Episode #342: A History of Magic

• Welcome Slug Club member Irvin!
• Cursed Child tickets go on sale and we're left in the dust!
• Until Katy (and her husband) come to the rescue!
• We discuss ticket prices - why were no special offers made for people buying both Parts 1 & 2?
• Listeners share their Cursed Child ticket buying experiences
• We review Harry Potter: A Journey Through A History of Magic
• The book details the exhibition currently at the British Library
• It feels like touring a museum (in a good way)
• We explore the original synopsis JKR sent to Bloomsbury
• The Harry Potter world owes a lot to then 8-year-old Alice Newton
• Ghost panels, statues, a selection committee of professors - the Sorting Hat that almost wasn't!
• Fudge and Vernon Dursely were originally going to be coworkers? WHAT?!
• We look at JKR's early list of Hogwarts professors: Enid Pettigrew, Oakden Hernshaw, Mopsus?
• Harry and Ron almost met the merpeople in Chamber of Sercrets!
• Steve Kloves shares his story and how judging a book by its cover almost cost him the films
• Quizzitch: In Prisoner of Azkaban, what does Snape task students with in their year-end lesson?
• Voicemails on Grindelwald and Wizarding World theme park

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