Potter Revisited

#26 How To Become A Ghost | CoS 8, The Deathday Party

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Potter Revisited Episode #26 How To Be A Ghost AKA Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Chapter 8 "The Deathday Party"

  • We enter into Fall in CoS and it's Shay's favourite time of year
  • We discuss the Pepperup potion and if we would take it 
  • We love the idea of Fred & George spying on Slytherin
  • Shay wonders why no rich Gryffindors bought their team new brooms
  • Oliver's training its getting progressively more intense 
  • We discuss Nick and the Headless Hunt
  • Filch and Mrs Norris have a very strong connection - could it be magical?
  • Filch is working while having the flu - does Dumbledore not give him sick days?
  • Why did Dumbledore hire Filch? He always has some motive for his hires
  • Tori wonders how Squibs work - do they have no magic, or some magic?
  • Kwikspell sounds like a huge scam
  • Interesting foreshadowing when Peeves knocks over the vanishing cabinet - which comes back to play in OOTP and HBP
  • Nick basically manipulates Harry into agreeing to attend his Deathday Party
  • Shay agrees the Deathday party is interesting but she would make sure to eat dinner before
  • Interesting that Nick knows inviting Harry means also inviting Hermione and Ron
  • We love this random passage of Fred and George feeding a firework to a Salamander 
  • We discuss the Deathday party - and Shay isn't a fan of the music choice
  • We discuss Ghosts and the rules surrounding them and how they are governed
  • We meet Moaning Myrtle and why no one seems to have done anything to help her
  • Harry hears the voice after leaving the Deathday party - interesting that he is both scared but excited
  • It really shows the faith and friendship Ron and Hermione have in Harry as they follow him despite not being able to hear the voice
  • The trio stumble upton petrified Mrs Norris and the writing on the wall 
  • Shay discusses how scary this could be for children reading 
  • We begin a deep discussion on Ghosts in the Wizarding World and how they work
  • How does one become a Ghost? Nick says it's a choice - is it forever? What about children that die? 
  • Shay wonders why Fred and others from the Battle of Hogwarts 
  • Why would once choice to become a ghost?
  • Shay wonders why Voldemort never considered becoming a ghost 

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    Music:

    Shelter Song by Alexander Nakarada (www.serpentsoundstudios.com) Licensed under Creative Commons BY Attribution 4.0 License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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