Episode 13: The One With DJ Skippy T
Introduction
Terrance: Hey everybody, Terrance here. I just wanted to go ahead and give you guys a quick P.S.A. before we listen to this week’s show. We had a fair bit of audio difficulties with this show, but we really wanted to get it out to you guys. So there is a lot of skipping in it and we do apologize for – you know – for that happening but, we just wanted to make sure we could go ahead and get this out to you guys, so if you have any issues or – you know – want to go ahead and contact me directly, go ahead and send me an email at Terrance@hogwartsradio.com, and I’ll go ahead and address your concerns accordingly. Thanks. Have a great week.
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 crank 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 13 for November 17, 2008.
[Introduction music plays]
Terrance: Okay, so, guess what I did this week. I – well not this week, actually today – I applied for a production assistant job with WB in Burbank, California, so cross your fingers. Cross your toes…
Alex: You know that’s not in Texas, right?
Terrance: It’s not?
Alex: No.
Terrance: Oh.
Alex: That would – it’s going to be a really long commute, just so you know.
Jackie: Yeah. It’s going to be a big deal.
Terrance: That’s okay because I’m going to drive my car each day not to and from – you know – I’m going to have a place there, and then I am going to come back home.
Jeremy: At least gas prices aren’t crappy again.
Jackie: Look at you.
Alex: Yeah.
Jackie: Look at you, going to have two houses in the upward states. That’s awesome.
Terrance: No, I’m not going to have two houses. I don’t even live in a house now, I live in an appartment. Really expensive appartment.
Jackie: Hm, well.
Terrance: It’s to much for…
Jackie: Well, then I am very confused. How are you going to like, drive there? Isn’t that going to take a really long time?
Terrance: I’ll bring plenty of snacks and stuff like that. I don’t know, and it seems like I’m trying to hard but, hey, that’s okay but, yeah. Cross your toes, your wands, whatever you want to cross we are…
Alex: Your eyes.
Terrance: Your eyes, not your eyes.
Jackie: Your eyes.
Terrance: Not your eyes, they’ll stay like that, but we have a really exciting show lined up for you guys this week, so let’s go ahead and ger right to it. I’m Terrance.
Jackie: I’m Jackie.
Alex: I’m Alex.
Jeremy: I’m Jeremy.
Travis: And I’m Travis.
Terrance: Okay, so do you guys realize well – I guess Jeremy and Travis may not realize – but first of all let me introduce. We have Jeremy back on the panel today along with Travis Prinzi from the hogshead.com, and it’s great to have you guys on the show. Thanks for joining us this evening.
Travis: The hogshead.org. Just to…
Terrance: Oh, sorry. I’m – hogshead.org.
Travis: It’s okay.
Jackie: Go back.
[All laughs]
Terrance: So, the hogshead.org.
[All laughs]
Terrance: And you are going to see the link in the show notes so don’t worry about that, so anyway it’s great to have you guys on the show, and thank you for joining us.
Travis: Yes, thank you.
Jackie: Woo, yay!
Terrance: So, of course we told you a little bit about Jeremy, works at HPANA but, this week let’s get to know about our guest host, Travis. Travis Prinzi, he actually, the first time I saw him was at Portus. He was on the panel up there at the Podcast Palooza, a lot to listen to, but Travis runs the – what is it you call it a Pubcast? Is that – is that correct?
Travis: Yes, the Hogshead’s Pubcast. Based on the Hogshead.org which is a blog that’s been there for a couple of years, so I started the Pubcast as well.
Terrance: Awesome.
Jackie: Oh, sounds awesome.
Terrance: So what is the, what is the show mainly about?
Travis: It’s just me talking and I tend to have a subject I want to explore and then I tend to hit record on Garage Band software and then I talk until I’m done, and then I hit stop. So, if you are interested in things I have to say then you will probably be interested, I guess.
[All laugh}
Jackie: Sounds Awesome.
Travis: It's mainly because I'm kind of a geek. I'm a literary sort of geek - some, yeah I'm looking at the literary elements of the stories and it's not quite as fandomish, I guess you could say, as some of the other podcasts are. It tends to be more of an academic focus sort of thing, but some people like that.
Terrance: That's awesome.
Jackie: That's cool.
Alex: You say your a geek as if you think all the rest of us are normal. [laughs]
Travis: Good point.
[All laugh]
Jackie: Yeah, seriously.
Terrance: So, Travis you’ve also come out with a book, is that correct? Harry Potter and Imagination.
Travis: Harry Potter and Imagination subtitled Between Two Worlds. It’s available for pre-order right now, at hogshead.org. There’s a big picture in the side bar, and you can click that, and that will get you to the pre-order, and if you buy it, I’ll be able to eat so that would be really great.
Terrance: Wow.
Jackie: Aww.
Terrance: Aw.
Alex: No pressure guys.
Jackie: Aww!
Alex: Do it. Go to hogshead.org!
Terrance: So again…
Jackie: We know when you don’t…
Terrance: …thanks for being on. It’s going to be a great show today, lets go ahead and get right to it.
News: Trailer Discussion
Terrance: The big news. It seems like we’re doing one of these every other episode we’re talking about a trailer. And…
Alex: That’s because we are.
Terrance: I know. I know because the episode before last we were talking about the leaked trailer. Now we’re talking about the official theatrical trailer that WB released in many many many different formants, and if you haven’t seen the trailer yet, stop this show and go watch it on hogwartsradio.comE. Or thehogshead.org. I noticed it was up there as well. But…
Jeremy: Or HPANA.
Terrance: Or HPANA, that’s right. But this trailer – oh my God. It was so…
Jackie: Oh my God.
Terrance: It was so intense, so powerful…
Jackie: It was amazing!
Terrance: It was like…
Travis: It looks like it’s from a finished film, actually, unlike the others.
Terrance: Yes, it really does. There’s just so much to say about it, I don’t even know where to start! I mean, you can start with – you know – initial reactions, you can start at the bridge, you can start at the – you know – the overall theme. There’s just so much to talk about with this. So – let’s go ahead and – you know – take a deep breath.
[Alex laughs]
Terrance: Okay. We’re good. Let’s go ahead and go around the table here, and start out with some initial reactions. I’ll go ahead and start this out. What I originally thought was “WOW. Oh my God they got it right. They finally got it right.” The tone – it was so much deeper, so much darker. It was really – like WB had outdone themselves. That’s what I thought. And, I was at work and I couldn’t see it so I logged out of my system that I had and I pulled it up through the internet, and none of the players would play it so I ended up watching it the first time on the phone – on my phone that I have. [laughs] I have a phone!
[Alex laughs]
Terrance: I ended up watching it on my phone, and I just thought “wow”. I went my car, I had my laptop in there, I connected to the internet, and I watched it and I was even more blown away every time I watch it. It’s just – there’s no words – it’s “wow”.
Jackie: I loved this trailer. I thought it was so amazing, and I also think that the – that the corny line from the last trailer does kind of work here. The one that was like…
Terrance: See I told you.
Jackie: It kind of worked here. But it’s still really cheesy, not going to lie.
Alex: Well, in the last trailer it was just thrown in there.
Jackie: It was so weird, and just – I did not like it at all, but in this one it was actually okay. And my friend Shannon would like me to mention that she hated Dumbledore’s hair, and she thinks that he could use a little more volumizer.
[Terrance laughs]
Jackie: Other than that, fantastic trailer. I loved it!
Jeremy: I think WB listened to Hogwarts Radio twelve, and they heard that pretty much the majority liked that scene and they put it in the next one.
Jackie: I was not a fan.
Terrance: I thought it was good! I told you guys.
Travis: I was going to say that – yeah, the other trailer was good, but once you got to the end I think you got better appreciation for the comedic timing of it all. This trailer it was set in the middle and it was kind of in line with some other funny things that were going on, so yeah. It’s a very funny scene along with the other very funny scenes, and I think that David Yates in particular is good – if you look at Order of the Phoenix he’s good at getting the actor, especially the younger ones, to be better with their comedic timing and drawing a lot of really funny scenes between the three of them, so I thought that was very well done.
Terrance: Yeah, I agree with you on that. It seemed like it was – they focused on the funny at the beginning to get your attention, and then they just pile drive you into the seriousness and the darkness that is towards the end of it and the intenseness of it.
Travis: Which is Half-Blood Prince. With Half-Blood Prince you know there is going to be dark stuff going on behind the scenes, but most of it is just kind of funny, and then at the end it gets really dark. And so it looks like Yates got the feel of the book very well, if the trailer is any indication.
Jeremy: We finally got – actually got a look at Half-Blood Prince.
Travis: Yes. Yes we did.
Jeremy: After all this time.
Terrance: Are you talking about – we finally got a look at Snape? Or we finally got a look at…
Jeremy: Yes.
Terrance: Okay.
Jeremy: We finally got a look at Snape, and…
Alex: Because he wasnt in the teaser trailer at all, the teaser one with the kid Tom Riddle, and in the last one you saw a second of him walking down a hall.
Travis: Yeah and hes finally in action and I think in the screen cap there was a little glimpse of what might have been the curse that finished off Dumbledore, but Im not sure about that. It might have just been the way they mashed the scenes together, but I was very excited by that.
Alex: I think out of all three trailers that weve seen so far this one seems the most balanced, if you know what I mean.
Alex: Yeah, it is. The first one it was all dark. You had Tom Riddle, snakes come and talk to me, and the next one was dark and it had the funny scene tacked on to the end
[Jackie laughs]
Alex: Like it was just there for a cheap laugh, but this one, it was dark and then it was laughter then it was dark and then it was laughter. It felt a lot more balanced. You know?
Jackie: Yeah, I agree. Thats a very good assessment, Mr. Bourque.
Terrance: Thats a good way Its a better way to end it on. Im a fan of the But I am the chosen one scene. I really liked that. I thought It was witty, I thought it was crafty, but I like the placement of it in this trailer better than in the other one. I love the scene, but the placement was so much better in this trailer, it got the funny out of the way, you have Ron at the beginning and then you had, who else?
Jeremy: Ron was funny in this one.
Travis: That scene was perfect.
Jackie: I love the Ron scene.
Alex: Im in love with her. Okay fine, youre in love with her. Have you even met her? No. Can you introduce us?
[Everyone laughs]
Jackie: The Ron scenes are some of the best. I really like those and I cant wait to see those in the movie theater. Oh my God theyre going to be great.
Terrance: What stood out the most, for you guys, in this trailer? For me it was Diagon Alley and the music as it was crescendoing and everything was coming through, windows were shattering. It actually was blowing up and it was like oh my God. I got a lump in my throat with that one. I mean I was like Oh wow, its starting to become real. Its starting to become serious.
Jackie: Sirius Black. Sorry.
[Jackie and Terrence laugh]
Jeremy: We were all thinking it.
Jackie: I know, but I was the only one who came out and said it, but same here when the music started going I covered my mouth with my hand and I gasped something awful and I was like oh my God! it was amazing. I really do like this trailer a lot better than the other ones.
Jeremy: You what I find really cool? I really like the way they did the dark mark. I know its completely different than what was shown in the books and it wasnt green or anything, but I thought it was a lot more scary.
Terrance: Yeah, it was
Jackie: Wasnt it supposed to be Wait, back up. Theyre green in the book right?
Terrance: Yes.
Jackie: Yeah, okay sorry. Continue.
Terrance: It was a lot better made. I guess the CGI has gotten a better since Goblet of Fire. I like the one in Goblet of Fire, but I really like this one. How it just comes out of the what is that? Smoke or clouds? It seems like its just a dark cloud.
Alex: It seems like clouds.
Terrance: Yeah.
Jeremy: Clouds, yeah.
Terrance: I really like how that came out. It seemed a lot more Wahhh! I was like woah.
[Jackie and Jeremy laugh]
Jeremy: It completely strays from what the book does, but I actually kind of like that the snake tongue wasnt there because it just felt a little cheesy.
Terrance: Yeah.
Jeremy: I mean everyone identified with the big giant skull in the sky, but when the snake comes out its like what?
Terrance: Yeah
Travis: Sorry, I just found a screenshot of Snape casting the green spell. That is pretty cool, sorry.
Jackie: Its got to be the killing curse.
Jeremy: Yeah, youre right it is.
Travis: Here, Ill give you all the link.
Terrance: Can you see in the back, I havent looked at it yet, but can you see anything resembling the astronomy tower?
Jeremy: Lets see. Its all green and I dont know. You cant really make out what it is.
Terrance: Yeah, Its kind of blurry, unless thats just me.
Terrance:You might want to just cut this out.
Terrance: Okay, so lets go bit-by-bit with the whole beginning part. I liked how Dumbledore said I supposed youd like to know what were doing here this evening. And Harry is like You know sir, after all these years I just thought it better just to go with it.
Jackie: Just to go with it.
[Terrence laughs]
Terrance: You know I…
Jackie: That was funny.
Terrance: That was funny, but I dont see Harry actually doing that. Its kind of like a smart mouth, you know?
Jackie: Yeah.
Travis: I think they had to go there because Gambon is not just an awe-inspiring version of Dumbledore. Hes not one that anyone tends to revere in the way that maybe the Harris Dumbledore was or at least the Dumbledore in the books and so I think that they are going to have to create a more playful relationship between the two than we would have expected because of the way that Gambon does Dumbledore. So I actually think that it was a good idea to do that.
Alex: Right.
Terrance: Yeah.
Alex: It perfectly fits something that Harry would say to Dumbledore, but I don’t really feel like it’s something movie Harry would say to Dumbledore – you know – ever.
Jeremy: True, very true.
Jackie: Yeah.
Terrance: If – you know – and I don’t want to talk about to – Dumbledore too much, but if Richard Harris were in the role now could you see him pulling this off?
Alex: No, I don’t think so.
Travis: He’d be like ninety.
[Terrance and Travis laugh]
Jeremy: Yeah, obviously if you’re going to say yes he’d actually be in his seventies, and I think he would have done a fine job with it. He’s a really flexible actor. He’s a really good one, so I think he could have pulled this off.
Terrance: I kept thinking about him in Gladiator whenever that question was – you know – running through my mind today, and I really like him as – was it Marcus Aurelius, I think it was? I don’t know, but…
Jeremy: I think that’s right.
Terrance: …Moving back to the scene that where – you know – where they pull out that Slughorn’s. Right before that, you can see – oh, I’m sorry. Right after that, he says grab my arm and you can see Dumbledore’s hand. His hand looks like it was a wax hand…
Jeremy: A little wax, yeah.
Terrance: …And they had took a little sunlamp to it – yeah – like a sunlamp to it and made it look all wrinkly and stuff like that. I didn’t expect that. I expected his hand to be skeletal like and I expected his hand to be black and – you know – visibly beat up and bruised and stuff like that. But…
Travis: Well, that is not – sorry. In the first trailer we see him move away the – in the cave he moves the – you know – he kind of collapses the wall in the cave. In that shot it’s all black and messed up, so I’m thinking the way they did it is they have his accident happen after Slughorn’s house.
Terrance: I don’t know…
Alex: I can see that.
Terrance: We were talking about that last whenever the last trailer came out and it looked as though – you know – you could see his hand, but it was – like – it was dirty. It was dipped in soot or – you know – it was coal was rubbed on it or something. And I don’t know, technically it’s supposed to take place in between – you know – in that summer between Order of the Phoenix and Half-Blood Prince, and because it’s clearly visible whenever Dumbledore picks up Harry at the Dursleys. So…
Jeremy: Yeah, it doesn’t have it.
Terrance: Where was I going – why was I going with that, Jesus.
Alex: I think what you’re trying to say is that WB isn’t really putting that much emphasis on the hand in every single scene. Like maybe there’s a scene where Harry asks “Oh, professor what happened to your hand?” and Dumbledore says ” Well it’s a thrilling tale.” But I think that’s really the only time that we’re going to see that it’s been messed up because…
[Terrance laughs]
Alex: …It’s not that important yet. Not yet, because you don’t know about the Horcrux yet.
Terrance: Can you imagine asking him – I can see a parody to this: “Oh, professor what’s the matter with your hand?” ” Oh, don’t worry about that Harry, you’ll find out in the next movie.” I just – sorry, it’s the way that I think. It’s just kind of messed up. But getting back to after that, it cuts to the Astronomy Tower real quick for maybe a split of a second whenever Harry and Dumbledore apparate back to Hogwarts. And I thought that was really cool because if you pause that you can see Harry supporting Dumbledore, and clearly Dumbledore is shaken up. You know – of course from drinking the potion and everything like that, so…
Alex: Except for the fact that that’s Dumbledore’s office.
Terrance: Are you serious?
Alex: That’s Dumbledore’s office, that’s the second level with the big spinning metal – you know.
Terrance: Dude, I thought…
Alex: On, the Chamber of Secrets DVD it shows you all about Dumbledore’s office on the Special Features; that’s up on the second level.
Terrance: I thought that was the – wait!
Alex: No, because if it’s the Astronomy Tower you figure you’d be able to see the stars outside.
Terrance: That’s not a window or anything? I’m positive…
Alex: Are you talking about the scene where you see Harry and Dumbledore land or the scene immediately after that where you’re looking at the castle in the sky?
Terrance: Right before that. Where you see them land.
Alex: Where they land; that’s Dumbledore’s office.
Travis: Hey guys, take a look at the link I sent you it has a really good shot of the Inferi and they’re freaky as heck.
Jackie: Oh my god, they are so [breaks up]. Look at Dumbledore’s…
Travis: They’re spinal.
Jackie: …It’s gross. Like – oh my god, it’s so weird so how there’s one – okay.
Alex: They’re coming for you , Jackie.
Jackie: They’re all – like – skin and just bone and like a human-er version of Gollum.
Terrance: Next, we’re looking at the island in the cave that Dumbledore and Harry are on, and Harry is actually fending off the Inferi, which look creepy. I mean they have – they look like the Olsen twins skinnier, though. I mean…
[All laugh]
Terrance: Dumbledore looks like he’s just…
Jackie: That’s terrible.
Terrance: …Dumbledore looks like he’s just sitting and chilling – you know…
Jeremy: [laughs]
Terrance: …Like he’s laid back taking a nap.
Alex: He actually really should not be sitting in that position.
Terrance: Yeah, ever.
Jackie: Actually, yeah that looks really awkward if you’re wearing a robe [laughs].
Terrance: What are those? Are those crystals?
Jackie: I have no idea!
Alex: Guys I said this like, a billion years ago! It’s crystals. Like crystals grow in geometric patterns. It’s not ice.
Jackie: Oh, well. Excuse us Alex.
Jeremy: Jeez.
Alex: I apologise for my sarcasm.
Terrance: Geologist? But we can clearly see…
Jackie: Jeez!
Terrance: …if you freeze the frame you can clearly see the basin up there on the upper left-hand corner that Dumbledore drank the potion out of and that the locket was in. And I think that this scene is going to look really, really, really awesome. It’s exciting to see that this is starting to progress into more of a – I don’t want to say not a children’s movie but look at these creatures! I mean they’re just…
Jackie: They’re terrifying! Imagine if a dad brought his seven year-old to go see that. That would give me nightmares. I’m pretty sure it’s going to give me nightmares now.
Terrance: Really?
Travis: Gollum and I Am Legend combined.
Jackie: They are really scary.
Terrance: [laughs] Combined with the Olsen Twins, right?
[Jackie, Jeremy and Travis laugh]
Jeremy: Hermione…
[Jeremy and Terrance laugh]
Terrance: So, okay, let’s go ahead and get back on track with the – the next scene is Professor Slughorn. We finally get to see a little bit more of him and I’m pretty excited. He looks – he looks like he can pull it off. I’m sure – I mean I’ve seen movies with Jim Broadbent. He’s great, he’s a great actor – but I really like – you know, I just really like him as an actor and I think he’s good.
Jeremy: Jim Broadbent is an Oscar winner! So he can definitely act and – he’s the one I think. You know – he’s definitely an established actor. I mean, all of the adult actors in Harry Potter are really great but I am totally – I am totally relishing his casting right now.
Travis: I hope we see a good Professor Slughorn because really, Half Blood Prince is our only shot at Slughorn. You know, we all got to the end of Half-Blood Prince, waiting for Deathly Hallows and thinking that Slughorn’s going to continue to be an important character abd he doesn’t show up again until the end of Deathly Hallows. So, I think he’s going to do a nice job and you really hope he does because this really is your one shot at getting Slughorn right.
Jeremy: Yeah. And he’s not the kind of actor – no, I don’t think he’s the kind of actor who will do a movie with one line in it. And you’ll see how much they’re not going to – they’re definitely going to add lines for him, just because he’s a famous actor you know you can do that with. So I kind of see him pulling an Emma Thompson and not coming back for Deathly Hallows.
Alex: A lot of these famous actors really, really don’t seem like the type of people to do it out of just being able to have a line, you know?
Jeremy: Yeah.
Alex: Like, just for the sake of continuity. I really don’t see that happening.
Travis: Not at all.
Terrance: The next two small shots really surprised me. We see Slughorn holding the – what is it? I can’t even pronounce it. I can’t pronounce half of the things in this book. But Felix Felicis…
Alex: It makes you think it’s Felix Felicis but…
Terrance: Yeah.
Alex: …he’s talking about a Love Potion so it might be Amortentia.
Jackie: Yeah. That was the other thing I was thinking, Amortentia. Yeah.
Travis: That was the impression I had too, yeah.
Terrance: I was thinking about that…
Alex: It’s clear. It’s clear, isn’t it?
Terrance: I was thinking about that but the way that the vial I guess, was described in the book, that’s – I mean – and Slughorn holding that up. I mean, that’s why I thought it was that, so. But immediately following that is probably one of my favorite scenes of the trailer: you actually get a shot of [laughs] who is that? Parvati, Dean, Hermione, Neville, Ron, Lavender, Cho…
[Alex laughs]
Terrance: …and some other girl.
Alex: A random Hufflepuff. [laughs]
Terrance: But I thought that was – I mean – so we finally see Hermione’s bushy hair. And I was thinking about that and – you know – that everybody keep’s saying that, ‘Oh yeah, she finally has bushy hair!’ and stuff like that. No! Not really. I think it was just part of the little experiment gone wrong because you can see that this is right after Seamus exploded himself again…
[Jackie and Jeremy laugh]
Terrance: …Seamus always blows himself up. And it was nice to see that to see that come back into the movies. It was really – it was really nice to see that. But Hermione is not having a good hair day. But I don’t think it’s that! She just – you know – decided to mess her hair up or anything like that I thought it was…
Alex: Because look at other shots of her and – you know – her hair is just like as they were in all the past movies.
Terrance: Exactly! Exactly. And – dang! Dean got tall, didn’t he?
Jeremy: [laughs] He is…
Alex: He grew like a foot!
Terrance: And – oh – this is that scene that I was telling Alex about it earlier. I was watching Chamber of Secrets earlier today in my car. [laughs] And…
Alex: Driving down the road?
Terrance: Yeah. And I noticed that…
[Alex laughs]
Terrance: …this looks like it could be in the – the Slughorn’s office. And the reason why I say that is because the way that the arch is in the background and if you compare that to the scene in Snape’s office in second year that’s what it is unless they just decided to take that part of the set and you know make it into the classroom.
Jeremy: Well they – it’s the same set. It looks exactly the same. There are many things that change suddenly. Like really blue or really green lighting. In this one it’s gold.
Terrance: Next we jump to Ron. Actually after that we…
Travis: Seamus explodes himself.
Terrance: …Yeah blown himself up.
Jackie: Again.
Terrance: Again. Right after that we go to the toast between Harry and Ron and Slughorn, and Ron just falling backwards.
Jackie: Oh gosh I felt…
Travis: That’s when he gets poisoned.
Jackie: …yeah but I laughed. Not going to lie.
[all laugh]
Jackie: I thought it was really funny.
Terrance: That’s awful.
Jackie: Does that make me a bad person because I knew he was poisoned and I was laughing at it?
[Jackie laughs]
Travis: Just the way that he fell kind of looked a little…
Jackie: The way he fell was really funny.
Terrance: Yeah.
Travis: In the book it happened a lot slower didn’t it?
Alex: A couple of seconds. I mean he didn’t just hit the floor.
Terrance: Well I mean – I remember also that – you know – you’re reading it and – versus watching it. So I mean in the book it could be just you know an instant and as your mind scanning over the words while in the movie, boom! It’s happening now. So immediately following that scene we see the – we see Ron…
Alex: Sitting in the window.
Terrance: Yeah, exactly. Sitting in the window thinking about Romilda Vane and Harry walks in. [laughs] This is probably my favorite scene.
Travis: You can see cupcake wrappers on the floor.
Terrance: Yeah.
Travis: There’s like a dozen of them.
Alex: I didn’t notice them.
Jackie: That’s cool.
Travis: And they’re on the bed too on the right of the screen. Cupcake wrappers.
Terrance: And that little comedic moment there and then – hang on, I’m watching it. And then right after it we see the Hogwarts Express and the music starts to get deeper and the tone starts to change.
Jeremy: This is a good example of why I liked the trailer. Just how it seemed to have nice pacing. You know they used the train – they used the train as a kind of segue into the dark – you know – kind of more – you know the darker part of the trailer and movie and I really liked that. The other trailers seemed kind of hurriedly put together and not very well thought out or made.
Travis: They didn’t seem very thought out, no. And they didn’t feel finished even when they were.
Terrance: I agree with you Jeremy it was a nice transition into the – you know – darker stuff.
Jeremy: I think more than anything else what brings this trailer to life like the others didn’t is the music. The music finally feels – it feels like Harry Potter. It doesn’t feel like some random music you’re picking up from another movie. It feels like it’s done and it’s here for a specific purpose.
Terrance: What did you guys think of the scene where Harry actually goes into the pensieve and he – like everything’s all smokey. It reminded me of the scene with the Death Eaters in the fifth film but everything was starting to come in focus and into picture all smokey and…
Travis: I really liked that effect.
Terrance: Yeah.
Jeremy: You know my complaint was – is that it seemed almost exactly the same effect with the black smoke is the Death Eaters when they Apparate or Disapparate. You know what I mean?
Alex: It pretty much is the same effect.
Jeremy: Yeah and I don’t think that was purposely done or not but it looks cool but I’m not sure why they chose it to be the same effect twice.
Alex: I think that more than anything else the reason they’re doing that is because the memories where you see all the smoke are all about Voldemort and at the end of Order of the Phoenix where Voldemort appears in the Ministry he just comes out of the smoke, so I think they’re trying to tie in the parallel.
Jeremy: I think it’s nice yeah I didn’t even think about that.
Terrance: Did anybody else notice the A falling out of the orphanage?
Travis: I did.
Terrance: That was pretty funny.
Jackie: I really hope they kept him in that plum suit. I so can’t wait to go see it and I thought that was just the favourite – best part of the whole thing just because of the plum suit. When they go to the orphanage and it’s like the plum suit. I love it. I can’t…
[Jackie and Travis laugh]
Jeremy: Grey, isn’t it? It’s grey in the films, isn’t i?
Travis: I think he’s trying to…
Jackie: No gosh crush all my dreams.
Jeremy: Most of the kind of things reading the book thoroughly – you know – film makers reading the book thoroughly that can come in handy. You know – they seem to miss those kind of things in – definitely from the third film on.
Travis: Right, it’s just the little details that build up against it.
Jackie: The little things. Like the little things that that make me happy.
Travis: It’s not even really that big.
Terrance: You heard it here first fellows, the little things keep Jackie happy.
[Everyone laughs]
Terrance: Pause for editing. [clears throat] Pause for editing.
Jackie: I think we’re going to have to. I think we’re going to have to.
[Terrance laughs]
Terrance: So the scene immediatly after the orphanage we see the Slughorn memory and the Dumbledoere saying…
Jeremy: The false Slughorn memory.
Terrance: Right, the false Slughorn memory. And then Dumbledore going “But it’s a lie.” I thought it was really funny.
[Jackie laughs]
Terrance: I dont know, I see – And then again I see – I don’t want to come back to Dumbledore, but I am. I see him more assertive in this movie and you’re actually exposing the vulnerability of Dumbledore in this movie he’s not all powerful. He’s not all you know “SILENCE” and everything like that and everybody listens to him.
Jeremy: Well even in the books, in Half-Blood Prince, you begin to – Harry begins to know sense – you know – exactly how old he is. You know, just through his puntness through the ring, and you know eventually his downfall. I mean in the begining of the books and movies we could – we knew he was old but it never really brought to our attention and it never really affected how he acted in any way, and Half-Blood Prince was the begining of the end for Dumbledore, I think.
Travis: Right because there’s difference between being old and frail. And up until really, Half-Blood Prince, Dumbledore – he’s always been old but he didn’t really start to be frail and vulnerable until the very beginning of Half-Blood Prince.
Jeremy: It’s interesting though with all that frailty that Rowling describes him jumping into the water at the cave as man far younger than he actually is, so there is some energy there. Some of my favortie commentators speculate that he took Felix Felices before that trip. Gave him a little extra energy, a little extra luck. I don’t know, I haven’t really read the comments on that one. You still see some Dumbledore energy which at least is one of the things that happens to the picture.
Terrance: Well if he took the Felix Felices, it didn’t work out to good for him.
Jeremy: It didn’t work to well.
[all laugh]
Terrance: Because he ended up dying an hour later.
Jeremy: Or it wore off.
Terrance: Or it – That is true. Or it did wear off. So immediately after this scene, the “But it’s a lie your the chosen one Harry”, after that is the scene I like to call the controversial scene in the trailers so far. Well actually – yeah the trailers because it was in the last trailer and now its in this and it’s that little funny scene where Hermione says “Hey she’s only looking at you because your the chosen one.” and he’s like “I am the chosen one” all that other stuff, and she pops him upside the head. But I am beating a dead horse here, I love it. And I love it even more in this trailer than in the last trailer because it’s a great spot to put it in. So.
Jeremy: Go ahead.
Travis: Oh no I was just going to say that it feels a lot more well placed in this one.
Jeremy: Yeah it is well placed and it is also being well placed you can see that it’s well done. This is another thing that I think Yates is really good at, as a director. He has created excellent chemistry between the trio. Your real belief that when – in Order of the Phoenix when Harry is possesed by Voldemort and he’s trying to break out of it, the scene that finally gets him out of it – the memory that gets him out of it is that moment when he is sitting with Hermione and Ron after he kissed Cho, and that emotional teaspoon comment when they are all sitting there laughing. That’s the scene that really broke him out of it. We believe that as watchers because of the excellent chemistry that’s been built between the trio. And that’s what you see in that scene right there between Hermione and Harry. That’s why it worked, that’s why it was so funny.
Travis: I don’t think they were acting right then. I think they were just feeling what they were feeling and it was genuine.
Jackie: Yeah.
Jeremy: I could be wrong on this but I think that was, that was completely in the moment it wasn’t scripted.
Terrance: Exactly, yeah.
Jeremy: I remember somebody saying something about that. Yates chose the actual chemestry between the actors and not just the characters he makes, you know. And how they can interact with each other in such a way that it turns into a differnt part of the movie.
Travis: Right.
Terrance: I agree with you Jeremy. Completely unscripted. I thought they were like here’s your lines just do what you feel that you should do. Snap at him. Hit him upside the head. And…
Jeremy: I might be pushing ahead a little, but I think that this happens again in Half-Blood Prince with the Harry/Ginny kiss. And that, I remember a picture – there’s a still of David Yates and there’s a comment that along with it saying how he just lets them kind of go, just go with it, doesn’t really fully script it and what ever it caught, what ever scene they caught the best would go in the film.
Terrance: Wow.
Alex: You’re saying it was the actors chemistry that showed through in the Harry/Ginny kiss rather then them acting.
Jeremy: Yes. He kind of – I remember there was one of the first images we got was Yates talking to the two and he was kind of just telling them – you know – what he could see in the end so to let them going with it. You know – it’s just…
Alex: Those are always the best moments to watch when you just get so involved in how genuine everyboby’s been that you don’t even pause to think they’re acting.
Terrance: Exactly.
Jeremy: Yeah and personally I thought the Cho/Harry kiss is kind of forced…
Alex: It was.
Jeremy: …I – you know – I hope and pray it won’t be in Half-Blood Prince.
Terrance: You know honestly, and this is jumping ahead a little bit but we’ll come back to the other part later. I saw similiarities just in that little, I guess half a second clip between the Cho kiss and the Harry – Cho kiss and the Ginny kiss. Cho leaned – Ginny’s leaning in in this one, it looked like Cho’s leaning in in the, in the Order of the Phoenix, and Harry’s just standing there, and – you know – not doing anything with his hands or anything like that. So I mean…
Jackie: It’s supposed to look awesome.
Terrance: …I didn’t see that embrace, I just saw that as it’s just that you know awkward you know first kiss moment thing – you know.
Jackie: Their first kiss is supposed to be really awesome and passionate, but this does not look anything like that.
Jeremy: Yeah they both have their eyes closed.
Jackie: It’s just both times awkward.
Jeremy: Well, you know what, this could not be their first kiss ’cause this does not look like it’s in the Common Room at all.
Terrance: Yeah.
Alex: Yeah, that’s right.
Jeremy: It think, it’s in – I think even from the picture it’s in the Room of Requirement or something. Just from all the thin fabric behind it.
Terrance: I thought it was – I thought it looked a little like the Library maybe…
Jeremy: Yep.
Terrance: …That’s the way it struck me, maybe I didn’t look at it right but.
Jeremy: So maybe this isn’t even their first kiss. I mean, I’m not sure if it is or not. Too bad Eric isn’t here.
[laughs]
Alex: Eric would set us straight.
Terrance: Yeah.
Jeremy: Yeah, he would.
Terrance: But, let’s go back a little bit, let’s rewind just a little bit. The scene that stood out the most to me in this trailer, that really separated it from the rest and I thought it was from a trailer from another movie is whenever they are standing on that rock.
Alex: That is amazing.
Terrance: Oh my god, and the sea is twisting and turning all around them. It’s like Pirates of the Carribean meets Ten Commandments – you know – Moses parting the water and – you know – it was just…
Alex: And Alan Lee is the guy that did all the paintings and stuff fot the Lord of the Rings books. It looks so far from anything you would expect from a Harry Potter that it’s refreshing. I think this is the closest thing to a traditional quote on quote wizard that we’ve ever seen.
Terrance: Was it just me or did Dumbledore’s beard seem longer?
[Jackie laughs]
Alex: No.
Terrance: I don’t know.
Alex: It’s just you.
Terrance: It was just me. Okay.
Jackie: I think it’s just, yeah, you and your Dumbledore’s beard obsession and all.
Alex: He kind of looks like a grandad.
[Terrance laughs]
Jeremy: I seems to me more kempt…
Terrance: Yeah.
Jeremy: …and kind of more, it’s obviously combed and basically kempt. I don’t know.
Terrance: Yeah, you know…
Travis: It’s flecked with paint or something.
Terrance: …Yeah, it’s tied down with twisty ties and everything like that, so…
[All laugh]
Alex: A little over bearing.
[All laugh]
Terrance: That’s what I though, right.
[All laugh]
Terrance: Some hair ties. [laughs]
Terrance: But, immediately after that is, and I think this next scene is what everybody is looking forward to the most and that’s Quidditch. Well, they’re not looking forward to the most but you know.
Jeremy: Cricket?
Alex: Quidditch?
Jeremy: It’s back.
Terrance: It’s back, that’s right. Quidditch is back.
Alex: It’s back!
[All laugh]
Jeremy: And we see…
Alex: And this time it’s personal!
[All laugh]
Travis: They we have “Weasley is Our King” so we should see that song somewhere.
Jeremy: We see Ginny as this, you know, we see her flying, and they’ve forgot you know the names on the back of their robes. And yeah, it looks so much more intense than it was in the first few movies…
Terrance: Remember…
Jeremy: …I mean not that they weren’t great in their own rights but I mean it just seems more changed, I think…
Alex: Well check out the ones that are more fun and whimsical and look what we’ve invented, but in this one it’s like it’s on.
Jeremy: Yeah.
Terrance: Remember how a couple of episodes ago we were talking about how Slytherins travel in packs and everything. This is sort of reminiscent of that because you see the Gryffindors now travelling in a pack in that Quidditch scene and it looks pretty awesome. I was pleased with it.
Alex: It actually appeared to be more like the Bulgarians in Goblet of Fire.
Terrance: Yes! It does, doesn’t it?
Jeremy: It does, it looks really cool and it also shows how the team has grown. Actually never mind, cut that out.
Terrance: [laughs] After that – you know – we have a couple of scenes after that, but one of them that I really want to get to, and we need to start wrapping this up, is on top of the Astronomy Tower – and I hope it’s the Astronomy Tower this time, Alex. It’s Bellatrix – Bellatrix is casting a spell into the sky; can we assume it’s the Dark Mark?
Jeremy: Sure.
Alex: Yeah.
Alex: I mean – it’s kind of silvery…
Jackie: Well – I mean – what else would she be sending up there?
Jeremy: Yeah, it would be.
Travis:: Well, it’s interesting that she’s even there in the first place…
Terrance: Exactly.
Travis:: She wasn’t there…
Terrance: Yeah, she wasn’t there.
Travis:: She was, I’m assuming, quite in a lot of trouble with Voldemort at that point for screwing up the prophecy deal in Order of the Phoenix, so he kind of sent in a B team on that particular task, and Bellatrix is not one of them.
[Jackie laughs]
Terrance: Right, wasn’t it the Carrows – no Carrows…
Jeremy: Carrows.
Alex: Yeah, that was the Carrows…
Terrance: Oh, okay.
Travis:: And what’s the – I think – the blond-headed Death Eater? He’s referred to as – I think I saw…
Jeremy: The big blonde guy, right?
Travis:: Yeah, the big blonde – yeah.
Alex: Amycus?
Jeremy: No, that’s just – that’s Amycus Carrow though, too – though.
Alex: Is – is Amycus the same as the blonde one? I’m confused.
Travis:: I think Amycus is a Carrow.
Alex: No, he’s not the same as the blonde one because the big blonde one was at the attack at the diner in seven, and Amycus was a teacher at that point. Oh God, I’m just confusing the whole world.
Jeremy: Okay, the big blonde Death Eater’s Thorfin Rowle. He was cast by – oh, sorry – by the actor Rod Hunt; he’s a British actor and I’m looking at the report of it, and it said that he would be present on the Astronomy Tower the night Dumbledore died, so there we go.
Terrance: You know what really struck me, and we’re going to – I want to just graze over the Hermione crying. Yeah – what do you guys think she’s crying about?
Alex: I think she needs to eat more…
Terrance: She looking Inferi?
Alex: I’m sorry, I know that’s rude, but come on.
Terrance: Yeah.
Alex: She’s like a Inferi.
[Jackie and Terrance laugh]
Terrance: Oh man, that’s mean.
Jeremy: That’s really mean.
Terrance: But, what I want to cut to right now is Diagon Alley, and whenever I saw that explode I thought: Oh my God, all hell is breaking loose. It was – I mean – to see that in the first – what – two movies, and it’s all happy and cheery and colourful, and then you see it explode in Movie Six and you’re like: what the hell – you know?
Alex: There’s going to be nothing left by the time they get to Movie Eight.
Terrance: Right.
Travis:: What time is this? Is this right after Hermione crying?
Terrance: Yeah. Yeah, it’s all the way…
Travis:: And we know that’s Diagon Alley?
Terrance: Well, I assume it is.
Alex: I almost want to say it’s Ollivander’s because that would put it in line with Ollivander leaving, but I can’t really tell.
Travis:: What if it isn’t Diagon Alley, just out of curiosity?
Terrance: I think – okay, here’s what I think is happening and I think this is going to be the first set in the movie, and this is just my theory. We’ve got a lot of hints that the bridge scene is going to be the opening scene. Well, if you look at the, I guess the big black streaks that are going through the sky, and I think those come down into Diagon Alley and then start – you know – exploding in all the windows there and everything like that because if you remember reading Book Six, whenever they were initially going into Diagon Alley the windows and shops were boarded up and everything like that, so that’s why I think that this is Diagon Alley because obviously the windows were boarded up because the – you know – the glass has shattered and everything like that. The stores were pretty much all cleared.
Alex: I can see…
Jeremy: You know what…
Alex: …I downloaded the – sorry. But there’s Gingotts, if you go really slow, you can see kind of toward the left screen some crooked semi-columns. Gringotts has always been the left. When the building is blowing up Gringotts is right there on the left.
Travis:: That is cool. They brought back Gringotts that’s awesome.
[Jackie laughs]
Alex: There bringing Gringotts back!
Terrance: That really struck me, and I was really kind of – that’s where – that’s the part of the trailer where I got a lump in my throat. I’m like: wow, oh my God, this is starting to become real, so right after that we see Draco and he is – looks like he’s in a bathroom of some sort…
Jeremy: Could be right before that – oh, I know what it is. That’s right before Sectumsempra, right?
Alex: Is that a bathroom…
Terrance: That would be – yeah, that has to be.
Jeremy: The crying and then comes the Sectumsempra.
Terrance: Wow, you really think they’re going to keep that in? That’s going to be…
Alex: They did.
Terrance: Well, I mean…
Alex: Kristen said they did, didn’t they? Not to – Spoiler! Spoiler! Spoiler! But didn’t they?
Terrance: [laughs] After the fact.
Jackie: Too late.
[All laugh]
Alex: Spoilers.
Terrance: I don’t know. I mean – I couldn’t see them keeping this in and maintaining a PG-13 rating if they did it right.
Travis:: No, they…
Jackie: They said they did.
Travis:: …You see movies with a lot of blood and – I don’t know. There’s – I don’t see how they could not keep it in.
Jackie: That – oh my god, when he’s looking in the mirror, it’s like the best scene ever. He looks so like dramatic and he’s crying, and I can’t wait for that scene. It’s going to be great.
Jeremy: Tom Felton is an awesome actor, so it’ll be great.
Jackie: He is.
Alex: He is awesome.
Jackie: Oh my gosh. That is another favorite scene of mine. The bathroom scene with Moaning Myrtle and she’s like – ah, Moaning Myrtle better be there. Screaming like death in the bathroom.
Alex: She’s not.
Jackie: No!
Terrance: Wow, burst that bubble real fast. Wow.
Jackie: Another detail they couldn’t put in there!
Terrance: So, we’re moving forward from that. It’s just a bunch of different scenes all at one time all the way from Hermione saying, you need us Harry, and I think that’s at the very end. Whenever he is saying – you know – I can’t and I don’t want to hurt anybody else and stuff like that and she’s like, well, you need us Harry and all that other crap, but we get our first look at – what is it – Greyback, I think so. Am I right? No?
Jeremy: Yeah, we see him.
Alex: Well, he was up on the Astronomy Tower.
Terrance: Well – I mean – we see him better.
Jeremy: Yeah, we see a still of him and he looks mean and evil and yeah.
Alex: And he looks kind of wolfy.
[Jackie Laughs]
Jackie: Wolfy?
Terrance: And of course the – in no particular order am I going through this, I am skipping back and forth, but you see the Harry/Ginny kiss, of course and Bonnie Wright still looks – to me – the same to me as she did in Chamber of Secrets. Sorry, not to make Harry look like a pedophile or anything, but…
[Alex and Terrance laughs]
Terrance: …that’s just how I saw Bonnie Wright, so.
Alex: Looking now, there are a lot of similarities between this kiss and the Harry/Cho kiss.
Jeremy: Yeah.
Alex: The only difference is it’s Ginny instead of Cho.
Terrance: Exactly.
Alex: Harry seems so rigid right there.
Terrance: He is. I told you, he’s not doing anything with his hands. He’s supposed to embrace her, kiss her like a man!
Jeremy: And again, his eyes are closed.
[Terrance laughs]
Terrance: Like he’s scared.
Jeremy: Yeah.
Terrance: Okay. Of course, you see the main theme from last trailer. All the fire and everything around the – you know – the island and – you know – defending off the inferate and everything like that. Dumbledore was doing that and then in another scene that I really liked was whenever Harry was screaming, fight back you coward, and if you pause it as he’s – you know – you can see his facial expressions. I think he nailed it, I really do. I think he got what he was looking for – I mean – I think David Yates got what he was looking for and that’s – I mean – that’s pretty much it. You can see that his face is all twisted and, fight back you coward, and all that other crap. So – well, not crap, but you guys know what I mean.
Alex: Yeah.
Jackie: Yeah, he was freaking screaming, fight back you coward!
Terrance: Exactly.
Jeremy: Also, some…
Jackie: Good stuff.
Jeremy: …they just had to add some more fire with the Death Eaters putting fire to Hagrid’s hut and they had – you know – Bellatrix and Snape all together.
Alex: Does anyone else find it a little appalling that this is the third trailer and it is the first time seeing Snape in a movie titled after Snape?
Terrance: No, no, nope, not at all. Because, I feel that they don’t – they don’t want to give the storyline away.
Jeremy: They don’t want to put too much emphasis on it.
Terrance: Right, exactly. I mean – if they – if you think about it – if they showed too much Snape, people are going to start wondering, why is this all Snape? Why is this all Snape? Oh! Because the Half-Blood Prince.
Alex: But they’re not showing anything at all!
Terrance: Well, good. I mean – if you think about the other trailers, they don’t show him in the other trailer at all. I mean – not…
Alex: The other movies aren’t about Snape.
Terrance: I know, but they want to keep it conspicuous – you know?
Alex: [In Whisper] They want to lie!
Terrance: Yeah. I mean – let’s be honest, there are a lot of people who don’t read the books, who do go to see Harry Potter, unfortunately – you know – all these people who’ve got nothing better to do to go see this movie that everyone is going to – you know – that sort of thing.
Terrance: The last thing…
Travis: Yeah, you have a high end for those people, absolutely. It makes sense that they aren’t putting him on the trailer too much.
Alex: I still think it is funny that WB ask us to not mention that Sirius had died before the Order of the Pheonix movie came out. Seriously?
Terrance: The last scene I want to go ahead and – you know – bring to everyone’s attention today is the scene with the bridge.
Jeremy: Well, just, there’s two stills with the bridge. One of them is kind of a side view with all of the people – all the Death Eaters swarming around it and you can clearly see – you clearly see the bridge filled with pedestrians and then the second scene you see the bridge falling apart and I do not see a single person on it. I don’t know. Do you?
Alex: I don’t have a screen cap, but there is a guy running, on the very, very, far right of the screen in the bottom corner.
Jeremy: Okay, well, even so, there should be more than one person…
Alex: There should be, you’re right.
Jeremy: I don’t know.
Travis: Maybe that isn’t everything you seeing in the picture. Maybe there is more time between when it snaps, like we see there, maybe there is more time for people to realize what is going on and starts running.
Terrance: Do you think they just have people go jump of the bridge?
[Travis laughs]
Terrance: I’m just asking!
Jeremy: It doesn’t – it doesn’t look that high, honestly. It looks maybe a – because in this thing, you see the bridge kind of gear up when it’s breaking – when it’s breaking it speeds up. But it looks like maybe two storeys high. Maybe three, I don’t know.
Terrance: Yeah that’s true. If you look a the height of some of the buildings around it, you really…
Jeremy: Yeah, maybe three or four storeys high. Maybe they had parachutes or something.
[Alex laughs]
Terrance: I got a question…
Alex: Guys…
Terrance: …Is that a bird?
Alex: …Oh, go ahead.
Terrance: Is that a bird?
Alex: Where?
Terrance: Right underneath…
Jackie: Where?
Terrance: …Okay, look to the left of the – look to the left of the bridge and like and then straight down.
Jackie: No. I think that’s something falling…
Alex: In which shot?
Jackie: …Into the water.
Jeremy: Oh, that’s not a bird. That’s like foam or something.
Terrance: Oh, got it.
Jackie: Yeah, in the water.
Jeremy: Yeah.
Terrance: Okay. I was just wondering. I was like, ‘Wow! Bird’s flying underneath there! He’s screwed!’
Alex: Here’s a question: what do they do in – when they get to the seventh movie and it’s such a big deal – oh! Voldemort can fly! Yeah, well who can’t? I mean, people flying left and right in this movie, in Order of the Phoenix – it’s…
Travis: I think in Deathly Hallows everyone was shocked but plotwise it wasn’t really a big deal. I had the same thought when Order of the Phoenix came out and the Death Eaters are flying. I thought exactly how the Deathly Hallows battle – I hear what you’re saying there.
Jeremy and Terrance: Yeah.
Terrance: And moving – moving away from the bridge and the trailer itself, all the images and everything – whenever Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince comes and you hear that really bold and rich Hedwig’s Theme – totally win. I mean, whoever’s doing the music score – I don’t know – I don’t know, honestly, who it is – if anyone wants to let me know…
Alex: That is a full-on march!
Terrance: That is – I mean – that’s like, ‘Bom-bom-bom-BOM-ba-BOM-bom-BA-bom’ – Harry Potter style – you know? Like John Williams…
[Jackie laughs]
Jackie: I was just thinking that!
Alex: It’s in your ears, it’s in your face.
Terrance: Yes!
[Travis laughs]
Jackie: The Harry Potter imperial.
Terrance: And they wanted to throw that right at you – that last part to leave you to remember – remember.
Jeremy: Okay, the – the composer is the same guy who did Order of the Phoenix: Nicholas Hooper.
Alex: Hooper.
Terrance: Well, he got it right this time. I have to say that. He did awesome.
Travis: I actually think – I really liked the Order of the Phoenix soundtrack, I have to say.
Terrance: Yeah. I don’t know – maybe I’m just still used to that whole John Williams sound. And John Williams hasn’t been with us for – what? – two movies now. I mean – since Chamber of Secrets. But I don’t know. He…
Travis: Prisoner of Azkaban – he did the first three.
Terrance: So, any final thoughts? Anything else – regarding the trailer?
Alex: I’m glad it finally looks like it’s finally all coming together and with a bang too.
Terrance: What? This movie…
Jeremy: Also we didn’t mention this – is that this is the official theatrical trailer, it’s the big one – you know, it’s not like a little teaser. This is titled theatrical trailer.
Terrance: We can still – we can still expect international theatrical trailer, correct?
Alex: Well, is this the theatrical trailer? I’m not – usually there is a teaser and then two trailers and that’s it.
Jeremy: Yeah and tons of TV stuff. Yeah. They’re doing the exact opposite they did with – was it Order of the Phoenix? Where they – you know – we didn’t get anything for a long time. Or am I…
Alex: I think what happened is that with Order of the Phoenix we didn’t get anything for a long time and then it all came at once.
Jeremy: Yeah – and I remember a lot of people were questioning Warner Brothers’ part – and it looks like they’re doing the opposite- maybe because they had us ready before the – before they put it forward nine months. But, I don’t know.
Travis: But they did it up to November because November was when it was supposed to come out. They had to give us something.
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Terrance: So, that does wrap up our discussion today about the theatrical – the official released – theatrical trailer, which came out this week from WB. I’m getting kind of used to doing these – you know – once every episode – once every week or so trailer discussions, it’s kind of fun. How would somebody contact us?
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Jackie: Terrance! If you want to contact any one of us at Hogwarts Radio, simply open your nearest window and cast your post owl outside – please make sure there’s no screen on your window first and that your owl knows where it’s going. All parcel mail should be addressed to Hogwarts Radio, P.O. box 760035, San Antonio, Texas 78245-0035. If you don’t have a post owl you can always email any one of us at our first names at hogwartsradio.com. If you have a MySpace or Facebook simply search the name Hogwarts Radio or – you know – get our personal Facebooks. Feel free to follow us on Twitter, get the latest show news as it develops, that’s Hogwarts Radio’s Twitter! Also, it is a brand new month – it’s not a brand new month. Well, it kind of is. So, it’s the first week of November so vote for us on Podcast Alley, dig the show at digg.com and if you want to make new friends and talk about the show you can always check out our dead Hogwart Radio forums. If none of these outlets are exactly what you’re looking for or you want to hear Terrance’s voice, you can always call the Hogwarts Radio talkback line which is 1210 807 4088. House elves are standing by to take your call or… Terrance. We don’t care what method you use to contact us – just contact us. We can only make this show better by hearing what you have to say about it.
Terrance: And Jeremy and Travis – we very much thank you for being on the show today and for your time. Everybody remember check out Travis’s new book, Harry Potter and Imagination – you can purchase it on his website hogshead.org – go ahead and check it out. I’ll also leave a link in the show notes. So, that’s pretty much…
Jeremy: And HPANA!
Terrance: Right. And HPANA…
Jackie: Woo!
Terrance: That’ll do it for Hogwarts Radio lucky number thirteen! I’m Terrance.
Jackie: I’m Jackie.
Alex: I’m Alex.
Jeremy: I’m Jeremy.
Travis: I’m Travis.
Terrance: And have a great weekend. Bye!
Jackie: Bye guys!
Travis: Bye!
Jackie: See you next week! Woo!
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