Episode #351: Wear and Tear

Slug Club member Ashley joins the show

Jude Law sits down with JKR to learn about Dumbledore's character

Chamber of Secrets gets the House Edition treatment (and so will the rest of the series)

Nighttime shows are coming to Wizarding World Orlando while Cursed Child rehearsals begin on Broadway

Dan Radcliffe weighs in on the Johnny Depp/Grindelwald debate

Ashley has her own discussion ready for the show and wants to know how Jacob will get his memory back?

She breaks down what we know about memory charms to date and characters who've experienced them

How exactly can a memory charm be broken? How much does Jacob remember by the end of Fantastic Beasts?

Since the Swooping Evil venom is supposed to erase bad memories, is there a chance Jacob's memory wasn't fully erased?

Will Jacob regain his memory in full? Will it be over time through a series of flashbacks through Fantastic Beasts 2?

Did the murtlap bite somehow prevent him from losing his full memory?

Could JKR offer further education on memory charms via Pottermore to prepare us?

Main Discussion: The Gaunt Family

Given Voldemort's recent birthday, we take a look at his family: Merope, Morfin and Marvolo

Is there anything we actually like about these characters?

Andrew gets incestuous asking if the other hosts would ever marry their cousins

Could we ever love somebody after we found out they had us under a spell?

Should Tom Riddle Sr. have sought out his son and tried to raise him?

We discuss the distinction between Tom Riddle Jr. and Voldemort being able to love

Do we see the Gaunt family playing a role in future Fantastic Beasts films?

Email and text messages cover the Wizarding World's third expansion and the Potter films moving to HBO

This Week in MuggleCast history looks at Episodes 72, 128, 168 and 189

Quizzitch: To whom, in the Harry Potter universe, is Mark Evans related?