#390: Falling Softly

• Welcome Slug Club member Sam!

• News: JKR shares why everyone is headed to Paris… Credence!

• Voicemails cover Book 1 and 7 connections, Hogwarts professors, Leta Lestrange and more

• Chapter-by-Chapter continues with 'The House of Gaunt'

• 7 Word Summary: A memory comes before another big reveal

• Sam shares why this chapter is one of her favorite in the series

• Why can't Hermione accept following alternate directions?

• Does Slughorn remember Snape as a student?

• Do Trelawney's mumblings shed insight on future Pensieve memories?

• Stepping inside Bob Ogden's memory

• Pureblood mania is alive and well inside the House of Gaunt

• Merope is part of a horrible family dynamic with Marvolo and Morfin. Is her family lineage at all to blame for her actions?

• Do we blame Tom Riddle Sr. for abandoning his son? What if he didn't?

• Horcrux alert: the ring and the locket

• As readers, what are we to make of all this guesswork by Dumbledore?

• Who is the worst character in this chapter? Merope? Marvolo? Morfin?

• Connecting the Threads: Parseltongue, snakes on doors and Bob Ogden

• The hosts give their MVPs of the Week and Rename The Chapter

• Quizzitch: How old is Stan Shunpike?

• In Bonus MuggleCast, available exclusively on Patreon for Dumbledore's Army members and above, we discuss news on Yusuf Kama, Queenie & Grindelwald, the Chupacabra and the French Ministry escape

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