MuggleCast: The Harry Potter Re-Read Podcast

Fudge’s Therapy Session (HBP Chapter 1, The Other Minister)

2025-10-07

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Help MuggleCast grow!

Join us as our patron at Patreon.com/mugglecast, and receive a slew of great benefits instantly, including more than 60 hours of bonus recordings, 30 hours of chapter readings, and much, much more!
Listeners can browse our official merch at MuggleCastMerch.com and pick up overstock items from years past at MuggleMillennial.Etsy.com!

That new assistant named Kingsley is a high performer! This week we're starting our Chapter by Chapter re-read of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, and discussing all the problems that Cornelius Fudge has just dumped on the British Prime Minister's doorstep. It's a rare Harry-less chapter this week, titled "The Other Minister."

News: Congratulations to SIR Gary Oldman! (He really puts the Sir in Sirius)
Chapter by Chapter continues with Half-Blood Prince Chapter 1: The Other Minister
Where were the hosts when the sixth Potter book came out? It was only 3 weeks shy of MuggleCast's first episode!
The MuggleCast Time-Turner segment is now the MuggleCast Pensieve! It's Book-6-themed and, this week, flashing back to MuggleCast #376, from July 16, 2018!
The hosts compare favorite chapters and discuss this is one of them.
The poor British PM believes the chaos was his to own, only to find out that the wizards are at fault for all of it!
Do wizards have a superiority complex? It sure seems like it, around the Muggle PM.
Is this chapter tied to a particular politician or administration from years past, when the book was set? Or perhaps when it was written? The hosts speculate.
Is the portrait of the "frog-like" man (Umbridge's dad?) a privacy concern for the Muggles?
MVP of the Week: Who was the best working man in this chapter?
Lynx Line: What event from human history was magical in origin, but was covered up between the two governments?
Participate in our weekly trivia segment by answering this week's Quizzitch question at MuggleCast.com/Quizzitch!
On Bonus MuggleCast, we discuss the newly released album art for the upcoming full cast production audiobooks.