,
but my I was big thinking and my friends were
all really into the star kid stuff on YouTube.

Speaker 1 (01:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
Yeah, So my first interaction with Harry Potter was a
very pot of musical. So like my first Harry was Darren,
Chris Draker was Lauren, and I watched it and I
was like, this is funny, but I don't get the jokes.
As that was happening, my mum had just got into
the books because my mum had never really got my
mum had read. She bought them all in a second

(01:49):
hand bookshop on holiday and then got obsessed with them
so made us all watch the film. So I was like, oh,
actually this makes sense because I've just watched the show.
And I remember watching them and being like, oh, actually
this is quite cool linly dragons and stuff, and I
like it. And I just remember then not long after
going to Universal Studios, not long after the Wizarding worlded up,

(02:12):
and and I think it was at the time it
was just Hogsmeade and and I remember going in and
being like, oh my god, this is insane, and then
going back and being obsessed with the films and like
watching the behind the scenes stuff and it is right
magic and it it's sick. Yeah there's dragons and wizards
and yeah, so many cool actors. And I'm a big

(02:36):
film made, so like going through and like, oh, that's
telling the bottom car and that's aw Rickmond picking up
was just the most exciting thing. But I was like
fifteen sixteen. Everybody else got into it as like a
and I was like, everyone else is going through like
their talent phase. And I was like, have you seen
Harry Potter a new found.

Speaker 1 (02:56):
Thing that you found? You sound like Harry Potter.

Speaker 2 (03:01):
Made it made Harry Potter.

Speaker 1 (03:04):
You had this small little film Philosophers Stone little.

Speaker 2 (03:10):
Because I think they'd all or like nearly all come
out by the time I even knew it was a thing,
because I don't even think I heard of Harry Potter
until I was like thirteen. Yeah, at that point, I
was like, wizards preferred Jedis.

Speaker 1 (03:24):
I know. And I actually think this was like a
lot of like fantasy sort of like films and books,
because I've just read like Fourth Wing and I'm trying
to explain which is about dragons. So if you haven't
read it, you might actually like it about you'll be obsessed.
And when I was trying to like tell my friend
the plot, she was like, what dragon riding. I'm like, yeah,

(03:48):
but it's like really really good. She was like, Okay,
So sometimes like when you're trying to explain the plot
of some fancy stories. They sound like they wouldn't be
for you, but actually when you get into.

Speaker 2 (03:57):
Them, absolutely so.

Speaker 1 (04:00):
And then how do you get from So let's just
go like again, like back to the beginning of like
your online journey. And I think, like when we spoke
at Leaky kN you said, the first sort of thing
you ever put online was the slickback Bun video. Yeah,
it was like the first ever Harry Potter video that
like Harry themed video you made.

Speaker 2 (04:18):
That's like one of the first ever videos I put
on because, to cut a long story short, I only
downloaded TikTok because I was doing this singing reality show
on ITV and they told me I needed it, so
I put like I think maybe like three or four
lip sync videos on before like nothing. And then that
video was never actually meant to be a TikTok video.

(04:41):
It was a snapchat video that I sent to one
of my friends and she saved it and sent it
back to me and was like, this is really funny.
She post it, and the whole lore of me looking
like Draco Malfoy comes from. I did Camp America in
like twenty eighteen, and I was in the airport in
I think it was Arizona there with one of my

(05:01):
friends who's tall and ginger, and at the time, I've
got a really short blonde bob and it's like hot
as hair, so I've got it like pushed back, it's
like wet with sweat. And this American girl came over
and she was like, oh my god, he loved you
in that movie. And I was like, what are you
talking about, Like, what the hell is happening? She was like,

(05:22):
you're drinking mouthoy. I'm like, no, a thirty year old man.
And at the time, I'm like nineteen, and I was
like two stone heavier, so I've got boobs as well.
So I was really and my friends just never let
me live it down. So now every time I've had
my hair slip back for years years, i was draking
Malfa and then I'd sent my friend a Snapchat video

(05:44):
because I've been I think I've been trying on wigs
at work. Yeah, and I'd got my hairslip back, and
it was just when that like whole Clean Girl asthetic
was really trendy and everyone was slicking their hair back.
I like Kendall Jenny, I look like Tom Felt, looks
like no hate Tom Lovely, Yeah, not what you are,

(06:05):
not like because it's.

Speaker 1 (06:05):
Twenty say you're not when you're like twenty year old
girl thinking, do you know what? Look I'm going for
the Tom Felton mouthful, slick back.

Speaker 2 (06:14):
I want to look like a tiny wizard Bully's when
I want to look like And it just blew up,
like I think. I put it on TikTok that night
and it had got like three hundred views, which like
I think I got like three followers or something. So
I was like, oh, that's cool.

Speaker 1 (06:29):
Yeah, And then I woke up.

Speaker 2 (06:31):
The next morning and my brother came downstairs and he went, mum,
Emily's video has got a million views, Oh my gosh.
And then I think by the end of the day
it had got like three million, and like now I
think on YouTube it's got like seventy something million views,
which is just crazy. It's wild me and my car
saying I like a little boy.

Speaker 1 (06:54):
Then like, so I guess it's quite like a not
your usual way to get in. It's like you didn't
a lot of like content creators were like love Harry
Potter and then be like particulously like planning things to
put online but you've just done this.

Speaker 2 (07:07):
I feel like a fraud. I really feel like a fraud,
like every day of my life, because I never planned
on doing anything Like I had a proper job, Like
I worked for a party company and I was a
tribute act and like for a bit I worked in
care as well, so I was I was doing like
a proper job, and then was dressing up as a
wizard because people were asking me to and I thought
it was funny. Yeah, for the first year of me

(07:30):
doing Draker, I wasn't even wearing a Draco a costume.
I was wearing my sister's school tide that was green
and it's slithering dressing down that my mum had got
me as a joke present for Christmas. One years, I
wasn't even wearing like actual and then people wanted me
to come to conventions and stuff and cosplay and I
was wearing my sister's school time like. It was never
anything that I planned on doing. And it's sort of

(07:53):
been my journey with Harry Potter. Content has been nothing
to do with like anything to do with the sauce material.
It's been me And what's the weirdest thing I can
do with this Wizard and people seem to have eaten
it up. Like I've pretended to be Drac and Mouth
for her Love Island, I've pretended to be my love
is Blind. I have him doing like Cararaoke. We've like

(08:18):
gone behind the scenes on Death Eater meetings and it's
just me like taking bitchy little notes with a fluffy pair. Yeah. Yeah,
It's just weird, and I think people are pre I think,
especially with a lot of conversation around the author and
the orth views, I think people like to see it
being taken the piss out of a little bit, and

(08:40):
people like to see a version of it that she'd
probably hate.

Speaker 1 (08:46):
I don't know, I feel like she'd like. I feel like,
you know, Draco love Island. What's not to love?

Speaker 2 (08:52):
We often joke that I'm her worst night there because
I'm a fully grown woman playing a little boy.

Speaker 1 (08:58):
What's the best thing about accidentally into this like fandom
and now becoming a person in like the Wizarding World?

Speaker 2 (09:04):
So weird because somebody worked out the other week that
I've actually had more screen time as Drake and Malfa
than Tom Felton has, which.

Speaker 1 (09:11):
Is absolutely more more Draco than him.

Speaker 2 (09:15):
I actually am at this point, Like somebody told me
I'd had like thirty three minutes in the whole series,
and I think I've had like thirty three minutes in
the past like months. But it's just mad because I
think the Harry Potter community is massive and it's growing
all the time because new kids are getting into Harry
Potter Live. And regardless of the controversy it is. I

(09:40):
feel like the films especially have been created by so
many amazing creatives and it's so immersive and like you
go to the studio at all, you go to the
Universal theme parks, you watch the films and there's so
much love gone into gone into it, and like to
be a part of that and to get to sit
in the same room as some of the people. I

(10:01):
saw those films when I was fifteen, ma like how
many people can say that they've I mean, And just
before Christmas I got to I did a lad Bible
thing with James and Nolan Phelps and David who was
Dane Stuntable on the film, and they're just amazing people
to meet and to get to chapped in that's wild.

(10:21):
I worked at Tesco during Lockdown and now I'm filming
with the wheeler tw it. It's like that's the weirdest
thing in the world. And the fact really you'll know,
like you've been to conventions and stuff that they're the
maddest people. Yeah, it's so funny.

Speaker 1 (10:34):
Yeah, go out of.

Speaker 2 (10:35):
Pocket and like you'll go to the conventions and somebody
will just be dressed as a chocolate frog.

Speaker 1 (10:40):
Yeah, yeah, that's really Yeah, it is so good, Like
I think obviously, like I said, I only just like
dip my toe back into the fandom. But when at
Leak e Coon, I feel like it is just such
a wholesome experience and the people really make it. Like
who turn up and they full costume and they just
really like just adore the story, the people and you know,

(11:02):
even the small part you know you've played it and
I've played in it, and it's just so lovely. Which
also I say to you, I like dine out on
the fact there. I don't know if you remember this
when we were at Leaky kN and Jim for a
moment thought that you were me. And can I tell
you what as a thirty something when your son thinks
this like stunning a twenty year old blonde is me?

(11:23):
I was like oh my god, because I was obviously
pregnant at Leaky Con but really early stages, so I
was feeling really like not great, No, you're not just
telling on your pret like I wanted to have a
good time, but like not drinking all this. So anyway,
I came away feeling like amazing. I was like great,
but yeah, so the conventions I think really opened my

(11:44):
eyes to how like lovely the fact and the people involved.
What did you think then is I don't like being
really negative, but I don't know how to sphrase it
other than like the worst thing you've come across since
like entering the fandom.

Speaker 2 (11:59):
Do you know what I'm I'm really looking that I've
got a really amazing supportive online community. They are I
could not be more grateful for people that are supporting
my content. I'm in a really unique position as a
creator because I think a lot of creators do you
deal with a lot of backlash and do deal with
I think the worst thing that's come out of it

(12:19):
is that obviously the character that I portray as young
boy and there's a demographic of people on the Internet
that need to be on a register somewhere, and that's
probably probably and then you obviously get the conversation around
the author. I think I'm in quite a unique position,

(12:41):
which is where I'm going to out myself as a thrawn. Again,
I never read the books, so I've got no attachment
to her, to the material whatsoever. So I feel like
I can come at it from a really objective place,
and I appreciate that that's not for everyone. I appreciate
that people have got different feelings to it. And I'm
as a as a cis gender white woman, not privy

(13:04):
to some of the struggles that other people will face
with with that series. But I feel like, because I
can make it so absurd and so so ridiculous, people
can sort of go back to when they first enjoyed
it as a kid and be like, oh, actually that's funny.
Oh yeah, Like we can laugh at that because she's
she's making she's making a gay joke about Dreka and Harry, Like,

(13:26):
we can laugh at that. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (13:28):
And if given you like, you're right, it came out
a really good time. You've given me people like permission
to sort of laugh at Harry Potter content. Again, It's
like the conversation online it was quite obviously quite serious
and it should be you know, it is a serious
thing and it should be discussed. But probably it's nice
as well to just, like I said, just see your
content and just enjoy it for what it is and
laugh about it.

Speaker 2 (13:49):
And I think, as as an online community one of
the big ways that we dealt with trauma over the
past few years. I mean, even looking at things like
when the Queen died, Yeah, everyone immediately turns to means
now whether that's right or wrong. Like, especially British people
have got such a bad sense of humor.

Speaker 1 (14:08):
Yeah, yeah, I.

Speaker 2 (14:09):
Feel like it is a coping mechanism for so many people.
It's like being able to take the make out of
things and being able to laugh at things and actually
like taking a step back and be like, right, how
do I feel about this? How should I feel about this?
Can I laugh at it? Is it funny?

Speaker 1 (14:27):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (14:27):
Yeah, If you don't laugh it, you might have a breakdown.

Speaker 1 (14:30):
So yeah, and you're so right, Like and actually, I think,
especially like British humor is so good. Sometimes when you
see something online and actually you know, it's not even
British humors. Sometimes you go online you just see something
and it just restores your faith in humanity because it
is just so funny. Sometimes you look at it and
you're like, too far to Yeah, there's always someone who

(14:52):
has to take it too far, But a lot of
the time you're like that is sometimes what's needed. You
just need to laugh, laugh at something. But Okay, So
then moving into the future, and I always ask you
for this, so obviously you're not a but Girley, you're
a film Girley. So series. Were you excited when you
had there's going to be a series.

Speaker 2 (15:11):
Or are you like it was a little bit of
me that was that I looked at it and I
was a bit disappointed. And it's not because I think,
I honestly think they're going to do an amazing job
of it. Yeah, well, I think the thing that there
was a couple of things at this point of me.
There was the fact that there's involvement from a certain

(15:31):
person that nobody really wants to be involved be I
think there's such a discussion around children in media at
the moment, and children in not even necessarily in film,
but like children as a whole. Yeah, in the public eye,
and I think there's so much scrutiny. And I just
looked and I thought the poor kids that they're going

(15:53):
to cast as Harry, Hermione and Ron are in for
nine years of constant criticism because if you look at
the Stranger Things kids, they're either everybody's favorites or everybody
hates them. And at the end of the day, I mean,
I know they're like twenty now, but when they started
they were eleven, Yeah, and like some of the things
that were getting directed there were were awful and not

(16:14):
worth the amount of money they were getting paid. And
to put some more kids in that firing line feels really,
really risky because if the one of the things I
love about because one of the things I have done
is that I haven't read the books, but I have
seen her child and I really like the her minor

(16:37):
casting that was really controversial for a lot of people,
and I feel like they might do the same thing
with the series, which great for representation. I'm all for it.
I don't care they're fictional kids. Yes, it's like to
be real, but there's going to be a demographic of
people on the Internet that are like she was right
in the original ones.

Speaker 1 (16:55):
And.

Speaker 2 (16:57):
There's at the back of that the kids that they're
because we've all seen the up and casting calls. They're
looking at nine year olds. Yeah, that's terrifying. That's really
really scary. I wish they'd've done it as an animated series, Yes, yeah,
I feel like that would take a lot of the heat.
But I do also I love some of the stuff

(17:17):
that HBO put out recently, like they've they've really handled
because I'm a huge fan of the Last of Us. Yes,
I think it's fantastic, Like they've done such a good job.
And I went back in and watched all the video
game breakdowns and they've paid so much attention to details.
So I think the fans of the book happy because
I think that they do respect source material. With doing

(17:41):
it as a series, they're going to have so much
more time to go into details that they maybe had
to miss out with the film that people are mad about. Yeah,
I mean, I don't know if you get it, and
I had no idea who it was, but like everybody's
so mad about Peeves the Ghost.

Speaker 1 (17:54):
Oh my gosh, I hear it every day and that
they're like, and I'm like, this is so what you
have to when the series comes out, do reaction live
to all these characters that you don't have a clue,

(18:15):
like huge characters as well, if you like read the
book and you're just going to be like, who's this.

Speaker 2 (18:22):
That's like the biggest thing in my comments section. They're like,
you've never read the book, and.

Speaker 1 (18:28):
I mean, but like I've read the book and I'm
still like I don't remember that. Like I'm just like
I interviewed him, Trey, and he's got like an encyclopedic knowledge.

Speaker 2 (18:38):
It has too much time spent in those.

Speaker 1 (18:43):
It's insane. But I'm like, oh my gosh, but I
was like soaking up everything he was saying. I was like, yeah, yeah, yeah,
maybe you're so right. I hadn't actually thought about the
children that are going to be and what it's like.
And I guess it's like such a different time from
when the films were made. Like I think, like just
from like my few years I spent on it, we

(19:03):
were in such a bubble, like there really was nothing
like there'd be like the odd pictures in the paper
of when we were filming. Obviously when it came out
it was slightly different, but still it wasn't You weren't
as accessible, do you know what I mean. I don't
think like Dan Rupert and Emma was like as accessible
to read bad things. You didn't have social media, someone
could just like send you a message, or you couldn't

(19:24):
really get like unsolicited opinions.

Speaker 2 (19:27):
Criticizing that every move as well, because like they'll put
one wrong tweet on and their kids. Yeah, from a
bit of grace, you were probably saying stupid things at
fifteen as well. Yeah, yeah, I'm absolutely here for holding
people accountable for saying stupid things. But I think sometimes

(19:47):
you've got to take a step back and be like,
this is a kid, yeah, not sat their GCSEs. Wow,
let's give them a bit of grace. Everybody gave you
a bit of grace when you're a child, you just weren't.
You didn't have a platform like that, because I think,
I think if the Internet leads them to it, this
could be the most amazing, exciting, wonderful career starting journey

(20:08):
three hopefully really talented kids and I won all the
success and all the fun in the world for them
because we all got to grow to grow up with
this fantastic like fantasy world where and social media wasn't
really a thing and we got to see through our

(20:29):
imagination like, oh my God, that could be me. I
could be waiting and were it to these kids to
have that. I really hope they get it.

Speaker 1 (20:38):
I really do.

Speaker 2 (20:38):
I really we're all just pre empting the worst and
that it's actually going to be a lovely, magical experience
for them. Yeah, it's going to be so cool for them, Like, oh,
I mean you were on set, look at what you've
got to do, Like they're going to get to do
that for nine years.

Speaker 1 (20:53):
Yeah, yeah, and it was never not. Yeah, that's what
I always say, Like, obviously, it is quite weird. And
so I started filming when I was ten, and it
is odd having like a pretty serious full time job
when you're ten years But Warners did a great job of,
like I said, keeping us in a bubble, protecting us.
They always wanted us, and you know, I think it

(21:14):
mainly came from like David Hayman and Chris Columbus. They
really wanted to like protect the fact we were children,
and they wanted us to like have a good time
being there. They didn't want it to be something that
we were like because you're contracted, so you're coming whether
you like it or not. Like I'm sure if you were,
like I really want to go. There'd be like we
can find a hundred other children that would want to
do this, but like, ultimately are contracted to be there,

(21:34):
and I think they always wanted it to be fun.
I think the fact that David Hayman's still involved makes
me think that he will have like he has that
knowledge of what made it fun twenty years ago, so
hopefully that that stays the same. But like, ultimately, every
day we were there, I always wanted to be there
and always wanted to be filming. It was never not
fun going to set. It was always like the most hype,

(21:55):
and I remember we'd always be like really like as
like ten eleven, twelve thirteen, we would be like hysterical
going to set because we'd all be so excited. And
I just think, like these people who were like you know,
like the director of photography and the sound people who
are like used to working with like a listers like actors,
and then you have like a group of like three

(22:16):
twelve year olds that are like peak level like hysterical
excitement and then trying to like tell us what to do.
Must have just been like a daily nightmare. But they
say it was fun, But I think, like, oh, my gosh.
Now as an adult, I can't even imagine like trying
to just I love.

Speaker 2 (22:31):
The idea of having to wrangle like hundreds of ten
year olds.

Speaker 1 (22:35):
That's yeah, all nice, But it was like that, and
sometimes it was just like we're not getting this done
because everyone's laughing and we're just not like but they
allowed us to do that. I don't ever remember getting
in trouble, do you know what I mean? I don't
even remember them being like, no, come on serious now.

Speaker 2 (22:49):
I think it reflected in so much of like because
you see Chris Columbus and David Heyman's work where they've
done all the like kid centric films because I mean,
it's just been Christmas. One of the big ones is
Home alup, Yeah, and we Cool is still he's like
an overwhelmingly amount of professional for what a kid his
age should be. But like it's so obvious that he's
being a kid on set and they being there, and

(23:11):
that's such a lovely thing, and I do hope that's
something that they bring into their He's the most exciting.
You're pretending to go to Wizard School. I know, that's
like the best, Like you're all flinging ones at each other,
like swishing your capes about some of them are going
to have like cats and frogs and rats. It's so fun.

(23:35):
Like wrong, people are mad about it because like this
isn't even like there's going to be adults watching it.
But the people that are mad about it aren't even
the target audience. It's it's a kid's book. Yeah, it's
a kid It's going to be like kids that watch it,
Like they'll be adults as well, but it's going.

Speaker 1 (23:56):
To be the kids. Yeah, like you said, like the
kids will love it.

Speaker 2 (23:58):
The kids enjoy it without what's complaining about Yeah.

Speaker 1 (24:02):
Without adults critiquing a nine year olds acting.

Speaker 2 (24:05):
Yeah, sure, yeah, it's so stupid.

Speaker 1 (24:09):
It is for the adults then, like the adult characters,
do you have any sort of people that you think like, oh,
I'd love that actor to take on that.

Speaker 2 (24:18):
This is actually the funniest thing ever, because when we
were at Leaky Icon, there was rumor going around the
internet because I was still really fresh and like a
Harry Potter content, there was a rumor going around the
internet that me and Tom we're going to be an
our sister and Lucius and I remember reading it because
it was about the same time that there was a
rumor going around that I was pregnant as well, and
I was like, this is the wildest time on the internet.

(24:38):
And I remember reading it and being like, this is
the funniest thing in the world. I've gone from being
a kid's party princess to having actual internet rumors about
me being in a Harry Potter series. Yeah, yeah, funny.
And I looked at it and I was like, I'd
actually love to see Tom go back as Lucious, Like
I think that would be the most amazing thing because

(25:00):
he's still so passionate about Harry Potter and the fans
love him, and he still loves the Malfoys in pure way.
There's a lot of conversation about actors not being able
to bring themselves away from a world, but like he's
so pure with it and it's like not coming from like, hey,

(25:21):
this is the Like he's so successful. He just loves
that project and I'd love to see him go back. Yes,
I think he'd be so I think it'd be so
like fun to see him go back and like bring
that role because he's just got so much, like he's
got so many good intentions for like the fans and materials.

Speaker 1 (25:43):
Yeah, have you seen him like we said, like we
saw him at leak and you see him with the
fans and a good guy with it. See, this is
my thing. So actually I spoke about this a little
while ago that I don't know, like I think I
worked a one hundred percent you know what you and
Tom Lucius and a sister. Yes, I'm in. I'm in

(26:03):
a start petition this. I'll put this out on social media.
I'm going to start start tagging David Hayman. We're going
to get it going, I think, and I think like
you might. I tried to explain this to Trey and
I think he was like, huh. But with the Last
of Us, I loved that there was little Easter eggs
in it. Unless you're a super fan, you wouldn't know.
So for example, her mum is the girl that the video, Like, yeah,

(26:26):
explain it all again, but like, I hope they do
little Easter eggs like that. So if you'll really like
love it, there's little things like you know, some of
the voice actors were then different parts, and I love
those that it's like not quite so literal that you
just see it and you're like, oh my gosh, that's.

Speaker 2 (26:42):
It's just like a little sieed like yes, I mean,
I don't know if we can talk about him, but
Wicked and in Dina and Chris and Kristen being back
and having like the little yeah, like a little eye
blink and your miss it kind of moment.

Speaker 1 (26:56):
Yeah, I haven't actually seen Wicked yet.

Speaker 2 (26:59):
Oh my god, I know I've seen it three times.

Speaker 1 (27:02):
I think it's on streaming now. Because so my family
have like a little bit of a connection with Wicked
because my sister in law and worked on it and
she met her partner and now my and they now
have my niece Hazel. So Wicked, we wouldn't they wouldn't
be together and we wouldn't have little Hazel in our family.

(27:23):
So when they went to go I know, so they
went to obviously the like cast and cruise screening. They
both worked worked on it, and like my sister and
aaw was like, I was really emotional the whole time
because like a the film in Beach was like, because
just little Hazel wouldn't have been there far past had crossed.
I was like, so, I know it's adorable, isn't it.

(27:44):
And I feel like Arianna and Cynthia would have loved
that story. I'm like, you need to get it to them.

Speaker 2 (27:49):
I feel like they will. I feel like exactly everyone
grabbed your nails, and I do it all the time
because I've got like the acrylic nails. My friends now
like they'll be like I didn't know what they were

(28:11):
doing it first, because I think I'd have like a
day off the internet, which is like takes three or
five working days to catch up, wasn't it because now
and people were just grabbing my nail and I was like,
what is happening? I felt like et I thought we
were doing. And then I watched the video. I was like, oh,
so that's funny.

Speaker 1 (28:29):
Yeah that is so good. Yeah, the like that's throwing
back to like the online culture of what's come out,
but like I think again to throw it back to
like another Chloe was like with the casting, she just
hopes it's people who love their roles as much as
like Ariana and Cynthia did, because that just like translates
on screen. I think if you truly like dive into

(28:50):
a universe and like really love the part you're playing,
that's like my number one hope for anyone who's who's
cast that they just love the story and like I
want to get involved. So let's talk a little bit
about Tom because when we met you also said I
think like, first of all, it's it's wild there. I
think a everyone thinks he's your boyfriend.

Speaker 2 (29:10):
Yeah, the funniest thing in the whole world.

Speaker 1 (29:13):
And the first is it the first time you met him,
you just thought you were going to the book launch
and then they were like, come and do that, and.

Speaker 2 (29:21):
Then they were like do you want to do a
video with him? And I was like, what the hell?
I'm like stood outside a toilet in a hole where
with Tom Felton, Like, hi, and how.

Speaker 1 (29:35):
Does how do you feel like he? Did he enjoy
your your interpretation of had he seen your stuff? And
did he enjoy your interpreting because.

Speaker 2 (29:44):
He was like your you're funny? I was like, thanks
than you. He's he's the nicest guy anybody that's met him,
and he just wants to talk about his dogs. He's
like the loveliest guy. And I couldn't have had better because,
like you, hear so many horror stories about doing impressions
of people and them hating it. Yeah, because like I

(30:07):
don't even think I particularly sound like him. That much
like I know for a fact, I've been in a
room with the man. It's weird. It's like looking back
when that snapchat filter went viral and it was like
you as a man or like you as a woman.
Oh yeah, I did it, and mine was Tom. I
think I made a video about it because I literally
had done this film and I was like, that's yea.

(30:29):
It is really strange seeing someone step back at you
with the same face. I can't explain it, like in
the same room, because some people like you don't look
anything alike. I'm like, no, if you see us in
a room together, it's weird, Like uncann I've got three
brothers and not one of them looks as much like
me as Tom does. It's really strange. It's just a

(30:51):
weird experience because when I started putting those videos on,
people were like tagging him and stuff. You never you
never really expect any him to come back from it.
And then I think one night he commented on one
of the videos and I was like, oh, oh no, oh,
this could go horribly wrong. But like he was the

(31:13):
nicest about it, and I've seen him cinema, like we
had a laugh about it there. I had spoken to
him about my mum when I met him the first time,
when he came over and was like, how's your mom. Yeah,
because my mum is also with all the Internet roomors,
She's convinced I should marry him, which is weird.

Speaker 1 (31:33):
I mean, what your your child would just be like
a third of you.

Speaker 2 (31:36):
I know, we patriot want to like, wait nine years,
he can give them.

Speaker 1 (31:41):
Like exactly what they're looking for.

Speaker 2 (31:45):
We can, we can, we can make that happen. But
it's it's just really strange because the other really strange
thing about this whole internet arc of me looking like
Tom Felton was Tom Felton's was my sister's first crush.

Speaker 1 (32:01):
She like obsessed the fact now that you're like, well,
she hates it, okay.

Speaker 2 (32:06):
Because on the day I was telling him, I was like,
I was like, you're my sister's first Internet crush, and
he recorded her a video and like we sent it.
Because the whole wild thing about this experience is that
I asked my mom and my sister if they wanted
to come to me, because I was like, oh, he's
going to be there, and they were like, oh, we can't.
I think my mum was like doing some like she

(32:28):
was like helping volunteer at something and we sent them
the video of me with Tom and they were like,
you didn't tell us you were going to eat him
our plans?

Speaker 1 (32:39):
I was like, you never know what these things, but.

Speaker 2 (32:44):
It was It's the weirdest experience because it was for years.
She was like, you ruined it for me because I
really fanted this man, and now nobody tells me how
much you look like him. Yeah, that's gross.

Speaker 1 (32:56):
I mean it's not ideal.

Speaker 2 (32:59):
It's not ideal because we're quite close in age as well.
I'm twenty five, she's twenty three, so we grew up.
And that was I fancied Dean Thomas.

Speaker 1 (33:09):
I also like, have you seen him now?

Speaker 2 (33:12):
Yeah, because I watched him in Is It How to
Get Away with Murder? And I was like, oh my god,
this man is beautiful. I love him and Race was
always drunk and mouth for Grace was well, love a
bit of bad boy, don't we Chris, and I've sort
of like ruined it for her, which is really funny. Yeah,
I laugh at it constantly.

Speaker 1 (33:34):
So what does your family think of like this, because
I mean you absolutely are smashing it online, like your
profile has just grown and grown and like as it
should because, like I said, your content is amazing, it
is so funny, it's so lovely, and I love just
like I also love it when you just like bring
us along with stuff, like I enjoys seeing like the
behind the scenes of what you're doing. But what do
they make of it?

Speaker 2 (33:55):
My mum and dad were really confused for about a year.
My mum and dad couldn't get their head around what
was going on. They were like, what are you doing?
Because they didn't understand that I was making money from
it either. They were really confused to some extent. My
dad still is because my dad isn't. The only app
that my dad has is WhatsApp. Like, the only reason

(34:16):
my dad sees any of my videos is because people
at work show them in Oh yeah, like he'll be
filling because my dad, he'll be filling grocery on a
night and somebody will be like, have you see what
your daugh's done this week? I've looked out in the
family department because they've always been like one hundred percent
behind whatever I've done, as long as it's not been

(34:39):
like completely completely stupid. Yeah, they're they're all really supportive.
And they've really loved because I've been able to say
I took my mom for Christmas dinner at in the
Great Hall, Yeah, and it was just like the best
thing for her because she she is the biggest Harry
Pot fan I know. Yeah, she loves books, she loved

(35:00):
the films, everything about it. Me and my mum have
been to the studio tell like six times in the
past year because they keep inviting us back for different
events and stuff, and my mom loves it just as
much every time. And like, because of where the Internet's
got me sort of thing, I got to take my
dad to go and meet Bruce Springsteen. My dad's been

(35:22):
listening to Bruce Springsteen since he was seventeen. Yeah, my
dad's like fifty seven I think now, so like it's
been like forty years of his life and he got
to go and see him in the flesh. And it's
I think when people look at content creators, I think
because a lot of them do come from quite privileged backgrounds,
Like they're already from really well families, and that's why

(35:43):
they do well, because they're like documenting their life and stuff.
I came from the like most normal northern family. Yeah,
we used to take the piss out of content creators
and stuff, because that's not a real job. Why during
lockdown we were like, oh, other day off in Dubai

(36:03):
and we were it's really strange, and I have to
like pinch myself quite a lot. And it's been sort
of been like the the cause of a little bit
of like constant imposter syndrome and I have to check
myselfs with me. But I've been able to get my
family to do so many things and take them so
many places that I just wouldn't have been able to

(36:24):
do without being in this space. It's it's really nice. Actually,
it feels it's quite a full sacle moment because my
mum and dad I went to theater school at like fifteen,
and they had to sacrifice quite a lot to get
me there. And it's I mean, you'll know you've been

(36:45):
in the industry. It's expensive, and it's long hours, and
there's lots of auditioning, and there's lots of like sitting
down on the floor crying and being like I'm doing
the wrong thing. And so for them to have done
that to then be able to take a back seat
and like like I'm I'm taking them on holiday later

(37:07):
on the year. And that's something that I never thought
i'd be able to do. It's the loveliest thing. And
they're great and they love it and they want to
get involved all the time. When can I put a
dobbin mask on? Yeah, my brother I got him to
pretend to be Cedric Diggery whilst I danced over and
dressed as Valdemore. My sisters have had dressed up as

(37:29):
a grange like they they're just so keen to get involved.
Although the cheeky buggers have started next door in me
for money, like, I'll do it, but it's gonna yeah.

Speaker 1 (37:42):
Yeah. I always think that, like, like shared success is
the best success. So if you have a successful thing
that you can then share with people and your family, like,
it feels so so lovely to be able to it's.

Speaker 2 (37:54):
So much nicer and like we've one of one of
my like prouder things at the minute is we've been
able to get a rescue dog like I've got.

Speaker 1 (38:04):
I can't believe that wasn't the first thing I said.
Congrats on your dog, baby, you love her.

Speaker 2 (38:09):
She's got ears like Dobby, She's very sweet. She's actually
asleep on my feet here. She's she's hilarious and because
of like the content creator thing I've I've got, I've
got time to rehabilitate a little rescue and I love
that she's the.

Speaker 1 (38:22):
Best, amazing And actually Dobby's ears are based So when
I interviewed the concept artist who drew Dobby, he based
it on one of the women in the art department
brought in her dog every day and he was just
like kept staring at the dog, and then the dogs
called Max, and subconsciously he drew the ears and he

(38:43):
was like, oh, I've drawn Max's ears, and that's how
Dobby got his ears from this dog Max.

Speaker 2 (38:49):
I love. That's so cute. You can actually see that
he's very like.

Speaker 1 (38:56):
Doglike, yeah, yeah, oh so cute. And I love dogs too.
I've got dog. She's not here at the moment, thank god,
because whenever I start doing an interviews, when she decides
she wants to be like jumping up at the door
to go out, she wants to be here, and I'm like, Meadow,
because it's fine, I don't mind like that happening. But
when you're just listening to something with no visual and
there's weird sounds in the background. It's like really off putting.
When I listen back, I'm like, people are gonna be thinking,

(39:17):
what on earth is that? It's like a dog breathing,
jumping up, but she's not here at the moment that.

Speaker 2 (39:22):
I'm really lucky with Meple. She's like the chillist dog good.
She just sleeps all the time. And then when she's
not sleeping, she's running around like a crackhead. That thing's
only got three legs, Like, I've never seen a faster
dog in my life. She's absolutely insane.

Speaker 1 (39:40):
Was she called Maple or to do choose Maple?

Speaker 2 (39:42):
She was called she's still only like five months old,
and because she'd start being trained with that name, and
we were like, oh, don't yeah, it's cute, she's cute.
It's it's like the video of there was a video
of a German shepherd like years ago that went viral
and it was a dog talking about well, somebody doing
a voice over a dog.

Speaker 1 (40:01):
The dog can't Yes, yes, I've seen this talking.

Speaker 2 (40:04):
About Maple Bacon and she looks like that dog.

Speaker 1 (40:09):
Apele can start featuring in your She can be Dobby
in your next skit.

Speaker 2 (40:12):
You have to use actually just done her first ad,
like I mean probably when this goes out, because the
ad goes out on Monday. Probably going out, And she's
just done an ad for Wizards of Bacon. She's in
the video she picked while I was making a gay.

(40:32):
I'm proud of her, honestly, very photogenic dogs.

Speaker 1 (40:37):
Absolutely gorgeous. Congrats. It's the best thing having a dog.

Speaker 2 (40:41):
She's my baby. I love her.

Speaker 1 (40:44):
Right, Okay, so this is my what I feel like.
It's very millennial, but I like to call fun questions.
Feel like I need to work on a title for
it because like fun questions sounds so like but you know,
and they're not even that fun. I feel if I
really set people up for a bit of disappointment. But
we'll go with it anyway. So like my first Okay,

(41:07):
I've got it up too much of fun because it
happened I have now, but I'm like a fun question
for you. I'm hoping you think the whole thing is fun.
But these are my ones that I'm like a bit
more child. So first of all, what house are you in?

Speaker 2 (41:22):
If you're in a house, I'm genuinely slytherin, which I
think surprise is no one because I'm pure chaos, yeah,
and a little bit evil.

Speaker 1 (41:32):
Yeah, okay, cool. And then which is your favorite Harry
Potter movie? Right?

Speaker 2 (41:39):
Everyone always gets mad when I say this. I you've
Goblet of Fire. Okay, Goblet of Fire is my favorite.
I think Dumbledore shouting calmly Harry is the funniest thing.
It's my favorite clip of any of the Harry Potter films.

Speaker 1 (41:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (41:59):
I just love it. And I think the fact that
they send four kids to their death is just the
funniest thing ever. Yeah, like Hunger Games before Hunger Games
was even a thing, and dragging in their hilarious Yeah. Absolutely.
I just think it's pure chaos and I love the
your ball, I love the hole aesthetic of all that.
I think that's fantastic. And I just think it's I

(42:22):
think it's like Pete carry Potter, and people disagree with me,
People like, no, it's the worst one. It's like, no,
it's really not like if you.

Speaker 1 (42:28):
Actually watch it, I don't think it's the worst one.

Speaker 2 (42:30):
It's the most fun. I actually think it's the most fun.
Like I think because the kids are all at an
age where they start being a bit cheeky with the
humor and the scene of McGonagall teaching ron to dance. Yes, yeah,
I read somewhere ages ago they were like, whilst that
was going on, Snape was having to teach all the
Slytherins and that is the funniest thing to think. Yeah,

(42:54):
and I wish God rest is soul. I wish that
they'd have filmed that scene with all the Oh that's
been so good. I'd have loved to have seen that,
and it's just so much fun. And yeah, people died,
but like people die in every Harry pot Yeah.

Speaker 1 (43:11):
Exactly. I know. I love I love Goblet of Five
because I feel like it expands the world, like the
world building of it, the fact that there's other schools
because you.

Speaker 2 (43:20):
Just want to yes, the coolest people.

Speaker 1 (43:23):
Yes, exactly, So I think that's then I think that's
a good choice. I've been really like, I don't really
like Order of the Phoenix, but what I've heard from
people is that Order of the Phoenix book is amazing,
which I have read the book, but I think I've
read it once, so I can't really remember. This was
like years ago, but people are really excited for the

(43:44):
translation of the book to series because the book is
so good. So I'm like so excited. I mean, obviously
we have some eight years, but I'm not excited to
see what like Order of the Phoenix is really all about.
But I think it's a fair choice.

Speaker 2 (43:57):
I really controversially like the first five films. I know
this is really controversially. I think that the toun shift
between five and six is too drastic, and I think
I think one of the things that makes Harry Potter
a great is how fun it is. And I feel

(44:17):
like if it'd have been more gradual into the dark,
it'd have made sense. It literally goes happy, happy, happy, fun,
fun fun. Everyone dies. Yeah, it's so bleak and it's
just depressing.

Speaker 1 (44:32):
I don't know, see. I think Half Blood Prints, I
really like Deafinitely Hallows. I'm kind of with You'm a
bit take it or leave it. It's probably the film
that if I had to watch one, that the last
two would be the last ones I would want to.

Speaker 2 (44:45):
I fell asleep watching them. I was like, this is
not for me. Bro no oh.

Speaker 1 (44:52):
No.

Speaker 2 (44:53):
I really think there's something really magical about the first
few and I think because I look at it, because
I got into it later. I look at it as
this is a kid's franchise. Yeah, enjoying. Adults can love
and no one should be shamed for mirror Margolies, I'm
looking at you.

Speaker 1 (45:11):
It is what it is.

Speaker 2 (45:12):
Everyone, everyone can love it. But I think it's aimed
at kids. And I think the fact that it is
so magic, and like my favorite bits. We always like
the bit where she comes down with the trolley with
all the sweets and yeah, the meals in the great
Hall and around with the invisibility clerk and yeah, it's
so fun and thinking about doing that as a kid, yeah,

(45:34):
really fun. So I think watching it, even as an adult,
you watch it and you're like, God, I'd have loved
to have done that. And I like those bits. And
there's less of those bits in the last three. And
I get that they're grown ups. I get that mature,
and I get that people should be allowed to mature,
but things be fun, like let's say, let's let's not

(45:54):
make ourselves miserable please.

Speaker 1 (45:56):
Yeah, yeah, no, I agree, Like the fun is the
first sees because it's just like the fun is being
at the school, like you said, like the little bit drama,
like when a little bit of romance comes into it,
and then at the end, this is really serious and
everyone and I don't like it. I agree with you now,
I'm like, right, sit heaven and done it. It's done, Okay.

(46:19):
If you could spend one day somewhere in the Wizarding World,
where would it be.

Speaker 2 (46:24):
Oh, Honey Jukes. Easily, Yeah, easily. I had a punkin
pacity for the first time last year. Changed my life.
It was glorious. I loved it Honey Jukes absolutely and
spend hours in there. I don't think i'd leave, ye,
I look like I'm Marge.

Speaker 1 (46:44):
Just let you out of the window, I know. And
actually the set of Honey Jukes, I remember, like when
we were filming, the level of detail on all the sweets.
I remember it was like the sticks of Rock had
like Honey Jukes written in the middle, and it was
just like so beautiful, Like I can't explain it. It
was like so like the detail they'd put into this
sweet shot just made it like unreal. I'll never forget.

(47:06):
Like would always be so excited when there was a
new set that had been like put up and would
go on for the first time because they I mean
you can see from the studio tour.

Speaker 2 (47:14):
I mean I get excited when they have a new
set of the studio. That's like, I think, whether whether
you're a Harry Potter fan or not, the studio atur
is fantastic because it even as just like a film
fan going into like how much goes into a franchise
of that scale is going in and seeing because I
remember somebody telling me how many tea cups were in

(47:36):
the divination classroom and just being like, that's an insane
amount of tea cups. But it is like the details unreal. Yeah,
people don't get to you don't get to see that
as much in the film. And I think when you
got to the studio tour and like you guys got
to be on those sets, a whole new appreciation for
how much work goes in behind the scenes don't think about.

Speaker 1 (47:58):
Yeah, definitely if you're just a film a fan of
film seeing sets, because Harry Potter does not one off,
A lot of films have that sort of level of
detail and stuff like that. Yeah, it's absolutely amazing. Okay,
if you could brew one potion or use one spell
in real life, what would it be? Oh oh.

Speaker 2 (48:18):
See, I could go really sarcastic and be like love potion,
let's get Timothy shallow mate fallen.

Speaker 1 (48:23):
But that's my one.

Speaker 2 (48:25):
He's I think I go liquid lock and go for
the lottery numbers.

Speaker 1 (48:31):
You know it's clever.

Speaker 2 (48:33):
I've got a mortgage that needs pay like it done,
pay mine off, pay my mom's off. Yeah, I'll never
be seen again. It'll be great. I'll just like on
an island somewhere exactly.

Speaker 1 (48:45):
Yeah, liquid luck. Okay, But you know right, I've got
some would you rather so?

Speaker 2 (49:00):
Yeah? This is where I'm going to have the most
controversial opinions, do.

Speaker 1 (49:03):
You know what? I feel like. I want to write
some new ones, and I've added a few new ones,
but I think I think this is a safe space
for you. Don't worry, Okay, would you rather have a
pet hippogriff or a pet Festal? But we have yet
that the pet Festal. Nothing bad has to have happened
to you to see the pet Festal. Oh.

Speaker 2 (49:19):
I have always been a die hard book Beak fan
because years and years and years ago, they did an
anniversary documentary and it's I cannot find the clip of
the documentary anywhere, but it's my favorite clip ever behind
the scenes documentary because whoever it is, I can't remember
who it is in the clip, but they're talking about
the hippogriff and he turns around and he's like that.

(49:41):
He's like, the clips of the hippogriff are actually just
really detailed, and if you look close enough, you can
actually see the hippogriff do a pool. And it is
my favorite thing that anyone has ever said in a
documentary ever to a point now where like every time
I go back to the studio at All, it's my
mum's seen it. Like my scene walk in and we
walk past book Beak and you can actually see the hippogriff.

(50:06):
And as a result of that, I also asked them
at the studio at All last time I was there,
I was like, would you ban me for life if
I hugged the hippogriph? They were like, yes were they
They were like, if you touch him one day, it
might be worth it. One day. If I'm willing to
end my own career, I might do it.

Speaker 1 (50:23):
I was going to say, if you never ever want
to go back when it gets a point and you're like,
I don't want to come back here.

Speaker 2 (50:28):
When I when I'm looking to retire, I'm going to hug.

Speaker 1 (50:31):
That could be your final online video.

Speaker 2 (50:34):
And then I'll retire to my island that I've won
with my life.

Speaker 1 (50:37):
But yes, yeah, I love that.

Speaker 2 (50:38):
I love book Beach. He's acutest thing. He's so like,
oh my god, he's just a horrible You just want
to squish his face.

Speaker 1 (50:48):
You know, I just want to strike the feather first
sort of combination.

Speaker 2 (50:51):
I'm like, oh, yeah, one day I'm going to do it.

Speaker 1 (50:54):
Yeah, okay, would you rather have as a bestie Harry
Ron or Hermione Hermione.

Speaker 2 (51:00):
It's the other two are hapless, aren't they?

Speaker 1 (51:02):
I know? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (51:04):
My big like bugbear is that Harry Potter is actually
like the worst wizard in Harry Potter. What he uses
the same two spells on repeating.

Speaker 1 (51:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (51:15):
Mine is like do this, do that, And he's like
expelling armis every time earn something else made.

Speaker 1 (51:20):
Yeah, he does. I think he does overuse expelling armist,
if we're going to be honest.

Speaker 2 (51:25):
He does. He really does. Like, you're not telling me
that that man who was responsible for thousands of wizards
genocide beaten by a twelve year older and expelling armors.
That's not happening, do you know what?

Speaker 1 (51:38):
That's actually what my husband says all the time. It's
like it's really annoying that they're like using these like
you know, like Varda and he's just like expelling artist.
It's like just you know, some other things like you
get you don't want to kill them, but you would
be able to use like else that's not it, Like.

Speaker 2 (51:53):
Harry Potter, I don't know whether this comes from like
the Draco and me as well, Like I look at it, Yeah,
you're not even that good a Wizards not that great.
And there's the whole theory that Neville actually could have
been the chosen one as well, and like the entire
story would be exactly the same if it was Neville,
but it would be different if there was no Harmione.

Speaker 1 (52:14):
Yeah, yeah, well I agree. I don't even know if
you're gonna be able to answer this one considering the
revelation you don't know who Peeves is, but I think
you'd be able to get the gist. Would you rather
be haunted by Peeves who's constantly playing pranks on you?
So just to break it down, and Peeves is a
poltergeist who's sort of cheeky and does a lot of pranks, Okay,
so you need to know or in the series, Yeah,

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you'd actually be so good at people.

Speaker 2 (52:38):
I actually started an online campaign the other day. I
was like, because the woman who played Moaning Myrtle was
thirty seven, I'm twenty five. Can I be moaning Metal?

Speaker 1 (52:47):
Yes? I actually feel like either people? Yes? Okay, Well,
then my next thing. Would you rather be pranked by
peeves constantly or constantly have moaning Mertal in your bathroom?

Speaker 2 (52:55):
I love Moaning Mertle. I think she's hilarious, but I
also love to complain. So Moan and Metal get on.

Speaker 1 (53:04):
In a nightmare for anyone who comes around.

Speaker 2 (53:07):
It would be like, do you know when you go
into the girl's bathroom on a night out that woman
sat there selling flip flo but there's always two girls
crying in the corner. Yeah, Mon and Metal we'd be insufferable.

Speaker 1 (53:19):
Yeah, just going around to your house to see the
bath and be like peak. But okay, would you rather
have a time turner or an invisibility cloak?

Speaker 2 (53:27):
Oh? Time turner?

Speaker 1 (53:29):
Really?

Speaker 2 (53:30):
Yeah? Yeah? Because I've I've done, I've done and said
so many stupid things it's really inconsequential, but I'd like
to change them because you know, when you lie awork
at night and you can and you're trying to go
to sleep and then your brain goes Do you remember
when you said this to this person?

Speaker 1 (53:47):
Yes, yeah, I do know that feeling. It happens all
the time. I actually had that last night. But yeah, yeah,
I get it the rest. Yeah, okay, time Turner, I
kind of get I feel like what I actually don't know.
I'd really like both always said like an invisibility clicks.
I could just like watch my children, but then not
know and.

Speaker 2 (54:07):
Too clumsy for an invisibility class. Harry was a poltergeist.
You're looking ship over. Trusted would not know, like they'd
be like, oh, there's somebody in the room.

Speaker 1 (54:20):
You're not sneaking. You're not sneaking enough for an invisibility click. Okay.
Would you rather have a first kiss with Harry and
the Astronomy Tower under the Stars or a passionate I
don't know why. I like, literally I've been rinsed this
because I don't say Harry's kiss is passionate and I
say Malfoy's kiss is pasionate, So both are passionate. Okay, Justin,
would you rather have a kiss with Harry and Astronomy

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Tower under the Stars or Malfoy in the common room
a fire, because it would be.

Speaker 2 (54:46):
Too weird if it was Malfoy. Yeah, it'd be way
too weird. It'd be like kissing my brother.

Speaker 1 (54:52):
Yeah, yeah, okay, Harry, Harry, I want to carry Yeah.
He could be a good kisser, a fun guy.

Speaker 2 (54:59):
Isn't what a story for the party?

Speaker 1 (55:02):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (55:03):
Yeah, Don Radcliffe, that's great.

Speaker 1 (55:09):
You're don are going to get all great? Okay. Would
you rather have a flying car or a broomstick? Oh?

Speaker 2 (55:16):
A broomstick?

Speaker 1 (55:18):
Broomstick?

Speaker 2 (55:19):
Because I'm a ship driver?

Speaker 1 (55:20):
Are you so you're not trusted to take it to
the skies?

Speaker 2 (55:26):
I feel like there'd be too many pigeons.

Speaker 1 (55:29):
Yeah, okay. Would you rather have a boggut turned into
your most embarrassing memory or receiver howler in the great
Hall from an annoyed family member?

Speaker 2 (55:40):
I've always wanted one, Really.

Speaker 1 (55:43):
I wouldn't. I would definitely take the bogger over the howler.

Speaker 2 (55:48):
I was trying to think of, like what my most
embarrassing thing would be, and I just don't think I
need to see that going back to.

Speaker 1 (55:53):
My Yeah, I don't know. I think I just have
a I have a fear of being like I'm like
a goodie two shoes. I never get in trouble and
I have an absolute fear of being in trouble.

Speaker 2 (56:02):
So I think, like that is we were talking about
this yesterday because I was a bit of a not
like a not a nightmare at school. But I used
to argue with my teachers like I was a bit pretentious,
and I remember, this is going to be like the
most out of pocket story. There was a teacher. He
was the head of science. He was called mister Gascoyne.
And we once had a full on like argument outside

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because my mummy mailed in because long story, they changed
our examples six weeks before our final examiner and so
we've got to learn a whole new syllabus. And I
my mummy e mailed in and was like, was really confused,
and he pulled me out of my lesson to like
break me for my mum's email. And I turned around
and went, well, your staff were just incompetent, aren't they there?
So like I used to laugh when I used to

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get told off and.

Speaker 1 (56:47):
Stuff, Oh my god, no I couldn't. Honestly, that story
is given me anxiety, Like getting in trouble is my
worst thing. I never got in trouble at school, like
never I was like like, like I said, like just
a goodiye, two shoes, never did anything wrong, Like we're
just being total or fear of ever, Like if i'd
like forgotten my homework or like a book or something,
I would like break out a cold sweat and feel
like sick.

Speaker 2 (57:07):
I was.

Speaker 1 (57:08):
I was.

Speaker 2 (57:09):
I used to tell all my teachers that I'd left
my homework in different classrooms. I get to English and
be like, oh, I'm really sorry, I've left my English
homeworking my graphics graphics and I'd be like, oh, really sorry,
I've left my graphics folder in my English classroom.

Speaker 1 (57:24):
Playing them all off against each other.

Speaker 2 (57:26):
They'd be like, and I'm like, well, well you're all liars.

Speaker 1 (57:30):
Like how has no problem for you? So that's easy, okay.
Last one, would you rather spend the night alone in
the Forbidden Forest or Chamber of Secrets? The Chamber of Secrets?
The best list is alive.

Speaker 2 (57:41):
Oh they both sound really fun.

Speaker 1 (57:44):
And they're not going to be fun. That's going to
be scary. That's my scary question.

Speaker 2 (57:48):
That sounds like a fun time either way, Like there's
there's some cool ship. I think maybe Forbidden forage because
like potential unicorn sighting. That would be fun. Also, like
imagine the Blair which spin off you could do in
the forbidden Forest?

Speaker 1 (58:05):
Yeah, I mean that would That's very you, isn't.

Speaker 2 (58:07):
It exact angle as arragd comes sprinting.

Speaker 1 (58:13):
I think like, yeah, a lot of people have said, well,
not a lot of people, Trey said Chamber of Secrets,
but Chloe and Melissa said Ford forests and exactly the
same thing to see a unicorn.

Speaker 2 (58:26):
It would be so fun.

Speaker 1 (58:27):
Yeah, I think I would do forbidden forests.

Speaker 2 (58:29):
But yeah, I don't know, like camping mm hmmmm with
higher sticks.

Speaker 1 (58:39):
Just a tiny bit higher, because you can.

Speaker 2 (58:41):
I'll do anything once like fun.

Speaker 1 (58:45):
Yeah you do, like a charity like twenty four sleep
twenty four hours sleep out in the.

Speaker 2 (58:54):
Sleeping sem I've done, yeahtland once like Airbnb. That sounds
way less scary.

Speaker 1 (59:13):
That is less scary. Okay, fine, those are all my
would you rather's? The next one is our take on
you know, the game Snog marry avoid, But it's I've
got to get this right. So snog is love potion,
no snog no tell a lie? Snog is magic missiletoe?

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Who are you barking? At Babel wants to get involved.

Speaker 2 (59:37):
Babel's got a pinion.

Speaker 1 (59:39):
What are you ready to say? Because I'm getting it
rock Love Pertions, Marry snog Is, Magic missiletoe kill is
obviously okay your first one. Harry Neville, Dean Thomas.

Speaker 2 (59:56):
Oh love persion Dean Thomas.

Speaker 1 (59:58):
That wow, yeah, love person Dean.

Speaker 2 (01:00:02):
Magic missile to Neville because the Neville glow ups real.

Speaker 1 (01:00:08):
I know another guy's just stayed.

Speaker 2 (01:00:10):
And also he's he's really sweet and he's a Northern Yeah,
I love an order and after a Harry because like
learn other spells. Yeah, how can you be the chosen one? Yeah,
and choose the same.

Speaker 1 (01:00:24):
Spell He's brought it on himself.

Speaker 2 (01:00:29):
Really had that man to defend my honor? Your odd.

Speaker 1 (01:00:40):
Okay? What about Hermione? Ginny Luna, Oh love person Luna? Okay, Mary, Yeah,
marry Luna.

Speaker 2 (01:00:48):
She's so weird. Yeah, I'm say missile to Hermione mm hmm.
And this is going to be awful because I've met
as well and she's lovely, but.

Speaker 1 (01:01:04):
I love her.

Speaker 2 (01:01:05):
She's the sweetest.

Speaker 1 (01:01:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:01:07):
Yeah, you give me because everybody's got such an Attachment's
book Jinny, but I've not read the book. So I
can only go off film, Jinny. Yeah, and I feel
like they didn't do enough with her in the film.

Speaker 1 (01:01:18):
No, Oh my god, I'm so excited for you to
see the series and see book, Jinny.

Speaker 2 (01:01:25):
Like, give me a little ginger bad ass. I'm here
for it.

Speaker 1 (01:01:28):
Yeah, you're gonna love it.

Speaker 2 (01:01:30):
In the film, Justice for Bonnie, right, honestly, I know,
I know he's great, she's great, and they just didn't
give her enough screen time. Interesting, that's what's so sad.

Speaker 1 (01:01:40):
Yeah, it just wasn't No matter what she did, it
wasn't there. They don't give you the script to do it, then,
like what can you do?

Speaker 2 (01:01:46):
Kiss over the mince Pies is the most awkward film kids,
all the time.

Speaker 1 (01:01:51):
All the kisses in Harry Potter so awkward.

Speaker 2 (01:01:54):
That's so funny. It's like peak Year seven house party
kiss Yeah, Yeah, table with w U K D Bottle.

Speaker 1 (01:02:02):
Yeah, Okay, what about Malthoy, Cedric Degree and Ron.

Speaker 2 (01:02:12):
Oh, there's so many ways that this could go. I
feel like Avard Cedric because he's dead anyway, and like,
let's not kill off any more people than we need to.
I might be cruel, but I'm not. I'm not. I'm
not murderer, he was already dead. I think maybe marry Ron,

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because like, who wouldn't want Julie Waters is the mother
in law.

Speaker 1 (01:02:38):
That's what I've always said this When I've asked that
one and people haven't married Ron, I'm like, what, so
you don't want to be part of like the Weasles, because.

Speaker 2 (01:02:45):
Like Winsleys are probably the closest to my family out
of any of the Wizarding families, Miss Riker, but I
probably have to do it with my because twins.

Speaker 1 (01:02:56):
But yeah, just a quick.

Speaker 2 (01:03:00):
No, why wouldn't you want to be Why wouldn't you
want to marry into the weel.

Speaker 1 (01:03:03):
I totally agree. I totally agree one hundred percent with
marry Ron.

Speaker 2 (01:03:07):
I love the borough same. I got the Burrow, I guess,
and it's the most fun thing to play with.

Speaker 1 (01:03:14):
I got a print from Niki Kon of the borough
and it's my favorite.

Speaker 2 (01:03:21):
Yeah it's so good.

Speaker 1 (01:03:24):
Yeah yeah, but I love that, Like my mum's always
like growing up, my mum loves a loud, busy house.
So we always had like people around, always had friends
over and stuff, and I just love the chaos of it.
So definitely can I would love to be part of
that family in the borough. Okay, last one Lucius Bella
tricks Lockhart.

Speaker 2 (01:03:43):
Oh god, that's a fun one in it. I feel
like i'd marry Bellatrix. Yeah, it's unhinged.

Speaker 1 (01:03:54):
Yeah, every day would be fun if different.

Speaker 2 (01:03:56):
It's energy I want. And like also Helen a bottom
cars fit.

Speaker 1 (01:04:02):
She gorgeous. Yeah, totally.

Speaker 2 (01:04:05):
I don't know if she's single. Brought him help.

Speaker 1 (01:04:10):
Want to you're in.

Speaker 2 (01:04:15):
Probably snog lucious harm and then kill Lockhart. Yeah, I
feel like I feel like he'd be fun to watch die.

Speaker 1 (01:04:31):
Yeah, But I also I feel like I just remember
this so clearly, like obviously we knew Lockhart was going
to be like super hot, and then I feel so
bad saying this, and they like cast Kenneth Branner, and
I feel like I was like, I'm confused because like
he's not hot, but now like I'm older and see
him in things, I'm like, no, he is hot, But
like at the time, I was like, I'm really confused.

Speaker 2 (01:04:51):
But I think that part of the charm though, because
I think he's supposed to think he's hotter than he is.

Speaker 1 (01:04:56):
Yeah, I guess, yeah, it's like a.

Speaker 2 (01:05:00):
I always compare him to I don't know why Lockhart
as a character reminds me of doing Johnson and doing so.

Speaker 1 (01:05:09):
My fear of whom you're about to say, he drives
me in and.

Speaker 2 (01:05:16):
I get the same vibes from him, and yeah, I don't.
I don't get the appeal with doing Johnson either, Like.

Speaker 1 (01:05:21):
No, no, it's not for me either, not for me.
But yeah, okay, okay, that's all of them. Those are
all my fun questions.

Speaker 2 (01:05:29):
Weren't they fun?

Speaker 1 (01:05:31):
What a time? It makes me laugh so much. When
editing this, I actually had to just take out several

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chunks where I'm just laughing at her take on Harry
Potter and the Harry Potter universe. She really deserves all
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a Harry Potter podcast very similar to this one. But
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