Can YOU dance like a Hippogriff? Nananananananana! It’s Yule Ball season and this week, we’re fraternizing with the enemy, proving our emotional span is greater than a teaspoon and dodging Moody’s creepy eye, all while trying our best to keep our dates happy and turn it up on the dance floor!
- Chapter-by-Chapter continues with Goblet of Fire, Chapter 23: The Yule Ball
- 7-Word Summary: Hormones fly amok at Hogwarts’ Big Holiday
- Main Discussion #1: Hermione’s Chapter
- Would anyone that Hermione took to the ball have been free of Ron’s criticism?
- The Courting of Hermione Granger
- What do we think of Viktor Krum’s approach… and sheer vulnerability?
- We react to Hermione’s decision to have Madam Pomfrey shrink her teeth
- Main Discussion #2: Hurricane Ron
- Animal Magnetism, baby! What makes Ron suddenly so full of himself?
- Sour face, sour mood: Ron casts a massive black cloud over the entire Yule Ball
- Could Ron be jealous his two besties are a part of the Elite Champions date club?
- Low Blow, Ron! Does Hermione truly not have Harry’s best interests at heart?
- We debate if Harry did enough to defuse the tension between Ron and Hermione
- Odds and Ends cover Sirius’ knife, Dobby’s Christmas gift, Barty Crouch Jr.’s mysterious absence, Snape and Karkaroff’s odd relationship, Beetle Rita and more!
- Next week: Goblet of Fire, Chapter 24: Rita Skeeter’s Scoop
- Quizzitch question: According to Rita Skeeter, what department at the Ministry would be particularly interested in Hagrid’s Blast-Ended Skrewts?
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