Episode #342: A History of Magic
Welcome Slug Club member Irvin!\n\nCursed Child tickets go on sale and we're left in the dust!\n\nUntil Katy (and her husband) come to the rescue!\n\nWe discuss ticket prices - why were no special offers made for people buying both Parts 1 & 2?\n\nListeners share their Cursed Child ticket buying experiences\n\nWe review Harry Potter: A Journey Through A History of Magic\n\nThe book details the exhibition currently at the British Library\n\nIt feels like touring a museum (in a good way)\n\nWe explore the original synopsis JKR sent to Bloomsbury\n\nThe Harry Potter world owes a lot to then 8-year-old Alice Newton\n\nGhost panels, statues, a selection committee of professors - the Sorting Hat that almost wasn't!\n\nFudge and Vernon Dursely were originally going to be coworkers? WHAT?!\n\nWe look at JKR's early list of Hogwarts professors: Enid Pettigrew, Oakden Hernshaw, Mopsus?\n\nHarry and Ron almost met the merpeople in Chamber of Sercrets!\n\nSteve Kloves shares his story and how judging a book by its cover almost cost him the films\n\nQuizzitch: In Prisoner of Azkaban, what does Snape task students with in their year-end lesson?\n\nVoicemails on Grindelwald and Wizarding World theme park\n\n\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices