We have wanted to get our guest for this episode from day 1, but she specifically requested to recap this chapter then proceeded to fly out to Southern California from Ohio to join us (it was actually just a vacation she was planning on taking that happened to work out for us too)! She's the first of Marian's longtime Harry Potter internet friends that we're planning to meet on the pod, and a podcast aficionado herself - Shannon Daly graces the show this week for what may be our most jam packed episode yet! We talk about visiting the Wizarding World of Harry Potter that day, try some Every Flavor Beans that we got from the park, and Shannon and Marian reminisce on their formative decade long friendship that was mostly informed by being huge fans of the books!

Of course we also talk about Chapter 12 of The Sorcerer's Stone - 'The Mirror of Erised' and Myke finds out how there can be even more magic in the books than the movies as they revel in Harry's Happy Christmas, the sloppiest of childhood investigations, what we would use an invisibility cloak for, and whether or not we'd want to talk about what we think we'd see in the mirror.