4.3 The Invitation (episode transcript)

​SPEAKERS
Cari, Lelia Hilton, trailer, Christina Kann
 
Christina Kann  00:02
"He held up the envelope in which Mrs. Weasley's letter had come, and Harry had to fight down a laugh. Every bit of it was covered in stamps, except for a square inch on the front, into which Mrs. Weasley had squeezed the Dursleys' address in minute handwriting."
 
Christina Kann  00:37
What's up, Pott-heads? Welcome to The Restricted Section, a show in which a bunch of nerds with potty mouths reread the Harry Potter series for the umpteenth time and discuss the way that the story in its themes have stayed with a generation into adulthood. Thank you so much for listening. If you haven't done the reading, don't worry. We did it for you. Here's what we're talking about today.
 
Christina Kann  00:57
Chapter Three: The Invitation. During breakfast one day, the text's extremely heavy-handed and deplorable fat-shaming is interrupted when Uncle Vernon gets some unusual mail. He brings Harry into the living room to share that Mrs. Weasley has sent a letter asking if Harry can join the Weasleys at the Quidditch World Cup. She has also included approximately 1 million stamps on the envelope because she doesn't know how Muggle mail works, okay? So Harry and Vernon go back and forth a little bit, and finally Harry uses his only leverage to get his way by threatening to write to Sirius Black who the Dursleys think is just an actual escaped guilty convicted murderer who is related to Harry. So yeah, so go Harry well done.
 
Christina Kann  01:43
Welcome to The Restricted Section, where using too many stamps is literally as bad as murder, you stinking witch! I am tickled pink to be joined today by my most euphonious friend Leila. Say hello to the listeners, Lelia.
 
Lelia Hilton  02:02
*singing* Hello to the listeners, Lelia.
 
Christina Kann  02:05
Oh my god, she knows what euphonious means.
 
Lelia Hilton  02:07
Of course!
 
Christina Kann  02:09
I literally googled "word that means good at singing."
 
Lelia Hilton  02:13
I could have not known what it meant but I just sing everything -- but yeah, I knew what it meant.
 
Christina Kann  02:17
Well, it's also like euphoric plus like phonetic? Mmm -- moving on. And I am so delighted that our special guest this week is Cari, co-host of Curly Critics over on WBNE. Say hello to the listeners, Cari.
 
Cari  02:33
Hi. I'm so excited to be here. I also did not know what that word meant that you said.
 
Christina Kann  02:38
Euphonious?
 
Cari  02:40
Yeah, I had no idea.
 
Christina Kann  02:41
Me neither. I had to Google a word good enough to describe Lelia.
 
Lelia Hilton  02:47
Please, do go on.
 
Christina Kann  02:50
So Cari, can you please tell the listeners what your podcast is all about?
 
Cari  02:56
Yeah, me and my best friend, Jade, have a podcast where we review things: books, movies, TV shows. Right now, we're going through the Harry Potter books.
 
Christina Kann  03:05
I was gonna say, they do cover some topics that you might be interested in, dear listener.
 
Cari  03:10
We're on book six right now, but our lives got really busy. So we're having to slow down. But that's the goal.
 
Christina Kann  03:16
Pacing yourself through the Harry Potter books is such a challenge.
 
Cari  03:21
Yeah.
 
Christina Kann  03:22
I mean, y'all like Harry Potter. That's why you're here. I definitely recommend following them on Twitter because they're tweeting some pretty choice Harry Potter takes right now.
 
Cari  03:32
I'm just full of them all the time.
 
Christina Kann  03:34
So what is your Harry Potter history? When did you start reading the books? When did you watch the movie? Like what's going on?
 
Cari  03:42
Yeah, so I wasn't allowed to read them growing up, but all of my friends were. So finally I convinced my mom to let me read them when I was like 12. And I read all seven of them in seven days.
 
Christina Kann  03:56
Oh my god. That's like how the world was created.
 
Cari  04:02
I watched the first movie after the first book. Like I finished the first book and then immediately watched the first movie. And then I was like, "I cannot do this again." I just spent the whole movie being like, these are the things that are different. So after I read all of them, I watched all the movies.
 
Christina Kann  04:14
Right. It's good to have closure on the book series so you can enjoy the films as a totally separate thing. Yeah, getting too into the film discourse is rough because in the end, no matter what your complaints are, I'm gonna watch them.
 
Cari  04:32
It's true.
 
Christina Kann  04:32
I really enjoy them. But if we're gonna start taking notes, yes, I do have a pretty comprehensive list.
 
Lelia Hilton  04:40
I feel like, Tina, when the books came out, we were around the same age as the main characters. I don't know, Cari, I'm not sure how old you are. We don't have to talk about it. It's fine.
 
Cari  04:52
Much younger than you.
 
Christina Kann  04:55
I read the original trilogy when they first came out, and I was eight years old.
 
Lelia Hilton  05:00
Yeah. And I feel like when the movies came out, I was not thinking logically like, "I must finish every book." No, I was just like, I love thing. Thing comes out that I like. Let's watch thing related to thing.
 
Christina Kann  05:13
Yeah.
 
Lelia Hilton  05:14
I remember loving it. I was like, "They captured every detail."
 
Christina Kann  05:18
I do remember having great anxiety before every movie and coming out always generally relieved, you know? Generally like, "Okay, all right. No, that feels good. I feel good about that."
 
Lelia Hilton  05:29
Yeah, I think the only one I didn't feel that way about was the Order the Phoenix, obviously, but I didn't like the book that much either. Definitely Hallows Part -- Which one of the parts was better than the other?
 
Christina Kann  05:44
Okay, well, I'm gonna need some clarification on that.
 
Lelia Hilton  05:47
You cannot have it.
 
Christina Kann  05:50
So Cari, if you had to sort yourself, what Hogwarts house are you?
 
Cari  05:55
Ravenclaw.
 
Christina Kann  05:57
Okay, we tend to get a lot of Ravenclaws on the show. Don't know why. I guess they like talking about books. What part of the whole Ravenclaw persona do you relate with?
 
Cari  06:07
I really love knowledge, love learning. I'm getting my master's right now, so I'm just like, all the school. I just love learning. And I don't like less is really like learning for the application use of it, which is more of a Slytherin thing, getting knowledge and then using it. I'm just like, I want to know things, which is why I think I'm more Ravenclaw than Slytherin.
 
Christina Kann  06:32
Yes, it's the pursuit of knowledge for knowledge's sake.
 
Cari  06:36
Yes.
 
Christina Kann  06:37
That's beautiful. I love it. We could do with a little bit more of that perhaos in this book series. So this chapter, what are we doing? It is chapter three of Goblet of Fire, The Invitation. I know I've said this in last week's episode, but it really is so bananas how stupid these first couple of chapters are, considering some of the chapters that happen later in this book that are just so dense.
 
Lelia Hilton  07:05
So dense. Yeah, I just finished rereading this actually on Sunday. It took me a long time to get through, which was surprising to me, because I feel like as a kid I ripped right through it.
 
Christina Kann  07:17
It is 735 pages.
 
Lelia Hilton  07:19
Yeah, but but Cari read it in a day.
 
Cari  07:22
No, I cannot do that now. It took me like two weeks to read Goblet of Fire and Order the Phoenix when I did them recently. And I was just like, "How did I do this as a child?"
 
Lelia Hilton  07:33
How did we? Because I just ripped right through it as well.
 
Christina Kann  07:36
I am totally with you. I used to read them in like a day. I think part of it is just like a genuine -- not just not having responsibilities as a child, but even furthermore, knowing that there's no weight of the world on you. There's no "I could be doing dishes." It's like, "I am eight years old. And I just all I have to do is read right now."
 
Lelia Hilton  08:02
Yeah, there's nothing else. You have no other responsibilities.
 
Christina Kann  08:06
Because honestly, I have been able to read a lot better recently than ever before. And it's because I have the kind of job where you just kind of hang out. And so it takes me kind of back to the good old days where I'm like, "Wow, there's actually kind of nothing else I could be doing right now. Like I'm not home. I can't be doing dishes. I'll just read 400 pages of Harry Potter."
 
Cari  08:28
Wow, I want that job.
 
Christina Kann  08:32
I mean, a Ravenclaw wouldn't be happy in this job for sure. It is not intellectually stimulating. But I have a good time. So it is morning time at the Dursleys' house. We get some pretty strong fat-shaming about Dudley like right away. It's not subtle. I think it's pretty uncomfortable. What do you guys think?
 
Cari  08:59
Oh, I don't like it.
 
Lelia Hilton  09:00
Yeah, it's never been something that I appreciated. I think I thought maybe thought it was funny as a kid the first time she made a fat joke, like maybe the first time.
 
Christina Kann  09:11
Yeah.
 
Lelia Hilton  09:11
But then she doesn't -- like she just can't -- Honestly, try to find one sentence about them that doesn't have some kind of fat or hog-shaped or whatever.
 
Christina Kann  09:22
Yeah
 
Lelia Hilton  09:22
There's not one there are other qualities and people even if they're despicable, you know?
 
Cari  09:27
Yeah. In this, it goes on for like two, three pages of just talking about how fat Dudley is.
 
Lelia Hilton  09:32
How fat is he?
 
Christina Kann  09:34
Yeah, on a narrative level, almost every time she mentions Dudley, she mentions how fat he is. But then also, the plot right now, this chapter, starts with us talking about how he's on a diet.
 
Lelia Hilton  09:48
A diet, yeah.
 
Christina Kann  09:49
Because his school nurse has raised concerns, which is super valid, but it's a health concern. Like, I can't imagine a writer making jokes to this extent about hypertension, or diabetes, or some other chronic health concern.
 
Cari  10:06
Just the diet itself makes me uncomfortable. This kid is so used to eating so much food and you're giving him like a quarter of a grapefruit. That's not enough food to sustain somebody.
 
Christina Kann  10:17
It's definitely not enough food. And then also, from what I understand from nutritional science, totally depriving yourself of stuff just make stronger cravings cuz it's like, "Wow, I get nothing now."
 
Lelia Hilton  10:31
I don't think that's how diets work. I think we can all -- we all have kind of -- at least I've definitely been up and down the road with diets.
 
Christina Kann  10:38
Wow. Same. That's exactly how I would describe it.
 
Lelia Hilton  10:40
What is it -- What did Golden Girls? -- *singing* Goin' down the road and back again. */singing* With diets.
 
Christina Kann  10:48
So euphonius.
 
Lelia Hilton  10:49
Oh, my God. Thank you. Thank "eu." E U.
 
Christina Kann  10:55
Thank you, phony.
 
Lelia Hilton  10:56
Thank you, phony. Us! Okay. Oh, God. Okay, I did diets before, but one thing that you never do, you always think like, "You know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna wake up tomorrow, and I'm gonna make myself for breakfast a smoothie." And you're like, "That goes really good." You're like, "I like smoothies. This is yummy." Lunch. "I'm gonna have a kale salad with chicken on it. Okay, like I meal prepped this, I can handle it." And then dinner comes, and you're like, "I'll have chicken and brown rice." And you're like, "I just absolutely will not do that." Or if you do that, you end up -- I would end up eating like a full two sleeves of Oreos.
 
Christina Kann  11:40
Like, it's fine, because I had this healthy dinner. Yeah, for sure. It's really just the way that this woman correlates the fatness with -- it's like so obviously supposed to be painting him as a bad person.
 
Lelia Hilton  11:58
Yeah, it's like fat is bad.
 
Christina Kann  12:00
Yeah. And it's like, he can be a really shitty person and fat in a way that is like, not related.
 
Lelia Hilton  12:08
Yeah. And I don't know if it's just HER?? I listened to last week's episode. Or if it's like a thing in England, like if body conscious stuff and maybe like curve culture and stuff like that was never . . .  I don't know. I just feel like it's really a lot. It's just so much to correlate, like "This is an evil family and look how fucking fat they are." That's like, kind of the tone I get from her. I don't know. I guess we're supposed to hate them.
 
Christina Kann  12:46
Yeah, it kind of feels just so old-school to me, the way that old-timey like superstitions are like "Oh, well God's cursing them with fatness for being evil."
 
Lelia Hilton  12:59
Yeah. Oh, man.
 
Christina Kann  13:04
For some reason in my notes I wrote several specific quotes that I simply will not read, but they all end with WTF in all capitals. So everyone in the family has to be on the same diet as Dudley. So everyone gets -- this is so ridiculous -- a grapefruit quarter per person. Like at least let everyone have their own grapefruit. Come on.
 
Lelia Hilton  13:30
Yeah, it's a fruit. It's not even sweet fruit.
 
Christina Kann  13:33
It's like not even good fruit. It's like the punishment fruit. Do you guys like grapefruit?
 
Lelia Hilton  13:39
No.
 
Cari  13:39
No.
 
Lelia Hilton  13:40
I like grapefruit flavored things.
 
Christina Kann  13:42
Yeah, me too! Oh my god. The pamplemousse La Croix is my favorite.
 
Lelia Hilton  13:46
I do love me some pample.
 
Christina Kann  13:48
Or like a pomona.
 
Lelia Hilton  13:49
Ooh, what's that? I've had that before.
 
Christina Kann  13:51
It's a margarita but with grapefruit juice.
 
Lelia Hilton  13:54
Yeah, I love those.
 
Christina Kann  13:56
Oh, yeah. Wow, I forgot to confess that I broke the cardinal sin of The Restricted Section and I drank margaritas before recording. We've run into trouble with that before, but I think I'm holding it together pretty well.
 
Lelia Hilton  14:10
Where did you go? Did you go to that awesome little restaurant that's near you?
 
Christina Kann  14:15
Yes. Panchos.
 
Lelia Hilton  14:18
Oh, that's a different one. Like Pancho Villa?
 
Christina Kann  14:20
Are you talking about a little Mexico?
 
Lelia Hilton  14:23
No,
 
Christina Kann  14:24
There's a lot of Mexican restaurants. Are you talking about the Annex?
 
Lelia Hilton  14:27
No.
 
Christina Kann  14:30
Then I don't know what the fuck you're talking about.
 
Lelia Hilton  14:31
It's like one that you that makes good margs and you and Haley go all the time.
 
Christina Kann  14:35
Um, Little Mexico?
 
Lelia Hilton  14:36
Okay, yeah.
 
Christina Kann  14:37
This is not great content. Our listeners mostly don't live here. Cari definitely doesn't live here. That'd be surprising.
 
Cari  14:44
Nope.
 
Lelia Hilton  14:44
Sorry, Cari.
 
Christina Kann  14:46
Um, yeah. Wow. So Harry is a skinny kid. So his privilege as a skinny kid is that he has a whole stash of sweets upstairs that he got his friends to send him, and he just gets to eat it all. Because he's skinny, and he's the good guy.
 
Lelia Hilton  15:02
Yeah.
 
Cari  15:03
Wow.
 
Lelia Hilton  15:04
And he's a most unusual boy!
 
Christina Kann  15:13
I just feel like it's all an extension of the setup from the last episode. But finally we're about to get to the action because the doorbell rings.
 
Cari  15:24
Yay.
 
Christina Kann  15:26
Yay indeed. Uncle Vernon answers it, and it's the mailman being like, "Dude, look at this funny letter. Remember, three years ago, when those letters were like attacking you? And like there was owls sending them through your chimney and they were rolled up in the egg cartons or whatever?" Just kidding. The mailman probably didn't know about that. But I do feel like Vernon has mail trauma.
 
Lelia Hilton  15:52
Oh, for sure.
 
Cari  15:53
I feel like the Dursleys are so like, "We have to make sure that we look properly and we don't say the wrong thing." But I feel like none of their neighbors care.
 
Christina Kann  16:01
Wow.
 
Cari  16:03
Like, the craziest things could happen. And then the Dursleys would just be like, "Oh, no, people are gonna find out!" And their neighbors are just like, "Oh. Okay. Owls."
 
Christina Kann  16:12
It has literally never occurred to me before that the neighbors might not care.
 
Lelia Hilton  16:17
Me neither. I'm like "They must because the Dursleys are so concerned."
 
Christina Kann  16:21
Yeah, yes, exactly. Like, wow, that's my new headcanon, that they're just surrounded by like college students and like, no one gives a shit.
 
Lelia Hilton  16:30
They're just whatever, man.
 
Christina Kann  16:33
Wow, that would be very funny. Um, okay, so Uncle Vernon is grumpy now, because of the mail, and he takes Harry into the living room. He reads this letter to Harry. And it's Mrs. Weasley writing to Uncle Vernon very politely to ask if Harry can come visit them and go to the Quidditch World Cup. A couple of things: I probably would have written earlier in the summer. Because it's just like a week away. Right? Or no, it's like, a day away.
 
Cari  17:12
Yeah, day away.
 
Christina Kann  17:13
She has no idea how long Muggle mail takes. Um, so yeah, I probably would have started at the beginning of the summer asking permission, believing that it would have taken some convincing, you know?
 
Cari  17:27
Yes.
 
Lelia Hilton  17:28
Yeah.
 
Cari  17:29
I mean, they're gonna come anyway. So.
 
Lelia Hilton  17:31
Yeah, well, I don't think there's anything that they could have done to make the Dursleys be like, "You know what? He does deserve this. She said it's a once in a lifetime opportunity. Like, heck, let's get little Harry go." Like, that's just not happening.
 
Christina Kann  17:50
It's very cute. Um, the letter is absolutely covered in stamps. She had to go to the Muggle post office to mail this anyway. Why not just go into the postmaster of Ottery St. Catchpole and ask how to put a stamp on a letter?
 
Christina Kann  17:54
At the end of the letter, she says "I do hope we've put enough stamps on," and like, she did.
 
Lelia Hilton  18:00
It's pretty cute.
 
Cari  18:19
She spends so much money on stamps. Stamps aren't cheap!
 
Christina Kann  18:24
Wow, I wonder how many stamps like that would be. probably like 30 stamps... times.... How much do stamps costs? Wait, I'm gonna refer to my stamps. Um, my stamps, just say "forever." Okay, that's useless, dammit. If only there was a math person here. Oh, well, moving on.
 
Lelia Hilton  18:46
It's funny because they did it to like, be -- they're like, "We must be inconspicuous!" You know? Like, "If I went in there and ask the postmaster, what's his face, how does one apply a stamp?" She was like, "They're going to know! They're gonna know something's off with us. They're gonna find my family." She has a lot at stake. So she's like, "Let's just like -- we know stamps are involved somehow. Let's just cover the sucker. Then the no one will think anything's out of the out of the ordinary."
 
Cari  19:18
If anything, she just made a lot of people's days because everybody who held that letter was like, "Wow, this is funny."
 
Lelia Hilton  19:26
It's true.
 
Christina Kann  19:28
I have mailed things to our friends like Mats in Norway, and I feel like Molly Weasley when I'm stamping up those envelopes. I'm like, "Okay, this needs like $5 of stamps to get to Norway." That is very valid that Molly, I'm sure, wants to stay on the DL. But for what it's worth, Molly, my boss asked me literally last week how to prepare an envelope to be mailed. He genuinely had no idea; it was very endearing and ridiculous. Okay, so there's like considerable back and forth between Harry and Vernon. Harry is full sass.
 
Cari  20:14
I love that for him.
 
Lelia Hilton  20:16
Yes, me too.
 
Christina Kann  20:20
Honestly, Daniel Radcliffe made Harry too... uh...
 
Lelia Hilton  20:26
Passive?
 
Christina Kann  20:28
I was gonna say "placid," right? What does mean?
 
Lelia Hilton  20:31
Flacid?
 
Christina Kann  20:32
No! Not flacid! Define placid -- with a p! It means "not easily upset or excited." Yes, it's the word I was looking for. He's just very milquetoast in the films. But little Harry's so sassy in these books.
 
Lelia Hilton  20:54
He is.
 
Christina Kann  20:55
And finally he uses Sirius Black as a threat. So Vernon gives him permission, because he's like, "You have a convict godfather. And that is alarming to me."
 
Lelia Hilton  21:10
I mean, at least he has something he can use to get basic necessities or not be killed.
 
Cari  21:20
I feel like nothing makes Sirius happier than knowing that he's being used as blackmail against Harry's aunt and uncle. Molly's letter talks about like, "I'm sure Harry's told you about this." Does she just not know that Harry has a horrible home life with the Dursleys? Like I feel like she should know that.
 
Lelia Hilton  21:41
Does he ever get into it with them? I can tell by her behavior -- well, no, that's because of what happens later in this chapter. No. I mean, I feel like Harry hasn't said anything.
 
Cari  21:51
But in Chamber of Secrets, they literally came and rescued him. So Ron at least knows what's going on.
 
Christina Kann  21:57
I think Ron knows what's going on. I think he probably doesn't realize this is textbook abuse and other adults should be intervening, because Ron is a little dense. So I feel like Molly has only gathered some of it, but also, she's not in a good position to do anything other than wait for something bad to happen. You know what I mean?
 
Lelia Hilton  22:22
Yeah.
 
Christina Kann  22:23
It's a bad position to be in. And honestly, if I were in Molly Weasley's position, I would probably misbehave more about it. If a child that I loved was getting abused, I'd go murder somebody.
 
Cari  22:36
Or at least break him out every summer.
 
Lelia Hilton  22:39
Yeah, be like "We know you hate him. We invite Harry to stay with us every summer."
 
Christina Kann  22:45
Here's the thing: Dumbledore insists that for the love magic, okay to like, carry on--
 
Cari  22:53
I hate it.
 
Christina Kann  22:54
Yeah. Harry has to go home every summer. He has to go be with blood every summer.
 
Cari  23:02
Yeah but for how long?
 
Christina Kann  23:04
Exactly! "Can I just shake her hand and be on my way?" like, Why does he have to be there all summer?
 
Cari  23:12
But then he doesn't. Later on, he's there for like two weeks and then he leaves.
 
Christina Kann  23:17
Yes! Why isn't there some alternative? But it's like, "Oh, we just have to trust Dumbledore because he said this is how it has to go."
 
Cari  23:29
Never trust Dumbledore.
 
Christina Kann  23:32
Absolutely not. I was out of town at a wedding this last weekend, so I was staying at a hotel, and I got cable for the first time in like five years. Obviously, they were doing a Harry Potter marathon, because that's what cable does.
 
Lelia Hilton  23:49
Yes.
 
Christina Kann  23:50
And I was getting ready for this wedding, so I was watching it so half-assedly. And it was books six and seven. And it was so dramatic, so intense. Sean -- bless his heart -- my husband, Sean, was asking me these questions. And I was like, "I certainly don't have the time to get into this right now." He was being like, "Wait, but Snape is really a bad guy. Right? And they they didn't know all along?" And I'm like, "I can't even begin to engage in this philosophical discussion with you. I'm curling my hair."
 
Cari  24:29
It depends on how you define a "bad guy."
 
Christina Kann  24:31
Exactly. That's exactly why I don't casually watch movies six through eight. I either have to watch them the way that I watch Hamilton, with like, my entire soul. Or not at all. I can't just be casually watching the later movies.
 
Lelia Hilton  24:54
Well, yeah, they're so heavy. I remember I was at the beach with my family. I was at the Outer Banks with my family one year when Deathly Hallows Part One came out. I went to go see that with my cousin who's five years younger than me, and she was like "You guys are so into this Harry Potter! Maybe I'll start!" And she started with Deathly Hallows Part 1. For whatever reason I was like, "Hell yeah! You'll love it!" and on the way there I'm like, "So this is what happens until then."
 
Christina Kann  25:29
Oh my god! That is simply not the recommended path.
 
Lelia Hilton  25:32
No. She was like, "Are you crying?" I was like "Yes!"
 
Christina Kann  25:38
You reminded me -- this is not entirely related -- but you reminded me that I have this traumatic memory of also watching a movie with family at the Outer Banks. I have a pretty lame uncle, and he was like pretty drunk at the Outer Banks while we were watching Catching Fire. It might have been the first time I had ever seen it, or maybe it was my first time since it had been in theaters, but I was very engaged and watching it so intensely, and the whole room was just quiet and watching Catching Fire. Except for my drunk-ass uncle kept being like, "Wait, wait, wait, is that Jennifer Lawrence?" He asked it like 15 times out the movie. "Wait, wait, wait, who? Wait, what is she doing?" Through the whole movie! "Can you just yeah, go drink your Red Stripes somewhere else?"
 
Christina Kann  26:31
Okay. Wow, where even Where are we? Harry is like skipping happily up to his room. Hedwig is back. She wasn't there in the last chapter. The last chapter had absolutely nothing going on in it, including Hedwig wasn't even there. Pig--Pigwidgeon -- Ooh, I've never said that one a lot before. Pidwidgeon?
 
Cari  26:58
That sounds right.
 
Lelia Hilton  26:59
Yeah. Because they call him Pig, right?
 
Christina Kann  27:01
Yeah, Pig. That's a really cute name for like a tiny little owl.
 
Lelia Hilton  27:05
It is!
 
Christina Kann  27:07
A cat named Pig would be really cute.
 
Lelia Hilton  27:11
But it would have to be a skinny cat because if it was fat then that you would just be like HER??
 
Cari  27:17
It would be an evil cat.
 
Christina Kann  27:23
My adorable chubby cat Penny, I think, would be an adorable Pig.
 
Lelia Hilton  27:27
She would. She's not like chonk.
 
Christina Kann  27:30
She's not morbidly obese, but she's definitely a lump if I've ever seen one.
 
Christina Kann  27:36
Yeah, a little potate.
 
Christina Kann  27:37
Yeah, a potate. A tater tot. So Pigwidgeon is there with a follow up letter from Ron. I really think they waited a week for a response and they didn't hear one because they hadn't even gotten the letter yet because Muggle mail is slow. So I think he was like, "Well, it's been a while. I might as well send a follow up letter."
 
Cari  28:00
But the letter also makes it seem like he wrote that as soon as they got the tickets.
 
Christina Kann  28:04
Oh, yeah, no, you're right.
 
Cari  28:05
I read it and I was like, "How fast is the Muggle mail?" Or maybe it's just how slow Pig is.
 
Christina Kann  28:13
He tries so hard. I love him. He's one of my favorite characters, I think. I just love people who try so hard. But they're in the country. I feel like Muggle mail couldn't go that fast.
 
Lelia Hilton  28:28
Yeah, no, absolutely not. That was a little bit of a bloop. A little bit of a blooper. Bloop her.
 
Christina Kann  28:39
That one was rough, but I laughed heartily at it, so I guess it was good.
 
Lelia Hilton  28:44
Thank you.
 
Christina Kann  28:45
So Ron makes it clear that they're planning to come get Harry on Sunday no matter what.
 
Cari  28:52
Excellent.
 
Christina Kann  28:56
There's not a lot going on in this chapter. I'm trying to stretch it out. Well, so this is kidnapped. This is like a planned kidnap.
 
Cari  29:07
Is it kidnapping if Harry goes willingly?
 
Christina Kann  29:10
I think technically yes if his guardians say no.
 
Cari  29:15
Well, they said yes. So it's fine.
 
Christina Kann  29:16
Yes, indeed. It's silly that they don't even mention how they're going to come get him. And also Harry doesn't wonder how they're going to come get them.
 
Lelia Hilton  29:29
Oh, sorry. I accidentally started reading it again.
 
Cari  29:34
Is this the one where they come through the fireplace in the next chapter? That would have been important to know. You probably should have mentioned that.
 
Christina Kann  29:42
I guess they just like can't fathom a home without an actual ongoing fire in the hearth at all times in case Amos Diggory needs to drop by to talk about Mad-Eye Moody or whatever.
 
Lelia Hilton  29:55
Right.
 
Cari  29:56
The Floo Network feels like such a invasion of privacy all the time.
 
Lelia Hilton  30:00
Yeah, that's fucked up.
 
Cari  30:02
It's not like somebody's knocking at your door. They just show up.
 
Christina Kann  30:06
Yeah, I wonder if there's any security in the Floo Network, if there's anything to be done if you don't wish for visitors. Or can you like block someone?
 
Lelia Hilton  30:19
I think you would just have to block everyone or have it open for everyone. I think those are your only two options.
 
Cari  30:26
So don't make any enemies.
 
Lelia Hilton  30:28
Yeah, not even one.
 
Cari  30:32
Or just don't have friends, if you have an enemy.
 
Christina Kann  30:35
It just would be such a nightmare in the Weasley household, for example, because they would need to have it on because he has a ministry job. And they have a lot of things going on. They would need to always let people come in. But there's so much going on that someone could just straight come into your home and it might be that no one notices, you know?
 
Lelia Hilton  30:54
Yeah.
 
Cari  30:57
That's the real reason Harry has to stay at the Dursleys', because they don't have working Floo Network, so Voldemort just can't come in and kill Harry in his home.
 
Christina Kann  31:06
Oh my god. Wait a goddamn second. I mean, like what, in later books, prevents Voldemort from just stepping into the Floo Network and stepping out in your living room and murdering you? And then stepping back into the fireplace? I'm so confused!
 
Lelia Hilton  31:24
That's a pretty big -- that's a pretty big hole there.
 
Christina Kann  31:28
Wow. Wow, what do I even do with this information? Voldemort, I got a plan for you. Okay, great. So Ron's like "Yeah, we're coming to get you. Don't even worry about it. Hermione is coming and I invited her first, it's no big deal. Don't read into that." Hermione spends a lot of time at the Weasleys' considering that she is an only child who got like swept away into this world of like magic. I feel like my parents never would have permitted that.
 
Cari  32:09
No, not for that amount of time. You don't see her for the entire year, and then she comes home for like two weeks in the summer, and then is like, "I have to go again." And she's lying to them because there's no way she's actually telling them what's happening.
 
Lelia Hilton  32:21
Yeah. How does that work with Hermione's parents? Do they know she's a wizard? A witch? Sorry.
 
Christina Kann  32:29
Yes, they do. They I mean, I think you need parental consent -- god, I hope so. But also, we saw her parents in Diagon Alley in Prisoner of Azkaban.
 
Lelia Hilton  32:41
Oh, yeah.
 
Christina Kann  32:41
So they definitely know. I think that Mr. and Mrs. Weasley, possibly wined and dined Mr. and Mrs. Granger, and were like, "Hey, our kids are friends. I know this must be hard for you. We're here to answer any questions." I like to think that there's a friendship there that we just don't get to see.
 
Cari  33:02
That would be nicer than Hermione doesn't tell them anything that happens at school and just comes up with excuses every summer to leave.
 
Christina Kann  33:08
Yes.
 
Cari  33:10
Although, there's no way she's telling the truth, because then she'd have to come home and be like, "Oh, yeah, my friend Harry almost died because Voldemort was growing on the back of this guy's head."
 
Christina Kann  33:19
Oh, THAT truth. Surely she doesn't tell them all that. "Wow, all of my teachers are trying to kill everybody. There was a werewolf."
 
Cari  33:29
"I spent like two months petrified."
 
Lelia Hilton  33:33
Oh, my God. Yeah.
 
Christina Kann  33:35
Wow, I actually completely forgot about that. And we talked about that a lot at the time, when we covered it on the pod, like, the parents aren't being informed. What if someone else has mandrake potion? Just ready? and we don't even have to wait for the mandrakes to grow?
 
Lelia Hilton  33:57
Like someone in the ministry.
 
Christina Kann  33:58
Yeah. Like literally anyone. Maybe they grow in the wild. Whatever. Okay, we can't do this.
 
Lelia Hilton  34:05
We're past that book.
 
Christina Kann  34:06
We're reading Ron's letter. Basically, the only other thing Ron says is that Percy has started a job with the Ministry of Magic. And Ron is like, "Please literally don't even mention it because I cannot stand to hear him speak of it."
 
Lelia Hilton  34:21
Yeah, they're so mean to Percy.
 
Christina Kann  34:24
Percy is a gigantic prick.
 
Lelia Hilton  34:27
Yeah, I know.
 
Cari  34:28
But they don't help the situation. It was almost inevitable with how they treat him.
 
Lelia Hilton  34:33
Exactly. How is he not supposed to act like what they project him to be?
 
Cari  34:38
He's also the only sibling to not have a partner.
 
Lelia Hilton  34:41
Yeah, it's so sad.
 
Cari  34:43
So he's just like on his own.
 
Lelia Hilton  34:45
Well, Ginny. Well, she's a girl, so she doesn't count.
 
Cari  34:49
But Ginny and Ron are close enough in age that they can hang out together.
 
Lelia Hilton  34:53
Yeah, yeah, you're right.
 
Christina Kann  34:56
Yeah. Aw, that is a little tragic. But also, be a better friend and maybe you'll have better friends. Whatever happened to Penelope Clearwater? Percy and Penelope Clearwater is like a thing in Chamber of Secrets right because Ginny saw the making out or whatever.
 
Cari  35:17
*suggestively* Or whatever.
 
Christina Kann  35:21
And then in Prisoner of Azkaban, we were wondering on the pod, did he dump Penelope Clearwater so he can focus on being Head Boy and getting all his NEWTs or whatever? But she popped up again. But I think in this book, finally, he has fully ditched her to pursue his career because we don't hear about her again.
 
Cari  35:44
Poor Penelope. Maybe she ditched him.
 
Christina Kann  35:49
Wow, I wonder if Harry Potter dot wiki dot whatever has a career listed for her? Oh my god, I read this wrong. Oh my god. I'm skimming through Penelope Clearwaters' page, and I read it wrong. It says, "Sadly, she did not end up marrying her Hogwarts boyfriend, as Percy eventually married a woman named Audrey and had two children with her." But I read it as "Penelope did not end up marrying Percy because she eventually married a woman named Audrey and had two children with her," and I was like WHAT? RIP, that did not happen. It doesn't have a career listed for her. Oh, well. She surely ditched him.
 
Lelia Hilton  35:50
I feel like that's more likely.
 
Cari  36:34
She's very successful.
 
Lelia Hilton  36:40
Yeah.
 
Christina Kann  36:42
Like many a high school relationship ends, she probably was like, "You should grow up a little bit. Call me later when that happens." I think that some of these characters are so serviced by the films. Obviously we've talked at length about how Snape is like -- Alan Rickman does so much for that character. But some characters, the films -- kind of like we were talking about with Harry -- it takes some layers away. And I think Percy was one of those people that the films turned into just like a straight-up caricature. He has next to no lines. He pretty much only matters in the first movie because he's like "First years, this way!" or whatever. And he has such an arc in the books. I wish we could see more of Percy. You know what I want? I want to see Percy hanging out with Bill and Charlie and no one else. Like what is going on there? Because when they go to the Quidditch World Cup, the kids and Arthur go ahead, and Percy, Bill, and Charlie can Apparate so they come later. And what are they talking about while they're hanging out the three of them?
 
Cari  38:01
I feel like Percy would be really quiet around them. Because Bill and Charlie are big personality, really cool guys, and then there's Percy.
 
Christina Kann  38:09
I feel like they're nice to him but maybe a lot for him.
 
Lelia Hilton  38:15
Or he is a lot for them.
 
Christina Kann  38:22
I totally agree. I don't think he would act the same way when these two people, I think, more than anyone, see you exactly for what you are. I don't think there's nearly as much bragging and grandiose -- Percy the Prefect. So anyway, he works at the Ministry. Don't mention it. Harry sends his little RSVP back to Ron. And he adds a little addendum to his letter to Sirius Black. He's like, "If you want to contact me, I'll be at Ron's house." Not that -- I mean, these magical birds can find Sirius just like vaguely south, so I'm sure they can find Harry at Ron's house.
 
Cari  39:09
I've always wondered about that. How the birds know where to go.
 
Christina Kann  39:13
I don't know.
 
Lelia Hilton  39:13
Yeah, I know. Well, even in real life, like how the fuck do carrier pigeons work? What kind of sorcery is that? How big can their brains even be?
 
Christina Kann  39:25
I don't know. Maybe it's like their number one imperative, you know?
 
Lelia Hilton  39:29
Yeah, it is crazy -- you already talked about in the last chapter -- that Sirius sent Harry's letter with a tropical bird. Which to me implies that he just like found a nearby bird and was like, "Go! Fly this to my godson!" And the bird is like a *squawk* and like did it.
 
Christina Kann  39:56
Let's say he's in Brazil. Does he go to a Brazilian wizarding village and seek out a post office? A magical post office? Or does he just like go into the woods and try to convince this toucan--
 
Cari  40:17
Do all birds have the ability to carry these letters? Or is it just like magical birds?
 
Christina Kann  40:23
Or birds of a certain size and intelligence. Not a parakeet, but like, a flamingo? Sure.
 
Lelia Hilton  40:31
The flamingo -- they did to kind of describe it like a flamingo, right?
 
Christina Kann  40:35
Yes.
 
Lelia Hilton  40:35
That's crazy to me. That is not what I would have thought by "tropical bird."
 
Christina Kann  40:39
They're not like a good flyer, are they?
 
Cari  40:42
I didn't even realize flamingos could fly.
 
Lelia Hilton  40:45
How funny would it be if they were flightless birds?
 
Cari  40:47
I think -- Wait, okay. This is the third time we've had to Google something. Are flamingoes flightless? No. The answer is no, they can fly. I watched a lot of nature documentaries and I've never seen a flamingo fly in those. I've only seen them walk back and forth in the little swamp like idiots. So I'll believe flamingos can fly when I see it.
 
Lelia Hilton  41:20
Yeah.
 
Cari  41:23
So Hedwig is like, "Bye, I know exactly where Sirius Black is. I got this. Don't even worry about it." Didn't she just get there? Hedwig like just rolled up after like days of being missing I think. And then he's like, "Okay, bitch, go."
 
Lelia Hilton  41:48
To a long journey.
 
Christina Kann  41:50
Yeah, let her chill overnight or whatever.
 
Lelia Hilton  41:53
There's no time.
 
Christina Kann  41:54
There's no time. So then Harry eat some cake. And is like, "I'm a luck, luck, lucky boy." And that's how the chapter ends. Lelia, what was your favorite part of this chapter?
 
Lelia Hilton  42:10
I thought Mrs. Weasley's letter was very sweet and cute. I loved the bit with the stamps all over it. I thought that was quite delightful. I was like, "Aw, more magic versus Muggle mishaps." We love to see it. Yeah, that's really what stood out to me. What about you, Cari?
 
Cari  42:31
I liked when Harry gets the permission to go, and he like walks up to Dudley and he's like, "That was an excellent breakfast, wasn't it?" I love it when Harry sasses Dudley.
 
Lelia Hilton  42:43
Yeah, spicy.
 
Cari  42:44
Because Dudley has no brain cells, so he can't even come up with a comeback.
 
Christina Kann  42:48
Yes. There's that legendary moment -- Oh, man. I forgot the joke though -- I always get myself into these situation. When he's like, something about practicing swirlies on Harry, and then Harry's like, "I'm not sure the toilet has ever had anything as gross as your head in it," or whatever. That's the thing, Harry can be sassy to Dudley and we can come to hate him through that lens rather than you're describing him as a disgusting person.
 
Lelia Hilton  43:18
Yeah, we can hate him because he's cruel and mean and dumb, versus he's all of those things because he's fat. Almost it kind of seems like that.
 
Christina Kann  43:31
Yeah.
 
Cari  43:32
It just seems like she ran out of descriptors for the Dursleys. And it's just like, "I'll just keep using this whale analogy." And the fact that Vernon Dursley's least face is purple over and over again.
 
Lelia Hilton  43:43
His "piggy eyes." What the fuck are "piggy eyes"?
 
Christina Kann  43:46
Luckily, that's something that gets kind of lost in translation in the films because they cast -- I mean, no child -- I've never seen a child in my life that is wider than he is tall, which is how they describe him.
 
Lelia Hilton  44:00
That's a cartoon character.
 
Christina Kann  44:01
Yeah, so they had to get a regular, normal-sized boy to play him and I'm glad for that. He's shitty just because he shitty in the movies.
 
Lelia Hilton  44:11
Yeah, I feel like I've seen that actor in other things recently, and I'm like, "Dudley, what you doing?"
 
Christina Kann  44:16
He's making a comeback. He's been in some cool shit. He was in The Old Guard. That was such a good movie.
 
Lelia Hilton  44:21
Oh, yeah.
 
Christina Kann  44:22
Well, and also The Queen's Gambit.
 
Lelia Hilton  44:27
That's what I saw him in. Right, right.
 
Christina Kann  44:29
I mean, he's great. He's great now that he's -- you know, every child actor has to kind of like break free of that role. That one defining role.
 
Lelia Hilton  44:40
Yeah, some are unable to or you know, may grow up and find that they're not talented. *coughing* EMMA *coughing* But, um, you know, that's just one man's opinion.
 
Christina Kann  44:52
My favorite part of this chapter was probably reading Ron's letter because I really love Ron. Every time I read the series, I'm like, "Oh, yeah, Ron is great!" And I get really defensive of him because the films do him so dirty. Just imagine Ron. Imagine the kinds of things he's interested in. Imagine him trying to sit down and do homework. But then, imagine him sitting down and lovingly writing a letter to Harry. It makes me so happy. And he's such a little cutie, and his little letter is so cute.
 
Lelia Hilton  45:29
Yeah, their friendship is developed so nicely, all three of them. Well, not Hermione really. But Harry and Ron are developed so nicely in the books. And they do just kind of make him seem like the joke, I feel like -- like the punch line, a little bit in the movies.
 
Christina Kann  45:45
Brooke recently shared in our Discord server a really excellent video that broke down -- I mean, I think we all can agree that Ron was done dirty in the movies. But it's such a big issue that it's hard to get into it further than that. They just failed him at every turn. So this video took the time to really break down all the different ways in which the writers insisted on serving the narrative rather than his character. I'll put a link to that in the show notes because it was great. I never watch videos. I hate being shown videos. Don't send them to me. And this was a 35-minute-long YouTube video, but I just watched it, and I was there for every moment of it. #justiceforRon. Okay, cool. Any last thoughts about this chapter before we wrap it on up?
 
Christina Kann  46:18
I thought the description of Harry's clothes, that were Dudley's clothes -- I had never realized before how big they were on him.
 
Lelia Hilton  46:50
It had to be folded up five times.
 
Cari  46:52
A sweatshirt went all the way down past his knees.
 
Christina Kann  46:56
That is like so ridiculous to even imagine.
 
Cari  47:02
Can't you shrink those with magic? Harry can't because he is underage, but when he goes to the Burrow, can't he be like, "Hey, can you make these fit?"
 
Christina Kann  47:12
Wow. Yes. And probably Molly Weasley is the kind of person who would just do it for him without -- "Sweetie, come over here. We're gonna fix your clothes. Okay?" Yeah, these little details are cute, but then they never get brought up again. And it's like, "Wait, this doesn't actually track in the greater narrative.
 
Cari  47:30
Did you realize that you made a magical system where you can do anything with magic?
 
Christina Kann  47:36
Exactly. That's why, in our last episode, we were wondering whether or not Sirius Black had a wand at this point. If he has a wand when he's in hiding. Later in the books, he comes back from south from Brazil, and it's not clear if he has a wand. But he is super hungry and desperate and raggedy looking. And he definitely, I think, could have done better with a wand.
 
Lelia Hilton  48:07
Like, why are you starving on the streets, bro?
 
Cari  48:10
Well, even if you had a wand, you can't like transfigure your food. So he would have to steal it.
 
Christina Kann  48:17
You can like -- what's the word? -- like multiply it? They do it in Deathly Hallows a little bit.
 
Cari  48:23
Oh, yeah.
 
Christina Kann  48:24
So he could like multiply one family's meal, and it's like fine. They get less nutrition in their meal or whatever, for this meal alone. But I get to eat, you know? I think he could have been more creative and done more things if he had a wand.
 
Cari  48:39
You're right.
 
Christina Kann  48:40
But maybe the only way to get a toucan to deliver -- I mean a flamingo. Flamingo, right, is what we decided?
 
Lelia Hilton  48:48
Yeah.
 
Christina Kann  48:49
Is to have a wand and like magic them.
 
Cari  48:54
Also, how did he get to wherever he was? Brazil or whatever.
 
Lelia Hilton  48:59
Yeah, I was thinking that too.
 
Cari  49:00
Did he swim?
 
Christina Kann  49:01
No, he took Buckbeak! Over the ocean!
 
Lelia Hilton  49:05
That's kind of nuts.
 
Christina Kann  49:07
I mean, surely, surely, he must have gone up through Greenland and down the coast. There's no way he just sailed straight over the Atlantic. Is there?
 
Cari  49:19
I don't think so.
 
Christina Kann  49:21
We don't know how fast hippogriff can go, I guess.
 
Lelia Hilton  49:25
Yeah, but that's insane. Like over an ocean? Your bird cannot stop to eat or drink or stop flying.
 
Christina Kann  49:36
You just gotta like piss off the side of the hippogriff into the ocean.
 
Lelia Hilton  49:40
It would hit you in the face.
 
Christina Kann  49:45
Okay, all right, I'm wrapping it up. Let's move on to some plugs. I would love to start our little plug session by plugging our Patreon. This month's bonus episode just dropped this past Saturday, and it covered My Immortal, the legendary Harry Potter fan fiction. That episode was extremely good. I recommend it with my whole heart. So please check out our Patreon, which is linked in the show notes. Cari, where can people find you on the internet?
 
Cari  50:19
You can find me on Instagram and Twitter @carissazwerg. You can find me on TikTok @carizwerg. You can check out my podcast, Curly Critics Pod, on all the socials.
 
Christina Kann  50:37
Hell yeah, I love their show so much. Obviously, I love all of our WBNE -- I call you guys cousins, you know? Like we're doing the same thing, just next to each other. Yeah, Curly Critics is covering Harry Potter right now, and it's such a good time. So I highly recommend it. Do you have something you've been watching, reading, listening to, whatever lately that you think that listeners of our podcast would enjoy?
 
Cari  51:03
Yeah, I want to plug the show Lucifer on Netflix. It's a crime show where the devil comes to LA and befriends a detective and they solve crimes together, and then heavenly shenanigans ensue.
 
Christina Kann  51:21
Heavenly shenanigans!
 
Lelia Hilton  51:23
That's like, um, what's the David Tenant show?
 
Christina Kann  51:25
Good Omens.
 
Lelia Hilton  51:26
Yeah, Good Omens.
 
Christina Kann  51:29
Heavenly shenanigans. Put that on my tombstone.
 
Cari  51:33
The last season is coming out September 10.
 
Christina Kann  51:37
So it came out this past weekend from when this show airs.
 
Cari  51:41
Yes.
 
Christina Kann  51:43
A little look behind the curtain, guys. We record this in the past. Awesome. Thank you so much. Leila, where can people find you on the internet?
 
Lelia Hilton  51:54
Hello, I'm Lelia. You can find me on Instagram and Twitter @leelz4realz. You can find me on Sunday nights with some of my friends doing another podcast, which is what I'm going to plug this week! Yay. I am plugging the Movie Night Crew, our network's namesake. It is just me and Tina and a handful of our friends watching films. There's no rhyme or reason. We literally spin a wheel many times, and what it lands on, we watch. And then afterwards, we have a conversation about them. Sometimes we end up roasting the film the entire time, many times we do. It is bawdy and dirty and fun. And it's a great time. Lovingly produced by my husband, whose name is Jason.
 
Christina Kann  52:55
And he will actually be on next week's episode.
 
Lelia Hilton  52:58
Oh, yeah. Well dang. Yeah. He puts a lot of care into taking out all of our "like, what, um," and all of our awkward silences.
 
Christina Kann  53:09
It's just crazy how many times I tell people they can't eat while we're recording. It just happens anyway.
 
Lelia Hilton  53:16
Like, "You know what I should do right now? Chow down on a sandwich." Anyway, yeah, check us out, if you like this podcast, especially, you may recognize some of your Potter friends and get to hear him in a different type of environment, but also very similar.
 
Christina Kann  53:34
If you listen to this podcast, and you're like, "Wow, I like it, but it could be a little more chaotic."
 
Lelia Hilton  53:42
Have we got a show for you!
 
Christina Kann  53:46
Well, thank you so much for your lovely plug. Not that I'm biased. I've been your host Christina. You can follow me on Instagram @christinathekann. You can follow me on Twitter at @christina_kann. You can follow me on TikTok @sproutsprivatestash. And this week, I would like to recommend Cadence of Hyrule, which is a game for the Nintendo Switch -- maybe other platforms, I don't know -- but definitely the Nintendo Switch. It is a Legend of Zelda universe game that incorporates literally EDM. It's like two of my favorite things. As you're moving around this map, you have to move to the beat. It's extremely fun. My husband, Sean, is a DJ, and we're both Legend of Zelda enthusiasts. It was an extremely fun, not really that hard game. It's not nearly as involved or plot-oriented as other Legend of Zelda games. It's a total Nintendo vibe. I really recommend that. So wow, Lelia, thank you so much for coming on and chatting with us today.
 
Lelia Hilton  54:52
Anytime babe!
 
Christina Kann  54:54
And Cari, we are so grateful for you being our special guest today. It was an absolute pleasure to finally meet you and to get to talk about Harry Potter, which we've both been talking about separately a lot lately.
 
Cari  55:05
Yeah, it was so much fun to be here.
 
Christina Kann  55:07
Hell yeah, and I hope we can get you back on for another chapter of Order of the Phoenix.
 
Cari  55:13
Yeah, another really long book.
 
Christina Kann  55:16
Really long and really depressing, so we'll take all the friendship we can get to get through it. Awesome. All right, gang. I gotta go finish reading "Muggle Mail for Beginners" before this book folds itself into a paper airplane and flies away. Bye!
 
Christina Kann  55:37
The Restricted Section is a member of the Movie Night Crew Network, which features other amazing podcasts such as its namesake, the Movie Night Crew, which is an extra chaotic podcast featuring the gang just shooting the shit about whatever movie they just watched.
 
trailer  55:50
All righty. It's Movie Night. Grab your popcorn, grab your coffee. Grab your friend. Grab a cat. And let's go. Who directed this? What year did it come out? Is that that girl from that show? Who wrote this? Where's the cat? Who would you rather bang? Does this pass the Bechdel test? What about the Steve Buscemi test? Does a woman literally speak in this movie? Oh my god, a dog. This reminds me of in Harry Potter, when-- Are we recording? What do the critics say? It's a guilty pleasure. What's your rating? Can you be quiet? Oh my god. Movie Night Crew. It's just like watching movies with your friends and then arguing about it after. Every Sunday wherever you get podcasts.
 
Christina Kann  56:46
The Restricted Section was created by me, Christina Kann, based on the book series by JK Rowling. All music by Ryan Kann. Logo by Michael Hardison. Support us on patreon.com/therestrictedsection. For as little as $1 a month you can gain access to our Discord community server, which is a really happy place to be, and there are other rewards as well, such as bonus episodes and Zoom happy hour Hangouts. Be sure to follow us on Instagram @restrictedsectionpod, on Twitter @restrictedpod, and on Facebook @restrictedsectionpod. Also, feel free to shoot us an email at [email protected] to share your thoughts, feelings, complaints, conspiracy theories, or even lavish praise.
 
Lelia Hilton  57:30
*singing* Hello to the listeners, Lelia.