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So what it what are pants
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I looked it up.
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doing in ~ ice cream sundae?
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Well,
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Hello and welcome back to Inside Quotes,
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the Book Club. we are here starting chapter two of Harry Potter
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and the Sorcerer's Stone, or the Philosopher's Stone,
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if you're British. we if a little backstory on us,
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we are doing this as a experiment on our show.
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But we are doing books that turn into movies that we love and are part
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of our childhood. And what better book to start off with than Harry Potter?
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~
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That's
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right.
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We aren't gonna do all the Harry Potters,
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by the way. feel like we didn't really make that clear in the last episode,
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but we aren't planning to do all the Harry Potters consecutively.
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We might do them eventually, ~ like as as the HBO show goes out.
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But we're focusing on
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That's that's what I'm thinking.
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we're focusing other movies,
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books turn movies, after this.
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So we're just starting out because this lines up perfectly.
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So just letting y'all know that before we
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commit to the whole series.
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So should we get started on ~ chapter two?
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Yeah, let's let's dive in.
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Alright, so immediately my first impression of this ~ chapter
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art is that that is not my Dudley.
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Dudley looks so weird. He looks
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Yeah.
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like a Cappy Barra with wings.
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And I don't
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I see it.
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know. Yeah. I he's supposed to be a pig,
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I guess. That's how he's described.
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Dudley catches some strays in this chapter.
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Let me tell you what. ~
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Yeah. Rowling's like, Why would he want a a racing bike?
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He's he's d he's very
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he's very made fun of for his image.
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And it's not like he doesn't deserve it because he's kind of an evil kid.
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But also at the end of the day,
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he's ten years old. He's eleven years old.
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Calm
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Mm.
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down. Don't go easy on him. Maybe he'll be nicer.
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but once again,
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I have this theory of I want
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the narrator to be narrating each chapter as the Great British Baking Show.
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this is the chapter where Dudley has his birthday and this is all this
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is really Dudley's chapter.
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Mm-hmm.
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And this is also the one where Harry talks of snakes.
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But ~ let's not talk about that.
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Alright,
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chapter two, The Vanishing Glass.
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Ten years later, Harry is living unhappily with the Dursleys.
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He sleeps in a cupboard under the stairs,
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is treated poorly by Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon,
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and is constantly bullied by his cousin Dudley.
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On Dudley's birthday, the family visits the zoo.
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Harry discovers that he seems to have a strange ability to communicate with a snake.
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When Dudley pushes Harry aside to see it,
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the glass separating the snake from the visitors mysteriously disappears,
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allowing the snake to escape. The Dursleys blame Harry and punish him.
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Calarity ensues.
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Can't help it.
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Can't help it. so yeah, this is our first glimpse of young well,
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I guess older Harry. ~ he is ten years old at this point.
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We've fast forwarded ten years from chapter one,
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which is not always the case in most books.
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Yeah.
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So and we it opens up with the scene of
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the Dursley's house empty 'cause nobody's gotten up yet.
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And it's I kinda want this to be a piece of the the show.
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I I for some reason I like seeing how peaceful and warm and calm
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the house is without these insane people to be on screen.
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Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
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So
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I thought that'd be cool 'cause it's like it says like the sun rose on
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the same tidy front gardens and lit up the brass number four on
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the Dursley's front door. It crept into their living room.
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Like that's a great establishing shot.
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And then all of a sudden like like home alone style,
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everybody's the hustle and bustle of their work day.
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Yeah. We slept in.
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Yeah. And then all of a sudden everybody's older.
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That'd be a cool that'd be a cool intro for the for the show.
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Yeah. Mm. yeah.
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Mm-hmm.
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I don't know.
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Hm. First of all, the first stray that Dudley is getting taking
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is where he gets called a giant pink beach ball.
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In his baby photos? Yeah.
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Wearing different colored bonnets.
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Yes.
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~ yikes. He's no longer a baby,
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but the photograph showed a large blonde boy riding his first bicycle.
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So he takes after I guess both of
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his parents are blonde. The Dursleys are blonde.
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Yeah, I guess so. Mm-hmm.
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I also wanna make note from the chapter art I made a note saying that
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he doesn't look like Cappy Bear.
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He looks like Ice Age Baby.
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Ha ha ha.
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Hmm.
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Take that for what you will.
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Not a beach ball. Ice age baby.
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He's Ice Age Baby. Which I realize that kid doesn't have a name.
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Harry has a dream. He wakes up in his this is our first glimpse of the cupboard.
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This is his life with the Dursleys.
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But he's not it's not what you expect.
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Like he I mean, these people suck.
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But you'd expect them to treat him well.
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After ten years, like just raise them as your own,
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almost. But no, they put him under the stairs.
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How sad is this? ~
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And he's getting he wakes up to Ampetunio knocking on his door and yelling
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at him to get up and cook some food.
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Sound of the frying pan being put on the stove.
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And then he wakes up and he he says,
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I had a dream about a motorcycle.
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Which is kind of cool because that's all we know of his experience is that
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he rode a motorcycle to get to this house.
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~ and I think in the show, in the trailer,
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you can see ~ there's a clipping of a f motorcycle that looks like it's flying
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on his wall.
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that he decorated himself. That's such a tiny detail that makes me super excited
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for the show.
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that's cool.
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so there even like this stupid little line is already being put into the show.
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So I feel very good about it so far.
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This also makes me feel like Harry is going to get a motorcycle
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it during his midlife crisis after this whole series is over.
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Yeah.
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~
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He's probably gonna have a midlife crisis earlier than the rest of us.
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He he lived a lot of life in his teenage years,
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He he sure has. His midlife crisis is Order the Phoenix.
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you know.
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and then we've got ~ Dudley's birthday here and we want everything
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to be perfect on Duddy's special day.
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~ and it he's instructed to make bacon.
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And I just have a feeling that Dudley is a connoisseur of bacon.
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So much so, like since this is the American version,
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I'm thinking American bacon. I have a feeling that he makes
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his parents ship American bacon
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to their house because he prefers that.
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Who likes English bacon better?
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It's better than Canadian bacon.
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I d I don't know what the difference is.
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It's like fattier and like scrunch scrunchlier.
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It's not really like strips of bacon.
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Okay. Okay.
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Just like random cuts of meat.
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I love this narration also where he's like he found
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a pair of socks under his bed.
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Harry's he pulled a spider off of his sock,
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but Harry was used to spiders because the cupboard under the stairs was full
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of ~ And that was where he slept.
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That's just another narration.
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then we've got
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Dudley getting all of his new presents.
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And he didn't get as many as last year.
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So he's throwing a fit. And the
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Mm-hmm.
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number of presents is thirty-six.
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But last year he had thirty seven.
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Thirty six, that's less than last year.
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Not as well as a good a delivery as the movie.
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I think that that Dudley was he was having a crisis.
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Yeah. I prefer that. I prefer that version.
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well I I liked that Uncle Vernon just like you know,
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tussles his hair, it's like little tyke once his money's worth,
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just like his father, you know.
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Mm-hmm.
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He ~ just likes to call him little tyke all the time.
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Feel like you said that. yeah.
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Little tyke. He said that in the first one.
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Yeah.
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There there's also he as Harry is talking about well,
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in the section that it's talking about his dream with the motorbike,
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he also r he it talks about how he asked Petunia about,
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you know, his scar and where it came from.
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And I he says that it's the only thing about his his appearance
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he actually liked was his his scar,
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which I didn't really remember it saying that.
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But she basically just said, Well,
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it happened in the accident and ~ that killed your parents and don't
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ask any more questions. And that's
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Yeah.
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that is the the number one rule for a quiet life at the Dursleys.
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Don't ask questions. You know.
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Be normal, don't attract attention,
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don't ask questions. You know.
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Stay under the stairs.
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But he can't help it. He has to make fun of these people.
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He's more mouthy in the books than in ~ the movie that we've seen so far.
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He's like he will be like you you
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He is, yeah. I know. I keep thinking of
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he talks back like crazy.
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Yeah.
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He's like, Y you make Dudley do that.
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I don't need he's like
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Yeah, I
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I think that might be in chapter three,
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but
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Right.
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I feel like there's some more stuff in chapter three,
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but yeah.
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But he's
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calling I mean, in his head he's calling Dudley like a pig in a wig.
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e easy to dodge a
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It Harry is very fast in comparison to him,
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so he doesn't he feels like he can make fun of him and get away with it,
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but it's
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Yeah.
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also like he's not that fast. He's just it's easy to dodge a beach ball.
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Yeah, there's there's a bit of narration there that it says like Dudley thought
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for a moment. It looked like hard work then I wrote that down.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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~
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~
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these Dirseys are just so funny.
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Like I want that to be instead of mean,
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I I yeah, I I I agree.
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I want them to be funny mean.
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I feel like there's a lot of comedy that can be found if they really like highlight
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the jerseys. I on the other hand,
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but it is that kind of like dark comedy because they're like so abusive.
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So
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Mm-hmm.
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I don't know, even like shots of the trailer like cutting his hair
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and stuff like that,
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Yeah.
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~ I mean it just looks like such a traumatic event,
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but like, you know.
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But you know who you know
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what author did that so well? Roll Dahl.
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Mm-hmm. Yeah, that's true.
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In every
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book he there's some sort of traumatic abuse going on in all of his
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Mm-hmm. Yeah.
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books, and yet it's so funny still.
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Not that, but like he finds the humor in things and
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Yeah. I
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it's quirky and I really hope that that's what this show is gonna be.
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'Cause I'm getting that from this book.
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Mm-hmm. I and I I I get that the
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the Dursleys just go so far out of their way to make
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his life like the
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They don't need to go that hard.
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like miserable. I I now I can't remember if it's in chapter two or chapter three,
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but just like how ~ you know,
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they're gonna go to different schools.
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Dudley's gonna go to Smeltings,
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he's gonna go to the the public school or whatnot.
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And the fact that like
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I feel like they're a well off family,
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but the fact that they go to the effort of like just taking Dudley's
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old clothes and dyeing them grey so
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Dynam gray.
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that he has some clothes to wear,
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like they're going
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Yeah.
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out of their way at that point to do that.
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Like they're not in a bad hard up situation where they're like,
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well, we need to we do need to do this to make ends meet,
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I feel like.
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I think that's in chapter three.
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You're getting a little head of yourself,
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Okay. I'm I'm getting ahead of myself.
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brother.
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I have a theory that I want to put towards you.
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this little part where he's saying that he has all of Dudley's old clothes,
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but they don't really fit because he's always been so much smaller than him.
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That says something to Dudley being a bigger kid,
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but also he's always been small and skinny for his age.
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~ he looked even smaller and skinnier than he really was because of the clothes.
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But
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It makes me think of like the goldfish theory,
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like if you put him in a small cupboard,
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if you will, he's gonna be a small person.
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And if you put him give him a small leash psychologically
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and you don't give him a lot of leeway,
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he can't really grow. So they're very abusive to him.
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And it's I I found that interesting that he got his growth spurt after
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he goes to Hogwarts and not this summer.
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It's like after he has this entire castle to explore,
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~ he can grow in physicality and mentally.
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I like that. I think that I think that tracks.
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Yeah. Well I hope that's what she was going for.
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Mm-hmm.
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we've got some weird glimpse of magic in Harry that we don't really know about with
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his haircut. Keeps growing back and he can't really explain why.
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Like the next day almost.
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It brought an idea to attention to me that like are there wizard barbers?
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'Cause it's not like specifically a wizard thing that their hair grows.
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It's just like a weird thing that is like seeping out of him magic.
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I
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I don't
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know, what what is that all about?
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with his hair constantly growing back?
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Yeah.
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I guess in other books it talks about kinda how when you know,
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wizards are young, you know, things like that do just kinda manifest.
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You know, there's signs of of magical abilities,
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like earlier on, you know, even before they
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Yeah, okay.
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get to that age. But so I feel like there's just such an emotional
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tie to it, you know. Like I feel like some of those moments where he gets
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in trouble in later books is because he has some kind of like strong emotional
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outburst, you know.
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Yeah.
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You know, and he can't control the magic.
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And you know, he was really I I do think that it was a very traumatic thing.
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Like he did not I mean, Petitia's like really cut like shaving his hair,
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except for his his bangs, you know,
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to cover his scar. You know, and he
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Cover that nasty scar.
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was just dreading I mean, he was getting bullied at school,
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you know, ~ and just made fun of for his oversized clothes and nobody liked
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him 'cause of Dudley told him not to like him.
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So I I just you know.
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Yeah, they were too s people couldn't stand up
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for him because they were so scared of Dudley.
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And and it says he spent like a sleepless night,
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you know, ~ after that, like dreading going to school the next day.
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So I just feel like it has to do with that that fear and that I don't know,
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just that intense emotion of just like wanting to fit in,
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but yeah. I don't know.
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That is so sad.
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That's my theory there. Yeah.
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I feel like
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every everybody can relate to getting bullied in school.
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Unless you were the bully. Then if you were
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Apologize.
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Then you then you get it too. You know,
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you did it.
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Yeah. So you get
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Like
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it.
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one one of my like earliest potter memories of reading this book
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is just really remembering the scene where well,
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just they're describing it in the book of him like running away from Dudley
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and his gang and he finds himself somehow he jumps and he finds himself
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on top of like the kitchen roofs at school.
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And like
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Yeah.
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I remember that was something I remembered from the book when I was a kid
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and like I
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He force
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jumped.
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I wanted yeah, I wanted to see that in the movie and and we never got to see that.
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So ~ yeah, like these kind of instances of weird magical abilities
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starting to show up in this chapter is something I do hope we get in the HBO show.
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And just from the clips of getting his hair cut,
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you know, in the trailer, we're we'll at least get that that portion of it,
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so
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Yeah. we're making all these predictions and we're gonna seem really cool.
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But we just I just h have a feeling everything is gonna be shown.
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I I
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hope so. I mean, that that is the promise of the HBO show is that they said that
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they were gonna do faithful adaptations.
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So I again it's an adaptation,
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you can't put everything in there.
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But, you know, I'm gonna lose some confidence if they go in and they start like
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changing stuff or cutting out like important stuff.
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Like, you know. Yeah.
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Yeah, if they don't show Pierce Polcus,
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I'll be upset, you know.
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Yeah.
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Cause that is an even that's such a like a They're trying to figure out what
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to do with Harry in this next part.
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And they don't want to like leave him at home,
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even though he wants that, because they're like,
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We don't want you to ruin our house.
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Mm-hmm.
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And then they don't want to leave him in the car,
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which is already barbaric, because the car's new.
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And then the
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The reason he he usually stays with Mrs.
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Fig, whose house smells of cabbage and cats,
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I think. And he's like sh
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Yeah. Do you know the name of the cats?
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I don't. What are the names is that a trivia question?
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I got a trivia question.
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Okay.
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I'll let you complete your thoughts.
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Okay, I was just
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saying, it's just like you're kicking a horse when he's down.
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Like not only can he go, he can he not go to the zoo for his cousin's birthday.
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~ but like he gets to take a friend with him instead of Harry.
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Yeah.
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Piers Polkas takes Harry's spot.
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Yeah.
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That's so that's the worst thing to hear as a ten year old kid.
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Like I'm not getting I'm not fitting in with my own
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Yeah.
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family.
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Mm.
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And it's not his family, but it is,
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you know, so whatever. ~
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Yeah, they ~
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I I liked how they when they go to the zoo and they're getting ice cream
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for like Pierce and Dudley and then like the the st the ice cream person just like
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automatically then like turns to Harry's like,
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what will you be having? And they're just like,
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we weren't gonna get something,
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you know. So they get the cheapest thing on the menu,
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Get him like a freezy pop. Ice pop,
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the lemon ice pop. Yeah. But he said it wasn't bad.
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yeah. And he even says, It was pretty good.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, it
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was pretty good. But turns out Dudley hated his first option.
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A
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Mm-hmm.
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knickerbocker glory? What is
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Yeah. Did you look that up?
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a kn what is a knickerbocker glory?
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I looked up what knickerbockers were and those were pants.
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So what it what are pants
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I I looked it up.
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doing in ~ ice cream sundae?
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Well,
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do you know the color of the pants?
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Are they like the stripes? Like the white and red stripes?
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Do you know that? Okay.
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N I don't know. Am I missing that?
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I thought it was just like a banana split.
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I don't know, but
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I'm just picturing his outfit from like Chamber of Secrets,
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the movie.
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Yeah.
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Or the first movie. I don't know.
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Okay, here
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Let me
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this is a Knickerbocker glory here.
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Okay.
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It's an ice cream sundae and it's like layered with like some real fruit.
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And it looks like like a strawberry syrup.
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So it has
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Okay.
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kind of like a red, white and blue kind of look to it.
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Yeah. But but
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Like their flag, Union Jack. Okay.
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It looks American to me.
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it's like a big, tall, you know,
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in a tall ice you know, Sunday glass,
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Yeah.
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so
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So he complained that there wasn't enough ice cream on top of that.
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Yeah, he d he didn't get enough.
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my goodness. Okay.
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So Harry got to finish it.
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So Harry cut two desserts. That's pretty
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Yeah.
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nice.
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So I mean it's a pretty good day for him until
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Pretty good.
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The reptile room.
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He even got this really cool sweater though.
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Orange brown with orange puffballs.
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That's pretty awesome. I would wear that.
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~
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Mm-hmm.
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Harry wouldn't. It magically shrunk so he didn't have to wear it.
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Car
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magically. ~ wait,
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I thought I was gonna say something else.
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We talked about
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yeah, they they take to like adventure parks and hamburger restaurants
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or the movies. And I noted that like there's another British ism.
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Mm.
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I don't feel like anybody calls them hamburger restaurants.
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Fast food? Burger joints.
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Yeah, the actually the the
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the American version said burger restaurants and the full cast version
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Yeah.
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said burger bars. Yeah.
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Burger bars? That's even worse.
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Like a burger
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bar. So I d I don't know. Guess that's what they call over there.
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Okay. Alright.
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Hadn't got restaurants. It's a burger joint at least.
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And that honestly burger joint doesn't sound great either,
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but
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That's all I needed to say. I I like to note these ~ British isms that bleed
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through the story.
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Mm-hmm.
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It's just like a cultural shock that she just didn't translate to America.
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But yeah, we've got this Brazilian mm Python?
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BOA constrictor?
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Bow a constrictor.
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This is something I want to see well done.
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I want him to speak more than in the movie when he just said thank and
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st and he just like nodded. I want this to be a actual conversation,
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and I either want him to have a Brazilian accent or the like most cogney
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accent ever, because he was bred in captivity.
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I want that
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Yeah.
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to be I want that to be a real conversation.
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~ and then I kinda go back to it at the end where he says,
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Brazil, here I come, thanks amigo.
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He should have a Brazilian accent then.
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Or, you know, if he's like a cabby like Fikes amigo
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Yeah. Mm hmm.
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Yeah. Now, when you say conversation though,
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between him, like the way I I'm reading it in the book is that he's like almost like
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they're understanding each other,
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He's not saying anything, you're right.
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but they're not
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talking, but like they can kind of hear each other's other's thoughts.
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I don't know. Yeah.
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That's all I'm saying. I want him to
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hear his thoughts as an accent,
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Mm.
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basically.
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Yeah. I would agree, I would like that full line though from the book,
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like Brazil, here I come. Thanks,
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amigo.
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I want
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him to be happy and like slither off.
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It was a scary scene. then the zoo director is apologizing after the glass vanishes.
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One thing I made note of, like the movie added this,
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they didn't have they had Dudley fall
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in the tank and the glass
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and get trapped in?
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reappeared and he's trapped in the empty tank.
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Yeah.
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I like that. That's a good addition.
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I don't need to see it again. But Yeah,
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I I was like, the he just released He didn't trap Dudley in there.
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Mm-hmm. That's true. Yeah.
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That was a big surprise. ~
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and then Aunt Petunia gets a cup of strong sweet tea.
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So you mean southern sweet tea or iced tea?
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The south of England.
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Yeah.
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and then obviously Harry has ruined this entire day by talking to this snake
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and Piers really outs him out.
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and Uncle Vernon is livid.
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He can't even speak. He says, Go Cupboard Stay
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No meals And then he gets a nice ~ sip a large glass of brandy,
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so
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Mm-hmm.
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Things are not good between him and the Jerseys right now.
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Mm-hmm.
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But they should have just let him come in the first place.
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And he wouldn't be so emotional.
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If only he had stayed home with Mrs.
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Fig and her cats.
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And cabbage. But she broke her leg.
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Like why can't she just watch him with a broken leg?
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I don't understand that.
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Yeah. Mrs Mrs. Fig is also someone that is like that's a name that gets it's like
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Yep. She shows up.
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planted here,
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but she shows up, she's referenced again,
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and then she ends up having like a bigger role than you would expect later on.
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Yeah. Yep.
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~
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But I did write down the names of her cats for my trivia trivia.
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Okay, what are they?
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Tibbles, Snowy, Mr. Paws,
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and Tufty.
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Ooh.
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Which if you had a cat, what would you pick those names?
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I think I'm going with Tufty.
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I like Tufty, but maybe 'cause it's last in the list.
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Tibbles. Tibbles. You say Tibbles?
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Mr. Paws kinda kinda makes me funny.
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Did I say it makes me funny?
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It makes you it makes you funny sometimes.
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It makes Mr. Paws makes me funny.
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Pause.
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Yeah, Tufty's a good one.
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What did you say Tibbles?
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Tibbles, yeah. Snowy. Yeah.
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They're all good. Snowy stinks.
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It they're
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Don't g don't ever get a white cat and call him Snowball.
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S Snowball Steward Little.
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That's so embarrassing. Ugh.
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Stuart Little.
25:58
Alright. and then we are finally at the end here in the last page
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of the chapter. And he comes across this group of strange people that
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are like he almost thinks like they know him,
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but he's like ~ he just wants to somebody else to be on his side for once.
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It's not even like Mrs. Fig is on his side,
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like he hates her too.
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Yeah.
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~ but the st
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He says he says
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like I should feel bad about her breaking her leg,
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but on the other hand, it's like a whole other year 'til I have to like hang
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out with her again, so I don't mind.
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That's true. Yeah.
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Plus he gets to go to the zoo for once.
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It's like pretty
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Yeah.
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nice. He didn't have to go school.
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~
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And I feel too I I feel so bad for him.
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I mean for multiple reasons, but like yeah,
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he just like once he just
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One, he's an orphan. Two
26:53
like he's looking forward to going to the zoo.
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Even if he knows he's gonna go there,
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there he's gonna be ignored or like worse,
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like just like treated horribly the whole time
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Yeah.
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and blamed for everything. But like he still like is managing to try
27:06
and find like it's actually a pretty good day,
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you know or you know? Yeah.
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Yeah. I mean he's just used to it at this point.
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He's
27:12
just he just goes with emotions,
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he's just surviving. But it really is a wonder that he hasn't tried to run away yet.
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Even at ten years old, I feel like I tried to run away.
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And I didn't get I had a great life.
27:26
So then we've got these strangers on the street that seem
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to know him, and I thought they were of note,
27:35
and I would like to make some theories on who they are.
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Number one, I'm pretty sure this one is confirmed.
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The tiny man in a violet top hat,
27:43
which we kinda talked about last week,
27:45
Diddleless Diggle. Diddle Diggle?
27:47
Okay. Okay. Okay.
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I'm pretty sure that's confirmed as him.
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Because
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I think he shows up in the leaky cauldron also and says that he saw him.
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~ I'm not exactly sure.
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Yeah. I remember he does. Mm-hmm.
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Maybe
27:59
it's Doris Crockfoot.
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Okay.
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I'm not sure who the green ~ a wild old woman dressed in all green
28:09
The only person that wears green is McGonagall that I know of,
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and I don't think she's called wild and old.
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So it might be another leaky cauldron person or just a random person.
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But then this one's really interesting.
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A bald man in a very long purple coat had actually shaken his hand
28:27
in the street the other day and then walked away without a word.
28:30
the weirdest thing about all these people is that they seem to vanish
28:35
the second Harry saw them. Okay,
28:37
this bald guy.
28:39
Think of think of the bald people in this wizarding world.
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There's not a lot. Bald people that wear purple.
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We've got Kingsley Shacklebolt
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and Quirinius Quarrel.
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Yeah.
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My theory is that this is Quirl.
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And he shakes his hand because this is before he gets the turban.
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This is before he
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Yeah. Hmm.
29:04
gets the ~ you know what? On the
29:07
Mm-hmm.
29:08
Back of his you know what?
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Ha ha ha.
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~ and he wears purple, so I feel like and he doesn't say a word either 'cause he's
29:16
socially awkward.
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Hm.
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Could be.
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I just have a strong feeling it's him.
29:22
He doesn't seem to recognize him in the in the leaky cauldron,
29:26
but it was just kind of a quick encounter.
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True. But maybe he doesn't. That's true.
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Good point. Well, that's all I'm saying.
29:36
If there's any other bald people in the series,
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let us know down in the Discord,
29:41
everybody. 'Cause that is a interesting
29:43
We'll have to reach out to some wizard barbers and see if they know.
29:46
that's an interesting thought.
29:47
Like there aren't that many bald people bald representation in the wizarding world.
29:53
Maybe they are. They just have,
29:54
you know, they're wearing a piece.
29:55
Cats.
29:56
They've got an
29:57
enchantment, you know.
29:59
They go to they they
30:01
went to the Turkey School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
30:03
~
30:04
And then I guess you can take the last line,
30:06
read that off to him.
30:08
Well, the last line of the chapter says Everybody knew that Dudley's gang hated that
30:13
odd Harry Potter in his baggy old clothes and broken glasses,
30:16
and nobody liked to disagree with Dudley's gang.
30:20
That's so sad. It's like it's even sadder that he's in the same class
30:26
as Dudley and he can't catch a break even away from his house.
30:30
Like constantly bullied and I just wrote I wish for him to have some friends
30:36
at his new school. Maybe he'll have a better time at a different school.
30:43
Stonewall high or whatever it's called.
30:46
Or Hogwarts,
30:49
who knows? Maybe he'll go there.
30:51
knows? Maybe.
30:52
We shall see.
30:55
So our only next thing is anything off the spinning of the wheel.
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Ready for the trolley?
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Mm-hmm.
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Bready bots again. I wanna try some good candies here.
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We gotta respect the wheel. I don't
31:16
Respect the wheel.
31:17
I'd like to try some of this other candy someday,
31:19
but we gotta respect the wheel.
31:21
We have seventeen chapters to do so.
31:23
Just know that you can't do vomit and
31:28
I can't do rotten egg like last week.
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please give me a good one.
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no. I've got a white and brown speckled one.
31:44
The speckled ones are never good.
31:45
I gotta
31:46
They're never good. It's either
31:47
marshmallow or sausage.
31:50
It looks pink. I think it's good.
31:54
Candy floss?
31:55
Candy floss or cherry, maybe?
31:58
Okay, ready? Three, two, one.
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Thank goodness. Well.
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Yeah, mine's good.
32:09
Mine's good. I got marshmallow.
32:10
Big improvement from rotten egg.
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Okay. man. How did we get the the worst ones on that first episode?
32:12
my goodness. Alright. We
32:17
both did. I don't know.
32:21
I don't know.
32:26
I will say, yeah, when I was a kid,
32:28
I thought the birdie bots were just like so cool.
32:31
But as I got older, I was like,
32:33
they're kinda half bad. Like,
32:36
They are that's kind of the point.
32:37
~ that's
32:38
the point. That's like I'd rather just get something guaranteed good,
32:42
but they're still fun, kind of,
32:43
Yeah. They are. That's it brings the fun.
32:44
I guess.
32:49
That's why we respect the wheel.
32:50
We don't we don't keep redoing it 'cause we'll never get a good one.
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Okay.
32:53
Yeah.
32:55
Okay.
32:56
What can we look forward to next week?
32:58
Well, next week we'll be covering chapter three,
33:00
The Letters from No One. And in the meantime,
33:05
if you want to follow along with our ~ reading of Harry Potter
33:08
and the Sorcerer's Stone, we just created
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33:11
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33:18
We're gonna have a link for the Discord in the bio.
33:20
And yeah, just join in, comment along with the episodes if you're reading,
33:24
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33:26
what you don't like.
33:28
Yeah, we'll just have a dialogue over there and we hope you'll join us on Discord.
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We'll give you a free bookmark.
33:38
I'll have to print them, but I'll give you a free bookmark.
33:42
Okay.
33:42
That's the incentive.
33:44
Well, until next time, read some books.
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Read some
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books.