The Christmas fun continues as the bald man and the little woman head to old Batty’s house. To be fair, she was very persuasive and acting totally normal! This is one of Voldemort’s weakest plans that should have never worked, but to Hermione’s surprise, Harry’s mistake was not failing to close his mind, but failing to learn what Parseltongue actually sounds like. This chapter is powerful stuff, and not even just for a house elf, sir.
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I’m listener trying to catch up. In the prisoner of Azkaban knight bus chapter episode you asked what the name is for the carrying sack on a stick when you talked about running away from home. I listened to a couple more episodes and didn’t hear it answered. If you are still curious, it’s called a bindle.
Even though Godric’s Hollow was the mother of all traps, I really loved the scene where people wrote messages of encouragement to Harry. Words of affirmation is my love language so that scene warmed my heart.
So you’re telling me all of those security checks that Harry was taught in order to be sure that the person wasn’t an imposter flew out of his head? Hermione had an encyclopedia’s worth of Hogwarts a History questions that she could have asked.
I never thought about Voldemort killing Bathilda considering how old she was.
I don’t recommend listening to the audio version of this chapter. If I wasn’t for the fact that I was at work while I was listening to it, I would have just read my hard copy. This is a very valuable RWS episode!
I honestly had no recollection that Harry’s wand broke. What a shock to experience all over again! I totally missed the importance of Ron’s name being said too.