PotterCast 174: Ballious Repello
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Posted by: Edward
November 25, 2008, 01:29 AM
The 174th episode of
PotterCast, our Harry Potter podcast
is here for you today, ready to give you your super high-energy Harry Potter fix. In the news this week, we have for you information on a new picture of Ginny Weasley from the
Half-Blood Prince film, location scouting for
Deathly Hallows, the call for
LeakyCon Proposals now being open, the upcoming release for
Beedle the Bard, the Wizard Rock EP Club, and the Harry Potter Alliance
STAND Fast activities. Bit by Bit comes up next with Chapter 17 of
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. In this segment, the PotterCasters continue on Harry's journey through Godric's Hollow after finding his parent's house. This is followed by another edition of Beedle Talk, with a discussion of "The Tale of the Three Brothers." The show wraps up with a some upcoming plans for the
PotterCaster's YouTube channel and information on how to
get your copy of Jingle Spells 2! Do not wait to order, as the limited number of physical copies are going fast. Finally, Melissa gives us an update on
Harry, A History being on the New York Times Best Sellers list. To listen, just hit the "Play" button on
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“Ballious Repello”
- Do Quidditch players use athletic supporters?
- Frak kills the Quartet.
- LeakyCon panels from the PotterCasters.
- Hurry up and register for LeakyCon 2009 in Boston, Mass.
- Have you read the latest Beedle the Bard fan fiction? Neither have we...
- Beedle Talk on the Three Brothers.
- A lesson on Parking and Standing Zone laws.
- Order Jingle Spells 2 now!
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Producer: John Noe
Editor: Andrew Garner
LeakyCon 2009: A Harry Potter Conference in Boston
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Sometimes I really want to be there when they do the bit by bit stuff, and they are asking themselves all these questions. There’s many times that I’m thinking, man you’re confused about this or wrong about that. For example: How did Dumbledore get the invisibility cloak? Their explanation is that because of the fidelious charm no one can get in the Potters house, so he must’ve gotten it before they put the fidelious charm on the house. It sounded like they assumed that when this charm is put on a house nobody can know where it is. That’s wrong. If the charm is put on a house, nobody can know where it is, unless the secret keeper, Wormtail in this case, tells someone where it is. The charm would not be broken, until apparently the secret keeper dies (that’s what appeared to have happened in DH, when Dumbledore died). Well my explanation is that Dumbledore knew where the house was and so visited the Potters regularly, and got the cloak while the house was under the charm. Sirius, and Hagrid also went to the house, just after the attack they were there. In OotP they show us how you get in on the secret of the fidelious charm, the secret keeper tells a person, and so you’re in. You don’t become the secret keeper, so you can’t spread the word. Ok now that I’ve said that, it does leave me with one question I really don’t get what happens with Grimauld Place in DH after Dumbledore dies. There seems to be a flaw in the theory of the fidelious charm. It would be to easy for people to get in on the secret of the charm. Just kill the secret keeper, and you get more secret keepers to get the secret out. What kind of fail safe is that? Just seems a little sloppy. Ok I think I’ve said enough about this… for now at least :)
Oh and to John, Sue, Melissa and Frack,
You’re still doing a great job, or I wouldn’t keep on listening to the podcast. Just wish I could be there to discuss all the bits where people get confused.
I really just wanted to thank you guys about mentioning Darfur on the pottercast. I go to school in Canada, and there is a national student organization also called STAND (there is one in the US too), which I am a part of. It is such an important issue, and yet, it is rarely mentioned in the news and there are still so many people who have no idea what Darfur is, let alone what is happening there. It is great that the HP alliance is doing this fundraiser, and I really hope that everyone donates/tells others to donate. Such a little amount of money can go such a long way.
Thanks pottercast!!
I’m going to have to go back to my copy of POA (no problem there), but I’m pretty sure Sirius was the original Secret Keeper and the he switched with Wormtail.
And, there’s no mention in the book that the Potter’s performed the Fidelius Charm.
Soooo…. I’m pretty sure Frak is right!!!!
YES. This is why I check leaky at 1:30 AM.
:P