One Page at a Time: Book 4, Page 231

Alice and Martha discuss page 231 of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Alice gets to practice long-form Jim Dale impressions, Barty Crouch Jr. gets to make some weird decisions as Moody, and Harry's at of defiance has the potential to become a pretty sick meme. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Book four, page two hundred and thirty one. May I
have your attention? Please? May I have your attention?

Speaker 2 (00:09):
Please? Well, the real Weird Sisters please stand up.

Speaker 1 (00:17):
We're gonna have a problem here were the Weird Sisters
were of the real Weird Sisters? All you are the
Weird Sisters are fine and not the Bakers. Well, the
real Weird Sisters, please stand up, Please stand up, Please
stand up.

Speaker 3 (00:29):
Hi, and welcome to the Real Weird Sisters. I'm Martha
and I'm Alice, and today we're here to talk about
the two hundred and thirty first page of Harry Potter
and the Goblet of Fire. Very exciting this week because
this is actually our first non dialogue heavy chapter or
sorry page.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
Oh true, I didn't even think about that. But you're right.
It's not driven totally by dialogue.

Speaker 3 (00:51):
There's really only like two lines of dialogue. So very
exciting to talk about the pros on this page, that's
for sure.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
So good good point. Thank you for pointing that out.

Speaker 3 (01:01):
And I also wanted to say we were both wrong.
Last week we or two weeks ago, we predicted where
will page two hundred and thirty one B and we
were wrong.

Speaker 2 (01:11):
It's not they are at Hogwarts. It's the first day
of Hogwarts.

Speaker 1 (01:16):
But still, yeah, it was pretty early in the school year.

Speaker 2 (01:19):
But yes, they have finally made it there by page
two under thirty one. That's a good thing.

Speaker 3 (01:25):
Yes, I realized that the last two well, I guess
last week we talked about it just because it was
setting up the setting. But the first week I don't
think we talked about what the chapter title was and
what chapter number it was. And I do think that
it's probably important to sort of, no, we're just doing
one page at a time, but to kind of ground
us in the context this is in that chapter, to.

Speaker 2 (01:43):
Always ground us ourselves in the context before we go
any further exactly.

Speaker 3 (01:48):
So chapter fifteen bo Batten's and dirm Strang, which the
chapter title in this case, I guess maybe this could
be something we discuss each week too. This chapter title
does not have anything to do with what's on this page.

Speaker 2 (02:03):
Right, like, not at all, So I think, you know,
to remind everybody, the bo Batton and derm Strang chapter
is when they arrive right at Hogwarts.

Speaker 3 (02:14):
Yeah, pretty much, and we're not the title the title
is very Confyeah, it's when oh sorry, when the schools
arrive at Hogwarts, right, so it's not.

Speaker 2 (02:22):
Actually the first well, actually, I think this is still
the first day of school.

Speaker 3 (02:26):
This chapter is kind of weird because the title. I
feel like, when you're reading this the first time, you're like,
what is this about?

Speaker 1 (02:33):
Because the like, I.

Speaker 3 (02:36):
Guess the Triwizard Tournament was announced on the first day
of school, right, But.

Speaker 1 (02:42):
Yeah, no, it's I.

Speaker 2 (02:42):
Think it's early in the year. Not to cheat, but
I did look across the page here and it said
like their classes were becoming more demanding than ever before,
so they've made it a little bit into the school year,
but it's very early on still. This is Moody's first lesson. No,
it's not Moody's first lesson either, where we keep going

(03:03):
right right, this is the like the follow up to
the first lesson, because he's going to be doing the
Imperious Curse on all of them.

Speaker 1 (03:10):
We don't see the spiders in this one, right.

Speaker 3 (03:12):
But I do think that the title of this chapter
is a little bit confusing because bo Battens and Dirmstrang
don't show up until the very end of the chapter,
and that's why it's titled that. So last week we
had a very helpful chapter title in the Hogshead because
that told us the setting of the page. But this time,
unfortunately Bo Battens and derm Strang really gives us no

(03:33):
indicator about what this page is going to be about.

Speaker 2 (03:35):
Not so helpful after all.

Speaker 3 (03:37):
Yeah, exactly, So a little bit of housekeeping this week.
We had put out a call for a couple of
different things. First thing was that we asked for ideas
for the grand Praise segment names for it and only
got two suggestions, and one of them was one that
I had suggested. So not super satisfied with what we've

(03:58):
got here.

Speaker 2 (04:00):
What was the suggested I didn't realize you had suggested.

Speaker 1 (04:03):
Any of them. I suggested grand praying for you?

Speaker 3 (04:06):
And then Rebecca seconded that, So, I mean it's better
than why don't you grand pray about it?

Speaker 1 (04:12):
But we have I still love that one.

Speaker 2 (04:15):
Well, we also have ww GPD I kind of and
I saw that one on Instagram and I'm kind of
partial to that to be honest.

Speaker 1 (04:24):
Yeah, it's it's fun. It's from Melissa.

Speaker 2 (04:27):
I do think we might be a little heavy on
the acronyms at this point.

Speaker 1 (04:30):
That's my only Yeah, but everybody knows.

Speaker 2 (04:32):
What that a acronym is. It's like a that's like
a meme at this point.

Speaker 3 (04:37):
Well sure, but also I don't know. I like it,
but I don't. I'm not married to it. Let's put
it that way. It also could just be ww g
D because grand pray is actually just one word.

Speaker 2 (04:50):
Yeah, that's true. I kind of liked the GP, like
just gave more of a ring to it. But I
see what you're saying.

Speaker 1 (04:59):
Yeah, so I we'll get to that when we get
to it.

Speaker 3 (05:02):
The other suggestion, and this is kind of on us
because I don't think we really explained it well. And
maybe I the comment I'm about to read, I do
think is basically what we were planning on, but we
didn't explain it well.

Speaker 1 (05:14):
And maybe you weren't.

Speaker 3 (05:15):
Planning on it, But this is what I the vision
I had, So justin wanted to clarify our format for
the page ranking, and we had said, and this was incorrect,
that we would be just ranking it against the previous week.

Speaker 1 (05:29):
But what we.

Speaker 2 (05:30):
Meant, at least what I meant, was the previous week's
decision for the best page. Right.

Speaker 1 (05:37):
Yeah, so yeah, this is going to be confusing for Alice.

Speaker 2 (05:39):
I can already tell well, no, I get it, I
get what we're saying. It's not gonna be an ongoing ranking.
We're just gonna always say, like is it the best
page or not?

Speaker 3 (05:50):
Sort of yeah, so we'll know what the best page like,
So right now, the example they gave is like, we
currently have the page three hundred or sorry, book three.
Page one nineteen is the reigning champion of the two
one pages at a time that we've done.

Speaker 1 (06:07):
So this at the end of this one.

Speaker 2 (06:10):
Right, but we're not going to be saying this one
compared to last week's page, because that one's out of
the running at this point.

Speaker 3 (06:17):
Well, but it kind of yeah, I mean, it'll sort
of place it.

Speaker 1 (06:20):
I guess that's true, yeah.

Speaker 2 (06:22):
Because otherwise we're going to start to get so many
pages we're not going to have a memory of what
each of them was at that point.

Speaker 3 (06:28):
Right, right, so we'll have the reigning best page. So
that is kind of yeah. It's it's hard right now
because we've only done three pages. So but that's kind
of the vision I already had. So but yes, thank
you justin for clarifying for anybody who was clearly confused,
like we didn't explain it well enough. So also final
bit of housekeeping, we did have several listeners reach out

(06:48):
to us that in England are in in British English,
plate is pronounced platt, so which.

Speaker 2 (06:56):
I mean, thank you for clarifying. I also, but that
is what I believe.

Speaker 1 (07:01):
Well, it's not exactly what you said.

Speaker 3 (07:02):
So you said, you said, I think maybe, and then
we looked it up and it said it was like
a secondary pronunciation, so we did not definitively say it
the way that our listeners wanted to clarify.

Speaker 2 (07:14):
I have to say, I think plat is is better
than plait.

Speaker 3 (07:19):
I don't really like either too much, but yeah, you know, okay, yeah,
if I'm the.

Speaker 2 (07:25):
One who had the issue with it, No, no, you
know what I have an issue with actually, and it
doesn't actually have to do with plates or plats. It
it's when people call braids pigtails.

Speaker 1 (07:35):
Oh I really don't like that either.

Speaker 2 (07:37):
Like braids and pigtails are two different things, yeah they are,
so just well, okay, braids and plates, braids and plats, Yes,
that's the same. And I don't care for the word
plate or plat as much. But I don't have a
problem with people saying that because it's accurate when people

(07:58):
say pigtails when they mean braids. Then that's what I
have a problem with.

Speaker 1 (08:03):
Fair.

Speaker 3 (08:03):
Okay, well, there's no plat braids or pigtails on this thankfully.
Let's launch right in and talk about what happened on
this page or no, we read the page, don't we. Okay,
So there's gonna be a lot of jim Dale for you, Alice.

Speaker 2 (08:18):
Oh, yeah, that's true. I didn't even think about that
when you mentioned the low dialogue.

Speaker 1 (08:23):
Yeah all right, yeah, so.

Speaker 2 (08:25):
Jim Dale's going to be coming out and we're going
to be uh going through what happened in bo Batton
and Duram Strong. Well, it's not really in I mean
on page two hundred and thirty one.

Speaker 1 (08:36):
I think.

Speaker 2 (08:40):
Those either. Okay, all right, that's strong. He pointed one
gnarled finger toward the door. Hermione went very pink and
muttered something about not meaning that she wanted to leave.
Harry and Ron grinned at each other. They knew Hermione
would rather eat Boobo tuber Puss than miss such an

(09:02):
important lesson. Moody began to beckon students forward in turn
and put the imperious curse upon. Harry watched as one
by one his classmates did the most extraordinary things under
its influence. Dean Thomas hopped three times around the room,
singing the national anthem Lavender, Brown imitated a squirrel, and

(09:26):
never performed a series of astonishing gymnastics he certainly would
not have been capable of in his normal state. Not
one of them seemed to be able to fight off
the curse, and each of them recovered only when Moody
had removed it. Potter Moody growled you Next, Harry moved
forward into the middle of the classroom, into the space

(09:47):
that Moody had cleared of desks. Moody raised his wand
pointed it at Harry and said, I burial. It was
the most wonderful feeling. Harry fell to floating s sensation,
as though every thought and worry in his head was
wiped gently away, leaving nothing but a vague, untraceable happiness.

(10:08):
He stood there, feeling immensely relaxed, only dimly aware of
that every only dimly aware of everyone watching him. And
then he heard mad Eye Moody's voice echoing in some
distant chamber of his empty brain. I'm doing that's okay,
I think so jump Bod to the desk, Jump Bod
of the disk. Harry bent his knees obediently preparing to

(10:32):
spring job Bod of the desk.

Speaker 1 (10:35):
Why though I'm doing that, you do that? Why though?

Speaker 2 (10:39):
Another voice had awoken in the back of his brain.

Speaker 1 (10:42):
Okay, that was.

Speaker 3 (10:43):
A weird pastry now loud and I have to say
the jimdale is easier to do when it's not such
a long Yeah.

Speaker 2 (10:51):
Sorry, it wasn't the best jip dale I've ever done.

Speaker 1 (10:53):
My favorite that I heard was class Mites.

Speaker 2 (10:59):
Okay, it's not gonna be perfect. It's a work in progress.
I might have to also go back and listen to
the audiobooks a bit more, just so I can get
that voice in my head a bit more. Well, it's
kind of fun the way that we Yeah, it's better.
It's better this way. I think you're my toughest critic. Yeah, no,
I'm not criticizing. I think it's just funny. I mean
I would have done the same thing.

Speaker 1 (11:19):
Uh so.

Speaker 3 (11:20):
Yeah, clearly this page takes place in a defense against
the dark arts class classroom, and it's kind of a
lot of closs might Yeah, exactly, closs bites, and I
mean it's kind of the setup to sort of a
theme of the series, which is that you know, Harry

(11:40):
is one of the strongest mentally of his classmates when
it comes to things like this, resisting the imperious curse.
It doesn't actually show him resisting fully on this page,
but he has the other voice to awaken in the
back of his brain. And yeah, it's an interesting page.
A lot of I feel like, I know, we've done

(12:03):
three pages now, the difference between I mean, it's it's
obviously a very PROS heavy page, but I do feel
like there are more PROS heavy pages like.

Speaker 1 (12:14):
This in the later books.

Speaker 3 (12:16):
And I know that we did a fifth book page already,
but I don't think we would get very many pages
like this, like, for instance, in the first three books.
I guess maybe the first book, but I feel like
the second and third books it's a lot of like dialogue.

Speaker 2 (12:28):
Yeah, we'll have to keep a watch on that as
we go through, and we have our raid pages selected,
but it's yeah, it's something interesting, and I think, you know,
occasionally we're going to get these because we have to
see the action playing out around the room, not just dialogue.

Speaker 1 (12:45):
Right, I think we should jump.

Speaker 3 (12:47):
I know we have a lot of different awards to
give out, and we don't have to go the same order,
believe it or not, Filch, we don't have to go
the same order every time. I feel like the first
one I want to do because it's going to be
the like simplest I think is adverb of the week,
because with so little dialogue, we just have so few
adverbs on this page that we don't have any adverbs
modifying a speech, which is the first time.

Speaker 1 (13:11):
Yeah, the three that we've done.

Speaker 3 (13:13):
That's gonna I think that's gonna be a rare occurrence. Yeah,
that's my prediction as well. Yeah, I think that we
do have growled on this page instead of like said menacingly.
That would be like probably the adverb she would have
used if she hadn't used growled. But let's go through
the different adverbs that we have. I'll go ahead and
read out what I see, and you tell me if

(13:34):
I miss any. Okay, so we have we don't have
one until the later in the page where we see
dimly where immensely relaxed and bent his knees in me
or sorry obediently.

Speaker 1 (13:49):
Did you see any others, I.

Speaker 2 (13:50):
Don't think so. I think the one that does stand
out to me the most as far as like the
most typical of the book or of the author's style,
would be the obediently.

Speaker 1 (14:03):
Oh really, that was my least favorite of the three.
I thought immensely.

Speaker 2 (14:07):
Yeah, but immensely is just like it's a more boring one.
It's not like describing like it it's it just means
very you know, So it's not like, well, that's that's
why it's very silly.

Speaker 3 (14:20):
I think like obediently is a word that you need,
whereas I feel like the adverb of the week is
usually a word where it's like, okay, we get it,
like you know what, you know a lot of words.

Speaker 2 (14:31):
Okay, so sorry, you had immensely and obediently. What was
the other one?

Speaker 1 (14:35):
We had? Dim dimly, dimly.

Speaker 2 (14:37):
Away, here's another one. That's another one.

Speaker 1 (14:38):
I feel like that's kind of typical of Yeah.

Speaker 3 (14:41):
Well, I personally feel like obediently is the most necessary
of the three, Like we couldn't really have obediently, Like
there's no other word there, Like I mean, I just say,
like in response to Moody's order or something, But that's
that's the most necessary word dimly away probably second most necessary,

(15:01):
but immensely relaxed. That just cracks me up because it's like,
so like, oh, he feels immensely relaxed.

Speaker 2 (15:09):
Like, I guess I see what you're saying. I felt
like the obediently like you you're saying that it is necessary,
I feel like it's not quite necessary because it's like, yeah,
you can tell that he's being obedient to what he's saying,
you know, yeah, that's fair, but yeah, I mean it's
kind of it's like you said, it's an adverb week

(15:30):
page a week adverb page, so we don't have much
to choose from here.

Speaker 3 (15:33):
Yeah, well, are you good with emensely or are you
still don't fight obediently? No, we can do immensely, that's okay.
I do also like this is not an adverb but
an adjective. I do like the most extraordinary things, which
you know, we're not in that segment yet, but the
most extraordinary things or most extraordinary things has band name

(15:55):
of the week potential.

Speaker 2 (15:56):
I definitely thought of that one as well, like that
definitely seems like a very band name put like possibility.

Speaker 3 (16:03):
Right, and then the other adjective, we're not doing an
adjective of the week again, But you have to I
do have to say you you fumbled a bit when
you read it out loud. Was Neville's series of quite
astonishing gymnastics. So I think you skipped the word quite.
So I do like the modifier. It's quite astonishing.

Speaker 2 (16:25):
Yeah, that that is well, and that technically.

Speaker 3 (16:28):
Is an advert I was gonna say, yeah it is.
I think our adverbs of the week have to only
be a live adverbs though.

Speaker 2 (16:35):
For the most part. Yeah, I mean, we'll well, I
don't want to box us in, but I agree. In
the first case, for an English lesson of the week,
an adverb could modify both a verb or an adjective.

Speaker 1 (16:45):
So so in.

Speaker 2 (16:46):
That case, quite is modifying astonishing. So yes, it is
an adverb.

Speaker 3 (16:50):
Well, then in that case the most is also an adverb.
The most extraordinary things.

Speaker 2 (16:56):
Well there there we see the author is sneaking in
more advocates than we really or she is.

Speaker 1 (17:00):
Yes, she does love her adverbs.

Speaker 3 (17:03):
So yeah, speaking of the author, who we do not mention,
we do have to award a oh Joe, she didn't
of the page. And I mean this is honestly, I
struggled with this one what about you?

Speaker 2 (17:17):
I did too. I mean, I think some of the
examples of what the kids were doing, I feel like
are very typical of the author, Like it reminds me
of the Patronis scene or not the Bogress on the
Boggart scene, of like, what would be some hilarious things
that these kids could be doing, And it's like, is

(17:38):
it really that hilarious?

Speaker 3 (17:41):
I had the same thought, especially the lavender imitated a squirrel, Like,
I do feel like that could have maybe either been
something different or used a bit more of a more
of a description of what that looked like. Did she,
you know, start chewing like pretending like she was eating acorns,
or was she like did she get down on her

(18:02):
hands and knees? Or what is imitating a squirrel really
look like? And how did Harry know that it was
a squirrel and not like just like some sort of rodent.

Speaker 2 (18:12):
Yeah, I don't know it definitely, it seems just like
that she was trying to come up with examples and
this was the best she could do. I always I do,
actually really think the part about Neville performing a series
of quite astonishing gymnastics is funny, but the other ones
it's kind of like it just feels a little bit forced,

(18:33):
and so that would to me. I don't like hate it.
It's not the worst thing ever. It's not like definitely
a huge ojo she didn't, but it definitely feels classic author.

Speaker 3 (18:43):
Yeah, I agree that the Neville is by far the
best of these three. I always laughed when I was
a kid reading this, I'm picturing Neville doing this.

Speaker 1 (18:54):
The Dean Thomas one is pretty funny.

Speaker 3 (18:58):
I do have to say, I feel like I wonder
in the British version whether it says the phrase national
anthem or whether it says God saved the Queen, because
I feel like when I was a kid reading this,
I never really thought about that it was the British
national anthem, Like I kind of assumed that it was
the starspeggled banner, which is and.

Speaker 2 (19:19):
Look at you. Take a look at what your place
of privilege that you're coming from.

Speaker 3 (19:24):
See I was going to say, take a look at
how much I've grown that that is true.

Speaker 2 (19:30):
You know now that I'm an adult reading my perspective
has changed. Yeah, You've started to realize there are other
countries that also have national anthems. Yeah, but I just
wonder if the phrase national anthem is was changed for
the British or for the American version to be like
make it more like if it said God saved the Queen.

Speaker 3 (19:47):
Like I don't know whether I don't know. I think
the little American kids probably don't know what that is,
right exactly. I didn't, So you know what if I didn't,
low kids did.

Speaker 2 (20:00):
Yeah, we really. I mean it's tough because the page
numbers aren't the same. So I feel bad for everybody
who has a British version only, and that's true to
quite do this with us, but we also we kind
of need to have and I don't have the British version,
so this makes it tough.

Speaker 1 (20:16):
Yeah, I only have the British version of the Seventh Book.

Speaker 2 (20:19):
Yeah, but like we kind of need to have a
comparison and a watch on that throughout this series. So
just something to kind of keep in mind.

Speaker 3 (20:29):
Well, you do have the German versions, don't you. I do,
So maybe you could compare what I would say in
the German version.

Speaker 2 (20:36):
That's true, I could, and I'm sure that would be
a very popular segment.

Speaker 1 (20:41):
It would be very popular.

Speaker 2 (20:42):
We do have some German speaking listeners, but I don't
think that's I would love to have you read out
loud in German and the gym dance.

Speaker 1 (20:50):
Yeah, I don't think that would go too well, but
I am curious to.

Speaker 3 (20:54):
I mean, I know you don't want to do this
right now, but if you were to look at the
German version, whether it's says the phrase.

Speaker 1 (21:02):
God safe the Queen, or whether it says the national.

Speaker 2 (21:04):
Anthem good good thoughts that you've got going there, Let's
see if if we have a listener with a British
edition that's willing to find this out. It's in the
chapter bo Batten and dirm Strength, so yeah, I mean
it's the.

Speaker 3 (21:19):
To help out a little bit. It's the fourth page
of Bobatan's and derm Strang. I would assume it's probably
similar for the British version. And it's the fourth page
of bo Batan, Yeah, like early in the chapter, right,
and yeah, sorry, sorry that we don't have as much context,
Like we're not allowed to read anything beyond this page, right,
that's the rule.

Speaker 2 (21:38):
No, we're sure not so earlier when I glanced across
to the other side.

Speaker 3 (21:43):
But I know, well us giving like we do eat
our words a lot on this podcast, especially going forward,
I feel like since the beginning we used to try
a little bit harder to not make mistakes. But yeah,
it's it's in this format, we're gonna make this takes.
Like what I said, this was the first day at Hogwarts,
Like before you jump to correct us, listeners, listen to

(22:07):
the whole podcast, because we're often going to be correcting ourselves.

Speaker 2 (22:10):
Yeah, that's true. I think that that's part of this
format is trying to just do a quick recall of
everything we know about Harry Potter and put all of
our Yeah, put all of our knowledge to the test
a little bit. And at times I agree, I think
like we're going to be working out some of the
some of the kinks in real time. True, so that

(22:33):
we ate our words. That sort of brings us into food. Yeah,
I think that. Yeah, this is a bit of a
missed opportunity of the week of no food, but that's.

Speaker 1 (22:43):
Kind of a cop out at this point.

Speaker 3 (22:45):
I don't really know where we could have had food
at this page except for Hermidy eating Buba tuba pross.

Speaker 1 (22:51):
That's the think it's the.

Speaker 2 (22:52):
Food of the week, is the Buba tuba pross. Yeah,
it was the only mention of eating yeah, hermah, and
he would rather eat booba tuba puss than miss such
an important lesson. Maybe you need to be doing the
full page reading.

Speaker 3 (23:07):
No, no, no, no, it's very fun to listen to
you read it. And as as you proved, or as
I'm proving here too. Uh, it's much easier to do
a short gym dale impression. And you did a great
job reading the phrase boo but too book puss.

Speaker 2 (23:23):
I was going to shout you out from would rather
boo I can't even do it now. Boo boo boobo
tuber is such a weird word. I don't Yeah, yes,
it is puss fitting in puss. Yeah, yeah, so I
guess that's the food of the week. Is her body
eating bubatu book puss?

Speaker 1 (23:45):
But yeah? I think that.

Speaker 3 (23:47):
Uh, as far as missed opportunity of the week goes,
I kind of wish that we saw Ron or Hermione
with the imperious curse. This is not exactly like a
funny missed opportunity exactly now. I know we're not allowed to,
but I did lookad because I remember that there was
something about Ron. I remember that there was something about
we don't actually see him with the imperious curse. But
I guess he's hopping on every alternate step because the

(24:09):
imperious curse like effects are still.

Speaker 2 (24:12):
Really make a whole lot of sense.

Speaker 1 (24:14):
No, No, I don't think so either.

Speaker 2 (24:17):
Yeah, Like the perious curse is supposed to be like,
to me, like very active in the moment that it's happening.

Speaker 3 (24:24):
Well, I guess you could always you could always chalk
it up to Barty Crownch Junior being this person instead
of Moody, So he might have done something a bit
more extreme than a classic imperious curse. That's true, because
Moody had assured him that the effects would wear off
by lunch.

Speaker 2 (24:39):
Like, why does he know that he's the one who
performed the imperious curse. He should be able to like
easily get rid of that for ron, Right, that's what
I'm saying. I think that it is inconsistency. Well, no,
that's not one of these inconsistencies that we can just blame.

Speaker 3 (24:56):
And I don't think the author thought of this, but
we can just blame it on Barty Crownes Junior's a
little bit devious because if it had been Moody doing this,
then we wouldn't say that was an inconsistent consistency because
I don't think the real Moody would do that. But
Brtiy Couch Junior doesn't really care about these kids at all,
and if anything, he cares.

Speaker 1 (25:14):
About messing with them. So being a little bit mischievous,
Yeah true.

Speaker 3 (25:21):
But yeah, Hermione, we don't know anything really about what
happened to her under the imperious curse, and I feel
like it would have been kind of funny to see.

Speaker 1 (25:28):
Her, like, I don't know, doing a cartwheel or something.

Speaker 2 (25:34):
Yeah. I agree. As far as like a more serious
missed opportunity of the week, I think, like for me,
I was thinking trying to think of like a more
of a joke one, and I think we missed the
opportunity to say Dean Thomas, a student in Harry's.

Speaker 3 (25:50):
Year Lavender Brown clause right, Well, we do get both
their last names, so I mean that would have been
a little over the top to house did Harry's spear.

Speaker 2 (26:01):
We missed the opportunity for never long Bottom.

Speaker 3 (26:05):
That's what I was about to that was that was
the joke I was about to say, was that we
missed Nevill long Bottom. Yeah, like I guess at this
point the author is confident that we know who Neville
is but not deal La.

Speaker 1 (26:17):
Pretty bold.

Speaker 2 (26:18):
We're only two hundred and thirty one pages into the
fourth book.

Speaker 3 (26:21):
Pretty big assumption. Yeah. I also thought there was kind
of a missed opportunity. There's nothing really about mad eyes
eye on this page. We have his gnarled finger, and
we have him growling, but there's nothing about like, uh,
you know, right, Harry watched mad Eyes all I roll
into the back of his head each time he placed the.

Speaker 1 (26:43):
Cur on his classmates.

Speaker 2 (26:45):
Yeah, yeah exactly, or like even like something about his
wooden leg like some we don't get enough, or like
his scars or something like we don't get enough emphasis
on how beat up Moody looks.

Speaker 1 (26:58):
Right exactly. All we get is the old finger.

Speaker 2 (27:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (27:03):
So that was the other thing.

Speaker 3 (27:05):
I feel like we could have had something about Matt
I saw I whizzing in its socket.

Speaker 2 (27:10):
Yeah exactly, or the electric blue eye whizzed in its socket.

Speaker 3 (27:17):
Oh, like I said, like like each time he placed
the curse on one of Harry's classmates, Harry watched the
eye whizy socket.

Speaker 1 (27:26):
Yeah exactly.

Speaker 2 (27:28):
I think that's the missed opportunity.

Speaker 1 (27:29):
Of okay, because yeah, I mean that is it is missed.

Speaker 3 (27:34):
So we've got lots more awards to give out, but
before we jump into those, we'll just take a quick
break for a word from our sponsors. So was this
page in the movie. I don't think it was. If
it was, we would have talked about it on a
take five at this.

Speaker 2 (27:50):
Point, right, yeah, we would have because and.

Speaker 3 (27:53):
I remember that this is one of my biggest gripes,
like historically with the fourth movie is that there's like
hardly any class scenes like.

Speaker 2 (28:02):
Well, yeah, instead we have to have more like I
don't know, I don't even know what we have in
place in place of this, but yeah, we definitely we
have action.

Speaker 1 (28:13):
Scenes of the talks, right, true, those were crucial, Yeah, exactly,
I think.

Speaker 2 (28:21):
Yeah, I think like we did. We didn't see this.
We saw we saw the Spiders scene with Moody, but
we didn't see this.

Speaker 1 (28:28):
No.

Speaker 3 (28:29):
I think that the Spider's scene is the only class
scene that we get in the movie.

Speaker 2 (28:33):
M h, yeah, that sounds right.

Speaker 3 (28:37):
So yeah, it was not in the movie. But are
we taking this page with us? So putting it into
Harmony's beat it bag bog with the class mites yeah, exactly.

Speaker 2 (28:50):
I think not necessarily this page, but this scene where
Harry throws off the imperious curse is really important, agreed.
So it's it's like this is leading into it. So
this this exact page, like the part about the I'm
glad we didn't have the Victrola kicking on and people
doing things around the room under the imperious Yeah, honestly,

(29:13):
I'm really relieved that we didn't have to see this
in the movie. If Alfonso had gotten a hold of
this page, made a meal out of this, yes, oh,
this would have been a good ten minute scene with Alfonso.
But I think, like in as far as like I
do think it's very it's very crucial about how Harry

(29:34):
can throw off the imperious curse.

Speaker 1 (29:36):
And so I agreed, I do think that.

Speaker 2 (29:38):
Like, yes, leading into this part, like the end of
this page, I think is getting to be very important.

Speaker 1 (29:45):
I completely agree.

Speaker 3 (29:46):
Yeah, I think that that's a very important theme of
this book or of the series, even as of Harry
being able to resist the imperious curse. So yeah, I
don't necessarily need the rest of this page, but this
last bit on the page exactly, and the I mean
as far as world building goes, seeing what it's like
to be under the Imperious Curse is pretty important too, Yeah,

(30:08):
because the concept of the Imperious Curse is going to
be important for the series and for this book especially,
So this is I mean, there's not very many other
times where we see, if any I don't know if
there's any other times where we see what it's like
to be under the Imperious Curse.

Speaker 1 (30:26):
Yeah, I guess it.

Speaker 2 (30:26):
Happened in the Graveyard, right, I mean there's there's times
when people are under the Imperious Curse, but yeah, right,
But from Harry's perspective, I mean, right, or like it's
interesting for him to be like sort of aware of
him being under the Like I don't know, I know,
we don't ever get a limited third person of like
Ron or any other classmates, any of class lights, but

(30:50):
it would be interesting to see, like what that felt
like for them to be under the Imperious Curse, right, Yeah,
Because I mean I feel like Harry being dimly aware
of everyone watching him. I don't know if everybody is
always dimly aware of that, right, that could be part
of why Harry's able to throw it off that he
has a dim awareness, right exactly, So, yeah, that would
be interesting to compare.

Speaker 3 (31:11):
Yeah, so unfortunately we don't get to. But yeah, so
what about the burn of the week, because there's not
much here either. I mean I think, oh, actually it's
pretty obvious.

Speaker 1 (31:26):
Oh well, what were you going to say?

Speaker 2 (31:28):
Oh, the Neville that he would certainly not have been
capable of in his normal state. Yeah, that is pretty
that is pretty brutal. Actually, I just realized, like, that's
the most obvious one.

Speaker 1 (31:40):
I don't know why I didn't think of it right away.

Speaker 2 (31:43):
Yeah, I would agree with that for sure. I was
going to say when Harry said, why though, that wasn't
exactly a burn, but it was sort of an attitude
of the week. Yeah, yeah, the sass of the week.
We could have that as a new segment, the Sass
of the Week. Yeah, but I think I agree with
you for sure about that. He would certainly not have
been capable of it his normal state.

Speaker 1 (32:05):
What do you mean normal state? I mean there also.

Speaker 2 (32:07):
Is sort of the burn of hermione he would rather boob. Yeah, true,
such an important lesson, Like, but I mean that's not
really like a huge burn.

Speaker 1 (32:16):
It's just it's a little bit of like a making
fun of hermione a.

Speaker 2 (32:19):
Little bit well, and it's also like she well, and
it's also a huge nerd moment for Rod and her
mind or sorry for Rod and Harry, because it's like
they both knew, Like is that really what they're thinking
right now? They would they they're both thinking, oh, her
body would rather eat booba Cuba pus or are.

Speaker 1 (32:37):
They just thinking, of course hermney doesn't want to miss.

Speaker 3 (32:39):
This, right, Yeah, knowing Harry and Rod, they're probably thinking
that exact same phrase.

Speaker 2 (32:47):
Yeah. Also, I will say, like this isn't really burn
of the week, but when when Moody pointed the gnarled
finger towards the door, it was kind of a burn,
like he was kind of burning Hermione and he was
also it was a him that we had to point
out the finger.

Speaker 1 (33:02):
Yeah, tooth.

Speaker 3 (33:03):
It's kind of a twofer there because yeah, we have,
of course we have to mention the naral finger.

Speaker 1 (33:08):
I couldn't get past that.

Speaker 3 (33:10):
But then also, like you said, uh, we can't look
back at what he says on the page to hermiony,
but I do remember it being.

Speaker 2 (33:17):
Quite funny of being like, okay, get out of here.
If that's if you've got something. You've got a problem
with this lesson. There's the door, Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 1 (33:27):
And sorry, I'm not going to read it.

Speaker 3 (33:28):
But there is a mention of his magical eye swiveling
on my page. So maybe that's why it's missed on
this page, right.

Speaker 2 (33:37):
Well, I mean I think it's still a missed opportunity
because in every page, I don't know why we shouldn't.

Speaker 1 (33:43):
Yeah, there's no reason why not to exactly. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (33:47):
So I think that Bird of the Week is pretty
clearly the He certainly would not have been capable of
it his normal state.

Speaker 1 (33:53):
But there's a couple of honorable mentions as well. Okay,
so Band of the Week.

Speaker 3 (33:58):
We sort of hinted at this already, but I think
my first one was okay, and don't forget.

Speaker 1 (34:04):
We are most extraordinary things.

Speaker 2 (34:08):
One, two three four, say.

Speaker 1 (34:10):
I do it?

Speaker 2 (34:11):
Sorry, I forgot. I forgot that we have to do that.
We split that up. You were about to do it yourself.

Speaker 1 (34:19):
No, you do one, two, three four each time? Okay.

Speaker 3 (34:23):
And then I also thought of quite astonishing or sorry,
quite astonishing gymnastics.

Speaker 2 (34:30):
Yeah, I like that too. I thought of that one
as well. And one that I came up with was
vague untraceable happiness. Yeah, I was thinking just untraceable happiness
by itself. Yeah, that's a good one too.

Speaker 1 (34:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (34:46):
Also a little bit of housekeeping, Alyssa suggested that we
post the brand name options and do a poll each week.

Speaker 2 (34:53):
Okay, so let's let's narrow it down to like a
maximum of three or four okay, or I think like three.
We'll just to be able to keep track of it.

Speaker 1 (35:02):
Yeah, I don't wanna. We could do four.

Speaker 3 (35:05):
We could do up to four, because that's how many
options you can do on a pull on Instagram.

Speaker 2 (35:10):
Okay, so if there seems to be four really good ones,
the right to do that. But I feel like usually
we're gonna just have yeah, maybe two or three, right.

Speaker 3 (35:18):
I feel like I'm always tempted to do a three
word phrase, but we have this is a phrase that's
a little bit longer, and I feel like there's something
in there, but I don't know which words to pick out,
some distant chamber of his empty brain. I feel like
maybe just empty brain would be good. But yeah, I
like some distant chamber. But like you said, we were

(35:38):
kind of doing a lot of.

Speaker 1 (35:39):
Three word one yeah, exactly.

Speaker 2 (35:42):
Yeah, I don't know. Empty brain is okay, it's kind
of boring.

Speaker 4 (35:47):
Though, Yeah, we could just we could just pick out
a one word squirrel, perfect, we are squirrel one two
three four.

Speaker 1 (36:04):
That's pretty good.

Speaker 2 (36:07):
Yeah, so okay, I think most extraordinary things, although most
extraordinary things is one where they would suffer from suffer
from search engine? What's it called optimizationization? Because people don't
know how to spell extraordinary and because people would mix
that up with that book about the octopus?

Speaker 1 (36:28):
Oh right? Yeah? What is that one called.

Speaker 2 (36:33):
Something extraordinary creatures or something?

Speaker 1 (36:35):
Oh yeah, remarkably bright creature.

Speaker 2 (36:36):
Yes, I don't know, it just sounds very similar, it does. Okay,
So are we putting that one down though?

Speaker 1 (36:44):
I think so?

Speaker 2 (36:46):
So?

Speaker 1 (36:46):
What was it? Most extraordinary things?

Speaker 2 (36:49):
I also feel like quite astonishing gymnastics? Did you say
that one earlier?

Speaker 1 (36:53):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (36:56):
All right, we are quite astonishing gymnastics one two four.

Speaker 2 (37:01):
Yeah. I don't like that one as much.

Speaker 1 (37:02):
No, I don't either.

Speaker 3 (37:05):
And then what untraceable happiness or vague untraceable happiness?

Speaker 2 (37:10):
I think untraceable happiness would be good.

Speaker 1 (37:13):
Yeah, we are untraceable happiness?

Speaker 2 (37:16):
Yeah, and I also one two three four what about
floating sensation? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (37:25):
I think I like empty brain better.

Speaker 2 (37:27):
Okay, we'll do empty brain.

Speaker 1 (37:30):
We are empty brain.

Speaker 2 (37:32):
Okay, you're supposed to lay three four, Okay, thank you.

Speaker 1 (37:38):
I had to do it earlier.

Speaker 3 (37:40):
Yeah, okay, okay, well, so I will post that poll that.
The only thing is I I asked Alyssa, and I
don't know if she saw my message about it. I said,
can you dm us the names of the bads that
we write so that way I remember to do the poll.
So if she doesn't want to do it, or she doesn't, yeah,
if somebody else wants to do that, I think multiple people.

Speaker 2 (38:04):
I did just type them into our outlines.

Speaker 1 (38:06):
Yeah, but it's just a it's about the reminder.

Speaker 3 (38:08):
I do appreciate you typing them out, but I think
that if a listener wants to take that upon themselves,
it'd be much appreciated.

Speaker 2 (38:15):
Okay, we'll see how that goes. Well, I think somebody
will do it. Okay, all right, just d m us
on Instagram, Okay, and just say you know what else
would be a good band name on one finger?

Speaker 1 (38:31):
Eh No, that would be like a metal band. Yeah,
not in a good way.

Speaker 2 (38:40):
I don't even want to do the exercise with we
are one nold Finger. Yeah, okay, no, thank you.

Speaker 1 (38:48):
Okay, So that's the band names.

Speaker 3 (38:50):
We're not going to decide officially because we're going to
have the listener's vote on it.

Speaker 1 (38:56):
But humble Brag of the Week.

Speaker 2 (38:58):
I do think that the why though might be the
hubble brag. Yeah, I mean, and that is sort of
like just how Harry is like I mean, yeah, I
don't know, I don't know what I'm trying to say,
but I feel like he is sort of bragging that

(39:20):
he can throw it off, but it's I.

Speaker 1 (39:21):
Don't know, yeah, I mean, it's also kind of a
humble brag of like that. It's just like what a
stupid thing to do? Why would I do that?

Speaker 2 (39:31):
Yeah, that's true because like you know, why though spelled
t h O. It's definitely how I pictured that in
my head when I was thinking about like this page, right,
why there's kind of the meme of the week too, right,
thank you meme Lord Alice. Yeah, meme Lord Alice has
determined that the meme of the week is as Harry

(39:52):
under the imperious person it says, why.

Speaker 1 (39:53):
Though, Yeah exactly. Any other humble Brags of the Week.

Speaker 2 (40:02):
Not not really, you could kind of I don't know.

Speaker 1 (40:07):
I guess the classmates doing the most extraordinary things.

Speaker 3 (40:10):
That's kind of like, oh, okay, you guys did the
most extraordinary things.

Speaker 2 (40:14):
Yeah, got it. Yeah, it's not a super humble, braggy page. No, uh,
you could say, well, I mean when Harry was feeling
immensely relaxed.

Speaker 1 (40:28):
Okay, congrats.

Speaker 2 (40:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (40:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (40:32):
The space that Moody had cleared of desks.

Speaker 1 (40:34):
Oh, great work, Moody. Yeah, congrats, I'm clearing the desks.

Speaker 2 (40:44):
It's a little bit of a reach, but I do like,
I think I kind of like that one. I thought
you congrats Moody. What teacher has not moved desks to
the side.

Speaker 1 (40:54):
Yes, we all have done that before.

Speaker 2 (40:57):
Congrats. We'll give you a round of a plus.

Speaker 1 (41:00):
Oh, you cleared the space of desk great, Okay, I'm impressed.

Speaker 2 (41:07):
He's putting a lot of effort into this lesson.

Speaker 1 (41:09):
Right, he cleared the desks.

Speaker 2 (41:11):
He cleared them. Good. They looked for that. There's usually desks, Sarah,
what happened to them?

Speaker 1 (41:17):
Oh, Moody. Moody cleared up. Also, he probably just used
magic for it.

Speaker 2 (41:24):
I know. So that's why it's even better because it's like, congrats, well,
he really did a lot of work.

Speaker 1 (41:29):
Moody. Yeah, he cleared the desks.

Speaker 2 (41:32):
He cleared him good.

Speaker 1 (41:35):
Okay, I think that's he's really dumb.

Speaker 3 (41:38):
But I love it, Okay, all right, love just thinking.

Speaker 2 (41:44):
Like it cracks me up to think that, like Harry
realized that Moody had moved the desk.

Speaker 1 (41:50):
Oh, Moody cleared this space of desks. What's usually there's
usually desk.

Speaker 3 (41:56):
I guess Moody cleared those desks. Oh, he cleared those desks.

Speaker 2 (42:02):
I just love picturing the fact that, like it was like,
oh wow, Moody put a lot of prep into this lesson.

Speaker 1 (42:07):
He cleared the space.

Speaker 3 (42:11):
Okay, uh, this is one Speaking of prep, I don't
think we did the preparation that you suggested we do
for this segment the wwt QQOTWB. Did you write out
a response to a hypothetical core question of the week?

Speaker 2 (42:28):
No, because you said not to. Oh right, that's why
you said we would just improvise. Yeah, because that always
goes very well for us. Well, you're the one who
didn't want to do the prep.

Speaker 3 (42:40):
I'm the one who didn't write out a hypothetical core
question of the week.

Speaker 1 (42:44):
I don't that's the part I don't want to do,
is you. I like coming up with the core question
of the week on the fly?

Speaker 2 (42:51):
All right, so we'll do that and then I will
do a response on the fly.

Speaker 1 (42:55):
Okay, we'll try it out.

Speaker 3 (42:58):
We're learning and growing on this Podcay, we sure are, Okay,
are humble brag right? So I think that we often
go in the direction of fan fiction with the core
question of the week, but I think for this one,
I would probably do it more of a like.

Speaker 1 (43:13):
What is blah blah blah?

Speaker 3 (43:16):
So like maybe something like why is or how does
one resist the imperious curse? Or like why is it
that Harry? Yeah, I know, let's do it this way.
So what is it about.

Speaker 2 (43:28):
Harry that makes him more able to resist the imperious
curse than his class mights? Okay, so this person is
an expert in magical theory and they've been studying wizard
lore for the past ten years. Okay, and yeah, so

(43:53):
they would say it's not so much why Harry can
throw it off, it's more important that he can and this,
and then that's the end of the answer. What.

Speaker 1 (44:05):
Okay, that's a cop out.

Speaker 3 (44:07):
I thought you were gonna say, it's not so much.
Why can Harry do it as it is? Why can't
his classmates?

Speaker 2 (44:12):
Well that too, but I think when we get somebody
going off about how this is very significant that Harry
can do it and it shows why he's actually the
chosen one and he's able to resist Voldemort in the end.
Oh okay, Yeah, I was thinking, because I think we
could workshop this.

Speaker 3 (44:31):
We don't have to each take one necessarily. I was
thinking it might be something more along the lines of, like,
think about the trials Harry has gone through compared to
his class mights, Like he was forced to grow up
at a very young age, unlike most of his very

(44:52):
sheltered class mights at like he was, he grew up
questioning authority, and you know, he would never have gone
along with just blindly following what he's told to do
from Uncle Vernon.

Speaker 1 (45:11):
So you know something like that.

Speaker 2 (45:14):
Yeah, And I think that we could also tie it
into Harry's ability to produce a patronis yea, and the
fact that the dementors affect him more strongly than his
other classmates.

Speaker 1 (45:26):
Yes, exactly.

Speaker 2 (45:27):
Yeah, So see this core question made us think you
sure did.

Speaker 1 (45:31):
That's the beauty of the Cora question. When it really
makes you think.

Speaker 2 (45:34):
The wwt qqotwb exactly.

Speaker 1 (45:39):
So that is a great acronym.

Speaker 2 (45:42):
I actually love that acronym because I love how it
is sort of.

Speaker 3 (45:46):
Symmetrical wwqqot w b. It's almost the palindrome.

Speaker 1 (45:52):
Yeah, exactly, it's not, though it's but it is close.
It's close. Yes, it's true, and it at least makes a.

Speaker 2 (46:00):
Cute rhyme wwt qqot wb.

Speaker 1 (46:04):
Sort of a rhyme.

Speaker 3 (46:08):
Okay, well, speaking of sort of, what is the MVB
of the week, because it's gonna.

Speaker 1 (46:12):
Be a sort of bird this rhyme.

Speaker 2 (46:14):
Well, we have a few options, I thought the Probably
to me, the best option would be Neville doing his
astonishing gymnastics you yeah, or fair Lavender doing the squirrel.
I mean there's there's an animal there.

Speaker 1 (46:27):
Yeah. I don't like that as much. A squirrel and
a bird are very different.

Speaker 2 (46:30):
Tell us. Yeah, so I'm thinking I'm thinking Neville.

Speaker 3 (46:35):
The other option I thought of was the voice in
Harry's brain of I feel like that's kind of floating
like a bird.

Speaker 2 (46:43):
By float, well, yeah, Harry's feeling a floating sensation.

Speaker 3 (46:48):
No that well, yeah, he's feeling the floating sensation. But
I was thinking of the specifically the why though bird.

Speaker 2 (46:54):
Yeah, kind of. I feel like that's a little too
abstract when we do have a physical bird flying around
in Neville.

Speaker 1 (47:03):
I don't think he's flying around.

Speaker 2 (47:05):
But yes, that's very graceful like a bird.

Speaker 3 (47:08):
Yeah, that's he is much more graceful than he ever
could have been in his normal stage.

Speaker 2 (47:13):
Exactly. I guess the sort of dark horse candidate could
be Moody's gnarled finger. Yeah, but we don't want to
pick the nar old finger for anything, certainly not for
the bad name of the week. Alice, you are the
one who just dismissed that one narled finger.

Speaker 1 (47:32):
I did dismiss that, I certainly, and I'm proud of it.

Speaker 2 (47:37):
I can picture the logo of that too. I don't
want for the picture of the logo of that.

Speaker 1 (47:41):
That's the problem.

Speaker 2 (47:43):
I can also picture it, and I don't want to. Yeah,
narld finger, Rose, Okay, that's a pretty good one. I
think people are gonna wish that that was one of
the options.

Speaker 1 (47:54):
I don't think so.

Speaker 3 (47:57):
Okay, So I think Neville's them VB and that's fine,
all right. Uh, let's go ahead and jump right into
the w W GPD or we could also call it
the grand praying for you or if somebody wants to
be more creative and come up with something else und.

Speaker 2 (48:15):
Pray about it.

Speaker 1 (48:17):
It wasn't why don't you go grand to pray about? It?

Speaker 3 (48:19):
Was just why don't you grand pray about.

Speaker 2 (48:24):
Funnier to me? Okay, uh yeah, I think that.

Speaker 3 (48:29):
This would probably be an opportunity for the doled finger
of that we we do have sub chapter or this
bad eyes face already. But I do think that beckoning
with an finger, I guess he's not even beckoning with
his girl finger pointing to the door.

Speaker 2 (48:47):
When he said beckoning with a niral finger, it made
me think of Bethilda.

Speaker 3 (48:51):
Yeah, true, gross, Yeah, I think that moody pointing to
the door. Obviously, the the closs mites is the obvious
idea here.

Speaker 2 (49:04):
Yeah, that's what I hadn't thought of originally, be a
little bit too complicated for Mary. Yeah, and how do
we like? How do we choose who we're gonna do?
Like Deans isn't very easy to draw lavender imitating a
squirrel is a maybe doing gymnastics. I feel like maybe
as well, but it would I don't.

Speaker 3 (49:26):
Know, Yeah, I don't think I think the Moody pointing
at the door, or even Moody like gesturing, like pointing
his wand.

Speaker 2 (49:36):
Something like that. But Alice really wants the nod finger
to be in there. So that's why I said, we
don't need to do anything with the Nirald finger.

Speaker 1 (49:45):
That's not what I heard.

Speaker 2 (49:49):
Yeah, And I think if you wanted to do the scene,
you could have Moody pointing at the door with the
Nirld finger and then Hermione looking like mortified. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (50:00):
We could also have Harry bending his knees preparing to spring.
Or we could have Moody clearing the desks.

Speaker 2 (50:07):
Yeah, that would be I mean, that would be hard
to draw because that was hard to do.

Speaker 1 (50:12):
It was really a mean feet of his.

Speaker 2 (50:16):
What happened to those desks? Moody cleared him?

Speaker 1 (50:19):
Moody cleared him.

Speaker 3 (50:19):
Yeah, but yeah, I think that the finger pointing.

Speaker 2 (50:24):
Yeah sounds good. Okay, all that we have left is
the lesson of the week, right, well, and literary device watch?

Speaker 1 (50:32):
Oh true?

Speaker 2 (50:34):
Really fun, So let's do that before we get to
Lesson of the week. Okay, Well, imagery, there was imagery.
There was also the hermiond he would rather eat Boobo
tube of puss than miss such an important lesson.

Speaker 1 (50:44):
That was figurative language. I guess yah.

Speaker 2 (50:47):
Yeah, there wasn't a lot of flitterary devices.

Speaker 3 (50:51):
I feel like there is a name for a literary
device when it's like a voice in your head.

Speaker 2 (50:58):
Oh, I don't know, maybe we.

Speaker 3 (51:00):
Have we have like uh inner inner monologue or something
sort of Yeah, Harry feeling the floating sensation as though
it was every thought and worry in his head had
been gently wiped away.

Speaker 2 (51:13):
And there's a simile there.

Speaker 3 (51:15):
Yeah, true, and also uh wiped gently away. That's sort
of a I guess that's an extension of the simile.

Speaker 2 (51:27):
Yeah, but yeah, so I mean just didn't want to
skate over that.

Speaker 1 (51:31):
Oh nice nice?

Speaker 2 (51:33):
Uh idiom there exactly?

Speaker 3 (51:37):
Okay, Yeah, so, actually we do have moody beckoning, sorry
back to the grand praying for you.

Speaker 1 (51:45):
We do have moody beckoning students forward and turn.

Speaker 2 (51:49):
But at that point he didn't have the neural finger. Well,
I mean, what what finger was it using?

Speaker 4 (51:54):
Then?

Speaker 2 (51:54):
Well, I'm kind of hoping it wasn't just one finger.
I feel like it's better if you're doing like ye, true,
it's moody, Yeah, it's moody. So that's true.

Speaker 1 (52:11):
I think it probably was as creepy as it could be.

Speaker 2 (52:14):
It's actually Barti Crouch Junior.

Speaker 1 (52:16):
True jun Yeah, Okay, lesson of the week.

Speaker 3 (52:20):
I don't know, running out of I guess we could
have it be a cultural lesson.

Speaker 2 (52:25):
That's the national anthem, but oh wait, it doesn't say
what the national.

Speaker 1 (52:28):
Ath that's what we learned.

Speaker 2 (52:29):
That's what you learned, Martha because you pictured him singing
the star Spangled banner. Oh, how very.

Speaker 1 (52:35):
Wrong you were, How very wrong I was? Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 2 (52:40):
I don't know American centric, are you true?

Speaker 1 (52:44):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (52:44):
I guess this could be a lesson in classroom management,
like keep the do as much hands on learning as
you possibly can us.

Speaker 1 (52:54):
A lesson of the.

Speaker 2 (52:55):
Week supposed to be like how would you teach this
in your classroom?

Speaker 1 (52:59):
How would I teach this page?

Speaker 3 (53:00):
Yeah, but maybe my classroom could be a college pre
educator's class. I see, Yeah, And it could be you're
using this page as an example of.

Speaker 1 (53:13):
Like a hand's odd lesson. Yeah, okay, all fingers odd lesson?

Speaker 2 (53:19):
Yeah, yeah, I think you're right. For a second, when
we were going into the lesson of the week, I
was thinking that it was like, what's the moral of
this page? Oh?

Speaker 1 (53:27):
Yeah, we could do something like that.

Speaker 2 (53:29):
Yeah, but I don't know that there's much of a
moral here other than like if we because we don't
get into the next.

Speaker 1 (53:35):
Part with Harry challenge authority.

Speaker 2 (53:37):
Yeah, I mean we get to that in the one
line of the why though.

Speaker 1 (53:41):
At the end why.

Speaker 2 (53:42):
Though, the meme of the week becomes the lesson of
the week or.

Speaker 1 (53:45):
The moral of the week. That is so true, meme
into moral, Yeah exactly.

Speaker 3 (53:50):
Yeah, Okay, So I think we've come up with a
couple of new segments this week.

Speaker 1 (53:54):
We have the meme of the week, we have the
moral of the week.

Speaker 3 (53:58):
So I guess we have to go back and asside
those each of the previous pages, right new.

Speaker 4 (54:04):
No.

Speaker 2 (54:04):
I think as we get more and more segment ideas
like if they don't apply, we'll be able to skip
over them a little bit. Except for MVB, there's always
going to be an MB of course, that I said,
if they don't apply, well, I do.

Speaker 3 (54:18):
Think some people might try to argue that it doesn't
always apply for an MVB.

Speaker 2 (54:23):
But not any of our listeners.

Speaker 1 (54:26):
They would be how very wrong they would be.

Speaker 2 (54:28):
Now, our listeners understand what an mv B is.

Speaker 1 (54:31):
I hope.

Speaker 3 (54:31):
So I just want to clarify to anybody who might
be new or something like that, there's always an MVB,
even if you don't think there is.

Speaker 1 (54:38):
There's always an MVB, if.

Speaker 2 (54:40):
There's always also a QQ or a w w t
O q q O t w B.

Speaker 3 (54:46):
I like you, I said, you like the segment that
you can't even say it. I really like that name.

Speaker 1 (54:52):
That's say.

Speaker 2 (54:53):
I love it. You came up with it, so of
course you know, Okay, uh, yeah, that's that's true.

Speaker 3 (55:01):
We don't always have to have everything, but we do
have to address that there isn't.

Speaker 1 (55:05):
One when there isn't. That's true. That's true, very important
to do that.

Speaker 3 (55:10):
Okay, well, I think we've done all of the segments
that are required here. We do need to award a
real weirdo and it's pretty either. I mean, I guess
it could maybe be Neville, but it's probably gotta be Moody, right, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (55:27):
I mean, he did clear all those desks exactly.

Speaker 1 (55:31):
He cleared those desks, and.

Speaker 2 (55:33):
He had the gnarled finger too. That's the main thing
I was thinking, and he has he's beckoning with it.
There's quite a few, like there actually are quite a
few characters listed here.

Speaker 3 (55:45):
Well actually the fact that, I mean Moody's pretty weird
for doing making these are the things he's making the
class fightes do.

Speaker 2 (55:53):
Yeah exactly. I think this comes back and kind of
in the Ojo she didn't. But it's also kind of
the oh Moody he.

Speaker 1 (55:59):
Didn't, yeah, exactly, or Barty he didn't. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (56:03):
So I mean, yeah, it's like, really, this is the
best you could come up with. It's it's similar to
Lupin coming up with the ideas of how to make
the bog Art scary.

Speaker 1 (56:12):
Well, it's not really.

Speaker 2 (56:13):
It's not how to make can you picture what does
your grandmother have a hat?

Speaker 1 (56:17):
She usually how to make the Bargart's funny?

Speaker 3 (56:19):
Right, right, That's what I meant, Yeah, how to make
the Boggart scary?

Speaker 2 (56:24):
The bog Art was already scary.

Speaker 3 (56:26):
It's already a bit scary exactly for Hermighty it turns
into the.

Speaker 1 (56:30):
Book beak, you're still a bit scary.

Speaker 2 (56:36):
But yeah, no, I think I think Moody or slash
Barty Crouch Junior, because like, oh, he was having fun
with this exactly is funny. It is a little like.
I mean it is also you're a he's a weirdo
like you really you're going to use the imperious curse
on fourteen year olds? Well, I mean it was so

(56:56):
that he could see whether Harry could resist it. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (57:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (57:01):
Was there ready foreshadowing on this page? I don't think so.

Speaker 2 (57:04):
I mean, again, if we got a little bit further
into the Harry throwing off the Imperious curse, that's that's
some foreshadowing. But we didn't really get into that part,
So no, I would say not.

Speaker 3 (57:16):
Although, like I said, I do think that the reason
Moody did this lesson, crouched at this lesson was to
see well and.

Speaker 2 (57:23):
Also when Moody cleared those desks, it sort of reminded
me of when he cleared the way for Harry to
get to the cup first. Oh true, it's foreshadowing. He's
very good at clearing things exactly.

Speaker 3 (57:37):
Okay, all right, any other things to do here?

Speaker 2 (57:43):
But before we rate the page, I don't. I think
we got everything.

Speaker 3 (57:48):
So this page stands against book three, page one light
teen Current Railing Champion, where Hermiley, Harry, and Rad discussed
whether Haggard would be fired for this first lesson or
in Chara Magical Creatures.

Speaker 1 (58:04):
Yeah, this was a pretty fun page. Honest, this was fun.

Speaker 2 (58:08):
I'm trying to think like if the page itself was
actually better than that page or not, because you know,
it's like sometimes our discussion of the page impacts how
I feel about it. Well, our discussion of the page
depends on the page. Yeah, Like this page itself was
not really that amazing.

Speaker 1 (58:27):
Moody clear to the desk selics that was.

Speaker 2 (58:30):
Amazing, but that was only one line on the page.

Speaker 1 (58:33):
I don't know. I think there's a lot of fun
stuff here.

Speaker 3 (58:35):
I think honestly, having less dialogue makes it a more
fun page in some ways, like just to discuss on
its own because we have like it just it's more
it's easier to kind of picture what's happening on the
page versus just hearing what characters are saying.

Speaker 2 (58:53):
Yeah, okay, we can put it first. I mean, so far,
I don't think any of our pages have really been
that fantastic yet, right, I mean they've been fine, but
like we haven't had a page where it was like,
oh wow, that was a really good page.

Speaker 1 (59:08):
True. Yeah, so is this one number one?

Speaker 2 (59:11):
Then? Yeah, let's do that. Okay, it's You're right, it's
not fantastic, but it's it was fun. Yeah, Okay. I
also think like, out of the pages that we've talked
about so far, it's probably one that I do remember
more than others, like prior to this, Like I have
more of a memory of this scene than I do

(59:32):
about the trio fretting about Buckbeak attacking Malfoy. Yeah, or
Susan Bones long plat Yeah. Although remember we're only talking
about that top page at this point.

Speaker 3 (59:45):
Well, true, but we did. We've only done three, so
we can talk about all three right now. But right now,
this is the Railing Champion kick of the Hill.

Speaker 1 (59:53):
All right?

Speaker 2 (59:54):
Are you ready for the dice roll for next week?
We are, all right, So.

Speaker 3 (01:00:00):
Forgot that I have to put in the I don't
think I remember to do the dice roll sound last
week or two weeks ago, but I'll do it this
time because I'm reminding myself, and I'll listen to this
when I'm editing.

Speaker 1 (01:00:10):
Okay, So are you ready, Dallas, I'm so ready. All Right.

Speaker 3 (01:00:17):
We have book three, page three hundred and thirty four,
all right, so it's going to be later in the book.

Speaker 2 (01:00:28):
That's that's pretty late in the book.

Speaker 1 (01:00:30):
All right.

Speaker 3 (01:00:30):
Prediction for what it's going to be. I think it's
going to be in the harmone secret chapter.

Speaker 2 (01:00:35):
I think it, Yeah, I think it. It's going to
be yeah, pretty pretty late. I definitely think the time
Turner is going to be involved as far as where
they are. Yeah, I'm excited.

Speaker 1 (01:00:51):
That'll be fun. Another book three.

Speaker 3 (01:00:53):
Interesting that we've had for four one pages at a time,
and there two of them are in book three. All right,
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