Join hosts Aureo, Irvin, Sam, and guest Natalie Candido as they discuss the titular chapter full of teenage gossip and French food in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
In this episode:
- How rude can we be to international students?
- The fire that’s filled with goblets
- Very fond hedge memories
- This tournament needed more planning
- Dumbledore speaks Hedge
- Fanfiction is everywhere
- Irvin will forever be right
- Who should have judged the tournament?
- How hard to find was Karkaroff’s shack?
- The Goblet of Fire’s second career in reality television
- How does the aging potion work?
Pub’s Jukebox:
Durmstrang Boy by The Parselmouths
They’re big on fostering international friendships, not inter-house ones! Some things are just too big a stretch 😉
What do you think the merfolk would want as bribes?
I imagine you could get their attention if you offered gadgets and gizmos a-plenty. Maybe add whozits and whatzits galore. And a dinglehopper.
Good point! I’m just fairly sure thingamabobs wouldn’t work, they’ve already got twenty.
Or, you know, feet. Quentin Tarantuna is a sad little merlad.
I’d say anything Shi-ney, but they’re not crabs.
Besides their biases cancelling each other out, there’s another reason having the three Heads as judges of the tournament makes sense: they know (or should know) exactly what is taught at their school, so can recognise when their school’s champion has gone above-and-beyond.
It’s the difference between “Ooo, a bubble-head charm! We don’t cover that!” versus “Meh, we teach them bubble-head charms in sixth-year.”
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So, what I’m hearing is that the Goblet of Fire’s modus operandi is to choose a group with a heaping helping of sexual chemistry and whom it would be hilarious to watch try to keep their hands to themselves?
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I wonder if the issue with ageing/de-ageing potions is the quantity you’d need to drink to have a significant effect. Fred and George only need a couple of drops (for roughly 5 months), but maybe the dose required doubles for each additional month.
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I wonder if Karkaroff was used as a test for getting the taboo going again. The Death Eaters found him by sending him an owl with the message “Say ‘Voldemort’ “.
Well, YEAH! If you’re a magical artefact that only exists to ensure a thrilling and successful Triwizard Tournament… romantic entanglements are a must to put on a good show!
Maybe the goblet didn’t even need all that much convincing to include Harry in the tournament. “Oh, he has a romantic connection with the girlfriend of one champion, and is best friends with the object of another’s affection? Sold! Let’s make some draaaamaaaaa!”