Host, Executive Producer, Site Designer
John Noe is a 21 year old Potter fan who's been a Leaky staffer since 2003. He is currently a student at the Miami International University of Art and Design, and is studying Visual/Special Effects and Motion Graphics, with the dream of being able to one day report to all the Leaky readers as part of the Effects crew for the last Potter film or two. Now with Leaky 5 finally up, he is happy to be able to go back and put more time and attention into the weekly PotterCasts, of which he is the main producer, editor, and mindless co-host. How did he ever get into this "Potter stuff?" The thanks/blame lay with his siblings: Anna, Maria, Melissa, Allison, GoodOle Steve, and Baby Boo.

Host, Associate Producer, Site Editor
Melissa Anelli is a newspaper journalist (Staten Island Advance) living in New York City who is smitten by all things Harry Potter. A Georgetown University grad, her work has also appeared on the cable channel NY1 and in the newsmagazine U.S. News & World Report. She joined TLC in October 2001 and has enjoyed the many early mornings and late nights she's spent keeping it up to date. In Melissa's free (ha!) time she works on more projects than she can handle, sees more theater than she can afford and consumes more coffee than is healthy for anyone.

Host, Co-Producer, Site Editor
Sue Upton is very proud to be a member of the House of Hufflepuff. Having worked in broadcast media for over 20 years , Sue is TLC's Senior News Editor. One day she hopes to complete her PhD and help future Daily Prophet reporters on their way, but in the meantime Sue spends her free time doing volunteer work and helping at her child's school. Sue's hobbies include archaeology, watching films, and spending time at the beach. Sue was honored to join the staff in January, 2004.

Host, Graphics, Doodler Supreme
Frankie Franco III or more commonly known on the show as "frak" is from Southern California, got his BFA in Illustration from California State University Fullerton, and is of the house of the noble and distinguished Rowena Ravenclaw. When he is not obsessing over Potter, Frak works as a freelance illustrator and a High School Substitute Teacher. On his free time he draws, draws, and sometimes draws. Frak was honored to join the staff of the creative team back in the summer of 2006, and was flabbergasted and excited to join the ranks of the OG PCTrio as a show host in early 2008. And yes the rumors are true, he does enjoy a nice chilled glass of Pellegrino.

PotterCast Associate Producer, Audio Editor
Stede Bonnett, a computer technician from Orlando, was initially a fan of the movies. He was dragged deep into the fandom a month prior to the release of Prisoner of Azkaban, and digested the entire 5 book series in under one week (thanks to his iPod and Stephen Fry). This soon-to-be-30 technology guru augments his creative side with technical know-how and finds that approaching even complex problems is easy by uniting these two aspects of his personality. He hopes that one day this understanding will lead him to fame and fortune. (Well, just fortune would be fine too. ;)

Site Programmer
Alex Robbin is a high school student who spends what free time he has working on multiple websites. While still managing to keep up with school work, he is a Leaky Tekkie over at the Leaky Lounge, does web design for companies around the greater Boston Area, and now is working throughout Leaky to update pages that need updating, and spruce up pages that need sprucing. He also maintains the PotterCast.com area which is still undergoing changes. He will be updating a lot of pages throughout Leaky with new information, links and much, much, more. Alex has been doing web design for the past 3 years and has progressed greatly in the passed year while working on the Leaky Lounge and on Leaky.

Fan Interviews, Guest Modcast Host
Doris Herrmann is an English/Language Arts teacher from Texas. She has her MA in Literture and her MS in Reading from Texas A&M University, and her MAeD in Administration from the University of Houston. She is currently researching "Specialized Pedogogy for Adolecents with Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome" as she hopes to complete her PhD next fall. Doris is the mother of three teenage boys who eat more in one meal then most people eat in one week. She came to Leaky, posting in the comments section, and became a forum moderator in April of 2005. She is now the Project Coordinator for TLC as well as a forum administrator for The Leaky Lounge. Doris loves surfing, the beach, and having long lunches with her friends at The Kemah Boardwalk.

Mailbag Co-host
Kristin Brown is a geographer from Northern Virginia. When she's not making maps or pondering the effects of urban sprawl in America, she's spending time and money on her other interests, which include taking photos, riding horses, and traveling. She first came across the Harry Potter series in 1999, has been discussing the books online with fellow enthusiasts since 2000, and has been an administrator of SugarQuill.net since 2001.

Site Editor, Fan Interviews
Name: KimmyBlair (Or Kimberly Blair if you were to see me in the "real world")
Age: 24
Location: Rhode Island
Favorite Books Other Than HP: Anything Chick-lity (But I will not admit to this)
Favorite Movie: Almost Famous (Come to Cleveland)
Profession: Software Engineer (If anyone can figure out what this means please tell me... cause I don't yet.)
Dream Job: Video game designer/programer
Likes: Shopping, Wedding Planning, Spoiling my nephews, Shoes, Giving gifts at Christmas, Spending time with my family (and Fiance), Pottercast and Reading.
Dislikes: Colds, Glasses, Working, and Leftovers
Admits to: Being a Treat Day loser.

PotterCast Elf Manager
Age: 29
Location: Northern California
Favorite Authors (other than JK Rowling): Jane Austen, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Michael Chabon, Nigella Lawson, Stephenie Meyer, LM Montgomery, Philip Pullman, William Shakespeare, and Shel Silverstein
Favorite Movies (other than Harry Potter): Lord of the Rings, Love Actually, The Matrix, The Sound of Music, Spaceballs, Star Wars, and Titanic
Favorite Foods: Italian, sushi, and dessert
Likes: Dogs and puppies, musicals, reading, shopping, spending time with family and friends, and traveling
Dislikes: Beets, humidity, incorrect grammar, prejudice, and spiders
Past Profession: Attorney
Current Profession: SAT tutor and dog behavior and training volunteer
Dream Job: Philanthropist

PotterCast Elf Manager Emeritus
Name: Claudette
Age: 21
Location: Jacksonville, Florida
Favorite Films: Bridget Jones' Diary, Little Miss Sunshine, Forrest Gump, Star Wars, Young Frankenstein, Jane Austen.
Favorite Music: Queen, Relient K, Coldplay, CCR.
Favorite Books: Harry Potters (obviously), Pride and Prejudice, The Historian, Artemis Fowls, Series of Unfortunate Events, Anne of Green Gables series.
Likes: Getting mail, blankets, sleeping, my dogs Lucy and Scruffy, eating, best friends, and old I Love Lucy reruns.
Dislikes: Cats, traffic, okra, waking up before 10, bad teachers, and being broke.
Admits to: Being evile.
Current Profession: Full time college student.
Dream Profession: Elementary school teacher with a six figure salary.

PotterCast Witchy Helper and Coder
Name: Kimberly (Kimmers)
Age: 34
Location: Biloxi, Mississippi
Current Profession: Programmer Analyst
Dream Job: Professor of Instructional Technology
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Past Professions: Network Administrator, Database Administrator, Taco Bell Queen
Favorite HP Book: Prisoner of Azkaban
Favorite Non-HP Books/Authors: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, His Dark Materials Series by Philip Pullman, 1984 by George Orwell
Favorite Films: The Usual Suspects, Love Actually, The Outsiders, The Breakfast Club, Gone with the Wind, An Affair to Remember (1957), There's Something About Mary
Likes: reading, my Xbox 360, running for the car in the rain
Dislikes: mean people, traffic
Admits to: loving disco and dancing the Electric Slide

PotterCast Witchy Helper
Name: Kimberley
Age: 26
Location: Victoria, B.C.
Favorite Authors: JKR, Jane Austen, William Shakespeare, JRR Tolkien, Marian Keys, Marion Zimmer Bradley.
Favorite Movies: Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Love Actually, The Matrix, Bridget Jones, Charlie's Angels, 50 Fist Dates.
Favorite Foods: Chocolate, Ice Cream, Cherries, Pasta, Yam Fries.
Likes: Shoes, My cats Bean and Zeus, Music, Shopping, Family, Outrigger Paddling, My New Macbook Lucy, My 3 bass guitars and 1 stand up bass, Scooters.
Dislikes: Mushrooms, Mortgage, People making fun of my sweet Gryffindor scarf, self-centered people.
Past Profession: Really bad receptionist at an accounting firm (post music education degree)
Current Profession: Music teacher
Dream Job: Eccentric Millionaire

Final Proofer and Chamber of Chat Moderator
Real Name: Doug
Location: Athens, New York
Age: 45 (so show some respect ya punk kids)
Favorite TV Show: Star Trek (the original one not any wimpy follow on!)
Favorite Movies: HP movies, It Happened One Night, The African Queen
Favorite Music: Any Elton John pre 1974, Chicago, any Romantic Russian composer, Brahms
Favorite Book Authors: JKR (like she wouldn't be on the list) JRR Tolkien, Thomas Costain (go look him up), Chaucer, Ellis Peters
Favorite Food: Just about anything I don't cook!
Likes: Family, camping, just about anything to do with boats
Dislikes: Micro-management, disco, leisure suits
Current Profession: Mechanical Engineer / Consultant
Dream Profession: Official bar drink tester on cruise ships!
Admits To: Owning several Carpenter and Doobie Brothers LPs.

Coder
Name: Sarah
Location: Metro Detroit Area, Michigan, USA
Age: Older than I once was, and younger than I'll be
Occupation: Librarian
Favorite movies: Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Pride & Prejudice (the A&E version), Bend It Like Beckham, Amelie, Anne of Green Gables, romantic comedies
Favorite books: Harry Potter, Jane Austen, chick lit, so many others (it's a hazard of my profession!)
Favorite music: John Mayer, Simon and Garfunkel, Dido, Incubus, Rooney, Garden State Soundtrack, and so many more - only my iPod tells the full story
Favorite TV shows: The Office, CSI
Likes: Chocolate, movies, books, road trips, laughing, sleeping
Dislikes: People with entitlement complexes
Admits to: Spending way too much time thinking about Harry Potter
Dream Profession: Book/film/restaurant critic

Transcription Elf and Proofer
Name: Corena
Age: 21
Location: Groningen, the Netherlands.
Favorite Books: Discovery of Heaven, His Dark Materials
Favorite Movies: Love Actually, Hairspray, Cruel Intentions, Beautiful Country, Enduring Love
Favorite TV Shows: Prison Break, As the World Turns, House, Nevermind the Buzzcocks.
Favorite Foods: Mango, Thai food, Filipino food, Pizza, Lasagna, Chocolate, Apple pie, broccoli
Likes: Singing (Seasons of Love), Dancing, discussions, watching filipino soaps, and reading. did I mention singing?
Dislikes: Spiders, Math, Ecology (the subject, not the world and nature), fake people, insincerity
Leaky Stuff: LeakyFanCast co-host, Transcription Elf and Proofer.
Past Profession: Insufferable Know-It-All.
Current Profession: Full-time med student.
Dream Profession: Performer/actress, writer or 'opera surgeon' ;).
Admits to: coming across arrogant when NOT intended, being more asian then I look, falling in love with Piolo Pascual repeatedly and being a sucker for love!

Transcription Elf and Proofer
Name: Delana
Age: 28
Location: Pennsylvania, USA
Favorites movies: A Clockwork Orange, Aristocats, Clueless, Alien, What’s Up Doc?, etc., etc.
Favorite TV shows: Three's Company, Arrested Development , Lost, Sex and the City, The O.C., Smallville, Heroes, etc., etc.
Favorite books: HP series, Pride and Prejudice, A Clockwork Orange, etc., etc.
Favorite food: Sushi
Likes: See above and also musicals, nice people, video games, knitting, crocheting and astrology.
Dislikes: I don't like snobs or condiments.
In my spare time: I like to watch TV and movies. I knit and crochet. I also write and sleep.
Admits to: Owning Jem and the Holograms and Danger Mouse on DVD
College: R.I.T. for film/video
Currently: Working on a book and a script and am also a medical biller for kidney dialysis. I'm working on a few knitting projects as well.

Proofer
Name: Leah
Age: 20
Location: Boston in the summer, New York during the school year
Current Profession: college student
Favorite HP Book: Prisoner of Azkaban
Favorite Non-HP Books/Authors: Stephen King, Koji Suzuki, Natsuo Kirino, Douglas Adams, Lemony Snicket, Battle Royale, DaVinci Code
Favorite TV: Lost, Heroes, Family Guy, Battlestar Galactica, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Prince of Tennis, Bleach, Death Note
Favorite Films: everything Tarantino, everything Pixar, Star Wars, LOTR, Rocky Horror, Aliens, Densha Otoko, Battle Royale, Grindhouse
Favorite Music: Lily Allen, Amy Winehouse, Mika, Fall Out Boy, Gym Class Heroes, Oreskaband, lots of Jrock and Wizard Rock!
Likes: acting, anime and manga, Tenimyu, anything Japanese, Star Trek: TNG reruns, Boston Red Sox
Dislikes: slow drivers, being bored, chick-flicks, THE YANKEES
Admits to: being severely addicted to Facebook and Youtube

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Name: Maryann
Age: 18
Location: Avon, OH
Favorite Books: Too many to fit here, but especially all Jane Austen, all Roald Dahl, all Meg Cabot, and all Douglas Adams.
Favorite Movies: The LOTR trilogy, The Princess Bride, Spider-man 1, X-Men 1-2, and Kate and Leopold.
Favorite TV Shows: Lost, 24, ER, Bones, American Idol, and Entourage.
Favorite Foods: Chocolate, blueberry coffee cake, and watermelon.
Likes: School, singing in choirs, and spending all my money at the movie theater.
Dislikes: Flying, spiders, and algebra.
Past Profession: Part-time construction worker.
Current Profession: Full-time college student.
Dream Profession: Children's Librarian.
Admits to: Nothing! I'll never talk!

Proofer
Name: Melissa
Location: Elkton, Maryland
Age: 35
Occupation: Office Manager for a Utility Contractor
Dream Occupation: Be a stay-at-home Mom again, but I need to find a good man for that, anyone know any??
Favorite Films: All HP, LoTR, Star Wars, Bridget Jones, Much Ado About Nothing, Sense & Sensibility, Wedding Crashers, The Wedding Singer and all Disney Animated Films
Favorite TV Shows: ER, Sopranos, Will & Grace, CSI: NY, All Law & Orders - even the re-runs on Cable.
Favorite Books (Authors): HP, John Grisham, Dan Brown, Jane Austen, Michael Crichton, The Inheritance Trilogy
Likes: Chocolate, Flavored Coffees, Ice Cream, Movies, Music, Live Concerts, My IPod, Traveling, Cross-Stitch, Cats, Mickey Mouse and most of all spending time with my Children.
Dislikes: Exercising, Spiders, Snow, Cleaning in general but especially dusting, Alarm Clocks, Camping

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Name: Abbey
Age: 14
Location: Oberageri, near Zug, Switzerland (but I am English).
Current Profession: Ninth grade student, as of August 21st, anyway.
Favorite HP Book: Hmmm, this is tricky. It was OotP, until DH came out, but I think I need to re-read to make sure. So, OotP OR DH
Favorite Non-HP Books/Authors: Oooh. Most things from Richard and Judy's book club. Anything by Philippa Gregory, or Philip Pullman, or about World Wars I or II. The 'Tales of the Otori' trilogy. I don't read many other fantasy/magic books, because I'm always disappointed by their inferiority to HP.
Favorite TV: Friends
Favorite Films: HP 1-5, Love Actually, The Notebook, Poseidon, Finding Nemo, all the old Disney films...this list would be so long...anything that makes me laugh, cry, and especially think.
Favorite Music: Well, 14-year-olds do not generally have a very sophisticated taste in music. I'd say anything with a good beat, and good lyrics are very important. Obviously, Wizard Rock.
Likes: The view from our apartment balcony, sports, singing, school (more the atmosphere and the people rather than the work, although that can sometimes be OK), being an Elf, because Elves, especially my Big Elf, Kim, are so great. Fanfiction (reading and writing), food, especially chocolate, jewellery...etc etc etc
Dislikes: Brussel Sprouts (do you have those in America? I hope you don't, they're awful) and when my internet breaks down. When clothes don't fit me. The last book of Series of Unfortunate Events, because no questions were answered. There are thirteen of those books, each one is £7, so I spent £91 - NINETY ONE POUNDS - on unanswered questions. Pssshhhh.
Admits to: Eating too much, only doing six hours of exercise a week. Liking pens a bit too much. Forgetting to draw the blinds at night.

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Name: Alysia (ah-LISH-ah) aka Lysh
Age: 22
Location: California
Favorite TV Shows: Lost!!!, Doctor Who, Buffy, Heroes
Movies: Lord of the Rings, Pirates of the Carribean, old Star Wars, HP, Aladdin and Disney in general...so much more, I'm sure
Profession: Target elf (discounts!), playwright, and aspiring actress
Loves: Musicals and all theatre, flavored coffee, writing, internet, acting, chocolate, Wizard Rock
Dislikes: Close-mindedness, politics, cold weather
Admits to: Spending way too much time on the internet. And loving karaoke.

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Name: Amber
Age: 21
Location: The cold, dark North.
Favorite Books: The ones that smell good when you open them.
Favorite Shows: Gilmore Girls, The Office, Stargate SG-1
Favorite Movies: The Princess Bride, Ever After, and anything with good action.
Favorite Music: Barenaked Ladies
Favorite Foods: Italian food. And ice cream.
Likes: all sorts of stuff.
Dislikes: Mushrooms, Lemmings, Bills, Mortgage Payments, and Rude People. Especially people who talk animately on the cell phone while driving and nearly ram me into walls. Arghhh.
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Past Profession: Really too young to have a "past profession".
Current Profession: Mom and soon to be student.
Dream Job: Actress
Admits to: Spending too much time watching Stargate, using an Elf Bump as an excuse to eat more, and throwing snowballs and innocent passerbys.

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Name: Candace
Location: West Coast
Age: 19
Favorite Movies: Harry Potter, Narnia
Favorite TV Shows: Blood Ties, Charmed, Mythbusters
Favorite Books: The Harry Potter series, Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, Thirteen Reason's Why, The Southern Vampire series, Stray, the Stephanie Plum series
Favorite Authors: J.K. Rowling, Stephenie Meyer, Jay Asher, Charlaine Harris, Tamora Pierce, Janet Evanovich, Rachel Vincent, Kim Harrison, Vicki Pettersson, Jeaniene Frost
Favorite Music: Country Music
Favorite Music Artist: Taylor Swift
Likes: Horses, Harry Potter, PotterCast, candy, music, singing, cooking, reading, nail polish, books, blue things, spring time, warm weather, horseback riding on the beach, winter holidays (Christmas), the smell of hot spiced apple cider, and much more.
Dislikes: Genocide, a variety of vegetables, sea food, certain kinds of people, being sick, rap and hip hop

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Name: Catherine
Location: Nashville, TN
Age: 15
Favorite movies: Harry Potter 1-4, Garden State, Moulin Rouge, Chicago, Pirates of the Carribean, Marie Antoinettte, Tristan & Isolde, Pride & Prejudice, Lord of the Rings.
Favorite books: Other than Harry Potter...Dragonlance, The Inheritance Trilogy, Catcher and the Rye, and A Walk to Remember.
Favorite music: Wizard Rock, Panic! At the Disco, Jason Anderson, Gwen Stefani, Terra Naomi, and more.
Favorite TV shows: Lost, Heroes, and Grey's Anatomy.
Likes: A good laugh, podcasting, Harry Potter fanart, coffee, writing, photography, the internet, and debating.
Dislikes: Math & cold weather.
Admits to: Being a proud Italian, having a one-track mindset at times, and spending way too much time on the computer.

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Name: Jeff
Location: The Great State of Michigaann!
Age: 14
Favorite Movies: Harry Potter, LoTR, James Bond films.
Favorite TV Shows: Mythbusters
Favorite Books: Harry Potter, John Grisham books, Eragon, Eldest, Alex Rider series.
Favorite Music: Anything, minus country music.
Likes: Harry Potter, friends, swimming, running, listening to music, visiting leaky!
Admits to: Loving nothing more in this world then leaky :D

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Name: Jeff
Age: 22
Location: Middle-Of-Field-Corn-Corn-Field Iowa
Favorite Books: Uhm, do we even need to ask, LOL. Harry Potter, of course. I also am into the Inheritance Trilogy (Eragon and Eldest). The Hobbit. The Lord of the Rings. Dragonspell Series, The Wizard of Oz. Wicked. To Kill a Mockingbird.
Favorite Shows: LOST!!! Seeing as I created www.totallylostfan.com I also like Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, Trading Spaces, CSI, Almost anything on PBS, HGTV, DIY, Discovery, TLC, History Channel, National Geographic, etc.
Favorite Movies: I am a huge movie fan, I think my DVD collection is over 200 now. I Love almost anything Disney. Of course Harry Potter, The Lord of the Rings, Back to the Future, Star Wars, James Bond, Austin Powers, The Muppets, and the list goes on.
Favorite Music: Showtunes are my favorite including Wicked, Les Miserables, Avenue Q, Phantom of the Opera, Cats, etc I also listen to a lot of Oldies, ie 50's 60's and 70's rock and roll. I love Enya, Charlotte Church, and Josh Groban. Movie soundtracks are high up on my list, and Praise and Worship.
Favorite Foods: My weakness is Italian food. I love pasta. I like Beef and Chicken. I am a big fruit nut as well, apples, bananas, papaya, mango, grapes.
Likes: Family and Friends. Hanging out, having a good time. Being Online. The Fine Arts. Reading. Watching Movies.
Dislikes: Mice, Spiders, Snakes, and Feet!
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Past Profession: Retail - K-Mart, needless to say, that only lasted 4 months.
Current Profession: Retail - Target, Yay for Target! I have been there for over 4 years
Dream Job: Interior Designer or Computer animation/special effects
Admits to: Being a fan of The Golden Girls. Eeep I can't believe I just told you all that! LOL!

Transcription Elf
Real name: Joan Vignocchi
Age: 28 (eek!)
Hometown: Santa Barbara, California (yeah, yeah, it's sunny all the time, I know!)
Occupation(s): Real estate agent, part-time elementary school librarian.
Fave TV shows: Daily Show, Colbert Report, MythBusters, Anthony Bourdain, Avatar The Last Airbender, What Not to Wear, Nigella, PBS/BBC documentaries, Dave Chappelle.
Fave books: Harry Potter! Jane Austen, Anne of Green Gables, Bridget Jones, Eva Ibbotson, any cookbook, Eragon trilogy.
Fave films: Anything funny, happy, or funny-romantic, or food-related or documentaries (Mardi Gras, Michael Moore stuff, Supersize Me).
Can't wait to: Go on a vacation. Travel. Especially to China. Or Italy. Or anywhere, really.
Fave food: Huoguo (Mongolian hotpot), Korean BBQ, turkey and cranberries, any cake, especially NY-style cheesecake, ice cream.
Random: speak Mandarin, play women's roller hockey, love yoga, and would like to go to my gym for more than my once-a-week-spinning-torture. I mean adventure.
Discovered HP in China. Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant are the best!

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Name: Joshua
Age: 23
Location: Austin, TX
Interests: The stage and the written word. Proud owner of a BA in English and Theatre (trying to prove it's not as useless as it sounds). Actor, Playwright, Transcriber, Adventurer, and Bringer of Things.
Favorite Films: Mixed Nuts, Clue, Drop Dead Gorgeous, Best in Show, Waiting for Guffman, Chicago, Emperor's New Groove, Mary Poppins, American Beauty, Memento, Finding Neverland, Closer, Love Actually, Muriel's Wedding, Strictly Ballroom, The Prestige
Favorite Music: Alanis, Madonna, Billie Holiday, Ray Charles, Etta James, Rufus Wainwright, Rilo Kiley, Ben Folds, Fleming and John, Cher, Sherie Rene Scott, Pink, Jason Robert Brown, Dixie Chicks, Scissor Sisters
Favorite Books: Harry Potters (obviously), Harry Potter, The Eyer Affair; Over Easy: A Nursery Crime; Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West; Mirror Mirror; Eats, Shoots, & Leaves; Lemony Snicket; Perks of Being a Wallflower; Shakespeare; The God of Small Things; The Blind Assassin;
Likes: Rainy days + good books, my pets (Dog- Obee, Cat- Fernando), good theatre, Family Guy, a good joke, board games, random acts of absurdity, the weather in Austin
Dislikes: Bad grammar, persistent and unwanted phone calls, uncomfortable shoes, green beans, evidence of my pets' misdeeds, living on the 3rd floor
Admits to: Screaming like a girl, giving bear hugs, listening without speaking, and being a little too sensitive.
Current Profession: HAhahaha...uhm...I mean...I'm between jobs. Somewhere floating hazily between The Gap and The Zach Scott Theatre
Dream Profession: Skilled and successful playwright/actor

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Real name: Katie
Age: 21
Birthday: Dec 16
Location: Burnaby, BC, Canada
Favourite Films: Horror movies, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Rent, all the HP ones(of course), Chronicles of Narnia
Favourite Music: Most bubblegum punk (aka Simple Plan style), Fall Out Boy, HP Filks
Favourite Books: HP(duh!), Dan Brown books, Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Favourite TV Shows: Lost, Veronica Mars, Top Model, BBC Doctor Who
Likes: Chocolate, everything HP related, watermelon
Dislikes: the Dark, mean people, a lot of food
Admits to: being a very picky eater and finding a stick outside and making it a wand and shouting spells at random people (sometimes while wearing my Hogwarts robes I created myself)
Current Profession: Cashier at the Vancouver Aquarium/Student by day
Dream Profession: Something to do with Marine Biology or helping animals

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Name: Kayla
Location: Connecticut
Age:15
Favorites movies: Harry Potter, Garden State, Love Actually, Never Been Kissed.
Favorite Books: Harry Potter(Of course), The Time Traveler's Wife, The Pact, The Rule of Four.
Favorite Music: U2, Tears for Fears, Depeche Mode, Weezer, Yellowcard.
Favorite TV shows: The Sopranos and Lost.
Likes: Coffee, summer, photography.
Dislikes: Being cold.

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Name: Kelli
Age: 19
Location: near Seattle
Current Profession: Student
Dream Profession: Broadway star, editor, wife and mother.
Favorite HP Book: It changes all the time, but probably either OOTP or DH.
Favorite Non-HP Books/Authors: Tamora Pierce, Alexander Dumas, C.S. Lewis, Jane Austen, Victor Hugo, Charles Dickens, lots of classics and fantasy stuff. I read far too much to list everything.
Likes: Reading, music, theatre, musical theatre, swing and blues dancing, historical reenactments, sewing, correcting horrid spelling, singing too loudly.
Dislikes: Bad spelling and grammar, arrogant people, and many little things that have absolutely no significance and are easily overlooked.
Admits to: Drinking far too much coffee, procrastinating more often than I should, and being easily distracted.

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Name: Lily
Age: Add the first and last half of the current year and you get my age
Location: Teaching English in Henan, China... unless I'm visiting family & friends in Virginia Beach, USA
Favorite Authors: Jane Austen, J.R.R. Tolkien, Andrew Clements, J.K. Rowling, Beth Moore, C.S. Lewis, Gail Carson Levine, P.G. Wodehouse, Shakespeare.
Favorite Books (not by the above): Ender's Game, Hind's Feet on High Places, The Gratitude Of Kings, and cookbooks
Favorite Movies: Lord of the Rings, Star Wars IV-VI, Princess Bride, The Bishop's Wife, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Harry Potter 3, Ever After, 1776, George of the Jungle, K-Pax, Galaxy Quest, and Ying Xiong (Hero), to name a few.
Favorite Music: Christmas, Soundtracks, Praise & Worship, Classical, and bits of anything else except heavy metal
Likes: Aside from reading and discussing books, I enjoy cooking, movies (making and watching), music (singing and listening), and knitting.
Dislikes: Eating spicy food and hearing good songs overplayed on the radio.
Admits To: Making smart-alec comments (in English) to people on the street here who stare at my big white foreign self, and being very picky about grammar and spelling

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Name: Lisa
Age: 25
Location: On a Campground in deep dark Northern Ontario.
Favorite Books: HP of course! Jennifer Wiener, Kathy Riechs,oh I could go forever!! Anything really that has a good storyline, in fact just make that anything!!
Favorite Shows: Nip/Tuck, Grey Anatomy, Close to Home, Ghost Whisperer (I only have two channels so my list is restricted!!)
Favorite Movies: I am a sucker for Rom Coms and Chick Flicks you know Bridget Jones, While you were sleeping, Take the lead etc Oh yeah and anything by Disney too!
Favorite Music: Everything from the Sixties to Trance, to Rock to Pop (I'm easily pleased!)
Favorite Foods: Spag Bol, Kraft Dinner and Grilled cheese Sandwichs.
Likes: Being outside, hiking, swimming, cross-stitch, anything crafty, drawing, painting, reading.
Dislikes: Spiders, people who insult books they've never read, rain when you have to work outside.
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Past Profession: Trading Standards Enforcement Officer, Accountant
Current Profession: Campground Owner (and general dogsbody!)
Dream Job: Lawyer
Admits to: Spending far, far too much time on anything HP related!

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Name: Melissa
Age: 25
Location: Small Town East Texas
Current Profession: Graduate Student (studying History)
Favorite HP Book: Half-Blood Prince
Favorite Non-HP Books/Authors: My Name is Asher Lev and anything else by Chaim Potok, DaVinci Code, and anything by Stephen King
Favorite TV: One Tree Hill
Favorite Films: A League of Their Own, Bend It Like Beckham, Green Street Hooligans, Driving Lessons, Love Actually, Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore, and Saved
Favorite Music: Queen, Alanis Morissette, the Beatles, Fall Out Boy, Aerosmith, Jewell, the Fratellis, Third Eye Blind, the Smashing Pumpkins, Barenaked Ladies, Draco and the Malfoys, Harry and the Potters, and the Whomping Willows
Likes: Learning new things, the Dallas Stars, and football
Dislikes: boiled carrots (yuck) and dial-up internet
Admits to: being slightly obessed with Theodore Roosevelt and extremely obessed with my Mac computer

Transcription Elf
Name: Pascal Gagne (with the accent on the e...french it is!)
Nickname: Nebka (seriously, some people do call me that)
Age: Too much for what my heart really feels.
Location: Nowhere close to where I wish I was... In real life, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Current employment: Computer programmer in the provincial Lottery company, being overworked and underpaid (like that's anything new...)
Interests: Harry Potter, HGTTG, LOTR, sci-fi in general, photography, psychology, astronomics,... so many different things that I could...
Current hobbies: Trying to learn guitar, while playing on the PS2 or watching a movie, and hanging out with friends, drinking caffeine.
Bad stuff: being extremely stubborn for stuff he shouldn't be.
Languages spoken: French, english, small spanish, small german, elf.
Stuff left to do in life: Too much! Travel, sky dive, surf. Let's start with that.
Stuff already done in life: Well, read the following file.. And keep in mind, it's the short version.

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Name: Quinn
Age: 21
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Favorites movies: Harry Potter (duh), Lion in Winter, The Shining, Silence of the Lambs, Garden State, Cinema Paradiso. I'm kind of a movie junkie, so if you want me to recomend you one, just ask.
Favorite TV shows: : 24, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Heroes, The Office, Arrested Development.
Favorite books: Harry Potter (again, duh), The Dark is Rising Sequence, James Patterson, Dave Barry, Bill Myers, Chiam Potok, Frank Peretti, Shakespeare, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Jonathan Safran Foer, The Iceman Cometh, After the Fall, To Kill a Mockingbird, Blankets by Craig Thompson. I read a lot of plays, and I just read The Road by Cormac McCarthy.
Favorite food: Mashed Potatoes. mmm.
Likes: Being nerdy, Acting, Theatre, movies, coffee, friends, Travel, Harry Potter
Dislikes: I'm fishaphobic. It's real, don't laugh tongue.gif
In my spare time: Movies, TV, facebook, myspace, books.
Admits to: having a phobia of fish. And that I won't work on Monday nights because I have to be home to watch 24
Currently: Enjoying the summer, missing Cal Lutheran University and Rome, Italy.

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Name: Sarah
Age: 33
Location: Kansas City
Favorite Authors: Orson Scott Card, C.S. Lewis, J.K. Rowling
Favorite Movies: Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Finding Nemo, The Princess Bride
Favorite Music: Barenaked Ladies, John Mayer, Josh Groban, Rachmaninov, Chopin
Favorite Foods: Ice cream, chocolate, yogurt, raspberry italian soda, chips and salsa, Thai
Likes: Web development, theatre, writing poetry, world & family history, watching basketball, driving, mountains, sunshine
Dislikes: Homework, paying bills
Past Profession: Theatrical stage manager
Current Profession: Part-time student, full-time cubicle dweller

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Name: Shawna (Nicknames: Dumbley or DD18)
Location: Portland, OR USA
Age: 19
Occupation: Part-Time Child Care Provider and Part-Time College Student
Favourite movies: All movies, I am a movie buff. My top favourite are Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, and Lion King (the original).
Favourite books: Fantasy, mystery, and suspense.
Favourite music: Wizard Rock and movie Soundtracks. Anything but Rap, Pop, and Country.
Likes: Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings (Books and Movies), PotterCast, reading, art (Acrylic paint, Charcoal, and Colored pencil), cats (I have six), chocolate, Bellatrix, Monty Python, singing, writing filks, and Dragons.
Dislikes: Spiders, Dentist's, the fact that each Harry Potter movie does not equal that of all the Lord of the Rings' movies combined, and Umbridge.
Admits to: Wearing my PotterCast shirt while listening to PotterCast (it's my ritual). Also waiting until a PotterCast show is up, and then listening to it, sometimes I get to bed at midnight or 1 am. Having a strange liking to Bellatrix (Black) Lestrange. She is the only one who can sit in a Ministry of Magic chair like it were a throne, brilliant!
Dream Profession: Visual Effects and Motion Graphics for the movies, working with Peter Jackson, becoming Bellatrix's karaoke voice trainer, and working for PotterCast, wait...I'm doing that!

Former PotterCast Audio Editor
Steven Ganci has over 20 years recording and audio production experience. He feels lucky to have the opportunity to work with such talented people on the best Harry Potter podcast out there. A musician by training, he has toured throughout the United States as well as Canada and Mexico as performer, conductor and arranger in the US Air Force. Curently, when he's not at his day job or reading Harry Potter, Steven (a misplaced New Yorker) works as a music supervisor, arranger and music copyist on various film and stage productions in sunny, smoggy, shaky Los Angeles, California.