Expecto… expecto… Alice and Martha are back to discuss six-legged races, Harry’s potential interest in Shark vs. T-Rex, and oddly memorable songs from piano lessons. And, shocker of all shockers, it’s still all Snape’s fault.
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This chapter was ridiculously short. I was surprised that the audio was only 12 minutes. However, Hermione’s Secret is 48 minutes long. I wonder how long the correspoding RWS epiosde will be!
I listened to the Ratarouille podcast back in August and I had a lot of fun listening to it. It was very timely with the revelation of Scabbers’ true identity.
I was thinking about the alternate reality of what if things went as planned too. Harry was so hopeful.
A full moon triggers the transformation whether you see it or not, which is why it’s a head scratcher for why it took as long as it did. I like the theory of how the moon has just risen.
When I listened to the Crookshanks part of the book, I thought he jumped from the noise, but I didn’t realize he was being attacked.
Harry trying to teach Hermione the patronus charm on the fly was a lost cause.
I always like the moment where Sirius offers Harry a home. Yes, in some ways he sees Harry as James. But at the same time, he did love Harry as a baby, and probably felt immensely guilty at not being able to look after Harry the way his parents asked him to do. And you’re right, Harry just has never encountered an adult that actually *wants* to be his guardian. Not that the Weasleys aren’t good to him – they are wonderful – but they treat him like a guest and they have their own kids. But Harry’s lived his whole life as the unwanted kid, and all of a sudden here’s someone who obviously cares about him and wants him under his roof, which is also what his parents wanted, and in everything I’ve read about orphaned children, this is a very common fantasy.
Also, I do think that even though Dumbledore has invoked the protective magic with the Dursleys, Sirius would have fought that with everything he had. And he would definitely have had some pull – Dumbledore effectively left Sirius to rot in Azkaban, and the Ministry never gave him a trial, and the Potters’ will would have named him as Harry’s guardian. So legally, Dumbledore would have basically no recourse to keep Harry at the Dursleys’, especially not if they could prove it was an abusive environment. (Harry definitely seemed safe enough at Grimmauld Place, especially if you account for the harm he suffered from the Dursleys and the Dementor attack.)