PotterCast 104: New York City Transcript

Part 1 (0:00 - 13:40)

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Dumbledore: Welcome, welcome to another...

Announcer: PotterCast.

Harry and the Potters: Hey, Potter People! Hey, Potter People! We always talking, you're always listening! Hey, Potter People! Hey, Potter People! We always talking! We're PotterCasting! Whaaaaaat?

Melissa Anelli (MA): Thank you guys for coming all the way here. I know it was threatening rain and it's New York, so you know. You guys are made of tougher stuff than that. A little rain. Pff! Whatever.

John Noe (JN): It's good stuff.

MA: We have been- this is now our what?

JN: Hundred and seventh.

MA: Hundred and seventh show? One hundred and fifth show?

JN: No, I have no idea. One hundred and something.

MA: I think it's one hundred and five.

Sue Upton (SU): Yeah.

JN: Cool.

MA: One hundred and fifth PotterCast. I'm so happy it's in New York because it's my town, (SU: Yay.) but okay. (Audience cheers) Every city that we've gone to- this is like what? Twentieth city? (JN: Probably.) Seventeenth city? Fifteenth city? We really don't know. We've been testing to see which city knows their Harry Potter the best. Meaning, I know you guys know it because you've been listening.

SU: (laughs) Yes. They're all ready.

MA: We're going to ask you five questions about Harry Potter. (JN: Mm-hm.) Come July 22nd, one city's going to look really awesome and one city's going to look really bad. Hopefully we won't have a twelve-way tie (JN laughs) because as these, as they've been coming out, we're finding the cities have the same answers.

SU: Eerily similar.

JN: We'll have to go by which city is the loudest then, too, to break the tie.

SU: Oh, okay.

MA: Oh, come on. We're in New York. (laughs) (Audience cheers)

JN: Well, I've been saying- yeah. Haven't I been saying it's going to be New York?

MA: John's been saying that it's going to be New York. (laughs)

JN: Do I say that at every city or... (laughs) (Audience cheers)

MA: He's been saying it's going to be every single city we've been in.

JN: Yes. (SU: Yeah.) Well, I got a feeling about today.

MA: Okay, okay. I do, I do. Every city so far has thought it's them. But come on, is it New York? (Audience cheers)

JN: Well, let's see. Let's try them out.

MA: Come on, is it New York? Try again. (Audience cheers)

JN: All right, all right.

MA: That's more like it. What's out first question, guys?

JN: Our first question is our fifth question. Because we've been going backwards. (laughs)

MA: Just to confuse John.

JN: Yes, and it's working 'cause I can't think of it. (laughs) Question number five, I think it's about Sn- (SU: No. It's the veil.) no, the veil's four.

MA: No, the veil's five.

JN: Is it?

SU: The veil.

JN: All right, thank you, crowd. (MA: She knows.) Oh, you know I've been torn about this and I've watched the movie and now I might have changed my mind, but if you think Harry is going to be going behind the veil in the Deathly Hallows, make your noise here. (Audience cheers)

JN: And if you think that we've seen the last of the veil and there'll be no one going behind the veil, including Harry, make your noise here. (Audience cheers)

MA: See, (SU: Woah!) I'm tempted to say that more people think that, but you're just really loud.

SU: Yeah. (JN laughs)

MA: (laughs) Not to call you out or anything but, wow, that was impressive. So, I don't know, who do you think has it on that one?

JN: Oh, gosh

SU: I think they got...

Audience member: Do it again.

MA: One more? (JN: Yeah?) That what you want to do? (JN: All right.) Okay.

JN: If you think Harry is going to jump behind the veil like Sirius walked into it, make your noise here. (Audience cheers) All right. All right. All right. And if you think that we're done with the veil, make your noise here. (Audience cheers) All right, just from viewing that alone, I think that the first people won.

MA: All right.

SU: Okay and you come back.

JN: Yes. (MA: Okay.) Okay.

MA: Well, number four, our number four question. Well, number two question. Number- anyway, is, do you think that Harry himself will be going to attend class at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry? If you don't think Harry will be attending classes, make your noise now. (Audience cheers)

JN: Wow. They don't stop.

MA: Loud and long. Okay.

JN: It's never been like a duration contest.

MA: I know.

JN: Just usually loudness, but...

MA: I like it.

Audience member: New York wins!

JN: All right.

MA: Hm? New York wins?

SU: I think so.

JN: Okay.

MA: I don't know.

JN: They're smart..

MA: That was an automatic win but if you guys are surprising.

JN: They're quick.

MA: I think so. Okay, if you do think Harry will be attending class at Hogwarts, say it now. (Audience cheers) Eh, weak. (laughs)

JN: Hermione's not going to let him drop out of school.

SU: Aw.

MA: Well, Hermione is a whole 'nother matter. Just for fun, do you think Hermione will drop out of school?

Audience: (shouts) No!

JN: I mean, what would McGonagall do if Harry's like, "I'm outta here, I'm taking your best student with me. Have a nice life"?

MA: But Hermione's not going to leave him alone for a year.

SU: Yeah.

JN: Yeah.

SU: She's gonna hold impromptu classes so everybody..

JN: But everybody's just sitting here thinking that..

MA: Apparating back to Hogsmeade, walking up.

JN: They can apparate back one hundred times a day if they wanted to.

MA: Not to Hogwarts.

JN: They can walk right outside the grounds and apparate away.

Audience member: Read "Hogwarts: A History."

MA: Thank you. We should have him read "Hogwarts: A History".

JN: I know about apparating at Hogwarts. Come on. I'm no rookie here.

MA: All right. All right. All right. Well, number three.

JN: Number three.

SU: Oh,this is the big one, the big "h" word.

MA: It's not Hufflepuff.

SU: Well, it's a big "h"word.

JN: So we're doing the mind connection.

SU: Hufflepuff! It is Hufflepuff! That's my favorite word. I know, shock. Okay, (Makes drumroll sound) is Harry a Horcrux?

MA: If you think- I'm just stopping them from screaming ahead of time.

SU: Okay. If you think that he is, make your noise. (Audience cheers) (MA laughs)

JN: See. See, they made their noise and chickened out.

SU: I heard a tiny bit of a squee but that was okay. If you do not think that Harry is a Horcrux, make some noise. (Audience cheers)

JN: Yeah.

MA: Clearly PotterCast listeners.

SU: Yeah.

JN: And we didn't amplify that. That was the regular noise. That's what we heard.

MA: That was pretty impressive. Yes, I like it! Okay, number two.

JN: Number two here. Mr. Snape? Friend or foe? (SU: Severus Snape...) If you think he is on our side- on Harry's side- make your noise here. (Audience cheers)

JN: And if you think he is a foe, a very bad man, a slimy git, (MA laughs) all around, make your noise here. (Audience cheers)

JN: People trust Snape here at Borders, New York.

MA: Who doesn't know?

SU: Can we have both? I want to have both. (JN: Nobody knows.) Can I have both?

MA: Make a noise if you just have no idea. (Audience cheers)

JN: People are pretty sure.

MA: Make...

Audience member: Snape's out for himself.

MA: Snape out for himself?

SU: Out for himself. (Audience cheers)

JN: That falls in the he could be out for himself but still be on Harry's-side. (MA: On his side.) (SU: Right, I mean...) I don't think he's going to take direction from Harry, certainly.

MA: Who here saw the movie and is yet more convinced he is on Harry's side? (Audience cheers)

JN: In the movie?

SU: Yeah! Oh, totally!

MA: With the Occlumency lessons, totally!

JN: Well, sure.

SU: Yeah, sure he was.

MA: He was all...

SU: "No, you're mine."

Audience member: That's not canon!

JN: Exactly.

MA: Ah, come on. Alan Rickman knows the answer, (SU: Yeah.) so however he's acting- (JN: That's true.) (SU: Yeah.) It's probably not going to be false.

SU: I thought it was very interesting.

JN: Alan Rickman knows!

MA: Okay, okay. Our first, fifth, last, first.

JN: The last one!

SU: Here we go!

MA: The big, big, big question, so your noise is the most important here if you want to win.

JN: The last one. Is Grubbly-Plank's (MA: No!) monocle a Horcrux? (Audience laughs)

SU: Yes! Yes!

JN: It is! It's the final Horcrux!

SU: Grubbly-Plank!

JN: Grubbly-Plank's monocle.

SU: She didn't have a monocle in the movie.

JN: She didn't have a monocle. (SU: She did?) Well, she was eating dinner, she wasn't reading. So...

SU: Ah- I think that's why it wasn't on. (Audience member: inaudible) Snape clapped for her.

MA: Okay. Okay, come on. this is the big question.

JN: All right. It's the big one. Here's the big one.

MA: Will Harry live or die? If you think he's going to die make your noise now. (Audience cheers)

SU: You're cheering for death. Think about that. (JN: Yeah.) You're cheering for death.

Audience member: Yeah, come on!

MA: If you think Harry will live, make your noise now. (Audience cheers)

JN: Pretty darn good.

MA: I love New York!

JN: I think Harry's safe.

SU: I think so, yay!

MA: Harry's not going to die, come on!

JN: That'd be silly.

MA: I can't be friends with people who think he's going to die. (JN: Aw!) (laughs) Yes, I can, but still. No. You're wrong. (laughs)

JN: Hm.

SU: A week.

MA: One week! One week. (Audience cheers) A week and (makes drum noises) five-and-a-half, four-and-a-half hours, you'll be getting your books.

SU: Not that we're counting or anything.

JN: How many of you are going to be getting your books at the grand Borders ball here? (A few cheers from the crowd) (MA: Oh, come on!) Oh, where are you guys getting your books? (Audience laughs) Is everybody too afraid? Other Borders? (Audience: inaudible)

JN: Yeah. I heard a lot of people are afraid to go out, because they don't want to be the person in the parking lot with the idiot going by in his car, yelling the answers out.

MA: Yeah. Well, at least you're not us with out e-mail accounts.

JN: Yes. We need to do a little PSA here. (MA: Yeah, PSA.) So all of you supposed Harry Potter fans, with the quotation fingers: now tell me. (MA laughs) I won't even address the idiot who sits there with his scanner and a stolen book and scans every single page in and puts it online. Because that person is just - there's a special place in hell reserved for him. (Audience laughs) But for the person who stumbles across it and continues to spread it around the Internet, including our inboxes, thinking that, "Oh! We'd like to see that!" No. All we're going to do is hook you up with a nice, friendly person at Scholastic or Bloomsbury who will come to your door (MA: Lawyers, lawyers. Get law-sued.) and put you in a bag. (MA and Audience laugh) But seriously, you guys need to be very careful. And we're going to do our best on Leaky- all we can speak for is Leaky- but we're going to do our best to keep that stuff off our everything. But just word of caution there, you know?

MA: But it's up to you, when you see it, if you see it, not to save it and send it on. (SU: Please don't.) (JN: Yeah.) Put it on your own blog and to encourage other people not to.

JN: That's everybody at home, too. If you do see something and you feel that you want to send it in to help, that's fine. Just don't email it with all the answers right (MA: Right.) in the beginning of your email because that's not helping anybody. So, we are not yelling at any of your good people who don't do those nonsense things. (MA: Right. Just help us out.) But everybody else, there might be one of you listening who is a jerk.

MA: We're just one little website. We need some help. Constant vigilance! (Audience laughs) (JN: Exactly.) That's what we're saying.

SU: Moody would be proud. Yes! (Audience cheers)

JN: Very good.

MA: All right, every PotterCast, in case you don't know, we do a little thing called Canon Conundrums.

JN: Canon Conundrums. (Audience cheers)

MA: I haven't heard you do the Canon Conundrums...

JN: Canon Conundrums. (Audience laughs)

MA: (mocking John) Canon Conundrums.

SU: Steve.

JN: I don't know. I have a little Fred in my voice, I guess.

MA: A little Fred?

SU: Fred.

MA: Not a frog; a Fred.

JN: Yeah.

SU: You and Steve were- our friend, Steve...

JN: I need Steve to help echo that.

SU: (in a deep voice) Canon.

JN: A Ravenclaw.

MA: Okay. So, Sue what is our Canon Conundrum for this day?

SU: Oh, it's about our friends at the Order of the Phoenix.

JN: Yes. (Audience cheers)

SU: We like them. But what's their role now (JN: What happens to them?) after Book Six? Are they going to work with the Ministry? What's the Ministry going to do?

JN: Exactly. What are they going to live?

MA: Who thinks…

JN: Where are they going to go to hang out?

MA: They are now defunct? That it's- not defunct, but Dumbledore's Army is the new (JN: Dumbledore's gone, dear.) Order of the Phoenix. Secret society formed when, you know?

Audience members: No.

MA: No?

JN: No.

MA: Okay. Tell us.

JN: Okay, who thinks that they will come together and work and drop the age restriction nonsense? (Audience cheers)

MA: That's- I don't know. You don't have to be a certain age to fight him. You just have to be a certain age to have a little Order of the Phoenix card in your pocket.

JN: Well, you don't have to be a certain age to not get killed either. (MA: True.) So, anybody who can handle a wand in a way that's going to help should probably be interested in helping. I don't know if they will open up the Order to any public audience, but...

SU: But that's interesting because if the Ministry is going to work with the Order (JN: That's the other question.) are they going to embrace people like Lupin, who they have sought to ostracize and keep out? You know?

JN: I think they are definitely going to start out this book thinking they are going to do it their way and Scrimgeour is going to be like, "I know how to fight crime. (MA laughs) We are going to do it my way. Harry, you're going to do what we say." (MA laughs) Harry is going to be like, "No. No, no, no." (MA: Right.) Then they'll probably come around What do you guys think?

Audience member: Who is "they"?

MA and JN: "They" would be the Ministry.

JN: Realizing that Harry is going to be the one to do this (SU: Right.) and his friends and all that nonsense. Now, what do you guys think?

Audience member: In the end, they need all the help they can get.

JN: Sure.

MA: Yeah, I know, but how willing has the Ministry been to realize that they need the help that's being thrown at them?

Audience member: I don't think they'll be willing, but eventually it'll just be...

MA: Yeah. It'll have to be.

JN: Yeah.

Audience member: The Order could be doing so much work that by the end the Ministry will just be like, "Oh, well, how can we help?" (MA laughs)

JN: Yeah. Just sitting on their hands.

MA: "Do you need us to get you some water?"

Audience member: Yeah.

MA: "Fan you while you fight?"

SU: What do you think?

Audience member: I think that since Dumbledore's Arm- the Order of the Phoenix is sort of the elders. I think that they're going to lead Dumbledore's Army because remember Harry was in the class and teaching them. So, he got to teach them almost everything, but not quite everything he knows. So, it might become a thing like that. They're going to do their own thing and finally when the Ministry does come around everybody will just combine forces.

SU: So, you think they will still be like a little, special hit squad out there out and about?

JN: Yeah. (MA: Yeah.) I mean every- the kids are only so strong and the adults are only so strong and obviously if any- who here as seen the The Order of the Phoenix film?

MA: Oh, yeah. We've got to tell them about that.

JN: Who's had a chance to see it? (Audience cheers)

MA: Let's do a quick poll. A quick poll. Better than the others?

Audience member: Yes! (Audience cheers)

MA: Is there another film you liked better?

Audience member: Yeah. (Audience members cheer)

JN: Who here?