It’s Monday, and that’s the day that the Wizarding World’s favorite Harry Potter podcast releases. It’s time for a brand new episode of Podtrificus Totalus!

This week, we cover the fourth chapter in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, “The Leaky Cauldron!” This finds Harry with new freedoms as he temporarily lives in and explores Diagon Alley. He eventually meets up with the Weasleys and Hermione, andhe learns a dark secret about Sirius Black…

We make a number of references to outside sources and popular culture, which are linked below:

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  Professor McGonagall on Wizarding World

  
  


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  Gobstones on Wizarding World (spoilers for Half-Blood Prince)

  
  


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  Firebolt on Wizarding World

  
  


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  Firebolt on the Harry Potter Lexicon

  
  


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  Florean Fortescue on the Harry Potter Wiki

  
  


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  Cassandra Vblatsky on the Harry Potter Wiki

  
  


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  Some fanart of Hermione by tumblr user beastlyworlds

  
  


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  Wandlore on the Harry Potter Lexicon

  
  


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  Wand Woods on Wizarding World

  
  


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  Crookshanks on the Harry Potter Lexicon

  
  


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  Crookshanks on the Harry Potter Wiki

  
  


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  The Great Gatsby, an overrated book by F. Scott Fitzgerald

  
  


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  Jim Halpert and Dwight Shrute, two characters on The Office (US)

  
  


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  Rat tonic on the Harry Potter Wiki