April 27, 2025 • 49 mins
In the most somber OPAAT yet, Alice and Martha review recent bad news in the Wizarding World, which is affecting many of Harry's classmates, including Hannah Abbott, a round-faced Hufflepuff student, the Patil twins, and Lavender Brown. Luckily, Harry's memory is up to the task of remembering all the important details he need to successfully analyze his classmates' actions!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Book six, page two hundred and twenty two.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
May I have your attention? Please? May I have your attention? Please? Well,
the real Weird Sisters, please stand up. We're gonna have
a problem here were the Weird Sisters. We're the real
weird Sisters. All you are the Weird Sisters are fine,
We're not the fakers. Well, the real Weird Sisters.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Please stand up, Please stand up, Please stand up. 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 twenty second page of Harry Potter and the
Half Blood Prince. Like Alice said, we're still early stages
of pages. We still have not gotten a book page past.
(00:47):
The latest one we've had was three hundred and thirty four,
So I know what is with them three hundred and
forty one.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
It really seems like the dice are stacked against us.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Well, maybe we need real dice, you know.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
I was thinking today, like we're still in the early
pages of one page is at one page at a time,
and we've we've not encountered a lot of things yet.
There's a lot of things I'm thinking are going to
be an interesting scenario when they come up, Like when
we get a page that has like three sentences on it,
when we get a page, when we get a page
(01:18):
it's like super depressing, Which this is the closest we've
been to that, not to get to ahead of ourselves,
but it's a kind of depressing page. Yeah, but there's
gonna be ones that are way worse. So I don't know.
I was just thinking, like some of our stuff, we'll
have to see how it goes as we progress, but
I'm I know we're we're working through it. It's going
to be fun.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Yes, So of course we have to update everybody housekeeping.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
I won't come back later that housekeeping. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
We had a very very close race for the best
band Name of the Week last week and about forty
people voted.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
This time. We didn't have as many voters this time.
Not sure or why.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
And maybe you guys could give me some feedback on
when I should be posting the poll because I usually
do it like later in the day on Monday, because
I would assume that people would like to listen before
they vote.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Yeah, I don't know if people are listening before they
vote or not. It might just be kind of a
blind like you go in and you're kind of just voting.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Well, but I kind of think that might be better though.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
I mean, we make a case for it on the show,
so that's the only downside. But at the same time,
at least they don't know, like if people are doing
it without listening, they don't.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Know who said what, so it's yeah, but I don't
think people are doing it without listening, mostly though, because
of how few people are voting compared to few or
how many people view the story. So I feel like
people knowing our listeners, I feel like they want to
be like, I'm not going to vote until I've heard it,
so then they on a right process. Yeah, I feel
like they might be viewing the story and be like, oh,
(02:53):
I can't vote yet, and then not going back to
it because it's gone in twenty four hours or whatever.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Right.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
I think there's a way for me to change the
settings of a story poll to last longer, but I
don't remember.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
If that's right or not. Oh, I have no idea.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
I feel like I used to do that when I
was doing when I was doing the March Madness polls,
but now I like I'm trying right, now, and I
don't see.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
A way to do that. So yeah, all right, I
don't know, still working out these details. Yeah, but I.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Haven't even said what the results of the poll were
because we had a very close race between three of
the four candidates. Here, we'll just go ahead and kick
whirl of Hair to the curb with only four votes.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
That one was out to be honest, I still don't remember.
I remember I came up with the Dog's Jaws, but
that's the only one I remember. Did you do all
the other three? I'm pretty sure I did the other three?
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Yeah, yeah, So the Dog's Jaws and Hot Breath and
Hands Held Tight were all very very close, within one
or two votes of each other.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
But the winner was thirty four percent of.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
The vote hands Held Tight, which is the last minute
candidate that I came up with, like at the very
end of the episode. So just goes to show can't
count your chickens before they've hatched.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
I think hands Held Tight is pretty good. I do
not think Hot Breath is good. I know. I'm surprised
that Hot Breath got as many votes as it. Yeah. Yeah,
So anyway, I'm okay with Hands Held Tight winning. I'm
glad that it won out over Hot Breath the dog's jaws.
I'm glad it held up. Okay, well, hands held tight.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
I do feel like is a very like Three Doors
Down or like exactly Dashboard Confessional, one of those like
kind of corny bands but no offense if you like me,
watch your words. Well, I don't have anything against it.
It's just a little bit like you know, emo rock
from the two thousands. Yeah, So we'll see this week
(04:56):
whether we have another tight race or another.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Sweep like last week.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
But that's about it for housekeeping this week. I did
want to shout out Jen for saying that she thought
that one inch teeth sounded terrifying.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
So I actually I'm kind of on her side on that. Okay, well,
and I have somebody also said, but we need Alice
to measure her teeth well, and I kind of did,
like not I didn't hold a ruler up to my teeth,
but I kind of like I held my fingers up
to my teeth, and then I kind of did a comparison,
and I think I was a bit off, like I
was thinking more of like, I don't know, I think
(05:35):
my teeth are about half an inch long. Yeah, that
sounds more right to me. Yeah, so I mean one
inch teeth, okay, but I still think like three inch
teeth would have been really terrifying. Well yeah, I definitely
would have been really terrifying.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Okay, So, I, like you hinted, this page has a
little bit of depressing stuff on it, actually kind of
a lot of not super happy.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Stuff on it.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
It's from the chapter Hermione's Helping Hand, And we don't
really see Hermione's helping hand in this chapter at all,
or on this page at all.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
No, we don't. And location they do move a couple
of different locations on the page, So I mean, yeah,
I guess Hermione's helping Hand doesn't necessarily tell us anything
about the location.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
But no, but yeah location, watch there are there. They're
kind of on the move in this page. They're they're
starting off at the Great Hall gryffindor table, and then
they do leave the table and kind of walking through
the Great Hall.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
I will say, and again I will read it here
in a second, but I would say that it's most
similar to that page that we did that's actually at
the top of our page ranking right now. Oh wait, no, sorry,
it was at the top of our page ranking. It's
been dethroned, but at the page where the Trio was
fretting about Bucky.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
It was at the top of our page rankings for
the one week, which is because that was our first
that was our first one.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
It was up there for a while. No, yes, because
it was better than the one in the Hogshead and
it was better that.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Yeah, okay, I guess, but yeah, I think it was
up there for one week because our third one was
the well that d throned it.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Okay, Well, anyway, it was up there for a while.
Sort of similar to that chapter, to that page, so
I think like it kind of reminds me of that
where it's like basically the Trio recapping something and then
a little bit of action happening on the side.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Yeah, I agree that. I was thinking that this was
a pretty similar page. It's kind of the three years
later type of because it's earlier, earlier in the book.
They're sitting in the great Hall and the three of
them talking about something.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
There's even a glonsp that's staff table, just like they
love to glance up at the staff table, Yeah they do.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
So, Yeah, should we jump right into reading the page,
I think, so, all right, So I guess I have
to start because it is dialogue, even though there's no
beginning quote on this page, just because it starts on
the previous page.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Yeah, exactly, and it it is implied. I mean, I
think if we went back a page, we would see
confirmed that it's Hermione speaking here, because Ron in the
next sentence after this response, So just so everyone knows,
this will be Hermione opening up the page.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
So I guess I have to start, since I'm doing dialogue,
all right. So the Potill twins' parents want them to
go home, and Eloi's mitgen.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Has already been withdrawn. Her father picked her up last night,
what said Ron, goggling at Hermione. But Hawkwarts is safer
than their homes bound to be.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
We've got ours and all those extra protective spells that
we've got.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Dumbledore, I don't think we've got him all the time,
said Hermione, very quietly, glancing at the staff table over
the top of the prophet.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Haven't you noticed his seat's been empty as often as
haggards this past week?
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Harry and Ron looked up at the staff table. The
head master's chair was indeed empty at masper. Now, Harry
came to think of it, he had not seen Dumbledore
since their private lesson a week ago. I think he's
left the school to do something with the order, said
Hermione in a low voice. Harry and Ron did not answer,
(09:24):
but Harry knew that they were all thinking the same thing.
There had been a horrible incident the day before, when
Hannah Abbott had been taken out of her bology to
be told her mother had been found dead. They had
not seen Hannah since. When they left the Gryffindor table
five minutes later to head down to the quidditch pitch,
they passed Lavender Brown and Parvati Patil. Remembering what Hermione
(09:44):
had said about the Pottil twins' parents wanting them to
leave Hogwarts, Harry was unsurprised to see that the two
best friends were whispering together, looking distressed. What did surprise
him was that when Ron drew level with them, Pavati
suddenly nudged Lavender, who looked around and gave Ron a
wide smile. Ron blinked at her, then returned the smile uncertainly.
(10:09):
His walk instantly became.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Some Then the page heads, Yeah can we finish that
sentence or not, I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
All right, that them's the rules.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Sorry, Yeah, it's yeah, like we said, not the happiest page.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Of we've that we've read so far.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
I felt a little bad reading the Hannah Abbott situation
in Jim Dale's faky voice from myself. But you know,
that's the rule. That's the rules, that's the rules.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Like I said, uh, yeah, so let's just jump right
into it. I think that uh kind of like we
haven't done this before. But if we had to, if
we had to assign an adverb to this page, what
would the adverb be of, like this page was we
had to read this page very wondefully, I.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Would say maybe like somberly.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Yeah, so I mean, if we're gonna it's not an adjective,
I mean it is a somber page.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Yeah, i'd say somber, or at least just like sort
of it's a little bit foreboding too, because there's kind
of all this like talk about what's happening and what's
to come. We're about to get some comic relief, but
unfortunately the page cuts off before we can really get
into it. I think there's some interesting and interesting part
(11:31):
is when Harry is like seeing the two friends whispering together,
and then he's like assuming what they're looking distressed about,
but it kind of turns out to be a little different.
I don't know if that's really what Parvadi and Lavender
are talking about. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
I think if they were looking distressed, I don't think
they were talking about Ron at that point, I think,
I guess, except as showing I think it's more just
showing that they're like.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
They have other things on their mind besides just that. Yeah,
that could be or it also could be Harry misinterpreting
their facial expressions, like maybe they just look. Harry's never
done that, yeah, exactly. He never projects his own emotions
onto other people at all. So I don't know. I agree,
like we don't know conclusively that that's that they're not
(12:17):
talking about it, but like, just the more I've read it,
it kind of to me feels like this could be
a little bit of a miss from Harry on his
interpretation of what he's witnessing. It could have been.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
But I also do think that Parvodi and Lavender are multifaceted,
and they could go from one thing to the other
pretty quickly.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Yeah, that's true. Just because Harry's got the range of
emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean they all have. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
So Okay, let's just do a quick adverb scan since
we're talking about adverbs. There's only one leave adverb right quietly.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Yeah, I will say this adverb. Well, there's also uncertainly
when Ron returned the smile uncertainly, and there's also suddenly
parodi suddenly nudged lavender. Yeah, but it's not really much
with the dialogue. So I will say, like, maybe we're
learning from this one page at a time study that,
like some of the some of the criticism of the
(13:15):
constant adverbs is a little.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Off base, to be fair, in a low in a
lower voice is an adverbial clause.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Right, Oh that's true.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Yeah, so I kind of think that might be the
the adverb of the week in a low voice, because
that's that's one that I feel like we do see
pretty that that.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Is a popular one for sure. I also think that
like this is an adverb, but it's kind of a
it's sort of describing what it's describing what Ron's doing
when he says it but when he says goggling at
her mind, I feel like that's another one that we
see fairly often in the series.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Yeah, yeah, there's oggling a lot too, goggling and goggling,
but yeah, that I also thought of that, But I
think in a low voice is a pretty frequent flier
for the author.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
So yeah, let's assign that of the week. Okay, sounds good.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Okay, I know we kind of always jump around with
the segments, but when we were reading it out loud,
one thing that jumped out to me is the humble
brag of the week being when when Harry remembered what
her body had said, like that was two seconds ago.
So yeah, good one, Harry. I'm so proud of you
for your amazing memory. Yeah, like literally the top of
(14:26):
the page, she says that the Pattill Twins parents wanted
to go home. At the bottom of the page, remembering
what her body had said about the Pattill Twins parrots
willing to live Hogwarts. Yeah, good job, Harry, you remembered.
We're all so proud of you. Or you have Harry remembered, You're.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Not You're not gonna you can't get anything past him.
He's gonna remember. He's got an amazing memory.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Careful what you say around him, because he will remember
it up to five minutes later.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
He may forgive, but he's not going to forget. Right,
it does literally five minutes later.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
I think that that conversation about the petultwents probably was
about thirty seconds before the five minutes later, So six minutes.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
If that that Harry was able to remember. There's one
thing we know about Harry, it's he's gonna remember within
five minutes. He'll still remember.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
He will still remember within five minutes exactly. Did you
have any other candidates for Humble Brag of the Week.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Well, it's it's not as good. I agree that that's
the best one. But I also did think Ron kind
of puffing up how great Hogwarts is. Yeah, that's true.
Hogwarts is safer than their homes bound to be. We've
got horrors and all those extra protective spells, and we've
got Dumbledore. Okay, yeah, you've got it all. Yeah, congrats, Ron.
(15:46):
There's no way Hogwarts will ever be breached. Hogwarts will
never fall. Yeah. But yeah, no, I agree. I like
the Harry remembered better. Yeah, remembering what Harmania said?
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Whoa he remembered so thoughtful of him.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Burn of the week I feel like might go to
Hermione burning Hagrid for being absent all the time. Yeah,
I thought of that as well.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
I do also think, uh, it's a little bit of
the what you just said for the humble brag, it's
a bit of rod burning everybody else's homes.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Hogwarts are safer than their.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
Homes, bound to be bound to be safer than their homes,
like one of their.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Homes got that we don't. Yeah, their homes can't be
that safe, no, but her The one about Hermione is
when she says that she says to about Dumbledore his
seat's been as his seat's been empty as often as
Hagrid's this past week that often.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Huh wow, yeah, he's gone a lot.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
What did Hagrid's just got all the time? Because he's
working with Grop in the woods? Right, I think?
Speaker 1 (16:50):
So?
Speaker 2 (16:51):
I don't. Yeah, I can't ever remember where Hagrid is
at what point? Well neither could Hermione.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
We also fight he's also fighting with I guess he's
actually helping with Eric.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Ok.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
But I also thought that it was a pretty subtle
burn here when Harry is really surprised, he was. What
did surprise it was that when Rod drew level with
them Barbodi suddenly that did surprise Harry?
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Who would do that when they saw Ron? Right? Yeah,
which one do you think should win for that?
Speaker 1 (17:27):
I like the Hagard seat or his double doore seat
has been empty as often as Hagards this past week.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Yeah, Like there was no need to compare it to Hagrid.
We could have just said, like, he's been gone a
lot this week.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Right, to compare this page again to the first one
that we did, the O G O P I T
O P A T. I did not to always have
this be the missed opportunity of the week, but I
was a bit surprised that we didn't have. Harry and
Rod looked up at the staff table. Head master's chair,
(18:01):
though a bit smaller than Hagrid's vacated seat, was indeed empty.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
The headmaster's chair located next to Hagrid's oversized chair. Yeah, yeah,
something like that.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Yeah, like his seat's been empty as often as Hagrids. Specific,
the head master's chair was indeed empty, as was the
large seat that Hagrid frequently satin.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Yeah, I agree, I mean that, Yeah, that's it is
sort of like the same concept, but yeah, it is
a big one for the author.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Another one I was a little bit surprised was that,
I mean, yes, of course we have to have Hannah Abbot,
but it didn't leave it. It didn't The author is giving
us more credit than she usually does.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
She doesn't say Hannah.
Speaker 4 (18:44):
Abbot of Hufflepuff or around faced girl from Hufflepuff Yeah,
or like Hannah Abbot one of their one of their
classmates who frequently hung with or it is not hung with,
who frequently found herself around Earning mac Millan ing Hannah
Abbot of Dumbledore's army member from Hufflepuff.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
House, Yeah, or at least at the very least Hannah
Abbott of Hufflepuff.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
I feel like, yeah, that maybe that's the missed opportunity.
We didn't get a chance to describe who Hannah Abbott
was to us.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
Yeah, But I was just thinking, like, maybe that's going
to be a trend we see with the sixth book.
Is she's giving us more credit now than she was
at the beginning of the.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Yeah, I think that is true. I will say that
that I don't that's a contender to me for the Ojoe.
She didn't because we've had so many last names on
this page. We have Eloie's Midgeen, then we have Hannah Abbot,
and we have Parvadi Patil and Lavender Brown. I'm like,
is that necessary to me, especially those two this far
(19:50):
into the book.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
Like if this was page maybe seventy or something, I
could see putting the last names. But this is definitely
not the first time we've seen Parvadi in Lavender this book.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
No, in this book. Yeah, it's early in the school year,
but not that early, like they've been at school a
little bit. So No, I don't think that's I don't
think that's necessary, and I think that's very classic author
slash editor. I guess.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Yeah, true, Yeah, I think that one of the things
on this page that's a little bit interesting is we
really don't have I mean, not that this is something
we have to have it on any page, but I
feel like we don't have really much humor at all
on the page.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Yeah, that's what I'm saying, Like we're about to get
into the comic relief, but we missed out on it. Yeah, exactly,
But yeah, I agree, So that is I mean, I
don't know if that necessarily counts as a missed opportunity
in the way that we usually say. But there it
is a pretty earnest page.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
Yeah, well, I mean, I don't I didn't really mean
that in the in the missed opportunity conversation, I just
met that. Something to kind of watch too is that
this is probably, I think definitely the most serious page
we've had.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Yeah, for sure, and it's partly and it will be
interesting to see too. Like book by book, I think,
I mean, we're getting into some more heavy stuff in
the series at this point, so that might be part
of it. But I think, I mean, there is still
plenty of humor in the later books, so we'll see, right.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Right, Okay, So there were there was no food on
this page, unfortunately, even though they were eating.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Yeah, that was a missed opportunity. They were in the
Great Hall, missold I know.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
But I'm just saying opportunity conversations anymore.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
I know, I'm just saying when they're literally in the
Great Hall, it seems there should be some food mentioned. Well,
maybe there was food on the previous page. Yeah, maybe
we wouldn't hurt to mention it again, Yeah, I wouldn't
hurt you're right.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Also, I just wanted to say, this is our fifth
one page at a time, and we still have not
seen Hedwig on any of these one pages at a time.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
That is really upsetting. I Oh, I don't know that
I would have signed up to do one page at
a time if I knew that Hedwig was missing from
so many pages.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Yeah, it's actually an abomination, Like it's really disturbing. I
would get it if it's sometimes, but for it to
be five of these and we still haven't seen Hedwig,
that's what's disturbing.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
And they're in the Great Hall, that's where she usually
makes deliveries exactly, So that was a missed opportunity as well.
And there's no Grubbly Plank either, another missed opportunity. Hagrid's
seat is empty, so why is it not being filled
by Yeah, if Hagrid's not going to be there, we
should definitely have grubby Plank there.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Yeah, she just subs for him at the staff table.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Anytime he misses a meal, she gets his dinner ticket.
That's a great idea for her.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
You know, she she's good at many things, but I
kind of feel like she might be one of those
working women who sometimes forgets to cook for herself. Yeah,
and I think that the Hogwarts food would be very
good for her to have every week, for sure.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Okay, enough grubbley planking.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
Talk that not that what I've never I've never thought
i'd say those words in my life, actually, and I
won't ever say them again. Okay, let's let's talk about
any Sorry, let's talk about the what would grant sorry,
the ww GPD of this week?
Speaker 2 (23:27):
What would grand Prey do for this page? I feel
like this is the one, like this week is going
to be the biggest reach. Like I don't necessarily see
that this is going to make a great no chapter illustration.
Maybe the part where we see the petilta or sorry,
where we see Parvati and Lavender like nudging each other
(23:48):
and smiling at Ron. I feel like that. I mean
that that happens right at the end of the page.
But I do feel like Mary grand Prey really does
enjoy sometimes that tension between the like the romance aspect. Yeah,
that's what I was gonna say too.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Or maybe we could see Ron strutting kind of like
the way he looks in the is it the Valentine's
Day chapter?
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Whatever, the yeah, whatever the chapter is called where slut
Cordon has a what is that chapter called? I can
picture the chapter art perfectly, but it's just a very
smug look.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
On his face.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
So I could see maybe Ron strutting by with Lavender
and her body kind of whispering each other's ears, yeah,
like below him.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
Yeah, I don't think.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
Yeah, I really don't think there's anything else. I mean,
I guess we could have, like we do have that
Hermione's holding the prophet in her hand, so that might be.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Yeah, there could be something with the trio sitting in
the Grand Sorry in the Great Hall, in the Grand
Hall in the Great Hall, and like Dumbledore's chair and
Hagrid's chair being empty or something, but that's pretty boring.
Let's let's put it this way. I I can see
why this page was not the chapter art.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
Yeah, I can also see why this page is not
the chapter art. But yeah, I do like the visual
of them sitting at the uh sitting at their table
with Hermione holding up the prophets so you can't really
see her face. Yeah, maybe like the three of them
huddled around the prophet. I'm thinking this might be this,
just knowing that it's early enough of the series and
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Harry and Hermione, you're gonna be speculating about talks. This
might be later this page or later later where Harry's
going to see togs and like mention the the werewolf
bite or whatever that you know, you know what I'm
talking about.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
Yeah, just one of the times when he triggers her
about serious.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
Well that no, that he's like kind of trying to
make small talk about uh about the what like the
state of the world, and he's like, oh, did you
see that there's been kids bitten by way of.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
Wolves or something, which was Yeah, he thinks he's triggering
her about serious, but he's triggering her about lupin, right.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
But he's also yeah, anyway, not really on this page
at all, but I was just thinking that might be
what they've what's kind of started this conversation about how
serious things have gotten. It could be Yeah, okay, so
any literary devices on this page, we have a simile.
His seat's been empty as often, sorry, yeah, simile as
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empty as often as hagards this past week.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
Yeah, it's not a I mean, it's not really like
a classic simile because it's not only comparing two unlike things,
but I mean it is technically as simile. I yeah,
it's not a lot of I don't really see a
whole lot of literary devices on this page.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
Yeah, goggling might be hyperbole not great though.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
Or some imagery there, I guess picturing Ron's eyes bugging out. Yeah,
I don't really see any figurative language.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
No, I don't see much figurative language. We do have
one ellipses or ellipses. As far as punctuation.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
Goes, it's pretty rare that we get a page without
an ellipsis or an M dash. So I think there's
no M dashes on this page. Yeah, yeah, it's it's
kind of lacking M dashes sadly. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
Okay, well, we've got lots of other segments to get to.
Don't worry everybody, we'll be back. We'll take a quick
break for a word from our sponsors. First. So was
this page in the movie? I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
No, And are we taking this page with us? I
would say I'm fine discarding.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Yeah, this is honestly one of the least important pages
we've read. I mean, yes, I do like the foreboding
sense on the page. As far as like just kind
of that is sort of the tone of this book too.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
But yeah, I don't necessarily need right, I mean, it's
not like it's not like a scene where you'd like
you're like, oh, this is total fluff, we should just
cut it. But it's not like crucial to see this
particular moment, right exactly exactly.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
Yeah, Yeah, I think that hearing.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
About Hannah is probably the most of the part that's
most there.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Yeah, and that's most important there. But the like details
about Parvodi and Padma leaving or potentially living in the
Dumbledore's chair being empty, I mean, it's just all kind
of like not super crucial.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
Yeah, And I mean we see it at other times too,
Like I know, that's not the only time that we
see them talking about that that stuff, right exactly. Like
I think you're right, the Hannah Abbott's mom being found dead,
like that is the only time we really hear about that.
But other than that, I think everything else on this
page is sort of like we get this quite a
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bit at various points throughout this book. Yeah, exactly. Okay, MVB.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
This one is going to be very tricky because we
don't really have any movement, let alone birds.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
Well, I know, I'm thinking maybe the maybe the Lavender
and Parvati whispering together, like they're they're kind of walking
and they look like maybe two birds in flight. Are
they walking?
Speaker 1 (29:25):
I thought that I was picturing them sitting at like
that they were at the end of the Griffin door
table when Harry and ro past them.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
Yeah, that's true, it could be. I always pictured them
walking together. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Maybe, But maybe Dumbledore is the bird of the week because.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Because he's taken a flight of fancy lo and away. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Yeah, Hagrid could be as well, but that would be
a big bird.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
I think Dumbledore seems like the best and most obvious bird.
I'm just kind of and he's off doing something with
the order of the Phoenix.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
Yeah, that's true. That is a good point. We know
his patronas is a phoenix. If he had become an animagus,
he would have been a phoenix.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
Yeah, it makes sense.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
Lot to have like qualities for him. I'm just kind
of scanning the page again to see if there's any
chance of any other birds on the page, not only profit.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
No, I mean you could fold that into like a
paper airplane bird, but as well. It's not likely to happen.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Yeah, I think I think that Dumbledore being the MVP.
It's it's not the best, but it'll do.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
I'm thinking for real, weirdo. There's also not a lot
of contenders for that. But I I'm kind of between
Harry or Ron because a Ron just acts so baffled
by all of it, and it's like, really, Ron, like
this has been happened, like this is like this is
a thing, that's all this stuff has been happening, Like
(30:54):
are you really that shocked in your eyes? Please? And
then Harry like a his memory. I don't know, he's
he's so proud of himself for remembering what Hermy had said.
But then at the same time, he like didn't notice
that Dumbledore has been gone. Now Harry came to think
of it, he had not seen Dumbledore since they're private
(31:17):
lesson a week ago. Harry, Come on, Harry, like, try
to keep up here. I know you were preoccupied trying
to remember what Hermioney just said. But yeah, that's a
good call.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
I was actually thinking Hermiony for how like solemn she's
actually there's a good reason for that.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
So yeah, I mean, yes, hermione is being quite sometimes Hermione,
I think really enjoys being the bearer of bad news,
so she's there to deliver all of the bad news
to them. She's she knows about the Petil Twins, she
knows about Ells Eloise Midgeon. She is the one who's
you know, speculating that they're not super safe because Dumbledore
(32:00):
is gone. So she is quite the Debbie Downer here.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
But yeah, No, I think I actually like Harry for
this because also he's very quiet on this page.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
Yeah, he's well, he's focused on remembering. Yeah, he's really
got to focus on that memory. It's a lot to
try to remember that, and he's he's gonna want to
remember it in five minutes because he's gonna see her bodies.
So it's good that he is able to finally wrap
his head around that.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
Yeah, I think Harry, is this the first time he's
gotten real weird though?
Speaker 2 (32:35):
It is. Yeah, so we've yeah, we've also, I mean,
we're allowing Harry to get it this time, so like
we said, we'll be seeing Yeah, this is the first
time we've actually awarded it to him.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
Yeah, we don't really have any sas on this page.
But I was thinking back to the missed opportunity. I'm
kind of surprised her mind. He doesn't say something to
Ron like, oh, come on, wake up.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
I don't think.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
We've got him all the time, Like she's maybe this
is just her growing up or something. But I'm surprised
how calmly she's like correcting people here, uh like him
goggling at her. I really am shocked that we don't
have a like where have you been?
Speaker 2 (33:18):
Ron?
Speaker 1 (33:18):
Or like, are you serious, Ronald? You've got to be
kidding me like that?
Speaker 2 (33:24):
Yeah, agreed, Like it definitely seems like she would be
well yeah, because I mean, Harry and Ron are both
being a bit thick here, like they had his seat's
been empty as often as hagrids. This past week, Harry
and Ron looked up at the staff at the staff table.
I can't say that sentence at all, but they looked
up at the staff table, and it's like, really, you
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had to look up there to realize Dumbledore wasn't there, right.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
I mean, I guess for Ron it's a little more
understandable because Ron doesn't really interact with Dumbledore ever, But
how has Harry not notice that?
Speaker 2 (33:57):
Yeah? And I mean, like I feel like you just
kind of at least I'm not that I'm really not
that observant of a person, but like when you walk
in the room as a student, don't you kind of
notice if the principle is there or not? Yes, I
feel like you do. Yeah, So that's from like don't
come on Harry and Ron like he's that's the headmaster.
(34:19):
So like a little bit of like spatial awareness and
like being aware of your surroundings, it's going to.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
Go a long way, right right, So yeah, no real
sass of the week here at any morals of the
week for this page.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
I think the moral of the week is to pay
attention when Hermione's talking because some of those remember remembered,
some of those tidbits she's going to say, are going
to help you to be able to correctly interpret what's
going on between other individuals exactly that. I think that's
a very good moral of the week. And I think maybe.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
We're going to phase out the lesson of the week
segment unless there's a clear lesson for how.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
To use this in anguish classroom.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
But I do like the lesson of the week slash
moral of the week being what do we learn take
away from this page. Yeah, because I think that the
moral is pay attention to Hermione. Try your best to
remember what she says. It just might be seeing the
topic of her conversation five minutes.
Speaker 2 (35:27):
Later, exactly. And if you don't bur it, you're going
to be kicking yourself.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
Yeah, yeah, exactly, Harry walking by the walking by Pavoti.
Speaker 2 (35:39):
Harry was stumped.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
He knew Hermione had mentioned Pavotti's name, but he wasn't
sure what she had said about it about her.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
Harry racked his brain.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
Harry knew it was something bad, but he couldn't remember
precisely what it was.
Speaker 2 (35:57):
Hermione had said about twins. Yeah, he's come a long way,
he he remembers, though, Yeah, or like, how's it going Pavotti.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
Pavotty looked at him with her eyes streaked, and something
plunked into place for Harry, that's.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
Right, she's been crying. I'm kind of thinking this could
turn into the meme of the week if we have
like Dory or something. Yeah, yeah, okay, is that a meme? Alas?
I don't know. I'm just saying like that could be
a meme, Like we could make a meme out of
Dory being super proud that she remembered something five minutes later. Right, Okay,
(36:40):
that's true. I don't know, it's a bit of a reach.
Is there any other memes that you can think of? No,
I didn't have anything for them. Oh you know what
actually would be a good meme of the week is
that that one where it shows like the different like
brains in the last one is like do you know
what I'm talking about? Where it's like, yeah, the whole
(37:00):
universe kind of exploding brain. Yeah. That one is like
when you remember what hermione said to you five minutes ago. Oh, okay,
that's good.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
I was thinking, uh something with uh the like guy
looking the jealous jealous girlfriend me.
Speaker 2 (37:19):
You know, the two girls and the guy in the middle.
Speaker 1 (37:21):
So we have Lavender and Parvati are there and they're
they're the guy the girlfriend who he's ignored, who the
guy's ignoring is like the potential of Parvati being yeah,
the girl walking by is rod Yeah that's good too, like.
Speaker 2 (37:44):
Yeah, a fine piece of Weasley meat as they say yeah.
Speaker 1 (37:53):
Yeah, or like maybe instead of saying like the potential
of good like just be like the gravity of the situation,
or like, no, I think it's like her Parvati being
maybe taken out of school.
Speaker 2 (38:03):
I think that's fine.
Speaker 1 (38:04):
And then well, I was just thinking, or it could
be h and Ron could be the guy in the middle,
and it could be like again, the fact that his
classmates parents are dying and getting taken out of school
and stuff, and that it's like a girl looked at
me like on the other side.
Speaker 2 (38:23):
That's what I'm focused on. Now. Yeah, that's pretty funny. Oh,
I minus called the one I'm thinking of is like
galaxy brain. That's what I'm trying to come up with. No,
I knew what you were talking about. Well, I know,
but I'm like the way I described it was weird.
I just want to make sure people knew what I
was talking about.
Speaker 1 (38:40):
I think people though, Yeah, yeah, when you remind when
you remember what her body said five.
Speaker 2 (38:45):
Minutes ago, that'd be the top Galaxy brain.
Speaker 1 (38:49):
Yeah, or well, Harry remembers what her body said five
minutes ago. I mean, let's be honest, it doesn't always happen.
That is so true. There's times where he's it's been
in Let's.
Speaker 2 (39:01):
Think about how many times that she's told them you
can't operate within the school grounds.
Speaker 1 (39:07):
Haven't you ever read Hawk What's a History.
Speaker 2 (39:10):
Or listen to her at all? Yeah, exactly. Yeah, There's
been plenty of times where Hermione's talking and the boys
don't listen whatsoever.
Speaker 1 (39:19):
So right, right, Okay, So I think we've got two
more big segments here, which are the w W t
q q O t w B and the B O
t W.
Speaker 2 (39:34):
Yeah, Burn of the Week, that's what that is, right,
We are getting the week b N B N O
t wand name of the Week.
Speaker 1 (39:44):
Okay, okay, okay, let's do the w W QQO sorry
w W t q q O t w B.
Speaker 2 (39:53):
First.
Speaker 1 (39:54):
And I was thinking this would be a question uh
that the only is sort of hinted because this is
supposed to be a fun segment. I don't reully want
it to be about any of the serious stuff at
the beginning of this page, So something like what was
it about Rob that Lavender Brown was attracted to?
Speaker 2 (40:12):
Yeah, and then we would get a whole theory about
At this point in the series, Ron's finally grown a
bit and he's looking quite like his association with Harry
is also appealing, and he's getting to be quite funny,
and he makes Lavender laugh and you get all these
like kind of obvious answers from people.
Speaker 1 (40:34):
Yeah, and then we also could have had a question
like would or could Lavender and Ron have worked out
if it hadn't been for Hermione or something like that,
which is a stupid question.
Speaker 2 (40:46):
Yeah, and I think a lot of people would just
simply say no, yeah, yeah. Okay.
Speaker 1 (40:53):
So with that said, I guess all we've got left
is the bnow, and I don't know, not everything has
to be a ot W, so maybe we need to
maybe we just.
Speaker 2 (41:02):
Need to a preview this to the like the b N, no.
Speaker 5 (41:06):
Not the of the week, her b N of the page,
because it could they could be more O TPS.
Speaker 2 (41:18):
Instead of O t W is all the time O
t PS. I thought O t P the PA pairing. Okay, okay, you.
Speaker 1 (41:26):
Know O t PA true pairing, right, yeah, Ron and
her Ron and Lavender.
Speaker 2 (41:32):
Yeah, that's my ot P for sure. There this page
is O t P right right, They're the O t
P O t P. They're the O t P O
t P. Yeah. Okay, that could be another thing we do,
picking out an O t P O t P every week.
Speaker 1 (41:49):
Okay, do we have any standouts for the B O
t W. I don't like bat W by the way,
for the band name.
Speaker 2 (41:59):
No, really, I feel like this is starting to get
more difficult for me because I'm trying not to constantly
repeat things. Did you have any that you immediately felt
like drew out? I mean, two best Friends was my
first one. I kind of liked Twins Parents and that's
oh yeah, that's on there twice.
Speaker 1 (42:22):
Yeah, Twins Parents. I wish it was the Twins Parents.
Speaker 2 (42:27):
Yeah, well, because it's the every time, says the Twins Parents.
Because I agree that twin the Twins Parents. I actually
kind of like two best friends.
Speaker 1 (42:38):
I feel like that'd be kind of a cute band
named for like something like a whatever her whatever, that
band that Zoey Deschanel was in she she and he
or something. Oh, yeah, you know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 2 (42:54):
I want her and me. Yeah, I know what you're
talking about, but I don't remember what it was she
and him. Yeah, so we've got it.
Speaker 1 (43:04):
Would be like a a quirky little duo, would be
two best friends.
Speaker 2 (43:09):
Yeah, the Twins Parents, I feel like, would be more
of a rock band.
Speaker 1 (43:13):
But it's not the Twins Parents. We can't we can't
add so just twins twins parent. I agree, Twin's parents
would be like kind of punk rock staff table.
Speaker 2 (43:25):
I thought of that one too, So I think maybe
that we should have that staff task staff table.
Speaker 1 (43:31):
I feel like would be kind of a maybe like
alt kind of sort of like a modest mouse.
Speaker 2 (43:38):
Type of Yeah, that's what I was thinking too. Okay,
we need a fourth option. I mean we could have
like looking distressed or what about something with the order. Yeah,
that's not bad, something with the order.
Speaker 1 (43:57):
But I guess it it weird because the order is
like the order of the phoenix here, but like it
could be just like the order of you know something, right. Okay,
So we want to do our one two three four
or do we have to do that every week?
Speaker 2 (44:12):
I think I'm kind of tiring of that. Yeah, but
we did to do it for our will. Let's do
it for our willery each week we are hands held
tight one two three four. Yeah, okay, I agree that's
better because that we get that really solidified in our mind. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1 (44:30):
And if you want to how about this, if if listeners,
if you want to uh say it out loud yourself
before you take your vote to help you make an
informed decision, you could do that, but I think.
Speaker 2 (44:44):
Not everybody needs that. Yeah, agreed.
Speaker 1 (44:47):
Okay, So we have four contenders, two best friends, twins, parents,
staff table, and something with the order.
Speaker 2 (44:54):
I love it, feel good about that. Yeah, those are
all pretty good, honestly for having I kind of struggled
to come up with stuff, but I actually think those
are all pretty good. Yeah, none of them are fantastic,
but well yeah it's no hands held tight, Yeah, hands
held tight. I think I think they're all better than
whirl of hair and hot breath though, so I do
(45:15):
like hot breath. No, I hate that. It's gross.
Speaker 1 (45:18):
Well, they're all, let's put it this way, they're all
better than one nar old finger.
Speaker 2 (45:23):
Yeah, that's true. That's all. That's something to be grateful for,
although Sally probably doesn't think so. Justice for one. Sally
loves one old finger.
Speaker 1 (45:35):
Yeah, okay, So I think what we've got left here
is our dice roll of the week.
Speaker 2 (45:41):
Is that right? Yep? Our d d R O TV
okay orw okay?
Speaker 1 (45:53):
So everything has to be abbreviated like that, right, Okay?
All right, I am about to roll, and I'm gonna
be putting in a dice rolling sound, so don't worry listeners,
don't worry, Alice.
Speaker 2 (46:06):
And with that, Okay, I don't know whether this is
this book doesn't Okay.
Speaker 1 (46:12):
I was happy because I saw a seven as the
second number here. But it's book six, and there's this
book only goes to six fifty two.
Speaker 2 (46:21):
So okay, so reroll that that one only, I think,
just that one.
Speaker 1 (46:25):
Okay, Yeah, so I'm locking the six, two and zero
and I'm rerolling this one.
Speaker 2 (46:31):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (46:33):
Wait, no, it didn't what it didn't lock it for me?
Speaker 2 (46:36):
Okay, Well, just just choose that date, that one, Okay,
that digit, you're right?
Speaker 1 (46:43):
Okay, four oh, okay, four twenty oh, four twenty and
we just about missed the actual four to twenty would
have been a great date to release that one.
Speaker 2 (46:52):
Sure, it's true. Wow, you're gonna have fun next week.
I'm sorry. We actually are gonna have fun though, because
I just looked its going to be a lot of
going to be a lot of impressions. Let's just put
it that way. Okay, involve three three iconic.
Speaker 1 (47:10):
Well, I shouldn't toot my own horde, but it's a
page that I have.
Speaker 2 (47:14):
It's a page that I've read out loud before. Okay,
I'm excited. This is gonna be a lot of fun
and very fitting that page four to twenty would be
one of the most fun pages. That's true.
Speaker 1 (47:27):
Still not that late in the book or in any
of the books, but.
Speaker 2 (47:30):
Later a bit later.
Speaker 1 (47:32):
Yeah, all right, so you can tune into that episode
next week. I think, like I said, this will be
our sixth one page at a time, So I think
maybe after that one, maybe we'll start going back to
the character studies as well as take fives.
Speaker 2 (47:46):
Let us know what you think of.
Speaker 1 (47:47):
How we've been doing these so far, if you have
other ideas for other segments we can be doing, or
ways to make it even more fun than what we're having.
But I'm having a great time doing these. O P
A A T O T L me too.
Speaker 2 (48:01):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (48:01):
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Speaker 2 (48:39):
And then if you do that, you're able to see
what page we're doing next week, or you could just
remember it. It's up to you.
Speaker 1 (48:46):
But the way we're gonna remember it this time is
it's book six, page twenty or sorry, page four twenty.
Speaker 2 (48:52):
Yes, that one should stick in our minds. I think
I think so. Yes.
Speaker 1 (48:57):
All right, so we'll be back next week with Book six,
page four hundred and twenty. And until then, we're the
Real Word Sisters. Were the Weird Sisters.
Speaker 2 (49:10):
Were the Real Weird Sisters?
Speaker 1 (49:11):
All you are?
Speaker 2 (49:11):
The Weird Sisters are fine? Enough of the vicers, well,
the Real Weird Sisters. Please stand up, Please stand up,
Please stand up,
Book six, page two hundred and twenty two.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
May I have your attention? Please? May I have your attention? Please? Well,
the real Weird Sisters, please stand up. We're gonna have
a problem here were the Weird Sisters. We're the real
weird Sisters. All you are the Weird Sisters are fine,
We're not the fakers. Well, the real Weird Sisters.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Please stand up, Please stand up, Please stand up. 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 twenty second page of Harry Potter and the
Half Blood Prince. Like Alice said, we're still early stages
of pages. We still have not gotten a book page past.
(00:47):
The latest one we've had was three hundred and thirty four,
So I know what is with them three hundred and
forty one.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
It really seems like the dice are stacked against us.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Well, maybe we need real dice, you know.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
I was thinking today, like we're still in the early
pages of one page is at one page at a time,
and we've we've not encountered a lot of things yet.
There's a lot of things I'm thinking are going to
be an interesting scenario when they come up, Like when
we get a page that has like three sentences on it,
when we get a page, when we get a page
(01:18):
it's like super depressing, Which this is the closest we've
been to that, not to get to ahead of ourselves,
but it's a kind of depressing page. Yeah, but there's
gonna be ones that are way worse. So I don't know.
I was just thinking, like some of our stuff, we'll
have to see how it goes as we progress, but
I'm I know we're we're working through it. It's going
to be fun.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Yes, So of course we have to update everybody housekeeping.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
I won't come back later that housekeeping. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
We had a very very close race for the best
band Name of the Week last week and about forty
people voted.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
This time. We didn't have as many voters this time.
Not sure or why.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
And maybe you guys could give me some feedback on
when I should be posting the poll because I usually
do it like later in the day on Monday, because
I would assume that people would like to listen before
they vote.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Yeah, I don't know if people are listening before they
vote or not. It might just be kind of a
blind like you go in and you're kind of just voting.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Well, but I kind of think that might be better though.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
I mean, we make a case for it on the show,
so that's the only downside. But at the same time,
at least they don't know, like if people are doing
it without listening, they don't.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Know who said what, so it's yeah, but I don't
think people are doing it without listening, mostly though, because
of how few people are voting compared to few or
how many people view the story. So I feel like
people knowing our listeners, I feel like they want to
be like, I'm not going to vote until I've heard it,
so then they on a right process. Yeah, I feel
like they might be viewing the story and be like, oh,
(02:53):
I can't vote yet, and then not going back to
it because it's gone in twenty four hours or whatever.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Right.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
I think there's a way for me to change the
settings of a story poll to last longer, but I
don't remember.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
If that's right or not. Oh, I have no idea.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
I feel like I used to do that when I
was doing when I was doing the March Madness polls,
but now I like I'm trying right, now, and I
don't see.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
A way to do that. So yeah, all right, I
don't know, still working out these details. Yeah, but I.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Haven't even said what the results of the poll were
because we had a very close race between three of
the four candidates. Here, we'll just go ahead and kick
whirl of Hair to the curb with only four votes.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
That one was out to be honest, I still don't remember.
I remember I came up with the Dog's Jaws, but
that's the only one I remember. Did you do all
the other three? I'm pretty sure I did the other three?
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Yeah, yeah, So the Dog's Jaws and Hot Breath and
Hands Held Tight were all very very close, within one
or two votes of each other.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
But the winner was thirty four percent of.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
The vote hands Held Tight, which is the last minute
candidate that I came up with, like at the very
end of the episode. So just goes to show can't
count your chickens before they've hatched.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
I think hands Held Tight is pretty good. I do
not think Hot Breath is good. I know. I'm surprised
that Hot Breath got as many votes as it. Yeah. Yeah,
So anyway, I'm okay with Hands Held Tight winning. I'm
glad that it won out over Hot Breath the dog's jaws.
I'm glad it held up. Okay, well, hands held tight.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
I do feel like is a very like Three Doors
Down or like exactly Dashboard Confessional, one of those like
kind of corny bands but no offense if you like me,
watch your words. Well, I don't have anything against it.
It's just a little bit like you know, emo rock
from the two thousands. Yeah, So we'll see this week
(04:56):
whether we have another tight race or another.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Sweep like last week.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
But that's about it for housekeeping this week. I did
want to shout out Jen for saying that she thought
that one inch teeth sounded terrifying.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
So I actually I'm kind of on her side on that. Okay, well,
and I have somebody also said, but we need Alice
to measure her teeth well, and I kind of did,
like not I didn't hold a ruler up to my teeth,
but I kind of like I held my fingers up
to my teeth, and then I kind of did a comparison,
and I think I was a bit off, like I
was thinking more of like, I don't know, I think
(05:35):
my teeth are about half an inch long. Yeah, that
sounds more right to me. Yeah, so I mean one
inch teeth, okay, but I still think like three inch
teeth would have been really terrifying. Well yeah, I definitely
would have been really terrifying.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Okay, So, I, like you hinted, this page has a
little bit of depressing stuff on it, actually kind of
a lot of not super happy.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Stuff on it.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
It's from the chapter Hermione's Helping Hand, And we don't
really see Hermione's helping hand in this chapter at all,
or on this page at all.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
No, we don't. And location they do move a couple
of different locations on the page, So I mean, yeah,
I guess Hermione's helping Hand doesn't necessarily tell us anything
about the location.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
But no, but yeah location, watch there are there. They're
kind of on the move in this page. They're they're
starting off at the Great Hall gryffindor table, and then
they do leave the table and kind of walking through
the Great Hall.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
I will say, and again I will read it here
in a second, but I would say that it's most
similar to that page that we did that's actually at
the top of our page ranking right now. Oh wait, no, sorry,
it was at the top of our page ranking. It's
been dethroned, but at the page where the Trio was
fretting about Bucky.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
It was at the top of our page rankings for
the one week, which is because that was our first
that was our first one.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
It was up there for a while. No, yes, because
it was better than the one in the Hogshead and
it was better that.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Yeah, okay, I guess, but yeah, I think it was
up there for one week because our third one was
the well that d throned it.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Okay, Well, anyway, it was up there for a while.
Sort of similar to that chapter, to that page, so
I think like it kind of reminds me of that
where it's like basically the Trio recapping something and then
a little bit of action happening on the side.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Yeah, I agree that. I was thinking that this was
a pretty similar page. It's kind of the three years
later type of because it's earlier, earlier in the book.
They're sitting in the great Hall and the three of
them talking about something.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
There's even a glonsp that's staff table, just like they
love to glance up at the staff table, Yeah they do.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
So, Yeah, should we jump right into reading the page,
I think, so, all right, So I guess I have
to start because it is dialogue, even though there's no
beginning quote on this page, just because it starts on
the previous page.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Yeah, exactly, and it it is implied. I mean, I
think if we went back a page, we would see
confirmed that it's Hermione speaking here, because Ron in the
next sentence after this response, So just so everyone knows,
this will be Hermione opening up the page.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
So I guess I have to start, since I'm doing dialogue,
all right. So the Potill twins' parents want them to
go home, and Eloi's mitgen.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Has already been withdrawn. Her father picked her up last night,
what said Ron, goggling at Hermione. But Hawkwarts is safer
than their homes bound to be.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
We've got ours and all those extra protective spells that
we've got.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Dumbledore, I don't think we've got him all the time,
said Hermione, very quietly, glancing at the staff table over
the top of the prophet.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Haven't you noticed his seat's been empty as often as
haggards this past week?
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Harry and Ron looked up at the staff table. The
head master's chair was indeed empty at masper. Now, Harry
came to think of it, he had not seen Dumbledore
since their private lesson a week ago. I think he's
left the school to do something with the order, said
Hermione in a low voice. Harry and Ron did not answer,
(09:24):
but Harry knew that they were all thinking the same thing.
There had been a horrible incident the day before, when
Hannah Abbott had been taken out of her bology to
be told her mother had been found dead. They had
not seen Hannah since. When they left the Gryffindor table
five minutes later to head down to the quidditch pitch,
they passed Lavender Brown and Parvati Patil. Remembering what Hermione
(09:44):
had said about the Pottil twins' parents wanting them to
leave Hogwarts, Harry was unsurprised to see that the two
best friends were whispering together, looking distressed. What did surprise
him was that when Ron drew level with them, Pavati
suddenly nudged Lavender, who looked around and gave Ron a
wide smile. Ron blinked at her, then returned the smile uncertainly.
(10:09):
His walk instantly became.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Some Then the page heads, Yeah can we finish that
sentence or not, I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
All right, that them's the rules.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Sorry, Yeah, it's yeah, like we said, not the happiest page.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Of we've that we've read so far.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
I felt a little bad reading the Hannah Abbott situation
in Jim Dale's faky voice from myself. But you know,
that's the rule. That's the rules, that's the rules.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Like I said, uh, yeah, so let's just jump right
into it. I think that uh kind of like we
haven't done this before. But if we had to, if
we had to assign an adverb to this page, what
would the adverb be of, like this page was we
had to read this page very wondefully, I.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Would say maybe like somberly.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Yeah, so I mean, if we're gonna it's not an adjective,
I mean it is a somber page.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Yeah, i'd say somber, or at least just like sort
of it's a little bit foreboding too, because there's kind
of all this like talk about what's happening and what's
to come. We're about to get some comic relief, but
unfortunately the page cuts off before we can really get
into it. I think there's some interesting and interesting part
(11:31):
is when Harry is like seeing the two friends whispering together,
and then he's like assuming what they're looking distressed about,
but it kind of turns out to be a little different.
I don't know if that's really what Parvadi and Lavender
are talking about. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
I think if they were looking distressed, I don't think
they were talking about Ron at that point, I think,
I guess, except as showing I think it's more just
showing that they're like.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
They have other things on their mind besides just that. Yeah,
that could be or it also could be Harry misinterpreting
their facial expressions, like maybe they just look. Harry's never
done that, yeah, exactly. He never projects his own emotions
onto other people at all. So I don't know. I agree,
like we don't know conclusively that that's that they're not
(12:17):
talking about it, but like, just the more I've read it,
it kind of to me feels like this could be
a little bit of a miss from Harry on his
interpretation of what he's witnessing. It could have been.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
But I also do think that Parvodi and Lavender are multifaceted,
and they could go from one thing to the other
pretty quickly.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Yeah, that's true. Just because Harry's got the range of
emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean they all have. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
So Okay, let's just do a quick adverb scan since
we're talking about adverbs. There's only one leave adverb right quietly.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Yeah, I will say this adverb. Well, there's also uncertainly
when Ron returned the smile uncertainly, and there's also suddenly
parodi suddenly nudged lavender. Yeah, but it's not really much
with the dialogue. So I will say, like, maybe we're
learning from this one page at a time study that,
like some of the some of the criticism of the
(13:15):
constant adverbs is a little.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Off base, to be fair, in a low in a
lower voice is an adverbial clause.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Right, Oh that's true.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Yeah, so I kind of think that might be the
the adverb of the week in a low voice, because
that's that's one that I feel like we do see
pretty that that.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Is a popular one for sure. I also think that
like this is an adverb, but it's kind of a
it's sort of describing what it's describing what Ron's doing
when he says it but when he says goggling at
her mind, I feel like that's another one that we
see fairly often in the series.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Yeah, yeah, there's oggling a lot too, goggling and goggling,
but yeah, that I also thought of that, But I
think in a low voice is a pretty frequent flier
for the author.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
So yeah, let's assign that of the week. Okay, sounds good.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Okay, I know we kind of always jump around with
the segments, but when we were reading it out loud,
one thing that jumped out to me is the humble
brag of the week being when when Harry remembered what
her body had said, like that was two seconds ago.
So yeah, good one, Harry. I'm so proud of you
for your amazing memory. Yeah, like literally the top of
(14:26):
the page, she says that the Pattill Twins parents wanted
to go home. At the bottom of the page, remembering
what her body had said about the Pattill Twins parrots
willing to live Hogwarts. Yeah, good job, Harry, you remembered.
We're all so proud of you. Or you have Harry remembered, You're.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Not You're not gonna you can't get anything past him.
He's gonna remember. He's got an amazing memory.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Careful what you say around him, because he will remember
it up to five minutes later.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
He may forgive, but he's not going to forget. Right,
it does literally five minutes later.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
I think that that conversation about the petultwents probably was
about thirty seconds before the five minutes later, So six minutes.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
If that that Harry was able to remember. There's one
thing we know about Harry, it's he's gonna remember within
five minutes. He'll still remember.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
He will still remember within five minutes exactly. Did you
have any other candidates for Humble Brag of the Week.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Well, it's it's not as good. I agree that that's
the best one. But I also did think Ron kind
of puffing up how great Hogwarts is. Yeah, that's true.
Hogwarts is safer than their homes bound to be. We've
got horrors and all those extra protective spells, and we've
got Dumbledore. Okay, yeah, you've got it all. Yeah, congrats, Ron.
(15:46):
There's no way Hogwarts will ever be breached. Hogwarts will
never fall. Yeah. But yeah, no, I agree. I like
the Harry remembered better. Yeah, remembering what Harmania said?
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Whoa he remembered so thoughtful of him.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Burn of the week I feel like might go to
Hermione burning Hagrid for being absent all the time. Yeah,
I thought of that as well.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
I do also think, uh, it's a little bit of
the what you just said for the humble brag, it's
a bit of rod burning everybody else's homes.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Hogwarts are safer than their.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
Homes, bound to be bound to be safer than their homes,
like one of their.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Homes got that we don't. Yeah, their homes can't be
that safe, no, but her The one about Hermione is
when she says that she says to about Dumbledore his
seat's been as his seat's been empty as often as
Hagrid's this past week that often.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Huh wow, yeah, he's gone a lot.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
What did Hagrid's just got all the time? Because he's
working with Grop in the woods? Right, I think?
Speaker 1 (16:50):
So?
Speaker 2 (16:51):
I don't. Yeah, I can't ever remember where Hagrid is
at what point? Well neither could Hermione.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
We also fight he's also fighting with I guess he's
actually helping with Eric.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Ok.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
But I also thought that it was a pretty subtle
burn here when Harry is really surprised, he was. What
did surprise it was that when Rod drew level with
them Barbodi suddenly that did surprise Harry?
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Who would do that when they saw Ron? Right? Yeah,
which one do you think should win for that?
Speaker 1 (17:27):
I like the Hagard seat or his double doore seat
has been empty as often as Hagards this past week.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Yeah, Like there was no need to compare it to Hagrid.
We could have just said, like, he's been gone a
lot this week.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Right, to compare this page again to the first one
that we did, the O G O P I T
O P A T. I did not to always have
this be the missed opportunity of the week, but I
was a bit surprised that we didn't have. Harry and
Rod looked up at the staff table. Head master's chair,
(18:01):
though a bit smaller than Hagrid's vacated seat, was indeed empty.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
The headmaster's chair located next to Hagrid's oversized chair. Yeah, yeah,
something like that.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Yeah, like his seat's been empty as often as Hagrids. Specific,
the head master's chair was indeed empty, as was the
large seat that Hagrid frequently satin.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Yeah, I agree, I mean that, Yeah, that's it is
sort of like the same concept, but yeah, it is
a big one for the author.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Another one I was a little bit surprised was that,
I mean, yes, of course we have to have Hannah Abbot,
but it didn't leave it. It didn't The author is giving
us more credit than she usually does.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
She doesn't say Hannah.
Speaker 4 (18:44):
Abbot of Hufflepuff or around faced girl from Hufflepuff Yeah,
or like Hannah Abbot one of their one of their
classmates who frequently hung with or it is not hung with,
who frequently found herself around Earning mac Millan ing Hannah
Abbot of Dumbledore's army member from Hufflepuff.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
House, Yeah, or at least at the very least Hannah
Abbott of Hufflepuff.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
I feel like, yeah, that maybe that's the missed opportunity.
We didn't get a chance to describe who Hannah Abbott
was to us.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
Yeah, But I was just thinking, like, maybe that's going
to be a trend we see with the sixth book.
Is she's giving us more credit now than she was
at the beginning of the.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Yeah, I think that is true. I will say that
that I don't that's a contender to me for the Ojoe.
She didn't because we've had so many last names on
this page. We have Eloie's Midgeen, then we have Hannah Abbot,
and we have Parvadi Patil and Lavender Brown. I'm like,
is that necessary to me, especially those two this far
(19:50):
into the book.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
Like if this was page maybe seventy or something, I
could see putting the last names. But this is definitely
not the first time we've seen Parvadi in Lavender this book.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
No, in this book. Yeah, it's early in the school year,
but not that early, like they've been at school a
little bit. So No, I don't think that's I don't
think that's necessary, and I think that's very classic author
slash editor. I guess.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Yeah, true, Yeah, I think that one of the things
on this page that's a little bit interesting is we
really don't have I mean, not that this is something
we have to have it on any page, but I
feel like we don't have really much humor at all
on the page.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Yeah, that's what I'm saying, Like we're about to get
into the comic relief, but we missed out on it. Yeah, exactly,
But yeah, I agree, So that is I mean, I
don't know if that necessarily counts as a missed opportunity
in the way that we usually say. But there it
is a pretty earnest page.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
Yeah, well, I mean, I don't I didn't really mean
that in the in the missed opportunity conversation, I just
met that. Something to kind of watch too is that
this is probably, I think definitely the most serious page
we've had.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Yeah, for sure, and it's partly and it will be
interesting to see too. Like book by book, I think,
I mean, we're getting into some more heavy stuff in
the series at this point, so that might be part
of it. But I think, I mean, there is still
plenty of humor in the later books, so we'll see, right.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Right, Okay, So there were there was no food on
this page, unfortunately, even though they were eating.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Yeah, that was a missed opportunity. They were in the
Great Hall, missold I know.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
But I'm just saying opportunity conversations anymore.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
I know, I'm just saying when they're literally in the
Great Hall, it seems there should be some food mentioned. Well,
maybe there was food on the previous page. Yeah, maybe
we wouldn't hurt to mention it again, Yeah, I wouldn't
hurt you're right.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Also, I just wanted to say, this is our fifth
one page at a time, and we still have not
seen Hedwig on any of these one pages at a time.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
That is really upsetting. I Oh, I don't know that
I would have signed up to do one page at
a time if I knew that Hedwig was missing from
so many pages.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Yeah, it's actually an abomination, Like it's really disturbing. I
would get it if it's sometimes, but for it to
be five of these and we still haven't seen Hedwig,
that's what's disturbing.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
And they're in the Great Hall, that's where she usually
makes deliveries exactly, So that was a missed opportunity as well.
And there's no Grubbly Plank either, another missed opportunity. Hagrid's
seat is empty, so why is it not being filled
by Yeah, if Hagrid's not going to be there, we
should definitely have grubby Plank there.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Yeah, she just subs for him at the staff table.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Anytime he misses a meal, she gets his dinner ticket.
That's a great idea for her.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
You know, she she's good at many things, but I
kind of feel like she might be one of those
working women who sometimes forgets to cook for herself. Yeah,
and I think that the Hogwarts food would be very
good for her to have every week, for sure.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Okay, enough grubbley planking.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
Talk that not that what I've never I've never thought
i'd say those words in my life, actually, and I
won't ever say them again. Okay, let's let's talk about
any Sorry, let's talk about the what would grant sorry,
the ww GPD of this week?
Speaker 2 (23:27):
What would grand Prey do for this page? I feel
like this is the one, like this week is going
to be the biggest reach. Like I don't necessarily see
that this is going to make a great no chapter illustration.
Maybe the part where we see the petilta or sorry,
where we see Parvati and Lavender like nudging each other
(23:48):
and smiling at Ron. I feel like that. I mean
that that happens right at the end of the page.
But I do feel like Mary grand Prey really does
enjoy sometimes that tension between the like the romance aspect. Yeah,
that's what I was gonna say too.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Or maybe we could see Ron strutting kind of like
the way he looks in the is it the Valentine's
Day chapter?
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Whatever, the yeah, whatever the chapter is called where slut
Cordon has a what is that chapter called? I can
picture the chapter art perfectly, but it's just a very
smug look.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
On his face.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
So I could see maybe Ron strutting by with Lavender
and her body kind of whispering each other's ears, yeah,
like below him.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
Yeah, I don't think.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
Yeah, I really don't think there's anything else. I mean,
I guess we could have, like we do have that
Hermione's holding the prophet in her hand, so that might be.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Yeah, there could be something with the trio sitting in
the Grand Sorry in the Great Hall, in the Grand
Hall in the Great Hall, and like Dumbledore's chair and
Hagrid's chair being empty or something, but that's pretty boring.
Let's let's put it this way. I I can see
why this page was not the chapter art.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
Yeah, I can also see why this page is not
the chapter art. But yeah, I do like the visual
of them sitting at the uh sitting at their table
with Hermione holding up the prophets so you can't really
see her face. Yeah, maybe like the three of them
huddled around the prophet. I'm thinking this might be this,
just knowing that it's early enough of the series and
(25:25):
Harry and Hermione, you're gonna be speculating about talks. This
might be later this page or later later where Harry's
going to see togs and like mention the the werewolf
bite or whatever that you know, you know what I'm
talking about.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
Yeah, just one of the times when he triggers her
about serious.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
Well that no, that he's like kind of trying to
make small talk about uh about the what like the
state of the world, and he's like, oh, did you
see that there's been kids bitten by way of.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
Wolves or something, which was Yeah, he thinks he's triggering
her about serious, but he's triggering her about lupin, right.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
But he's also yeah, anyway, not really on this page
at all, but I was just thinking that might be
what they've what's kind of started this conversation about how
serious things have gotten. It could be Yeah, okay, so
any literary devices on this page, we have a simile.
His seat's been empty as often, sorry, yeah, simile as
(26:23):
empty as often as hagards this past week.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
Yeah, it's not a I mean, it's not really like
a classic simile because it's not only comparing two unlike things,
but I mean it is technically as simile. I yeah,
it's not a lot of I don't really see a
whole lot of literary devices on this page.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
Yeah, goggling might be hyperbole not great though.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
Or some imagery there, I guess picturing Ron's eyes bugging out. Yeah,
I don't really see any figurative language.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
No, I don't see much figurative language. We do have
one ellipses or ellipses. As far as punctuation.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
Goes, it's pretty rare that we get a page without
an ellipsis or an M dash. So I think there's
no M dashes on this page. Yeah, yeah, it's it's
kind of lacking M dashes sadly. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
Okay, well, we've got lots of other segments to get to.
Don't worry everybody, we'll be back. We'll take a quick
break for a word from our sponsors. First. So was
this page in the movie? I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
No, And are we taking this page with us? I
would say I'm fine discarding.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Yeah, this is honestly one of the least important pages
we've read. I mean, yes, I do like the foreboding
sense on the page. As far as like just kind
of that is sort of the tone of this book too.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
But yeah, I don't necessarily need right, I mean, it's
not like it's not like a scene where you'd like
you're like, oh, this is total fluff, we should just
cut it. But it's not like crucial to see this
particular moment, right exactly exactly.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
Yeah, Yeah, I think that hearing.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
About Hannah is probably the most of the part that's
most there.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Yeah, and that's most important there. But the like details
about Parvodi and Padma leaving or potentially living in the
Dumbledore's chair being empty, I mean, it's just all kind
of like not super crucial.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
Yeah, And I mean we see it at other times too,
Like I know, that's not the only time that we
see them talking about that that stuff, right exactly. Like
I think you're right, the Hannah Abbott's mom being found dead,
like that is the only time we really hear about that.
But other than that, I think everything else on this
page is sort of like we get this quite a
(28:57):
bit at various points throughout this book. Yeah, exactly. Okay, MVB.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
This one is going to be very tricky because we
don't really have any movement, let alone birds.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
Well, I know, I'm thinking maybe the maybe the Lavender
and Parvati whispering together, like they're they're kind of walking
and they look like maybe two birds in flight. Are
they walking?
Speaker 1 (29:25):
I thought that I was picturing them sitting at like
that they were at the end of the Griffin door
table when Harry and ro past them.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
Yeah, that's true, it could be. I always pictured them
walking together. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Maybe, But maybe Dumbledore is the bird of the week because.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Because he's taken a flight of fancy lo and away. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Yeah, Hagrid could be as well, but that would be
a big bird.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
I think Dumbledore seems like the best and most obvious bird.
I'm just kind of and he's off doing something with
the order of the Phoenix.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
Yeah, that's true. That is a good point. We know
his patronas is a phoenix. If he had become an animagus,
he would have been a phoenix.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
Yeah, it makes sense.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
Lot to have like qualities for him. I'm just kind
of scanning the page again to see if there's any
chance of any other birds on the page, not only profit.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
No, I mean you could fold that into like a
paper airplane bird, but as well. It's not likely to happen.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Yeah, I think I think that Dumbledore being the MVP.
It's it's not the best, but it'll do.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
I'm thinking for real, weirdo. There's also not a lot
of contenders for that. But I I'm kind of between
Harry or Ron because a Ron just acts so baffled
by all of it, and it's like, really, Ron, like
this has been happened, like this is like this is
a thing, that's all this stuff has been happening, Like
(30:54):
are you really that shocked in your eyes? Please? And
then Harry like a his memory. I don't know, he's
he's so proud of himself for remembering what Hermy had said.
But then at the same time, he like didn't notice
that Dumbledore has been gone. Now Harry came to think
of it, he had not seen Dumbledore since they're private
(31:17):
lesson a week ago. Harry, Come on, Harry, like, try
to keep up here. I know you were preoccupied trying
to remember what Hermioney just said. But yeah, that's a
good call.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
I was actually thinking Hermiony for how like solemn she's
actually there's a good reason for that.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
So yeah, I mean, yes, hermione is being quite sometimes Hermione,
I think really enjoys being the bearer of bad news,
so she's there to deliver all of the bad news
to them. She's she knows about the Petil Twins, she
knows about Ells Eloise Midgeon. She is the one who's
you know, speculating that they're not super safe because Dumbledore
(32:00):
is gone. So she is quite the Debbie Downer here.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
But yeah, No, I think I actually like Harry for
this because also he's very quiet on this page.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
Yeah, he's well, he's focused on remembering. Yeah, he's really
got to focus on that memory. It's a lot to
try to remember that, and he's he's gonna want to
remember it in five minutes because he's gonna see her bodies.
So it's good that he is able to finally wrap
his head around that.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
Yeah, I think Harry, is this the first time he's
gotten real weird though?
Speaker 2 (32:35):
It is. Yeah, so we've yeah, we've also, I mean,
we're allowing Harry to get it this time, so like
we said, we'll be seeing Yeah, this is the first
time we've actually awarded it to him.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
Yeah, we don't really have any sas on this page.
But I was thinking back to the missed opportunity. I'm
kind of surprised her mind. He doesn't say something to
Ron like, oh, come on, wake up.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
I don't think.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
We've got him all the time, Like she's maybe this
is just her growing up or something. But I'm surprised
how calmly she's like correcting people here, uh like him
goggling at her. I really am shocked that we don't
have a like where have you been?
Speaker 2 (33:18):
Ron?
Speaker 1 (33:18):
Or like, are you serious, Ronald? You've got to be
kidding me like that?
Speaker 2 (33:24):
Yeah, agreed, Like it definitely seems like she would be
well yeah, because I mean, Harry and Ron are both
being a bit thick here, like they had his seat's
been empty as often as hagrids. This past week, Harry
and Ron looked up at the staff at the staff table.
I can't say that sentence at all, but they looked
up at the staff table, and it's like, really, you
(33:45):
had to look up there to realize Dumbledore wasn't there, right.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
I mean, I guess for Ron it's a little more
understandable because Ron doesn't really interact with Dumbledore ever, But
how has Harry not notice that?
Speaker 2 (33:57):
Yeah? And I mean, like I feel like you just
kind of at least I'm not that I'm really not
that observant of a person, but like when you walk
in the room as a student, don't you kind of
notice if the principle is there or not? Yes, I
feel like you do. Yeah, So that's from like don't
come on Harry and Ron like he's that's the headmaster.
(34:19):
So like a little bit of like spatial awareness and
like being aware of your surroundings, it's going to.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
Go a long way, right right, So yeah, no real
sass of the week here at any morals of the
week for this page.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
I think the moral of the week is to pay
attention when Hermione's talking because some of those remember remembered,
some of those tidbits she's going to say, are going
to help you to be able to correctly interpret what's
going on between other individuals exactly that. I think that's
a very good moral of the week. And I think maybe.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
We're going to phase out the lesson of the week
segment unless there's a clear lesson for how.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
To use this in anguish classroom.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
But I do like the lesson of the week slash
moral of the week being what do we learn take
away from this page. Yeah, because I think that the
moral is pay attention to Hermione. Try your best to
remember what she says. It just might be seeing the
topic of her conversation five minutes.
Speaker 2 (35:27):
Later, exactly. And if you don't bur it, you're going
to be kicking yourself.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
Yeah, yeah, exactly, Harry walking by the walking by Pavoti.
Speaker 2 (35:39):
Harry was stumped.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
He knew Hermione had mentioned Pavotti's name, but he wasn't
sure what she had said about it about her.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
Harry racked his brain.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
Harry knew it was something bad, but he couldn't remember
precisely what it was.
Speaker 2 (35:57):
Hermione had said about twins. Yeah, he's come a long way,
he he remembers, though, Yeah, or like, how's it going Pavotti.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
Pavotty looked at him with her eyes streaked, and something
plunked into place for Harry, that's.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
Right, she's been crying. I'm kind of thinking this could
turn into the meme of the week if we have
like Dory or something. Yeah, yeah, okay, is that a meme? Alas?
I don't know. I'm just saying like that could be
a meme, Like we could make a meme out of
Dory being super proud that she remembered something five minutes later. Right, Okay,
(36:40):
that's true. I don't know, it's a bit of a reach.
Is there any other memes that you can think of? No,
I didn't have anything for them. Oh you know what
actually would be a good meme of the week is
that that one where it shows like the different like
brains in the last one is like do you know
what I'm talking about? Where it's like, yeah, the whole
(37:00):
universe kind of exploding brain. Yeah. That one is like
when you remember what hermione said to you five minutes ago. Oh, okay,
that's good.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
I was thinking, uh something with uh the like guy
looking the jealous jealous girlfriend me.
Speaker 2 (37:19):
You know, the two girls and the guy in the middle.
Speaker 1 (37:21):
So we have Lavender and Parvati are there and they're
they're the guy the girlfriend who he's ignored, who the
guy's ignoring is like the potential of Parvati being yeah,
the girl walking by is rod Yeah that's good too, like.
Speaker 2 (37:44):
Yeah, a fine piece of Weasley meat as they say yeah.
Speaker 1 (37:53):
Yeah, or like maybe instead of saying like the potential
of good like just be like the gravity of the situation,
or like, no, I think it's like her Parvati being
maybe taken out of school.
Speaker 2 (38:03):
I think that's fine.
Speaker 1 (38:04):
And then well, I was just thinking, or it could
be h and Ron could be the guy in the middle,
and it could be like again, the fact that his
classmates parents are dying and getting taken out of school
and stuff, and that it's like a girl looked at
me like on the other side.
Speaker 2 (38:23):
That's what I'm focused on. Now. Yeah, that's pretty funny. Oh,
I minus called the one I'm thinking of is like
galaxy brain. That's what I'm trying to come up with. No,
I knew what you were talking about. Well, I know,
but I'm like the way I described it was weird.
I just want to make sure people knew what I
was talking about.
Speaker 1 (38:40):
I think people though, Yeah, yeah, when you remind when
you remember what her body said five.
Speaker 2 (38:45):
Minutes ago, that'd be the top Galaxy brain.
Speaker 1 (38:49):
Yeah, or well, Harry remembers what her body said five
minutes ago. I mean, let's be honest, it doesn't always happen.
That is so true. There's times where he's it's been
in Let's.
Speaker 2 (39:01):
Think about how many times that she's told them you
can't operate within the school grounds.
Speaker 1 (39:07):
Haven't you ever read Hawk What's a History.
Speaker 2 (39:10):
Or listen to her at all? Yeah, exactly. Yeah, There's
been plenty of times where Hermione's talking and the boys
don't listen whatsoever.
Speaker 1 (39:19):
So right, right, Okay, So I think we've got two
more big segments here, which are the w W t
q q O t w B and the B O
t W.
Speaker 2 (39:34):
Yeah, Burn of the Week, that's what that is, right,
We are getting the week b N B N O
t wand name of the Week.
Speaker 1 (39:44):
Okay, okay, okay, let's do the w W QQO sorry
w W t q q O t w B.
Speaker 2 (39:53):
First.
Speaker 1 (39:54):
And I was thinking this would be a question uh
that the only is sort of hinted because this is
supposed to be a fun segment. I don't reully want
it to be about any of the serious stuff at
the beginning of this page, So something like what was
it about Rob that Lavender Brown was attracted to?
Speaker 2 (40:12):
Yeah, and then we would get a whole theory about
At this point in the series, Ron's finally grown a
bit and he's looking quite like his association with Harry
is also appealing, and he's getting to be quite funny,
and he makes Lavender laugh and you get all these
like kind of obvious answers from people.
Speaker 1 (40:34):
Yeah, and then we also could have had a question
like would or could Lavender and Ron have worked out
if it hadn't been for Hermione or something like that,
which is a stupid question.
Speaker 2 (40:46):
Yeah, and I think a lot of people would just
simply say no, yeah, yeah. Okay.
Speaker 1 (40:53):
So with that said, I guess all we've got left
is the bnow, and I don't know, not everything has
to be a ot W, so maybe we need to
maybe we just.
Speaker 2 (41:02):
Need to a preview this to the like the b N, no.
Speaker 5 (41:06):
Not the of the week, her b N of the page,
because it could they could be more O TPS.
Speaker 2 (41:18):
Instead of O t W is all the time O
t PS. I thought O t P the PA pairing. Okay, okay, you.
Speaker 1 (41:26):
Know O t PA true pairing, right, yeah, Ron and
her Ron and Lavender.
Speaker 2 (41:32):
Yeah, that's my ot P for sure. There this page
is O t P right right, They're the O t
P O t P. They're the O t P O
t P. Yeah. Okay, that could be another thing we do,
picking out an O t P O t P every week.
Speaker 1 (41:49):
Okay, do we have any standouts for the B O
t W. I don't like bat W by the way,
for the band name.
Speaker 2 (41:59):
No, really, I feel like this is starting to get
more difficult for me because I'm trying not to constantly
repeat things. Did you have any that you immediately felt
like drew out? I mean, two best Friends was my
first one. I kind of liked Twins Parents and that's
oh yeah, that's on there twice.
Speaker 1 (42:22):
Yeah, Twins Parents. I wish it was the Twins Parents.
Speaker 2 (42:27):
Yeah, well, because it's the every time, says the Twins Parents.
Because I agree that twin the Twins Parents. I actually
kind of like two best friends.
Speaker 1 (42:38):
I feel like that'd be kind of a cute band
named for like something like a whatever her whatever, that
band that Zoey Deschanel was in she she and he
or something. Oh, yeah, you know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 2 (42:54):
I want her and me. Yeah, I know what you're
talking about, but I don't remember what it was she
and him. Yeah, so we've got it.
Speaker 1 (43:04):
Would be like a a quirky little duo, would be
two best friends.
Speaker 2 (43:09):
Yeah, the Twins Parents, I feel like, would be more
of a rock band.
Speaker 1 (43:13):
But it's not the Twins Parents. We can't we can't
add so just twins twins parent. I agree, Twin's parents
would be like kind of punk rock staff table.
Speaker 2 (43:25):
I thought of that one too, So I think maybe
that we should have that staff task staff table.
Speaker 1 (43:31):
I feel like would be kind of a maybe like
alt kind of sort of like a modest mouse.
Speaker 2 (43:38):
Type of Yeah, that's what I was thinking too. Okay,
we need a fourth option. I mean we could have
like looking distressed or what about something with the order. Yeah,
that's not bad, something with the order.
Speaker 1 (43:57):
But I guess it it weird because the order is
like the order of the phoenix here, but like it
could be just like the order of you know something, right. Okay,
So we want to do our one two three four
or do we have to do that every week?
Speaker 2 (44:12):
I think I'm kind of tiring of that. Yeah, but
we did to do it for our will. Let's do
it for our willery each week we are hands held
tight one two three four. Yeah, okay, I agree that's
better because that we get that really solidified in our mind. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1 (44:30):
And if you want to how about this, if if listeners,
if you want to uh say it out loud yourself
before you take your vote to help you make an
informed decision, you could do that, but I think.
Speaker 2 (44:44):
Not everybody needs that. Yeah, agreed.
Speaker 1 (44:47):
Okay, So we have four contenders, two best friends, twins, parents,
staff table, and something with the order.
Speaker 2 (44:54):
I love it, feel good about that. Yeah, those are
all pretty good, honestly for having I kind of struggled
to come up with stuff, but I actually think those
are all pretty good. Yeah, none of them are fantastic,
but well yeah it's no hands held tight, Yeah, hands
held tight. I think I think they're all better than
whirl of hair and hot breath though, so I do
(45:15):
like hot breath. No, I hate that. It's gross.
Speaker 1 (45:18):
Well, they're all, let's put it this way, they're all
better than one nar old finger.
Speaker 2 (45:23):
Yeah, that's true. That's all. That's something to be grateful for,
although Sally probably doesn't think so. Justice for one. Sally
loves one old finger.
Speaker 1 (45:35):
Yeah, okay, So I think what we've got left here
is our dice roll of the week.
Speaker 2 (45:41):
Is that right? Yep? Our d d R O TV
okay orw okay?
Speaker 1 (45:53):
So everything has to be abbreviated like that, right, Okay?
All right, I am about to roll, and I'm gonna
be putting in a dice rolling sound, so don't worry listeners,
don't worry, Alice.
Speaker 2 (46:06):
And with that, Okay, I don't know whether this is
this book doesn't Okay.
Speaker 1 (46:12):
I was happy because I saw a seven as the
second number here. But it's book six, and there's this
book only goes to six fifty two.
Speaker 2 (46:21):
So okay, so reroll that that one only, I think,
just that one.
Speaker 1 (46:25):
Okay, Yeah, so I'm locking the six, two and zero
and I'm rerolling this one.
Speaker 2 (46:31):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (46:33):
Wait, no, it didn't what it didn't lock it for me?
Speaker 2 (46:36):
Okay, Well, just just choose that date, that one, Okay,
that digit, you're right?
Speaker 1 (46:43):
Okay, four oh, okay, four twenty oh, four twenty and
we just about missed the actual four to twenty would
have been a great date to release that one.
Speaker 2 (46:52):
Sure, it's true. Wow, you're gonna have fun next week.
I'm sorry. We actually are gonna have fun though, because
I just looked its going to be a lot of
going to be a lot of impressions. Let's just put
it that way. Okay, involve three three iconic.
Speaker 1 (47:10):
Well, I shouldn't toot my own horde, but it's a
page that I have.
Speaker 2 (47:14):
It's a page that I've read out loud before. Okay,
I'm excited. This is gonna be a lot of fun
and very fitting that page four to twenty would be
one of the most fun pages. That's true.
Speaker 1 (47:27):
Still not that late in the book or in any
of the books, but.
Speaker 2 (47:30):
Later a bit later.
Speaker 1 (47:32):
Yeah, all right, so you can tune into that episode
next week. I think, like I said, this will be
our sixth one page at a time, So I think
maybe after that one, maybe we'll start going back to
the character studies as well as take fives.
Speaker 2 (47:46):
Let us know what you think of.
Speaker 1 (47:47):
How we've been doing these so far, if you have
other ideas for other segments we can be doing, or
ways to make it even more fun than what we're having.
But I'm having a great time doing these. O P
A A T O T L me too.
Speaker 2 (48:01):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (48:01):
It's a lot of fun, yes, so I hope listeners
are enjoying it too. Make sure you're subscribed to our
podcast whatever podcast app you use, and to give us
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Speaker 2 (48:39):
And then if you do that, you're able to see
what page we're doing next week, or you could just
remember it. It's up to you.
Speaker 1 (48:46):
But the way we're gonna remember it this time is
it's book six, page twenty or sorry, page four twenty.
Speaker 2 (48:52):
Yes, that one should stick in our minds. I think
I think so. Yes.
Speaker 1 (48:57):
All right, so we'll be back next week with Book six,
page four hundred and twenty. And until then, we're the
Real Word Sisters. Were the Weird Sisters.
Speaker 2 (49:10):
Were the Real Weird Sisters?
Speaker 1 (49:11):
All you are?
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The Weird Sisters are fine? Enough of the vicers, well,
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