I love Lupin too! I share your pain, Michael. :(

On why Ron became a prefect: Although I agree that Dean was probably the one most deserving of the title out of the boys, I think the fact that the boy-prefect and the girl-prefect often have to collaborate made them go for Ron. Hermione was the obvious choice for the girl-prefect, but since her social skills are kind of particular, I believe they wanted someone who would both respect her and listen to her but also challenge her if she became too bossy. That someone could have been either Harry or Ron, but they went for Ron because Harry had aleady shouldered a lot of responsibilities.

I see Lupin's werewolf situation -how he experiences it and how society reacts to it- as a metaphor for mental illness. In our sad Muggle world, people suffering from mental illness (schizofrenia, bipolar disorder etc.) are usually stigmatised, and it is harder for them to get jobs, and once others know about it they tend to see them as their illness and not as any other unique individual, and fear them. Lupin keeps his situation under control with certain medication, as a schizofrenic might, and just as his werewolfness is an aspect of him that doesn't define him as a person, so mental illness is an aspect of someone and it doesn't define them.

On Dean's fear of a severed hand, and other bizzare Boggart forms: Maybe Dean watched the Adams Family as a young kid and the moving hand really freaked him out? And maybe the huge eyeball is the eye of Sauron?

Lupin couldn't/shouldn't have collaborated with Hagrid because you're not supposed to face dangerous creatures and learn how to defend yourself from them in Care of Magical Creatures...

I never ever ever saw any signs of a Harry/Hermione romance. It was always clearly a friendship to me, possibly because boys have been good friends of mine since a young age and the possibility of romance between friends seems incredibly icky. Or because the "sidekicks" are always far superior to the protagonist, therefore the female sidekick is always too good for the protagonist.

(In case this is the second time it appears, sorry, I don't know what happened.)

"Similarly, maybe Dean's greatest fear is losing his hands - the times we learn something about him, it's always that he's decently artistic."

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What a great catch, head girl! I'd never thought about it that way.

Hi keep up the Amazing work. The podcast was BRILLANT (as always.)

Loved the discussion on boggarts. Heres a question. Supposedly know one knows what a boggart looks like originally cause it assumes the shape of something that scares you. In book 5 Mad Eye Moody can see the boggart through the writing desk with his magical eye. Wouldnt he be able to see the true form of a boggart cause the boggart cant see him?

I started to think about what the other student's boggarts turned into and I thought of Seamus's that turned into a banshee. How clever of Jo to use a creature of Irish folk-lore as a fear for a person with such an Irish name! Its entirely possible that he heard superstitions or actual stories of banshees from people in his family. I can imagine the back story now, "Me Uncle Fergus once told me about a banshee that haunted the moors of..."

Great episode again. Loved the commentary on the boggarts and had never made the connection between a boggart who takes the form of what you fear and the "boogeyman" tale we were told when we were young - the boogeyman will get you - he lurks in dark places and causes fear amongst children. Great work! Loved making that connection.

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