LeakyMug: Live from Prophecy Transcript
Part 1 (0:00 - 11:40)
(Audience cheers)
Andrew Sims (AS): Oh, my God! Oh geesh.
Melissa Anelli (MA): Hi, guys!
AS: Hi, everyone!
MA: Thanks for waking us up!
AS: A lot of people here.
MA: Holy cow.
AS: Oh, man. (MA: Oh.) We have a front-view audience here. (MA: Oh, wow.)
MA: They're asleep.
AS: Hey, guys!
MA: Guys.
AS: Hey, Susie!
MA: Hey, wait. Guys. Wake up. (AS: Kick them. Kick them.) It's a podcast. (AS: Kick them.) Can you help us wake them up?
Audience: (yells) Wake up!
MA: Not loud enough, at all.
AS: Jamie missed his cue.
MA: No, wait. No, I guess it was.
AS: So, hi, everyone. How's everyone doing today? (Audience cheers)
MA: Thank you.
Emerson Spartz (ES): I don't want to go to school. I don't want to go to school, Mom.
Sue Upton (SU): Wake up, Emerson.
AS: Emerson, your pajamas are so cute.
MA: Emerson gets the award up here. Check it out! (Audience cheers)
ES: Do you really think so Andrew, or are you just saying that?
AS: I think I saw those... No, I mean it.
ES: These are my lucky rocketship underpants. I'm ready to go tonight. (Audience cheers)
AS: I think I saw your ten-year-old brother wearing those back at your house. (ES: Ohh.)
Jamie Lawrence (JL): Well, no. Actually, he claims that he bought them today, but he's been wearing them for years, haven't you, Em?
ES: They're so comfortable. You have no idea. (MA: Okay.)
John Noe (JN): They do look like they're a little worn out in the back.
MA: Okay. Can everybody hear us okay?
Laura Thompson (LT): Yeah. You do look like you got them when you were about twelve. (MA: Hello?) That's, that's sad.
AS: Okay, so how's everyone been enjoying Prophecy so far? (Audience cheers) Woo! Who's already signed up for Portus? (Audience mildly cheers) Okay.
MA: (laughs) That was weak. Come on.
JN: Is that next? Is Portus next?
MA: Portus is in Texas and in '08. (SU: Portus and Terminus, baby. Terminus) July '08. That's mine. Give me that.
JN: Did anybody bring any cameras?
Audience: No. (laughs)
JN: Oh, my God! There are some cameras. (SU: Thank you.) Thank you.
AS: Anyway, we're still getting settled here. Anyway, we want to start the show today by talking about Prophecy a little bit because... (MA: Woo!) Everyone had a lot of time to get around to all the areas, that's here?
Ben Schoen (BS): I sure did. (SU laughs)
AS: First of all, I want to start off with the Wizard Rock concert last night. (MA: Woo!) Who was there? (Audience cheers)
MA: Where are our Wizard Rock friends? (AS: Yeah. Stand up.) There are bunches of you. (AS: I see Alex. Don't hide. Stand up.) Come on. Stand up. Where are you? (AS: Alex. Harry and the Potters.) (SU: Yay! Alex! Woo!) Where are you?
BS: FightEvilReadBooks.com (Audience cheers)
AS: Round of applause for those guys. (MA: Thank you, guys.) I have to say the Wizard Rock, everyone who owns the albums and everyone who listens to them on their MySpace's and stuff like that but of course there's such a huge difference when you actually see them perform live. (JN: Oh, my gosh.) I have to say they're all, they're all fantastic live. So, round of applause for them again, seriously.
JN: Well, I got to say, I think we were ripped off because I came in particular for a particular Wizard Rock rapper, (MA: Me, too.) and I don't know what happened to that performance but, (AS: All right, well.) I didn't get to hear the song.
AS: Okay, anyway. Real quick. I said on Mugglecast, (SU: Who was that?) then I lost the music for the background, (JN: Oh.) to perform it.
MA: He lost his own music.
AS: This is the truth. This is the truth. (JN: Right.) (SU: Ohh.) So, unless you wanted me to lip sync it live, that wouldn't have been very fun.
MA: You could lip sync it, that's cool.
LT: Why not, Andrew?
MA: Go for it.
AS: Wizard Rock. I'm not going to do it, now. I forget the lyrics.
MA, SU and Audience: Do it! Do it! Do it!
AS: See, I would do it if Alex just whipped out his guitar right now and started strumming something. (laughs) I got nothing. (MA laughs) Anyway.
JN: (laughs) He's got nothing.
AS: Does anyone know it?
JL: Andrew, why don't...?
MA: Does anyone know it?
AS: No, does any one here, honestly, does anyone know it?
JL: Andrew! Andrew, you can do it without music.
AS: So if I started singing it, would people sing along with me? (Audience cheers)
AS: Does anyone know the background?
SU: No.
JN: This is coming back to bite me in the ass.
AS: Okay, no it's not. All right, on three, we'll just do the one verse. I'm going to be embarrased. Okay.
BS: Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, Frappr, Last FM.
AS: I'm counting on everyone to help me out right now ok? We'll set the beat. One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four. One, two...
Wizard Rock,
What's up with that stuff?
Andrew Sims here to show you the flock,
Podcast on Sundays,
Late afternoon,
And talking Harry Potter like a wolf howls at the moon,
Theories, discussion, pickles.
That's it. That song's done.
JN: Hooray! (Audience cheers) We're going to sell them underground. (AS laughs)
MA: Okay, so, so, so. Anybody read a good book, lately? (Audience cheers)
SU: Woo!
JN: I don't read.
MA: John doesn't read.
AS: Everyone seems to be pretty happy with Deathly Hallows, but it's funny, because when the- no, no, no obviously, obviously everyone loves Deathly Hallows. But I have to say when the book first came out, we were doing a live show right afterwards, and people, some people were like, "Ah, Jo forgot to put this in, there was this wrong." There was Hermione's middle name was wrong in the beginning of the book. Is that true, by the way?
Audience: Yes.
MA: No! Okay, okay.
AS: Can you put an end to this?
SU: Let's explain that. We have the inside scoop.
MA: She said her name was Jane, Hermione Jane Granger, in a chat like seven years ago. Dude, no, no, no in a chat long ago, she said that it was Hermione Jane Granger. She can change her mind. Her daughter's name is MacKenzie Jean Rowling, maybe she just changed her mind. She's allowed to do that, by the way.
AS: We have a "no" in the audience.
MA: It's her books, you know?
AS: Anyway, but then once things started settling in it was like, okay everyone loves the book. Do you want to go down the line here, just favorite moments real quick.
BS: Well, hold on a second here. If there's one thing I can say is, give it up for Molly Weasley, everybody!
SU: Yay! (Audience cheers)
LT: Just a question, how many of you joined that group on Facebook?
MA: Wait! Hang on, Laura?
LT: How many of you? (Audience cheers)
JN: What Facebook was it? What Facebook was it?
LT: It's her very wonderful quote at the end of the book. That's the name of the name of the Facebook group.
JN: I forget the quote. What was the quote?
MA: Don't say the (grumbles).
AS: No, no, no, say it, say it. Why not?
ES: What?
JN: I don't know.
ES: What is it?
JN: Are we allowed to use canon swears?
Audience: Yes.
LT: I think we're allowed.
Audience: Jo said it!
MA: Jo said it; one word out of like 5,000 pages. I don't think we have-
JN: I think Sue should say it.
JL: Yeah, Sue. I think you should say it.
SU: "Not with my daughter, you beep!" (Audience laughs) "Get off!"
JN: Pretty good.
MA: I thought you were going to do it. I really did.
SU: I did, I was almost, but I was "Beep!" I squee-beeped myself.
MA: It would have been better if you did it; just gone for it.
SU: I know.
BS: Bad bitch.
JN: Well, I don't want to alarm anybody, but I saw a very disturbing thing today, and I know there are quite a few of you who paid their tributes-
AS: Emerson Spartz and those pajamas? (Audience laughs and cheers)
JN: Yes, well, after that.
MA: Besides that.
JN: No, I assure you it's much more disturbing. I know many of you have paid your tributes to the grave of the poor fallen Hedwig. (Audience cheers) (SU: She's not! No!) And I heard- (SU: What's that? We heard a rumor?) I heard rumors-
SU: That's right!
MA: Oh, my God.
SU: There's rumors. Listen.
MA HedwigsNotDead.com.
JN: I heard rumors about a possible Hedwig burial today. But- (SU: But! But listen carefully.) I don't know how many of you have seen a black-feathered owl flying around (SU: Ooh!) the hotel, (Audience member: Hedwig's not dead!) (MA: Dot com.) but it has been told that Hedwig in all of her mice killing, has created, not one, not two, but thirty-seven Horcruxes. (SU gasps)
MA: Yeah.
SU: Whoa. (Audience cheers) Yeah!
JN: So, Hedwig survives, Hedwig lives, and she has black feathers now, and she's frightening.
SU: That's right. Hegwig lives, man.
MA: She clearly- (Audience and SU cheer) She clearly faked her own death, went into hiding to protect Harry, (JN: She did.) I mean, come on.
JN and JL: Yeah.
MA: Hedwig's not-
AS: There's such a rebellion going on, right now. I think Jo in the encyclopedia is going to be, like, "Hedwig: Just kidding"!
SU: Just kidding! Hedwig is not dead, baby.
JN: Well, she is part Phoenix, I thought.
MA: Yeah.
SU: Is she?
MA: She- My favorite part-
ES: You know, J.K. Rowling has made it very clear in the past that people cannot come back from the dead. (JN: And that applies to owls, as well.) But she did not say specifically that owls cannot be resurrected from the dead. (SU: That's right!) Hedwig lives!
SU: That's right! Woo!
MA: Well, here's our question. Here's our question about all that. Harry does the whole turn-thing on the resurrection stone; where was Hedwig?
JN: Where was Hedwig? You know?
MA: Why didn't Hedwig come back? That's what I'm saying.
SU: Well, my only question is-
MA: Clearly not dead.
SU: Clearly, but there's no body, just feathers, (MA: There's no body.) but no body!
MA: Are you wearing Hedwig?
SU: I... Well, maybe!
AS: Oh!
JN: Oh, no!
MA: Sue!
JN: You took it too far!
SU: No, baby. (Audience boos)
MA: Oh, my God, it was a joke! (Audience laughs)
AS: Jo would-
JN: It would be a very Hufflepuff thing to do.
SU: It would, because we don't give up on animals.
JL: No, you just wear them dead around your neck.
SU: We just pwn them with greenery, man. (AS: Yes.) Hufflepuff just kills 'em with greenery. Woo! (Audience cheers)
MA: I gotta say, Sue, it was like my favorite part- almost one of my favorite parts of the book. Everybody's shooting killing curses, Neville's coming out with plants.
SU: That's right.
MA: Chucking the plants across.
SU: Neville Longbottom. (Audience cheers) Neville Longbottom.
JN: He wasn't using plants. I think Peeves was using plants. Wasn't he?
SU: He was; the Snorkeluff Puff Pods. He was.
JN: He was throwing stuff down, too.
SU: He was like "weeee!" Botched them.
MA: Okay, can we go down the line? Emerson?
AS: One thing can we talk about Hedwig. Jo said in the webchat that that best marked the end of Harry's childhood, and I forgave her for the death after I read that because...
MA: Wrong!
AS: No, I agree because (SU: Carebear.) Hedwig has been there since the beginning of Harry's school years, at least, so I thought that was a nice thing.
MA: Except that she's dead!
LT: So, basically you're saying-
JN: Hedwig was his constant connection to the Wizarding World and when he was by himself at the Dursleys who was there but Hedwig?
JL: I just think that it was a pointless death.
AS: It's pointless but (JL: But Andrew-) she is dead.
JL: But she could have symbolized it in another way like a snowflake that falls to the ground and cracks. (MA: What!?) You know the pure white symbolism.
AS: Or what if- How about...?
JL: That works!
ES: The way I'm thinking of it is that the poor white owl who plays Hedwig in the movies, Ook the owl, is out of a job (JL: Yes.) now what is this owl going to be able to do with his life after this he is going to be typecast. (JN: I know.) He's never going to be able to get a job, again, because everyone is going to be like you're from Harry Potter!
JN: It's a girl owl, actually!
AS: How about we compromise?
ES: I'm sorry, John.
JN: We don't want to hurt her feelings.
MA: I heard that there's a website coming about all this I don't know if you've heard about it.
SU: Oh, there is?
JN: HedwingIsNotDead.com.
MA: HedwingIsNotDead.com. Oh, my God!
JN: I dunno.
MA: Lets keep an eye on it. Can we move on?
AS: Yeah. Well, we were going to do favorite moments.
MA: Oh.
SU: Okay.
JN: Real quick favorite moment, Emerson.
ES: Okay, I'm not going to go with one of the easy scenes here. I'm going to say when Kreacher rallied the house elves, that was so cool! (Audience cheers) I was- I thought that was such an incredible scene; I was so happy to see that Kreacher with just a little bit of kindness towards him and he became the most happy welcoming house elf ever, but I was a little surprised when these house elves who are supposed to be capable of some incredibly powerful magic came out with egg beaters and spatulas!
JN: And carving knives! What's that all about?
MA: No, no.
BS: Emerson, are you sure that was your favorite moment? I mean, there wasn't anything else that made you feel extremely good?
AS: Let's close the curtain for ten minutes, please.
ES: I'm not so good at the Dumbledore voice.
BS: (imitating Dumbledore) Harry, you are the seventh Horcrux.
MA: Eighth, the eighth.
BS: Eighth, whatever. He was, okay!
MA: I'm not right. I was wrong. He is a Horcrux. I was right? Thank you. Okay, he's not a Horcrux? Tell Jo.
JL: Are you people disagreeing with Dumbledore because he said "you are a Horcrux"?
JN: Dumbledore's been wrong about all kinds of stuff!