PotterCast 88: Road Trip! Transcript

Opening (0:00 - 3:01)

Melissa Anelli (MA): With less than seventy-seven days before Book Seven comes out as the seventh month dies in 2007, this is PotterCast Eighty-Eight.

John Noe (JN): Oh, Eighty-eight!

Sue Upton (SU): Eighty-eight!

MA: Welcome, I know you thought I was going to say "seventy-seven," didn't you? (giggles)

JN: That would have been hilarious.

MA: Curiouser and curiouser, welcome to Pottercast Eighty-eight. I'm Melissa and I'm here with John and Sue. (JN: What?) We're ready for another great show full of fun announcements, actually, this time around. Alright, so quick, quick, quick, quick, quick, Phoenix Rising is coming. We can't wait. We're doing a live Pottercast thing after the opening dinner at the convention in New Orleans on May 17th. We can't wait to meet you there. We are going to have some great wizard rock during the show and lots and lots of fun stuff. So of course, of course, of course, before we do anything else, we have to hear from our lovely friends at the Border's.

SU: It won't be long before the much-anticipated release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Do you have your mind made up about where Severus Snape's loyalties lie? Do you think he'll betray Harry and his friends, or will he help them to triumph over He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named? Find out more about this complex character in the hot new book, The Great Snape Debate, available only at Borders. Remember to reserve Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows at Borders to save 40%.

MA: Well, we have a couple, a couple of little, a couple of little announcements. Obviously we are doing a LeakyMug at Prophecy on August 3rd, we can't wait, it's in Canada, and we're be wearing our pajamas. And it will be a lot of fun.

JN: Bring by your pajamas. House colored pajamas everybody. We'll have a P.J. contest.

MA: P.J. contest.

SU: Oh, something else is happening at Prophecy. Just saying.

MA: Please remember common rules for wearing clothes in public places, though. Some of your sexy pajamas should not be worn to this.

JN: If they're Hogwartsy sexy pajamas…

MA: John.

JN: Come on. What?

MA: John.

JN: What?!

MA: John thinks that sexy pajams should be allowed. I mean, hey look, (JN: Absolutely) if you're covered up, whatever. (JN: Exactly). But I'm a bit afraid of this pajama party, to be honest. Anyway, don't forget that you can take part two of the Deathly Hallows predictions quiz, which hopefully one day in the future will be bug free. We're working on it guys, and when there one-hundred-thousand of you hitting at once, that's when things tend to get buggy. So, Leakynews.com/book7exam, right?

JN: What?

MA: Book seven exam.

SU: Uh-huh.

JN: Yes.

MA: Any other announcements?

JN: Nope.

MA: Could that be it? Any other announcements? Packed slate this week?

JN: Well, we'll have a little more at the end where people will actually remember it.

MA: Well, no there is, there is. We have one big announcement, but we're going to save it until after Sue's News.

SU: Oh, okay. Okay.