#39 Inflated Ego | PoA 2, Aunt Marge’s Big Mistake

Potter Revisited Episode #39 Inflated Ego AKA Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Chapter 2 "Aunt Marge's Big Mistake"

• We discuss Dudley getting a TV in the kitchen, and how it contrasts how Dudley is being raised VS Harry
• Escaped convict Sirius Black is mentioned on the Muggle news - foreshadowing on what is to come in PoA
• Vernon and Petunia's initial view of Sirius - thinking he is a vagrant, etc - really shows how they view their place in society and think they are better than others as they don't even know what crime he has been arrested for. 
• It seems especially bleak that Vernon calls for the death penalty - specifically how he uses the phrase "Those people" 
• Aunt Marge is coming to visit and the incidents which Harry describes on her last few visits are alarming 
• Comparing the Dursely's way of dealing with Harry VS Aunt Marge
• Harry blackmailing Uncle Vernon is great - but we think he could have done a bit better 
• Is Harry conscious of the magic he is using unintentionally this chapter? 
• Its interesting seeing the accidental magic Harry is doing this chapter as wandless magic is supposed to be very hard, and very powerful
• Shay wonders why Harry got upset about Aunt Marge insulting James rather than her dig at Lily before
• Shay finds Aunt Marge to be a very flat and unbelievable character compared to the other bad guys / villains we get in the series like Umbridge 
• Vernon and Petunia let Aunt Marge steamroll over them and seem to bed over backwards to accommodate her - does she have more money or a higher standing in society?
• Harry is done with the Dursleys, packs up and leaves and we can't blame him. Shay wonders why Harry didn't leave earlier
• Looking at Harry's relationship with the Dursley's over the series, Shay wonders why they were never targeted to use against Harry 
• We discuss the fatphobia in the series again, with the focus Dudley's weight this chapter. Tori discusses how the series very much lumps fat and ugly together and only all the bad or evil characters are described with these characteristics 
• Shay also discusses Dudley as a character this far and how Petunia and Vernon are failing him with the way he is being raised
• Was Aunt Marge a plot device to get Harry to run away from the Dursley's? Could there have been another way to get Harry to leave without introducing a new character that never returns? 
• We are looking forward to seeing Harry on the run thinking he's a wanted man 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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