#81 Barmy Old Codger | GoF 21, The House-Elf Liberation Front

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Potter Revisited Episode #81 Barmy Old Codger AKA Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Chapter 21 "The House-Elf Liberation Front"

• Ron is acting super enthusiastic to make it up to Harry - something he also does in DH
• Love that Harry gave Sirius a full play-by-play on the first task
• Ron just spoils Harry's surprise party and no one says anything?
• How do the other houses throw parties?
• Dean is the only one that really has a hobby
• Harry opens the egg and Neville thinks it's the cruciatus curse - lots of foreshadowing hints about Neville's past and also Harry does have the curse used on him later on
• Fred and George's canary creams are such advanced magic
• Hermione trying to manipulate F&G to tell her about the kitchens is fun
• Are the students getting drunk off the whisky fumes Hagrid set out for the Beauxbaton horses?
• How is Rita able to just get onto the grounds when she was banned? This is a school! How does Hogwarts monitor visitors?
• Should Harry just told Hagrid to not do anything with Rita even if it was rude?
• Dobby is at Hogwarts!
• Its very cool seeing Dobby again and how he is handling being a free elf, compared to Winky who is miserable
• Winky let's slip that Crouch thinks Bagman is a bad wizard - we are getting lot of different hints about potential "bad guys" that through us off the real villain of this book
• Ron offers Dobby his christmas jumper - but wouldn't Mrs Weasley just make Dobby his own sweater if asked?
• We as Canadians try and figure out how pies fit in pockets
• Percy is ragged on a lot in this chapter for not being able to take a joke / being a stick in the mud. He isn't even present!
• It is interesting seeing how the other House Elves seem wary of Dobby
• Has the SPEW plot aged well? It does get hard to read Hermione constantly being put down by everyone despite being right
• Snape Sucks total for Chapter 21: 0

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