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

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Running time: 1:27:30, 84.4 MB

• Slug Club member Bethany joins the show
• Eric gives us a Trivia Night update
• Cursed Child Broadway tickets on sale this week! Who will make the cut?
• The Cormoran Strike series is headed to Cinemax
• Chris Riddell set to illustrate The Tales of Beedle the Bard for Bloomsbury
• Listener Rebuttals focus on the latest Fantastic Beasts casting news
• Will we find out what Nicolas Flamel and Dumbledore discovered?
• We receive some Death Eater clarification
• Will Dumbledore take away Grindelwald’s powers out of love?
•  Taking a look at the entire cast, where do we think Fantastic Beasts 2 is headed?
• Can beasts even fit into a story with this many characters?
• Is there a chance FB 2 focuses on one beast that’s integral to the plot?
• How much time do we think we will spend looking back as opposed to present-day?
• We review casting to date, including one we have overlooked (who is Krall)?
• Patrons share their overwhelming support for more Seraphina Pcquery screen time
• Quizzitch and text messages return!

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Running time: 1:34:46, 83.2 MB

• Eric and Andrew gear up for another trivia night
• Cursed Child’s Broadway registration is now closed!
• We review the Prisoner of Azkaban Illustrated Edition
• Our main discussion centers around the new Fantastic Beasts casting news
• We question if there is any relation between Eric and Spielman?
• Andrew explains the relationship between Jessica Williams and JKR
• Travers and Rosier: we discuss the two known Death Eaters
• Nicolas Flamel will appear in Fantastic Beasts 2! In present-day form or in a flashback?
• Could Grindelwald be in search of the Sorcerer’s Stone? Is that story too familiar?
• Will Flamel assist Newt in his latest journey?
• Carmen Ejogo is back as Seraphina Picquery. Will her appearance be short-lived?
• Andrew attempts the sequel to HP Encyclopedia: The Musical
• Emails and voicemails return, with a text message thrown in the middle
• In Bonus MuggleCast — available on Patreon — We discuss the prank Sirius and James played on Snape. What was going through Sirius’ mind? Does it affect our view of him?

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Running time: 1:26:40, 83.2 MB

• Cursed Child is open for registration!
• Eric and Micah share their Ticketmaster experiences while Andrew registers on air.
• JKR won’t pander to the fandom: is it the Encyclopedia or Marauder’s story that’s in jeopardy?
• Could Cursed Child have run for a week? Would fans have gone to see all five parts?
• Our thoughts on JKR’s comments on the collaborative nature of Cursed Child
• JKR has given fans a lot since the release of Deathly Hallows – should we want more?
• The difference between giving fans too much and giving them what they want
• We tackle last week’s Quizzitch question
• E-mail-bag: Maybe a Game of Thrones style Marauders story isn’t all that bad after all
• The Prisoner of Azkaban Illustrated Edition hits store shelves this week!

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Running time: 57:44, 55.4 MB

• Slug Club member and Hogwarts Professor Kyle joins the show
• Eric and Andrew recap their Potter trivia night in Chicago
• Kyle talks about his Potter classroom and how it went viral
• How have his students reacted? Have more of them started to read Potter?
• What’s been the response from the school? Teachers around the world?
• We learn about how Kyle incorporates Potter into his daily curriculum
• And he has a few tough questions for us: Does the Harry Potter series have a narrator?
• Should Squibs be allowed to take courses at Hogwarts?
• Episode 337 Rewind: Patrons share the courses they would teach at Hogwarts
• Healing, Magical Artifacts, Journalism, Music and more!
• The hosts tell which courses they would most like to teach… and play hooky from!
• Emails cover Newt’s wand, The Cursed Child & a Horcrux-Obscurus theory!

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Running time: 1:27:11, 83.7 MB

• Slug Club member Robert joins the show
• New Potter merchandise hits the market
• Jude Law shows off his Dumbledore scruff
• Episode 336 Rewind: Listeners share their favorite modes of magical transportation
• We break down the Hogwarts Courses in our latest main discussion
• Where do Defense Against the Dark Arts, Charms and Herbology rank on our list?
• Do Divination, Astronomy, Care of Magical Creatures and History of Magic even matter?
• How important is Flying?
• Bonus MuggleCast tackles Muggle Studies, Potions and Transfiguration
• If we were to make our own Hogwarts class schedule, what subjects would make our Top 5?
• Pop Quiz of the Week debuts!

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Running time: 1:12:49, 104.9 MB

• We reflect back on September 1
• Cursed Child gets some real estate in Times Square
• Warwick Davis greets fans at King’s Cross
• Listeners share how they spent #19YearsLater
• Eric reveals he forgot to share one very important piece of PO Box mail
• The author of the notorious fan fiction My Immortal is revealed
• We share listener rebuttals on our Wizarding World residence discussion
• Our main discussion this week… Magical Transportation
• We analyze everything from the Hogwarts Express to Broomsticks to Flying Cars
• Do we prefer Floo Powder, Portkeys, Apparition or Flying Beasts?
• The hosts share their top picks for how they’d get around the wizarding world
• Voicemails return!

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Running time: 1:28:41, 127.7 MB

• Andrew, Micah, and Eric cap off MuggleNet Live with a discussion on “19 Years Later” and alternate Epilogue ending lines. Stick around after the live recording for a post-mortem that the three recorded the morning after.

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Running time: 40:41, 58.6 MB

• Welcome Slug Club member Neva to the show!
• What is The Cursed Child planning for 19 years later?
• Did JKR’s tweet confirm filming at Hogwarts this week?
• Main Discussion: Residences in the Wizarding World
• We talk about the pros and cons of some notable magical abodes
• The Burrow, Malfoy Manor and Grimmauld Place
• How about a room at the Leaky Cauldron?
• Godric’s Hollow and Hogsmeade? Where do they rank high on our list?
• Could you live at Hogwarts even if you really, really wanted to?
• Listeners weigh in with where they’d like to live!
• Favorites: Theme Park Memory
• We’ll see you on September 1 in Orlando for MuggleNet Live!

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Running time: 1:17:44, 46.6 MB