PotterCast 131

Happy Holidays! We’re back with the second part of our JK Rowling interview on our Harry Potter podcast, PotterCast. To listen, subscribe via iTunes (subscribers, hit “Update this Podcast” if you don’t see it right away), or grab it via direct download, or just hit the “Play” button on the right side of the page.  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!

Show Notes:

- 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?
- 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
- 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