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Tonight’s takeaways:
People in stone towers shouldn’t throw palantirs
If you use the simile “tall as a tree”, you really should provide the type of tree

Saruman’s voice = sirens

LOTF Trivia: Derndingle, Erkenbrand, Tobold the Old, Ent names

Tonight, Liam really wanted to understand Wormtongue’s motivations (beyond just Saruman). We compared him to Smaug and that helped, but little dude’s questions are some of my favorite things about bedtime books.

And on a pale horse came a pale rider #helivesfrodo

Ain’t no party like an Entmoot party, cause an Entmoot party’s got Ents!!!

Technically we are on page 444 but who’s counting?

Liam and I agree we’d both watch a show about a grandmother and grandson witch-hunting.

Meeses are cute. Witches, less so!

The difference between fact and fiction, unreliable narration, parallels to Harry Potter

Two naughty children gone, three good lovely children left…

A palate cleanser. A brief interlude. A quick read. And now I’m sitting in bed debating going downstairs to eat chocolate.

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Andddddd we are sooooo close now…Liam very hates the blood part, so I’m glad that is over!

Closer and closer, past the blood parts we go…I never quite get the maze for the last challenge. It seems not as tricky as the first two events and that bugs me. Liam is still preoccupied with how you can help someone who you are fighting against but that’s life for you - full of complications and temporary alliances…

Ooohhhh we are getting close now! Tonight, we had a scintillating talk about blackmail and invasion of privacy. Regan took notes.

I used to be better about these.

Oh, we in it now, Harry!

Every time there’s a plot line not kept in the movies, it leads to a seven minute discussion about artistic decisions and how writing/storytelling changes between paper and film media. Then Liam covers his ears, goes “ok, ok, can you just go back to reading?” And I feel like my job is fine here.

Fireside chats with The Godfather, liberating house elves and uncomfortable conversations about slavery, dead center noses, Hermione IS a girl, Ginny is the all of us who ever wanted to go to prom, Macbeth references, and Rita Skeeter and the Blast Ended Skrewts

Things are getting exciting. Minus Ron being a jealous dodo and Sirius not spilling the beans about dragon survival first.

We missed a few nights’ updates but the Little Dude turned eight and I’m exhausted. Let’s see…most of the chatter featured Victor Krum and how he’s physically described differently from how he appears in the film, why Durmstrang sits with Slytherin, the translation of Beauxbatons, and how anyone could not think the GoF was another Potter death threat

The chatter: on what exactly is pus 🤢, blast-ended skrewts, Hagrid - the teacher without a measurable objective, how Draco might be mean AND right at the same time, The Unforgivable Curses, Hermione’s inability to spin a decent acronym, for the love of Merlin would someone please just notice Neville first!!!

Tonight’s chatter: how ALL the Weasley kids made it into Gryffindor is beyond us!, anti-Asian sentiments, trying to recollect the various reasons Harry misses the Sortings, more uncomfortable slavery parallels with house elves at Hogwarts

Tonight’s chatter: plot recap, buzzfeed meanderings about what type of port key we’d want to use, how Ron gets “rubbish” handmedowns and books but has a great family with loads of love while Harry can get new everything but his home life is tragic, why it takes forever to get to Hogwarts in this one…