MuggleCast: the Harry Potter podcast
MuggleCast: the Harry Potter podcast
Harry Potter
Episode #342: A History of Magic
1 hour 29 minutes Posted Oct 23, 2017 at 8:06 am.
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Show notes
  • Welcome Slug Club member Irvin!
  • Cursed Child tickets go on sale and we're left in the dust!
  • Until Katy (and her husband) come to the rescue!
  • We discuss ticket prices - why were no special offers made for people buying both Parts 1 & 2?
  • Listeners share their Cursed Child ticket buying experiences
  • We review Harry Potter: A Journey Through A History of Magic
  • The book details the exhibition currently at the British Library
  • It feels like touring a museum (in a good way)
  • We explore the original synopsis JKR sent to Bloomsbury
  • The Harry Potter world owes a lot to then 8-year-old Alice Newton
  • Ghost panels, statues, a selection committee of professors - the Sorting Hat that almost wasn't!
  • Fudge and Vernon Dursely were originally going to be coworkers? WHAT?!
  • We look at JKR's early list of Hogwarts professors: Enid Pettigrew, Oakden Hernshaw, Mopsus?
  • Harry and Ron almost met the merpeople in Chamber of Sercrets!
  • Steve Kloves shares his story and how judging a book by its cover almost cost him the films
  • Quizzitch: In Prisoner of Azkaban, what does Snape task students with in their year-end lesson?
  • Voicemails on Grindelwald and Wizarding World theme park

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