The Shrieking Shack

Half-Blood Prince chapter 6. We get extremely rowdy this week! We have Fantastic Beasts drama, Emma Watson and Tom Felton news, and a chapter that is earnestly one of the most unbelievable experiences we've had reading this series. Be prepared for a lot of toilet discussion (not our fault) as well as a denouement of a third segment that will shake you to your core. Like the show? You can support u...

Half-Blood Prince chapter 5. We scope out the Magic Awakens situation, chat about the Wizarding World Gold journal, and play some piano before diving into an extremely dense chapter of family drama at the Burrow. Like the show? You can support us on Patreon for bonus content and early episodes! www.patreon.com/shriekcast/ Follow us on Twitter @shriekcast Merch: teespring.com/stores/dobbys-funeral-...

Half-Blood Prince chapter 4. We have some news cleanup to attend to after Wizarding World Gold ate up the whole segment last week, as well as some exciting advances in the field of A.I to reveal. Then we chat about Professor Slughorn, zombies, and the continued nu-Dumbledore that is puzzling us so much. Finally, we take a trip to fanfiction.net to explore some exciting crossover content. Half-Bloo...

Half-Blood Prince chapter 3. Wizarding World Gold (not to be confused with Wizard World Gold, which is what I did googling this story) is finally here, and it's more or less the same product the leak warned us it would be! We spend a while breaking down what the hell this service is exactly before discussing chapter 3 of HBP, which is both fascinating and frustrating. Who is this new version of Du...

Half-Blood Prince chapters 1&2. We're here! Order of the Phoenix is in the rearview, and it's time to start a new, almost equally long journey through book six. We read two chapters this week, with no sign of Harry but plenty of political intrigue, animal murder, monologuing, and the absolute worst piece of Whizarding Whorld Lhore we've encountered so far in the entire series! Like the show? You c...

After some brief news (farewell, Pottermore...) we have two tickets to the Order of the Phoenix movie, which is... hmm. Hmm! We discuss this messy flick in an episode longer than the film itself. Liz sings a Papa Roach song, Xeecee has some Theories... you gotta love showbiz! Like the show? You can support us on Patreon for bonus content and early episodes! www.patreon.com/shriekcast/ Follow us on...

Order of the Phoenix chapter 38. Another book comes to a close, and Liz has a shocking secret to reveal, as well as an epic promise to make. We have some Fantastic Beasts non-news, but most of this episode is dedicated to the final chapter of the book and our thoughts and feelings on the novel as a whole, including Pottermore's book club questions! Content warning for continued discussion of the U...

Order of the Phoenix chapter 37. We're nearly done with this gigantic tome, and Dumbledore has many, many words for us about the themes of the series, whether or not house elf slavery is okay if the elf is mean, how dumb and sorry he is, and many, many other things. We also talk about socks and the INTJ stare! Like the show? You can support us on Patreon for bonus content and early episodes! www.p...

Order of the Phoenix chapter 36. We chronicle JK Rowling's exciting return to Twitter to... advertise a logo update? And speculate on just where on earth the whole Harry Potter franchise kind of is right now. After that, we take a look at another action packed chapter and discuss how strange it is to read what feels like a screenplay that got inserted into the end of a novel. Finally, we visit a R...

Order of the Phoenix chapter 35. We've got a big pile of news to sort through (finally!) before getting to this week's chapter. It's basically one big action sequence, so sit back and relax while we spitball about how weird that is for a whole episode! Then we wrap up with an investigation into the Biden fanfic writer discussed last week's other works. It's... grim. Like the show? You can support...

Order of the Phoenix chapters 33 and 34. We learn all about the... uh... Joe Biden fandom? Before discussing two chapters this week. The first one is very bad, folks! --just wanna throw in a content warning here: fairly graphic discussion of whether or not there is implied sexual assault in this chapter. It's fairly important to the overall critique, but if that's something you'd rather not hear,...

Order of the Phoenix chapter 32. Tom news! Get your Tom news! As well as an exciting new app! We love apps here. We didn't love this chapter though, or at least not all of it. Find out all about Garrotting Gas, ironic bows, and Hermione's sudden transformation into The Joker, and then stick around for a reading of an impassioned defense of JK Rowling from the haters. Like the show? You can support...

Order of the Phoenix chapter 31. JK Rowling has been discovered alive and well in a pub where her husband's band was performing. Incidentally, did you know that Fat Cops band we talked about a long time ago was her husband's band!? We mull over this revelation as well as a few other Jo-related headlines. After that, it's time for... a mostly really good chapter? With, perhaps, some caveats. Finall...

Order of the Phoenix chapter 30. Is Hagrid a Death Eater? No. Moving on, we discuss the greatest Harry Potter subreddit post of all time, the most pointless chapter of Harry Potter of all time (so far, anyway...) and the best new community discovery we have to offer. I hope you can remember all the names of these important characters, like Montague and Edgecomb! Like the show? You can support us o...

Order of the Phoenix chapter 29. Happy birthday, Harry/J.K Rowling/Liz! We chat about Emma Watson's birthday gift to Jo, classroom dreams, class rings, and a fairly muddled chapter about how bullies are bad, except when they're actually very good. Then we get a little career advice of our own from the Harry Potter wiki. Like the show? You can support us on Patreon for bonus content and early episo...

Order of the Phoenix chapter 28. It's time for Snape's Worst Memory; is it the Book's Worst Chapter? Or do the previous two chapters maintain that dubious honor? We discuss that as well as useless side characters, crappy action figures, and the etymology of "titbit" Like the show? You can support us on Patreon for bonus content and early episodes! www.patreon.com/shriekcast/ Follow us on Twitter @...

Order of the Phoenix chapter 27. Did we say last week's chapter was the worst in the series? Well. Well!!!! Like the show? You can support us on Patreon for bonus content and early episodes! www.patreon.com/shriekcast/ Follow us on Twitter @shriekcast Merch: teespring.com/stores/dobbys-funeral-gift-shop Send your questions to shriekcast@gmail.com

Order of the Phoenix chapter 26. Hermione is a little worm who deserves to be crushed according to... Hermione? So we take some time to unpack that and maybe the most bizarre (and unfortunately, worst) chapter in this book so far. Then we take a leap into a new subreddit discovery and learn all about wand lore.... Like the show? You can support us on Patreon for bonus content and early episodes! w...

Order of the Phoenix chapter 25. We've got a certain house elf's birthday to celebrate and TV show rumors to discuss! We also have an absolutely massive chapter to go over, featuring Voldemort playing Starcraft and Harry going on a date he blows very badly. Finally, we wrap up with a visit to the time machine to read some pre-Order of the Phoenix blog speculation from 2002. Like the show? You can...

Order of the Phoenix chapter 24. The hallowed episode number is here....the funny number. It just so happens that we have a Snape chapter this week, so we get to talk about our favorite professor (besides Lockhart) and an all-around surprisingly excellent segment of the book! We also talk about a bunch of rude and crude things but we probably didn't need the episode 69 excuse for that. Finally, we...

Order of the Phoenix chapter 23. Wizards Unite surprise released this morning, so we spend some time chatting about our thoughts on the game as well as Christmas on the Closed Ward, a very strange chapter that brings in a ton of characters to guide Harry through an angst crisis. After that, we read an interview between Katie Couric and JK Rowling from 2003 that features both of them at their meane...

Order of the Phoenix chapter 22. It's a roller coaster of an episode this week as we discuss the opening of the new Hagrid ride at Universal, the mysterious appearance of Dobby in someone's driveway, and an honestly absolutely crazy chapter of OOTP. Are paintings alive? How does a snake perform espionage? How does a phoenix perform stealth operations? Like the show? You can support us on Patreon f...

Order of the Phoenix chapter 21. We take a trip in the time machine back to 2005 to read an article trying to explain how Harry Potter invented shipping and learn all about thestrals this week. We also celebrate Draco Malfoy's birthday! Like the show? You can support us on Patreon for bonus content and early episodes! www.patreon.com/shriekcast/ Follow us on Twitter @shriekcast Send your questions...

Order of the Phoenix chapter 20. We had a short chapter and no news this week, so we watched Magic Beyond Words: The JK Rowling Story, a horrible Lifetime film about our favorite treehouse enthusiast. Then we sit down with Hagrid to hear his tale, which is apparently one of the least popular chapters in this book?

Order of the Phoenix chapter 19. It's our 64th episode, which naturally means we need to talk about Quest 64, video game soundtracks, Imogen Heap, Harry Potter sales numbers, and a... pretty okay chapter? We discuss Hermione inventing text messaging and Harry wondering if only bad guys have meetings. Then we commune with Bustle for one of our most lit third segments ever (there are some GoT spoile...