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PotterCast 131: Rowling Along

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Posted by: Melissa
December 24, 2007, 01:57 AM

Happy Holidays! We’re back with the second part of our JK Rowling interview on our Harry Potter podcast, PotterCast.

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Show info:

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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104 Comments

Siyrean

i’m only part way through but she just said Slytherins came back and i yelled out loud, and came here and now i’m just all _ does a happy dance Slytherins rock Slytherins rock Slytherins rock Slytherins rock Slytherins rock Slytherins rock Slytherins rock Slytherins rock Slytherins rock Slytherins rock Slytherins rock Slytherins rock Slytherins rock Slytherins rock Slytherins rock Slytherins rock!!!!!

Posted by Siyrean on December 25, 2007, 01:39 AM report to moderator
MarkC

Hey, is there going to be a christmas filks show? Cause i think that it is a little bit late, lol, oh and BTW the pottercast site is down, gave me some weird server error…

Posted by MarkC on December 25, 2007, 01:58 AM report to moderator
Marcelo

Thank you, Mellisa, and thanks Jo too! I loved the new data, thank you and all TLC for giving us such interviews.

¡Saludos desde Argentina! (in english is kinda «Cheers from Argentina!» xD)

Posted by Marcelo on December 25, 2007, 02:29 AM report to moderator
Kamela

You said you were going to talk about the romance in the books and you never actually got around to doing that. I would have liked Jo to comment on the main relationships in the books, especially Harry/Ginny because there wasn’t much of it in canon. I would have liked to know why she decided to keep the hero’s love story mostly off page. Also why Ginny’s character was kept so much in the background when she was supposed to be so important? This has got a lot of fans rather confused.

Posted by Kamela on December 25, 2007, 02:33 AM report to moderator
reere

Who would want to know about the lives of the next generation? What happened to using your own imagination? Too much information outside the books can end up ruining them

Posted by reere on December 25, 2007, 02:41 AM report to moderator
Serena

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.

Posted by Serena on December 25, 2007, 02:44 AM report to moderator
DeathlyH

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!

Posted by DeathlyH on December 25, 2007, 03:56 AM report to moderator
Laura

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.

Posted by Laura on December 25, 2007, 06:01 AM report to moderator
Averyfan

Sorry, what was the “two Gryffindor girls” question about?

Posted by Averyfan on December 25, 2007, 09:28 AM report to moderator
Parvati Patil

(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??

Posted by Parvati Patil on December 25, 2007, 09:31 AM report to moderator
vandy

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…......

Posted by vandy on December 25, 2007, 09:59 AM report to moderator
Professor Potter

Merry Xmas fellow Potter fans!

Posted by Professor Potter on December 25, 2007, 11:15 AM report to moderator
Jeannine

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

Posted by Jeannine on December 25, 2007, 02:15 PM report to moderator
Diluvia

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!

Posted by Diluvia on December 25, 2007, 03:07 PM report to moderator
Accio_HP7

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

Posted by Accio_HP7 on December 25, 2007, 04:07 PM report to moderator
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