502: All The Ways Hogwarts Is A Security Nightmare

MuggleCast: the Harry Potter podcast

• Did Wizards Unite finally confirm a long-standing theory about Lavender Brown?
• Main Discussion: All The Ways That Hogwarts Is A Security Nightmare
• For decades, students and teachers have been lied to about Hogwarts safety!
• Are moving staircases really a good idea?
• The Forbidden Forest & Black Lake are no place for students of any age!
• The Triwizard Tournament? Ask Cedric Diggory how that turned out!
• Background check, anyone? We discuss how professors like Quirrell, Lockhart, Hagrid & Impostor Moody endangered the students year-after-year.
• Quidditch... need we say more?
• Dear Dumbledore, you REALLY couldn't find the the Chamber of Secrets? Or the giant snake?
• The Whomping Willow (emphasis on whomping)
• Mental health check: should students really be experiencing their worst fears (Boggarts) in front of each other?
• Remember that year Dementors "safeguarded" the school?
• Listeners weigh in with their security concerns, including The Room of Requirement, Portraits, Secret Passages and more!
• Are parents ever notified about all of the dangers at Hogwarts?
• Quizzitch: After Neville falls off his broom in Year 1 who tells Malfoy to shut up? Visit MuggleCast.com/Quizzitch to submit your answer!
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