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June 22, 2025 59 mins
Oh, cheer up, listeners! Alice and Martha return to the One Page at a Time series, while the trio returns home for the summer holidays. All on this page: the first sighting of a very tiny owl, an absence of food (especially chocolate), and a few good games of Exploding Snap!

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

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Please?

Speaker 1 (00:08):
May I have your attention?

Speaker 2 (00:10):
Please?

Speaker 1 (00:14):
Well, the real Weird Sisters, please stand up. We're gonna
have a problem here were the Weird Sisters. Were the
real weird Sisters? All you are the Weird Sisters are
fine and not the Vakers. Well, the real weird Sisters,
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

(00:36):
four hundred and thirty first page of Harry Potter and
the Prisoner of Azkaban. It's been so long since we've
done a one page at a time that I really
thought that it was page three hundred and forty one,
not four hundred and thirty one. And I read that
in preparation by accident.

Speaker 2 (00:51):
Whoops, but I know that zero.

Speaker 1 (00:53):
Then then I did read page four hundred thirty one.
But I will say, whenever we get to page three
forty one, that will be a fun one.

Speaker 3 (01:01):
Okay, good, well, I'll be marking that down in my
mind and hoping for a good dice roll one of
these we.

Speaker 1 (01:05):
Well, the funny thing is we've actually done page three
hundred and forty one before, but that was in book five.

Speaker 3 (01:11):
I knew that number sounded somewhat familiar. Why, Okay, here's
the thing. I was looking at the numbers that we've done,
and I know we've talked about this a little bit already,
but like, I don't really understand why we're not rolling
like any sevens or ones or two's, because it's not
like it's not like when you're rolling two dice and
it's like lower chances of getting like snake eyes or

(01:33):
getting twelve or whatever.

Speaker 2 (01:35):
These are each individual that.

Speaker 1 (01:37):
What aren't they have? I have an answer for you. Okay,
it's just statistic statistical probability. There's no every number has
the same chance of being.

Speaker 2 (01:48):
Yeah, that's what I'm saying. I don't understand why we're
getting all before.

Speaker 1 (01:51):
There's no reason why, Like just the fact that we
got a four once does not preclude us from getting
a four again. I was saying, true, So I.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
Always hated that in stats that makes no sense to me.

Speaker 1 (02:03):
It does make sense, what do you will?

Speaker 2 (02:04):
It makes it makes sense, but it does feel like
eventually you should get a seven or whatever.

Speaker 1 (02:10):
I know that's what a dance every time of every
bothers me. That doesn't bother me. It always bothers. Actually
always bothered me when people acted like that didn't make sense.

Speaker 2 (02:19):
It does make sense. It just it annoys me.

Speaker 1 (02:22):
Okay, okay, yeah, well to me, I remember when it
when we like did that, we had to like do
a theory or not a theorem, a proof of why
it was the same probability every time. But I was like,
of course it's the same, like I did. I never
questioned that it was.

Speaker 2 (02:37):
Well, congrats to you.

Speaker 1 (02:38):
Okay, I knew. I knew, well, congrats to you. It's
just like, well, of course, like it's not I mean,
I don't know whatever. I know.

Speaker 2 (02:46):
It just feels like the more you roll it, there
should you should be getting different ones.

Speaker 1 (02:52):
No, that's just that's not how it works. But I
will say, no, that's not how it works. Okay. I
do think one of these days we might want to
invest in Real Dice because this website that I use,
I do wonder a little bit about it.

Speaker 2 (03:09):
The conspiracy theory started to come out.

Speaker 1 (03:11):
No, no, no, I'm not saying it's a conspiracy. I
just do think maybe it might be more more reliable
if we used real dice.

Speaker 2 (03:21):
But well, do we have to get a seven sided die?

Speaker 1 (03:24):
You can order a D yes, you can order a
D seven on Amazon. I've looked it up before.

Speaker 2 (03:29):
Okay, all right, well then we just would roll it
seven times. We need one eight sided die for right.
If we get you you.

Speaker 1 (03:38):
Could get a six dice set that has like seven
sided and eight sided and a Yeah.

Speaker 2 (03:44):
So okay, all right, good to know.

Speaker 1 (03:47):
It's a whole nine ninety nine on Amazon.

Speaker 3 (03:51):
Oh gosh, I hope we can invest in that, right,
it's an investment for the future.

Speaker 1 (03:56):
I don't know. I kind of was hoping a patron
would pay for it.

Speaker 3 (04:00):
Yeah, yeah, seems really necessary.

Speaker 1 (04:06):
Well I could just buy it, now, what do you
think I mean?

Speaker 2 (04:10):
Sure, go ahead.

Speaker 1 (04:11):
Oh, I'll wait. Well, we'll see before we get into
actually talking about page four hundred and thirty one, which
we'll say right away that this is from the wonderful
chapter OWL post again the results from not last week,
but last month's poll. It's been over a month I

(04:32):
think at this point since we did this. But we
had four band names back from Bay sorry, from book six,
page four hundred and twenty, and they were knocked out
Filthy Friend, Creature's Mistress, and Flailing Limbs, and we had
a runaway winner out of those four. If you had

(04:52):
had to guess, Alice, I know you have it in
front of you, but what would you have guessed was
the winner?

Speaker 3 (04:56):
I think I mean, like you said, I have seen
the results, but I would have gone with what winner
was to Creature's Mistress.

Speaker 2 (05:02):
Yes, it's a good one.

Speaker 1 (05:03):
Fifty nine percent of the vote, almost almost a full majority,
but definitely on the winner here. The other ones knocked
out had eighteen percent, Filthy Friend have thirteen percent, and
Flailing Limbs had ten percent.

Speaker 3 (05:17):
See, I'm I'm a little bit surprised that Filthy Friend
didn't give a few more votes.

Speaker 2 (05:21):
That one does crack me up.

Speaker 1 (05:23):
Yeah, I liked Filthy Friend as well. But yeah, Creature's Mistress,
which was your submission, I think definitely was the best
candidate of those four. So the listeners agreed it got
a runaway, and we.

Speaker 2 (05:37):
Had we had agreed that would be like a metal band,
right you.

Speaker 1 (05:41):
Well you say everything the metal band yeah is yeah, Well,
those are the two that we always decide. The thing
is that, like you and I always say, things are metal,
and it's like, I don't even know that the two
of us really know what metal is is, like we
both both don't listen to metals.

Speaker 3 (06:03):
Yeah, I agree, I totally agree with that, But I
also think that we can say what sounds like a
metal band name.

Speaker 1 (06:09):
Yeah, I will say maybe a dark Horse, but I
could see Creature's Mistress being a country band as well.
Maybe we're Creature's Mistress.

Speaker 2 (06:22):
Gross.

Speaker 1 (06:23):
Maybe it's just because I just watched the drag Race
on stage stage shut expletive festival episode, So yeah, just
in my head, but yeah, probably I could just see
like it's kind of like Lady lady a, you know,
Creature's Mistress.

Speaker 2 (06:41):
Yeah, I was actually thinking that same thing.

Speaker 1 (06:43):
It kind of times like that.

Speaker 3 (06:46):
Okay, So I thought maybe this would be a good
I don't know if we need to do this every
single time, but when you said the wonderful chapter owl
Post Again, it got me thinking like was.

Speaker 2 (06:55):
It a bad chapter? And I thought like it would
be interesting if we could look and see where the
chapter that we're reading from had ranked in our rankings,
and actually Owl.

Speaker 3 (07:05):
Post Again, we gave it. It is ranked number chapter
or sorry, it is ranked seventh.

Speaker 1 (07:10):
Okay, so that's well good. The problem I was I
was just referencing that Owl Post itself was not a
very good chapter. I think that was our right.

Speaker 3 (07:18):
That one is the that is that is the twenty
second worst way.

Speaker 1 (07:22):
Yeah, okay, yeah, I didn't really remember what this one
was like, but I actually think Owl Post again, it's
kind of a weird one because it, like, I feel
like these end chapters of the first couple of books
are also our first few books cover so much. Yes,
like they go from hogwarts, like from the hospital link
to the feast to uh the train to the platform.

(07:47):
But this page there are four hundred and thirty five
pages in Prisoner of Azkaband, so this is the uh
fourth to last page or fifth to last page of
the book. So they are on the train for this
book or this page.

Speaker 2 (08:02):
Yeah, this is I think the closest we've been to
the end of a book so far.

Speaker 1 (08:05):
All right, Yes, it is.

Speaker 3 (08:07):
Definitely like interesting too. We're in the falling action. Maybe
we should also do where are we?

Speaker 1 (08:14):
This is not the falling action. This is the resolution.

Speaker 2 (08:16):
Oh that's what I meant, the resolution.

Speaker 1 (08:19):
Yeah, okay, so if we're going to make that a segment,
then we need to we understand the components of this.

Speaker 2 (08:25):
Oh okay that I meant to say that. I just
accidentally said falling action.

Speaker 1 (08:29):
You said said it, so authority, authoritatively, we are in
the falling action.

Speaker 2 (08:36):
Yeah, okay, we're in the resolution.

Speaker 1 (08:38):
That's a great new segment. We are in the resolution
of this.

Speaker 2 (08:41):
Uh this the first time we've been in the resolution.

Speaker 1 (08:45):
That is true. So I think, without further ado, we
should just jump into reading this page. I'm excited because
it's about It looks like about half dialogue half pros.
So we'll be tag teaming it on this one.

Speaker 2 (08:58):
All right, perfect, So.

Speaker 1 (09:00):
Do you want to switch this week? You do the dialogue?

Speaker 2 (09:03):
No, I don't have that skill set.

Speaker 1 (09:05):
Okay, I think one of these weeks will and I.

Speaker 2 (09:07):
Think the listeners would be awfully disappointed.

Speaker 1 (09:09):
I don't know. I think I think if the if
flur is on the page, or if a cool female
voice is on the page, then.

Speaker 2 (09:16):
I can have to do Hermione too.

Speaker 1 (09:19):
Ooh, you're lucky, because that's actually Hermione's first word here.

Speaker 2 (09:24):
I know.

Speaker 1 (09:24):
Or you don't want to switch?

Speaker 2 (09:25):
No, no, no, you just jump right in.

Speaker 4 (09:27):
Okay, Oh, cheer up, Harry, said Hermione. Sadly.

Speaker 1 (09:33):
I'm okay, said Harry quickly, just thinking about the holidays. Yeah,
I've been thinking about them too, said Ron. Harry, you've
got to come and stay with us. I'll fix it
up with mom and dad. Then i'll call you.

Speaker 4 (09:46):
I know how to use a felly tone, now a telephone, Ron,
said Hermione. Honestly, you should take muggle studies next year.

Speaker 2 (09:56):
Ron ignored her.

Speaker 1 (09:58):
It's the Quidditch World Cup this summer. How about it, Harry,
come and stay. We'll go and see it, and Dad
can usually get tickets from work.

Speaker 2 (10:06):
This proposal had the effect of cheering Harry up a
great deal.

Speaker 1 (10:10):
Yeah, I bet the Dursleys be pleased to let me come,
especially after what I did, Dan Marge.

Speaker 2 (10:16):
Feeling considerably more cheerful, Harry joined Ron and Hermione in
several games of exploding snap, and when the witch with
the tea cart arrived, he bought himself a very large lunch,
though nothing with chocolate in it. But it was late
in the.

Speaker 3 (10:30):
Afternoon before the thing that made him truly happy turned up,
Harry said Hermione, suddenly peering over his shoulder.

Speaker 1 (10:39):
What's that thing outside your window?

Speaker 2 (10:42):
Harry turned to look outside. Something very small and gray
was bobbing in and out of sight beyond the glass.
He stood up for a better look and saw that
it was a tiny owl carrying a letter that was
much too big for it. The owl was so small,
in fact, that it kept tumbling over in the air,
buffeted this way and that in the trains slipstream. Harry

(11:03):
quickly pulled down the window, stretched out.

Speaker 1 (11:06):
And that's the end of the page. Yeah, really exciting.
I love resolutions. They're just the most fun part of
a plot.

Speaker 2 (11:14):
Yeah, usually, especially in these early books.

Speaker 1 (11:17):
Yeah, I feel like we have to have the.

Speaker 2 (11:19):
Like feeling of tying a bow on everything.

Speaker 1 (11:22):
Yeah, exactly. It's like the feeling of foreboding about spending
the summer with the Dozleys, and then also like a
bit of hope that Yeah, okay, I think we should
jump right into band name of the week, just because
I don't want to lose the one that I thought
of as we were talking. Is that okay with you?

Speaker 5 (11:40):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (11:40):
Sure, I thought of Beyond the Glass.

Speaker 2 (11:45):
Yeah, that's that's pretty good.

Speaker 1 (11:47):
It's so good. I'm just so glad that we stopped
so we could do that first.

Speaker 2 (11:54):
Yeah, I like it. It almost.

Speaker 3 (11:56):
It almost sounds like it would be a chapter title
in one of these books.

Speaker 1 (11:59):
We have to be on the veil, right, true. Yeah.
The one I had thought of before, and this is
kind of pushing it a little bit, is the felly Tones.
I know, we we like. Does it have to be
exactly what's on the page?

Speaker 2 (12:14):
Well, that is the rule.

Speaker 1 (12:16):
So because felly Tone by itself doesn't really like I
don't think that's a very good band name. But I
do think the felly Tones could be fun.

Speaker 2 (12:25):
But felly tone could be a band name, I guess
I just don't think it's It would probably be a
metal band, yeah exactly. I just think that the felly
Tones like that just has a very like yeah, but
it's not what is there?

Speaker 1 (12:40):
You're right? Okay, So I guess we can't do that one.
What did you think of for band names?

Speaker 2 (12:48):
The one that I kind of had, which I don't know,
this one is not. This is a maybe is nothing
with chocolate?

Speaker 1 (12:57):
And I thought I thought of that as well, but
I didn't have it. I just had nothing with chocolate.

Speaker 3 (13:02):
Oh yeah, I think it could be either nothing with
chocolate or nothing with chocolate in it.

Speaker 1 (13:07):
I think nothing with chocolate by itself, but because in
it trying to.

Speaker 2 (13:11):
Get away, I'm trying to get away from the three
word thing.

Speaker 1 (13:14):
But yeah, I just think in it kind of is
extra words that aren't necessary. There's there's another one that
I'm sorry, but can we just talk about nothing with
chocolate in it? Like I guess I also really.

Speaker 3 (13:26):
Fixated on that when I was reading this page, because
I was like, is this a callback to the dementors
on the train earlier? But I thought, yeah, I just
it's like it makes it sound like Harry has like
had his fill of chocolate.

Speaker 1 (13:39):
I think I think it is a callback to dementors,
but not the dementors on the train. I think it's
because Harry had his encounter with all those dementors and
had to have a lot of chocolate in the hospital wing.

Speaker 2 (13:50):
But I just thought maybe it was like it could
have been either.

Speaker 1 (13:53):
Well, I think it's both, but I think most importantly,
like what's weird about it is the though part, because
I agree, I feel like I feel like it just
is he we're talking about how he's considerably more cheerful,
so he doesn't need chocolate to cheer himself up, because
that's like, yeah, I mean I guess the chocolate has

(14:16):
a couple of different effects, but it feels like it
should be like nothing with chocolate in it, Like he
he felt that he felt no need for chocolate, is
how happy he felt or whatever? Like, Yeah, I guess
maybe it's uh, you know, because the fault of us
doing it this way, we don't remember exactly how much

(14:36):
chocolate he's consumed this chapter. I do think that there was,
if I remember correctly, there is quite a bit of
talk when he's in the hospital wing of how much
chocolate he's eating just to recover from his like, you know,
because he had to have a lot of chocolate after
all those dementors different than just the one dementor on
the train on the way to Hogwarts.

Speaker 2 (14:58):
Yeah, no, I agree. I don't really read remember them
saying he had to eat a ton. I don't. I'm
not saying that you're wrong, but I don't remember.

Speaker 1 (15:07):
We can't look back. That's the problem with this.

Speaker 2 (15:09):
Yeah, remember that being like a huge fixation where Harry
was like so sick.

Speaker 1 (15:14):
Of Well, I don't think it was a huge fixation either,
but I do think that there were several mentions of
like Madame Pomfrey like plying him with chocolate or like,
you know, Harry munched on a chocolate bar while hermonady
read from the prophet or something. But yeah, we're not
allowed to look back. That's part of this concept. We
cannot look back a couple of pages or back to

(15:35):
the beginning of the chapter or anything. We'll find out
whenever we get to page four hundred and twenty five
or whatever it is that talks about Harry eating chocolate.
But to me, what's weirdest about this though nothing with chocolate,
and it is the though, because it sounds like he
like was it just kind of seems like it's supposed

(15:56):
to be contradicting something and it's not.

Speaker 3 (15:59):
I agree, I had exact same thought, like, it's just
it's a little bit of an.

Speaker 2 (16:03):
Odd like I almost wonder if there may be had
been more about chocolate and then this is that that
got like edited out or something and then this.

Speaker 1 (16:14):
Part stayed maybe you know the eye, I see what
you mean.

Speaker 2 (16:19):
But I mean, to me, I'm not saying like again,
and we could be wrong about I just don't remember
it being like this huge focus and the way it's
phrased though nothing with chocolate in it.

Speaker 3 (16:28):
Makes it sound like Harry's like really over chocolate at
the moment.

Speaker 1 (16:32):
Yeah, except for the though, like, yeah, I personally think
it should say something like he was so happy he
didn't even need chocolate to like appease his.

Speaker 2 (16:45):
Yeah, that's I think what it's intended to be. But
it yeah, it's phrased weird.

Speaker 1 (16:49):
Yeah, So back to band names. What about cheer up Harry?

Speaker 3 (16:53):
Yeah, that's that's a good one. I also had thought
of this is kind of a link the one, but
I kind of liked that thing outside your window.

Speaker 1 (17:05):
That sounds more like an album name to me.

Speaker 2 (17:08):
Yeah, that's true.

Speaker 1 (17:11):
What about just that thing?

Speaker 2 (17:14):
How about tickets from work?

Speaker 1 (17:18):
That's actually kind of good? All these three all these
three words phrases.

Speaker 2 (17:21):
I know.

Speaker 1 (17:23):
Yeah, maybe we should also think about album names, because
I do actually really like that thing outside the window
or that that thing outside your that thing outside your window.

Speaker 3 (17:33):
Album names might be a good way to I feel
like that might actually be easier.

Speaker 2 (17:38):
You could switch to that.

Speaker 1 (17:40):
No, we're doing both. I don't think you're switching.

Speaker 2 (17:43):
We're doing both. Okay, why not? So we're going to
do a poll every week on each why not? Okay? Well,
at it all?

Speaker 1 (17:51):
Right, album name of the week. So far, we have
that thing outside your window.

Speaker 2 (17:57):
Yeah. I also like the could be tumbling over in
the air.

Speaker 1 (18:03):
No, that would be a good album name, would it.

Speaker 2 (18:08):
I mean we get to vote.

Speaker 1 (18:09):
On it, so yeah, I guess how about in and
out of Sight?

Speaker 2 (18:16):
Yeah, that's a good one.

Speaker 1 (18:19):
And then I also like for a band name. Back
to band name, I thought of Train's Slipstream.

Speaker 2 (18:24):
Yeah, I did too, but and then I was thinking, like,
makes me think of train? Yeah, you could even just
have slipstream.

Speaker 1 (18:32):
Yeah, let's do that that way we have a one
word Yeah, so we have for album names. Sorry, band names,
we have beyond the Glass, nothing with chocolate, Cheer Up Harry,
and Slipstream. Yeah, and then album name of that thing
outside your window, in and out of Sight? I don't know.

Speaker 2 (18:57):
Well, tickets from Work?

Speaker 1 (19:00):
Yeah, we had tickets from Work as a band name too.
Is Do we like that better than Cheer Up Harry?

Speaker 2 (19:05):
No?

Speaker 3 (19:05):
I think I like Cheer Up Harry better, but I
I don't know. Nothing with chocolate. You could have nothing
with chocolate in it as an album.

Speaker 1 (19:14):
Name, but nothing with chocolate in it you still want
in it?

Speaker 2 (19:19):
Well, I kind of like that as an album name.

Speaker 1 (19:21):
Yeah, it is better as an album with the in
it part, so exactly, switch out nothing with chocolate to
what did we have? I don't even remember now, but
we just said it. Tickets from work? Oh yeah, okay,
so beyond the glass tickets from work. Cheer up, Harry.
And slipstream. Yeah, slipstream is really okay. What we're saying

(19:44):
trade trade and slipstream was too close to trade. Well,
slipstream is way too close to slip not, but no
it's not. It's slipknot. Yeah, okay. Album names that thing
outside your window, in and out of sight, nothing with
chocolate in it?

Speaker 2 (19:59):
And how about the owl was so small?

Speaker 1 (20:04):
No?

Speaker 3 (20:04):
How about I said tumbling over in the air, but
you didn't like I don't like that.

Speaker 1 (20:08):
That's too many words. I think we're gonna we're gonna
have the issue of bad name is always three words,
and an album name is always like I found a
good one.

Speaker 3 (20:17):
I found a good one, though it could be thinking
about about the holidays.

Speaker 2 (20:21):
No, this album title.

Speaker 1 (20:24):
Would I think? Just muggle studies.

Speaker 2 (20:27):
Okay, sure, it's like how you've overridden me on like
over half of these.

Speaker 1 (20:31):
You gave me all the album.

Speaker 2 (20:33):
Names, okay, all right, then you get to pick one.

Speaker 1 (20:35):
I don't. I don't think thinking about the holidays is
that's too many words? Okay, fine, well okay, Muggle Studies
or felly Tone, which, oh, how about this one?

Speaker 2 (20:45):
A very large lunch. I kind of like that.

Speaker 1 (20:48):
I kind of like that too, But you did all
the album days.

Speaker 2 (20:55):
It's coming more naturally to me than bad.

Speaker 1 (20:57):
Names, yeah, even though bad name was your constant. Yeah,
I like felly tone or Muggle Studies.

Speaker 2 (21:05):
Okay, you get to pick. Then you can pick between them.

Speaker 1 (21:07):
Well, which one do you like better of those two?

Speaker 2 (21:10):
Probably felly tone?

Speaker 1 (21:11):
Okay, I just like felly tone because I like the
word tone in there for a little bit of a pun.

Speaker 2 (21:18):
Yeah, for music.

Speaker 1 (21:20):
But yeah, I guess we have slips slipstream slash slip
knot train, slipstream slash train, and then we have felly
tone slash deaf tones. So yeah, I really wish we
could switch it to the felly tones.

Speaker 2 (21:33):
But yeah, that's not the way it works. This happened
on another week and you didn't let me switch something.

Speaker 1 (21:38):
Yeah, that's true.

Speaker 3 (21:39):
I don't remember what it was, but there was something
that I wanted to have it, like plural or something.

Speaker 1 (21:44):
An album name could have been considerably more cheerful, but.

Speaker 2 (21:48):
The album name has a lot of different options.

Speaker 1 (21:53):
But yeah, so Beyond the Glass, I feel like that
would be maybe like a kind of and yet type music.

Speaker 2 (22:03):
New Age.

Speaker 1 (22:04):
Yeah the genre, Yeah, Tickets from Work. I feel like
that's like an all rock.

Speaker 2 (22:10):
Yeah. I was gonna say, like kind of like two
thousands emo band.

Speaker 1 (22:16):
Yeah, Yeah, totally Cheer Up Harry kind of the same,
to be honest. Yeah, I was thinking I'm kind of
I feel like cheer Up Harry kind of has jukebox
the ghost vibes, but so does Tickets Work.

Speaker 6 (22:28):
Yeah, slipstream I'm thinking you're thinking metal, metal or punk rock, Yeah,
one one or the other, Okay, and then album titles
like I feel like any of these.

Speaker 1 (22:41):
I do think felly tone might be like kind of
the Wiggles type of music. Yeah, and they would be
like an album of like words that are pronounced wrong
or the words that are you're switched, you know, in.

Speaker 2 (22:53):
And out of sight. I feel like that would be
like a nineties rock kind of thing.

Speaker 1 (23:02):
Yeah. Yeah, nothing with chocolate in it, probably punk or metal.

Speaker 2 (23:09):
It would be like funnier.

Speaker 1 (23:11):
Okay, Well, I'm kind of liking. I know I already
said this and you didn't really pick up on it,
but I'm going to say again because I think it's
really funny. I think felly Tone would be an album
of It'd be like a type of singer like the
Wiggles or Freddy Spaghetti, And every every song on the
album is like words that are so be like kidding

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in the kitchen instead of sitting in the kitchen, and
felly Tone instead of telephone, and like whoa wait on
a gawk instead of going on.

Speaker 2 (23:43):
Fun Okay, well you give me afraid Like no, I agree,
I know exactly what you're talking about, and that does
sound like what it would be.

Speaker 1 (23:52):
Yeah, so I think that the band that's singing that
might be a filthy friend.

Speaker 2 (24:02):
Friend.

Speaker 1 (24:04):
I think I think flailing Limbs.

Speaker 2 (24:07):
Yeah, yeah, that could be.

Speaker 1 (24:09):
Yeah. Okay, let's move on. That was a long time
on those two segments and including a new segment. Uh,
let's talk about just in general the effect of this page.
First of all, not in the movie.

Speaker 2 (24:25):
Well right, because they don't go on the train and
the right like they just the letter from Sirius just
arrives at Hogwarts, right right, and yeah, freeze frame of
Harry's face.

Speaker 1 (24:38):
Yeah, exactly is he is he writing buck? Oh no,
he's on the fire bolts.

Speaker 3 (24:43):
Yeah, well the firebolt arrives at the very end, right,
that's right, it's all messed up.

Speaker 1 (24:48):
Yeah, so this page is not in the movie. And
to be honest, I mean, I'm not a big fan
of the ending of the movie of Prisoner of Azkaban,
but I don't think that it needed to be.

Speaker 2 (24:57):
Yeah, I mean that's the thing, Like, I think the
books have the luxury of drawing out the conclusion a
little bit more than the movies.

Speaker 1 (25:05):
I'm tying everything up with a bow, Like we're not going.

Speaker 2 (25:07):
To spend like the like a really long time on
the train ride home. Like I can see why they
kind of cut that. Like you said, I'm not a
fan of Alfonso's choice, but I also like, I get
why this isn't in it exactly.

Speaker 1 (25:21):
Yeah, And you.

Speaker 2 (25:22):
Don't need to see them playing exploding.

Speaker 1 (25:24):
I was gonna say, anytime we can cut a page
of them playing exploding snap, I'm fine with I will
say exploding snap. I do feel like is one of
those things that the author kind of maybe this isn't
the missed opportunity because it's not on the page. I'm
not talking about something that should have been on the page.
But I feel like that could have been a good
marketing opportunity. And I'm sure that there was a game

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of Exploding Snap that like came out like some sort
of version of it. And I know that there's like
the magical element that we couldn't have in real Exploding Snap,
but I think that that could have been a huge
business opportunity to have, like a Harry Potter card game
that actually was like a creative card game rather than
just like I mean, we have Harry Potter playing cards,
and like I know there's like the Hogwarts board game

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or whatever, it's basically monopoly. But like some of the
games of course, but yeah, some of the games that
are in the book, because like unlike Quidditch, which is
a terrible game that doesn't work, and I know there's
real quidditch leagues out there and stuff, but like the
actual like scorekeeping of quidditch is kind is actually planned
out enough in the book or like lined out enough

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in the book that it can't actually exist in real
life the right way. But explaining Snap, we would have
the liberty of creating a good game, because what really
all we have is the.

Speaker 3 (26:39):
Name, right, agreed, And I think I can kind of
I mean, I can just kind of picture what it
would be like, and I think that they could make
like a Muggle version where you're like maybe having to
slap the deck or something like that.

Speaker 1 (26:52):
Right, I I do picture like slap or what's it
called an Egyptian rat slap or whatever that gag.

Speaker 3 (26:59):
Yeah, something like that, or like yeah, just where like
maybe once you get like piles of cards would like
explode and it would be like if you hit a
certain number that piles out or something.

Speaker 1 (27:13):
You know, it could be like a buzzer or something
that's yeah.

Speaker 2 (27:15):
Exactly, like there would be different ways you could do that,
but I agree.

Speaker 1 (27:19):
Like Alison I played, Alison, I played a great game
growing up that nobody knows about. Our grandparents had called Jitters,
which had kind of an exploding snack true concept itself.
It was a word game and it had you had
to like make words within the buzzer before it jumped down.

Speaker 2 (27:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (27:41):
Yeah, there there would definitely be ways to do that,
and I agree it could be fun.

Speaker 1 (27:46):
So anyway, not not exactly the missed opportunity here.

Speaker 2 (27:49):
The marketing opportunity of the week, right.

Speaker 1 (27:53):
Exactly, But yeah, what about actual missed opportunities? I didn't
see too much on this page.

Speaker 3 (28:00):
I mean I think, yeah, I agree, like I feel
like it. Not that it's exactly an O Joe she didn't,
but I felt like this page was very typical of
the first three books, and so it wasn't like there
was a lot of missed opportunities. I guess maybe we

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could have had the opportunity to.

Speaker 2 (28:24):
See get into an altercation with Draco or something like.

Speaker 1 (28:28):
You know, like or we could have had the opportunity
for the trolley Witch to extend her fingernails or whatever.
Because the witch with the tea cart shows up. Yeah,
she's there, So it's a very short mention of her, because.

Speaker 3 (28:40):
Yeah, if she hadn't have been there, I would have
said we missed an opportunity to see the trolley witch.

Speaker 1 (28:44):
But she is There's weird to call her that the
witch with the tea cart though, And also like, I
guess they have pumpkin pasties, but what what kind of
lunch do they serve? Like we've never actually seen them
by real.

Speaker 2 (28:57):
Yeah, I guess that was a missed opportunity. This week.
We all we know is that he didn't get anything
with chocolate in it. We didn't get to see what
he ate, right, He's a very big missed opportunity.

Speaker 1 (29:06):
Yeah, our segment, our segment of this opportunity always turns
into they didn't we didn't see what food they were eating.

Speaker 2 (29:13):
Well, he is kind of a missed opportunity.

Speaker 1 (29:15):
And the best part of this segment too, is that
when we first did one page at a time, the
page we read happened to have a lot of food
in it or something. So I like did the throwaway
comment of like, maybe we'll have a food segment every week,
and then Alice typed into our outlined food question mark
as like a title of a segment, Well is there?

Speaker 2 (29:35):
And then it is nothing with chocolate in it.

Speaker 1 (29:37):
We just copy and paste the same list of segments
to each outline for each episode, and every time we
have to look at food question for.

Speaker 2 (29:47):
It's asking is there food on the page?

Speaker 1 (29:49):
There's not.

Speaker 2 (29:51):
I thought there's nothing with chocolate in it.

Speaker 1 (29:53):
I thought there was saying will food be a segment?

Speaker 2 (29:57):
Oh? I was putting is there food?

Speaker 1 (30:00):
Okay? Well, I mean there is quote a very large lunch,
which does give us more than we usually have for
a a random what.

Speaker 3 (30:07):
Is just bacon sandwiches, cakes? Yeah, it could be like
stone a sausage.

Speaker 1 (30:15):
Roll or yeah. I would just like like to know
what they eat on the trolley besides candy. I mean,
I know pumpkin pasties aren't exactly candy, but they're not
I mean I don't think of a pastry, yeah exactly.

Speaker 2 (30:29):
Yeah, so it's not like it's not like something with
protein in it.

Speaker 1 (30:33):
Right, I don't see any of the no Kodiac cake
for you, exactly exactly, so I don't know what they're eating.
That's the question of the week. What about adverbs. Let's
go through the adverbs on this page.

Speaker 2 (30:46):
Okay, we have sadly quickly.

Speaker 1 (30:50):
We do also have considerably, but that's not suddenly. Yeah, yeah,
we have considerably more cheerful, but that that's kind of
ruled out because it's not describing the way somebody speaks.
So we'd really just have sadly, quickly and suddenly.

Speaker 3 (31:02):
And I do have to say it was a little
bit of a poor wording where it right right before
it said it had the effect of cheering up, cheering
Harry up a great deal, and then a second later,
it says, feeling considerably more cheerful.

Speaker 1 (31:15):
That d we have cheer up at the top of
the page, cheering Harry up later and then a paragraph later,
considerably more cheerful.

Speaker 2 (31:25):
It's a very cheerful page. Yes, I think that maybe
was the ojo she did it.

Speaker 1 (31:31):
Yes, she loves cheer like that was that word got
used a little too much on this page, right. I'm
surprised he doesn't say the thing that made him truly cheerful,
like I'll never be cheerful again. Well, Harry, you sure
are cheerful again.

Speaker 2 (31:49):
The owl was was small and.

Speaker 1 (31:51):
Cheerful, Yeah, with a cheerful look on its face. In
this way it not cheerfully.

Speaker 2 (31:57):
Cheery face, Yeah exactly.

Speaker 1 (32:01):
He probably says that on the next page. I have
to say I'm partial to sadly. I like when people
say things sadly, especially, and I like.

Speaker 3 (32:08):
How hairy Hermione was being a little bit. Like I
get that she's like, you know, wants Harry to be happy,
but like, that's not very nice to say to Harry.

Speaker 2 (32:19):
Oh cheer up, Harry.

Speaker 1 (32:21):
Like to say it sadly too well, and that helps
so much, Oh cheer up Harry, Like.

Speaker 2 (32:27):
Isn't that Usually the advice you get is like, don't
tell people like.

Speaker 1 (32:31):
Right, you should say, like, say something that would make
them happy, rather than just saying be happy.

Speaker 2 (32:36):
Yeah, exactly, Like Ron actually does cheer Harry up, right,
like we said, like he brings up something nice and
positive Harry to look forward to Hermione's just like you know,
pushing the toxic pos.

Speaker 1 (32:48):
Oh, cheer up, Harry. What have you sad about? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (32:52):
Exactly? Why why on earth would you be depressed right now?

Speaker 1 (32:57):
Compare your situation to others? You've got it so much
better than others.

Speaker 2 (33:03):
Yeah, Like, come on Hermione, Like usually she's good at
being empathetic, and I mean.

Speaker 1 (33:09):
We always say usually she's good at always pointing out
times where she's not.

Speaker 2 (33:13):
Yeah, but I think, yeah, this was not the greatest
look for Hermione here. Oh sheer up Harry.

Speaker 1 (33:19):
Yeah. Yeah, well we we do also, I mean I
do want to say we'd be remiss if we didn't.
Mention truly was another adverb, but again just describing how
Harry's become truly happy.

Speaker 2 (33:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (33:35):
I also thought another strange phrasing was when when it
said Harry said Hermione suddenly peering over his shoulder. And
I get that she's peering over Harry's shoulder, but it
sounds weird. It makes like, I don't know, just right
after hermione, it sounds weird to use the personal pronoun.

Speaker 1 (33:53):
Yeah, and it's also a little yeah. It kind of
sounds like she's saying it like yes, it's we have
the commas, so she's saying it suddenly, and then she's
peering over his shoulder, but it kind of sounds like
she's suddenly peering over his shoulders. So I feel like
it should just take the suddenly out, like Harry said
hermione peering over his shoulder, like I feel like his
is fine there.

Speaker 2 (34:12):
But I just kind of stumbled over it when I
was reading it, and it made me like think about it.

Speaker 1 (34:18):
Yeah, or maybe we could just have Harry send hermione
suddenly without peering over his shoulder, because we already know
she's looking outside his window.

Speaker 2 (34:25):
Sry.

Speaker 1 (34:26):
It seems a little unnecessary repetitive.

Speaker 2 (34:28):
Okay, So adverb of the week is going to be sadly, right, Yeah,
it's opposite of what Harry's feeling eventually, right when he's
feeling quite cheerful, right, all.

Speaker 1 (34:41):
Right, what about the burn of the week.

Speaker 2 (34:44):
Well, I mean it's not exactly a burn, but I
did think that, oh, cheer up, Harry was.

Speaker 1 (34:50):
I think that the obvious burn of the week is honestly,
you should take muggle studies next year.

Speaker 2 (34:55):
Yeah, that one is obvious. I like the other. I
mean it's not really a either, but it just that
ron ignored.

Speaker 1 (35:02):
Right exactly. I think that. Sorry, I know we kind
of conflate these two a little bit, but I think
that the humble brag of the week is bet the
Jerseys be pleased to let me come, especially after what
I did to March. It's like what you did to
and March. Congrats Harry, right, I guess. Also, I know

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I know how to use a felly tone now. It's
kind of a humble brag of the week too.

Speaker 2 (35:27):
Yeah, I think I like that one. But both are good.
But I do feel that it's funny with I know
how to use.

Speaker 1 (35:34):
A felly well now because also, yeah, also Dad can
usually get tickets from work is a humble brag as well. Congrats.

Speaker 2 (35:44):
There's a lot of humble bragging happening here.

Speaker 1 (35:48):
So yeah, which one do we like best? I guess I.

Speaker 2 (35:51):
Also Another humble brag is he bought himself a very
large lunch. Congrats, congrats you have lots of money.

Speaker 4 (35:58):
Well.

Speaker 1 (35:58):
Another humble brag is, yeah, I've been thinking about them too. Oh,
good job, Ron, You've been thinking about the holidays too,
you know.

Speaker 2 (36:06):
And I was thinking that earlier, Like you're on the
train ride home, so yeah, I should think you'd be
thinking about that, just thinking about the holidays.

Speaker 1 (36:14):
Yeah, I've been thinking about them too. Oh, congrats, close,
and I.

Speaker 2 (36:18):
Have I have one more humble brag. The owl was
so small that it kept tumbling over in the air.
Congrats you're tiny.

Speaker 1 (36:26):
Oh yeah, you're such a skinny legend. Good job. Oh
it must be so hard being so tiny that you
tumble over in the air. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (36:37):
Another one. Harry quickly pulled down the window.

Speaker 1 (36:41):
I was about to say that one, too, well done,
you quickly pulled down the window. I also liked it fast,
a tiny owl carrying a letter that was much too
big for it. Oh is the letter too big for
you for your tiny little stature, you poor thing?

Speaker 2 (36:57):
Owl?

Speaker 1 (36:58):
It's so hard to be Yeah, it must be difficult. Okay,
I do think that either. I know how to use
a felly tone now, or especially after what I did
to at March.

Speaker 2 (37:12):
I think the fell tone because it's funny how Ron
is like, you know, bragging about that, but at the
same time doesn't even know what it's called.

Speaker 1 (37:19):
A little bit of irony there, huh exactly. Alice is
a big fan, okay, and that's fine. And then the
Burn of the Week, probably you should take you should
take Muggle studies next year. Yeah, okay.

Speaker 2 (37:32):
There weren't a lot of contenders for Burn of the Week.

Speaker 1 (37:35):
No, I guess though, nothing with chocolate in it. It's
kind of a burn of the week. No chocolate for me. Yeah,
that could also be a humble brag. No, thank you,
I don't care.

Speaker 2 (37:48):
I don't even need chocolate.

Speaker 1 (37:50):
Yeah, exactly, no chocolate for me, I'm petite.

Speaker 2 (37:57):
I bet the tiny owl didn't get any chocolate either.

Speaker 1 (38:00):
Yeah, probably not. Otherwise we would wouldn't have so much
trouble carrying the letter.

Speaker 2 (38:06):
It wouldn't be tumbling over in the air, buffeted this
way and that in the train slipstream.

Speaker 1 (38:11):
Right, Okay, Well, we have quite a few more segments
to get through, but I think it's about time we
take a break for a word from our sponsors. Let's
jump right into MVB because it's most obvious here I
have to say.

Speaker 2 (38:24):
Yes, and we finally have an excellent MVB, and that
is Pigwichen.

Speaker 1 (38:29):
Yes, although we don't know yet.

Speaker 2 (38:31):
He hasn't been named yet.

Speaker 1 (38:34):
Actually, no, little the tiny owl is the MVBO. As
hermidy refers to him, that thing, I guess that's another
bird of the week. That thing outside.

Speaker 2 (38:43):
What's that thing outside your window?

Speaker 1 (38:45):
An owl? Ever seen one before? Gosh, something very small
and gray. I guess Harry did need to get at
her look to see. It was just so tiny that
you couldn't probably tell what it was. Yeah, okay, that

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that one's easy. That's the m v B.

Speaker 2 (39:11):
Looking at our m v B list, this is only
the second time that a bird has actually won the
m v B. Buckbeak onon our very first week.

Speaker 1 (39:19):
And which is not even buck Beak's not even a bird.

Speaker 2 (39:23):
Well, he's part bird we we don't have. Yeah, we
haven't had a single other bird win so far.

Speaker 1 (39:30):
What have we given it to?

Speaker 2 (39:32):
We've had buck Beak, then we had Hermione Neville, serious
Stumbledore Peeves.

Speaker 1 (39:38):
And well, I think in the spreadsheet we should probably
be up probably be clarifying why they were considered a
bird back, because I don't remember any of them having
bird like actions.

Speaker 2 (39:50):
Yeah I don't either, but I will say out of
all of those, Peeves is probably the second closest to
a bird after buck beak.

Speaker 1 (39:58):
Yeah, that makes sense.

Speaker 2 (40:03):
If Pinquichin hadn't been on this page, I think our
bird would have probably been exploding. Snap.

Speaker 1 (40:08):
That's exactly what I was gonna say too. Or the
witch with the tea cart because she could probably fly anything.

Speaker 2 (40:19):
Okay, are we doing real weirdo next?

Speaker 1 (40:23):
I guess yeah, it's probably Hermione.

Speaker 2 (40:26):
I guess I was gonna say Hermione because she's she's
so like.

Speaker 1 (40:30):
Lectureful, well and so like uh, I don't know. She
sounds like she kind of just took an energy drink
like everything. Oh cheer up, Harry, Harry, what's that thing
outside your window?

Speaker 2 (40:44):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (40:47):
Uh yeah, okay, Hermione is the real weirdo. It could
be the witch with the tea cart again.

Speaker 2 (40:54):
Yeah, I mean she's not in it very much.

Speaker 1 (40:56):
I don't like actually do anything weird. Yeah, she just
is weird.

Speaker 2 (41:01):
We know that, yeatonically agreed.

Speaker 1 (41:06):
Okay, so we have real weird. No, it's Hermione and
the MVP is Pigwidge. And let's let's talk about literary devices.
I don't think there are any on this page.

Speaker 2 (41:18):
Uh yeah, it's not a very it's I think when
it's so dialogue heavy, you don't usually see a lot
of literary devices. The only thing could be that, like
I don't, I don't even know what to call it,
but like that, then nothing with chocolate in it being
a callback to the very first chapter and sort of
symmetry of owl post owl post again. I mean, I

(41:39):
guess it wasn't ol Sorry, it wasn't even the first chapter.
It was like a train.

Speaker 1 (41:43):
Ride, right, Yeah, I guess you could call that, And
I guess we do have the irony the verbal irony
of felly tone as well.

Speaker 2 (41:51):
But I guess maybe the chocolate would be a motif maybe.

Speaker 1 (41:55):
Yeah, then we could call that a motif, Yeah, like motif? Yeah,
but yeah, you agree that that would be that's verbal
irony with felly tone, right.

Speaker 2 (42:05):
Yeah, how he's bragging about that, but he doesn't know
how to say it.

Speaker 1 (42:09):
He knows how to use it, but does he know
how to say it? Wow? The answer is.

Speaker 2 (42:13):
No, good good point.

Speaker 1 (42:16):
I guess we also have some foreshadowing the Quidditch World
Cup this summer, right.

Speaker 2 (42:21):
Looking forward to the next book, and we've got a
little bit of imagery with pigwidge and being so tiny
and bouncing all around.

Speaker 1 (42:29):
Yeah, he's so he's so weird. Yeah, Okay, what an
amazing segment literary device watches. I'm so glad we do
it all right, Yeah, I know I wouldn't be being
rude about it if it were yours.

Speaker 2 (42:46):
Right, You're never rude about any of my ideas, like
when you said food.

Speaker 1 (42:52):
Okay, so what would what would Mary grand Prey do?
What does the w w GPD of the week?

Speaker 3 (42:57):
I think I can picture the three of them in
a compartment on the train with Pigwidgeon in the background
and the trolley which.

Speaker 1 (43:07):
You could picture that, Alice, that's way too detailed for Mary.

Speaker 2 (43:11):
Well, I'm just saying I'll tell you.

Speaker 1 (43:13):
What I can picture. I can picture the wheedle owl
with a letter too big for him, because that's literally
what the chapter art is.

Speaker 2 (43:21):
Yeah, I know, but it's that's not at all what
this page looks like.

Speaker 1 (43:26):
Well, they're the bottom of the page. I feel like,
I mean we're are we doing what would grad prey do?
Or are we doing what we wish the another artist
would do?

Speaker 2 (43:37):
Yeah, Okay, you're right, you're right, she did do.

Speaker 3 (43:39):
This is actually is this the first time we're seeing
the actual chapter art on?

Speaker 1 (43:43):
I think that there was another one because I think
we said this once. Yeah, okay said the first time, but.

Speaker 2 (43:48):
We're literally seeing this exact scene. You're right, you're right.
I like the idea of seeing them in the train
compartment better, but.

Speaker 1 (43:56):
I do too.

Speaker 2 (43:56):
But yeah, she got a little bit lazy towards the
end of the book.

Speaker 1 (44:00):
Well, I just wish that this could be like have
a little bit more perspective to the picture, which is
not her strong suit, but I would like to have
seen like the train window at least, so we could
see like a little bit of scale.

Speaker 2 (44:12):
I guess. I guess what is depicted here is the
slipstream of the train, because there's quite a few like around.

Speaker 3 (44:19):
Yeah, lines around Pigwidge, and to show the gusts of
wind that's seeing him around, I guess.

Speaker 1 (44:27):
And it is also showing that he is much smaller
than the letter, so.

Speaker 3 (44:30):
That's yeah, I will say though like he yes, he
is much smaller than the letter, but he still doesn't
look that small to me.

Speaker 1 (44:36):
It mostly just looks like a huge letter.

Speaker 2 (44:39):
I always picture pigwigeen as being more round.

Speaker 1 (44:45):
Yeah, he looks too angular.

Speaker 3 (44:47):
Yeah, I think that's what my problem is. So whatever,
it's fine. It's not like the worst chapter art ever.

Speaker 1 (44:53):
But it's no, it's just a little basic.

Speaker 2 (44:56):
Yeah, exactly. It's like if Mary was burning out at.

Speaker 1 (44:59):
The end of the book, well it was the last chapter,
or she was like, let me see what I can
whip up and take.

Speaker 2 (45:05):
Exactly. It literally looks like it would take her ten
minutes to draw that.

Speaker 1 (45:10):
Yeah, I mean, it wouldn't take me ten minutes to
draw that.

Speaker 2 (45:12):
No, But I mean it's very simple, it very.

Speaker 1 (45:16):
Very It's literally just a tiny owl with a big
letter in its mouth or its beak. I mean, yeah,
carrying Aleta that was much too big for it. Hoka grats.

Speaker 2 (45:26):
I mean, I guess it also does make sense because
it is the chapter title owl post again, so say
the owl.

Speaker 1 (45:33):
I just wish that we could see it, like have
have the train window. At least you don't have to
have all the We don't have to have Harry Ron
and Hermione. Although that would be nice, but like just
a little like this just looks like a random owl
in the air. It's not clear that Harry's getting the
owl on the train, because that's part of what's fun
about this is that we getting a letter delivered while
he's on the train.

Speaker 2 (45:53):
Right.

Speaker 1 (45:53):
Agree, owls are very very powerful that they're able to
find which compartment they're they're their magic is very intense. Exactly, Okay,
what about the w wt qqot w B what is
a question of the week? B?

Speaker 3 (46:13):
Well, this is a little bit of a I don't
know if this is what we're going to settle on,
but like I when we were talking about exploding snap,
I could see that somebody asking like, yeah, what are
the rules of exploding snap or what's involved with exploding snap?

Speaker 1 (46:29):
Right? I'm sure Claire from the Harry Potter lexicon would
probably have a whole uh novel written out about it. Uh.
This is definitely recency biased, but me mentioning owl's powers
just now kind of made me think like that could
be a question as well of.

Speaker 2 (46:45):
Ye, like asking like how is Pigwidge and able to
find them in the train?

Speaker 1 (46:49):
Right? I mean? And the answer is just magic, you know,
so there's not really a great answer. I guess another
question could be, like, why is Arthur able to get
Quidditch Cup tickets?

Speaker 2 (47:01):
I was literally about to say that exact same thing.
If we're both thinking it, I think that it's a
good sign that it could be a core question.

Speaker 1 (47:10):
Yeah, exactly. But I just think that it makes sense
because we're always like I'm not saying I actually am
wondering it. But it does kind of seem inconsistent how
often we're hearing about how disrespected Arthur's job is, but
then he can usually get tickets and work.

Speaker 2 (47:25):
So it's also a little bit weirdly phrased there because
it's like makes it sound like he gets tickets to
the Quidditch World Cup every year.

Speaker 1 (47:34):
Well it doesn't take place every year, right.

Speaker 3 (47:36):
Well that's the thing, like I mean, or not maybe
not every year, but like when when Molly writes, well,
when they write to the Dursleys about it, they act
like if this is like a once in a lifetime opportunity,
we're seeing it here as Dad can usually get tickets.
I think maybe he's just saying to quidditch games, but
it makes it sound like it's like to the Quidditch
World Cup.

Speaker 1 (47:56):
Well, I think the reason that it's a once in
a lifetime thing is that it's happening in England. But
then it's also like, yeah, does Arthur usually tickets to
other locations? Right?

Speaker 2 (48:08):
It's just that seems.

Speaker 1 (48:09):
Just to clarify, it's supposed to happen every four years,
So it does make sense that Harry hasn't heard about
it at all until the fourth book, because Ron maybe
went to it, like the summer before Hogwarts started, or
like two summers before. I guess that would make sense, right, Yeah,
but it also but I also don't think he did.
It's supposed to.

Speaker 2 (48:29):
Only be in England every once in a while.

Speaker 1 (48:31):
Right, And I think maybe traveling is really difficult.

Speaker 2 (48:35):
For Did we pick an o jo? She didn't because
I feel like this is a very o jo. She
didn't actually because this is so typical of her, like
with math, thinking about how often this would happen, and
thinking about like just and then changing it in the
next book to make it seem like it's a much
more of a one, so.

Speaker 1 (48:53):
Like it should have just the line shouldn't have been
Dad can usually get to it, be like Dad can
probably get tickets. Yeah exactly, Dad said he might be
able to get ticket.

Speaker 2 (49:02):
Yeah exactly.

Speaker 3 (49:02):
Like there's this phrasing of Dad can usually get tickets
from more? Is that to me is very o Joe, she.

Speaker 1 (49:08):
Didn't, right, I will agree with that. I don't think
we had picked one. Oh, we had we had said cheer,
the word cheer. I don't see why we can't have two,
that's true. I think for that segment we can certainly
pick as many as we want.

Speaker 2 (49:23):
That's true.

Speaker 1 (49:26):
Yeah, So then are we still going to go with
that as the Cora question too, of how is Arthur
able to procure cup?

Speaker 2 (49:33):
I think either something about the owl or the exploding
snap would be fine because I think as I could
easily imagine as a Cora question as well.

Speaker 1 (49:41):
Yeah. Well, and also same as Ojo, she didn't. I
don't think we have to just pick one for a
Cora questions because there's no limit to the number of
questions you could ask on Quora. Baby, that's true.

Speaker 2 (49:51):
Cora is unlimited.

Speaker 1 (49:52):
That is well, if you have Cora plus limit, you
do have to pay for it if you wanted to
be unlimited. Okay, Well, do we have any memes of
the week? Alice neime lord has entered the chat.

Speaker 2 (50:12):
I don't. I don't really have a good one.

Speaker 3 (50:14):
The only one I can think of is like, maybe
something with the sentence about the note though nothing with
chocolate in it, because I'm picturing like Harry, like looking
at when you buy yourself a very large lunch and
then it's like and there's nothing.

Speaker 2 (50:30):
With chocolate in it.

Speaker 1 (50:32):
Okay, I can't really describe what I mean.

Speaker 2 (50:35):
Do you know what I'm trying to say?

Speaker 1 (50:36):
Or not? Really? Kind of? I actually thought of a
really good uh, okay, a good meme, and I don't
know if you in I don't know if it's uh
in the vernacular enough for you to know this meme?
Are you familiar with this tweet? Oh my god, you
only had an iced coffee to eat today? Should we
tell everyone? Should we throw a party? Should we invite
Belahdid have you seen that?

Speaker 2 (50:57):
No?

Speaker 1 (50:58):
I haven't, but okay, well, should we invite Belahadide has
turned into a big meme of like anytime somebody's bragging
about how little they ate, So.

Speaker 2 (51:08):
Then that for sure would be a good one for.

Speaker 1 (51:09):
This well, for not the nothing, not the very large lunch,
but for the tiny owl. Yeah, oh, the letter was
too big for you. Should we tell everyone? Should we
throw a party? Should we invite belahedid?

Speaker 2 (51:24):
Perfect?

Speaker 1 (51:26):
Yeah, that was my first thought.

Speaker 3 (51:28):
Okay, well if you how about you lead with that
if you have a good meeting.

Speaker 1 (51:32):
I didn't have it ready to go until I started
to think about I was like, what's the funniest part
on this page? And then I went to that. Uh yeah,
I also picture. I know we've referenced this before, but
the the picture of the cat, I know it's the

(51:53):
real Housewives and the cat looking grossed out. I'm picturing
Harry with Harry's face with chocolate in front of him.
No chocolate.

Speaker 3 (52:02):
Yeah, well, Bella Hdid is also in Housewives?

Speaker 2 (52:07):
Did you know that?

Speaker 1 (52:08):
Oh? I didn't know that her.

Speaker 2 (52:09):
Mom is a housewife?

Speaker 1 (52:11):
And okay, okay, thank you for the Housewives moment of
the week, full circle exactly. Okay, any other memes, Alice,
I don't.

Speaker 2 (52:25):
I don't think there's any more. The only thing I
could think of is maybe something with ron and the
felly tone, like y when you learn how to use
a felly tone or something.

Speaker 1 (52:35):
I also would be but I'm picturing the Pete Buddha
judge High Hopes dance. When Harry hears about the Quidish
World Cup for the summer, He's gone from being sad
and then all of a sudden, it's like the trumpet
sounds of High Hopes and Harry's dancing Quetish World Cup. Okay,

(53:06):
I guess the only things we have left besides the
page ranking and the dice roll is we do have
to figure out what the moral of the week is.

Speaker 2 (53:16):
I think the moral of the week is that you
need to cheer up.

Speaker 1 (53:19):
Yeah, I mean Hermione definitely uh is pushing for toxic positivity.

Speaker 2 (53:24):
To see exactly. There's how about everything happens for a reason.

Speaker 1 (53:32):
Where do we see that.

Speaker 3 (53:33):
I'm just saying that's kind of Hermione's like, oh, cheer up, everything.

Speaker 2 (53:37):
Happens for a reason. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (53:38):
But I feel like a better moral of the actual
page is in order to cheer someone up, don't tell
them to cheer up, give them a reason.

Speaker 2 (53:47):
I was going for more of like a sarcastic no.

Speaker 1 (53:49):
I think we're supposed to actually learn something like and
Ron has the right approach to cheering Harry up, Like
you said.

Speaker 2 (53:56):
Yes, yeah, I'm actually giving him something to look forward
to instead of just telling him to cheer up exactly.

Speaker 1 (54:02):
So, I think the moral of the week is to
get someone to cheer up, give them a reason to
cheer up, rather than just instructing them to do so.
And yeah, do we have a sass of the week.
I don't think so. I think Sass of the Week
and Burn.

Speaker 2 (54:17):
Of the Week are, Yeah, they're pretty similar. I don't
really know why we honest, I mean the hermione you
should take Muggle studies next year. That's definitely kind of
a sassy moment.

Speaker 1 (54:30):
Yeah, but that's the burn of the week.

Speaker 2 (54:31):
Well, that's what I'm saying, like, Yeah, I.

Speaker 1 (54:34):
Mean, what else would be the sass of the week?
Nothing with chocolate in it?

Speaker 2 (54:39):
Uh uh that's where Yeah, I'm not sure. I don't
I don't really understand the difference between them.

Speaker 1 (54:44):
All right, well, I think it's time that we rank
this page, and just looking at our ranking from what
we had before, we're doing this King of the Hill style,
as they say, And that means we're ranking this against
book six, page four hundred and twenty. Is that right?

Speaker 2 (55:02):
Yes? And that was elf Tails And of course that
one was a highlight for us because we got to
hear so many different character voices. I think I feel
like this was not better than that.

Speaker 1 (55:14):
No, I don't think so, And I guess we're not
going to rank it against other ones, but I feel
like this might be one of the lower ones that
we've done. I mean, I had fun talking about it,
but it was pretty dull page agreed.

Speaker 2 (55:26):
Like it was.

Speaker 3 (55:27):
Yes, like you said, we're not actually ranking this, but
it was like what actually happened on the page was
quite dull.

Speaker 1 (55:35):
Yeah, exactly, so, I mean it, like I said, fun
conversation for me, but I wouldn't say that the content
of the page was fantastic. No, all right, So are
we ready now to roll the dice for finding out
what our next opat is going to be?

Speaker 3 (55:51):
Yes, we are, and I'm excited to see if we
might end up with a seven at all.

Speaker 1 (55:55):
Well, Alice, the odds are just as likely for any
number that's they are or any other number. So okay,
rolling the dice, and we got a page that doesn't exist?
So should I keep the same book?

Speaker 2 (56:10):
Keep the same book?

Speaker 1 (56:11):
And then yeah, are you sure?

Speaker 2 (56:13):
Why is it book three? Again?

Speaker 1 (56:15):
No, it's book two, which we haven't done. So we're
gonna keep Book two. Okay, locking that need to roll, Okay,
eight is not an option. Okay, page there's not four
hundred pages, are there? I don't think so, nor keep
rolling Okay, page one hundred twenty one or sorry, one
hundred twenty two year old? Okay, book two, page one

(56:37):
twenty excellent.

Speaker 2 (56:41):
Yeah, that'll be older ones and twos.

Speaker 1 (56:44):
And yeah, I'm predicting it's gonna be the death day party.
That will be wonderful.

Speaker 2 (56:52):
I don't I don't know that that happened.

Speaker 1 (56:56):
Yeah, I could be that because one is going to
be like a third of the way the book, or
is like that is that gonna be like halfway into
the book?

Speaker 3 (57:03):
No, it's more like a third. I think that book
is like about three hundred pages.

Speaker 1 (57:06):
Yeah. So yeah, I'm going to predict either the death
day party or detention with Lockhart.

Speaker 5 (57:13):
Okay, I would predict maybe Professor Binns's class where he
talks about the Chamber of Secrets.

Speaker 1 (57:24):
That's a good call too. Yeah, It's been a long
time since I've even thought about secrets, so.

Speaker 2 (57:30):
I try not to. Yeah, definitely my least favorite book.

Speaker 1 (57:35):
Yeah, it'll be fun to do one page of it.
We'll see, I'm sure we'll have a lot of ojo.
She didn't, let's put it that way.

Speaker 2 (57:42):
Yeah, we were still working out the kinks at that point. Yeah,
all right, the second book is the biggest dojo she
didn't kill.

Speaker 1 (57:51):
Yeah. Well, just also the writing of the second book too,
just exactly like in his first year, very juvenile Harry's
best friend Ronald never say that. I wonder how many
cheerfuls we'll have on that page.

Speaker 2 (58:09):
Probably quite a few.

Speaker 1 (58:12):
All right, Well, that was that's our next one. I
think we'll probably be doing that next week, so stay tuned.
New episodes come up on Mondays. If you are a
patron Patreon dot com slash Real Weird Sisters, we'll be
having a patron cast coming out later this week because
we're reaching the end of June, believe it or not,
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(58:35):
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