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title: "3.8 Flight of the Fat Lady"
date: 2021-03-22T06:00:26-04:00
draft: false
tags:
- Prisoner of Azkaban
episodeTitle: "Flight of the Fat Lady"
episodeSubtitle: "Professor Lupin looked cheerful and as well as he ever did; he was talking animatedly to tiny little Professor Flitwick, the Charms teacher. Harry moved his eyes along the table, to the place where Snape sat. Was he imagining it, or were Snape's eyes flickering towards Lupin more often than was natural?"
episodeLength: 45448276
episodeURL: https://cdn.podtrificustotalus.com/prisoner/308FlightoftheFatLady.mp3
episodeDuration: 1:03:05
episodeSeason: 3
episodeNumber: 8
featuredImage: /pottermore/308.webp
---
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It's Monday and we're back at it again at Podtrificus Totalus, the only Harry Potter podcast that spends roughly half the runtime debating the pedagogical methods at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry!
This chapter takes *Prisoner of Azkaban* into Hogwarts and keeps Harry out of the Halloween trip to Hogsmeade. As he mopes about the castle, he ends up in Professor Lupin's office for tea and a conversation about fear. While Lupin believes Harry wise for fearing the Dementors most of all, the end of the chapter should perhaps heighten Harry's fear about Sirius Black, who attacks the portrait of the Fat Lady that guards Gryffindor Common Room...
We make a number of references to outside sources and popular culture, which are listed below:
- *Final Fantasy VII* (1997)
- *Mulan* (1998)
- [Red Caps](https://www.hp-lexicon.org/creature/gnomes-and-other-small-human-like-creatures/red-cap/) on the Harry Potter Lexicon
- [Kappas](https://www.hp-lexicon.org/creature/fish/kappa/) on the Harry Potter Lexicon
- [Binky Barnes](https://arthur.fandom.com/wiki/Binky_Barnes) from the children's television show *Arthur*
- [Ambrosius Flume](https://www.hp-lexicon.org/character/ambrosius-flume/) on the Harry Potter Lexicon
- [Ranking of sweets in the Wizarding World](https://www.wizardingworld.com/features/ranking-the-wizarding-world-sweets) on Wizarding World
- [Grindylow](https://www.hp-lexicon.org/creature/fish/grindylow/) on the Harry Potter Lexicon
Our Spell of the Week (or **Creature** of the Week) is the Grindylow, one of which sits with Lupin's office, ready for some finger-breakin' practical learning in the next Defense Against the Dark Arts lesson.
<img class="chapterArt" src="/chapter/308.webp" />