• Welcome Slug Club member Sam! She’s not a fan of the Harry Potter movies, but she does love Wizard People, Dear Reader
• News: JKR shares why everyone is headed to Paris… Credence!
• Voicemails cover Book 1 and 7 connections, Hogwarts professors, Leta Lestrange and more
• Chapter-by-Chapter continues with ‘The House of Gaunt’
• 7 Word Summary: A memory comes before another big reveal
• Sam shares why this chapter is one of her favorite in the series
• Why can’t Hermione accept following alternate directions?
• Does Slughorn remember Snape as a student?
• Do Trelawney’s mumblings shed insight on future Pensieve memories?
• Stepping inside Bob Ogden’s memory
• Pureblood mania is alive and well inside the House of Gaunt
• Merope is part of a horrible family dynamic with Marvolo and Morfin. Is her family lineage at all to blame for her actions?
• Do we blame Tom Riddle Sr. for abandoning his son? What if he didn’t?
• Horcrux alert: the ring and the locket
• As readers, what are we to make of all this guesswork by Dumbledore?
• Who is the worst character in this chapter? Merope? Marvolo? Morfin?
• Connecting the Threads: Parseltongue, snakes on doors and Bob Ogden
• The hosts give their MVPs of the Week and Rename The Chapter
• Quizzitch: How old is Stan Shunpike?
• In Bonus MuggleCast, available exclusively on Patreon for Dumbledore’s Army members and above, we discuss news on Yusuf Kama, Queenie & Grindelwald, the Chupacabra and the French Ministry escape

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