PotterCast 114: Wandlore Transcript

Opening (0:00 - 2:51)

Melissa Anelli (MA): It's PotterCast 114, because we have finally learned how to count. Welcome!

Sue Upton (SU): Woo-hoo!

MA: Welcome, welcome! I'm Melissa. I'm here with my lovely friends John and Sue (SU: Hello!) as always.

John Noe (JN): Hooray! Howdy, howdy.

MA: Howdy, Howdy. We're back. We got a great show for you today. But first, before we do anything else, as always, let's hear from our friends at Borders.

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MA: Sue, thank you for that very, very happy and vigorous reading of our (SU: Yes!) Borders ad.

SU: (laughs) That's all I do. (MA laughs)

JN: Borders is (SU: That's me!) here to help.

MA: Here to help.

SU: Here to help. I like them. (JN: They'll read it to you if you want.) They must be a Hufflepuff store.

MA: Okay, so in this week's show we have for you Scribby Five. Scribby Five is back! We're all very excited. (SU: Woo-hoo!) Yay! (JN: Yay, Scribbiers!) Scribbiers! Canon Conundrums is back...

JN: Can we even get to Scribbulus right now on the site?

MA: No, and please, I know. I know. I know guys, the essays are down. They're coming, they're coming back. Leakynews.com will have its essays back soon, I promise.

JN: Everything's coming back. Everything's (MA: Everything's coming back.) just on a little vacation.

MA: Yeah, a little vacation. It needed it. It needed some time off like everybody else, after Book Seven. (JN: It did.) After Book Seven. I can't believe we're saying those words. Okay, anyway, Scribby 5. We also have a Canon Conundrums, which we thought was going to be a Canon Conclusions, (JN: Canon Conundrums!) it turns out it is just a gold old Canon Conundrums about wand lore. And we just scratched the surface on this one, like, oh god. (JN: Yes.) We basically had a half an hour where we said, "Hm, okay what have we talked about? We have no idea." So that should give you good vibes for (laughs) (JN: Let's talk about some wands.) how good the Conundrums are. We're also going to do a Phoenix Files, which is our new segment talking about the movie. We're not sure how long this segment will go on, in terms of weeks, but, you know, it's here right now. What are we talking about this week?

JN: We're talking about the opening scene of the film, and we might just even finish these out chronologically. But we will start out for now with the opening scene where Dudley was just a big P in the A to Harry on the swing set (SU laughs) all the way up (SU: Big D.) until, you know, until he gets pwned by the Dementors and crazy lady comes (SU: Yeah.) out and walks him back to his house, so. I think we'll get about that far.

SU: Yeah.

MA: Okay, so I think it's about time that we heard from Sue for the Sue's News.