2024 has come to a close and it had us feeling a little reminiscent. This episode is a highlight reel or a "best of" if you will, of everything we released in the last year. We pulled our favorite moments from both the Wandcast and the Sword of Truth podcast and compiled them here into a montage of madness that you all will hopefully enjoy. We are so greatful to all of you that joined us this past year and we can't wait to see what 2025 might bring.

We come to this place for Magic. We come to Podast ATT to laugh, to cry, to care. Because we need that, all of us. That indescribable feeling we get when the lights begin to dim and we go somewhere we've never been before. Not just entertained, but somehow reborn together. Dazzling images on a huge silver screen. Sound that I can feel. Somehow, heartbreak feels good in a place like this. Our heroes feel like the best parts of us, and stories feel perfect and powerful. Because here... they are.

Exams are done, the day has been saved, but we still have an un-described time left in the school year... and it's time to decompress. Harry says goodbye to Lupin who abandons all forms of responsibility now that he is no longer Harry's teacher. Harry also goes through his Hogwarts end-of-year wrap up with Dumbledore. The trio hear from Sirius and Ron is given a summer vacation present. Join us as we have an end-of-year/book wrap up of our own as we discuss the last chapter of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Owl Post Again!

Harry and Hermione casually go back in time and relive the previous 4ish chapter. But this time, they get more details on what really happened, or they make new things happen? Or those things always happened they just didn't know? Or everything is a lie? Or maybe everything is true? You're walking down a road and see two podcast episodes. One of them tells the truth and the other one has a time turner? Is this real life? I don't remember this happening the first time I wrote this. Or do I? Who knows! Join us as we breakdown Chapter 21 of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban for the first time! Or maybe the second? I need another drink.

As the good guys head back to Hogwarts, we prepare for all the chaos ahead. Harry and Sirius have a very nice, but a little bit weird, heartfelt conversation. We dive a bit deeper into Lupin's Curriculum Vitae. And to Nate's horror, Aaron and Jade wonder why we can't just curbstomb a tibia.

In a suprise to absolutely no one, Snape was absolutely ZERO HELP to our main characters. As Harry and co. continue to learn about his father's friends, we ask the important questions like, can you make a wand machine gun? How do you convey abstract thoughts like, "he faked his own death," using only meows? Join us and see if we answer those very questions we ask on this episode of the Wandcast!

Lupin has officially joined the party and does a LOT of talking about his backstory. I mean, it is a pretty full backstory. Oh and there's for sure no big surprises right at the end of the chapter. I mean, how could there be? Lupin's backstory pretty much takes up the whole thing! Not that I'm complaining... What was I talking about? Oh yea, enjoy the backsto... I mean the show!

After hearing Buckbeak's execution, the trio get caught up in shenanigans between Scabbers, Crookshanks, and the Grim! The Grim drags Ron through a tunnel underneath the Whomping Willow and Harry and Hermione give pursuit. The twists and turns of the tunnel are nothing compared to what we all find out at the end of the tunnel, in the Shrieking Shack!

We've reached the closing of the school year (but we still have like, a quarter of the book to go...) and it's exam time. On top of the stressors of exam week, the trio also have Buckbeak's appeal looming over them and Harry thinks he hears Professor Trelawney make a prophecy!

Hagrid loses his case and Buckbeak is sentenced to death, Ron and Hermione make up, Hermione slaps Draco Malfoy, misses Charms class and storms out of Divination. Tensions rise as the Gryffindor vs Slytherin match approaches. When it comes, it is the roughest match Harry has ever played, but Gryffindor still wins.