The Culture Quest

19 - The Culture Quest Rides the Hogwarts Express - Lockdown Bonus #4


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Our humble adventurers enjoy a visit to a very magical world! We spend the episode discussing the Harry Potter series!

Episode Breakdown:

  • To kick things off, Baryo and Ynon talk about their experience with the series, as teenagers (00:01:58).
  • Then, Peter tells us about how he ended up reading the books, despite believing that he might never give them a glance (00:03:38).
  • We then move on to talk about the books - we go over them one by one and discuss our feelings towards them (00:07:41).
  • We discuss moments from:
  • The Philosopher’s stone (00:08:01).
  • The Chamber of Secrets (00:11:56).
  • The Prisoner of Azkaban (00:15:28).
  • The Goblet of Fire (00:19:27).
  • The Order of the Phoenix (00:24:18).
  • The Half-Blood Prince (00:31:19).
  • The Deathly Hallows (00:38:20).
  • We specifically discuss Snape’s storyline (00:41:44).
  • We move on to discuss the epilogue of the story (00:54:23).
  • We address the question of reading the book as a teenager versus as an adult (01:01:18).
  • We discuss our rankings of the books and pick our favorites (01:04:15).
  • Then, we find that we still have more to say about the epilogue, we mention the epilogue from Lord of the Rings (Goodreads) and the last episode of How I Met your Mother (IMDb) (01:10:13).
  • Then, we try to come up with ideas for alternative epilogues (01:12:53).
  • We wrap things up by quickly previewing our upcoming episodes (01:20:10).
  • Stick around, after our discussion we play the promo for the Bulldogs & Dragons podcast (@BulldogsDragons), a charming D&D podcast! (01:21:13).

 

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Cover art by Azeecreations .

‘Celebration’ theme by Alexander Nakarada ( www.serpentsoundstudios.com ).

 

The episode was recorded on May 23rd, and originally released on May 27th, 2020.

 

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The Culture QuestBy Peter Thomas, Ynon Hermon, Baryo

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