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4.15 Beauxbatons and Durmstrang

Magicless Myke - May 28, 2020 04:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
Despite leaving Harry and Neville shellshocked at the end of the last chapter, Mad-Eye Moody doesn't ease up with the lessons. In fact, every class seems to be pushing Harry and the rest of the fourth years harder than normal all while the whole school starts to get excited for the arrival of th...

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4.14 The Unforgivable Curses

Magicless Myke - May 20, 2020 06:49 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
Shit. Just. Got. Real. We finally get to learn the about the spell that killed Harry's parents, and did something to Neville's? It's another overreaching Mad-Eye lesson as the kids have their first Defense Against the Dark Arts lesson. Myke also makes poor taste jokes about what the "the unforgi...

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4.13 Mad-Eye Moody

Magicless Myke - April 23, 2020 09:08 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
We finally started classes at Hogwarts! 13 Chapters into The Goblet of Fire! We then quickly find out - it's the same stuff as last year, with some gross twists. Luisa joins us to get into the pus from the Tremor plants, scary looking lobsters, and when - if ever - it's okay to magic-attack a ch...

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4.12 The Triwizard Tournament

Magicless Myke - April 16, 2020 02:33 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
12 episodes into our read-through of 'The Goblet of Fire' and we've finally step foot inside Hogwarts, as Harry witnesses his second sorting since he's been a student! We also get our first glimpse at Mad-Eye Moody. We rip into the sorting hats song, talk about slavery, and Marian... raps?  If...

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4.11 Aboard the Hogwarts Express

Magicless Myke - April 08, 2020 07:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
Chapter 11 and Chapter 10 were short enough to do a combined episode about, but because The Goblet of Fire is as relatively dense as it is, we're able to pull an episodes worth of discussions about "Aboard the Hogwarts Express"! We've seen this scene before, the kids getting on the train to go t...

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4.10 Mayhem at the Ministry

Magicless Myke - April 02, 2020 05:06 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
It's fitting that this episode was recorded on April 1st because the title of this chapter being 'Mayhem at the Ministry' seems like an April Fool's Day prank since not a single bit of this chapter actually takes place at the Ministry! Regardless, the rest of the chapter seems depressingly fitti...

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4.9 The Dark Mark

Magicless Myke - March 26, 2020 06:14 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
In an unsettling turn of events, the raucous joy of the Quidditch World Cup goes from celebratory to hysteric as Death Eaters arrive! Also, Myke finally got to finally remember exactly what Death Eaters were! We also get into Hermoine's activism, the Ministry's terrible detective skills, and Myk...

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4.8 The Quidditch World Cup

Magicless Myke - March 18, 2020 07:01 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
In a time when all major sports seem to be suspended indefinitely it's a pleasure to get into this eighth  chapter of The Goblet of Fire with what Myke feels like is one of the most thrilling quidditch matches written in the series so far. We get into the weird horniness of the Vela, the on the ...

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4.7 Bagman and Crouch

Magicless Myke - February 27, 2020 06:33 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
It's wizarding Coachella as Harry, Hermoine and the Weasley's get to the campsite around the Quidditch World Cup! For us that means we get a feast for our minds and the main course is international wizarding world building! We also talk about what the wizard to pound exchange rate could be, the ...

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4.6 The Portkey

Magicless Myke - February 20, 2020 06:21 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
In what seems to be a book long lead up to just get to the Quidditch World Cup, we join our boy Weasleys, Hermoine, Ginny, and Harry as they hike through a town and up a hill to touch a boot. We do get some solid, creative world building along the way as we learn all about the transportation met...

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4.5 Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes

Magicless Myke - February 12, 2020 08:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
As Harry reunites with our favorite wizarding family, the Weasleys, we also are blessed with the return of one our favorite wizarding friends - Shannon! Our girlfriend of the pod joins us as we enjoy ourselves in the Burrow. We finally get to meet the whole Weasley clan together, get into Charli...

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4.4 Back to the Burrow

Magicless Myke - February 05, 2020 08:01 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
We say goodbye to the Dursleys (finally) with charm and flair in a hilarious thanks to our favorite wizarding family - the Weasleys! We get into why it seems like JK is writing better, how the scene works as a great sketch, and who's cooler - a wizard jock or a muggle jock.  If there's anythin...

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4.3 The Invitation

Magicless Myke - January 29, 2020 08:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
Before we get to the good stuff we have to go through one more chapter with the Dursleys. Luckily this one hits a little different because now Harry has a new way of dealing with his abusers! We also get into our favorite John Williams scores, examples of other fantasy/sci-fi fake sports, and Ma...

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4.2 The Scar

Magicless Myke - January 22, 2020 08:30 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
What's up with Harry's scar and that nightmare about Voldemort? Who's Harry again? What's magic? Who's Voldemort? We find out the answers to all these burning questions in this chapter, and we get into the state of television and why we're not caught up on anything! It's very interesting stuff! ...

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4.1 The Riddle House

Magicless Myke - January 15, 2020 08:01 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
With the Prisoner of Azkaban behind us we move on to Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire with Chapter 1: The Riddle House! Longtime HP pal of Marian, Sam joins us for the first time on the podcast! We talk about the dark cold open detailing the true crime cold open in what is definitely the dark...

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3.23 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) Movie

Magicless Myke - January 08, 2020 08:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
This is it, the moment Myke has been waiting for. The movie that really got him into Harry Potter for the first time and yet it's the movie that a lot of book readers get the most mad at. Now that Myke has read the books does he still like the movie? Luisa and Patrick join us to find out just ho...

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3.21 - 3.22 Hermoine's Secret & Owl Post Again

Magicless Myke - December 25, 2019 09:20 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
We're finally here: the thrilling conclusion to Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban! First, all of Myke's anticipation of time travel finally pays off in 'Hermoine's Secret'. We get into time travel rules, favorite time machines in fiction, and if Harry's final Patronus was done by cheating...

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3.20 The Dementor's Kiss

Magicless Myke - December 18, 2019 08:01 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
All hell breaks loose under the full moon in this chapter of The Prisoner of Azkaban. Someone forgot their potion so one of the most high stakes fights in the series so far goes down! Friend of the pod Luisa joins us to get into how bad Ron must have felt having had a broken leg this whole time,...

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3.19 The Servant of Lord Voldemort

Magicless Myke - December 11, 2019 08:01 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
Everything comes to the light in this chapter of The Prisoner of Azkaban as the "trial" of Peter Pettigrew is underway! Sirius tells all to Remus and the kids as so many things are revealed to us, including JK Rowlings next gear as her writing gets 'great', according to Myke.  If there's anyth...

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3.17 - 3.18 Cat, Rat, and Dog & Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs

Magicless Myke - December 04, 2019 08:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
After taking off a week for Thanksgiving, we're back for another two-fer, but this time we did two chapters mostly because Myke wanted to keep reading! We're getting towards the end of Prisoner of Azkaban and all is being revealed! In what seems to be a 4 chapter exposition dump we finally meet ...

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3.15 - 3.16 The Quidditch Final & Professor Trewlany's Prediction

Magicless Myke - November 22, 2019 05:20 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
Because we missed a week we decided to bring back one of our favorite guests and also summarize two chapters for you! Luisa joins us to talk about the intense and high stakes Quidditch Final between Slytherin and Gryffindor, how JK Rowling's Quidditch writing is getting more interesting, and how...

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3.14 Snape's Grudge

Magicless Myke - November 07, 2019 06:27 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
It's a bummer of a chapter on a bummer of a day for Myke as we deal with the ramifications of a close call with The Prisoner of Azkaban himself, Siruis Black. Everyone gets scolded, disciplined, and generally taken down a peg this chapter. Hagrid tries to get the boys to make up with Hermoine, a...

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3.13 Gryffindor Versus Ravenclaw

Magicless Myke - October 30, 2019 07:01 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
It's the last episode before Halloween and we're on the thirteenth chapter, and yet it's the most jock chapter in the book so far! That's right, it's the big game! Or it's a big game, as Harry tries to keep Gryffindor in the Quidditch season with a must win game against Ravenclaw! Will he be abl...

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3.12 The Patronus

Magicless Myke - October 23, 2019 07:29 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
Our boy Harry finally gets a chance to step up to those pesky Dementors in the 12th chapter of The Prisoner of Azkaban with some help from 'The Patronus' - all for the good of... the Quidditch team? That's right, the Gryffindors are all at it again. Hermoine deals with how she took things into h...

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3.11 The Firebolt

Magicless Myke - October 16, 2019 07:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
In the last chapter, and episode, we finally learned the truth about the titular 'Prisoner of Azkaban' - he was their friend! Now we see Harry still reeling from learning about his parent's best friend Sirius Black as Christmas hits Hogwarts. He also receives a special present and, sadly, Hagrid...

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3.10 The Marauder's Map

Magicless Myke - October 09, 2019 07:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
Harry's in the hospital, Gryffindor lost the match, Dementors have gotten the best of Harry again - will things ever look up again for our hero? Hell yeah they will, thanks to Fred and George Weasley and the chapter's titular Marauder's Map. It's a fun chapter full of Managed Mischief as we get ...

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3.9 Grim Defeat

Magicless Myke - October 02, 2019 07:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
The Fat Lady has sung, disappeared, and is missing as we begin the ninth chapter of 'The Prisoner of Azkaban': Grim Defeat and joining us on this Forbidden Journey is friend of the show, and fellow Hufflepuff, Luisa! We get into our most recent visit to The Wizarding World of Harry Potter in Uni...

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3.8 Flight of the Fat Lady

Magicless Myke - September 26, 2019 05:44 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
JK Rowling's fat shaming train finally comes to its final destination: the eighth chapter of The Prisoner of Azkaban being called 'Flight of the Fat Lady'. Fortunately, the chapter is about so much more! Myke falls more in love with Remus Lupin, we talk about what we'd do with a time turner, we ...

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3.7 The Boggart in the Wardrobe

Magicless Myke - September 18, 2019 07:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
Slytherins be slithering on this, the seventh chapter of Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban. Draco is up to his old tricks again and Snape is enabling him. Or is Snape the bigger bully here. Marian once again tries to move Myke's affection against Snape as they talk about the first potions...

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3.6 Talons and Tea Leaves

Magicless Myke - September 11, 2019 07:13 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
Classes have begun at Hogwarts for their third year, and it seems like time is not on Harry's side. The Prisoner of Azkaban might be pushed further into the background of his titular book in chapter 6 'Talons and Tea Leaves', but the foreboding mood around the school remains. We get into Divinat...

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