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Yay! First?? Off to listen!!

downloading now! GO Pottercast[:

Third? Fourth? First time I’ve tried this race.

Great episode, just finished listening to it

Yay, new episode! I’m downloading it right now so I can listen to it on my way to work. I love mornings with Pottercast!! :D

I’m listening now, but I’ve paused it to say THANK YOU PotterCasters for your discussion of the Wu piece in the New Yorker. I appreciated all of your thoughts, and I was quite horrified to hear about the way Wu tried to bait Melissa for anti-Steve quotes during his phone interview with her. (Good on you, Melissa, for being savvy to his aims during that interview.) It was so surreal for me to read those things in the New Yorker, and I am SO GLAD that you persevered, Melissa, in getting an apology from Wu and a correction from the New Yorker.

Spontaneous Human Combustion— There goes another one! A raging fire A funeral pyre An unexpected cremation. —The Bobs

It’s been a few years since I’ve spoken French, but here’s my shot at a translation:

My cat is named Sassy. There it is at the library in a cheese.

umm… in a cheese? Maybe I misheard that part?

Love you guys!

The direct download link doesn’t work for me. I think it is missing a 1 and should be http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3?http://media.libsyn.com/media/pottercast/pc080511.mp3

no chance you say in this show if the trailer is definitely in from of prince caspian? do we know?

Great podcast. I’m listening to it now while I am at work. Everyone vote for Leaky on podcast alley.

Rather ironically, during the part of the podcast talking about the article and misrepresentation, Tim Wu was very nearly named as being a Professor of Journalism. For the record, he teaches law.

if the trailer is not in prince caspian, I will be shocked. I mean, it’s their prime audience!

As much as I like the New Minister chapter, to have that in HBP and not DD funeral is ridiculous. The funeral could even be short, like the words said for Cedric. But the scene were Harry says that the students have a right to stay for it, is so powerful; now, I guess that’s irrelevant. Come On!

I have a whole new appreciation for the Leaky team that came about when Melissa was talking about waking in the morning and dreading reading what had been posted here.

I have a message board for my business and when there is a hot button issue that is brewing on the forums, I feel the very same way. The difference in my site and Leaky is the number of viewers who I have to worry about being offended. So, for what it’s worth, Melissa, I feel your pain.

May this all be over with quickly.

And, “me” from above…everyone makes mistakes. However, there should be a distinction between comments made to stir a poop pot and an honest mis-statement.

well my slytherin hackles are up again.

i can not say how frustraiting it is to here that when a character doesn’t try to save his skin at every given opportunity, they can’t be Slytherin. that when they’ve shown some form of bravery, they belonged in Gryffindor. Regulus – Slytherin, Andromeda – Slytherin, Slughorn – Slytherin, Narcissa -Slytherin, SNAPE – SLYTHERIN. are these characters the fine example of human morals? no, that’s what makes Snape one of the most interesting characters in the books, he comes across as very human. but they are Slytherin, JKR said so in canon, and you can’t argue with canon. there fore, Slytherins can be brave, they can be very brave, they can put there selves in the line of fire, they can risk their lives, they can sacrifice them, and they can act is ways that result in no forseable benifit towards themselves.

what’s the point of this rant? well i’m gonna say it, i think Aberforth was a Slytherin. well, more appropriatly a Slytherpuff, but its the dismisle of Slytherin as an option that really bothered me. yeah he got the kids back in the school, he also suggested keeping the Slytherin children as hostages, to which Harry replys that Dumbledore never would’ve. Aberforth has cunning, that i would say is a far more prevelant trait than his bravery. Gryffindor bravery seems to be very in your face – i’d actually say that Bellatrix shows more Gryffindor traits than Slytherin, Slytherins are brave but not stupid… some how i don’t see Aberforth making any grand gestures of opposition towards Voldemort.

“Rather ironically, during the part of the podcast talking about the article and misrepresentation, Tim Wu was very nearly named as being a Professor of Journalism. For the record, he teaches law.”

Um no. For the record, I identified Mr. Wu as a Professor of Law when I started on this part of the news, and later said something to the effect that as he is a professor and teaches, I should like to complete my PhD and teach and I would never consider this as a fair piece of quality journalism. I’ve always felt collegiate educators to be fairly intelligent individuals and would hope that they would give me accurate instruction and guidance and advice. In my personal opinion, that article was not a fair nor accurate piece, and I lament the fact that it only served to stir the pot more when it surely was not needed.

SQUUUEEE!^{^^^^^}

SUE UPTON, you OWN.

You tell ‘em (or should I say ‘me’?)! (Go HUFFLEPUFF!!)

siyrean, I agree with you on that…

He knew that his only chance of survival was saving Harry and his friends, because if he was found with them, he would die since he harbored them!

OH! I want to smack Tim Wu. That whole article was bollocks!