--- title: "2.7 Mudbloods and Murmurs" date: 2020-04-06T07:30:57-04:00 draft: false tags: - Chamber of Secrets episodeTitle: "Mudbloods and Murmurs" episodeSubtitle: "'It's about the most insulting thing he could think of,' gasped Ron, coming back up. 'Mudblood's a really foul name for someone who is Muggle-born--you know, non-magic parents. There are some wizards--like Malfoy's family--who think they're better than everyone else because they're what people call pure-blood.'" episodeLength: 50539512 episodeURL: https://cdn.podtrificustotalus.com/chamber/207MudbloodsandMurmurs.mp3 episodeDuration: 1:09:28 episodeSeason: 2 episodeNumber: 7 featuredImage: /pottermore/207.webp --- {{< audio src="https://cdn.podtrificustotalus.com/chamber/207MudbloodsandMurmurs.mp3" >}} This week on Podtrificus Totalus, a Harry Potter podcast done chapter by chapter, book by book, Cassie and Joe talk about racial allegory and The Voice for chapter seven of *Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets*, "Mudbloods and Murmurs." Oliver Wood wakes Harry up early for Quidditch practice, but they find that the Slytherins also have a claim on the Quidditch pitch. The team gets into a scrap that ends with Malfoy calling Hermione a Mudblood and Ron burping up slugs. Later, Harry serves his detention with Gilderoy and hears a mysterious voice. We make a number of references to outside sources, which are listed below: - *Chaucer's Losers, Nintendo's Children, and Other Forays in Queer Ludonarratology* by Tison Pugh (Published by University of Nebraska Press in 2019) - [Leering to a Man](https://www.fanfiction.net/s/2556229/1/Leering-to-a-Man) by Fanfiction.net user ShadowChik - *Ultimate Unofficial Guide to the Mysteries of Harry Potter* by Galadriel Waters (Ed. Astre Mithrandir; Published by Wizarding World Press in 2003) - [Edinburgh "cub reporter" press conference](http://www.accio-quote.org/articles/2005/0705-edinburgh-ITVcubreporters.htm), ITV, (16 July 2005) - [Channel 4 interview with J.K. Rowling](http://www.accio-quote.org/articles/2006/0626-ch4-richardandjudy.html) (Richard Madeley & Judy Finnigan; 26 June 2006) - [Gladys Gudgeon](https://www.hp-lexicon.org/character/gladys-gudgeon/) on the Harry Potter Lexicon - The [Slug-vomiting Charm](https://harry-potter-compendium.fandom.com/wiki/Slug-vomiting_Charm) on the Harry Potter Compendium Our Spell of the Week is the Slug-vomiting Charm, which Ron attempts to use on Malfoy, but it backfires.