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PotterCast 131: Rowling Along
NewsHappy Holidays! We’re back with the second part of our JK Rowling interview on our Harry Potter podcast, PotterCast.
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An intro with just the trio – we talk about the week’s news as well as the Jo interview and our experience of it. This is the last part with Jo but future shows will have our little bloopers, and Jo does promise to come back. So keep twiddling those dials!
Jo returns and we talk about:
Draco
Dogs on her web site
The wallpaper
Rude words and rubbish
Carnegie Hall redux
What’s in the Love Room?
Love raising people to the heights of absolute heroism, and foolishness
Bellatrix
What exactly did Alan Rickman know and when?
Snape – was he truly meant to be in Slytherin?
The Potter Park – she’s “very very very involved.”
“Personally, I think it will be the best thing in the world of it’s type, having seen what I’ve seen.”
What happened to Florean Fortescue?
Wand lore
Hagrid did not create Thestrals
Wands as sentient beings
Albus Potter and the Book They Said Would Never Happen
How the documentary happened
JK Rowling and the Changing Haircuts
“My Name is Lily Potter. You thought I was dead. You were wrong.”
“My name is Hedwig…”
Fred? “Whatever,” says John
RT: 46:25
Edited by Superhero Stede Bonnett
With special thanks to Jo and Le Grand Fidd, for everything.
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So Bella was madly in love with Voldemort and sexually attracted to him? I love the idea of this two together. If they had souls, they would be soulmates.
Agreed, Serena. Agreed. And if you want the best a fic can get, check out community.livejournal.com/as_pof_fic! Harry Christmas and a Slappy New Year!
Okay, I love what you guys asked, but COME ON. What about the great mystery of how Ron and Hermione named their children?! NEXT TIME, please please please ask. On a side note, I love Jo’s comment about fanfiction, considering I’m a big fan. It made me laugh especially because my friend is a big fan of those. I can’t wait to tell her.
Sorry, what was the “two Gryffindor girls” question about?
(Is frantic) Where does it say the slytherins came back???
In my UK copy it says Slughorn came back with Charlie and “the friends and family of every hogwarts student that had remained to fight” or something
sobs
someone save me from my misery. Where does it say some of them came back??
Thank You Leaky, for the wonderful interview!!!!!!! That was one wonderful piece of info about the love room….... And I’m very proud that some slytherins came back for the battle…......
I thank Jo ,so very much for doing this. It was a wonderful surprise! Thanks also for writing such great books that have brought so many people together and made friends of a lot.
I also hope Jo ,and her family have a most wonderful Merry Christmas and the very Happiest of New Years
I am looking forward with great antisipation to whatever work Jo may have in store for us “next ”. Thank you
A Very Merry Christmas to Malissa ,Sue ,John and all the people who work so hard to make this site come together everyday. It is very appreciated. :o) Thank you
Happy Christmas to all!
Thanks for a great year Leaky!
May the New Year bring love, happiness, hope, and abundance to all who enter here!
Okay, having read all the comments so far, there is only one solution: the next Pottercasts with JKR (it sounded very much to me that she is more than willing to come back :D ) all have to stand under a certain motto, dealing with a specific issue. And the next one better be about the romances and H/G and R/Hr and their kids. LoL
Thanks Leaky for the wonderful interview, and thank you Jo! What a fantastic way to end the year!
I didn’t get the “two Gryffindor girls” part, can anyone explain a bit about that? And overall, I cannot help but listen to this over and over. JK Rowling, you are wonderful! Good Job to you John, Sue and Melissa!
Jove – I’m not an expert on this lol, but if I remember correctly, it’s mentioned in POA that there are two other Gryffindor girls in Hermione’s year, other than Parvati and Lavender. But their names are never given and they’re never mentioned again. So people have asksed Jo a few times who those girls are, and she keeps dodging the question lol :)
The Potteracast site seems to be down since yesterday i.e. 25th Dec ‘07
I cant seem to access
http://pottercast.the-leaky-cauldron.org/
OR
www.pottercast.com
Hope you can solve the problem ASAP !
JKR is a real Cinderella..from a small flat to a mansion, it’s kind of rugs to riches story and yet even in her current status, I can still sense the wit and humility in her voice and in her totally. JKR is such an amazing woman with lots of courage and strenght. Her story is an absolute to be known. Can they produce a DVD or other ways for this documentary to be seen by everyone in the world (Harry Potter is known worldwide),we are all dying of envy to UK viewers who will have an exclusive opportunityto watch this documentary, pleeeaasssee. The most WONDERFUL gift, I and all the fans would have. HAPPY CHRISTMAS and a PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR to all!
Freakin amazing you guys. So great.
I’m so glad you mentioned that it was a challenge to be dispassionate interviewers of JKR, because that’s exactly what I’ve been thinking, is how hard it would be to interview her because I would just be sitting there in a daze and coming up with lame questions like, “Why are you so awesome?”
Even after I read Nimbus XL’s original post wherein he theorized that JKR might come on the show, I thought to myself, “What would I ask if I knew JKR would answer?” and even then, when it was only hypothetical (or so I thought), all I could think of were drooling fan questions (see lame question above). So, thanks for doing so well in the interviewing.
wonderful interview! i always thought draco married pansy but whoa… jk rowling is wonderful. beautiful person! cant wait for the scottish book! if u read this, pls in ur next interview, can u ask her what’s in that archway(or the veil…in the department of mysteries)
thanks xx
merry christmas and god rest ye merry hypogriffs!
Is there going to be a transcript of this so those of us who don’t wish to use our bandwith and or downloads can read it rather that listen. some of us are on shared computers and can’t download it. :(
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