Episode 10: The One That Finally Made It
Introduction
[Introduction music plays]
Alex: [As Hagrid] Budge up there. [As Trelawney] Has it started yet? My Inner Eye was a little cloudy on the details. [As Flitwick] Not yet Sibyl, you are just in time. [As Lucius Malfoy] Dobby, turn up the volume. [As Dobby] Dobby will cranky it, sir. [As Twelawney] What are we watching again? [As Hagrid] Hogwarts Radio. [As McGonagall] If dumbledore had figured out his browser… [As Snape] I’m quite capable, thank you very much. [As Umbridge] Hem hem. Pardon me, Headmaster, but under Educational Decree Number 31, the public exhibition of radio outside the ministry’s control… [As himself] Wait. Which one of my critically acclaimed audio books are we listening to?
Terrance: You’re listening to Hogwarts Radio, Episode Number 10 for October 21, 2008.
[Harry Potter Theme Song plays]
Terrance: So it’s been – what – today’s the 20th and it…
Greyson: Yes.
Terrance: …Next week will be the 27th…
Greyson: Very good.
Terrance: So it’s been almost a month since we put out an episode. How do you guys feel about that?
Alex: Actually it’s been a few days since we put out an episode because now episode five is available. Yay!
Terrance: Yay…
Andy: Yay!
Terrance: …Episode Five is finally available. But…
Alex: It’s only two months late.
Terrance: …As far as us sitting down to do an actual recording, it’s been almost a month – about exactly three weeks ago, we sat down and did Episode Nine, so we’re just – hit a couple of bumps…
Andy: My speakers are…
Greyson: What?
Eric: I’ve got to say, you guys are confusing. You guys are all confusing. You’re recording episodes, and I called Terrance the other week, and he said he’s got like four episodes that were in the can that were recorded but not edited, and he was still recording more episodes and trying to plan the next episode and [laughs]…
Terrance: No, what we were doing was like – it took us a – we recorded this episode, Episode Ten probably was a good – what – three times already.
Alex: We got about an hour and a half into it the other night, and Skype crashed, and we lost the whole thing.
Eric: Yeah I heard…
Andy: Cough. Cough. Greyson.
Greyson: It wasn’t…
Andy: [laughs]
Eric: Terrance, what episode is this? What episode number?
Terrance: Well this is Episode Ten, but technically…
Eric: Ten?!
Terrance: …I think it should be Episode Seventeen.
Eric: Weren’t you guys going to do Episode Ten last week?
Greyson: Yeah, and…
Eric: You called and you wanted me to be on?
Terrance: That was our live show – yeah our live show didn’t work out so well…
[Greyson laughs]
Terrance: …As recording goes…
Greyson: Yeah.
Terrance: …But we’re back this week. We’ve got a good show planned out for you guys, new discussion lined up, so let’s go ahead and get right to it. I’m Terrance.
Andy: I’m Andy.
Greyson: I’m Greyson.
Alex: I’m Alex.
Eric: And I’m Eric.
[Harry Potter Theme Song ends]
News and Announcements
Terrance: And I’m going to throw it on over to Andy, who’s standing by in the Daily Prophet. Andy, what’s been going on with the news this past month?
Andy: Absolutely nothing.
Greyson: Yay!
Eric: That’s so exciting, Andy.
Alex: I just got a mental image of Andy standing in Diagon Alley holding and umbrella, and the camera goes over to Andy…
[All laugh]
Eric: And he says ‘Absolutely nothing’.
Andy: Well, in fact about three days ago it was Professor Flitwick’s birthday!
Greyson: Yay.
Andy: Yay!
Terrance: Happy birthday!
Eric: Happy birthday, Professor Flitwick.
Greyson: All right.
Andy: So excited.
Eric: How old is Professor Flitwick?
Andy: Like, five hundred.
Greyson: A hundred and twenty, a hundred and thirty-eight, something like that.
Terrance: Hey – look, we have – we actually have Professor Flitwick in the studios with us today. Professor, how old are you?
[Introduction music stops]
Alex: [as Flitwick] Old enough to know not to answer that question, Terrance.
[Eric laughs, Greyson fake laughs]
Eric: And…
Greyson: Sorry.
Eric: …Professor Flitwick what were your wishes this year for your birthday? When you blew out the candles?
Alex: [as Flitwick] Well if I told you, then they wouldn’t come true now would they?
[Terrance laughs]
Eric: Let’s say they did…
[Andy laughs]
Eric: …Let’s say they would still come true.
[Greyson laughs]
Alex: [as Flitwick] I…
Andy: Good response.
Alex: [as Flitwick] Yes. [laughs]
Eric: Awesome.
Greyson: Okay. Cool, cool.
[Andy and Terrance laugh]
Eric: Professor Flitwick, are you an elf? I have to ask this. Are you an elf?
Alex: [as Flitwick] Well, actually my mother’s cousin twice removed is part-elf, actually, yes.
Greyson: So what the hell are you?
[Andy and Terrance laugh]
Alex: [as Flitwick] One could pose the same question towards you, Mr. Smith.
Greyson: Ohohohoho!
Andy: Ohoho! [laughs]
Eric: Okay, but anyway – oh and one more thing while we have you on Hogwarts Radio line here, Professor, the – what was with the hair change? I noticed you got a little bit more stylish…
[Terrance laughs]
Eric: …In Harry Potter’s third year. You got the sort of greased, slicked-back hair, sort of oil-slick. Had you seen Grease at that point? The musical, or what were you going for? It looks great! I mean – I just want to extend my compliments to you and ask what that was all about.
Greyson: It’s very hot.
Alex: [as Flitwick] Why, thank you, Mr. Scull. Well actually, Grease aside, Professor Trelawney expressed in one of her trances how she prefers men who don’t look their actual age.
[Greyson laughs]
Eric and Greyson: Ohh.
Eric: So it was the whole – would you call it a mid-life crisis? You know – did you – did you get yourself a broom to go with the hair change, or not?
Alex: [as Flitwick] If I told you my wish, it wouldn’t come true.
[Andy and Eric laugh]
Eric: Okay. [laughs]
Greyson: In other news…
[Alex laughs]
Andy: Well, moving on – according to The Telegraph, they are developing real invisibility cloaks!
Alex: Woo!
Greyson: Heh, yay.
Terrance: Yay.
Eric: I thought you said there was nothing to report and then you go ahead and report something, Andy?
Andy: Yes, I know. I just – Yeah.
Eric: That’s shameful.
Andy: Yes, I know. I’m like Rita Skeeter.
Eric: Mediocre.
Andy: But more stylish.
Terrance: So they’re developing real invisibility cloaks. But – what are they doing, bending light or something like that? How – I mean, it’s – how?
[Greyson laughs]
Andy: Good question, Terrance.
Terrance: And who really cares?!
Greyson: I care! I want an invisibility cloak!
Eric: I heard about – I heard about that – a while ago, it might not be the same article, or even the same people developing one. But, the only way to do that now, I assume, is to place a bunch of cameras on one side of you that are then displayed on some kind of lucid fabric – LED, sort of, TV screen-esque thing in front of you. You know what I’m – so like a suit, that displays the image that’s been recorded on the other side. Like James Bond’s car in Die Another Day.
Andy: Will this make it incredibly easy to rob banks?
Eric: No.
Alex: Well, I seriously doubt that the public are going to be able to purchase these. It’ll probably be only government officials.
Eric: And let’s not forget that if they’re using that technology, you probably can’t move too fast in it. You don’t have magic on your side…
Alex: Right!
Eric: … So you can only move as fast as it can pick up. Like I think when you move, it – you know – we’re certainly not at the technology or won’t be immediately for it to actually look good while moving – you know – I mean.
Greyson: And they haven’t even fully developed the technology yet, so who’s to say we even have invisi- [stumbles over words] invisibility cloaks in five years time.
Eric: Yeah, and this could be possibly bogus, this whole story. I mean – I heard a few years ago that they were trying to make real live Pokemon and I thought that was all cool and…
Greyson: [whispers] Awesome.
Eric: Yeah.
[Alex and Terrance laugh]
Eric: Yeah, that was when I was into Pokemon.
Andy: Well, finally J.K. Rowling is having a contest to see which of her younger readers can write an essay. And the contest – and whoever wins gets to join her for a tea party! And the great thing about this is that Greyson can participate.
Greyson: [laughs] Shut up!
[Alex and Terrance laugh]
Andy: The…
Greyson: Yeah that’s very funny.
Andy: …Ages is – ranges from eleven – no, not eleven – eight to seventeen, so if you’re in that age, you can participate and win! I fully expect Greyson having tea with J.K. Rowling.
Greyson: Maybe I will! Maybe – you know maybe I’ll do that Andy, and you’ll just be so jealous…
Andy: I’ll be so jealous.
Greyson: When I see JK…
Andy: You’ll be up in my face…
Greyson: Yeah.
Andy: …You’ll send me messages and be like…
Greyson: I can do that.
Andy: Yeah. Good job.
Greyson: Yeah, yeah.
Andy: And that’s all for the news. Because it’s – I don’t know.
Alex: Boring. Yep.
Andy: Yes.
Alex: Hey, Greyson, if you do get to hang out with Jo ask her about the Scottish Book.
Greyson: Okay. I’ll ask her. I’ll ask her to be on the show too. She’ll probably say no, but that’s okay.
Andy: Touch her shoulder.
Terrance: We already tried that.
Eric: What about the Scottish Book?
Alex: Like, how’s it coming? Is it still coming at all?
Terrance: Scottish Book? What Scottish Book?
Eric: That’s like the one question everyone asks her.
Greyson: Yeah.
Andy: Be more original. Greyson can be more original.
Greyson: Yeah, come on.
Terrance: Greyson, ask her if she’s going to write an eighth book.
[Eric and Terrance laugh]
Alex: Who gets the first – Terrance, it’s the first book about Albus Severus.
Greyson: I’ll ask her…
Eric: With Teddy Lupin, or whoever it was!
Greyson: …’Microsoft Word 2007, or the previous installments?’. I’ll ask her that.
Andy: Ask her ‘PC or Mac?’.
Eric: Ask her about the Japanese book she’s writing.
[Alex laughs]
Greyson: Right. And the French book?
Eric: And the…
Andy: Ask her if she flosses. Yeah, but…
Terrance: So everybody continue to vote for us on Podcast Alley. We are currently at number seventeen this month. And…
Andy: Oh man.
Terrance: …We just ask for you to go over there, and vote for us. It doesn’t take a lot of your time, and verify through your email. That would be it and your vote would count for this month. Also subscribe to us on iTunes, so you can go ahead and the latest updates – well, the latest episodes from Hogwarts Radio, and any kind of promotion that we decide to put out. Also on the Podcast Awards, we do have an update for that. Yesterday at 4:00PM there was an announcement that – well the slate announcement for the podcasts that were nominated for their particular or their respective categories, and unfortunately this year we weren’t nominated for the Cultural and Arts or the People’s Choice, which were the two that we were going after. But hey! That’s okay. We’re only ten episodes in. We’re awesome. We’re going to be – we’re okay with it – you know. It’s not really going to faze us at all.
Alex: I’d like to think of it as a goal to do that much better for next year.
Terrance: Exactly.
Andy: Really?
Greyson: Yeah. Well like you said, we’re only ten episodes in – I mean – it was kind of a long shot but – you know…
Andy: We went for it.
Greyson: Yeah, yeah.
Andy: We dared to try- We dared to try.
Greyson: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Emails and Owl Posts
Terrance: So, if you have any questions, comments, or concerns that you would like read on the show, go ahead and email us either at our first names at Hogwarts Radio dot com or staff at Hogwarts Radio dot com. So moving on to some- to our Owlery segment, we are going to read some emails and listener comments that we have, and Greyson is actually going to provide us with our first listener email this week.
Greyson: I will. Our first Hogwarts Radio email today is from Ellie. And she says: “Hey HOgwarts Radio-ers. The other day – yesterday – I spent half an hour downloading the episodes the whole of yesterday and today listening to them. I honestly feel that you guys connect more to the fans, because you react more like the fans do. Such as hating Warner Brothers instead of looking for an excuse on their part. Also, although I love MuggleCast and PotterCast, I know that they are just as much, as a – that they are just as much a fan as we are, to us, they are the celebrities of our fandom. You guys are not yet at that level, but will be soon, and that makes this podcast more of a pure fan podcast with straight from the fan’s perspective. Keep up the great work! I love you guys, Ellie. P.S. I’m from Long Island too.”
Andy: Does that shock you a bit? Yay!
Eric: I would like to point out that we do not hate Warner Brothers.
Greyson: Yeah.
[Alex laughs]
Eric: Would you? Would you like to point that out?
Greyson: Yeah, we would…
Alex: I would like to point that out, Eric. We were not a fan of Warner Brothers recent decision to move the Half-Blood Prince film ahead by about eight months. We were not a fan of that decision, but we do not hate Warnter Brothers.
Greyson: However, I- right now I actually, after standing back for a while, I kind of- kind of like it now, but thats a different story.
Andy: Yeah.
Greyson: Okay.
Terrance: So our next email comes from our very first emailer into the show, from Darcy, from Australia, and she had actually a touching email this week to us that we wanted to go ahead and share with all the listeners out there. She writes: “Hey Hogwarts Radio Crew. I emailed in before, but I’m going to email in again. This is kind of like Chicken Soup for the Soul, but not, I don’t know. Here’s a story: I recently went on a Japan tour with the school, and also to Queensland with my family, which was awesome. However, I missed the first week of the two weeks we get off school. I knew had a- I knew I had a Japanese project due the first day I got back; however, probably being the world’s best procrastinator, I had left the project to do two night until before it school started. I am busy tomorrow and the day after, so I couldn’t do it then, so I had to pull an all nighter. It wasn’t as hard to pull off as some of my other all nighters, as I had episodes of Hogwarts Radio that I had missed playing in the background while I did my project, which kept me awake, so I have now completed my project and caught up on your episodes. I’m feeling quite proud and tired as it’s 5:13AM in the morning, but I’m still going strong. Also, I love the interview with Kristin and Eric. I know its late to comment, but it was a great interview. Tired as ever, Darcy.”
Eric: Get some sleep Darcy.
Greyson: Yeah, that would be good.
Terrance: And – you know – a couple of us were talking about this a little while ago, and its one thing to hear – you know – how this stuff touches other peoples lives, but when your actually involved with the show, and your hearing people – you know – emailing to you with how we’ve helped them – you know – it just brings you really warm feelings inside.
Greyson: It’s very nice.
Eric: Yeah.
Greyson: Our next email is from Mira, and it says: “Yo Hogwarts Radio, I’m just emailing in to comment about your fabulous podcast. You have some very creative segments, that are so much fun, even though all seven books are out. I especially like the character to actor comparisons and the common room, which made me laugh a lot. Thanks for all your effort, and keep going weekly, Mira.”
Andy: Yay!
Wizard Rock Song of the Week: “House of Awesome” by The Whomping Willows
Terrance: And we have one listener comment on the website this week under our guest book. And it’s from, lets see. It’s from Nana and she goes “Love your podcast, found it through MuggleCast and I have a request. Could you make a list of the title and artist of who your Wizard Rock Song of the Week on your website? I’d like to make a playlist from it. They’re awesome. Thanks, Nana.” And…
Alex: I believe that’s already under construction, isn’t it?
Terrance: Yeah, it’s under construction. We were actually going to post the songs, but we didn’t want that to become an issue with the bands. So what we’re doing is just making a list of all the wizard rock songs, and their respective pages that they’re connected with. Their Myspace pages, and stuff like that. So I think Jackie’s heading that up, and she should have some more information on the next episode.
Andy: Jackie is not here this week, unfortunately. But her Wizard Rock Song of the Week choice would have been The Whomping Willows “House of Awesome”. So we’ll play a clip of that now.
[Song plays]
[Song ends]
Main Discussion: What About the Malfoys?
Terrance: So, lets go ahead and jump into our main discussion this week. Our main discussion is actually going to be a combined segment with one of the more popular segments we have, called Your Plot’s Untied. And this week we’re going to be discussing the fate of the Malfoy family. Now according to Jo, Draco married Astoria Greengrass…
Greyson: Who?
Terrance: …the younger sister of Daphne Greengrass. Which was a member of Pansy Parkinson’s…
Eric: Who was. Who was. You don’t want to – Daphne was.
Greyson: Who?
[Eric laughs]
Terrance: Draco married the younger sister of one of Pansy Parkinson’s friends.
Eric: Following the events of Book 7.
Terrance: Following the events of Book 7, and according to Jo, Draco married Astoria Greengrass, the younger sister of Daphne Greengrass. Anybody know what house she was in?
Greyson: Probably…
Eric: Slytherin. It says here a member of Pansy Parkinson’s crew and a classmate of Draco’s.
Terrance: Oh okay. But they had a son and he was named Scorpius. So, that’s just a little thing about Draco. But more importantly, what – following Book 7, what happened to the adult Malfoys? You know Lucius, Narcissa? Everything with them.
Andy: Well we know that – or, we’re pretty sure that Bella died, right?
Eric: Bellatrix died.
Alex: Lestrange.
Greyson: Yeah because they were like carting her body off so that sort of seems to indicate that she’s dead.
Andy: We know Bella died, but what happened to Lucius and Narcissa?
Greyson: I assume they went to Azkatraz.
Eric: Azkaban.
Greyson: Az – Azkatraz. Hey.
[All laugh]
Eric: They went to Azkatraz.
Greyson: I assume Lucius and Narcissa went to Azkaban, at least for a short period of time.
Andy: Well, yeah. I agree, and yeah. And I don’t think they would have been able to redeem themselves when Voldemort and all that because of the new regime after Book 7.
Greyson: Because they did too much stuff just to walk, so.
Alex: I kind of almost get the feeling that Lucius did not go to Azkaban, they just fled the country maybe. After Voldemort was taken down, I don’t think Harry would have put that much energy into tracking down the Malfoys. With the way they were behaving towards the end, at the Battle of Hogwarts. They just wanted to get out of there. They did not want any part of the Dark Arts anymore. And, I get the feeling that they did not go to Azkaban.
Eric: I think I would agree with Alex. At least the – that the Malfoys didn’t want – I’m not going to go so far as to say they didn’t want anything to do with the Dark Arts, because that’s kind of who some people are, but their priorities at the end at the Battle of Hogwarts in that scene were to find Draco, their son, and I don’t think they fled the country, they’re too proud to do that, they have their mansion. But what I think did happen is that Harry maybe even cleared their name a little bit, considering Narcissa was singly responsible for the defeat of Voldemort. I mean, because she lied for him, saying that he was dead which allowed him to – you know, go all the way through. Basically she saved his life so that she could find her son and so that they could be a family and all that. So, when Harry walks up to them in the Great Hall at the end of Book 7 and just sees them just sort of holding Draco and stuff, I think that’s a very telling scene and a very good scene. It’s possible I think that Harry maybe even – either cleared their name a little bit, or decided at some point that they weren’t…
Alex: Worth his time?
Eric: …necessarily so evil, I mean I just agree with you that they probably were – it just feels that they didn’t then go off to Azkaban for an indefinite period of time and actually because the book – the events of the book ended right then, we don’t know anything about any trials that may have been held or anything else. We don’t know about any funerals, anything like that I mean. So yeah, but I get the feeling that they weren’t prosecuted since Harry – since their fates were so tied together so closely and they showed at least some remorse or some human characteristics, unlike Voldemort. I think they deserve to get a little leeway in that because of their – because they kind of turned traitor there in the end.
Alex: Right because after Voldemort was dead they were just sitting there at one of the House tables and nobody descended on them. No one said “Get them!” They were just sitting there. So yeah.
Eric: Yeah. And some speculate too that Lucius Malfoy was disenchanted with Voldemort ever since he was taken to Azkaban after Book 5. Because Voldemort then, you know punished Draco for Lucius’ failings and I don’t think Lucius was enjoying that at all. I think – if you look at sort of some of the scenes in the beginning of Book 7, Lucius is kind of tortured. And the whole family is kind of tortured that the Dark Lord is crashing in their – you know, crashing on their couch and using their house to set up shop…
[Alex laughs]
Eric: …and he can’t be that pleasant…
Terrance: Going off on that idea, do you think that Lucius and Narcissa were able to, you know reprieve their reputation with gold? Like making a sizable contribution to the Ministry or do you think they bought their way out?
Greyson: No because like Andy said I don’t think with the new regime you have going on there, with you know Shacklebolt and all that I don’t think they would really accept that.
Andy: No, I was going to say you know that Lucius only supported, air quote, Voldemort towards the end of the book series because, well through fear because he was scared he was going to get killed and stuff like that. So I think that once Voldemort was gone it was a sense of “Well now we’re not really a threat anymore and I don’t want to be a threat” so they kind of just mellowed down. And I’m pretty sure they didn’t stay to active in the Dark Arts.
Eric: And how much crime could have actually been pinned to the Malfoys? Because if you think about it, Lucius Malfoy posed in Book 5, wasn’t present in the scene with the seven Potters, Voldemort took his wand and left him to stay home with the Malfoy house. To be honest I mean besides the events of Draco in Book 6, none of the Malfoy family actually did anything. They didn’t specifically go and torture anybody, you know they were part of the mob, but they wanted out and they were in a very trapped situation.
Greyson: Yeah but they were still an accomplice and they still – they still were in on it, so to speak, so they’re I think still somewhat obligated.
Andy: Guilty by association.
Alex: Yeah but they were in on it under duress.
Eric: Well, they still could have said no and died for their own beliefs, but I mean that’s so cut clear like who – you know, they have a family to protect.
Andy: Yeah.
Terrance: So, what – okay. That being said, they were being used basically for Voldemort’s hideout, I guess. The Malfoy Manor, to hold meetings and stuff like that. What actually happened to the manor, did Draco acquire it? Did the ministry take it?
Alex: It got up and walked away.
Greyson: Michael Jackson bought it.
[hosts laugh]
Greyson: Neverland 2.
Eric: Why do we have any reason to believe that the mansion – that they didn’t just go back home? What’s wrong with the mansion, why don’t they have the mansion anymore?
Andy: Well, assuming they went to Azkaban they wouldn’t obviously be living in it and…
Eric: Well they’re not going to be putting it up for sale or anything. They’re…
Andy: I was thinking – well, maybe Malfoy – oh crap. Maybe Draco Malfoy acquired it since his parents were not able to live in it.
Alex: I think they would hang on to the house, even when it became condemned rather than sell it just out of their pride, you know? Like even if they went to Azkaban, I’m sure they would still keep the house in the family.
Greyson: Yeah.
Andy: Yeah.
Terrance: What happened to the – what happened to the Gaunt’s house? I know that’s off topic here, and I was just thinking about it because that just sparked that question in my mind because even if it was condemned it would still stand there. But what happened to the Gaunt house? Wasn’t that…
Greyson: I assume it would just stay where it is. No one would want to go back to it. Yeah.
Terrance: How would you guys…
Andy: Well after – well now that – after Book 7 when Voldemort is gone, we know – well like I said earlier we know that Lucius Malfoy – so how is his mentality after the events in Book 7? Past the Epilogue and through that time period. Do you think he’s sane?
Terrance: I would think relief.
Andy: Relief?
Terrance: Relief, one that his son is okay, two that they still have their lives, and three that Voldemort is gone so…
Greyson: But do you think he possibly feels like a – sort of a loss of power? Kind of a loss of importance?
Andy: Did he really have any power towards Book 7?
Greyson: Not necessarily but…
Eric: All the power that he had Voldemort didn’t give him any of the power that he had. He had the power from being a Malfoy, from commanding respect, from power of the name, and from bribing – you know – the Ministry and Cornelius Fudge. He’s – you know – a self-made – you know – the whole family. Voldemort used Malfoy, if anything, for his public status.
Greyson: Yeah that’s true, but after Voldemort is gone and everyone knows that Lucius was in on it how is he going to – is he going to have any power in the minstry at all? So.
Eric: I think everyone intelligent is going to keep an eye on him and he’s not going to have any – I don’t think he’s going to have political sway but I don’t think he needs – you know – again the priorities of the Malfoy family immediately following Book Seven is the protection of their family and maybe they do move – maybe they do move and flee. I think to be honest that would be the best situation concerning or considering the problem in that they were still apart of the Death Eaters and – you know – went along with it even in the end, but I think that they were just really good to have their family in tact and that would be their – I don’t know that he would seek to influence. If you look at Lucius Malfoy’s character – even during the books – when he tried to take Dumbledore out in Chamber of Secrets, when he bribed all the school governors and stuff, that was for his son and – you know – it was also to discredit Dumbledore and Harry and all them but it was – you know – for his son had been complaining – same with Buckbeak.
Alex: Mostly it was just for fun, just because he could do it.
Eric: Yeah, but I think is it – do you guys think he changed?
Terrance: Do you guys think that…
Alex: I think he would have been a little bit more humbled, like his appearence would be less outspoken but I’m sure he would still be thinking all the nasty things whether he said them or not.
Eric: That’s probably true. And what does the epilogue tell us about Draco and Harry and their relationship?
Andy: They’re at least civil.
Terrance: Kind of acknowledge that it exist but really nothing more – I mean – Draco gives him a nod and that’s about it.
Eric: Yeah, and that’s how it’s necessary, they don’t have to be each other.
Greyson: They’re not chums.
Andy: Yeah. So how do you guys think Draco viewed his father and his mother after all the events. I mean – they pretty much spent the last part of the…
Eric: That’s a good question.
Greyson: That is a good question.
Andy: Yeah – you know – so what do you guys think?
Greyson: I don’t think any differently actually.
Alex: I think he would have a little more respect for them, like them personally rather then their reputations.
Andy: Well, do you guys think he will be closer to his mother or to his father after the events?
Greyson: His mother because I think Lucius was kind of a jerk to him a lot of the time. Yeah.
Andy: I think it has always been that way.
Greyson: Yeah.
Terrance: I think that he would view his parents as a little bit more lenient with him – I mean – you know how Lucius was always very strict with him. I think that eased up a little bit. One, because – I forgot what I was going to say.
Eric: Well by the time the events are over…
Terrance: I just…
Eric: …Draco is a man – you know.
Greyson: Yeah.
Eric: He is no longer a boy to begin with. So much has happened and – you know – Lucius spent that year in Azkaban and all that. Draco is now a man, the relationship isn’t going to be the same just because Draco is grown up. And he has finished school. Sorry Terrance, what were you saying?
Terrance: No, I completely forgot. Let’s go ahead and…
Andy: So – so Draco and Astoria got married after the events in Book 7. We don’t know who Astoria is really, but how do you think the Wizarding World – as in Harry, Hermione, Ron, all those people who were on the airquote good side – how do you guys think they saw Draco? They were all in public in the Epilogue. No one seemed to have a problem with him being there, so obviously they’re not feared or frowned upon that much.
Eric: They don’t have to like him, but I think they acknowledge – I think there’s some part of them that they acknowledge the role – and if weren’t Draco that had to be on the bad side, it would have been someone else. I think.
Andy: Yeah.
Eric: And – I mean – Draco and his whole family too – I mean – I’m not going to say it’s not Draco’s fault for the things he did, that he’s not responsible for his actions, but just like Crabbe – or was it Goyle – no it was Crabbe – who cast the Fiendfyre and caused a lot of trouble and ended up dying in it. You know – that’s kind of – that’s kind of the whole thing. Crabbe and Goyle’s parents were death eaters and all that. I think no one acknowledges – everyone who’s smart enough, Harry, Ron, and Hermione, acknowledge that what came to pass sort of did have to come to pass, and everyone is – maybe not – I want to say they’re so relieved that they forgive a lot, and maybe compassion and forgiveness is all a part of that love thing, but – I think – everyone knows the situation that Draco was in, and so I think that would give him at least some sort of a reprieve, and they don’t have to like him. They don’t have to have tea with him, but Harry, himself – let’s not forget – has learned many important lessons, and number one is – you know – if you’re in Slytherin, it’s not necessarily that bad a thing. You know – the bravest man he ever knew was Severus Snape, Head of Slytherin House, and so – you know – I think he’s learned a lot of things like that, and to practice what you preach. Harry can’t dislike Draco too much – you know – they just – they have different character flaws.
Andy: Right. Well what did Draco do for a living? Did he go back to the Ministry or did he not have a job or did he just live on the Malfoy money? What did he do?
Greyson: I would say he couldn’t live on the Malfoy money for that long. I’m sure he had a job of some kind, but actually I could see him – I could see him working at the Ministry…
Andy: With Hermione.
Terrance: Obviously working in the Muggle Artifacts.
[Alex laughs]
Andy: Wouldn’t it be so…
Alex: What exactly is the function of a rubber duck?
Greyson: Perkins, Weasley, and Malfoy. That would be nice. That’s the dream team right there!
Andy: It would be kind of funny if he had to be working under him.
[Terrance laughs]
Greyson: That would be kind of funny. Some late night meetings in the boss’s office for Draco. Maybe.
[Andy laughs]
Terrance: That wouldn’t go over too well with Mr….
Andy: Anyway, so it’s pretty much a concensus that he probably would have got to the Ministry, and I don’t see him – he doesn’t have any other talents.
Greyson: I guess, but yeah.
Alex: It doesn’t seem like there are a whole lot of job options in the Wizarding World.
Greyson: Yeah. Exactly. I was going to say that.
Eric: Yeah. We did think about that before.
Andy: Every job that Muggles have are available for wizards too. I mean – some has to build – someone has to construct rooms. Right. So…
Eric: No, a lot of that is do it yourself. I mean – you get the idea that certain wizards are capable of – well, you look at the Burrow, which is impossibly held up – you know – solely by magic. I guess that maybe – that’s like curious because then what can’t wizards do for themselves. The don’t need – for instance, they don’t need plumbers in the wizarding world because as long as the plumbing is there it should be magically fixable.
Alex: That’s right. That would cut down on a lot of job opportunities.
Eric: You don’t need doctors if there’s healing – So you don’t need as many doctors. For maybe serious cases.
Andy: You know, that would be an interesting discussion for a future show, but moving on to Scorpius. Obviously Slytherin.
Greyson: Yeah.
Eric: Well, I’d like to know why Draco didn’t marry Pansy Parkinson. She was such a whore. It…
Greyson: Please…
All Laugh
Eric: …reallydidn’t fit.
Terrance: Wow.
Eric: She was, she was like “Oh Draco, You do this, you do-“ and on the train you.Terrance: [As Pansy] Does it hurt terribly, Draco?
Eric: Seriously.
Alex: Wasn’t she petting him in Half-Blood Prince?
Eric: She was petting him! So I want to know, why didn’t that work out. Instead it’s her friend’s younger sister and it’s like what? Clearly there is an unwritten story. I just think – And she couldn’t pair everyone with everyone. It kind of makes sense that you wouldn’t marry – That everyone would marry, the people they went to school with, in their same grade and all that and whatever. But still…
Greyson: I just think he used her as sort of a – To see himself as a respected person and as a cool guy. He didn’t take her seriously.
Eric: And actually…
Alex: She was a sadist.
Eric: Yeah.
Greyson: Yeah.
Eric: And Kristin brings up a good point. Kristin, sorry is in the other end of the room at the moment – Hi Kristin!
Kristin: Hi!
Everyone: Hi!
Eric: She’s listening in, the Malfoys are her passion, Draco changed too much, in her opinion, to still enjoy pansy who may have been sort of evil just to be evil. You know and kind of a – I’m not going to use the W word again or the B word, but…
Greyson: She’s clingy.
Eric: I think that he changed so much that maybe he wouldn’t be as intrigued by someone who is a genuinely nasty person.
Alex: Pansy was kind of like a little Bellatrix.
Eric: Yeah, like a little Bellatrix.
Alex: Except without the crazy.
Eric: Except without the crazy.
Greyson: Yeah, without the crazy.
Andy: Yeah, because petting somebody isn’t crazy.
Eric: No! No, in fact, it’s a very sane thing to do.
[Andy laughs]
Greyson: Oh.
Andy: Fascinating.
Greyson: Yeah.
Andy: Anyway, so moving on to his son. First of all, the name, do you guys like it?
Eric: Scorpius?
Greyson: No.
Terrance: Sounds like something out of…
[Jackie laughs]
Alex: He almost sounds like he should be a cage fighter. And in this corner Scorpius!
[Eric and Jackie laugh]
Andy: Sounds like a Pokemon.
Alex: The mighty Scorpius
Andy: Go Scorpius!
Eric: That’s like he should be a super villain.
Alex: Kneel before Zod.
Eric: All right, seriously guys all of the names in Harry Potter are a little wayward, like even Mundungus having dung for a nickname. The Malfoy’s Grandfather’s name, Luscious father, was Abraxus Malfoy, which is a cool name. You know Scorpious – I thought Scorpius was fitting for a Malfoy. It’s a bit of a weird, sort of strange name.
Alex: I actually don’t hate it.
Eric: Yeah.
Alex: I hear a lot of bad things about the names of Scorpius, Rose, and Hugo, but I actually don’t detest it.
Eric: Hell, I’m just happy that Rose and Hugo weren’t named Molly and Arthur. Considering the trend of the potter thing.
Alex: That would have been awful.
Eric: Lily, James, Molly, Arthur.
Andy: Actually, if you think about it, Scorpius Malfoy does kind of flow as a name. It’s not that bad.
Eric: Yeah, Draco the dragon. Scorpius the scorpion.
Greyson: I always thought it was a little corny.
Terrance: So, what house do you think he would – what house do you think he would be in?
Andy: Well, it would…
Greyson: Probably Slytherin.
Andy: …It would have to depend on the…
Alex: I know – sorry.
Andy: First of all he’s a Malfoy, so the blood thing. He kind of goes…
Eric: Oh, Terrance.
Andy: We don’t really know him as a person. We don’t how many – we dont know what kind of character he could have been. But, assuming from his lineage, we can probably say Slytherin.
Eric: Oh, guys have you learned nothing from the epilogue? It…
Andy: Yes, I have.
Eric: …Doesn’t matter what house you’re in because…
[Greyson laughs]
Eric: Because we’re all the same really deep down and it doesn’t matter.
Greyson: We’re all human beings. I need – like – the sad South Park music that they play whenever someone has – like – a revelation – you know.
Eric: I learned something today.
[Eric, Greyson, and Terrance laugh]
[Greyson attempts South Park noise]
Terrance: Okay, so next point would be: how was he like as a student? Was he more like Draco? Was he into the Dark Arts? Was he more into – you know – was he even in Gryffindor maybe? You know – we dont know.He could have chosen the alternate…
Greyson: I doubt he would have been into the Dark Arts. I mean – I don’t think his dad would have instilled that in him considering all the stuff he went through.
Eric: Yeah.
Andy: Because Lucius is a sexy guy.
[All laugh]
Greyson: Yeah.
Andy: Yeah, I agree though. I dont think don’t think he would have been. I don’t think the wizarding world would – if it was like that any more, I dont think they would have hired another teacher who taught that. I don’t think I was as main streamed anymore after the fall of Voldemort, so I think…
Eric: Yeah
Andy: …It’s a safe bet he wasn’t into that.
Eric: I think the tolerance Harry – that we saw Harry exercising would have been pretty much the contempt the contempt that Draco had too. You know – for where Draco maybe regreted that he was – that his – that he was raised sort of closer to the Dark Arts than benefited his family. I mean – I don’t think he wouldn’t have been in the Dark Arts say – I think Scorpius and really any of the kids who grow up with the DArk Arts are a little bit more – what do I want to say here? Just if they can be taught how to view the Dark Arts too. You know – with care and that it’s – you know – Draco, I think, would be open with his son. That hey – you know – this is something that our family has always been sort of involved with but is not acceptable, expecially for school, and is not acceptable here, here, and here and nearly killed your father and a lot.
Alex: Right. Exactly, I don’t think he would have put his son in that kind of position because, essentially, it would be putting Scorpius at risk if he…
Eric: Yeah.
Alex: …pushed the Dark Arts on him.
Eric: Yeah.
Greyson: Yeah, definitely.
Terrance: How was Astoria as a mother to Scorpius and a wife to – from – in your distant fan fiction writing minds, how do you guys see that?
Greyson: I think…
Alex: It almost would have made Draco respectable. Almost.
Greyson: Actually, I see sort of an unhappy thing between the two of them. Like a dysfunctional…
Terrance: Hey, Greyson…
Greyson: …Family.
Terrance: …Did you have an awesome story about that or something?
Greyson: Oh, yeah. My awesome story was that after -after the events of Half – of Deathly Hallows – you know – Draco and Astoria are married for a long time. You know – they start to fight because – you know – they just don’t agree and – you know – Draco is just never home. He’s always comes home drunk. You know – Hermione and Ron are on the other side of the – of the universe here, and they’re fighting too because – I don’t know – Ron – I don’t know – he came home smelling like perfume one day.
[Terrance laughs]
Greyson: And so – you know – then Draco and Hermione happen to meet at – at Azkatraz, and it starts the whole Draco/Hermione thing. And thats – that’s how it goes. That’s the rest of the story.
Alex: Greyson, you have too much time on your hands man.
Greyson: Yeah, I do. Definitely. True story.
Terrance: OK.
Greyson: Yeah. So.
Andy: I think that pretty much wraps up the whole discussion.
Terrance: So does anybody have any…
Andy: Well the last kind of thing I wanted to ask was, do any of you think that maybe, Astoria was maybe a lot like Narcissa as, she was very caring about her child? Although…
Alex: I think yes.
Andy: …The most level headed of them all. Turns out the [?] is evil.
Eric: Well, yeah because whether she was good or evil, I don’t think that would have come into play when it came to mothering her son – you know?
Greyson: Yeah.
Andy: Right, ok.
Terrance: Anyone have any final thoughts?
Andy: Anything else?
Greyson: Lucius Malfoy’s hot.
Andy: He’s sexy, dead sexy. Gorgeous.
Greyson: It’s going to snow!
Terrance: Um.
Alex: Um.
Greyson: Ummmmm.
Andy: Ummm.
[All laugh]
Terrance: Huh?!?
Greyson: Huh?!?
Alex: NO!
Greyson: Huh?!?
Alex: For the love of NO!
Andy: Ok, well that wraps up our segment. If you have anything else to add, you can go ahead and email us in, via our contact information will be provided at the end of the show, so …
The Common Room: Alex and Asjoria
Terrance: So, moving on to our final segment today, the Common Room, which is, just basically what’s going on in the host’s lives outside of the show. Want to go ahead and share a little bit about – you know – that with everybody. So this week, we’re featuring Alex, and Alex’s going to tell us a bit about his series, ‘The Chronicles of Asjoria’. What is it, why he wrote them, all that other good stuff. So…
Greyson: What’s it about?
Terrance: …Alex you want to go ahead and start us off, and let us know, what is Asjoria?
Alex: Uh so, for the past four and a half years I have been writing books, fantasy books like Harry Potter, and I just finished my fifth one last month, September 12th. Four of the fantasy books are all in one series, the shortest of which is three hundred and fifty-three pages I believe, and the other one is a short fairy tale that has absolutely nothing to do with the other four.
Greyson: Huh? Nice.
Eric: So which one is Asjoria?
Alex: Uh, that’s the four in the series.
Eric: Ok. And what’s it about?
Alex: Ok, well it started out as a tenth grade english assignment actually [laughs] The teacher came in one day and she said, ‘write a five hundred word short story’. And after my brain unfroze, I did not hand her five hundred words, I handed her one thousand, one hundred and forty-seven. That was back in 2004 and I literally did not stop working until last month.
Eric: Woah.
Alex: So four and a half years.
Terrance: That’s impressive.
Eric: Wow.
Terrance: Very impressive.
Eric: So did you have a – was it like a stroke of genius, did the story just – story came to you, maybe while you were on a train somewhere, or …
Andy: Or in a dream, like some of the nice authors…
Alex: I actually asked my friend, ‘hey April what should I write about?’ and she said ‘Well, write about such-and-such’ and I was like ‘oh-kay, if you say so’. And, at first I thought it was going to be stupid, but after about ten minutes of just sitting there thinking. I literally did not write anything for about ten minutes, I was just sitting there staring at a blank piece of paper. And, after a while, I was like, ‘okay, I can do this’, and then one thought formed, and then another, and then another, and by the end of the class I had characters and I wanted to know where they were going after the events I had already written, and where they had come from to get to the events I had already written.
Eric: Alright. So they – the characters sort of fleshed out?
Alex: Yeah exactly. Some more so than others, some more quickly than others but yes.
Eric: So, what is the story about?
Alex: Well it’s – I need to preface this by saying that each book is not following around the same main character. Each book follows around a different main character in the little circle of friends…
Eric: Okay.
Alex: …And, the first one starts out with a seventeen year old girl named Rena, and she has not seen her mother in the last six years. She woke up one morning, and she was just gone. Completely gone. No note, no nothing, and she has no idea who her father is, so it’s just her and her friend alone in the forest for about six years, and when she’s seventeen – almost eighteen – Rena says ‘That’s enough. I need to see what’s going on. I need to find my family’. So she sets out and she starts looking for clues and along the way she finds out that in the forest where she lives, five hundred years ago there was a completely separate race of people – not even humans at all who could do magic, and they knew all these things and suddenly all of them were gone, just some kind of – I cannot talk by the way…
Eric: [laughs] As long as you can write we’re all good.
Greyson: Yeah, and it’s very well written Alex. I must say.
Eric: Yeah, and so who’s read part of this?
Terrance: I have.
Greyson: I have.
Andy: We all have. Me too. And I have to say, I’m actually pretty impressed by Alex’s [breaks up] in the opening parts of this book.
Alex: Thanks you.
Eric: And I have a copy too, and I’m definitely going to chow down on it.
Terrance: It’s…
[Alex laughs]
Terrance: …It’s actually pretty interesting, whenever I was reading it, that first page – you know – pulled me in, and no author had done that other than J.K. Rowling, maybe C..S Lewis with the Chronicles of Narnia, but I was reading it, and as I was getting into the first chapter I couldn’t help think of the ‘Legend of Zelda’ a little bit, and that’s just the thought that came to me, and I don’t know why…
[All laugh]
Terrance: …You know – that’s…
Greyson: Yeah, because of the big tree.
Andy: The big tree.
Eric: So, what race and do you experiment with different species of people and characters in your story?
Alex: Oh absolutely. I was telling someone a while back. This has traditional fantasy elements, but I do create entirely new creatures. I made it law when I started writing, no elves, no dwarves, no dw – dragons…
Greyson: No dwagons?
Eric: No dwagons?
Terrance: No dwagons?
Alex: … and I just started inventing entirely new creatures.
Eric: Well – you know – that’s fascinating to me because if you set your story in the forest – you know – you’re going to have tree elves, and dwarves and – you know – the standard Lord of the Rings-esque, Middle Earthean creatures if you’re – you know – traditional – yeah, traditional – more traditional, and it’s refreshing to see characters in that setting that aren’t the standard breeds.
Alex: Right, well…
Andy: I agree.
Alex: …That’s the thing. Anybody can take something somebody’s already written about. Anybody can pick up a pencil and write about elves or dwarves, but that would just be copying, and I don’t want to copy. I don’t want to be the next J.K. Rowling. I don’t. I don’t want to be the next C.S. Lewis. I want to be me.
Terrance: And Alex has created an entire language, a spoken language with – you know – these Asjorians, and – you know – I think it’s quite fascinating how he did that. So one you have the chance to…
Greyson: Like Elvis.
Alex: It’s not just – it looks like it’s just gibberish, but its not, but it is very difficult to pronounce, so don’t ask me. [laughs]
Eric: I was going to ask you how to pronounce…
Andy: How do you say ‘Hi’?
Alex: That is a good question.
Eric: …’My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.’?
Alex: Like you just said it.
[Eric laughs]
Andy: So if I’m greeting someone in Asjoria, I will say ‘That is a good question. Like, that will be my greeting.
[All laugh]
Eric: That is a good question. Hello to you, sir.
[Andy and Eric laugh]
Terrance: But for those of us that did read – did you guys have any kind of feedback for Alex? Maybe about the first couple of chapters or so in the book.
Eric: Is this book available anywhere?
Alex: Why yes, Eric, they are. They are available on the website Asjoria.com. W-W-W dot A-S-J-O-R-I-A.com. You can buy them in paperback. They are for real published books.
Eric: Woah!
Alex: Right now, only Book 1 is available. Book 2 will be released on October 20th, and 3 and 4, sometime in November. They’re all written, they just need to be copyrighted.
Andy: I’ve been dying to ask you. How did you come up with the title?
Alex: Well, the original assignment was about a house-elf named Twinkie, so it used to be called Twinkie, Twinkie Little Elf, and that is copyright infringement and kind of stupid.
[Eric and Terrance laughs]
Alex: So…
Greyson: Kind of stupid?
Alex: Well, the title is stupid not copyright infringement. It’s very serious.
Greyson: Yeah. No. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. [laughs]
Alex: But anyway, Andy, once I knew that it was about the place called Asjoria and once I also knew that it was no longer in existance, then it just became obvious: The Legend of Asjoria. That’s the first book.
Terrance: So, you can reach Alex’s website through Asjoria.com or you can go to hogwartsradio.com. We actually have a banner on the left hand side that links to his site, so go ahead, click that. Check it out. All books – I’m sorry – all the books will be for sale on there, but like he said, only Book 1 is now. The others are coming very very soon.
Andy: What are your goals with your book series? Long term? Short term?
Alex: More than anything else, I want people to enjoy the people and the places that I have come to ejoy over the last four years. I don’t think of my “characters” as ficticious anymore. They’re my friends. I want people all over our world to be able to enjoy my friends.
Andy: That’s awesome, and you are self published at this point?
Alex: I am.
Andy: And you are hoping…
Alex: So far I am doing everything. I wrote them. I designed the covers. I found the self publisher and keep moving forward.
Andy: So then – so then – you want a major publishing company to support your…
Alex: So that again. You broke up a little bit.
Andy: You will hope to get a major publishing company to support and distribute your work?
Alex: Absolutely. Very much so.
Greyson: Very intelligently written, just so you guys know.
Andy: Like I said, they – his vocabulary in the novel is pretty – is pretty wide. Some of the words you might need to look up. I had – actually had – found myself looking up words a couple times. I’m like “Woah what’s that mean?” I looked it up. It’s a good tool if you want to learn some new words!
Alex: Actually Greyson, I’m glad you said that they’re not for certain audiences. There is a scene in book one, it’s not vulgar or anything, but it’s border-line scary. Little kids don’t need to be reading it, it’s towards the end of book one. That is my disclaimer.
Terrance: I thought it was at the beginning?
Alex: There’s no curse words, it’s not anything vulgar or sexual. Well, yeah there’s genocide, but aside from that…
Eric: Genocide, it’s such a childish concept these days! I mean, what child’s book isn’t genocide in?
Andy: Hansel and Gretel…
Eric: That’s even worse. That’s like cannibalism and….
[Andy laughs]
Alex: That is cannibalism, actually.
Eric: Yeah!
Alex: But anyway, that is my disclaimer. And it’s only in book one that such a situation needs a disclaimer.
Andy: So do you think that if your books were published widely that people would be banning them, like Laura Mallory?
Alex: You know what? I hope so. I hope so.
Greyson: Any publicity is good publicity.
Alex: Yes, exactly.
Terrance: Awesome, awesome.
Eric: This is so cool. I’m on Asjoria.com right now looking around, and I see the countdown timer on the main page, that’s all really cool. And, oh I wanted to ask Alex. Are you participating, or have you ever participated in NaNoWriMo?
Alex: No, I have not. I was going to one year but I had absolutely no ideas so I didn’t.
Eric: Okay. Cool.
Alex: But I’m hoping to!
Eric: Yeah. Me too. I think I’m going to join this year. I haven’t signed up yet, but…
Alex: Actually I believe Andy is participating in that.
Andy: I am. And if you don’t know what that is you can google that and do it, because it’s an awesome program.
Greyson: How do you spell that? Time to google it.
Eric: National Novel Writing Month.
Alex: National Novel Writing Month. It’s NaNoWriMo.
Andy: Yes.
Alex: Which also sounds like a Pokemon. NaNoWriMo, go!
Eric: Yeah! Like Nidorino.
Alex: Yes, exactly!
Greyson: Good to know. That’s cool.
Andy: So you need to write a 500 page novel and people help you and stuff. It’s pretty cool. So yeah. Anyway, that kind of wraps up that part of the discussion, so Terrance?
Terrance: Alright. So does anybody have any thoughts at all? For…
Alex: To learn more about Alex or Asjoria, visit the website at Asjoria.com!
Andy: Oh my God. That sounded like…
Greyson: Rob Schneider!
[Alex laughs]
Terrance: So that wraps up the common room segment…
Show End and Contact Information
Terrance: …And it does wrap up our show this week. We are finally getting this episode out everybody! Oh my God, that’s very exciting. [Laughs] And we are…
Greyson: Yes!
Terrance: …just to let everyone else know out there that we are continuing weekly episodes from this point forward. We just needed to take – sort of a little break – and get everything back together. But for Episode Eleven, next week it – and – if you…[Outro music plays]
Eric: Hey guys, I have a question for you in closing here. I had a friend e-mail in and they wanted to know where they can e-mail into.
Alex: Well Eric, if somebody wanted to e-mail Hogwarts Radio, send an e-mail to anyone of our first names at hogwartsradio.com or staff at hogwartsradio.com. It’s that easy!
Andy: Wow.
Eric: Do you guys have like a phone number or anything? Is it…
Alex: We do! We have the Hogwarts Radio Talk-back Line. It is 1-210-807-4088.
Eric: And, I have got to tell you, I’m on Twitter. I like Twitter a lot, following tweets, tweeting and Twittering. Do you guys have a Twitter where I can stalk you?Alex: To get the latest information on Hogwarts Radio, or just to stalk you can visit twitter.com/hogwartsradio.
Eric: Is there a Facebook group?
Alex: There is a Facebook group, and there is a Myspace group. Simply go to those respective websites and search the name Hogwarts Radio.
Eric: If I google Hogwarts Radio, is it going to come up with the right stuff?
Terrance: No, because we’re the new kids on the block.
Andy: Yes. Yes it will.
Greyson: It comes up with the right stuff.
Eric: And Terrance, how was the New Kids on the Block concert?
Terrance: Well if you can’t tell my voice, I’m feeling a little….I was screaming. Yeah. It was pretty awesome. I didn’t expect too much out of it, but it was really awesome. So remember to dig the show at dig.com, we also have the last.fm, and vote for us on Podcast Alley. So that does wrap up today’s show. For Hogwarts Radio, Episode Number Ten, I’m Terrance.
Andy: I’m Jason Issacs.
Greyson: [Laughs] I’m Greyson Smith.
Alex: And, I’m Alex Bourque.
Eric: And, following Alexander Bourque, is an unpublished author person – someone who has never been published, Eric. That’s me.
Terrance: Alright. You guys have a great week, and we’ll see you next week for Episode Number Eleven.
[Outro music continues and ends]
