#38 Tickled At The Stake | PoA 1, Owl Post

Potter Revisited Episode #38 Tickled At The Stake AKA Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Chapter 1 "Owl Post"

• We discuss out excitement of heading into PoA in our reread journey - This was the first Harry Potter book Tori read all the way back when she was 10 years old
• PoA opens up similarly to CoS with the first chapter mostly being a summary of what happened in the previous books - we discuss how this works for children's series and how HP stops doing this as the series becomes more general fantasy/darker 
• Shay wonders again why they are assigned summer homework - especially since it seems like Harry is working on some complicated essays 
• Tori wonders if they are assigned more summer work this summer as they didn't learn much during CoS or if incoming third years are assigned more work to help ease them into their heavier course load in third year
• Tori discusses how the Witch Trials / Witch Burnings are described per Harry's textbook - how the fire only tickles them and the witch or wizard would disparate - and how this affects the Pureblood Anti-Muggle side of the series 
• What did Harry expect would happen when giving Ron and Hermione his phone number?
• Why didn't Hermione call first since she actually knows how to use a phone?
• Shay wonders what Muggle Technology Wizards would find dumb or useless, and which tech they would love
• "Harry had to admit he was lucky to reach his 13th birthday" Tori and Shay discuss how Harry is always ready to die
• The Weasley's win the lottery! 
• Did the Weasley's partly visit Bill to get Ginny away and help her after her traumatic year?
• Thank god Ron got a new wand!
• We discuss how Wizard vacations would work - how do the Weasley's travel to Egypt? Is it portkeys? 
• Tori finds it a bit sad that Percy made Headboy yet none of his siblings seem very happy for him 
• Hedwig is the true MVP picking up Hermione and Hagrid's gifts for Harry's birthday
• Hermione gets Harry a very personalized gift for his birthday - showing how close they have become as friends and how much she values him 
• Tori finds Harry's birthday a bit sad as 13 is usually quite a big celebration with growing up and becoming a teenager but Harry is very content with opening a few gifts in the middle of the night by himself
• It is all Dumbledore's fault
• We are looking for the chaos Aunt Marge brings next chapter!

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Shelter Song by Alexander Nakarada (www.serpentsoundstudios.com) Licensed under Creative Commons BY Attribution 4.0 License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

 

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