Chapter 10: The Rogue Bludger | Chamber of Secrets

[@AJratcliffe]

Grapes are a stereotypical/slightly old fashioned gift for someone in hospital here in England. So Colin's grapes are actually very thoughtful!

[@donaldhanning1359]

By the way everyone, IF this is true, we need to make it the top comment so that Ben and J's KZbin manager sees this and tells them

[@maudline]

And Colin was supposed to go to Eton, an old fashioned place, so it tracks for his personality

[@ToastTheThe]

​@@donaldhanning1359lmao why so much emphasis on like "IF" it's true. It's completely true that grapes were a traditional European hospital gift when someone had surgery, and there's countless people online talking about it

[@wrdreads4742]

I was envisioning the old Greek scenes of grape feedings and palm branches... 😂

[@LizLuvsCupcakes]

@@maudlineThat was actually Justin Finch-Fletchey, but it wouldn't surprise me if Colin knew of this particular custom because he is in fact muggle born.

[@ladyesmeralda999]

My personal headcannon is that Dumbledore WAS indeed going to get Hot Chocolate, and he CAN do it in his office himself, but he just likes going down to the kitchens and hanging out with the House Elves 😁

[@Howaminotgone]

Omg I love this he totally does just love hanging out with them

[@maximilianosalvador9559]

Love this. Totally on character for Dumbledore

[@r.m.morison2636]

I like that. It warms my heart, very much.

[@arieldahl]

in "quidditch though the ages" they definitely explain that the quaffle is bewitched so that it doesn't fall closer than a few feet off the ground

[@laser8389]

Also it falls slowly

[@keithg460]

Personally, I love the fact that Lockhart FINALLY managed to disarm someone. 😂

[@cubedmelons876]

Malfoy's performance in this match belongs right in the Quidditch Hall of Shame. He had every advantage like a faster broom and a rogue bludger attacking Harry, yet he still lost due to being distracted making fun of Harry. It's right down there with Ron's 2nd game in OOtP.

[@pjcrabtree4456]

I think that when Ron said “He just ate” when talking about the ghoul, he meant that Harry just ate. Suggesting that the Ghoul in Pajamas would be so gross that Harry might lose his lunch.

[@TiggerTiger21]

30 bones in the arm does count the hand. There are three in the arm itself, 8 in the wrist, and 19 in the hand. If you include the shoulder girdle that attaches the arm to the rest of the body, we are up to 32 bones that Lockhart removed.

[@RilianSharp]

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[@femailler22]

maybe the extras are the sesamoid bones? although "commonly found" doesn't mean everyone has them. If you took out the scapula and clavicle and added three sesamoid bones "commonly found" in the hand, I guess that makes 33....

[@juliajohnson4080]

Glad to see someone else putting that anatomy class to good use

[@pmcswain358]

I'm an xray tech and came here to say just this! Must be counting sesamoid bones- 30 in hand and arm, and there are 2 more in the shoulder girdle but these are not usually counted as part if the arm.so must be sesamoid bones.

[@paulinabartosiewicz417]

I'm not an anatomy expert, but I remember that children have more bones than adults, and some of them are going to be fuse together later. Could it be that a 12-year-old has more bones in an arm than an adult because some bones have not yet fused together?

[@hufflepom]

I’ve been working on this theory all week but here goes. The reason that no one connects the now attacks with the attacks from 50 years ago is because Myrtle was the only victim. We never explicitly hear that anyone was petrified the first time. We only learn that The Chamber has been open before from Draco. Draco learns this from Lucius. Lucius learns this from Voldy. We also know that Riddle couldn’t take credit for the attacks in 1942, so that could mean it was never referred to as “Slytherin’s Monster” or referred to as “The Chamber of Secrets.” Hence why Binns says that it is legend, no one thinks it’s a basilisk since there is no similarity between the attacks, and they just assume Hagrid because monsters. Thoughts?

[@raevalentine9002]

I think this theory works, because back then, Riddle was doing the attacks In person (via basilisk command)... he wouldn't have wanted to petrify anyone, and leave 'evidence'. The reason students are being petrified now, are because they were forewarned (messages on the wall, Ms. Norris being a cat, Nick being a ghost, also being attacked via proxy (Ginny) So there were more chances for error and Riddle was trying to catch Harry's attention so he was being more flashy and less death-y to start

[@hufflepom]

@@raevalentine9002 thank you! I love your additions/ insight!

[@occheermommy]

I dont feel like it works only because they called them ‘attacks’ in the past too. They didnt use the singular but plural. Sorry

[@FoxbrushDraws]

@@raevalentine9002 The reason students are being petrified now is because no one looked directly into the basilisk's eyes. Mrs. Norris was petrified because she saw the basilisk's reflection in the water that was on the floor, not because she's a cat. The messages on the wall are intended to both spread fear, and to get the muggle-borns to leave the school. It seems like Myrtle was killed essentially because otherwise she would have known where the Chamber of Secrets was.

[@thunderflare59]

Double check other mentions of it to make sure no one says there were other attacks. I know Harry said it once, but he might have just assumed there were other attacks. But what about someone who was there?

[@brodygandy5761]

The “he just ate” remark that Ron says to Hermione is in reference to Harry, not the ghoul. Hermione was asking Ron to tell Harry the details of the ghoul’s transformation to resemble Ron. Ron doesn’t want to tell Harry and gross him out because Harry just ate. That being said, it really wouldn’t surprise me in the slightest if the Weasleys fed the ghoul lol

[@kirenderaj8152]

😂. Yeah. “Naaaahhh. He’s just eaten”

[@bookcat123]

Arthur absolutely would. And Fred and George.

[@raymondf2213]

1:09:12 I don't know why, but my brain started to imagine the basilisk doing a lazer light show with its Lazer eyes when Jay mentioned the basilisk with Lazer eyes...

[@lisacox4984]

Hermione's got blinders on 'cause she's got a schoolgirl crush on Lockhart.

[@cityman2312]

Yeah, she's only 13. Realistically she should not be super-discerning.

[@drip.dr0p]

i've also heard it mentioned (by the carlin brothers themselves perhaps?) that at this point hermione has such a blind, unquestioning faith in figures of authority, books, teachers/scholars, etc.

[@PcCAvioN]

Lockhart is a joke on the guy every woman falls for but who is just a cool facade. Boy band members who don't play instruments and can't sing. The guys who get you to go home with him from the bar, but when you get to know him he's worthless as a partner and not good in bed. Once you wake up you can't believe you ever fell for it

[@mellow3995]

"Dobby never meant to kill, Dobby only meant to maim or seriously injure" is from the Deathly Hallows I believe, when he drops the chandelier on Bellaxtrix, that line always gets a laugh out of us.

[@Nerdnotwashere]

I think it’s a movie quote

[@mellow3995]

@@Nerdnotwashere Yeah its definitely in the Deathly Hallows movie, not sure about the book.

[@MorderElg]

That is the case. Near the end of Deathly Hallows part 1. It really surprised me that Ben quoted this wrong, and J agreeing. Correct character, wrong target and book.

[@keithg460]

A lot of people get this line wrong, including myself. It is so similar to the line from Chamber of Secrets, and it is so out of place in Deathly Hallows that is seems to fit more here. But I would have sworn it was said in this one. It is like the Mandela Effect. Somehow, we remember it wrong.

[@MorderElg]

@@keithg460 But it surprise me that they both agreed on this, as they analyze all the books so much, and probably the movies to a slightly lesser degree. Getting as much of the trivia they do. It would have been interesting to see what they would have answered if asked in which movie this was said in a J vs B video.

[@fabulouslytj1489]

I love the addition of the grapes! Grapes are a super common / classic food to bring someone who’s in hospital / unwell here in the UK! They’re sweet, hydrating, easy to digest and stems from the myth that they have healing properties!!

[@Other_Jeremy]

If nobody knew the identity of the wagawaga werewolf, a wizard temporary turning them back into a human, even for a few seconds, could potentially lead to their capture after they turn back.

[@ambiverter]

Ya, that's a good catch, and does merit credit to whoever originally did that

[@wrdreads4742]

The books in the library are all old and handwritten... Too delicate for (pre)teens to be running around with. Especially to have chocolate around...lol

[@AstroPC96]

45:20 The Quaffle does fall slowly! It is explained in Quidditch through the ages book! I remember reading it a while ago!

[@occheermommy]

I remember reading it but I thought it was on pottermore. It may have been in the book. I read that too.

[@bookcat123]

I thought I remembered that being canon somewhere!

[@raevalentine9002]

From the quaffle wiki: Shortly after, the witch Daisy Pennifold came up with the idea of enchanting the Quaffle so that it dropped to the ground slower than normal. Chasers were complaining of having to dive to the ground to retrieve a dropped ball, and the new enchantment gave the Chasers time to retrieve the ball while still in the air.

[@amymelsoner5775]

I thought Sluggys classes were like cooking shows… you have a completed food (potion) and one that you work on. He’s a potion master, so he has them on hand.

[@parvin_peepohappy3572]

I just looooove the side story of Colin getting grapes from the kitchen for Harry. The way J tells it makes it even funnier.

[@thunderflare59]

I expected them to praise Colin's bravery for going out at night when specifically muggle-born wizards are threatened, but instead it was to ask what the hell Colin was doing with grapes and a camera at midnight.

[@FenDweller13]

Aww Colin, I’d say never change but you’ll never be older than 16 anyways

[@thunderflare59]

@@FenDweller13Ouch

[@coolnerdlll6053]

My name being Colin made that way funnier. When J said "What's the deal with the grapes, Colin?", I immediately yelled at the screen "Why are you asking me? I don't know!"

[@NotAnotherDouc-]

I have a pretty simple theory as to why Dumbledore took the camera melting as evidence of the chamber of Secrets being opened again. As the Carlin bros have pointed out previously, the signs that the monster was a basilisk feel very obvious in hindsight. So my guess is Dumbledore actually suspected all along that Slytherin’s monster was a basilisk, he just never voiced it to or around the golden trio. Knowing what the monster is doesn’t necessarily make it easier to find the chamber though, so that’s why he still couldn’t stop it. So when he saw the camera melted, it confirmed the theory he already had which is that petrification had to do with vision (as opposed to a spell or potion or something). This confirmed it to be a basilisk for Dumbledore, which in turn confirmed that it really is Slytherin’s monster making the attacks, which confirmed that the Chamber of Secrets really is open again.

[@IdaSantti]

I agree, it is too out of character for Dumbledore to have NO IDEA, what the monster is. Not finding the Chamber is okay, but having no idea what is in it, considering everything he knows about everything. No, just no

[@VoidNull9222]

Lockhart seems like the type of person who tried out for the Quidditch team, didn’t make it, then fabricated a story in his head about how he was kept off the team because of politics or something rather than admit he wasn’t a good player.

[@gregoryanderson3073]

🎉

[@gregoryanderson3073]

😂😂😂😂😂❤

[@thirteenthandy]

Hahahahaha, funniest episode yet. The idea of Colin delivering midnight grapes and Dumbledore potentially supplementing them with hot chocolate, and your cracking up about it, was the absolute best.

[@williamsrdan]

I was just about to quote Gamp's Law, in regards to Dumbledore's hot chocolate, but..... you're right, McGonagall's sandwiches..... Unless she summoned them from somewhere else. Which is more likely, and the house elves kept sending more. That way it doesn't violate Gamp's Law.

[@Stephanie23816]

I would love to read Chamber of Secrets from Lockhart's POV.

[@crazyfrytka]

It's not that wizards have more bones than muggles. It's that children have more bones than adults. ;) Newborns have 270 bones and adults only 206, because during whole childhood some of bones merge together into bigger ones.

[@joshuacarroll6668]

There are 27 bones in the human hand, three in the arm (humerus, radius, ulna), and three in the shoulder girdle (scapula, clavicle, humerus). 27+3+3 = 33. Minus the humerus, because you don't get to count it twice = 32. “This boy needs rest, he's got thirty-three bones to regrow!

[@omarrobinson604]

My take has always been that Lockhart was in a popularity contest with Harry, which is weird because he’s a fully grown man and Harry is literally a child, but that’s always the way that it appeared to me ever since I first read the book

[@julialisco8525]

I love how mildly unhinged this episode is - was definitely a laugh I needed today.

[@FoxbrushDraws]

What I find most interesting about reenacting Lockhart's books is that these are things that did happen, they just didn't happen to Lockhart. His whole claim to fame is based on stealing these stories from other wizards, getting all the details from them, and then wiping their memories. So the story of how the werewolf was dealt with was true, it was just another wizard that did it.

[@WTMR42]

I have a feeling that the only reason why there is one flying lesson is because Harry is exempt from flying because he makes the quidtich team.

[@thunderflare59]

In Hogwarts Legacy even fifth years need to continue taking the class, so that's probably the case.

[@bookcat123]

So was Ron taking flying lessons the whole time, and neither griping to Harry about how they’re being held to boring things nor talking about the cool trick he learned? Not even a joke in passing about how bad Crabbe or Goyle is on a broom? Was Hermione taking flying the whole time and never asked Harry to give her tips or help her study? Was Neville taking flying the whole time but was never again hurt enough for Harry to notice? 🤔

[@WTMR42]

@@bookcat123 probably who knows

[@kimgrod]

Agreed. Books are from HP's perspective

[@daniellelewis8171]

Giving grapes in the uk is a given when someone is in hospital, often along with lucazade 🤣🤣 Grapes used to be a rarity in the uk, so a luxury. It could be a sign of status and concern for the person in hospital. Also, in the 19th century, there was a belief that grapes had the power to cleanse and purify the body, especially the blood. They believed that the natural sugars and vitamins could boost the immune system and help the healing process. In Victorian Britain, it was believed that after a medical issue, people needed a period of “convalescence” in which they ate only light, easily digestable food. Grapes were considered ideal for this, as they were sweet, easy on the stomach, and full of water (thereby aiding in hydration). As the Colin is British and a muggle-born, it totally makes sense to us British muggles that Colin brings Harry some grapes! Loved your story for this though!! ❤️

[@joshuahallett6235]

I love how you guys glossed over the fact that Dobby says “Dobby is used to death threats sir. Dobby gets them five times a day at home!” Like that has to be one of the saddest and darkest lines in the whole series.

[@bookcat123]

I know! I thought that was what they were building up to, but no, it was ironing his hands and beating beaten for burning dinner. Also terrible, but somehow not as striking as calmly responding to Harry’s anger with the comment he finds death threats normal.

[@itsallme1234]

Thanks to this episode, I'm now imagining Dumbledore, MgGonagall, and Madame Pomfrey doing Who's On First over Colin's petrified body. So thanks for that one.

[@LizLuvsCupcakes]

"I'm asking YOU who opened the chamber!!"

[@itsallme1234]

@@LizLuvsCupcakes and I’m telling you, How opened the chamber! Who’s on first!

[@Boundwithflame23]

@@itsallme1234I don’t know!

[@stuartl7761]

I love thinking about a Harry, Colin, Dumbledore midnight get together. So comfy. I feel like Dumbledore would know when Colin's getting to much for Harry and nudge the conversation elsewhere. But he'd also really enjoy Colin's enthusiasm. I think Dumbledore and Colin would have a strange synergy.

[@kevinarnold7923]

I really appreciate this series. I'm reading along with the books in Spanish to learn the language. Reading a chapter then watching you guys break it down is the highlight of my week

[@silent.shaman]

Would love to see a J vs Ben trivia at the end of the year made up of all the trivia they find in this series!

[@demonicbunny3po]

Yes! Everything they’ve highlighted or noted in their books could be on the table for the quiz.

[@imput38]

I love this format that you guys are doing

[@catbaril9072]

Right? I wish more people did such in-depth break-down and conversation around books

[@aud2d2]

It’s also so interesting to watch as someone who hasn’t read the books very much or recently. When you deep dive into it, there are some things that are weird or don’t make sense that are kinda funny 😂

[@inkaviolet]

I think many people in the audience noticed something's wrong, surely Ron and Hermione did (I believe they've had deja vu from Harry's first match and immediately started to look for the culprit, but never found one). I think there had to be strong rule for teachers to not interfere magically during matches, because it could be seen as helping one of the team to win (and Dumbledore was looking at Snape and McGonagall reminding that rule before every single match 😂). Star is representing Sirius, moon - Remus, and Harry between them looks like James. And the shadow hand is foreshadowing of Peter's future silver arm 😄 It's Marauders' art!

[@kimgrod]

Wow!

[@eliealvarez801]

I got my tickets for the DC show. I gotta show support to y'all. I'm being from the northern part of va. We can't wait to see y'all. Y'all know we have to rep 2up2down thanks for making Virginia proud

[@MythStarFire]

Dumbledore does have a kettle in his office, at least he does in Order of the Phoenix. “He emerged from it (a cupboard) carrying a blackened old kettle, which he placed carefully upon his desk.” And turned into a portkey. Maybe he decided his kettle was getting a bit gross and preferred a walk to the kitchens. I always assumed McGonagall summed a magic plate from the kitchens, which magically refil.

[@staceymurf]

The grapes is a very common UK & Ireland thing. It’s typically what you bring when you visit someone in hospital. Like, hospitals usually have little shops when you enter, so you can get stuff for whoever you’re visiting and grapes (along with flowers and cards) are what you would gift.

[@bookcat123]

Why grapes? Or is that a question no one ever really asks, it’s just the Thing To Do? I feel like (other than flowers) we just bring books, music, and logic puzzles - ways to pass the time. Maybe a full outside meal if it’s allowed and someone’s in hospital for a while. Or maybe a dessert? Are grapes dessert in the UK? 🤔

[@staceymurf]

@@bookcat123 Some wards don’t allow flowers, so that’s why we mainly give fruit (I’ve seen and received oranges and bananas along with grapes) I think because fruit is healthy, therefore we give you fruit for a healthy recovery. I loved getting fruit when I was inpatient.

[@bookcat123]

@@staceymurf I guess that makes more sense than the American “tradition” of trying to sneak in forbidden unhealthy foods!

[@jacquelynchin5513]

I don’t think I’ve laughed/wheezed with a podcast episode more than this, IT’S THE GRAPES !!!

[@Boundwithflame23]

According to Quidditch Through the Ages, the quaffle does have a charm on it that makes it fall slowly. Possibly Arresto Momentum.

[@aliceepalermo5047]

I’m absolutely dying at the grapes thing 😂 ‘come on Harry let’s take a selfie’ 😂

[@heylolp9]

Favorite Book: Goblet of Fire Favorite Movie: Half Blood Prince I think that the Death Day party chapter showed that Harry Potter Chapters are like pizza, even a bad slice of pizza is still pizza and therefore enjoyable

[@eweasel1]

This chapter is why I think that the favorite entertainment of the Wizarding community is child endangerment.

[@TheNoteblockLizard]

It took a couple of weeks to catch up, but I've been thoroughly enjoying this deep dive into each chapter. I'm curious to know what you guys think each of the other Defense Against the Dark Arts teachers would see in the Mirror of Erised.

[@the1jessebrown]

Id love to see creative quidditch strategy Using your seeker to score the quaffle or like to pulling the your goalie to play seeker for two seamers if you’re up by 150 already

[@lucyairapetian407]

Please record Audiobooks of The Name of the Wind so we can go off the beaten path someday.

[@brendanrodriguez5111]

As also a big fan of marvel and star wars, a castle being a dragon and a magical creature having laser eyes doesn’t sound insaine, well it does, but it sounds fricking awesome!!

[@reifuTD]

I all ways like the idea of house elves being a breed of elf in a classical fantasy setting,

[@Blixthand]

Once again you talk about Lockharts stuff never happening, but once again the whole point is that it did happen, just not to him. That's why it's still a good idea to read his books for DADA even if he himself is a pretty useless wizard and subsequently teacher. Everything in his books must be so carefully written to be truthful, but with the main character swapped, or it would be easy for someone with any authority on the subject to disprove him and make him loose all his fame and place his books in the fiction section. As for the werewolf curing episode they talk about here, it's most likely just an unfortunate victim of not planning far enough ahead. J.K. had decided how much werewolves would play into the rest of the story or that it would be a plot point that it's incurable. It's even inconsistent in the later books. In book 3 Lupin says that when he was bitten his parents "tried everything, but in those days there was no cure", implying that in modern times there is a cure, or at least something you can do if you get treatment soon enough after being bitten, but in book 5 at St. Mungos Mr. Weasley says there is no cure for the guy in the same ward as him that has been werewolf bitten, and that must have been right after being attacked and at the top wizarding medical institution in Britain.

[@Blixthand]

@@siomhagormley I understand what you mean, and that is probably the intended interpretation, but the way I always read it when I was younger was that there was a real cure discovered, but it was too late for Lupin, but then there is ALSO the potion, that helps those who already have it permanent. Either way I still think Lockharts example just wasn't thought through by the author al the way. She probably intended for it to be a true cure spell before she decided she needed it to be incurable for the marauder story to happen at all.

[@philipmalaby8172]

I love this podcast. The only critique I have is that both guys use ‘like’ SO much.

[@morrisonmeister]

would have been hilarious to have read Lockharts next book 'The year I spent mentoring Harry Potter'

[@robertgronewold3326]

When it comes to the professional Quidditch teams, I think the big difference is that quidditch is a lot more like auto racing than something like baseball or soccer, where you're participating in the game is extremely aged dependent. Likely many of these professional quidditch players are much older than your standard muggle athlete because they are mostly just writing on a broom and not exerting themselves quite as proficiently as other sports. So the fact that Oliver wood is only on the reserve team likely means that the keeper of Puddlemere United is much more experience than he is.

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

Wish You guys the best on the tour 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@harrypotteranddisneyfan5800]

Best podcast ever

[@lisacox4984]

Yep, if we could have just seen those reenactments in Lockhart's class in the film, LOL.

[@lisacox4984]

In Prisoner of Azkaban, Snape is the "the hero who delivered them from the monthly terror of werewolf attacks" except for that one night. Lockhart says he'll copies, plural, of Magical Me to the one person who writes the best poem and so does he expect the winner to keep one copy and give the others to friends? LOL. Lockhart as Seeker--he would choose the most prestigious position on the team. Oliver Wood--"better people on our brooms." Madame Pomfrey doesn't appreciate Lockhart's efforts to deal with Harry's broken arm. Dobby's info about clothes will prove useful. Props to Harry for trying to keep Dobby from punishing himself.

[@LizLuvsCupcakes]

That bit about giving someone the benefit of the doubt over and over again could only ever make me think about the author of the Harry Potter books, because I did, because I desperately wanted to be wrong about what she was turning into, and I will be honest, the fact that that came up here made me laugh just a little.

[@bookcat123]

I had the same thought 😢

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

Your podcast is the best guys😊😊

[@Bitsy_Man]

U 1th

[@benjaminlodge4080]

****HARRY COULD HAVE SUMMONED KREACHER TO THE FOREST****AND CHAPTER 10 PROVES IT!!!**** Would love to know what you guys think! At the end of the Rogue Bludger, Harry grabs on to Dobby’s wrist. Dobby Disapparates and Harry is left clenching thin air..Fast forward to book 7, Chapter 14..Harry and Hermione decide not to summon Kreacher because they didn’t want to risk someone coming with him as he Disapparated. Yaxley was just able to do this by grabbing onto Hermione’s sleeve. Is this another example of wizards overlooking how powerful elfs are? What if Harry summoned Kreacher? I think he could have been helpful.. but also a potential liability. Thank you both for putting the excitement of Harry Potter into everyone’s life. I’ve been watching for years and I feel you two are just as important to Harry Potter as Jim Dale! See you in another life brother!

[@OrangeJulius_JMC]

45:23 Quidditch Through the Ages confirmed that it does 45:54 I don't think it is officially confirmed, but that is how it is played IRL in Muggle Quidditch

[@LenaHillOnTour]

Question: I wonder, if Slytherin thought, his heir would be a girl, and thus put the entrance to the chamber in the girls toilett OR if, back then, only boys were allowed in Hogwards (because education for girls wasn't a thing) and ALL toiletts were boys toiletts. Only when girls started to go to school in Hogwards, they made some of the toiletts for girls and the one with the entry to the Chamber HAPPEND to be one of them, making it even harder for male heirs to find it. OR Slytherin thought, girls would NEVER come looking for the entrance in the boys toiletts, boys on the otherhand would look in the girls toiletts. What do you think?

[@donaldhanning1359]

I like where Your head is at, EXCEPT that Helga & Rowena were a part of the founding. We know from Helena that Rowena was a STRONG independent women & Helga said she'd "reach the rest & treat them all the same" so I DOUBT that either of them were down with excluding girls. I'm more inclined to believe that the bathroom didn't start out a girl's bathroom, just became one over time. It might've even been Slytherin's personal bathroom and after he left it was assigned to the girls

[@LenaHillOnTour]

@@donaldhanning1359 🤔 good idea

[@mangahell8177]

Maybe the slytherin family had more females than males so he assumed there is a higher possiblity he will have a female heir than a male one granted I would question how much did Salazar actuly plan this out becoes this plan gives me a major man in his late 70s suffering from his old age and possible from depression becoes of the lost his family members and betrayel by his closes friends vibes than actual planning

[@Astrohayes]

What an amazing birthday gift. My birthday was yesterday and I love that yall uploaded it on my birthday ❤❤❤ Was at Disneyland and I didn’t get time to watch. Love you guys!! 🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻

[@RealGaIaxy]

1:09:00 That's a really good spot, and isn't Nearly Headless Nick found "smoking"? I always assumed that was part of a ghost being "dead" but now this has got me excited hahahha

[@belletelaraboutique5141]

Is Madam Pince a Poltergeist too?

[@TheLostCorner]

Last episode I convinced myself that Prof. Binns certainly is. They noted that he shuffles papers and ghosts can't touch anything. Well, one type can: a poltergiest. The school has at least three aspects: rule-breaking (Peeves), rule-keeping (Finch) and bad teaching (Binns). Maybe it also has grumpy librarians (Pince) -- and maybe Dumbledore has very little choice of his teachers and the only actual teachers he has are Snape, McGonnagal, Sprout and Flitwick. Everyone else, including the entirely ineffective Madame Hooch, is a poltergeist he can't get rid of

[@williamsrdan]

Let us know when the tour hits the west coast.

[@jordy9096]

Harry’s polyjuice being gold also foreshadows what happens shortly after in the battle of the seven potters when his wand shoots golden flames at Voldemort.

[@kimgrod]

Interesting

[@Tylerthephantom]

Brackium Emendo, Lockhart's bone "fixing" spell, seems like it would be a very effective dueling spell. Most Dark Wizards wouldn't be able to fight you if you remove all the bones in their arms.

[@Jensen-C]

So fun little fact, a lot of the half blood prints and the chamber of secrets plots were actually meant to be in place of each other. Very early on. and J. K. Rowling ended up switching the two books positions in the timeline

[@hildaparedes257]

I was laughing so much by your reactions to the grapes!!! Hilarious!!!

[@bradleyman6461]

Would love to see you guys do a read through of The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel by Michael scott I've listened to the audio books the stories are pretty good

[@JillInTheBox]

I just re-watched this episode, two months later, because I wanted to hear the Colin, Dumbledore, and the basilisk jokes/stories, again. Gosh, I love this podcast.

[@albusgrindelwald1991]

The Colin part was hilarious, I love this show and I love wrapping my week up after watching it. You both are amazing and hilarious. My question I had was what do you think happens to someone’s wand when they die.

[@joshuahallett6235]

Do we even know if Dumbledore hire Madam Prince? I mean I always assumed most staff outside the new hires we meet and the revolving door of DADA Professors were hired by Dippet or in Bins Case possibly a previous Head Master/Mistress before him

[@wrdreads4742]

Dumbledore hires Trelawny and Snape, I would also assume Quirrel, as he is quite young, too. And Quirrel didn't start as DADA (at least that's what I recall hearing, he was teaching something else, took a year off to travel, then came back and was told/chose to teach DADA instead of whatever it was he was teaching before, which I don't remember).

[@joshuahallett6235]

@@wrdreads4742 Yeah there are some teachers, also if memory serves he taught muggle studies before his sabbatical.

[@wrdreads4742]

@@joshuahallett6235 yes! That's what it was. I had thought that, but wasn't confident in that answer enough, go with the gut instinct. Thanks for confirming!

[@thegamedevcave]

little addition at the end of listen the credits but as an editor myself, i always appreciate it when people credit their team members. In movie and to a certain extent even TV that is standard practice and expected, but when youtube came around and grew to the size where businesses where being built and team hires, a lot of creators kind of skipped out on that part. So whenever I see creators doing this, i really apricate it!

[@lovelylife-tz4be]

I NEED a founders series. ❤

[@aud2d2]

Jonathan’s character voices have been great this whole podcast! I love that Ben pointed it out today 😂 I LIVE for J’s impression of Trelawney going down to microwave fish in the teacher’s lounge last book 😂😂😂

[@brileyford5856]

What if Harry was a Girl

[@williamsrdan]

And sharing the dorm with Hermione, Lavender, and Pavarti... (Is it just the three? Since Padma is in Ravenclaw)

[@staceybd888]

If Lily and James had a daughter instead of a son, the prophecy would be only about Neville, since the prophecy mentions 'a boy born at the end of July' (not the exact quote).

[@williamsrdan]

@@staceybd888 maybe the prophecy would have said girl? But I think it actually says "the one." Gender neutral. I don't recall if there is another line which does define gender. But it is "The one with the power...." I wonder if there are any girls it could have been... Like what if the Patil twins were also at the end of July?? LOL

[@williamsrdan]

@@staceybd888 looked it up, it says that Voldy "will mark him as his equal." So there is a gender reference.

[@jeremytung1632]

I love how the last chapter ended with Ron wondering what teacher would be foolish enough to sign out a book from the restricted section without asking to many questions. Then this one starts in Lockheart’s class.

[@modestasrimkus7279]

pls make video about felix felicis (liquid luck). Snape have gotten his liquid luck in 6th year from Prof. Slughorn. He says himself "only one student ever brew poison of the living drought to win this award. I'd like to hear what was the situation in which Snape used his felix felicis to get his 12h of best day in his life.

[@DrogonTheDread]

Maybe he saved it til he asked Voldemort not to kill Lilly

[@jerameymanuel9083]

27 bones make up the hand and wrist. The arm has 3 bones. Total on 30. The extra 3 bones might just be the fact that J.K. Rowling isn't a doctor.

[@jerameymanuel9083]

She also doesn't know how to play chess correctly lol

[@Harry-Hartmann]

A Very Good Podcast 👌🏻👍🏻

[@thutsman.]

Every episode better than the last. The best book club ever. Love y’all!

[@zhelbigs5558]

Just had a random thought in this episode. Do you think Hermione took Lockhart being a fraud to heart so much, that it caused her distrust of Trelawney the following year? Like she refuses to get duped by another fraud.

[@bookcat123]

A connection I’d not made before but I love it!

[@bookcat123]

I love the idea that the Three Broomsticks started informally, with just Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, & Hufflepuff going for an evening away from the school. Then maybe friends of theirs from the village would see “the three broomsticks” leaned by the door and know they were there and come to join them… we have a town bar that started in a similar way - a shopkeeper would open a bottle of wine in the evening, then her friends started joining her, then her friends brought friends… other business owners on the street would stop in… so she decided to officially open a bar! 🤣

[@lissaweers346]

one might start to think Dumbledore is diabetes

[@xAbbieCx13]

Absolutely loved this episode, the part with the grapes had me crying with laughter

[@stefantheunissen1123]

The scream at 57:00 is everyone okay?

[@TheToneBender]

I'd love a What if video on What if Lockheart was competent. Like, what if he actually did all the things he claims he did. Because of the curse on the job he'd probably die fighting the basilisk. But managed to kill it as well, thereby saving the school. Or he'd kill the basilisk, but then gets avada kedavra'd in the back by Diary Tom.

[@SriNityaAnupindi]

The “He just ate” Ron says in DH is referring to Harry, not the ghoul. Hermione asks Ron to show Harry the ghoul and Ron is reluctant because Harry just ate (and it’s mentioned that their ghoul smells awful when they go see it in the attic). Secondly, in OoTP they encounter a murderous ghoul when cleaning out the Black house.

[@david197015]

Dumbledore wasn't out for hot Choco, he was looking for the one who attacked Mrs. Norris. When he finds Creevey he uses the Homenum Revelio spell. Since the spell does not detect humans in the vicinity, Dumbledore assumes that the one attacking people is the monster in the Chamber of Secrets and not any human.

[@KudaKeileon]

... With what you pointed out about Lockheart wanting to do everything Harry's done, I wonder if he saw Harry as a potential future fame-stealing target.

[@AndrewJGaming]

I'm now imagining that the basilisk shoots a beam from its eyes like the guardians in breath of the wild. It even makes the agro sound. Also I agree that polyjuice potion is a little overused but I think if they used it once or twice and then never again people would complain that they always ignore a pretty obvious solution to so many problems. I think polyjuice is the reason Ben hates the ministry heist so much but other than that I've always loved it. Especially the scene in the courtroom with Umbridge and Yaxley and then their escape. I'd be interested to hear his opinion on the Gringotts heist because they use similar tactics on that occasion. The only difference is that Harry is under the invisibility cloak.

[@kimgrod]

The BOOK version of polyjuice potion in C. 12 CoS “…the potion looked like thick, dark mud…” BEFORE the hair was added “…it looks like the book said it should… .” Then, they added the hairs. Bulstrode’s “…turned a sick sort of yellow.” Goyle’s turned a “…khaki collar of a booger…” and “…Crabbe’s a dark, murky brown.” MOVIE version of polyjuice for this segment, b4 adding hair, was GACK green. (Thank you, Hollywood.) Ah, the essence of … .

[@chrismom97]

The book is GADDING with Ghouls not GABBING with Ghouls. GADDING is going around in the pursuit of pleasure (gadding about) GABBING is talking.

[@RedDragonForce2]

@25:53 Not just bonkers, but to the point of understaffing. Dumbledore has three full time jobs. Even if the ICW isn't that often, the other two are. The fact that Dumbledore is juggling all three of these jobs means he can't focus on one. This is also reflected in McGonagall, who also has three full time jobs. Two of those jobs seem to be contradictory to each other and McGonagall is not adept at actually handling all three jobs to their fullest. Given the amount of staff and faculty we have, as well as the overlap, it feels like there are at least FIVE positions that need to be filled, and yet their duties are absorbed into other roles, some of which should not be absorbed into. Like, being a teacher and Head of House is fine. Being a teacher and Deputy Headmaster/Headmistress is fine. Being a Head of House AND Deputy Headmaster/Headmistress is NOT fine. And somehow, the combined Head of House and Teacher positions are tied by subject. Charms/Ravenclaw, Transfiguration/Gryffindor, Potions/Slytherin, and Herbology/Hufflepuff. While I can't prove the case for Flitwick and Sprout, Dumbledore was once Transfiguration Teacher and Head of Gryffindor House. the same with Slughorn as Potions Teacher and Head of Slytherin House. The world is set up so that the plot ignores these grievous oversights and lets things fall by the wayside so Harry can have plot happen to him. While, yes, that's the point of the story; however, it fails when it comes to reviewing or stepping back and simply thinking of the state of things. And just to drive it home, I propose that SEVEN roles within Hogwarts are missing in the current state of things, ignoring classes that once were available and later removed due to lack of interest and teacher availability. This was definitely the case for Trelawney and Divination, as we find out in fifth year. Just saying!!!

[@mariaana6710]

In my headcanon, Madam Pince is a book curator. She specialized in keep the magical books in good shape... For that, she is not a good librarian... And why madam Hooch and other professor don`t do anything for Harry when he was targeted by the bludger? TIME TURNER POISONING!!!!! Making them more ilogical.

[@Rikufan1994]

At the thought of Dumbledore sneeking out at night to bring Harry some hot chocolate, I just cantthink the incredibly funny scenario, early Dumbledore, especially Stone and Chamber Dumbledore, used to be so incredibly goofy to me as a child, like "Mr. Creavy, what are you doing out of your common room at this late of an hour??" "Ohhh.. Professor Dumbledore...sir.....I.....was about to bring Harry some grapes...?" "GREAT, I was about to bring him some hot coco...come after me ~" XD Like

[@twinsocks]

18:23 It’s gadding with ghouls, not gabbing with ghouls - gadding means like gallivanting. The image of Lockhart gadding about the countryside looking for ghouls to trap in teapots and tea strainers has a real “heroic tales of foppish derring-do” vibe that is perfect. Before the movies I had more or less imagined him as a blonde Hugh Grant in Notting Hill, super endearing and charming like that, despite the actual content of the self-absorbed garbage he was saying. I mean he basically marketed himself as a DADA version of Newt Scamander, terribly talented and twice as lucky