The reason why that moodys eye is meant to stick to a door is because it refers to when umbridge had it stuck to her office door in the ministry after Voldemort came back to power
Cherry the centaur is supposed to be Firenze. The one who saved Harry From Voldemort during his detention in his first year. The eye you could stick on a door when Umbridge had mad eye in her door. The post card is in honor of Gilderoy Lockhart. The dueling club is Flitwick.
On the Vial of Memories it says Ogden who was the man from Ministry of Magic who visited the Gaunt family. That was one of the first memories Dumbledore showed Harry in Half Blood Prince about Voldemort's past.
You could stick the eye on your fridge if someone in the house is on a diet. If they are sneaking midnight snacks they'll know someone's watching ... Because your fridge is under counter, it wouldn't be too noticeable.
I'm a huge fan of cherries been watching her a while now. I actually started watching you Danny after Cherry brought you up quite a few times revealing boxes. Now I'm a huge fan of you too. I absolutely love all of the book covers that come in, especially the paper wall artwork that you do. I’ve been actually looking around my house and trying to find a big enough wall to start a collage of all the papers that I've been getting in these boxes. Also, I don't have many books to hold those book covers, so I've been trying to figure out a DIY where I can make an empty book display purposes only.
I do think a pin board of just the portrait pins would be cool. It could kinda look like a wall in Hogwarts lol… I might have to see how many of them I have now 🤔☺️
The Valentine's postcards were sent out in Chamber Secrets. Ginny sent Harry an inventive poem ("his eyes are as green as a fresh pickled toad..."). Probably a reference to Lockhart as it was his idea :)
Almost disappointed that each item wasn't linked to the professor when Cherry ran through the cheat sheet! Like come on - lets assign these! Although definitely disappointed Cherry didn't get the Moody Umbridge reference! LOL
"Where there might have been a peephole on a Muggle front door, a large, round eye with a bright blue iris had been set into the wood - an eye that was shockingly familiar to anybody who had known Alastor Moody. Harry strode straight over to the door to examine the eye. It was not moving: It gazed blindly upward, frozen."
On the off chance you've not twigged it, the tarot card is "The Lightning-struck Tower," and relates to the chapter in HBP where Dumbledore dies. I think the card might have been referenced in that book at some point by Trelawney as well...
I have a black cat and they're wonderful! He's really shy and quiet compared to the others, but he's quite the tough guy too. He's brought home a female kitty when he got old enough to explore and she's been here with him ever since.
I think maybe that the adhesive eye is to represent how Umbridge used Moody’s eye on her door in the Deathly Hallows...im not sure, but that's what I thought. Thanks for the magic 🫶💕✨
The map, book cover and memory were my faves 😍 sticking Moody’s eye to the door fits as when Harry visits the ministry to find the locket, Umbridge had Moody’s eye stuck to her door to keep an eye on her workers opposite. Harry takes the eye and later buries it at the base of a gnarled looking tree to give moody some kind of burial as his body was gone when Lupin and Bill went to look for it ❤
The Bob Ogden memory vial is from when Dumbledore is taking Harry into the pensieve to learn about Voldemort's past. Dumbledore got the memory from Bob Ogden, Bob was a ministry official who went to the Gaunt's house because the son had been flagged for performing underage magic. In that memory we meet all the Gaunt's - the daughter being Voldemort's mother - and we "meet" Voldemort's father, but he just goes past the house 🤷♀️
I think this is the first box ever where I find it easier to list what I liked the least. So here it goes starting with least liked at number one: 1. Professor Moody's eye 2. Dueling Champion pin 3. Kitten plate 4. Slughorn's hourglass I genuinely liked everything else very much! ☺️
oh Cherry it seems like you need to reread the Harry Potter books soon because it seems like most of the things the subscription boxes are sending out are from the books and not the movies
Just wanted to say since so many people are like "how could you not know these references" that everyone is different and stores memories differently- I personally also don't get a few of the references but I still love the books and have read them many times- and every time I do I feel like I relearn things I forgot! I don't think its something worth complaining about/potentially making Cherry feel targeted. She's only human, and she makes great and magical entertainment!
She does make great content, and I like her very much. But having said such, you are not someone who is making You Tube videos and therefore making your living as a Potter fan and presenting to your audience the merchandise and such from that world. If her memory is becoming foggy then I think it time to reread the books so she doesn't lose the very audience that she is targeting. We like to feel understood and like we are experiencing these things with a die hard fellow Potter fan, often such as ourselves. Yes, we are all different and process memory differently, but if I am presenting Potter merch as a job, then I should know my stuff. I do not say this to be mean to Cherry. As I said, I like her and have liked her content for years, it's why I subscribed some years ago after all. It is said only as constructive criticism, as a helpful observation only. I haven't seen anyone here being mean to her. Only suggesting she brush up her memory. I feel myself that there were some very easy misses in this one, quite a few in fact.
I feel like McGonagall/Transfiguration should have been represent better than a portrait. Even Flitwick’s pin representation said a little more about him. The eye could be for the wall. To stop a door knob from slamming into the wall of the next room.
House panthers are some of the best kitties in the world. I am owned by a house panther named Smokey Quartz aka Smokey. He is the most loving fur child. He is my profile picture.
The fish eyes were creative but as you said, repulsive. A great box this month! For the pins, especially the chunky ones, I stick them into small corks that I’ve hot glued magnets and my pin collection is displayed on my fridge. Then you can remove and still wear if desired.
When I saw the plate… I knew it was Umbridge and still I was like wishing in my head “please don’t be Umbridge” “please don’t be Umbridge” and when you turned the plate…..
we met Bob Ogden in the Pensieve, via a memory Dumbledore collected from Ogden before the Ministry official died. Dumbledore showed Ogden’s memory to Harry during one of their private lessons in Half-Blood Prince. Bob Ogden was dead by the time Harry saw this memory - he was around when Lord Voldemort’s mother, Merope Gaunt, was barely out of girlhood. When Harry dropped into his memory, Bob Ogden was acting in his capacity as a Ministry official. A wizard called Morfin Gaunt had ‘performed a jinx or hex on a Muggle, causing him to erupt in highly painful hives’ and Ogden was tasked with seeking Morfin out and summoning him to a Ministry hearing. However, Ogden got a little bit more than he bargained for when he turned up at the Gaunt house. He was met by Morfin Gaunt who hissed at him in Parseltongue - a language he couldn’t understand - and was then hit in the nose by a thoroughly unpleasant spell. The rest of the family weren’t much fun either. Marvolo Gaunt, who we later learned was Lord Voldemort’s grandfather, was obsessed with being descended from Salazar Slytherin, and treated Ogden - as well as his daughter Merope - with utter contempt.
I am absolutely jealous, I want the Mappa Stellarum So bad! I'll have to look at the website to see if they sell individual items. The cat plate made me laugh, I've never seen one like that before. You forgot to mention *Professor* Lockhart with the Dueling pin. The Memory Vial is of course just gorgeous. I like that it has a slight milky look to the liquid, it feels very authentic.I thought the Pufferfish Eyes were done beautifully, with that teal shimmer, the twine and very secure black wax seal. I agree with a comment I read suggesting the use of the portrait pins as hanging ornaments!
I haven't been to the end, but I think the eye is supposed to be stuck to a door like umbridge did for her office door to spy on who was coming by and the employees outside her door. That's my thought.
the memory vial says Ogden on it so it's the memory Albus got from Bob Ogden a member of the Magical Law Enforcement Patrol from when Ogden went to visit the Gaunt Shack.
I liked the hourglass. It would be lovely to have one like it, and have it actually be magical. Who wouldn’t want to occasionally move time forward or back or speed it up? But when you have to be careful
I love the postcard actually. Lovely art, I'd love to give that to my hubby for Valentine's day or something. I love the map too. So awesome and realistic and the vial 😍
Why is this crate so much better than the SPECIAL EDITION one? I thought, considering the price and everything that the quarterly one should be higher quality and, yes, better... Oh, I really loved this unboxing! I wish I didn't forgot to subscribe...
what a great box! my favorites where the library key, the creature pages, and the hourglass in that order. I also thought the fish eyes were well designed but potions/potions ingredients aren't really my thing. I wish the Moody Eye was made differently so that the eye could move and wiggle.
I really like the creators made something very out of the ordinary with the fish eyes. I was getting a bit bored with just potions even though they were pretty.
This was such a good box! I loved the pufferfish eyes, it’s so realistic! The key to the restricted section stole my book-loving nerdy Ravenclaw heart though as my favorite thing. I may have to purchase those if I can!
I agree Moody's eye was my least favorite. It also looks very out of place with the rest of the items. It looks very cheaply done in comparison. For example the centaur looks metal, the plate is china, the memory vile is glass...etc.
I think it was Magorian that said "Mars is bright tonight." Frustrating hagrid, because he never answered him. Fireze was the one who became a professor
I love black cats. My son just adopted a black cat. My friend and his family were fostering her and her siblings. I just picked her up this evening and I'll be keeping her until his apartment does the final approval paperwork. I'm very curious to see what the cheatsheet says about the eye, I'm not diggin the eye. It looks plain, cheap and out of place in this box. For the pages didn't they miss a page in a past box and said they would be adding it to another box of those that have a subscription if not they were just going to mail those people the page.
Cherry, actually this box was shipped a week before the quarterly. But international shipping is dodgey at best! I felt this box is slightly better than the quarterly. But both of these boxes are way better than what is currently available. The eye is meant to stick on a door like Delores' office. HP 7.2 If you put the vials from shortest to tallest, they will be in chronological order. And I do love that lovely print! The manticore page is from last Box's accidental dunking in the black lake. The hour glass is my favorite!
I did see that unboxing! And it was AWESOME! I really want to get that box but I’m not sure if the Wizarding Trunk still has that one available. I hope they do. Oh man! I would LOVE to afford all these boxes! So many cool things! 6:27 I do love me some hourglasses! That one looks pretty nice. I’m sure the Noble Collection hourglass looks EPIC! 8:31 WHOA! Those memory vials look SO COOL! I’d love to have me shelf of those! Really adds a real touch to the movies. Like they actually happened and these are the relics. 19:08 I think that one might be my favorite in the box besides the memory vial. How do they get all those eyes in there so perfectly! You’re really tempting me to get these boxes Cherry! I love what I’ve been seeing!
This was my first box that I ordered ever, and it damn near made me cry it was so good. I loved the eye, Bob Ogden’s memory vial and McGonagall’s the book cover the most, but truly EVERY ITEM WAS MAGICAL AND and AMAZING!!!! I already framed and hung the astronomy map ❤
I would think the eye is to stick on your door. I think that is creepy. The hour glass is lovely. I really love the memory vial. I would think the centaur is Firenez, but not too sure. This is a wonderful box! Thank you for sharing it!
I have 3 cats and one of them is black hé is the sweetest thing and a emotional suport animal for me i also have a Orange and white with spots and those are just a bit crazy
That was a strong box of items. My favourite of the bunch is the memory vial. Love it. As for the Centaur statue, that’s supposed to be Firenze that saved Harry in the Forbidden Woods when Voldemort was there, and later became a teacher for Astronomy in the books. I really liked the duelling club pin as well, very nice. And yes, the eye was supposed to represent when Umbridge got his eye to stick on the wall when he came to power. Loved the unboxing. Cheers
