The Reel Rejects - HARRY POTTER & THE CURSE OF FAN QUESTIONS!! Final Reactions & Potterhead Q&A

Episode Date: April 13, 2025

HARRY POTTER REACTION AFTERSHOW!! Visit https://huel.com/rejects to get 15% off your order Greg Alba & Tara Erickson sit down for one last magical ride after reacting to every Harry Potter movie, answering hilarious, heartfelt, and absolutely wild questions from Potterheads across the internet! From Sorting Hat quizzes to the weirdest spells, emotional character arcs, House debates, “who we’d bring back,” and our favorite magical creatures—this episode has it all. We reveal the most terrifying scenes, the biggest crowd reactions, and even confess which Deathly Hallows we’d choose in real life. Tara shares what hit her hardest emotionally (spoiler: Dobby), and Greg gets deep on why Snape’s arc might be the most complicated of all. It’s a celebration of the wizarding world through the lens of two people who just finished their first full Hogwarts journey. So whether you're Team Gryffindor or Slytherin-curious, this one’s for you! Rewatch the saga with us: Sorcerer’s Stone (Philosopher’s Stone), Chamber of Secrets, Prisoner of Azkaban, Goblet of Fire, Order of the Phoenix, Half-Blood Prince, Deathly Hallows Part 1, Deathly Hallows Part 2. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thereelrejects Follow Tara Erickson: Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@TaraErickson Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/taraerickson/ Twitter:  https://twitter.com/thetaraerickson Intense Suspense by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Support The Channel By Getting Some REEL REJECTS Apparel! https://www.rejectnationshop.com/ Follow Us On Socials:  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/reelrejects/  Tik-Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@reelrejects?lang=en Twitter: https://x.com/reelrejects Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheReelRejects/ Music Used In Ad:  Hat the Jazz by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Happy Alley by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... POWERED BY @GFUEL Visit https://gfuel.ly/3wD5Ygo and use code REJECTNATION for 20% off select tubs!! Head Editor: https://www.instagram.com/praperhq/?hl=en Co-Editor: Greg Alba Co-Editor: John Humphrey Music In Video: Airport Lounge - Disco Ultralounge by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Ask Us A QUESTION On CAMEO: https://www.cameo.com/thereelrejects Follow TheReelRejects On FACEBOOK, TWITTER, & INSTAGRAM:  FB:  https://www.facebook.com/TheReelRejects/ INSTAGRAM:  https://www.instagram.com/reelrejects/ TWITTER:  https://twitter.com/thereelrejects Follow GREG ON INSTAGRAM & TWITTER: INSTAGRAM:  https://www.instagram.com/thegregalba/ TWITTER:  https://twitter.com/thegregalba Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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how you feeling today? Tara, you're in the podcast space. I am. I'm here. I'm glad to have made it. I like it. As we have mentioned a couple of times, Tara and I said we would do a, I guess we'll call it like an after show, an after show podcast. If this pans out, maybe we could do it for other ones. That'd be fun. Many franchises and many shows. We're building up towards getting a different space one day and maybe we'll have a podcast space there so we could do more of these so here's the deal we watched um the seven the eight harry potter movies seven bucks eight movies and we also covered the reunion now we are going to go through your guys's questions and make a podcast out of it our little after show so i'll be honest i don't know how people will feel about it

It is what it is. There was a billion questions, which we really appreciated. And we've been on crunch time, even right down to when Tara walked. There's sort of like, you're going to move fast. Take some breaths. Here we go. So I took screenshots of every question that you guys had. Wow.

He put in the work. I did. That's what I did. I took screenshots and then I dropped it in the chat, GBT. And I told the chat, GBT, here's what we're doing, select 20. I love that. So like 20 questions. I know some people hate the very idea that we would do such a thing.

I want to be transparent. That's what we did. And so haven't seen it. There was only one question I saw. And this is when I'm like, good job, chat, GBT, because the first question is going to be us choosing, I've seen what house we belong to. And that's what I had you sign up for before we started rolling because that was the first question. So let's hop right into it. I'm so excited.

Okay. The first person, Danny Say Sneha, wow, I don't know that, 91, a sorting of you two into your houses, your wand and your patroness. Okay, so let's start with the houses. So Tara, what's on your menu? Let's go with you first, Tara. What's on your menu? It says moon and stars, and I was going to click stars just because I like, am I supposed, I just like, I'm gravitating towards stars. All right.

Do your thing, because I don't have that. Clicking stars. Do I do the whole thing? Do you do the whole thing? Okay, okay. What kind of instrument most pleases your ear? The piano, the drum, the violin. Oh, I love a violin.

The trumpet going to go to the violin. It would have been piano, but I'm going to violin. Okay, you and two friends need to cross a bridge guarded by a river troll who insists on fighting one of you before he will let all of you pass. Do you volunteer to fight? Probably. Attempt to confuse the troll into letting all three of you pass without fighting.

That is a good one. Suggest that all three people should fight without telling the troll. Suggest drawing lots to decide which of you will fight. No, we're going to confuse him. We're going to absolutely confuse him into letting all three of us pass. That's called Braintz, right? So that's what we're going to do. If you were attending Hogwarts, which pet would you choose to take with you?

Cats, totes out cats. Obviously, I have two black ones. Grinch and Mika, they're twin cats. I love them to the ends of the earth. If you were attending Hogwarts, which pet would you choose to take with you? A ginger cat? You better have a black cat, a white cat, Siamese cat, tabby cat, black cat, there it is. Select. I'm not even going to look at the other options. Which of the following would you hate people to call you ignorant, selfish, or do you? Oh, that's a bad one. Cowardly. Oh, that one's really bad. You know what? I'm really going between ordinary and cowardly. I think I'm going to go with cowardly. Which of the following do you find most difficult to deal with?

Loneliness, boredom, hunger, being ignored. Cold. Oh, cold is bad. I do hate it when I'm cold. I think, um, you know, hangary is a real thing. Loneliness is tough, but I'm going to go with being ignored, because that can really get under your skin. If you could have any power, which would you choose? The power to read minds, the power to change the past, the power of invisibility, the power to speak to animals, cool.

the power of superhuman strength the power to change your appearance at will oh god that sounds fun oh man I want to I want to talk to the animals but I also want to change my appearance at will that would be so fun I'm going with that one

going with that one I feel like I already have the kinship with the animals okay left or right choose one to continue right the sorting has ready to make it's decision oh my god what is it Dun, dun, done, don't. Continue.

Um, okay, wait, I'm Gryffindor. Oh, no way. Damn, that's the one you wanna be. Oh my God. Okay, it says, welcome to Gryffindor. Thank you so much for having me. You probably, you probably know that some of Gryffindor's most renowned members include Albus Dumbledore

and Harry Potter. How could we forget? But did you know that the sort of Gryffindor was made a thousand years ago by goblins or that the head of the house, Minerva, McGonagall's hobbies include correcting articles in transfiguration today and supporting the Montrose Magpies.

I didn't know that. That was a lot of information. I just was happy about the Gryffindor juice. That was too much for me. Damn, you got the, you got the, I got a hit of jealousy. Yeah, you did. Like competitiveness. which, like, is not Gryffindor of me to feel. Oh, God.

I hope you're right in Sliver. Not Gryffindor of me. Well, this is one of my things about the Harry Potter movies is I feel like I only know Gryffindor and Slytherin. I don't know the other houses. There's a Hufflepuff and, John, what is the other one? Hufflepuff and. My house Ravenclaw. Ravenclaw.

Oh, Ravenclaw. I cannot tell you Jack about them other than they exist. Hufflepuffs are the sweet ones and the. Ravenclaws are the bookish smart ones oh did not pick up on that from the movies me neither all right so I have a different opening question river or forest I'm going river baby if you could have any your power what will you choose who read minds change the past power of invisibility power to speak to animals power of superhuman strength power to change your parents at will I'm going to say I'm going to say I'm going to have my thing

power to read minds if you're attending hogg or switch patch would you take with you oh definitely a cat um if you're attending hoggars which pet would you choose to take with you ginger white siamese tabby black cat uh i mean i have a black cat i'm gonna go with a ginger cat which of what falling do you find most difficult to deal with loneliness boredom hunger being ignored cold uh boredom i need that dopamine which road tempts you the most the twisting leafs thrown path through the woods the wide sunny grassy lane the narrow dark lantern lit alley yeah that one oh shit which is the probably would you most hate people to call you ignorant selfish ordinary cowardly i would go cowardly yeah once every century the first century the

flutter bee bush produces flowers that adapt they're sent to attract the wary if it lured you what would it smell of the sea home a crackling log fire fresh parchment sea for oh my god thought you were gonna say crackling log fire because anytime we're in the office you got that crackling log fire on the on the on the as a screen saver white or black I'm gonna go I wear black more but more drawn to the color white all right I'm gonna get some boring one, which is like not Slytherin or Gryffin. I'm Slytherin.

You are? Oh my God. Yeah, you are. Slytherin's known as like the bad house. Yeah. But there's no way that they would keep it if they were like, yeah, let's keep our villains here. There has to be some good to Slytherin.

There is. Sever. Snape is Slytherin. Yeah. Snape was a good man. He was. So it was Belichick's Listering. And Merlin himself was a Slytherin. Hey, Merlin's like a famous one.

Merlin's in the Harry Potter Lord. And according to legend, the ribbon of a first class order of Merlin is green to reflect his Hogwarts house. All right. Okay. All right. So I'm Slytherin. Oh, my God. You are Gryffindor.

I can see it. Oh, you can see it. Me too. So that way, now let's dive into some conversations. Maybe we'll get to the Patronus ones in a second, right? The Patronus or the Animals one. Oh, right, right, right. All right.

So that was fun. But, yeah, I think that would be one of my things about the Harry Potter movies is I think they really slacked on getting to explore the other houses. Oh, agreed. I feel like if they did expand the Harry Potter movies or did something back in the wizarding world or back at Hogwarts, I'd like to see it more from those other houses, really flesh out who those personalities are, the significance of them. They're doing the show. So in the show, that's an opportunity to perhaps explore that. a little bit more? Well, yeah, because everybody who's read the books always goes

like, someone will ask them, oh, you read the books of what house am I in? And they will give you like Ravenclaw or Hufflepuff. And I'm like, I don't even know. Those are not in the movies at all. So I assume that book readers would be very, very happy, as well as us who watched all the movies to be like,

what are they doing? What are their personalities? Like, why are they in that house? I would love to know. Wow, you know, it is wild that I feel a strange sense of pride to be slithering i don't know why you can show people that slithereens are more than just evil cunning bastards yeah and then cut to him like you i have been waiting what are the good sides of slithering i need to know i need to protect my soul right now what are some good sides just give me something

ambitious we're ambitious resourcefulness yes i would say this is very accurate this is very accurate so far I am those two things that this AI has pulled up for me. Determination is in here, leadership. Oh, really? Loyalty. Strategic thinking. Self-confidence. Okay. That's you. All right, pretty good.

Yeah. See, a bunch of mopey Dracos out there. Pudder. All right, let's move on to the next question here. That was fun. I'm glad we got to do that. Good job, ChatGBT, GBT for organizing our lives here. You did it. Chat GBT is a Ravenclaw.

All right, noobleti, let. Imagine yourselves in the universe. Everyone's asking this question, which house would you get sorted into? Chat, you're doing a terrible job. Let me sort this question out. What would be your favorite spell? If you were to cast a spell, Tara,

what would that spell be? Oh, God. I think everyone thought we'd do like a deep dive spoiler review. That is not what this is turning into. It's not. We're going to flow with it, though. I mean, oh, no, I don't want that spell.

I was going to say the spell that sounds like abracadabra, but it's the, the spell. Avata cadavera. That's to get, well, he. That's to kill people. I know. I know. That's why I was like, oh, I don't want it.

But it's very powerful. It's like, what if somebody comes up on me and I can just use it? And then no problem, problem solved. True, true. What are the, uh, I mean, there's a spell. You can do spells for anything. Make them. Okay. Yeah.

Okay. What will be the one spell you would like to be able to do? Um, make somebody disappear. Why? Just if I'm over it. Just. So the conversation is like, this shit's boring.

Yeah, it's boring. It's a snooze fest. I'd like to move on to someone else. You know what would be really great is if I could make him disappear and then replenish it with a more, just a more exciting person. You know, like you go away and then I have someone else appear. That would be a, I'd go for. that. Mine isn't a spell, but they use the polyjuice potion a lot to transform the way. I would want to make it where you can actually, because the problem, at least in the movies, I don't know if

it's like this in the books, in the movies, when they do the polyjuice transformation, they're not able to change their voice. So they have the same voice. Right. And to me, that's constantly a distraction. It's an distraction to me that the other person's not picking up like, you sound totally different. Right. And we live in wizard world where you could definitely be not who I think you are. And I would want the ability to be able to change my voice. But yeah, to be able to, like, impersonate yourself as someone else. Yeah. How fun would that be?

That would be a lot of fun. If I'm single, I can impersonate myself as many people's boyfriends, husbands, sleep with so many women. Oh, man. Very slithering of me. You would be working the streets. I'd be working in the streets of Hogwarts. Oh, wow.

So many husbands in our world would be like, you disappointed me last night. The wives would be telling them that. We'd be like, we didn't do it last night. I mean, like, it began to a lot of arguments, but we did. Right. There's some disappointing bed stuff we did. Yeah, which is normal for you. Exactly.

That's why I want to do it to other couples. Yeah. To tear them down to bring me up. You can feel better about what's going on there. I know how I operate, Tara. I agree. What would your patroness animal be? Oh, my God, yes.

I really wanted to be a black cat, but my other instinct was going to say dolphin. Why a dolphin? Because I love them so much. and I was a dolphin trainer when I was young, like at 21. And I just love them. I used to go to SeaWorld all the time with my mom growing up, and I just love dolphins.

Oh, God. God, David. Talk to me, Tara. You keep talking to the camera. I do, because I'm used to it. We hear. Okay, but now I'm... Never mind.

Talk to the camera. This is weird. This is uncomfortable as shit. Now, listen, I would think I was going to say, now in my brain, I'm thinking T-Rex. Wouldn't that be cool? Oh my God, I'm going for a T-Rex. We didn't see that.

Let's go T-Rex all the way. I love the cat, love the dolphins T-Rex, let's go. Is Harry Potter limited? They can't be limited to the amount of Petronus animals there are. John, you read the books decades ago. I think I'll have to double check this, but I believe it comes from sort of your spiritual ju-ju in a way. So I imagine it could be any number of things.

I am a bit curious what circumstances will be. lead to you being able to have a T-Rex but I think it could be possible. I think Tara's loud. The cards are in there for me. I'm loud enough. She just makes, you know when she arrives into a room. I think it would work out for me. You can hear her coming

a mile away from her hastily anxiety steps, her stumps. I could actually the T-Rex one makes more sense. I think I would be a squirrel. I would love I think mine would be a squirrel, a paternus.

I'm very drawn to squirrels. We used to own a squirrel. We had a squirrel for a little bit. Did you know that? No. Name is Ricky. Olivia saved him. He fell off a tree of hurt his leg, and then we had him for a few months, and he unfortunately

passed away. Oh, Ricky. One of the most devastating animal deaths we've ever been through. It was a real, like, grief process we went through. And now we have these squirrels who are in our backyard. Yeah. And I'll spend, I'll be riding, I'll be doing work, and I'll stop what I'm doing and stare at And I'll be like, all right, let me go gizum nuts.

I'm there. There's something about the impulsiveness of a squirrel, the shyness, but wanting to connect. I think there's a lot of spiritual things akin to a squirrel. And when we had a squirrel in our home and the squirrel was able to really saw us as like owners, it was a real unique journey. Yeah, it was really heartbreaking the day he passed it. Like it's still right now. It's like it breaks my heart. Yeah.

Mm, Ricky. Yeah, we have a little painting of him that someone at the channel actually did a painting for him. Oh, my God. We have a blanket of him. Yeah, Ricky's like forever in my heart. I love that squirrel so much.

I would love to... Because I know it's weird to own a squirrel. John, you were Ricky for a bit. John was there the day Ricky, we had to rush Ricky to the ER. It was a heartbreaking day. RIP Ricky. Yeah.

From my research here, apparently it would seem that Perchernas can take the form of any animal or even a magical creature that resonates with the castor's character and or background or something you have a general affinity for. Then for sure, if anything, I'd probably be a troll. Like a disgusting, fat, slobbering, nosy, snotty troll.

And let's go here. What would be, okay, let's go here. Quiddage time. I don't know. I don't know anything else but Seeker. Damn you, Chad. You did a terrible job here. Well, Seeker, or you could be the one who gets it in the goal, right?

Or a defender. What is that position? Cwafel, Queen 91? What position would you play on a quidditch team? I don't know any other positions. Chasers are the ones who score the goals. What are they called? We need John for the researcher, man.

God damn. They're the primary ones who throw the quaffle and do the scoring. Then there are the beaters who take on the bludgers, which are the big black balls that break your bones. Keepers guard the goals and the seeker looks for the snitch. I'd probably be all right as a keeper. I think as a guard, I'm pretty all right. Well, with the quidditch side of things,

I did kind of crave in the storytelling. I'll use the opportunity to express this. I did kind of crave in the storytelling for them to implement it a little bit more in a way that held greater weight or significance. It kind of seemed like a PE thing, a physical education thing. Like a hobby, like a fun, like, yeah. Like it's an extension of Harry. He has his nimbus 2,000 broom.

And it seemed like a thing that would be a big fact. factor in. And I think it dawned on me during, it was Goblet of Fire when they start off at the Quidditch World Cup. Yes. And then we don't see any of it. Right. And I was like, oh, damn, they're glossing just totally skipping over this. Totally. And I feel like the movies at least set up the importance that Quidditch would have in some type of aspect beyond, because it's like communal, right? Yeah. I mean, I feel like they set it up to feel like almost like a foot game at a high school, right? Although I think, like, for what Quidditch is probably to the Harry Potter stories, it's much more than that. But it's treated throughout the houses. Like, if you're on a Quiddish team, you're cool, right? Yeah. So, I don't know. I think I just look at it as like, oh, if you're on the football team, you're cool, I guess, in high school. I don't know. If you're on the Quidditch team, then you're cool. Well, it's like their only sport. Yeah, it's like if I guess if you're sporty, thank goodness you have one option. Well, one thing when we were talking when we're doing the reunion and we were doing the review we were talking about how the

what it must have been like for children to be watching harry potter back then or reading it when they're in school and then to be living vicariously through this alternate school yes and that's not something that dawned on us till we watch the reunion so it got me thinking from this question now of yeah when when football is important to a school When the sports they play do serve some type of bigger pitcher or bigger end game. And I don't know if the books have more quidditch that they gloss over to really show the impact. Because important stuff did happen during some quidditch games. Right. Harry's attention growing when Harry encounters the mentors and Prisoner Vascoband when he's in the game. Like there's important events that did occur. But in retrospect, I kind of feel like they don't really feel.

factor in too much outside of another exploration of the life at at hogworts i think they could have factored into something a little bit more significant you mean how their lives are connected to the how the community is connected to quidditch yeah i think if they did the i think when they do the show it would be nice to get like a couple of episodes that really have a lot of tension and anticipation and a lot of pressure to yeah oh yeah oh my god like friday night lights but just with quidditch Yeah, yeah, I think they should do that. Sign me up. I feel like it would elevate the quiddage and it would show more of the significance of the sports.

Yeah, like, is it really going to factor into the war against he who must not be named? No. No, but it's fun. But it's fun. It's their one sport and I think it would only amplify that whole school vibe of having their football team in a way. You know, their soccer team. Right. Something that I never participated in or like even watched.

But I know that it's important to a lot of schools. That it exists. Yeah. Yeah, that's true. That's kind of one thing I would love to do. How cool would it be if they do get to a point where we can fly in a brew? I would, mine would be, I think hot pink, that would be fun. Maybe with like some unicorn stickers.

And it would definitely have some NOS attached. Like, it would be like a V6 V8 version. Like, I would have to be able to pass you up quickly. They have to be doing VR now for it, wouldn't they? They have to have some type of crazy V8 version. where you take some weird VR broom stick. Oh, there's so many provocative things. Slytherans bringing out the naughty in me, I'll tell you that much.

Oh, here he goes. The dirty boy. Talking about sticks and he, you just got to eat. The perverts at Hogwarts. There's no reeling him in now. There are VR experiences out there for you. Oh, that's what I'm talking about, baby. I just want to buy a broom.

That's at home. You just want a stick. I hope it's a real stick. You just want a stick. Like, I'll just buy you a broom from Target. I think you'll be happy. Oh, I get what chat's doing now. So what chat, GBT, did is they went through fun questions,

and now we're going to deeper questions. All right, here we go. Most impactful scene. Fish Tank Funny. What was the most impactful part of the series for you guys? Maybe a scene that stands out now that you've finished. Ooh, Tara, what's yours, man? There's got to be a couple.

What is one that really comes to mind? What's a moment that'll, like, stick with you? I really love in Deathly House part one when Ron comes back and he is sort of solved of not having the necklace on and he comes back and he he just shows up with Harry after saving Harry right and he says to to Hermione he's like hey and it's like his normal self he's like hi and she's she gets so mad and that is when I feel like it's the most realistic and the most grounded for them trying to get to us as audience members, they are two people who are love each other and will never really say it out loud, right, which we're all waiting for. And she's like, where's my wand? Where's my wand? I just thought that that scene between Hermione and Ron was, I just, I loved it. I thought it was really, really good acting on both parts. And I really loved how it nailed down that they obviously have feelings for each other.

they're just not saying it out loud. I think that was a very strong. I kind of did. Deathly Hall is part of one. We should probably rank these at some point. I think Deathly Hall is part one is my second favorite one of them all. That scene is really great.

That movie has the dance scene between. I know. I love that. There's something that's kind of weirdly abstract about that scene to me because I can't even quite, I want to say the most intelligent things and sound like the smartest critic ever.

And when I talk about that scene, And I don't really quite know why it's so impactful. All I can really talk about is the feeling it gives me. There's this weird sense of like melancholy escapism. There's not much they can really do in that moment. And this is their 10 seconds of joy and escaping into humor for a little bit. Like this feels silly and awkward, but let's participate because this is the last thing that we would probably do or should do right now. Yeah, they go to, like, actually dance with each other.

And it's sad, but it's funny and not funny in, like, a ha-ha way. It's, it's funny in that, like, uncomfortable way must be for them when they have because they've never danced together. And now here they are, dancing with each other. And Daniel Radcliffe is, like, so committed to it, you know, as like a gift. That's what a thing is. He's kind of, like, gifting her with an escape in that moment. Yeah.

That's what it is, I think. Yeah. He's gifting her with an escape. That's what makes it really bittersweet, because that much. is very intimate, meaning you wouldn't be able to do that with just any ordinary friend, right? It's only what Harry could provide for Hermione and her for him in return. Yeah. Like that scene is really made for them to, because it would feel very different if it was Hermione

and Ron, right? It would be more of a romantic thing. But we're adding in where it's, it can be very intimate, but it's still just a friendship. Very true. The other one for me, I think is an obvious for people who did watch the reactions, would be when Sirius Black dies. Oh, yeah. And before he dies, he says, like, good work, James, good one, James. And I like the framing of that because in my memory, and it could be completely different from how it actually went down.

But my memory is telling me that it was a faraway shot when he said that. And it wasn't your typical Hollywood, good one, James, close up on Harry, you know, get that reaction. Like, it, there's something about that distance that does make it more impactful as opposed to cheapening it or manipulating the audience with a closeup. Like, you have to catch it. Yeah. And that is a, it's a one line that says so much about that dynamic. because his delivery there is zero awareness that he said James. He's not at all aware of what he said.

And there's no apology afterwards or like, no, sorry, Harry or anything like that. It's so subconscious and it's playing on a pure emotion of Sirius Black in that moment. That would also mean something to Harry because Harry strives for a connection with his father so much. And now he's a reflection of his dad. to him and it brings that closer for connection. So when he gets killed, moments later,

it is that much more heartbreaking to occur. Yeah, that is a very powerful, powerful moment because I think a lot of people, like I knew Sirius Black died. And I, it's less the death and more of what happens before the death that really gets me.

You know? Yeah. That moment is what gets me. Yeah. I mean, it's, it's sad. I mean,

when he's like good, you just, you can put yourself in that position. to imagine like let's say that sure one of my mom's best friends and I was fighting with her and she's like good one Adriana like that would hit me right it would hit so when you put yourself in that position it's it's like oh you want to be a good I feel like every kid person is fighting to be a good reflection of their parents whether it's their mom or their dad and Harry never even got to even have them around

to be able to go, am I doing that? Am I reflecting them or maybe what they would have wanted because he grew up with torturous people. But in that moment, it's like you hear all that stuff. It's like, good one, James. You're like, Harry turned out exactly how he was supposed to. The fact that Sirius Black has not spent that much time with him and immediately it's like you're reminding me of his father.

Yeah. that's one of my favorite things about what the movie the franchise does is they're willing to pull back the veil on the perfection or the the way we put people on pedestals yeah like as the movies go you uncover darkness and mistakes that dumbledore made when originally you see a dumbledore and he seems like the perfect grand wizard and you learn how flawed he is actually that he has made a lot of mistakes and poor decisions and there's darkness in him and even with with Harry's dad you know like one of my favorite moments is and I think it must be for a lot of people the the explanation of what Snape has been doing this whole time yeah that Snape is actually a good guy and that he loved Lily and I think it was the four it's the fourth or fifth movie where they I think it was the fifth movie maybe where they reveal that James was bullied, James bullied Snape? Yes. Which puts a flaw on James. Totally. And that development of this product is, and the way that plays with the audience first off is smart of, oh, is Harry being

punished for the sins of his father? You know? When that is not the case. It's actually the inverse. But yeah, a lot of that, the reunion touched on this. And then now in reflection on this, on this video we're doing, I'm seeing it more now that appearances can be deceiving. not don't judge a book by its cover whatever phrase you want to apply and I think the movies and the books obviously do a good job of stripping down that veil not in a way that does a disservice to the characters like sometimes that happens in Hollywood now where they take a legacy character or something or you put a character in a sequel then they do a complete opposite take and it pisses off the world yeah that's not the case here in fact it I think it amplifies their characters and I think it magnifies them it makes them more human and you connect with them more of versus distancing from them more. Yeah, I mean, I absolutely agree. I mean, in the reunion, the fact that at the very end, the director decided that Harry would take him up to the,

Voldemort to the very top spot and go and pull him down with him, and that they would be combined as they're going down, that that's not in the book, that they decided that. And that's one of those moments, that it's like it's not taking away from it to where I would have, assume that book readers would be upset about it it's adding to everything in both of those characters and everything that has come before agree all right we spent a long time on that one question and it was worth it for a tight day let's see here pulling up pulling up did I skip over no I did it

all right now we kind of touched on it Lauren 1 998 for what death hit you the hardest emotionally well actually no I mean do we I feel like we know the answer for you which death hit you the hardest emotionally obviously joby yeah yeah because he reminded me and my mom just go look at the reaction God I'm just like crying I'm just sobbing

the whole time yeah yeah yeah I was serious fuck yeah yeah we we kind of like yeah in retrospect in hindsight it's probably Dumbledore though because he was willingly going to die yeah he knew he would sacrifice himself

And Snape's death because he was only able to be, he was going down as darkness. You know, like he was known as Voldemort's like one of his top guys. He was headmaster during the dark period. And if Harry never learned the truth, his whole reputation would have forever been. His legacy would have been that. Yeah. And in context, in conversation, I would, I would say those. that is sad because he wasn't that

you know snake was putting up that that armor and that look for for Harry and for Dumbledore for the sake of of Hogwarts and for to never have the to never receive the praise for the good that he did and the sacrifices he may never got to experience that like it's really selfless

yeah actually the more we talk about it might be it's probably snake actually yeah the more we more we unpacked this, yeah, which is so crazy because Alan Rickman was perfect as the villain. And he's even more perfect when you find out the truth, like, wow. When he does the thing and we know that he sends the dough to Harry, I mean, that's such a moment. Yeah. Whoa. John, did you know that Alan Rickman was the only one who knew the truth about Snape for like many years before the books even came out?

Before even the directors. The directors didn't know. He was the only one. And sometimes he would have directions. And the directors would be like, why are you doing it this way? He's like, I can't tell you. That's great. Isn't that wild?

Yeah. That's crazy. So now if you go back and you watch it, you like, pay attention to Snape and you'll see that you'll probably be able to pick out moments where that director was probably like, why are you reading that line that way? And it's because he knew the ending and no one else did. He got the advanced screeners from JK. Wild. Snitch Snitch Snatcher 42. Besides the trio, which character duo was your.

favorite and why oh duo were there more duos uh what are they telling like the twins or i mean i mean okay let me think do you know what i really liked a lot per i have a quick one yeah this might help in terms of the dynamic um loopin in the third movie the werewolf guy yes i think him and harry their their chemistry i thought was really great i would agree with that i think their interactions are I think I're not talked about really their development and what that led for for Harry

in terms of who he grew into and his overall Lupin's overall like demeanor and shroudedness I really loved his their interactions a lot yeah I mean I kind of wanted to say like Hagrid and his animals

I think that works like I mean just all of that I just I loved it and it shows that He's just like this big sort of what looks like an ogre of a man. And he is the softest, most safe place to fall for them. Yeah. As well as the animals, which. I don't know if this is one of the questions, but I'll ask it then.

I mean, who was your favorite character? Hmm. You don't have to score your heart. Yeah. I, I, I, um, uh, I love Hagrid, but then there. the other part of me wants to say Hermione, he's just so smart and independent

and brilliant and also is just like always prepared and one step ahead of everything just throughout all of the movies which I very much appreciated. But I think maybe my heart would go more towards Hagrid. I just, I feel

like he in what I said like him with the animals and being a safe place to fall for the three, our three main characters, that just stands out. Like, you couldn't wait to get to see Hagrid at his place. Like, what's going to happen at their place? Because he's always going to be willing to help them.

And even though he has those little, like, slipfalls where he accidentally told them in the Chamber of Secrets or the Order of the Phoenix that the thing was guarding the stone, maybe that's the first one, he let it slip that the dogs were in there guarding a stone. And he wasn't supposed to tell him. that just made him such a lovable character because he was the only one out of any of the other teachers there that treated them like humans like kids who were human you know the other teachers they were they didn't help no rejection if you haven't heard i'm going to tell you about a little thing that's been part of my routine these past couple months oh dry neck to spill huel h ue l god that is tasty well i've been using heel update you guys on january 25th i weighed 218 pounds as of the day of filming this i'm down to 188 that's 30

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he's the lead so you're going to get the most invested and a lot of times with this stuff i leads tend to be my favorite characters a lot of the time it's rare where i'm actually saying like there's a show anime called nirutio where there's a billion characters I'm like, yeah, my favorite's the main character, Heruto. I watch Breaking Bad. My favorite is Walter White, the Soprano. My favorite is my favorite's Tony Subrano. Like, it's the lead character, most of the time.

I would say Harry. And I think my appreciation for Daniel Radcliffe is kind of skyrocketed through the journey of watching an actor grow on a much smaller scale. And in a very, very microscopic scale, I would say kind of when I watch Tina Faye in 30 Rock of how wow she's you could really tell she's acting and she's really trying doing lines I see more like you are definitely the writer of the show but you are not the like you have ways to go

in terms of being a lead actress and then eventually I stopped seeing Tina Faye and only saw Liz Lemon and that's like an evolution of an actor to me and I think Daniel Radcliffe that's part of what endears me to Harry so much is how brilliant of an actor he turns into during this

like he really evolves as an actor and that in turn really evolves Harry and you grow more connected to Harry over time because yeah in the early years of the movies I would definitely say like Harry was not my favorite character and he wasn't the performer I was most interested in right but then eventually a lot of times the camera would only be on him and I'd find myself glued

because it was him my second favorite would be Hermione her she's so cool yeah she's so god damn intelligent yeah and i'm not sure what it is like the it's rare where you get now think i didn't actually have this thought until right now or maybe it was there and i'm only realizing it it's rare where you feel like you are safe when the female character is around you know there were the strength comes from like you'll be safe when Hermione's around. Like whenever it was siphoned off

when it was only Harry and Ron, you don't feel that safe. Yeah, no. You're like, yeah, you guys can whip up a spell where the heck is Hermione. You're going to need some help. When it's Harry and Hermione, there's badass. There's something really badass about it. You trust in Hermione a lot.

And I think Emma Watson's consistency with that character where she is allowed to still be a woman you know she is a lot to still be a young girl growing into a woman and have romantic feelings and such and have attractions that's what i think a woman is they think about guys right and guys are about girls so yeah i think it would be uh them them too in particular yeah i agree with that and it that is funny to think about which is what annoys me the most in in movies is that

you know someone sends me a script or somebody is like you play that and there was one more recently where it was like I eventually I have a black eye and I'm asking like a therapist like how can you help me just to get out of this with my husband and I was like oh I can't play that because I cannot play I can't play weak you can find somebody else who walks into a room and sits down and seems like a person that you could throw around and I am not that person I'm just I'm just not I don't even come across that way I was like you can find someone better and for Hermione very specifically, I think you just brought it to light that like a lot of movies, you know, the girl is just sort of over here and the guy is there to save the day or whatever. I get it. Brute, man's strength. But in this wizarding world,

Hermione is the strongest and the smartest because she's the one that knows the spells can actually get them done and keep them safe, which I love. Yeah, and she's funny too. She is funny. She can quips. They all are. They all are. She's funny. And I think

like the Ron and Hermione dynamic i'm like that's definitely like Olivia's got the hyper intelligence and i'm always doing the dumb shit and saying stupid things so yeah yeah i do see i do see that like yeah those type of um specifically like female characters like hyper intelligent i love that i'm really really find that very attractive um let's see here we did do the Harry Potter Union we are going to do Fantastic Beast okay let's let's unpack whatever this is here let me let me look this up really quick John can you look up it'll be easier if you do this can you look up the

Dudley deleted scene and tell me what the information is there because apparently there's like this big deleted scene of Dudley in Deathly Hallows part one that I saw a lot of comments that were going Because in full transparency, I didn't want spoilers or to be reminded of anything. So I would only read like the top comments and then I move on with my life because I was afraid. And I'm also afraid of negative comments sometimes. That is all ruin the experience for me. So there was a lot of comments that were going, I can't believe they cut out that Dudley scene.

I can't believe they cut out that Dudley scene. And there was a lot of that fervor in the comments. So yeah, we'll find out what that is. Voldemort's deeper story, Dan V, Dan V-150. Do you feel like you missed out on Voldemort's backstory? Many scenes were cut from the Half Blood Prince book during, including the fact that he found out he was turned down twice for the defense against a dark arts position.

Wow. Okay. I will say, I think Ray Fines is insanely great and iconic in it, and I love watching Voldemort, gripping the watch. In hindsight, I do feel like he was, while being, yes, the embodiment of evil, and that is the service he needs to be. Yeah. What did you think of Voldemort?

Before I sit with my opinions, I mean, I feel like where you're going, you're like, well, we could have seen more of him of how he got to where he is. Because that's always interesting, just like when you find out, God, how did this serial killer grow up? And then you're like, oh, it was not good. But I think specifically for us in watching the movies that how Voldemort came along, in regards to he who shall not be named, we saw him just as much as I think we should, and he provided as much power and just, like, terror that was needed for that short period of time.

Like, even if, like, people, I'm sure people are like, oh, if you add up the minutes, like Voldemort throughout all the movies is probably only in it for 20 minutes tops, which I get, but his impact on the, film is still very great. Even the minutes are tiny, right? I would have liked

to, yes, I would have light if we spent some time somewhere instead of just that guy showing up with Voldemort's baby. Oh God, that was terrifying, put him in there. Like, we got some juice. We did

a little bit of like Voldemort back in the day and like, but I would have liked to dive in a little bit more. me too there was that one scene and i think it was half-blood prince where dumbledore goes to get him out of the wherever he's is orphaned up in yeah and it he the kid came across is so comically evil yeah that it made me question dumbledore yeah i remember you were mad about that yeah yeah i mean mad might be a strong word i was i was annoyed by the lack of nuance yeah like come on man Like, this kid's clearly evil.

And you don't pick up any signs here? He's very evil. Totally. And he kind of was only that. You know, he was consistently that evil. And maybe that's all he needs to be as this force of evil, which works when you're going to save the world. Yeah. So it's effective.

And it works. And Ray Fines brings a lot to it. And, yeah, I suppose. I don't, I didn't really think we missed out on backstory. I would have liked to have seen a tad bit more of even shades as to Voldemortemort's got to be sad in some way. That's what I mean. There's got to be a hurt boy and there's some loneliness in this guy in some way.

And I'm sure that was there in Ray Fines' performance and stuff. But the movie doesn't really ever have a moment that for me or at least looking back, I can't think of one that really highlights that. Could be wrong. I could be. And maybe there's something I didn't notice. But yeah, I could have. Like when he's in the train and you see that creepy Voldemort baby thing at the train station, like, oh, what is this?

Like that, that did something for me, but I'm like creepy of adding to Voldemort as a character. Right. This thing he's locked away. And I guess I would have liked a tabbed more of that. Yeah, I feel like the Joker did a good job of that. Yeah, yeah, definitely. That's, that's, wouldn't that have been cool to see, like, a Voldemort movie that's like the Joker? Yeah.

You know? That would have been fun. Yeah. I do have some tidbits for you guys. How about Dudley? Well, let's go. First off, Lord Voldemort has a total of 37 minutes and 15 seconds on screen, as well as the four minutes and 30 seconds of Tom Riddle flashbacks. And your deleted scene between Dudley and Harry is essentially the Dersleys are packing up to leave.

And Dudley takes a moment to basically step over to Harry in particular and tell him that he doesn't think he's. He's a waste of space. Harry responds. Thanks, Big D, giving him his fond nickname. And then they basically part ways from there. But it's just a respectful send-off, essentially. Oh. So we actually had to...

He was actually nice to Harry. Yeah. So we never got that. No. I would have like some type of wrap up on the Dudleys in some way. Dersley, sorry. Yeah. We didn't really get anything like that.

They are such a significant part of Harry's development and upbringing. Right. And after a while, I mean, I guess it is in their style to solely abandon the game. But yes, that would have put a, now that I have said that, now that would have put a bookend on it. That would have been a moment of growth. Because in order of Phoenix has that opening scene when Dudley's picking on him and then they get into the tunnel and the end of the mentors are sucking on Dudley. Delthie's bullying him. That's what him and Deli are running away together in the fields at the beginning of the movie.

Oh, yeah. And I did question like, oh, does this have an effect on Harry? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that gives some context that he wasn't as bad because I did legitimately hate that family. Hated all of them. They were awful. They were terrible.

Yeah, they're basically trying to... Yeah, there's a line here that says, someone's pointing out in the comments. He says, Dudley says, I don't think you're a waste of space. Which, that wouldn't be... That's a humanizes him. In one line. That's a huge line. Which is great. It's a great move for a character, great writing to just go, he's not as bad as his parents. I mean, he's still pretty bad, but...

And it's illustrated in this little scene because they're about to leave home, essentially. And then Dudley's like, what, Harry's not coming? And Uncle Verdon's like, of course not. And then Dudley makes the... actual like I'm going to cross the car approach you it's like an actual moment yeah oh wow yeah really um robs that actor of having a moment too and and i and i think there's a i think there would have been a good set there are there are things that i felt were kind of missing um from from the movies a little bit so if i were to find a question here that could tie into what i want to

say that way i'm doing both things right here that would make my life a lot better the way how people often navigate these news stories here let me find it let me find it i saw one question that was about it hold on um okay time stamp guy if you could change anything in the movie is what would be the event relationship thing that you would change like mine would be hermine harry get together in the end i that would be weird i think what i would have wanted is they there's deaths that happen that kind of don't seem like there's much of an impact post death or we never got to really sit in it or see it yeah case in point that we brought up several times it was we thought it might be alive because of how it happens off screen and it's

kind of the end of it mad eye moodies killed and they it's a it's a line of dialogue yeah one of the twins I don't remember which one um the I think it was Lupin who was killed and deathly I mean I'm having a hard time even like we're calling some of them like I think Lupin was one of And not giving that time to characters you spent time with, I think does undercut the power of their deaths. Yeah. And it's like you'll have Dumbledore die and it casts a big pall over everything or the grief of serious black. Like I get why some characters will cause more of a mourning period than others. I do feel like that is the main thing I would change is enhancing and allowing us to live in that.

It's like 10 more minutes of them, five to 10 more minutes of the movie. Well, I'll tell you what they didn't spend time on, okay? I want an extra 30 minutes to see Snape as the dark arts teacher. Oh, fuck, yes, my God, yeah. That is what I want. How fun would that be? I mean, give me a break. That needs to be an episode in and of itself.

I wish Alan was still here to do it, but that. That is what I want. That was probably the biggest disappointment. thing actually. He's the dark arts teacher announced and we don't see one minute of him even in that room. I think because of where shows are now post-game of Thrones in terms of adapting these fantasy novels, where television is now, I think some of the seams that are cut are more noticeable in the Harry Potter movies now because of how we see how TV shows can explore it because Harry Potter, definitely that was coming out quite a while ago.

Right. So I'm sure that maybe at the time we wouldn't actually be thinking these things, but now it's noticeable. Like, Snape even as headmaster and having those brother and sister who are torturing people, but we never see Jack of it, but they're building it up. Things like that, you give Snape two very important positions. And we never get a chance to really see how any of that is. the buildup of him becoming dark arts teacher. It's like Dwight

Truton in the office finally getting to become manager, you know? Yeah. That's what you got. Right. But he was able to become the dark arts teacher. Totally. And then we don't get that with him being we don't get that with him being headmaster either, which is really disappointing. And I think that would only

add to the effect of what's happening here. And every even though there's already a lot of impact of scenes that happen, post all those things, the impact would have been even greater, even more grand. Imagine if you saw him as like a villainous headmaster

and then you're like, oh my God, this is all an act. Right. I do think that it would have even highlighted and made his death even more bittersweet if he ended up being the best dark arts teacher that they ever had, even though he's like mean and like annoying, but he would probably be very good. It would really up the point for that death. Absolutely.

yeah let's see here oh my god i got a whole bunch of questions here there's so many questions favorite character arc that's safe for me yeah i mean that's a unpopular opinion what's your one harry potter hot take or unpopular opinion god i don't know unpopular opinion i don't love the twins as much as everyone else that is probably my unpopular opinion I'm not as in love with them as everyone else. I think people really love those twins. And I don't know. They're kind of funny.

That's about it to me. They're like a little funny. Right. They're a little funny. But I'm definitely not. I didn't really care when one of them died. Even though I mentioned it, like we should have had more time and we should have. I'm like, I don't really care as much about them as everyone else does.

I would be very curious to know for people who have. haven't read the books if they have that level of endearment generally to Fred and George because I feel like they do leap way more off the page. And the actual okay. I like those. I like the characters in the movies. I like those actors, but they do like what you love about

Fred and George is probably in the books. Wouldn't it have been so cool if Cedric Diggery got with Hermione? Was he too old then? That's another one though too. Ced Diggory is barely a character in the movie. He's barely a character if he was there more because he's

like sexy twilight man but then he likes hermione because she's so smart and so good at everything i would love to see that love story yeah if a dream crossover fandom blend says if you could throw one other franchise into the harry part of world like marvel or star wars what character would you love to see at hogworts oh my initial was just going to be like grogoo because i love him so much but let me think He is a fantastic beast. I would say Dr. Strange from the Marvel Cinematic Universe since he's already a sorcerer. Yeah.

I think that would be a blast to see. Or Wanda from the Scarlet Witch, I think would be a really fun one. You know what would be funnier is just have the Mando. It would be great if he could have Grogu there, but I would be like put Mando up in there and let's see what he does. Put Jabba the Hood in there. Yeah.

What care, Lupin deserve better? Who's the most underrated character in the whole series? Lupin deserve better is a very big indication of who you think is the most underrated character in the whole series. I don't know. Who do you think is an unerated character? Do you have an opinion? I mean, I just really like Emma Thompson a lot, and I think she should have got more screen time, but that's not a character. That's just, I love Emma Thompson, and she was barely in it, and she's just, she's brilliant. So that's the answer I have for now. I would say Lucius Malfoy. yeah because he starts off as a very effective antagonist and then when you catch up with him he is a weak broken man and that is probably who he was that whole time yeah just a terrified boy inside of a man's body yeah and i i think jason isaics his his ability to sell both of those where he is scary and you hate him and then when you catch up

him and be like, oh my God, this guy's afraid he's going to get, like, hit. You know, he's got that, like, attitude. He's terrified. At any moment, yeah. I thought that was great. Yeah, I would agree with that. That's a good one. Elder Juan Weilder 07.

If you both looked into the mirror of Ericid, that's when Harry sees his parents. What do you think you'd see? What did it normally, it just showed him his parents? What did it, did we ever see it show to anyone else? Like, I'm trying to get the theme of what it shows. It shows you what you want. It shows you your desire. Yeah, yeah, where you want, yeah.

Because Eresed is desire. it would show me naked with a six-pack yeah finally that would be mine too just to hear shut up about it goodness gracious every day 33 pounds down yeah i'm going to get the six-pack i know it this is every day our conversation oldermort and harry morphed into one yeah that's what happened me in the mirror you would just see this slide in a frame yep that's what i need him to shut up about it give him the six pack so we can end it so he needs the picture and then we can just be done with it. Oh, my God.

If I had a spell for liposuction or something that I could eat whatever I want, digestion. Holy shit. Oh, my God. We would monetize that spell. Oh, my God. That would be the best spell. I am such a foodie. I want to just like.

Why don't we not think of that early? That is the spell we got to go with. Why would we not go with that stuff? Anything and never feel uncomfortable, never get sick. Oh, my God. This is the best. This is the best one. This is.

We talk about transforming into someone else. No, I just want ripped abs. Can you imagine that you could just like literally, you could go to McDonald's and eat a Big Mac, but then go to Wendy's and get fries with Frosty and then order a pizza and your stomach would not hate you, and you would just be living the dream. That is the dream.

And you get the dopamine hits from the food, and it's just so good. I love food so much. That's the best valve. You're telling me I ate the same thing every day. The Daily Horror Crux, what twist or reveal caught you the most off guard? That is not Snape. Let's not say Snape.

What is the twist of reveal that caught you the most off guard? Maybe it's when they go to the horror crux and Dumbledore has to literally drink all the juice that's going to make him, it made him see weird things or it's like it made him very close to death. And he was like, he had to give that talk to Harry. He's like, if you have to shove it down my throat, you shove it down my throat, right? and Harry's like he's really nice about it but then he he has to like drink all of this liquid so they can get this what is then we find out it's a fake one right so upsetting we go through all that work and then zombies come at us like that's wild that's wild that's wild that's wild time it's not really a twist or reveal I know that wasn't I guess mine wasn't really

twist either but yeah go ahead no I'm saying mine mine isn't it's more of like a a moment I was like, I can't believe this is happening when Harry and Hermione are making out and they're naked. Oh my God. Yeah. I was like, what are we watching right now? Okay, what? I have no recollection. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Look it up. Look it up. Howells Part one. Hermione and Harry naked making out and they showed it to us for, I swear, two on my life for at least 10 seconds. They're like shadowy, smoky figures, but it's definitely Daniel Radcliffe. I saw sideboob. And they comment on that in the, in the reunion.

It's Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson. They're making out and they're nude. And I was watching it going, I can't believe what this is happening right now. How does John not remember that? That's going to. Oh, my God. That is etched into my brain. Yeah.

That's a good one. Yeah, I'm going to need a moment over here. Yeah. A lot of you questions are, we're going through these questions, and a lot of these questions are questions that we are kind of been answering sort of throughout as we're diving in, you know? So I don't want anyone to feel like we're ignoring or going over a bunch of quickly preview in them.

Don't go in the forest says, what was the creepiest or most intense scene for you in the entire series? Ooh, creepiest or most intense. I love in Death of Hallows part one, the running through the forest. Yeah. Or the time turner. I think that was like the most exciting. That was so fun with her watch and they could go back in time.

And part three. Yeah. That was that whole thing and uncovering back. I love that. That was like a fun time travel. Yeah, they saved the bird, too. That was my favorite. That's probably my favorite one in terms of how they,

it's not creepy or intense, but it is like the most excited. I think the creepiest one would be the chamber of secrets scene with the snake to me. That creep me out a lot. Yeah, I'm like, creepy or what was it? Or intense? Yeah. God, I need a minute. I mean, the spider, when all the spiders came, I mean, I'm like,

kind of felt it like arachnophobia I don't but a lot of the honestly there was one in in Deathly Hallows I think one of them or one of the other movies

you guys can tell me but a snake comes into frame that's Deathly Hallows that's Deathly Hallows scared the crap out of me I literally I think I jumped almost jumped out of my chair that was very intense

Neville Longbottomed What was your favorite magical battle or fight scene? Mine is a Order of Phoenix when Dumbledore and Voldemort are fighting each other for the first time. And then Harry's like fighting back the Voldemort within him. Yeah. There was something about the atmosphere of that and watching the struggle for that was the first time you saw Voldemort actually getting a little bit. He didn't have full strength in that moment. and Dumbledore's struggle and it showed the intensity at the stakes like that was that's actually probably the most intense

scene to me yeah is that's right after serious died and then Voldemort shows up that whole section is super duper intense to me yeah and Harry's there too yeah yeah I would say that remember the first one when Harry puts his hands on the weird guy and he burns his freaking face off yeah hell yeah that was awesome yeah that was so cool the cursed child I don't want to ruin anything about Curst Child because that's the Broadway show, which is out here now. I know. It's at Pat Tanger's right now. I want to go, but like I see the things and I'm like, oh, now that I've watched all of them, I'm like, I should go see it. Yeah. No, I think you love it. Yeah, I probably would. It's a great magic show. It's like a Universal Studios magic show for like three hours.

Oh, I love it. That's fun. Because it's not real magic, but there are the practicality and the effects are How the hell will they do this? Oh, my God. And narrative-wise, it gets better as it goes, but it does. Like, it used to be, I didn't know this until after I watch it. It used to be two days. You'd have to go one day and then you have to go the next. What?

Who does that? It was long. That's insane. And apparently the story was not good enough to warrant the like of a commitment to go. No story is good enough to warn an audience for more than four hours. four hours tops two days then they came then they condensed it and yeah it's not it's definitely like not the greatest execution because it's kind of at odds with itself because it wants to be this grandiose magic show but it's also trying to be a narrative at the same time yeah and and then

being a novel versus a play are very different totally and so trying to adapt to a play is different so you could see but but it's not without its storytelling moments that that's that it would be unfair to say like there are some great moments in there that in the last half of it i really was swept off my feet in so i was really engrossed in the story okay i love that but the first half was like ooh i am not jiving with the story here and it's kind of a common opinion okay but i really love the last half of it so maybe i just try to pop in after intermission grab a seat no you got to watch it or you get it all right let's get uh let's get a couple more in here they've got to call it a day if you could sit down and interview one character from the

wizarding world who would it be and what's one question you'd have to ask i'd sit down with dumbledore and be like why'd you only use this time turner once why'd you let this kid use what happened you had a time machine on your hands you barely use this thing that could have really come in hand you for a lot of situations you ran into every sort of the cursed child actually Funny enough that I'm saying that the one thing I will semi-spoil is the curse child does implement the time turn as part of its plot. Okay. So it does come back.

But when I'm watching all the Harry Potter movies, and I don't remember much of the details of the cursed child other than like the main characters are, it picks up like not long after where the movies ended. I mean, right when like they're adults, like Harry's an adult and he works at the ministry of magic. And it's about, it's about the main characters are the kids. Right. And the kids are no Ron Harry and Hermione. Yeah, that's tough then. Yeah. I don't, I honestly, I don't, I don't know.

I feel like they gave us a lot during that reunion, which we just watched yesterday. And that was so fulfilling for me to see a lot of behind the scenes and how the directors worked with the kids and how, you know, Harry, Ron and Hermione grew up throughout these films. that reunion was great answered so many wonderful questions that I'm like I don't know if I have any unanswered ones that I'd be dying to ask a character but that's probably because I haven't read the books and I've just seen the movies because this last question padfoot is my boy was asking about if they made a prequel series who would you cast to be like young serious Lupin James and Peter I really have no idea I think I mean if you know let me know but uh he was andrew was saying that they should make a movie about uh the creation of hoggwarts

and getting to that oh yeah what is the how'd they come to that that would be great i would love to see that yeah those are that that's a prequel i would totally be interested in seeing who would you cast as young gary oldman that's that's these are all hard um i don't i would have to i need to like look up actors names tom hard No, young Gary Oldman, 50-year-old Tom Hardy, going to Hogarth School. Lupin, I would cast a real-life pedophile because the guy who plays him, David Thuleas, creeps you out, which is weird because I love Lupin. Justice for David Thuilis. He looks like a creep.

He looks like a pervert. He does fight me on it. He's got pervert vibes, which is why he's acting is. Oh, my God. He doesn't feel like a pervert. Ridiculous. But he's around a bunch of children. But everything else I see him, and I'm like,

guy has perver vibes. I think I saw him in like five minutes of the island of Dr. Moreau when I was a kid, and that is the only image I have of him in my head, and I think I need a branch out because he is like a revered actor. He's got, like, stature. People love him. James, a young James Potter. You know who I would choose any from,

anybody from Downton Abbey? They're all, because it's BBC and it's like, well written, it's like those are the men and women that I believe would be able to rise to the occasion to play these characters and play them with a lot of depth. I will not spoil

There's a young Dumbledore In the Fantastic Beast movies Or in one of them And I won't say who the actor is But if I were to pitch A young Dumbledore Matt Smith

Matt Smith, who's that? Matt Smith, Youngledore is pretty cool Yeah, it'd be a cool one You'd be the sexiest, coolest Dumbledore Longbeards are cool And a young Willie Oh him, yeah, he would be good

He's BBC from the crown who oh yeah yeah the only reason i want to watch the crowd because he's in it oh god he's great in it um you don't know i don't know i'm not gonna know i don't know anyway i'm not gonna know listen they answered this for you it's jude long john i just said i wouldn't ruin it for terra oh because he's in fantastic beasts no no no no no no they're they're they're casting the new never mind there were there were rumors like about the new TV show. Never, never.

Oh, that he might be in it. That would be, that would be, that would be, that would be good. But don't worry about it. I don't think it's a ruin or it's whatever. I think it's fine. What if it was like, no. I would make them all be played by transgender people. Solely to piss off one person.

Unknown transgender people. I know it. That's a real good bait and switch. This is a good one, Greg. I think if they did the whole Harry Potter shows. Yeah, I would. Nothing but Transgender Rapids. Oh, my God.

It's so. What I would love to is because she has to say. J.K. Rowland has the say in it. I know. I mean, she, that's. Oh, in the shows? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah.

And, like, she has no issue with race swapping at all. Like, like, Alan Rickman's going to be played by a black actor, I believe. And in the play, it's a black actress play in her mind. So she has no issue with race swapping. She had obviously contentious problems with the transgender community. She does. So if they were able to cast a bunch of transgender people, not tell J.K. Rowling, their transgender, like never tell her.

Oh, right. And then reveal. And they tell her after it's all film. Oh, my God. She would have to change her tune. Oh, my God. I spent six months with people. I had no idea.

She would have to switch up so quick. How fun would that be? That would be great. That would be the best magic trick. That would be, yeah. That would be so good. The best magic show. We got to go.

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