Chapter 14: Norbert the Norwegian Ridgeback | Philosopher's Stone

[@anaisabelpais7389]

Madam Pomfrey doesn't ask questions because she wants to be a safe space for students. If she's known to ask questions, kids will be scared to get help

[@arieldahl]

And that is precisely what medical personnel do in modern clinics and hospitals. there are special laws made for times when they must break Physician-patient privilege and report to the authorities.

[@YukiSilverFox72]

It also feels like a touch of muggle thinking: doctor patient confidentiality, anyone? IDK if it is but with how behind the rest of the wizarding world is, it would be nice if the medical side of things is a little ahead. 🤔😅

[@remyhocage9854]

Remember, "Book Ron" is smarter than "Film Ron." Ron's oldest brother is a pro Dragon Trainer, so Ron probably asks him lots of questions. (What do Dragons eat? Why can't I own one ?) Ron would have taken this info very seriously. Thanks you guys are terrific.

[@LizLuvsCupcakes]

"why can't I own a dragon" is a reasonable question that one expects out of any young child.

[@maxthe15]

actually Charly is Rons 2nd oldest brother. Bill is oldest.

[@remyhocage9854]

Ok, it was a typo - "older bro." @@maxthe15

[@mjm3091]

It's also a main reason why Ron was helping Hagrid - not because Hagrid needed help, but Ron likely was super hyped about it in the first place. His brother is literally cool dragon-tamer, this is one in the lifetime opportunity to play with a dragon.

[@nataliemccarthy9140]

As someone who works in a healthcare profession I think Madam Pomfrey not saying anything about the dragon bite/poly juice fiasco makes a lot of sense. Her job is to treat student injuries and I’m order to treat things you need to know what happened and students aren’t going to tell you if they think they’re gonna get in trouble. It’s the same reasoning for why doctors/nurses/other healthcare staff tell patients to tell them all the drugs their on even the illegal ones. If they turned around and told the police people wouldn’t report the illegal substances and the consequences could be dangerous

[@hufflepom]

Harry and Hermione get in trouble for being out of bounds in the middle of the night to help Hagrid. So their punishment is to go into the OUT OF BOUNDS forest to help Hagrid in the MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT. Hogwarts makes no sense!

[@tannerp.1388]

No my friend. Jk Rowling makes no sense

[@JustFlemishMe]

CinemaSins is not without... well, sin, but they nail this point: "Wait, so they get in trouble for hanging out late at night with Hagrid, and their punishment is to go hang out late at night with Hagrid?"

[@Madenoak]

To be fair McGonagall never knew about the dragon and Harry and Hermione got in trouble for being in the astronomy tower at night. I mean Nevel also got in trouble for trying to warn the two about Malfoy and got in trouble earning the scolding about "So you spun a story to mr.malfoy about a dragon, hoping to get him in trouble and unfortunately, Mr. Longbottom also believed you."

[@VeraEdelman]

I'm not sure if I read this theory online somewhere or if I made it up myself but either way I have a theory that McGonagall was under the Imperius curse (courtesy of Quirrell/Voldemort) when she gave them that detention and that's why it was so dangerous. Basically a trap for Harry and at the perfect time too because Dumbledore happened to be gone.

[@anabellik]

I always assumed Ron knew about the anti-dragon laws, because Charlie is his brother and he keeps talking about them at home all the time. Also, for some animals, it's impossible to tell males and females apart when they're very young, so maybe that's why Hagrid didn't know Norberta was a girl.

[@jakistam1000]

wdym? You just do the genetic testing! ;) Sidenote: I wonder if wizards knew about DNA before Muggles did; or the structure of the cell, or atoms, and so on.

[@MorderElg]

@@jakistam1000 Wouldn't that be taught in a science class? Of a kind Hogwarts does not teach?

[@robertgronewold3326]

Well, to find out what sex and alligator is, you have to actually insert a finger into their private parts and see what shape they are that way. And seeing how dragons are also assort of reptile, it might make sense that you have to use a similar method to know what a dragon's sex is.

[@lisacox4984]

I found out that cats are like that. At the vet's I found out that kitty John "Muggsy" McGraw was a girl so after a 'net search for McGraw's name she's now Muggsi Blanche McGraw 🙂 Hooray for baseball history info on the net!

[@MrsSinette]

A lot of the comments they make about Ron and the dragon make me think they just forgot about Charlie

[@patrickreid9442]

"Will you please inform zis 'Agrid zat ze 'orses drink only single-malt whisky?" - Giving horses whiskey is pretty common. It's mostly used as a cure for colic but it's also given to horses as a treat to help them relax after strenuous activity (like carrying a giant, flying carriage from France to Scotland). We know the Abraxans are bred by Madame Maxime so it's logical that she'd know to ask for this after their long journey. The fact that they only drink single-malt is another indicator that Beauxbatons is all about the finer things since single-malt is more expensive. So the line isn't suggesting that Abraxans drink no other liquids than single-malt whiskey. It's saying that when giving whiskey to Abraxans, they will only drink single-malt.

[@thirteenthandy]

Golden Trio: Hagrid, why didn't you help get your dragon up to the tower? Hagrid in high-pitched voice: I was distraught!

[@hansolochewbacca4260]

I always thought that the Trio volunteered to take the dragon up the tower because they didn't trust Hagrid not to change his mind & take Norbert home again ;)

[@shorv]

Re: Wizard lawyers. When Fudge says "I want this over with today, Dumbledore!", I'm always infuriated. How can you have a functioning society where the entire legal body a) has no sense for due process b)doesn't even know the laws they're upholding and c)acknowledge there are facts that they need to settle the case but insist on proceeding without them. Drives me mad.

[@KaiLucasZachary]

Sounds not too far off from several real world places....

[@conormurphy4328]

@@KaiLucasZacharyabsolutely lol

[@simplythatguy-o6n]

this also plays into the idea that wizarding brittan is just on big commentary on the worst aspects of the brittish empire. i.e. they're legal system sucks and leaves alot to be desired.

[@thunderflare59]

Well, there are plenty of politicians that try to do that in the real world. But that's why we have separation of powers. To make life harder for would be tyrants.

[@dylanbass8451]

49:23 I like to think that Hagrid just felt guilty about having gotten them in trouble, but didn’t want to admit that he illegally had a dragon, so he managed to convince McGonagall to let him carry out their punishment.

[@bookcat123]

That’s what I always thought. All the staff were dividing up detentions and Hagrid asked to handle that night’s because he felt guilty…

[@kokokat06]

@@bookcat123 unrelated to the conversation but your name is really similar to mine and I had to do a double-take haha

[@plushieangela]

I think not failing for Hermione is getting an A's, for Crab and Goyle its literally one point above the literal fail bar. There might be a decent margin there

[@KaiLucasZachary]

Ron might not have been actually literally helping Hagrid. He could have just been "helping" the way you let a preschooler "help" in the kitchen.

[@TheNightShallLast]

RE: Malfoy not doing anything with knowing about the dragon--I saw a theory that he just *wanted to see the dragon too*. Dragons are cool, he's eleven (and even named after dragons), there's a chance to see a baby dragon and he wants in on it. Which does make sense to me. It even explains why he was just up at the tower without having told a teacher or anything--he just wanted to SEE the dragon again! Of course the trio doesn't pick up on this because he's always an asshole and trying to get at them, and to them this is obviously just more of that.

[@susanbass216]

Well, Ron is so vital in this chapter because we know he has first hand experience with caring for dragons through Charlie, right? I mean that's who they end up getting to help take him anyway. I was so confused when Jay and Ben were acting like we don't know why he has all this extra insight, but seemed "Pretty OBVIOUS" to me 😅

[@hufflepom]

I mean my dad is a doctor but that doesn’t mean that I know how to do surgery. Dunno. lol.

[@FulcanMal]

@@hufflepom But no doubt you've picked up at least some anecdotal knowledge. The only thing they're really questioning is how he knew about the law against breeding them, which is something that could have easily come up in conversation with Charlie.

[@thorthewolf8801]

Wouldnt that be second hand experience? First hand experience is when you were the one who was actually doing the thing.

[@422katieleigh]

I agree. Whether or not it makes sense that he would actually know that, I think it’s pretty clear that the author intended to give Ron specific knowledge because of Charlie’s involvement with dragons.

[@clover2739]

@@hufflepomthat’s not really the same thing tho, as Ron having knowledge about dragons from a brother who would’ve been obsessed and talked a lot about dragons. Like Ron would know facts but he obviously wouldn’t know how to deal with a full grown dragon like Charlie does

[@EmilyCheetham]

Sometimes if Brits find something really difficult & especially if they do something without being caught they say “they don’t know how they did it”. That’s why they say they don’t know how they carried the dragon to the castle. Because it was really difficult & they managed to do it without being caught.

[@cajb2977]

As a Brit, this is how I've always interpreted it. I've noticed a lot of the HP books when discussed by non-Brits, they don't always get the "brit-meaning", of phrases, colloquialisms and slang. Similar to 'is it Magical or British'

[@sawanna508]

@@cajb2977 I understood that eventhough I read the German edition. It's seems quite normal to me to use such phrases.

[@MadHymek323]

* The one thing I don't understand is just: * Get the dragon up the hill? no problem. * Keep it quiet? fine. * Get it through the whole castle? easy. * Get it up tons of stairs in the tower? where's the real challenge. * Silently hand it off to people on brooms without issue? aced * Get downstairs, empty-handed? whoops looks like we fumbled that one

[@menachemsalomon]

If going back to the Durseleys is so bad, then maybe Hermione was right when she suggested that getting expelled was worse than being killed.

[@TheNightShallLast]

In retrospect, it's funny that Ron says it's a dog bite in particular--because as far as we know there are only two dogs in the whole school, Fang and Fluffy. And Fang doesn't seem aggressive, so... does she think he was in the forbidden corridor and got bitten by Fluffy?

[@beccakarner266]

Re: Ron helping Hagrid feed the dragons… I always understood it to be for Ron’s benefit, because he enjoys it/wants to be around them, especially since Charlie works with them. Like a young child “helping” with chores around the home. The parent isn’t usually benefitted by the child’s involvement. It’s for the child’s sake, whether because they like being a little helper or because they need to learn responsibility.

[@tracesosebee5485]

The big thing I've realized about Madame Pomfrey is that she's bound by confidentiality. This is a school of magic. Even muggle kids get up to shenanigans, wizard kids' shenanigans tend to be somewhat more spectacular because of what they can do. Pomfrey knows simply that her job isn't to get these kids in trouble, it's to get them well again, and while perhaps it would be better to be able to tell Dumbledore or their head of house, for better or worse, she doesn't.

[@haley4998]

Some British verbiage: ‘spot treatment’ would be talking about acne - we call ‘zits’ - ‘spots’. Also no idea why but saying something like “ how they did it they’ll never know” means they can’t believe they managed it/did it, not literally that they forgot or are obtuse lol :)

[@mlove.1376]

Maybe because of Charlie, Ron had had some experience or more knowledge of Dragons and would be more adaptive to helping as he may have helped his brother with creatures before while growing up? That was a thought. I wait every Sunday with my coffee and enjoy the chapter. And you bring up questions I've had, but still saying respective to the work. This is so much fun. I'm sure JK Rowling didnt know that her work would be analyzed. I'm sure in later books she was more focused and much more detailed oriented to bring forth the bigger story. I dont think she reasoned it all out in the first book.

[@chasem-jw9rn]

I think it makes sense for Hagrid to immediately trust Charlie with the Norbert, it gets established...though later that the two of them became very close friends while Charlie was in school. Which at this point was only 2 years earlier.

[@ThreadBomb]

I think it's more likely that Hagrid was tired of slaughtering chickens and spending his life savings on brandy and crates full of rats.

[@conormurphy4328]

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[@chasem-jw9rn]

@@ThreadBomb possible about the chickens and brandy but considering how upset he was after giving up norbert, I don't thing he wanted to give the dragon up at all.

[@stuartl7761]

I feel like if Draco asked the sorting hat to be placed in griffindor in order to spy, the hat would just laugh and put him in slytherin anyway. I don't think you can just choose a house as Harry makes it seem. He was already a potential griffindor, and his choice agaisnt slytherin was based off of his value of strength of character, a very griffindor value.

[@ThreadBomb]

I guess the question is, is Draco a potential Gryffindor?

[@PcCAvioN]

Harry himself is griffindor, the piece of voldemort is slytherin.

[@risuwolf]

I feel like Madam Pomfrey's policy is probably the same as actual ER doctors. Which is: "You need to tell me the truth, so that I know how to treat you. I won't be angry at you. I won't tell the cops if you've been doing illegal drugs, etc. But I need to know what really happened so that I can give you the right treatment." Doctor-patient confidentiality

[@robertgronewold3326]

Crabbe and Goyle actually have to repeat their 5th year. Snape says as much in book 6.

[@austinrestovic]

Only their DAtDA OWLs, or at least that's the only one he mentioned.

[@robertgronewold3326]

@@austinrestovic Which was him stating they're doing 5th year over, which given how dense they are, no surprise. They need at least that 5th year level to properly graduate Hogwarts.

[@cubedmelons876]

Pretty sure Marcus Flint also had to repeat. He was a 6th year in book 1 and was still quidditch captain in book 3.

[@robertgronewold3326]

@@cubedmelons876 Yep, that's confirmed, though JKR apparently forgot to definitively say it.

[@sawanna508]

Also in one of the books I think it's menioned that one of them almost failed.

[@Blixthand]

Charlie isn't there because he is in Romania and probably couldn't just take a week off work to go to the UK and back. His friends were already in the UK, and traveling to Romania to visit him, so for them it was just a small de-tour rather than a whole separate journey. As for flying up to the castle there is nothing ever mentioned that you can't physically do that before book 6. Harry and Ron can fly in with the car in book 2, in book 3 Hermione says Sirius wouldn't be able to fly in because the dementors would notice him, in book 4 Madama Maximes horses can fly in, and they later discuss the possibility of someone removing Barty Crouch via broom without anyone interjecting it wouldn't be possible. In book 5 Harry and co. can fly out of the castle on the thestrals. But in book 6 they mention how security has gotten much tighter since Voldemort's return was openly acknowledged and the ministry started adding their resources to the protection.

[@ColtonRMagby]

Only 5 chapers left after this one in Philosopher's/Sorcerer's Stone, then a LOT of chapters after that.

[@rosyellis14]

i dont think ron being there with hagrid is out of character. hes a caring kid AND he has the most knowledge of dragons

[@jamessmithson-br7rm]

I’ll be waiting here for the next 40 hours! Can’t wait!! Am loving this series!!

[@bailatwerski2951]

ME TOO ❤️!!!!

[@the_vik_king]

i thought that the reason that Ron knew when dragon breeding was outlawed was because Charlie talked about them so often that Ron had many dragon facts memories and thought that it was common knowledge given that everyone in his family would also know those fact.

[@Stark-Raving]

Madame Pomfrey understands Doctor Patient Confidentiality.

[@lisahenry20]

For the whole my madame Pomphery, it does remind me of advice from doctors and other medical professionals about being honest with you doctor or whoever is treating you. Even if it's embarrassing or illegal or you don't want someone like your parents to know.

[@stecky87]

It makes sense that Ron stays behind to help: his brother *works* with dragons - probably knows the most of the three about them

[@Zeke_O3773]

JK didn’t start writing longer, more detailed books until book 3. I wonder if there was concern that people would lose interest if the first book was too long. some things might not be logical because chapters may have been cut and the plot points had to be placed elsewhere.

[@moncey1120]

I always thought Ron knowing so much about dragons was due to Charlie

[@PalmelaHanderson]

Re: Charlie with his younger siblings - I have a little brother that is 13 years younger than I am. I thought he was the raddest thing ever when I was growing up. If he would have texted me "sooo.... there's this thing with a dragon" when he was in school I would be like "where and when?" My other brother closer to my age... eh, I don't care.

[@Pajo25ify]

I know this is beside the point. I just watched Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them, and it's an absolutely fantastic movie, it angers me how badly they screwed up 2&3. The only good thing about 2&3 is that Jude Law plays young Dumbledore to perfection.

[@tinas_hotdog_sophie]

I like the idea of Newt going to New York in time of prohibition when half his beasts aquire alcohol. No wonder they created this chaos.

[@noelbrucker135]

I currently have a gorgeous Dragon-scale betta fish named Norbert 😂 I’ve been waiting for this chapter!! 🐉

[@Mistythecat_06]

I'm sorry but the video came 2 hours ago how did you post this comment this thirteen hours ago that's an eleven hour difference

[@noelbrucker135]

@@Mistythecat_06 The video was up as a “scheduled live premiere” about 24 hours ahead of time, and the comment section was open.

[@catbaril9072]

I eat alone in this big empty building every Sunday all winter and this show has been my companion thank you!!

[@Lahzing]

I think the reason ron knows about the dragons being banned is because his brother deals with them.

[@Silver_Girl178]

I thought it was in this book-- maybe it's in Chamber-- but isn't there a line somewhere about Madam Pomfrey, "never asking too many questions?"

[@Tom-pf9yb]

When it says 'spot remover', it's probably referring to zits. As we call them spots in the UK.

[@sawanna508]

Also if you want to remove actual spots in fabrics you can't use oven cleaner or viceversa.

[@maja-kehn9130]

With every episode, I´m enjoying this more and more. I just love listening to you guys spitballing ideas and theories. Speaking of which I have one...what if Ron and Ginny were twins too. I think that would bring an interesting twist to the story. Anyway, keep up the great work. Love from Germany.

[@Harry-Hartmann]

Ich liebe diese Podcasts auch liebe Grüße 🖖🏻

[@richewilson6394]

I was hoping that scabbers would have gotten eaten by Norbert lol.

[@phosphoros60]

Dumbledore also less famously discovered the one use of Dragon's Milk: getting waaaasted 😎

[@TheToneBender]

What if Madam Pomfrey is a ligilimens? She doesn't *need* to be told what the cause of a malady is, she just asks the question so that the student will think about the actual answer and she can more easily read their minds.

[@NebulaObserver]

In the UK children automatically move up a class every academic year. Another difference between the US and UK.

[@Caffeinated_Firefly]

But it was canonized that redoing years is a thing in Hogwarts. Granted it's because JKR forgot to let Flint graduate, but it's still canon

[@EmilyCheetham]

Actually you can be held back a year in uk in exceptional circumstances but the governing body, head of the school & parent/guardian of the child must all agree it is necessary. But it is very rare & only ever happens if the child has totally failed to succeed academically in a specific year.

[@hufflepom]

Hagrid totally kept the chickens alive. He’s just drawing their blood the way that a phlebotomist does for a blood test. lol. 😅

[@conormurphy4328]

I doubt that. Where do you think all the roast chickens for the feasts come from?

[@hufflepom]

@@conormurphy4328 now you have me thinking about the MASSIVE food budget that the school has!

[@JoshuaWillis89]

Not to burst any bubbles here, but Draco gets sorted before Harry. He really has no way of knowing which House Harry will be in. I still think it’s a fun idea, just have to invent a plausible explanation for how Draco gets around that problem.

[@vivekvs1992]

Charlie could have told Ron about the dragons over dinner?? We always underestimate Ron because of how the twins trick him in the train and then he has to compare himself to 2 prodigies who are his best friends There are enough animals that wait for fruit to rot and ferment before consuming it, heck my golden retriever hides raw fruits for days before she retrieves them for a ripe fermented snack

[@GeraldFischer-do2rh]

Gonna stay up for all 38h till it comes out, love you videos❤

[@michaelvanliempt8779]

I was always surprised that the Wizengamot trial in OotP is basically a popularity contest

[@robfab5204]

I used to love playing HP 1 and 2 on the computer! Great nostalgic memories!

[@brookchristy8311]

The bucket of brandy probably keeps them tame lol. Calms a crazy baby dragon. People used to give baby's alcohol too.

[@ajwinberg]

I feel like you guys have forgotten something important about Ron in particular. His brother Charley works with dragons. Seems like something he would have simply picked up just from Charley. I have always figured that's why he knew so much about dragons.

[@Avaliareborn]

I can promise you Ron has heard Charlie talk about the Warlocks Convention constantly for years

[@jeffscott5684]

My theory about Malfoy's behavior: His is spying on Harry to gather information for his dad. Upon hearing of Harry's return to the wizarding world, he tasked his son to spy on Harry, send back any info and Luscious will pass that on to death eaters, look for signs that Voldemort is back, etc.

[@nehasharma5931]

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[@jb888888888]

Remarkable dragon, the Norwegian Ridgeback, innit? Beautiful plumage.

[@nimthiriel9]

Regarding Crabbe & Goyle, at least one of them had to retake his DADA OWL (Snape mentions it to Draco when Harry was eavedropping).

[@shannonhrabak4626]

The absolute trauma and fear i had playing that level and trying to avoid Filtch still scares me to my core. And im almost 30. Definitely a side quest that causes too much anxiety for me.

[@jeremyrobson9366]

I can’t wait to get to the later books…

[@AngelJuliet]

Loving the podcast so far

[@iamjamilyn]

I have been listening to the podcast and just subscribed here. I love WATCHING too, I really do enjoy the interaction between you guys! I will probably listen in the car and also rewatch here when I am home. I love this idea!

[@simplythatguy-o6n]

I know a lot of people like to claim Lucious's love of draco as a redeeming quality of him, but there really are so many red flags that draco doesnt have a good home life in the first book with how obsessed he is with the trio lol.

[@dannybattle6512]

I think it makes sense that it's Ron who knows when dragon breeding was outlawed, because it's *his* brother who works with dragons not Hermione's, Charlie probably talked his family's ears of about them.

[@clover2739]

Right? Like it’s so boring to have Hermione know everything because she’s the book smart one, that’s exactly what the movies did when it makes more sense for Ron to know, like I genuinely don’t get how that part is confusing 😭

[@toshiroyamada2443]

How do Charlie's friends fly into the grounds ? Aren't there enchantments to stop that 🤔

[@IdaSantti]

The time Dumbledore and Harry fly back is the only time some is mentioned. At that time Voldemort was back, so probably more safety spells were on. Maybe even when they thought that Sirius is coming to murder Harry, but even then it seems to more like "the dementors will see and stop him if he tries to fly in"

[@michaelvanliempt8779]

Thing with Draco going into Gryffindor to possibly rally behind Harry being complicated is that Draco is sorted before Harry

[@Foxfire-xq5ij]

Glad to catch one of these live!

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

The premier was amazing guys! You're legends!🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@lilnerdboy69]

Ron knows a lot about dragons because of Charlie. Him knowing the kinds of dragons in the country and knowing about the warlock convention that banned them seems pretty in character, especially for book 1. He's the one with general wizarding world knowledge, and has a connection to dragons. Hermione seems like she would know that stuff by this point too, tho.

[@amywilson7540]

I love how opinions on Hagrid are as divided in real life as they are among the book characters. I think to be a Hagrid fan, you have to really appreciate good intentions apart from actions and outcomes.

[@ThreadBomb]

Regarding the uses of dragon's blood, cleaning solution is probably different from spot remover, when you consider that "spot" is a British expression for pimple or zit.

[@Jue_Jue112]

I love this! I wish you guys would do more than one chapter a week. I’m obsessed! Keep up the good work guys!

[@nlee1943]

I think it makes sense for Ron to know about the Warlocks' Convention because Charlie, the dragon guy, might've ranted about it to his family.

[@Grudzien1995]

That would be blessed if you'd take a wheel in creating past backstories. I'd love that! I mean there so much potential in the past stories and in this lore in general. Fantastic Beasts were not the greatest execute of that, but it has potential. I'm sure that Ben and J with such love and engagement to the Wizarding World would make amazing movies and plots!

[@takumi2023]

Quick comment, the book could be from researchers. like how Charlie is working with dragons in another country, other wizards could have worked with dragons and wrote about them later in life.

[@shaunamyers3868]

Draco wants to “tell his father about this”😂

[@jeremytung1632]

It is absurd, but honestly it’s one of my favorite chapters in the book, because for 1 I love dragons, and for 2 Hagrid is in my top 3 favorite characters.

[@moncey1120]

"I would have died for my friends!" "Your friends being the Death Eaters?" *barking laugh* "Typical Black, eh?" "That's not..."

[@olandir]

Actually in a lot of mythos, dragons are said to be able to magically create their own special type of liquor

[@hufflepom]

Hagrid is blinded by love for his baby Norbert that he doesn’t see the problematic behavior of his “child”.

[@katholmes7112]

The picture makes me think of a flying crocodile or alligator. It's the head, so definitely a crocodile or alligator on a dragon body.

[@sawanna508]

Me too.

[@ArtsySinger]

In the sixth book, Snape does say that Crabbe and Goyle failed their Defense Against the Dark Arts O.W.L.s, so it seems to me that they're probably passing in some way that is similar to how Harry and Ron pass History of Magic every year, but not the O.W.L. Whether it's Snape or someone else, I'm sure the Slytherins would have no qualms about helping them to get by even if they were awful (probably reflects better on the house as a whole, which would of course interest them all), but then they can't interfere with standardized testing, so of course they failed in that situation. I would assume they didn't only fail DADA that year.

[@jeffscott5684]

Chickens and Rats: Where does all the food come from for the feasts? I've always gotten the impression there is more food available than anyone group of kids could ever finish. I don't think that just comes from thin air using elf magic. There are so many example of people cooking and growing food/ingredients. Maybe they can magically make chickens grow faster, but I'm assuming all the blood comes from the chickens used for meals. As for the "rodents", it is a castle, wouldn't be surprised if there was a massive population. Later, crook shanks is noted to be feasting on the rats in the castle.

[@6666Imperator]

The dragon artwork reminds me of Smaug from the Hobbit book. It feels like a typical european/british children book dragon style

[@squulliam]

I'd actually love to see a full what if Draco was in Gryffindor but the biggest obstacle I can see is Malfoy gets sorted before Harry. Harry would need to have an aversion to Slytherin house and a preference for Gryffindor, Draco would also need to learn of this preference without making Harry dislike him so that Harry doesn’t not want to be sorted into Gryffindor because Draco is in Gryffindor. I'm definitely going to run with this idea myself because Draco being sorted into Gryffindor instead of Slytherin would be a pretty big deal.

[@morrisonmeister]

when people used to use self windup pocket watches that would be out of sync with each others time, they used to arrive 15mins early for appointments.

[@jameskirk4692]

Thank you very much as always on very great podcast. Very entertaining and interesting to listen to you go deep in such details over every chapter. Thank you!

[@jeffgammons431]

Looking forward to it!!! I’m always so excited when I get an update that more content has dropped! Love you guys and I love your shows!!!!

[@jasonhanover9555]

Talking about the cell phone texts and stuff reminds me of the meme where Ross from friends texts Rachel asking if they were on a break and she says no it would be so much more convenient

[@jamma.77]

Can confirm that sneaking past Flich & Mrs Norris up to and down from the astronomy tower is indeed a level in the Philosopher's Stone PC game, even though you're not visibly carrying Nobert and Harry doesn't get caught at any point. Also, 14:32, they *don't* pass their OWLs: when Snape's arguing with Malfoy, he mentions them retaking DADA.

[@musearrives2am]

I feel like the 1709 quote is just something that Mrs Weasley reguarly told Charlie growing up as a reason why he couldn't get a pet dragon and Ron is just parroting it.

[@dustinbachstein3729]

I never realized how weird this situation actually is: Hagrid punishes Harry and Hermione for helping him with the dragon! That's really crazy :D

[@lovelylife-tz4be]

I'd like to see a full video of that Theory of Draco being a Gryffindor

[@ugly-duckling123]

9:25 That IS a part in a video game! Well old late 90's pc came 'Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone' One half of the chapter, you had to get up to the tower, in your invisibility cloak - which you had to take off to cast spells, at night, avoiding Filtch The second half, you had to make your way back down this time avoiding Filtch and Mrs Norris, destroying vases as distractions making them think it's Peeves

[@bhavens9149]

One need not be evil to compete with someone, I think if Draco is in Gryffindor, its competition that fuels everything.

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

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[@kitjune9333]

Charlie's work with dragons would have exposed Ron to a lot more dragon related info I think. Maybe alcohol helps dragons with the ferocity of their fire breathing. More alcohol, more heat.