#15 The Future Looks Bleak, Harry | PS, Chapter 15 ”The Forbidden Forest”

Potter Revisited Episode #15 | The Future Looks Bleak, Harry Aka Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Chapter 15 "The Forbidden Forest"

• We come up with some excuses Harry and Hermione could have gave for being out at night
• Is this really the most disappointed McGonagall has ever been or is she trying to "scare them straight"
• Harry feels awful for losing Gryffindor so much house points - but he slowly gets used to it as the series goes on
• This is the first time Harry feels isolated in the Wizarding World, but at least he has Ron. Really shows how much Harry values Ron's friendship
• Have the Weasley Twins not lost 150 points or are they good at not getting caught?
• Why is their punishment for breaking the rules/being out of bounds being sent to an out of bounds area? #WhyDumbledore
• Where students punished with corporal punishment during Dumbledore's time as Headmaster?
• Why were Neville and Draco, then Draco and Harry sent off alone in the Forbidden Forest - when they are looking for an unknown and potentially dangerous teacher?
• We meet the Centaurs and get a lot of foreshadowing for the next few chapters and potentially for the rest of the series
•  Harry swears to stop "poking around" in this book - which happens a few times throughout the series 
• Is Hagrid lax with safety in the forest due to his thoughts on magical creatures, and how he sees dangerous creatures as "misunderstood" and needing a second chance?
• Did Dumbledore want Harry to be caught to send him into the forest, so he would meet Voldemort? 
• Does Bane and Ronan's argument with Firenze foreshadowing his exile in OOTP?
• What does it mean to have a "cursed life"? 
• Interesting full circle moment that Harry is in the forest in the beginning of the series, and returns at the end to die. 
• We discuss the centar's "Mars is bright tonight" observation and how it foreshadows the rest of the series
• What did Firenze see in the stars about Harry? 
• What is the lifespan of a centar? 
• We do a mini deep dive on Divination in the series 
• Are we made to be biased against Divination/Fortune-Telling as Hagrid, Hermione and McGonagall are shown to be skeptical 
• Shay loves Divination, specifically dream analysis. According to her if you want to lucid dream, eat a pickle, chocolate icing and cheese before bed. 

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Shelter Song by Alexander Nakarada (www.serpentsoundstudios.com) Licensed under Creative Commons BY Attribution 4.0 License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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