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Episode 44: Plants of the Wizarding World · Revelio: A Wizarding World Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to episode forty four of Revellio for
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  Speaker 1: May fourteenth, twenty twenty six. I'm Amy's Stephanie.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm Lucy.
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  Speaker 1: So Nicole is traveling right now, but I've brought on
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  Speaker 1: to a wonderful guest to help us out with this episode.
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  Speaker 1: Both have been here before, so listeners, I'm sure you
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  Speaker 1: remember Lucy and steph Hi. Hi, guys.
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  Speaker 2: So in this episode, we'll be discussing plans of the
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  Speaker 2: Wizding World, but first.
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  Speaker 3: Listening to w W in the Wizarding Wireless Network. Now
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  Speaker 3: for the latest headlines.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so only a couple things in the news right now,
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  Speaker 1: but both sort of HBO related, sort of. The first
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  Speaker 1: one definitely is so HBO officially greenlit the second season
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  Speaker 1: of the yet to be released show, Season two, Chamber
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  Speaker 1: of Secrets, will start filming this fall, before season one
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  Speaker 1: is even released, since season one comes out around Christmas.
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  Speaker 2: That's so signing now I have hope for the show.
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  Speaker 2: More like that was like I think I discussed this
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  Speaker 2: when I was on the TEZ trailer No don't episode.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I got that that.
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  Speaker 2: I was really scared because like season like for eleven
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  Speaker 2: twelve old like you need to feel it like back
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  Speaker 2: to back. You can get away with it when they're older,
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  Speaker 2: but those ones and now that.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, yes, they're doing that.
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  Speaker 2: And my mom's also excited now because episode one doesn't
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  Speaker 2: come out into what like Boxing Day or something. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: you don't have Boxing Day twenty seventh, sorry, but you.
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  Speaker 1: Know the two days after Christmas.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm just gonna smile and not.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, I think you know, this is pretty big
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  Speaker 1: for them to green light already before they even see
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  Speaker 1: the numbers. But I feel like, I mean, they've seen
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  Speaker 1: the numbers from the people watching the trailer and the
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  Speaker 1: documentary behind the scenes and all that, so I feel
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  Speaker 1: like they're, you know, they're feeling very optimistic and they're like, yep,
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  Speaker 1: interest is there. Let's go.
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  Speaker 2: That's the worst. We only get two seasons, and please,
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  Speaker 2: we're doing better than a fantastic pace.
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  Speaker 1: True, true, very true.
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  Speaker 2: By that rest in peace.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So.
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  Speaker 1: John Brown, who is a writer on the first season,
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  Speaker 1: has been promoted to co show runner for season two
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  Speaker 1: alongside Francesca Gardener, and in a press statement, Gardner said
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  Speaker 1: this move was to make sure they could keep up
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  Speaker 1: with the momentum of production. Now having the filming and
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  Speaker 1: the release of season one overlapping in this move.
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  Speaker 2: So would this mean then that it will also be
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  Speaker 2: a Christmas race the next year or will it be earlier.
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  Speaker 2: So I can't recall what the filming was for season one,
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  Speaker 2: but the majority of the sets were already built, and
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  Speaker 2: if they're filming it right, I'm assuming you'll probably be
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  Speaker 2: around the same episode count considering the books are quite
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  Speaker 2: similar length.
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  Speaker 1: Mm hmmm, Well, season one they started filming in what
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  Speaker 1: like it was over the summer, at least that we
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  Speaker 1: knew because we started spotting them kind of out and
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  Speaker 1: about we I say, as if I was in London
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  Speaker 1: sitting them there. We were getting like those photos of
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  Speaker 1: them filming in public places over the summer. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. Maybe they do like at like a
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  Speaker 1: every six months release, I don't know, But.
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  Speaker 2: Would they be able to keep up with that, I
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  Speaker 2: don't know, because well, there is proven proof that you
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  Speaker 2: can do that because one of my favorite shows is
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  Speaker 2: Slow Horses starring Gary Oldman, and they released every six
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  Speaker 2: months a new season. But that would film two seasons
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  Speaker 2: at once, so sort of like, yeah, so it's possible.
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  Speaker 2: But then again, as the books go on, I can
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  Speaker 2: see production being a bit longer, and maybe we will
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  Speaker 2: end up with sort of you know, like a bridgeton
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  Speaker 2: or something where they do this is part eight, this
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  Speaker 2: is part B just so you're not waiting so long.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, at least like now with streaming and how that
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  Speaker 1: works with releases, I feel like shows don't really specifically
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  Speaker 1: have to be like we're a fall release show, Like
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  Speaker 1: they can just drop a season whenever they want to
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  Speaker 1: drop the season. Where it's like when it was on TV,
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  Speaker 1: it was like, Okay, this is our scheduled month that
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  Speaker 1: every season is going to start, so which.
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  Speaker 2: I think we sort of saw this with season one.
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  Speaker 2: It's like, wasn't it supposed to come out like mid
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  Speaker 2: next year? And they're just like, actually right, just kidding.
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  Speaker 2: But I do hope that we do get a whole
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  Speaker 2: Christmas episode. Oh that would be amazing, that'd be so good.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Anyway, So then our next bit of news, we
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  Speaker 1: have a debut date for the official Harry Potter podcast,
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  Speaker 1: Harry Potter the Official Film Podcast, which is set to
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  Speaker 1: come out on May nineteenth with a special two episode
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  Speaker 1: launch and each episode is about sixteen minutes and will
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  Speaker 1: come out weekly, so there will be two episodes dedicated
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  Speaker 1: to each of the eight films, which totals out to
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  Speaker 1: sixteen hours of content. So we learned a few more
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  Speaker 1: details about the show too. It will be hosted by
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  Speaker 1: a film critic and will feature guests from behind the
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  Speaker 1: scenes of the films to quote, reveal what it took
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  Speaker 1: to bring the Wizarding World to life on screen.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know how I feel about this, considering how
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  Speaker 2: much information we already have and like, what else can
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  Speaker 2: like unless you go to a skill song stuff we
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  Speaker 2: don't already know which it could still happen, but I
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  Speaker 2: think it's gonna be pretty hard. I that's sort the guy, what,
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  Speaker 2: what the hell? What's going on?
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  Speaker 1: Like the weird part about this is it's like, because
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  Speaker 1: the video portions is going to be available on HBO Max,
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  Speaker 1: it's very clear that it's like kind of like aligning
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  Speaker 1: with the release of the TV show. Why didn't they
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  Speaker 1: just do behind the scenes of the TV show?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I thought this was going to be focused on
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  Speaker 3: the TV show, not what we've already had for how
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  Speaker 3: many freaking years that we've already analyzed to death.
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  Speaker 1: Fan podcasts have already done this multiple times, and yeah,
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  Speaker 1: the wand is still doing this like actual like guess so, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I don't I I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah on the show unless choice in two then going
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  Speaker 2: into the TV shows. But then again, it's like, why
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  Speaker 2: don't you just go off the big hype from the
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  Speaker 2: Doctor series and then continue on with that with the
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  Speaker 2: new creative people, the new stuff that they can bring
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  Speaker 2: into these films. Like, don't get me wrong, I'm a
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  Speaker 2: huge fan of the films.
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  Speaker 4: Like the amount of technology advancements that happened as a
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  Speaker 4: film nerd is insane, but I want to see what
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  Speaker 4: they're doing with that advancement now and also keeping it
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  Speaker 4: real like they said, like in the realism the naturalism
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  Speaker 4: of this world, Like I want to see what they
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  Speaker 4: can do.
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  Speaker 1: Right, I like more of the current I mean, don't
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  Speaker 1: get me wrong, I'll probably listen to this.
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  Speaker 2: Same because I'm curious, but I'm curious to see who
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  Speaker 2: they're going to get on, Like I like, don't get
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  Speaker 2: me wrong, I love listening to like Nick Dugman and
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  Speaker 2: people like that who are very big in the Wizarding World.
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  Speaker 2: But the reason I love Behind the One is because
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  Speaker 2: we get the people who aren't big and every day
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  Speaker 2: film stuff, but you know. Still it has a huge impact.
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  Speaker 1: So I guess we'll see what happens with that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, either way, Amy's probably gonna get a very long
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  Speaker 2: rent from me about something.
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  Speaker 3: That's just normal.
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  Speaker 1: On the day, nothing out of the ordinary. And that's
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  Speaker 1: it for the news. The magic continues over on the
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  Speaker 1: at patreon dot com slash Revellio Podcast. So for our
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  Speaker 1: main discussion, we are talking about herbology and plants of
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  Speaker 1: the Wizarding World.
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  Speaker 5: I love plants. I love plants that you can tell.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, So what we did is we pulled a list
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  Speaker 1: of plants that are mentioned throughout the books and we're
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  Speaker 1: going to take a look at their use in the
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  Speaker 1: Wizarding World, their Muggle world ties if they have any,
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  Speaker 1: and some etymology a little bit behind the names. All right,
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  Speaker 1: So kicking us off because it's alphabetical, of course, because
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  Speaker 1: you know, why wouldn't it be away? So first up,
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  Speaker 1: we've got Asphodel and it's use in the Wizarding World.
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  Speaker 1: We know that powdered root of Asphodel is an ingredient
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  Speaker 1: in the draft of Living Death, which makes a lot
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  Speaker 1: of sense when we talk about the Greek mythology of
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  Speaker 1: this plant.
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  Speaker 2: Did anybody else's just brain just went straight to the
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  Speaker 2: quote from the films?
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  Speaker 1: Yep, yeah, recommend Yeah, what do I get if I mixed.
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  Speaker 2: And an effusion of wood wood?
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  Speaker 1: So good, it's ingrained.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So in the Muggle world, this is a real flower,
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  Speaker 1: and Asphodel flowers are of several variations under the Asphodel
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  Speaker 1: lesaill family. The roots are edible if properly prepared, but
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  Speaker 1: they do need to be boiled to rid them of
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  Speaker 1: any toxic properties.
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  Speaker 2: So does that mean they can be used as a poison?
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  Speaker 1: Probably, That's what I'm gathering. The raw aspho root is
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  Speaker 1: not so great. I wonder how that.
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  Speaker 2: Would be, like.
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  Speaker 3: Like pleason bees.
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  Speaker 2: Oh god, sorry, I should probably warm people.
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  Speaker 3: Right now.
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  Speaker 2: My brain's going to go to like all the murder
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  Speaker 2: mystery stuff that you could probably use these plants for. Yeah, Like,
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, how how good? How good are you detecting this?
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  Speaker 2: If it is poisonous.
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  Speaker 1: Please don't look at our preogle searches. So the asphodel
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  Speaker 1: plants have an elongated stem with a spike of flowers
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  Speaker 1: on it, and they can come in white, pink, and
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  Speaker 1: yellow varieties, and they're native primarily to the Mediterranean, North Africa,
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  Speaker 1: and the Middle East. Some plants in Great Britain and
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  Speaker 1: North America are known as false as because they have
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  Speaker 1: similar appearances but are actually from different plant families. So
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  Speaker 1: this is kind of the interesting part that sort of
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  Speaker 1: ties into its use in the draft of living death.
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  Speaker 1: So in Greek mythology, the asphodel flower was associated with
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  Speaker 1: the underworld death and mourning because the field of asphodel
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  Speaker 1: or asphodel meadows is the location in the underworld where
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  Speaker 1: ordinary or neutral souls are sent. So they're not you know,
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  Speaker 1: they're not bad enough to end up in Tartarus, and
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  Speaker 1: they're not good and virtuous enough to end up in Elysium,
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  Speaker 1: so they just end up kind of stuck in the middle.
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  Speaker 1: So the field of asphodel is kind of like Greek purgatory,
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  Speaker 1: I guess exactly.
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  Speaker 3: Just imagine a concert that's really really crowded with no
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  Speaker 3: performer yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so when you think of you know, it's used
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  Speaker 1: in the draft of living death. Like basically people who
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  Speaker 1: are our souls sent to asphodel are just like kind
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  Speaker 1: of like living death forever, all eternity just kind of
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  Speaker 1: standing there, like.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, what do we say? What we what we take
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  Speaker 2: out of it is it's probably a really good poison
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  Speaker 2: because I've just looked up aspital and medicine and it's
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  Speaker 2: like it is not used in modern medicine at all.
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  Speaker 2: It's like, well, I wonder why.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, So the atymology, it unsurprisingly originates from a
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  Speaker 1: Greek word asphodelos, which refers to a flower in the
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  Speaker 1: lily family, So lily. There's are another another tie to.
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  Speaker 2: Harry Potter, because that whole sentence was like a I
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  Speaker 2: guess a Latin. There was a lot of etomology in
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  Speaker 2: how the translation was, which was pretty cool that we
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  Speaker 2: discovered that year later. But yeah, can I just say this.
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  Speaker 2: I just looked up what is aspadol used for and
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  Speaker 2: says a remedy for bominist steak bites and specifically against sorcery.
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  Speaker 1: There you go, It's like, thank you. I feel like
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  Speaker 1: a lot of these plants on this list, do you
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  Speaker 1: have ties to like historical witchcraft as well as like
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  Speaker 1: you know, so it's kind of interesting when you read
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  Speaker 1: through the names, you're like, oh, yeah, I've heard of that.
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  Speaker 3: So next on the list is belladonna, and in the
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  Speaker 3: Wizarding World it's a standard ingredient used in potion making
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  Speaker 3: and in hogwart student potion kits, and then in magical lore,
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  Speaker 3: ascinate combined with belladonna was applied as a magical ointment
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  Speaker 3: by witches to make themselves fly, Okay, which I have questions?
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  Speaker 3: Do they apply it to themselves and they fly? Is
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  Speaker 3: that how they get like broom? How they originally got
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  Speaker 3: brooms to fly?
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  Speaker 2: Oh?
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  Speaker 3: Just like rub it on the handle, yeah, or like
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  Speaker 3: dip some of the twigs of the room in it,
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  Speaker 3: Like does it have to be all over them or
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  Speaker 3: just in one spot?
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  Speaker 2: Do you actually right?
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  Speaker 3: Is it like sunscreen where you can like if you're
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  Speaker 3: wearing a long clos you can just get away with
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  Speaker 3: putting it on your face like all over situation? How
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  Speaker 3: long do you fly?
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  Speaker 2: For?
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  Speaker 1: So many questions?
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  Speaker 2: So you know, I refer we just go into the
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  Speaker 2: Wizarding World, and you know, I do have a list
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  Speaker 2: of fears I want to test out, just saying, so
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  Speaker 2: if anybody knows anybody that can get us in there, just.
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  Speaker 3: Let us an RD.
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  Speaker 2: That's the list.
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  Speaker 3: So again, this is a real plant by the same name,
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  Speaker 3: no cheeks or changes, and it is also known as
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  Speaker 3: deadly nightshade or the Devil's cherries.
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  Speaker 1: So it is so highly poisonous. Don't touch shade, Devil's cherry.
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  Speaker 1: Oh let me eat it.
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  Speaker 2: There's there's a garden I think it's in Britain that's
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  Speaker 2: called the Poisonous Garden. I would love to see it
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  Speaker 2: one day and it's just filled with all these prints
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  Speaker 2: like no, no, no, no, you do not touch you. But
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  Speaker 2: we have it, so I can't. I really now want
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  Speaker 2: to research like why it exists, but I remember that
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  Speaker 2: there's a specific reason why it exists, like some protion
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  Speaker 2: neur or someone Kevin has decided to have it or
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  Speaker 2: something like that.
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  Speaker 1: Interesting.
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  Speaker 3: So this one is extremely dangerous to children because of
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  Speaker 3: the berries that it produces. So, like we said, it's
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  Speaker 3: a highly poisonous plant native to wooded areas in central
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  Speaker 3: and southern Eurasia, and it is a bushy or belonging
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  Speaker 3: in the night shade family. So if this plant actually
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  Speaker 3: grows pretty tall. It's about one and a half meters
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  Speaker 3: or four to five feet, and it has dull green leaves.
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  Speaker 3: It has violet or greenish flowers on the axles of
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  Speaker 3: the leaves or in the branch forks. And it has sweet,
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  Speaker 3: shiny black berries or roughly the size of cherries, and
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  Speaker 3: a large tapering root. So not only does it look good,
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  Speaker 3: they make it sound like it tastes good.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and they call it Bella Donna. They should just
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  Speaker 2: have gone straight to you know, devil's cherries. Why do
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  Speaker 2: you give it a pretty name? Oh way, wow, that's
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  Speaker 2: probably why get the enemy to eat it.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, the tempting lady.
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  Speaker 3: Just the modern day snow white's apple. Here have some cherries.
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  Speaker 3: So it is cultivated for its alkaloids, and it is
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  Speaker 3: used in sedative stimulants and antispismatics. So it does have
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  Speaker 3: some medicinal uses today. What please make sure you consult
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  Speaker 3: people before eating things. Things, as we've said, probably have to.
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  Speaker 1: Be coined with certain things.
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  Speaker 3: And yes it's not just yet, so but this one
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  Speaker 3: does have uses in modern times as well. And etymology
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  Speaker 3: of Bella donna so Bella is Italian for fair or beautiful, lady.
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  Speaker 3: You know Bella is fair or beautiful and Donna is lady.
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  Speaker 3: Sorry I didn't read my own oats. And they think
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  Speaker 3: this came about because Renaissance era woman in Italy would
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  Speaker 3: extract it, like the sap and things to use as
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  Speaker 3: eye drops to dilate their pupils to create a seductive,
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  Speaker 3: wide eye, innocent appearance.
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  Speaker 2: I wonder if that would make them go blind eventually.
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  Speaker 1: Probably so. Then next step we've got devil snare. So
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  Speaker 1: it's the use in the wizarding world. We know it's
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  Speaker 1: a very dangerous plant. It literally strangles people. It's afraid
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  Speaker 1: of sunlight.
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  Speaker 3: And conger here, yes, please people snare devil snare. It's
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  Speaker 3: deadly fun but it silks in the sun.
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  Speaker 1: Yep, another line we'll never forget.
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  Speaker 2: I did quote that the other day when I came
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  Speaker 2: across devil Snare and Hopeless Legacy, I was like, how
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  Speaker 2: do I defeat ith waits them? Who wise?
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  Speaker 1: So the more that victims struggle, the more devil snare
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  Speaker 1: will bind them. So it's kind of one of those
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  Speaker 1: traps that like, it's hard to get out of. We
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  Speaker 1: know it was used by Professor Sprout to protect the
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  Speaker 1: Sorcerer's Stone, and it was also used by death eaters
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  Speaker 1: to kill off the unspeakable Broderick Bode while he was
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  Speaker 1: staying in Saint Mungo's Hospital. So the Muggle world, thankfully
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  Speaker 1: there's no real world devil snare because that would just
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  Speaker 1: be terrifying and I never leave my house. If there was,
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  Speaker 1: it would be in Australia.
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  Speaker 2: Sorry, Lucy, Honestly it probably could be. I'll let you
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  Speaker 2: know when we discover it.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, sounds good.
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  Speaker 3: I call the scary things to Australia. The rest of
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  Speaker 3: us will be fine. They can find I.
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  Speaker 2: Don't know if we told you this when we were
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  Speaker 2: over there, but they discovered a new spider, but we're
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  Speaker 2: overseas and they named it. They named a big boy.
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  Speaker 1: Oh good, it's fantastic.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah you think you Yeah, you welcome over here.
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  Speaker 2: At any time.
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: Seriously, second guessing any desire I have ever had.
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: To go to, my survival instincts are saying no, I live.
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: In the city, so we'd never see any of this stuff.
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: So you'll be fine. Mm hmm, okay, Hey, our quotas
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: if in Austrain says she ain't gonna do it, then
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: everybody shouldn't do it. There's one video where it's like
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: there was some bossies fish fishing and like a great
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: white groat went past, and they're just like, yeah, no,
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: we're not going we're not going swimming. That's when it's like, yep,
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: I'm good.
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: Oh man, Yeah, so yeah, thankfully, No devil's stare in
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: our world. But there are a few things that may
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: have inspired it. So one that I found is gymsen weed,
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: which has the scientific name de terra stramonium, and it's
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: sometimes called devil's trumpet. So here's another devil's plant and
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: sometimes even referred to as devil's snare. It's an invasive
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: weed with a trumpet shaped flower, and it holds powerful
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: and dangerous hallucinogenic properties. It looks so pretty, though I
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: know it does it's so deceiving. It doesn't strangle prey,
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: but the name and the fast growing invasive nature could
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: be linked. And it's interesting that, like you know, some
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: people do refer to it as devil's snare. So, and
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: then of course there's plants like the strangler fig which
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: are also known to grow as thick vines around trees
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: and to choke out their prey, killing the trees over time.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: So a couple possible inspirations be true.
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: This one.
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: Plants can be aggressive, so cool. I knew they were deadly,
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: I didn't know they could strangle.
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: No, it looks so cool against the trees. I didn't
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: know that though.
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, it grows so slow. It's not like,
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: you know, it's not like the plants actually like coming
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: at you with like vines to strangle you.
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: But it does look like it's just a pile of tree,
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: you know, just like roots.
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: Mm hmmmm.
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: It probably just restricts the ability to grow, and it
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: probably steals a lot of the trees. Tree it's from
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: the soil and things like that absolutely kill the tree
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: from the inside out.
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, because it looks like it becomes like hollow and
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: then all was left as the barn and the outside
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: does actually so cool. Sorry for the tree, but but
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: it's kind of cool.
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: Lands are weirdly cool.
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so some etymology for Devil's snare. Snare originates from
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: the Old English word snare ou, which is a news
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: for catching animals, and the meaning eventually expanded beyond a
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: noun meaning to entangle or trap, which is where we
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: get snare and how we know it.
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: Now, whenever I hear snare, I still think of like
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: old rabbit traps that essentially involved a rope and like
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: hooking a rabbit's foot and all of that type of stuff.
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: Right, all right, And then we have which its use.
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: In the Wizarding World, essence of dittney is used to
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: heal wounds, and in the Muggal world, Organum dictanness or
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: dittany of crete is a plant in the mint family
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: that is known for its medicinal uses such as healing
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: wounds and treating infections. So very closely tied to how
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: we see it used in the Wizarding World, just a
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: lot more magical and fast acting in the Wizarding World.
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: I do love how the author does have a lot
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: of those ties to actual stuff in the Muggle world,
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: and you can see that a lot also in the
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: history and stuff, which is really cool.
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it makes it more believable. I feel like tying
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: it in with reality.
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: So dittney of crete is low growing and the light
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: green leaves have a wooly texture to them. It's very aromatic.
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: So it's used for flavoring in foods and also used
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: to flavor drinks like Absinthe Greek philosopher Aristotle once wrote
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: about ditney, saying that it is believed to have properties
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: that lead to quote ejecting arrows in the body. So
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: if you're wounded by an arrow, you can eat ditney
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: and be healed.
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: Interesting.
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: I don't know why he thought that the arrow would
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: literally like shoot out of your body and be ejected,
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: but you.
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: Know, that's what I was picturing.
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: So American dittney is not the same, but still is
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: a member of the mint family. It also holds medicinal properties,
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: and it's known for historically being used to treat colds, headaches,
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: and fevers. And it's also known to have a similar
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: fragrance to a regano. So it holds a lot of
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: similar properties to ditney of crete, you know, with that
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: strong smell and flavoring, but seems to me to not
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: be quite as powerful if it's just being used for
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: colds and headaches and not wounds aero rejection.
• 28:26
  Speaker 6: Yeah, are they under the same plant family or are
• 28:33
  Speaker 6: they too, like completely different, So.
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: They're both members of the mint family. Okay, I don't
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: know the the name for that. The fancy Latin name,
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: but yeah, they do seem to be related, so not
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: like some of these plants where it's like, yeah, it
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: looks the same, so we're gonna kind of call it
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: the same, but it's actually part of a totally different genus.
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: I'm not going to to the Latin name.
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I have a couple in here. We're going to
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: see if they get red or if I just sagnore
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: with them.
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: That's usually how that goes. See what you're.
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: That, I'm not going to pronounce, So we're just gonna
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: say where it's from and go from there.
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: Great. So the etymology of dittey it comes from the
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: from the Middle English word detainee or detony, which has
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: roots in French, Latin, and not surprisingly Greek. Is derived
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: from Mount Dicta in Crete, where ditney is famously found growing.
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: Nice.
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: Go do an exhibition. Now, yes, go and get us all.
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: To let's go to Crete.
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: I'm now that's on the list. There on my list.
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: M Next on our list is flexwed.
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: So.
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: In the Wizarding World, it is a crucial ingredient to
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: polyjuice polyjuice potion when it is picked under the full moon.
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: It specifically has to be picked under the full moon
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: to be able to be used in the Polyjuice potion,
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: and in Hogwarts Legacy it is used to craft the
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: focused potion and tying it into the human world, the
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: Muggle world a little bit not human. We're humans, sorry,
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: I need a freaking nap, so tying it into the
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: Muggle world as well. It is said to be a
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: member of the mustard family, So in the Muggle world,
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: there are a few different plants referred to as flexwed,
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: but the officially the officially recognized plant is Trichostema brakieto
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: bracketson Trickostema bracketsm bractam. Sure this is good as maa bracatam.
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: It is also known as false penny royal. It's a
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: small plant, growing up to about sixteen inches tall, with
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: green leaves and small purple flowers. However, upon further research,
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: I do think the author was referencing a different plant
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: that is also referred to as fluxweed or flicksweed, which
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: is Descerania sophia, which is a plant in the mustard family.
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: That one is used in traditional medicine, particularly and iran
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: in China to treat digestive issues like constipation, diarrhea, ibs
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: and also respiratory problems such as coastra asthma, and its
• 32:01
  Speaker 3: seeds are used in beverages for cooling and as a laxative,
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: or in poultice's foreskin infections and inflammation.
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: My brain has just gone straight too. I feel like
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: we're playing cludo.
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: We're talking about Musta's children and now they killed him.
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: Oh, was it the aspha which flux weed? Was it.
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: Cradel mustard in the floyer with the flux sweed?
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: So then further etomology, it is derived from the medieval
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: belief that the plant cured flucks, which is like dysenteri
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: or diarrhea. Oh but in Harry Potter, the reason why
• 32:57
  Speaker 3: this word was chosen was because it represents the plants
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: magical role in enabling physical transformation and change.
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: Ah, like something's in flux, it's changing.
• 33:09
  Speaker 6: Correct.
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: Next we got gilly weed. So this is one of
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: the most famous plants uses in the Wizarding World. Gillyweed
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: is a magical Mediterranean plant that allows person to breathe underwater.
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: Simple so it is. When eaten, it pauses a dramatic
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: physical change, including forming gills on the neck, web feet, hands, flipper, light, fins, fins, limbs,
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: forswe It is most famously seen in the Tribe of
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: the Tournament when never in the films, but Dobby in
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: the books gives it to Harry Potter so you can
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: survive underwater. Of course, it takes Harry a little bit
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: of time to work out how it works, because he
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: did struggle a little bit. But hey, he's vibe, He's fine,
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: so it.
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: Gets into the water in the books. But I do
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: love the fact that fake Moodie just like yeah.
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: Like a like cute Harry Potter. That seems like a
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: very much adobic quote. Oh, I do hope they bring
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: Dobby in for the TV show Need too.
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: I'm excited how they bring.
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: Up Yeah, Darby has so many good moments.
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: They all the characters have great moments. I was left
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: out or given to a different character. So stick to
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: the book, guys. Just saying the etymology of Gillieweed is
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: literally straightforward is a mash up between the two words
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: describing what it does. Gil makes and it's a weight.
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: You can't get any more simpler than that.
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: Makes sense.
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah, So next step on the list is ginger root,
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: which is a plant. I feel like almost all of
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: us are familiar with in some capacity. In the wizarding world,
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: it is a potion ingredient that used in a variety
• 35:23
  Speaker 3: of potions, but the two most well known are the
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: wit sharpening potion and the beautification potion. In the local world,
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: it's a flowering plant whose rhizome or root is used
• 35:37
  Speaker 3: as a spice and in folk medicine. It grows a
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: false stem with narrow leaf blades and flowers with pale
• 35:45
  Speaker 3: yellow petals and purple edges and tops out at about
• 35:48
  Speaker 3: a meter in height. All of the fact that it's
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: a false stem, so essentially that just means that the
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: stem is made out of the leaves, so it's like
• 35:58
  Speaker 3: the center of the leave, a leaf branches out and
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: then another leaf is growing in it, so it's not
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: a full stem.
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: That's cool. This is one of the.
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: First spices that was exported from Asia into Europe and China.
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: India and Japan have used it in traditional medicine for years,
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: and it is used as a modern day supplement. The
• 36:24
  Speaker 3: actual medicinal properties are questionable. There's not enough research or
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: studies or things done out there to determine if ginger
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: offers the actual benefits that we think it does versus
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: more of a placebo effect. The most common one is
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: that it combats nausea for morning sickness and pregnant women. However,
• 36:51
  Speaker 3: it might not help other types of nausea, such as
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: from like chemotherapy was the main comparison that I saw,
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: which are two vastly different things and I'm sure too
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: different levels of sickness.
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: I mean, I grew up where if you had the
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: stomach bug, you'd be given your little glass of ginger ale,
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: and the salty.
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: Slackers ginger ale they like shake the bubbles out of
• 37:17
  Speaker 3: it and then give it to you. Yeah, so it's sad,
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: sad ginger sad soda.
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: I grew up with ginger beer, which is also made
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: of a lot of ginger ale, and it's the best
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: for ever Australian as well. So you know, if you
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: can find Bungerbird ginger beer over in America, I highly
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: recommend you taste it because it is so good. I
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: love it.
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: Every like few years or so, I realize that I
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: actually like ginger ale and like I have it, and
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: I'm like, you know, I forgot this actually tastes really good.
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: But that association in my mind of like you only
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: drink this when you're sick, like keep sitting away from
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: actually drinking it.
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: I was on the when I was in the America
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: World the train. I wasn't feeling that well, and I
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: was like, well, I love some like ginger beer or something,
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: you know, yeah, and They're just like, we only have
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: ginger ale and I was like, it can't be that
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: much difference. I wasn't a fan of ginger rio.
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: It's probably sweet.
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: So yeah, anyway, if you find it, I highly recommend
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: you try Bunderberg ginger beer so good.
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: Just sounds fun to say.
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: Well, Bunderberg is the town, the town, it's created, and
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: it's still manufactured in Bunderberg.
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: Can you imagine if they made butlerbeer Bunderberg Butterer beer.
• 38:46
  Speaker 3: That makes my.
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: That would be cool. I'll pitch it to them. Thanks.
• 38:55
  Speaker 3: Okay, so this is where we're going to not pronounce
• 39:00
  Speaker 3: the word.
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: I see why.
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: I am confused by the spelling of that word.
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: Are those letters?
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: So I thought I thought I was just was like, oh.
• 39:13
  Speaker 3: No, the origin of this word is in Sanskrit, which
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: is something I'm not familiar with at all. It looks
• 39:21
  Speaker 3: really cool, but it also looks really confusing. So it
• 39:25
  Speaker 3: I'm just gonna go with It originates from It originates
• 39:28
  Speaker 3: from the Sanskrit word meaning horn shaped or antler shaped,
• 39:33
  Speaker 3: which is in direct reference to the actual roots, where
• 39:38
  Speaker 3: it will look like like a horn or an antler,
• 39:43
  Speaker 3: like if you cut off like the branching bits.
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: So so up next we have hellibore and it's use
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: in the Wizarding World. The syrup of hellibor is a
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: potion ingredient used in the Draft of Peace, and in
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: the books, Harry forgets this and his potion in his
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: fifth year during class and Snape is big mad.
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: Is the draft of peace like the draft of death?
• 40:15
  Speaker 3: Oh?
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: No, it actually is peace? Why did my brain just
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: go straight to dith?
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: I know every time I hear a draft of I
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: think of the draft of living.
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, especially like peace. You're just like, oh yeah, they
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: peace left the world.
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: So in the Mugga world, there are twenty two recognized
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: species of this plant, and helli war is poisonous. No
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: part of this plant should be consumed. Doesn't sound very small.
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: Which is quite hilarious considering the draft of peace is
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: to cure like anxiety, like the anxiety.
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, so the flowers on the plant have five
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: petals around, some very very very teeny tiny petals that
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: are tiny and hold nectar in the center of the flower.
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: Do bees like these plant? I don't know. Probably it's
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: a poisonous to bees. Oh, hellibo is a crucial in
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: the early season food suce of bees.
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: There you go. The bees can withstand the poison. So
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: hellibor is winter in early spring blooming and are pretty.
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: The flowers are actually frost resistant, so they're very cool hours.
• 41:47
  Speaker 3: They are, So that's really cool.
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: I kind of want them in my garden.
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: Aren't they pretty?
• 41:52
  Speaker 3: Just don't eat it.
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah. They're nicknamed the Christmas Rose due to a legend
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: and that it sprouted up from the snow after being
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: watered by the tears of young girl who was sad
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: she had no gift to give baby Jesus in Bethlehem.
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: So cute little folk tale. Probably also, its winter blooming
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: contributed to this nickname of the Christmas Rose as well,
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: and to this tale. Despite being poisonous, black hellibore was
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: used by the ancient Greeks and Romans to treat paralysis, gout,
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: and psychosis.
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: Are you sure they would treat it or to cause it?
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: I'm sure it probably made it worse, but they tried.
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: And then the etymology. It's from the Greek Helleboros, which
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: has a few root words that I'm not going to
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: attempt to pronounce. But there are a couple of different
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: schools of thoughts of what those root words are, which
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: therefore gives it too possible meanings. One is a translation
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: of injurious Food, which makes sense since it's so poisonous.
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: The other is food of fod, which perhaps you know
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: insinuates it was eaten by baby deer. But if it's poisonous,
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: I feel like the baby deer probably wouldn't have eaten it.
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: But I don't know.
• 43:31
  Speaker 3: Interesting one makes sense, one doesn't. I think I go
• 43:38
  Speaker 3: to the first school.
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Injurious Food seems more accurate.
• 43:43
  Speaker 2: I'm just loving how all these plants are poisonous, but
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: they look so beautiful that I just want them back.
• 43:49
  Speaker 3: What gets you?
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: And like the nickname is so pretty, the Christmas Rose. Yeah,
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: it's like, yeah, don't I mean none of this should
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: be consumed? Although I don't usually go around sing flowers
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: out of my gardens, so that is true.
• 44:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm always also quite skeptical when they come on
• 44:06
  Speaker 2: my You know food. I'm like, they sure can eat that.
• 44:11
  Speaker 3: I don't eat things. They don't plant When it comes
• 44:16
  Speaker 3: to like herbs and brandom flowers, right like, unless I
• 44:20
  Speaker 3: know what it's for, no touch.
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: There's too many like plants that look exactly like something
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: that's edible, but they're actually not and they're super poisonous.
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: They're like, yeah, yeah, I don't trust that.
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, now we're onto notock grass. Sonock grass in
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: the Magical World is a plant degree in one of
• 44:42
  Speaker 2: our favorite pressions, the polytus spoture. I love that, and
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: as we know, the polytruice proace should temporarly transform someone
• 44:54
  Speaker 2: into something else. So not grass can be found growing
• 44:58
  Speaker 2: in the Forbidden Forest, which and Hermione struggle through a
• 45:02
  Speaker 2: patch of on their way to meet him grow Up
• 45:04
  Speaker 2: in nineteen ninety six, just before the they and Hagar
• 45:10
  Speaker 2: were approached by centaurs fun Fat. The herb also appears
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: in the Expanded Whistling World Games and Law, where it's
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: associated with the hobology lessons and brewing potions, for example,
• 45:28
  Speaker 2: on Old Podmore remember that old game on podle I
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: remember this when I was reading the potable article on
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: knot grass that you could collect it, and I was like,
• 45:40
  Speaker 2: oh my god, you can. I forgot that existed.
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: I forgot about that. What a great game that was
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: yea with the little cauldron and the stirring.
• 45:50
  Speaker 2: I don't think it got very far, but still it
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: was a great game. And yeah, and fun fact, you
• 45:59
  Speaker 2: can purchase not grass for five gallons. Okay, I still
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: don't know if that's expensive or not, so.
• 46:08
  Speaker 3: Thinking the same exact thing, but I'm like, you know what,
• 46:10
  Speaker 3: I'm just gonna keep that as an insight.
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: Bot today because I'm like, I feel like this is
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: kind of pricey, right, Like I mean gallions.
• 46:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but I doesn't necessarily the little ones and then
• 46:24
  Speaker 3: sickles are the middle ones and it's five of the
• 46:27
  Speaker 3: big ones.
• 46:29
  Speaker 2: So like, and know, I'm pretty sure like a wand
• 46:34
  Speaker 2: is between seven and eleven gallons.
• 46:37
  Speaker 3: So then like, yeah, that's wand cheap. Like I feel
• 46:43
  Speaker 3: like a wand is cheap for what it is, but
• 46:45
  Speaker 3: I feel like for a plant that's expensive.
• 46:48
  Speaker 2: How much is a wand gallons? But I guess it
• 46:53
  Speaker 2: depends on how rare it is. Wonder is seven gallons
• 47:02
  Speaker 2: because like, isn't like basyclists getting like a couple of
• 47:05
  Speaker 2: hundred galloons or something because of how rare it is.
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: Maybe, I mean, I guess wines aren't really rare.
• 47:15
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so I don't know, hmm, yeah, they're pretty much
• 47:19
  Speaker 3: just steeple everyone.
• 47:20
  Speaker 2: I don't forget about ones is how certain elements of
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: the wand either the wood, what's in the in the
• 47:29
  Speaker 2: center is still all the same price, even though some
• 47:34
  Speaker 2: of those elements are very.
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: Rare, right, so then it'll be like just your luck
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: that the one with the super rare elements would choose you,
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: and then it'd be like super up charged. Yeah, well
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: this is the only one for you. But guess what
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: that's like, like seven hundred gallons.
• 47:51
  Speaker 2: Has anybody thought of just you know, taking off the tip,
• 47:55
  Speaker 2: taking out whatever's in it and selling it on Mmmm,
• 47:59
  Speaker 2: just saying I wouldn't be surprised as a black market
• 48:02
  Speaker 2: somewhere in nocturnality.
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: I Betjamin Dongus has thought of it.
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: Mm hmm.
• 48:08
  Speaker 3: Damn ones.
• 48:11
  Speaker 2: Circling back in the bugger world, no grass may refer
• 48:18
  Speaker 2: to several species in the Polygamus found in England and Europe.
• 48:24
  Speaker 2: It is most likely polyogummon uneclere, which is believed to
• 48:28
  Speaker 2: have halted growth of animals, and was mentioned in works
• 48:32
  Speaker 2: such as William Sage Sphere. The plant the plant in
• 48:40
  Speaker 2: the species are also commonly known as not wheed and
• 48:44
  Speaker 2: not grass. The etymology is pretty interesting. According to the
• 48:48
  Speaker 2: author's notes on the protion, the name notock grass symbolizes
• 48:51
  Speaker 2: being tied to another's identity, which is fitting considering it's
• 48:56
  Speaker 2: used in the polytues pression.
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: That makes sense.
• 49:01
  Speaker 3: So next is mallow sweet and this is an important
• 49:05
  Speaker 3: plant in Hogwarts legacy another Maryland trial. Everywhere apparently there's
• 49:15
  Speaker 3: like ninety of them. What ninety Merlin trials.
• 49:21
  Speaker 2: I accidentally stumbled across my fast on an it wasn't prepared. Yeah,
• 49:28
  Speaker 2: there's naughty.
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: There's a lot.
• 49:32
  Speaker 3: Everywhere. So outside of Hogwarts legacy, this plant is used
• 49:40
  Speaker 3: in divination by centaurs. They would burn it alongside sage
• 49:44
  Speaker 3: and read the smoke and the flames to tune in
• 49:49
  Speaker 3: more on what the stars were trying to tell them.
• 49:53
  Speaker 3: So they kind of use it as a gut check,
• 49:54
  Speaker 3: like stars are saying, this is this accurate? Am I
• 49:56
  Speaker 3: missing something?
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: So?
• 49:59
  Speaker 2: Does that mean are still doing that? You know, just
• 50:01
  Speaker 2: to make sure.
• 50:04
  Speaker 3: Obviously, And then it's also used by Madame Rose to
• 50:10
  Speaker 3: create extra sweet butter beer. Ooh, we don't know how
• 50:16
  Speaker 3: it can get sweeter, but I can Apparently it does.
• 50:20
  Speaker 3: There isn't exactly a one to one comparison for mallows
• 50:24
  Speaker 3: sweet and the Wizarding World to the Muggle world, but
• 50:29
  Speaker 3: I do believe I found the inspiration for this plant.
• 50:33
  Speaker 3: So it is the marsh mallow. The Alfaa officianalys is
• 50:39
  Speaker 3: a real plant indigenous to Europe, Western Asia, and North
• 50:43
  Speaker 3: Africa and moist marshy areas. It's a perennial plant that
• 50:47
  Speaker 3: can grow over six feet tall, featuring velvet like triangular
• 50:51
  Speaker 3: oval leaves and lilac or pink flowers that bloom in
• 50:55
  Speaker 3: the late summer. Pretty Ancient Egyptians use the sticky root
• 51:00
  Speaker 3: sap boiled with honey to treat sore throats and produce
• 51:03
  Speaker 3: a medicinal chewy confection, a method which flowed into marshmallows. Yeah,
• 51:12
  Speaker 3: which now use gelatin. So before we use the gelatin
• 51:15
  Speaker 3: to make the marshmallows, we used the root sap of
• 51:19
  Speaker 3: this plant, the marshmallow. Marsh mellow probably money. Probably gelatin
• 51:29
  Speaker 3: is easier and cheaper to create and probably doesn't take
• 51:31
  Speaker 3: as long to get due to the fact that this
• 51:35
  Speaker 3: is from like the sap of the root of the plant,
• 51:37
  Speaker 3: so you have to wait for the roots to grow,
• 51:38
  Speaker 3: and then you have to extract the sap to then
• 51:43
  Speaker 3: turn it into a marshmallow. Whereas I feel like gelatin's
• 51:47
  Speaker 3: lot mosier.
• 51:48
  Speaker 2: Than that.
• 51:51
  Speaker 3: Most things are, but I also feel like it would
• 51:55
  Speaker 3: probably be worth the f I am also now curious
• 51:59
  Speaker 3: as to what this version of a marshmallow taste like
• 52:01
  Speaker 3: compared to the version that.
• 52:02
  Speaker 2: We Again, if anybody asked you wants to buy it,
• 52:07
  Speaker 2: that's not I'm down. I'm interested in.
• 52:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah, me too. So other than those uses, it is
• 52:18
  Speaker 3: used in herbalism today for soothing properties and it can
• 52:22
  Speaker 3: help relieve inflammation of the mucous membranes in your mouth, nose,
• 52:26
  Speaker 3: and throat, which I've actually used current day marshmallows four
• 52:33
  Speaker 3: Sometimes if I have a sore throat, it will eat
• 52:35
  Speaker 3: a marshmallow and it does help.
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: I heard of this would be I would put it there.
• 52:44
  Speaker 3: It could fully be a placebo effect. However, I have
• 52:47
  Speaker 3: used marshmallow when I have a sore throat and I
• 52:49
  Speaker 3: don't want to eat anything, I'll break up in a
• 52:51
  Speaker 3: marshmallow and I'll eat that. It's also something to eat.
• 52:54
  Speaker 2: When you think you think about marshmallow, it sort of
• 52:57
  Speaker 2: feels like it would like get stopped with all the mucus,
• 53:00
  Speaker 2: is like it wouldn't help it at all. I guess
• 53:03
  Speaker 2: it kind of sound like soaks it up.
• 53:06
  Speaker 3: You know what, I've actually done that again, good people
• 53:12
  Speaker 3: to see bo I am not a doctor. I am
• 53:14
  Speaker 3: not advising this, but it won't harm you if you try.
• 53:22
  Speaker 3: Just don't have everybody and you should be fine. So
• 53:29
  Speaker 3: the etymology of mallow sweet. The mallow is derived from
• 53:34
  Speaker 3: the Latin malva and the Greek malconose, meaning soft, which
• 53:41
  Speaker 3: references the soothing or mollifying properties of the plant. And
• 53:44
  Speaker 3: then the sweet likely refers to the pleasant roma or
• 53:47
  Speaker 3: taste of the leadser branches used in magical brewing.
• 53:52
  Speaker 2: Next up we have shrivel feakes. Now these are used
• 53:55
  Speaker 2: in the shrinking solution pertion. They are flowers, the flowers
• 54:04
  Speaker 2: of the shore. The flowers of the shovel fig grew
• 54:09
  Speaker 2: inside the fruit, both of which were purple in color.
• 54:14
  Speaker 2: It was auous plant, meaning that it leaves start to
• 54:18
  Speaker 2: shed in autumn. The plant is leafless during winter. However,
• 54:22
  Speaker 2: due to its aggressive roots, the plant can still survive
• 54:25
  Speaker 2: even in the snowy conditions. The leaves have medical properties.
• 54:31
  Speaker 2: When the fruit was skinned, which was actually which was
• 54:36
  Speaker 2: actually the plant's flower and contained blossom inside, it produced
• 54:41
  Speaker 2: the purple liquid with protion making properties.
• 54:46
  Speaker 3: So the fig is the flower and the flowers are
• 54:49
  Speaker 3: in the fig.
• 54:51
  Speaker 2: That's what I got.
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: That's interesting.
• 54:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah, So it's like it's like a I would say,
• 54:58
  Speaker 2: it's more like how I mad it is. It's like
• 55:01
  Speaker 2: a fruit there's been left out too long and started
• 55:03
  Speaker 2: rott and it's like all shriveled. But when you open it,
• 55:07
  Speaker 2: it's like a beautiful flower insight that has the beautiful properties.
• 55:14
  Speaker 2: Now I'm just speaking Princess and the Pauper. When you know,
• 55:16
  Speaker 2: you crack that. Yeah. In nineteen ninety three, which is
• 55:26
  Speaker 2: the trio is third year good Old Snape taught his
• 55:29
  Speaker 2: third year Persian students to brew the shrinking solution. This
• 55:34
  Speaker 2: is when Draco claimed that he was too injured to
• 55:37
  Speaker 2: cut anything, and then Snake made Harry do it. So
• 55:42
  Speaker 2: in the mother world, while this is a magical plant,
• 55:47
  Speaker 2: it does have close equivalents in its functionality its appearance.
• 55:55
  Speaker 2: So one of them is that it could be closely
• 55:58
  Speaker 2: related to a course bigs and dried picks. The shrivelled
• 56:01
  Speaker 2: aspect suggests the plants similar to dried sprinkle figs, which
• 56:06
  Speaker 2: is common in wrinkly fruit. It's also close quickly closely
• 56:13
  Speaker 2: related to passion fruit. The inside of the shrivel fig
• 56:18
  Speaker 2: pod is described as being scooped out or sliced, and
• 56:22
  Speaker 2: it apparently could look similar to the inside of the
• 56:25
  Speaker 2: passion fruit. And that description comes from Hobart Susy. Yeah,
• 56:32
  Speaker 2: so the real shriveled plants in terms of being cultivated
• 56:37
  Speaker 2: unusual plants. Some people interpret them as exotic species of
• 56:44
  Speaker 2: succulents or dried fruits. So there's a couple, Well, it's
• 56:49
  Speaker 2: a magical plant, there's a couple of relations to Muggle world,
• 56:53
  Speaker 2: but I think it's going to be a combination of
• 56:56
  Speaker 2: a couple of different plants and fruits.
• 57:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, And then we have Valerian root. So
• 57:09
  Speaker 3: in the wizarding world, this is a potent magical herb,
• 57:12
  Speaker 3: primarily used in potion making for its powerful sedative properties.
• 57:17
  Speaker 3: This is another ingredient for draw of the living death,
• 57:21
  Speaker 3: draw of peace, and the frigate fullness potient. And if
• 57:25
  Speaker 3: you want to grow this yourself, mooncalf dung is used
• 57:29
  Speaker 3: to make Valerian more potentent, with fresh root being the
• 57:32
  Speaker 3: most effective. And mooncalfs are the cutest thing ever. I
• 57:38
  Speaker 3: want one. I would spread that all over my plants.
• 57:45
  Speaker 3: This is a one to one, I believe comparison. So
• 57:49
  Speaker 3: there is an actual plant named Valerian. It is native
• 57:52
  Speaker 3: to Europe and Asia, and it also grows in North America.
• 57:56
  Speaker 3: It grows up to one and a half meters or
• 57:58
  Speaker 3: five feet tall. Its stems are erect, usually unbranched, with
• 58:05
  Speaker 3: divided leaves, and the flowers are produced from June to August.
• 58:11
  Speaker 3: They are sweetly scented, pale pink, and occasionally white. Grouped
• 58:16
  Speaker 3: in both compound and secondary clusters. So there's like flower clusters,
• 58:20
  Speaker 3: and then there's clusters of flowers in the flower clusters.
• 58:23
  Speaker 2: Yes, that makes total sense.
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: Flowers within within fruits within flowers. Everything is inside something else.
• 58:35
  Speaker 3: Yes. The way I'm thinking of it is kind of
• 58:38
  Speaker 3: like a hydrangea, yeah, with more hydrangea, right, like hydrange
• 58:46
  Speaker 3: of steption. So the roots and rhizomes, which I don't
• 58:58
  Speaker 3: believe like clarified earlier, is the underground stem of the plant.
• 59:03
  Speaker 3: The roots and rhizomes of Valerian are used for medicinal purposes.
• 59:08
  Speaker 3: Valarian has been used medically since the time of early
• 59:11
  Speaker 3: Greece and Rome. Historically, it was used to treat insomnia, migraine, fatigue,
• 59:14
  Speaker 3: and stomach cramps. Today it's promoted for insomnia, anxiety, stress,
• 59:19
  Speaker 3: and depression. However, much like ginger root, there's not enough
• 59:25
  Speaker 3: evidence to determine if it is actually useful for these
• 59:29
  Speaker 3: conditions or if it's giving you that placebo effect.
• 59:32
  Speaker 2: Again, hey, if it gives you the Slaver effect, well
• 59:36
  Speaker 2: de bait.
• 59:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah, at least it makes I would rather have a
• 59:39
  Speaker 3: placebo than an actual medication which could provide me with
• 59:45
  Speaker 3: additional side effects.
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: Fair.
• 59:47
  Speaker 3: One of those sound harmless, one of them sounds scary?
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 59:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 59:53
  Speaker 3: So for the etymology, it comes from Late Middle English
• 59:58
  Speaker 3: or from Old French valerie enne or from Medieval Latin valeriana,
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 3: and it's apparently the feminine of feminine phenomenon.
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: Apparently the feminine.
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 2: It's a phenomenon.
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 3: Phenomena. Okay, apparently the feminine of Valerinas, which is a
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 3: personal name. So this one actually doesn't seem to be
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 3: like super tied to the plant or what it does now.
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 2: I'm to a lost plant, which is Venus tentacula. So
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 2: the Veniceon tacula is one of the most dangerous magical
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 2: plants in the Higher Party universe. It is spikey, spiky,
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 2: dark red plant with long moving vines, and highly venomous.
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 2: When it bites, the plant can grab, strangle, and attack
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 2: anyone who gets too close, making it a favorite example
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 2: among hopology At Hogwarts. Students encounter veniceon tentacular in Harry
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 2: Potter and The Chamber of Secrets during the hopologyism which
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 2: Professor Sprout. Professor Sprout warns the students to be careful
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 2: because the plant is teething and it's feelers try to
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 2: grab people unexpectedly. Unexpectedly. Yeah, but it's being a twelve
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 2: year old just standing in hopology. It's like, okay, I
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 2: could die to say yeah. But honestly, the tracks at Hogwarts,
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 2: I love it.
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 3: It's a baby and it's teething, so it's going to
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 3: nibble on my arm.
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: Just one of those things where like they act like
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 1: so casual about it. It's so funny, stunt. All the
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: mother lawns, No, you're.
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 2: Fine, you'll be right. We should be fine, let's don't
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 2: touch it. So while the plant may be dangerous, highly dangerous,
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 2: it also has a lot of magical properties that are
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 2: very desirable. It's leaves were pretient ingredients worth about ten
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 2: gollions each. Its juice act like a painful, non leapful
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 2: poison that causes burning sensation and purple skin. Our favorite
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 2: Weasley Twins use its seeds in products for wizards wheezies.
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 2: Hopefully they didn't. That did not come to any harm
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 2: to anybody as far as we're aware.
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 3: Tested it on themselves first, that's fine.
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah. And during the Battle of Hogwarts, these bad boys
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 2: were used as weapons against the defeaters. Yeah. Oh, I
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 2: can't wait to see that in the TV show. They
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 2: better bring that part to life.
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 3: Oh, but also able to be used as a weapon
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 3: in Hogwarts Legacy. You can grow them yourselves and then
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 3: roll them out to attack people.
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 2: In Hogwarts Legacy, it's there is no mumble. Well there
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 2: isn't mug or equivalent, but not really. The closest is
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 2: probably the beggest fire trap.
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 3: Just that's what I was thinking.
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah, just how it's description and everything, which is very
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 2: much where the name likely comes from. In the real
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 2: World tentacular reflects like an octopus like grabbing vines combined
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 2: with venomous because it's poisonous, and yeah, resembles the magical
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 2: cross between cannabis plants like the Vana's fly trap and
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 2: dangerous strangling vines from folklore and fantasy.
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 3: Remember, if you're every curious if it's poisonous or venomous.
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 3: If you bite it and you die, that's poisonous. If
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 3: it bites you and you die, that's venomous.
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 1: The sad part is once you test that out, you
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 1: can't pass on that knowledge.
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 3: So be careful what you bite or what bites you.
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, So lots of plants in the Wizarding World.
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 1: And it's funny because, like I was thinking of this
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 1: conversation as herbology, but like really it's mostly potion making.
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 1: Like most of these yes end up being used in potions, and.
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 2: We haven't talked about half of them that life. We darn't. Yeah,
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 2: I didn't talk about the mandrick mm.
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 1: Hmm, Mambulus, mimbletonia. Yeah, there's quite a few.
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 2: It won't be willow like that's a m.
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 3: We could do a whole.
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 1: Part too, amy, We could look at that.
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 3: Something to look forward to maybe in the future there listeners.
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so, nyos.
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 1: So, last episode, we asked you what are your thoughts
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 1: on the character of Remus Lupin, And we've got a
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 1: few responses.
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 2: So from Carolyn, she said, I agree with Nicole that
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 2: he is trying to leave Tonks is misunderstood in the
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 2: eyes of a seventeen year old boy who has lost
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 2: his parents. That said, it was a bit cowardly. Nonetheless,
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 2: in a healthy relationship, you communicate with your partner, and
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 2: he just left. I don't think Lupin fought through the
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 2: consequences of his actions, though, so I give him some
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 2: grace in that respect. Overall, he's still one of my
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 2: favorite characters.
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, Dan McGregor says, he is my favorite character.
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 3: I know he isn't perfect, but no one is, which
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 3: is what makes him so interesting, you know, it makes
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 3: him that's what makes him like so multi dimensional.
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's again only human. That's the theme of this episode.
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 2: It shouldn't be called an abolished it just seems to
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 2: be called episode forty four. No, we're only plants.
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 1: Oh no, all right, And then from Jerry, we got
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 1: I very much enjoyed your two related episodes. On Lupin
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 1: and wear Wolves, referring to our Werewolve's discussion that was
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 1: a Patreon exclusive, so go check out Patreon if you
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 1: want to see that. Jerry continues, I am a big
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 1: fan of Lupin and very much understand and forgive him
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 1: for his flaws and insecurities. I remember reading the Potter
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 1: Moore Werewolf article back in the day and going back
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 1: to reread more recently. I do have one big issue
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 1: with the way the issue is dealt with in the books.
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 1: During the school year, Lupin is away for apparently several
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 1: days at a time enough the snape ends up substitute
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 1: teaching more than once, and in the discussions of his youth,
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 1: he apparently spent some day times in the shack, but
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 1: when he transforms after the Shrinking Shack episode, he doesn't
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 1: do so until exposed to the full moon and is
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 1: back in human form by the next morning and well
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 1: enough to pack his things and walk out of the school.
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 1: This has always seemed inconsistent to me in Hogwartmi.
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 2: Here, Jerry sign here, and every unstoo like. It did
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  Speaker 2: not make sense.
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, and Hogwarts mystery to which I have become
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  Speaker 1: addicted is taking up time I would normally spend reading
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 1: or listening to audiobooks and or podcasts. There is some
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 1: werewolf data. There is a side quest related to a
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 1: young student werewolf for whom Snape has been brewing wolf
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 1: spain potion, who was giving it to Lupin, whom she
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 1: met in the Forbidden Forest, where he was searching for
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 1: a very rare and expensive ingredient needed to brew the potion.
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 2: And of course it's in the forest.
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 3: Of course, of course, please always.
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 1: The game states that one needs to take the potion
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 1: for the week before the full moon. The student in
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 1: Lupin have made friends with a very cute and friendly
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 1: and smart werewolf cub, apparently from those that Dumbledore released
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 1: into the forest. But if at least one ingredient for
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 1: the potion was very expensive and also rare, it would
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 1: be one more difficulty for the unemployed werewolf who was
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 1: trying to be good. I suppose one theory about his
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 1: rapid return to normal at the end of the book
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 1: is that he had drunk the potion for six out
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 1: of the seven days he was supposed to. But if
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 1: he was still absent from teaching class earlier in the
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 1: school year, when he had taken all seven days of
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 1: the potion, or however many were required. Since the game
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 1: isn't official, why just part of one night at the
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 1: end and himself the day before and the day after
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 1: the full moon. But then timeline and related maths weren't
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 1: the strength of the author. Note the missing twenty four
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 1: hours at the beginning of book one.
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you're not wrong, Jerry, You're not wrong.
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 1: I do think this is just kind of a plot
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 1: hole inconsistency issue.
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 2: See.
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 3: And I'm wondering if the potion dilutes the effects of
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 3: being a were wolf to the point where the recovery
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 3: is longer, whereas if you just give into it, allow
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 3: it to fully take over you for that twenty four hours,
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 3: if it's a faster recovery time, because that's what your
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 3: body in that situation is supposed to do, Like I
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 3: turn back. Yeah, where like because you turn into a wolf,
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 3: but you're a tame wolf. You like, it takes away
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 3: a lot of that aggressive nature. So I wonder if
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 3: in messing with the science of were wolf transformation, if
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 3: that affects it in the long run, giving you a
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 3: longer recovery when no using the potion versus just the transformation.
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 3: Get it out don't fight it.
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 1: I wonder if, like I mean, if you only transform
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 1: at night, like in the full moon, like during the daytime.
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 1: I'm wondering if he still stayed away during the daytime,
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 1: because it'd be kind of weird to like only disappear later,
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 1: like if it's all sick, you're sick, like you're not
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 1: just certain hours of the day.
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 2: But also does it do take effect because like during
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 2: winter and stuff, you can see the moon during the day.
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 2: Does that mean he's still well? Like, how does in
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 2: this universe work? Is it only when it's nighttime or
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 2: it can used to be a were of when there's
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 2: a full moon during the day.
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 1: That's true, it.
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 3: Only happened when the full moon rises in sets, because
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 3: sometimes the moon doesn't rise until like later in the evening.
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 3: So like you could have this whole span of nighttime
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 3: where there is no moon, so you could be normal,
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 3: and then it shifts and then you have to be
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 3: werewolf during the day for a little bit, right, which
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 3: makes which.
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 2: Kind of makes sense with the film Big Book, because
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 2: that doesn't happen till late in the evening. But also
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 2: if the mood had but it looked like the mood
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 2: had risen by that point, but that could just be high.
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 2: It was high.
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 3: It was high.
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 2: Does that mean he asked to see it?
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I wonder though in the book because
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 1: I don't know that it was fully dark when they
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 1: came out of the shack. So maybe it was just
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 1: like starting to appear up in the sky at that point.
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 1: Maybe it was like dusk.
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 2: I don't know, and the films just went well, they
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 2: look cool or not?
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, huh so many questions, yeah, and we might
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 1: never get the answers. All we can do is speculate.
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 3: Just sun part.
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 2: Our discussion question for this week is what Wiziting planned
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 2: would you like to be able to grow in your garden.
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 1: I can to see these answers.
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna put my answer down when I.
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 3: Feel like number one answer is going to probably be mandrake.
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 2: No, because I don't want to deal with it. You
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 2: should have to repot it. I don't want to deal
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 2: with that.
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 3: Okay, you should repot most plants that you have, if
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 3: they are the space that you have given them, you
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 3: need to replant them.
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 2: My plants and not screaming at me when they get
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 2: repopped through.
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 1: They're not trying to kill you what they're.
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 2: And I'm sorry, but I leave in a department building
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 2: and I don't want my neighbors to come out going.
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 3: Sure, okay, can you imagine the self defense? You just
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 3: keep a man drake by your door and there's an intruder.
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 3: You're just like plan.
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 2: Honestly, yeah, I love the idea.
• 1:13:56
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• 1:14:02
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• 1:14:26
  Speaker 1: our extended werewolf discussion from last episode.
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 2: HM.
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 1: So until next time, I'm Amy, I'm Lucy, I'm Stephanie,
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 1: miss managed