I think Peeves is scared of the Baron because the students are scared of the Baron and Peeves is a manifestation of the student's mischievousness, making them linked. This is also the reason why Peeves is more respectful of the headmaster. If the students one day decided the Baron wasn't scary, I think Peeves would stop being scared of the Baron.

"How did you do on your forgetfulness potion exam sweetie?"
" I don't remember!"
"that's great! We'll go out for butterbeers to celebrate!"

The other night when I was up at 4 AM to feed the baby and I had a thought for a video. In Goblet, Sirius hides out in a cave. We know that Dumbledore set Sirius up in the cave. For the video, “What If Dumbledore Kept Sirius In His Office As A Pet Dog.” This way he is still close to Harry, but somewhere that he is safe and can get food. Having a random pet dog just seems like a totally Dumbledore thing. (Based on one of your videos) having a dog that mysteriously hates Snape is super extra Dumbledore. lol.

Sorry, but the ultimate act that marks Hermione as a true Gryffindor to me will always be her decision to light Snape on fire at the Quidditch match. 😂 "Hmm... A teacher is attacking a student. What can I do? Imma light him on fire!"

Fluffy being the hardest obstacle to get through is CLASSIC VLODEMORT, always underestimates people he think pose no threat!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! PERFECT GO HAGRID, GO FLUFFY

FUN FACT!

The chapter art shows Fluffy with spots, yeah? Fluffy is based on the Greek Cerberus, though its actual original name is "Kerberos"... which means "spotted". This also means that the Cerberus's actual name is Spot.

Hermione confunds Mclaggen and he goes the wrong way. He also walks into a door frame later.

The Super Carlin Brothers should've some kind of a celebration at the end of each book like eating from a box of Bertie box every flavored beans or drink some butter beer to celebrate.

About Snape's potion riddle:
One of the first things I did after reading the book 20 years ago was to figure out the riddle. In fact, the riddle works perfectly! For everything to work, the smallest bottle has to be either in 3rd or 4th place, while the biggest one must be in 2nd or 6th place. For example, the arrangement can look like this:

O O (-) O O (+) O

(+) denotes the biggest bottle, (-) the smallest, and O every other one.

Here's the riddle (so you don't have to look it up):

Danger lies before you, while safety lies behind,
Two of us will help you, whichever you would find,
One among us seven will let you move ahead,
Another will transport the drinker back instead,
Two among our number hold only nettle wine,
Three of us are killers, waiting hidden in line.
Choose, unless you wish to stay here for evermore,
To help you in your choice, we give you these clues four:
First, however slyly the poison tries to hide
You will always find some on nettle wine's left side;
Second, different are those who stand at either end,
But if you would move onwards neither is your friend;
Third, as you see clearly, all are different size,
Neither dwarf nor giant holds death in their insides;
Fourth, the second left and the second on the right
Are twins once you taste them, though different at first sight.

For those who want to solve the riddle for themselves, don't read on until you solved it, because now comes the...

SOLUTION OF THE RIDDLE:

So how did Hermione solve the riddle? Step by step:

1. By clue 4, bottles 2 and 6 both contain the same potion. Which one is it? It cannot be the potion to go forward or backward, because there's only one of each. Also, as bottle 6 is the biggest, it also cannot be poison (clue 3). This leaves only nettle wine for both bottles:
? N ? ? ? N ?

2. By clue 1, bottles 1 and 5 contain poison:
P N ? ? P N ?

3. Next, Hermione could figure out bottle 7 by elimination: by clue 2, this bottle can neither be poison nor the forward-moving potion, and there's no more nettle wine left either, so it must be the backward-moving potion:
P N ? ? P N B

4. Finally, there's one poison and the forward-potion left. But as bottle 3 is the smallest, it's safe from poison by clue 3. So this one contains the forward-potion:
P N F P P N B

Note that this solutions also matches the information given in the book: Hermione figures out that the smallest bottle brings Harry forward, and that the rightmost bottle contains the backward potion!

The biggest bottle must be the 2nd or 6th one because Hermione needed this information for step 1 of the above solution. Otherwise there would be no way to solve the riddle!

Happy 2024 and keep going this wonderful podcast! :)

Rupert Grint, in an interview I believe, told someone that he actually got hit in that scene
It is also the reason why there is a perfectly matching scar on his face while meeting Harry after the Hospital wing and during the Great Hall in the end.

In the end scene at Hogsmead Station the scar however isn't present, as that scene was filmed as the first overall scene of the movie making process.

Dumbledore doesn't deal with day-to-day student discipline.  That's what the heads of houses (Snape, McGonagall, et al) do.

Just had an idea about Dumbledore's pocket watch.

What if it functions similar to Mrs. Weasley's clock? He was checking it to make sure nothing had happened to Hagrid to cause him to be late.

What if Peeves doesn't actually obey because he thinks Harry is the Bloody Baron, but instead immediately recognises that this is an invisible child trying to impersonate him and just thinks that's so hilarious that he goes along with it

I thought it was well known that Rupert Grints forehead was actually cut by debris in the chess scene and he held character for the shot, it's come up in several interviews

Two things:

1 if you haven’t already I would highly recommend you get the unofficial Harry Potter companions volume 1&2 which are great for theories!

2. I can’t believe you missed the portion where Harry looks up too see an owl with a letter flying over the lake. This is the fake letter used to lure dumbledore away from Hogwarts!

Omgggg I just realized that the kids aren't sorted in houses because they are brave or cunning. That's what they value. Malfoy would choose framing harry during the midnight duel instead of bravery, Neville values bravery even if he might not initially be brave, and Hermione values friendship and bravery over books and intelligence which is why she isn't in ravenclaw. And that's probably why most members of a family turn out to be in the same house!!😮😮

1:02:04 I have always felt like Flitwick and McGonagal’s tasks should be swapped. The chess pieces would make more sense to be charmed rather than transfigured, while the keys work perfectly as transfigured birds. I also think this matches well with which houses they come from. A brave Gryffindor would be more likely to have the courage needed to speed around on a broom in an enclosed room, while a clever Ravenclaw would likely be better at the very strategic game of chess.

Because Harry, Ron and Hermione tackle these as three people, the house thing works better with the obstacles being the way they are. I say that because, they come up with a clever strategy to catch the key and Ron bravely sacrifices himself on the chessboard. However, if you were to tackle the challenges alone it would work better if Flitwick and McGonagal were switched.

Dumbledore knows what happened to Neville because of the chocolate frog cards. He hears everything in all four house rooms.

a nicer interpretation of the Centaurs is that they know they need to join the battle after Harry dies, so theoretically they want Harry to die in book one so they can join the fight not because they want to stay out of it

my mum read me the harry potter books and we did one chapter a night. i remember when she got to the end of chapter sixteen and said the last line she looked at the start of the next chapter and i remember her reaction, but she didnt tell me. the next day genuinely felt like forever when i was waiting to find out who it was and i knew that my mum knew