MuggleCast: the Harry Potter podcast

Burbage Burgers (DH Chapter 1, 'The Dark Lord Ascending')

This week, we hope you brought your appetite, because we’re joining Nagini for dinner. Pull up a chair alongside Andrew, Eric, Micah and Laura at the dining room table inside Malfoy Manor for some delicious Death Eater tea!

• We’re going chapter-by-chapter through Deathly Hallows for the first time since 2007!
• Deathly Hallows: A History: we reflect back on the ultimate midnight release party and the fastest selling book ever in a 24-hour period!
• Chapter-by-Chapter returns with Deathly Hallows, Chapter 1 – The Dark Lord Ascending
• 7-Word Summary: Voldemort hosts his people menacingly around updates
• Can Voldemort trust the portraits inside Malfoy Manor?
• Snape and Yaxley jostle for Voldemort’s affection: who has the better intel on Harry Potter?
• The Ministry has been infiltrated!
• The Castration of Lucius Malfoy: we discuss the symbolism of Voldemort taking his wand and utter humiliation the Malfoy family receives inside their own home
• The irony of Voldemort discussing blood status
• So long, Charity Burbage!
• We asked our patrons via our Lynx Line: Lucius has peacocks strutting around his property – what creature would you want to live on yours?

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