Episode 42: Three Wishes From Jo

National Wear Your MuggleCast T-Shirt Day was a success! June 7th is part two, and coincidentally Eric’s graduation day We premiere Voice Rebuttals and go through our regular Listener Rebuttals Why is Dumbledore’s office password protected? In our latest Editorial segment, Laura and Micah talk to Robbie Fischer who runs The Book Trolley and The…

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Episode 41: Fat Lady, Watch Out!

Andrew apologizes for spoiling the OC Eric reveals what’s in this week’s PO Box (look out, Ben!) National Wear Your MuggleCast T-Shirt Day is THIS FRIDAY Listener Rebuttals cover our listener’s thoughts on translations, cursing, and Christianity It’s the one year anniversary of the MuggleCast idea being born For the first time ever, we tell…

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Episode 40: Hatin’ on Dumbledore

MuggleNet staffer Jess joins in the discussion! Pokeflutes wake Snorlax up; they don’t put them to sleep. DUH, Andrew. Laura provides a real-life example of the way people look at Lucius More parallels are drawn between real-world and wizarding-world governments Why is Lucius so hard on Draco? How much political influence does he have? Was…

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Episode 39: Fluffy and The Pokeflute

We discuss Jo’s upcoming trip to the USA Our new monthly Book 7 discussions commences Will Harry return to Godric’s Hollow? We wrap up our long-running discussion about Hogwarts’ staying open the seventh year. Ben uses a clever analogy to illustrate how the government’s reactions to the September 11th attacks are similar to Hogwarts’ reaction…

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Episode 38: A Very Moody Podcast

Andrew works with Congress and President Bush to bring you our next contest Character discussions are back! This week: Mad-Eye Moody What does the name Alastor mean? Where did Moody get his magical eye from? Why did imposter Moody suggest that Harry become an Auror? More Horcrux talk Chapter by Chapter: Chapter 12, “The Mirror…

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Episode 37: Eric Relieves Headaches

Chapter 11 of Sorcerer’s Stone: “Quidditch” Further proof of our house point discussion Do Filch’s actions in this chapter suggest he’s on the bad side? Keep Jordan under control Why did Quirrell use dark magic during the match? What other enchantments are on broomsticks? Hermione is ALWAYS right – except when she’s emotional Would Hermione…

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Episode 36: Gonna Die Anyways

Snape…good or evil? Could Snape be just working for himself? The debate over Malfoy knowing of Filch’s presence is finished Discussion on the delivery of the Nimbus 2000 Why doesn’t Oliver know what basketball is? What will Harry do after Hogwarts? We already know that Jo doesn’t enjoy writing about Quidditch, and now we find…

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Episode 35: Born With A Skill

The answer to converting Muggle money to Wizarding money The answer to why Quirrell had Voldemort on the back of his head Astronomy tower discussion More debate over the HP7 release date Chapter-by-Chapter discussion: Chapter 9 of Sorcerer’s Stone Ben looks like a swan? Harry the natural flyer What’s the deal with the school brooms?…

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Episode 34: The WOMBATs Attack

Katie Couric leaves NBC and Micah Tannenbaum stands in Micah gets upset over his score on the WOMBATs WOMBAT discussion OOTP release date is official…what does this mean for HP 7? Listener Rebuttals Our thoughts on Jim Dale versus Stephen Fry Grindelwald’s relation to Hitler and World War II Chapter 8 of Sorcerer’s Stone discussion…

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Episode 33: We Soothe Babies

The real MuggleNet Greg guest-hosts Listener Rebuttals Chapters 6 and 7 are discussed Why is the Killing Curse green? Why does Dumbledore want to be on the Chocolate Frogs? Is Grindelwald gone? And why doesn’t anyone talk about him? Scabbers wasn’t a real rat What if Harry had shaken Malfoy’s hand? Why did Hermione want…

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