"Now see here, Fudge- you've got to do something! It's your responsibility as Minister of Magic!"
"My dear Prime Minister, you can't honestly think I'm still Minister of Magic after all this? I was sacked three days ago! The whole Wizarding community has been screaming for my resignation for fortnight. I've never known them so united in my whole term of office!" said Fudge, with a brave attempt at a smile. (pg. 15 ) (Harry Potter & The Half Blood Prince)
I hope your ready to bounce back with a BANG! Don't petrify yourself or cause a freezing charm because it's a four and a half hour special of interesting facts you will not want to miss!
Chase kicks us off diving into the history of the ministers of magic! With a retelling of every previous minister's history! Who was Ulick Gawp?! Who was the most known person to use the sticking charm on a portrait? Who created the Hogwart's Express and Platform 9 3/4? The controversy and the war between the muggles and magic folk. Who was helping who from the inside? Wizards and Witches helping Muggle wars you guessed it...perhaps even the Napoleonic Wars.
The train keeps rolling we haven't stopped yet. Next stop....Spinner's End! Severus Snape's past is darker than you imagined....
"The Unbreakable Vow?"
Snape's expression was blank, unreadable. Bellatrix, however, let out a cackle of triumphant laughter.
"Aren't you listening, Narcissa? Oh, he'll try, I'm sure... The Usual empty words, the usual slithering out of action...oh, on the Dark Lord's orders, of course!"
Snape did not look at Bellatrix. His black eyes were fixed upon Narcissa's tear-filled blue ones as she continued to clutch his hand.
"Certainly, Narcissa, I shall make the Unbreakable Vow," he said quietly. "Perhaps your sister will consent to be our Bonder." (pg. 36) (Harry Potter & The Half Blood Prince)
Henry Potter, Hardwin Potter, and Lolanthe Peverell Harry's ancestor's have arrived find out how the invisibility cloak was handed down to "The Chosen One".
All the extinct houses of "The Sacred 28" are broken down and dissected. What happened to them, what happened to their male lines?
Were not pumping brakes yet...
"The Toadstool Tales" were renditions of legends retold for children but what did they originate from? Could it possibly be the famous "The Tales of Beedle The Bard"...
A long time ago in a far far away land was "The Wizard and The Hopping Pot", "Babbity Rabbity and Her Cackling Stump" and "The Fountain of Fortune"...
His heart was consumed by Dark Magic, when he removed it from the crystal enchanted casket. It degenerated into a savage beast state driving the Warlock to take force of a truly human heart. The Warlock tore out the Maiden's Heart, to replace his own. However before fulfilling the procedure and replacing his consumed heart he died across the maiden's dead body with one heart in each hand. - "The Warlock's Hairy Heart"
"When I conceived the idea of writing "The Tales of Beedle and The Bard" in full, I was intrigued to discover how wizarding fairy tales would differ from those told to muggle children. In the later witches and wizards regulated to walk on it, in pivotal roles; within "The Tales of Beedle and The Bard", they might think that magic would solve any fairy-tale dilemma, but it transpires that there is always somebody who can cast a more powerful curse, or a creature who will not yield to one's best enchantments. Then, the intractable and eternal human predicaments of love, death and the pursuit of happiness are not necessarily resolved any more easy by the possession of wands. So these wizarding fairy-tales have much in common with their muggle counterparts: they exist to express human hopes and fears, and to teach a lesson or two. There are, however, a few important differences: witches tend to save themselves, rather than waiting around for a man to do it, and young wizards are warned, not against the dangers and temptations of the outside world, but their own magical powers. "The Tales of Beedle and The Bard" is really a distillation of themes found in the Harry Potter Books, and writing it has been the most wonderful way to say goodbye to a world I loved and lived in for seventeen years. The idea came really because I wanted to thank six key people who have been very closely connected to the Harry Potter series, and these were people for whom a piece of jewelry wasn't going to cut it. So I had the idea of writing them a book, just for these six people. And well, if I'm doing six I really have to do seven, and the seventh book for the cause which is close to my heart." - J. K. Rowling
Closing out this episode we discuss some of the most disgusting foul creatures that walk the earth...INFERI!
How do you cast the Firestorm spell? Who are it's previous practitioners? What happened in the 2014 Quidditch match Jamaica vs USA when Inferi attacked the audience and was set loose on the field?
No spell can bring back the dead. Inferi are not alive they are more like zombies, or puppets. Pale, foul creatures. Some have teeth and some have no teeth. They feel no pain and no regard for their own limitations. They only regard what their Dark Master desires. They can be fully or barely decayed based on age of the corpse.- Pottermore
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