Live New York City Podcast Transcript
Live New York City Podcast
Andrew: This is MuggleCast – Episode 15 for November 14, 2005. This LIVE show was sponsored in part by GoDaddy.com, your No. 1 source for all of your Internet needs. GoDaddy.com has new domain names, transfers, and renewals for as low as $1.99. Plus check out hosting plans, website builders, secure certificates and much more. Act now by entering the code “Muggle.” That’s M-U-G-G-L-E and you’ll save an extra 10% off any order. Now, here’s Micah with the start of the show.
(Crowd cheers)
Micah Tannenbaum (MT): How’s everyone doing tonight?
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MT: I’m Micah Tannenbaum from MuggleNet.com.
(Crowd cheers)
MT: Welcome to Barnes & Noble here in Union Square for our Live New York City podcast, joint podcast, with The Leaky Cauldron and MuggleNet.com. (Crowd cheers throughout speech)
Thank you guys alot for coming out tonight. We really appreciate it.
(Crowd cheers)
MT: And, so, I mean, are you guys ready to get it started?
(Crowd cheers)
MT: All right.
(Girl in crowd makes comment and crowd laughs)
MT: Here to introduce our cast is none other than Andrew Sims from MuggleNet’s MuggleCast and Melissa Anelli from The Leaky Cauldron’s PotterCast. (Audience cheers throughout speech)
(U2 begins playing)
(Crowd cheers as Andrew and Melissa enter)
Andrew Sims (AS): Welcome everyone to…
Melissa Anelli (MA): Hi guys!
(Crowd cheers)
AS: I don’t think, I don’t think I can sit down. I need to as well.
MA: I think I need to as well. Let’s stand.
AS: We are fresh from the Goblet of Fire premiere at Ziegfeld Theater.
(Crowd cheers)
AS: Thanks everyone for coming out. Here are the tickets right here. This is what got us in.
(Crowd cheers)
AS: Yeah! Yeah! All right! All right! This is what got us in! Amazing movie, but before we start, we need to introduce the rest of the cast.
(Crowd cheers)
MA: Well, well, well, well, hang on, hang on, hang on. John Noe got a little waylaid. Apparently, there’s a burrito place on the way.
(Crowd laughs)
MA: I don’t know. He’ll be a little delayed, but he’ll here, we promise, or we’ll kill him. Oh God. So, let’s go ahead.
AS: So first let’s start off on the MuggleNet side of things. Everybody’s favorite Kansan. The bold and the beautiful, Ben Schoen!
(Crowd cheers as Ben enters)
AS: There he is. Look at that guy. Look at that kid. Beautiful. Ohhh, look at that. Look at that. Hey, Ben! Next up MuggleCast’s technological guru. He knows everything. He does everything. He’s backwards compatible with everything, but basic HTML. It’s Kevin Steck!
(Crowd cheers as Kevin enters)
AS: All right. Yeah!
MA: Here he comes.
AS: All right. Kevin Steck. Yeah! And, so the Leaky people aren’t here. So, they were going to sort of intermix with the MuggleCasters. So…
MA: The Muggle people.
AS: I guess we just have to jump the gun.
MA: No, we don’t have anybody else.
AS: Oh, okay.
MA: Let’s go.
AS: Welcome to the show.
MA: This is it for MuggleNet, guys
AS: All right, all right, all right.
(Crowd asks for Emerson)
MA: Who’s that? Emerson who? Do you know Emerson? I don’t know him.
AS: I don’t know. All right. (In automated voice) Emerson Spartz, if you are in the building, please report to the fourth Floor.
(Melissa laughs)
AS: Okay. I see you. You have to come out now.
(Crowd cheers)
AS: Okay. All right. Here he comes. All right. We can all calm down now. There he is. All right.
(Crowd cheers and claps as Emerson enters)
MA: Girls, keep your seats.
AS: Oh my god!
MA: Girls, let him get up here.
AS: Yeah, okay. All right.
MA: Look at this. Look at this. (Laughs)
AS: Oh, that’s nice! That is nice. Great.
(Crowd is still going nuts)
MA: He gave them all iPods to do that.
AS: Have a seat. Have a seat, bud.
(Crowd is still going nuts)
AS: All right. So Leaky, Leaky and John…John and Sue will be here. They’re fresh, they’re fresh out of the movie.
MA: Fresh out of the movie and unable to find a cab.
AS: Awww!
(Crowd ‘Awwws!’)
MA: I know. Well, we can call him.
AS: So, we lucked out, right, Melissa?
MA: How so?
AS: Well, the original plan was me and Emerson, Melissa and John or Melissa, John, and Sue were going to be the only ones to have seen the movie.
MA: To have seen the film.
AS: Then we lucked out. Little mistake. Heh heh. And Ben and Kevin got in to see the movie. So now we’ve all seen the movie. So, now we can discuss it.
Ben Schoen (BS): Right.
AS: As one.
(Crowd cheers)
AS: Yeah! Yeah! All right! As one! All right! Initial thoughts, Emerson Spartz?
Emerson Spartz (ES): Should I just… On the movie?
AS: On the movie.
ES: Hands down! Hands down! (Slaps his hands on table)
MA: On the table.
ES: The best movie yet!
(Crowd cheers)
AS: Yeah! All right! Best movie yet!
MA: I wonder is this going to be like this the whole time?
AS: Yeah!
MA: Is Emerson going to say something and you guys are just going to explode the whole time, is this what it’s going to be like?
Kevin Steck (KS): I don’t know.
MA: You saying something and everybody freaks out and we have to stop and wait?
(Crowd cheers)
AS: Yeah! Yeah!
(Crowd cheers)
AS: Who cried? Who cried?
MA: Who cried? Come on, you guys. Who cried?
KS: Not I.
MA: Kevin cried?
BS: I saw tears in Kevin Steck’s eyes.
KS: Oh yeah. I was tearing up. Yep.
AS: All right. All right. Keep cool!
ES: Andrew, one second. I have to give a special shout-out to four girls who got here way before the store opened today.
(Girls cheer)
MA: Yeah.
AS: Yeah!
ES: They were the first ones: Rachel, Marlice, Samara, and Saska.
MA: Wait, hold on a second.
ES: You guys are hardcore.
(Crowd claps)
MA: If you were the first ones here, how come you got the fourth row? How did that work?
AS: It doesn’t matter. It’s cool. We came in here at 11:00 AM. We were like, “Oh, what is going on?” and there’s those four right here. They made me a shirt, I didn’t wear it, but I do have it. And then they were all here and that was really cool. And, you guys have been here all day, right? You didn’t go to the premiere. Who needs the premiere? Seriously!
MA: What did you do all day? What did you do all day here?
Audience: We just hung out.
AS: They were listening to their iPods all day.
Audience: MuggleCast.
MA: MuggleCast. Yeah, I know.
AS: Were you really? Who listens to MuggleCast?
(Crowd cheers)
AS: Yeah! Yeah! All right! All right!
MA: Oh, Oh, look who it is!
AS: Oh, John Noe, everybody!
MA: John Noe, everybody.
(Crowd cheers as John enters)
MA: I didn’t get to introduce you or anything. Just sit. Screw it.
John Noe (JN): I don’t need an introduction.
MA: Where’s Sue?
JN: She’s going to the bathroom, everybody.
AS: Oh, that’s great. Sue Upton is in the bathroom.
(Crowd laughs)
JN: She’ll be right back.
MA: Actually, she got arrested for attacking Jason Isaacs.
JN: She has pictures of her and Jason Isaacs.
ES: No way.
JN: Yeah.
AS: So, John. What are your initial thoughts on the movie here?
JN: What’s that now?
AS: What are your initial thoughts on the movie?
JN: You know, I’m just trying to (takes deep breath)
KS: Speaking of someone who cried.
JN: It was incredible. I’m just trying to gather my thoughts after that crazy trip over here. It was hard to make it over here obviously, but wow, what a movie. Give me a little bit. I have to breathe.
(All laugh)
AS: There was… Take some water! Look at this! My throat was dead dry. So, there was a ton of things we wanted to discuss and on a taxi cab ride over, you two or whomever just started talking, and I said, “No, no, no. Save it for the podcast.”
BS: I wouldn’t shut up.
(Melissa laughs)
AS: “Don’t start yet.” So, what were we talking about?
BS: The movie.
(Crowd laughs)
AS: The movie.
KS: Here is Sue, from The Leaky Cauldron.
MA: Sue Upton everybody!
(Crowd cheers as Sue enters)
AS: Sue’s here! That’s good. Great!
MA: Straight out of her first premiere.
KS: Andrew wasn’t ignoring you.
Sue Upton (SU): Oh, I know. Hufflepuff rocks!
(Crowd cheers)
AS: I just didn’t see you.
MA: Sue, look at this outfit. Oooh!
SU: Thank you!
MA: She looks sexy, doesn’t she, guys?
(Crowd cheers)
MA: Sexy Hufflepuff in the house! Got a sexy one right here, too!
AS: So we’re hope we’re not going to spoil anyone, but we are going to talk about the movie here.
MA: Yes we are!
AS: We are going to talk… I know we’re going too.
MA: You guys listen to the podcasts, you’ve been thoroughly spoiled. We’re just going to talk about the movie. All right. Favorite parts, down the line, John Noe.
JN: Man. We are talking spoilers?
MA: Good, do it. Anybody got a problem?
Audience: No!
BS: Plug your ears.
JN: Hmmm. Well, let’s see. Voldemort comes back!
(Crowd laughs and jeers)
JN: I’m sorry, I’m sorry.
AS: If you didn’t know that yet, then you’re in trouble.
JN: You know I think there are some books somewhere in this building you may be able to read that would tell you about what happens to Voldemort. There you go. He does come back and he is incredible. He just kicks….something that we’re not saying at Barnes & Noble tonight.
MA: Yes we are.
AS: When you first see him, you’re first reaction is, “This guy is not Ralph Fiennes.”
JN: Well no.
AS: This is computer generated.
JN: Well the thing, I just read something about that…how he…that it was some guy’s job for about three months to get rid of his nose because they want him to have like this flattened snake-like nose. And it’s seamless and they did a good job with it, I think. And, I’m still a little out of breath.
MA: John ran the whole way.
JN: Yeah.
MA: With me yelling at him over cell phone.
JN: I had Sue on my back too. She had heels on.
(Crowd laugh)
ES: He looks sort of like Ben does when he wakes up in the morning.
Everyone: Hey….oooh!
(Melissa laughs)
JN: But yeah, what else? Voldemort…the only thing Voldemort, that I’m still kind of trying to digest is he’s obviously a fine actor and at points, it seems like he might have been acting a little too much – like he was trying to invoke so much snake imagery with his actions. Like there were points where he would come up to Harry and he’d just be all like this (demonstrates) with his hands, like he’s poised to like going to strike right on him with his lines and it’s…I mean pretty much the whole time, he was awesome. It just, it needs a few more watches but it was such an incredible…and the duel and the dome.
MA: And John, this was your first premiere.
JN: It was my first premiere.
AS: Yep.
MA: So can you tell us about what that was like?
JN: What was that like?
AS: Well, first of all I have a headache thanks to all the girls in this audience who were on the red carpet.
MA: Yeah.
(Crowd cheers)
AS: Oh great, oh great, that’s what I want to hear.
MA: We met some of you afterwards. It was scary.
AS: Did anyone here get a MuggleNet sticker from me or Emerson?
(Crowd cheers)
AS: Okay. All right! Yeah!
MA: Andrew paid with screaming for that.
AS: Hey! Hey!
JN: Has everybody figured out now that they all got into the movie.
AS: Yeah, we already talked about that.
JN: Have we gone through that.
MA: It was planned the whole time.
AS: What a screw-up!
JN: It was planned the whole time, it wasn’t at all not planned the whole time. It was an excellent surprise for all of you.
MA: That’s right, we were saving it.
JN: Exactly. But yeah the red carpet was cool, we got to interview…did you go through who we interviewed yet?
MA: Nope.
JN: Well we interviewed, that I can remember, the Director Guy.
(Crowd laughs)
AS: Mike Newell, I believe his name is.
JN: Newell, and then the Producer Guy.
(Crowd laughs)
AS: David Heyman.
JN: Heyman. Yeah, we introduced, not introduced, interviewed Cho and Angelina. Ginny wasn’t there.
MA: Who is that?
JN: Whose mike’s going crazy? Oh now you’re not going to be able to see me.
MA: Put it on the floor.
AS: Are we okay here, is there like technical situations?
MA: How are you guys doing so far?
JN: How about those fireworks?
AS: Out back there?
JN: Yeah.
AS: No, my favorite scene, and it happened in the books, so don’t say that I’m spoiling you, was Cedric’s death because it was…not “Awwww!”
JN: Oooh. He told you.
AS: My favorite scene. No! It came out the wrong way! Afterwards, the part where everyone finds out because they’re all like, “Yeah, all right, go Harry, Cedric,” and then all of them start…stop…yeah okay that’s weird. Harry…they all sort of stop and realize what’s going on and that’s…that was when people cried. Our own Catherine from MuggleNet, I don’t know where she is but she said she cried twice during the movie.
JN: I….
AS: You cried?
JN: I couldn’t help myself. I have never ever, ever cried in my whole 21 years of being alive, at a movie theater.
MA: Uh huh. Uh huh.
JN: And I got Sue blubbering away like an idiot.
(Crowd laughs)
JN: Squeezing my hand for dear life at the whole part from when he lands. Actually it was right…it was a very good emotional good luck Cedric from his dad right before the maze.
AS: Look he’s crying again, look at this kid. Look at this kid.
Audience: Awww!
JN: That was when Sue started crying, all through the maze.
AS: I think you did, too.
JN: No. What got me was right basically when he came back, like you just said how everybody was just cheering and the band was going, the little Flitwick guy was doing the band.
AS: That guy is the funniest guy in the movie this time. I don’t want to, I’m not going to spoil it but he does some really crazy things in this movie.
MA: Yeah.
AS: That was one thing I think Newell made a big difference with in this movie was the humor. There was a lot more humor. I don’t know if our audience was just enthusiastic because it’s all the hardcores, but people…
MA: No it’s not. It’s Warner Brothers executives and such.
AS: They were kids!
MA: Well, Warner Brothers executives’ kids.
KS: I do want to make a comment.
AS: What?
KS: Did you happen to notice that circular area with the little square colors, you know showing the houses, the one that you were confident was the center of the maze?
AS: Oh yeah.
KS: And I was positive it wasn’t?
AS: Okay so I was wrong. Sorry, dude. Okay.
KS: I just had to say….
AS: Sorry, I saw the picture.
MA: Well, I want to know what you guys thought about the maze in that it’s difference from the book and that the maze was a lot more psychological.
KS: I was sort of disappointed.
MA: Oh yeah?
ES: Why?
BS: Me too.
SU: I wasn’t.
ES: Why?
KS: Because, we didn’t get to see any of the magical creatures.
Audience: Awww!
JN: Yeah.
KS: They really didn’t.
AS: But that’s what made it so mysterious and kind of like, “What’s going on here?”
KS: Yeah, but we didn’t see one magical creature in the maze.
AS: Are you going to cry about it?
JN: Did we warn them that we were talking like this tonight?
BS: Yes, yes, yes.
JN: So are they awww-ing at the disappointment or are they awww-ing at being mad at you for telling them? Which is it?
MA: I don’t know. Disappointment. They’re upset for Kevin.
JN: No, you’re totally right. The maze was a little more physical and very little intellectual to it.
BS: There was no Sphinx, none of that.
JN: There was no Sphinx.
AS: Ah, ah let’s forget, everyone cancel their tickets, we’re not seeing this film.
MA: Return your tickets.
JN: But no, some definite insight into that is we did interview Newell on the red carpet and someone asked him, “Why no house-elves this time?” and he says “the thing about the house-elves.” He says, “I read the book, I love the book, I love the house-elves, but every time we put the house-elf on the screen, it’s hundreds, thousands of dollars.” So, if it’s just a minor little thing to add to the movie, he had to look at it from a budget perspective too but I guess the Sphinx would fall into that too because I don’t really think they can cast somebody who looks like a Sphinx. They’d have to create a Sphinx digitally, and it’s just something else and you know, they solved kind of lame, but it doesn’t really matter because it was so intense, but the way that they moved them along through the maze is the wind got all windy and the fog blew through the maze basically.
AS: It was a money issue too, Newell said.
JN: What’s that?
MA: What?
AS: It was a money issue too.
JN: Of course, it’s always going to be a money issue.
AS: Especially with the house-elves.
JN: Yeah.
AS: Yeah but..
MA: No. It’s not always going to be a money issue with Harry Potter. With Harry Potter, we’ve got the most expensive movies in the world. What’s a couple of million, eh, you know? A couple more million.
JN: Yeah.
MA: But this year it’s a money issue. This is what we’re hearing.
BS: Okay, to divert the focus from that side of the table. Sue Isaacs, I mean Sue Upton, what did you think about the movie?
(Crowd cheers and laughs)
MA: Wait no, no, no, no, no. Sue, did you have an encounter with Jason Isaacs?
SU: Okay, everyone. I have proof; miracles come true. I hugged Jason Isaacs.
(Crowd cheers)
SU: Not only did I see him, I hugged him.
AS: Hey talk into the mike.
JN: Talk into the mike, Sue.
SU: Not only did I meet him, I hugged him and kissed him.
(Crowd cheers)
BS: So did I.
MA: Several times.
JN: I think at one point, he grabbed her ass, but I could have been seeing that wrong. I might have been looking at…
SU: He was so cool. You guys now listen, this is very true. He listens to Potter and MuggleCast. He listens to Podcasts.
AS: Does he really?
SU: And so we’re going to say, on the count of three, “Hi Jason!” because he’s going to listen to this, he’s going to go home and listen to this, he promised us.
MA: Oooh!
SU: So here we go. One, two, three.
Audience: Hi Jason!
AS: Oh, that’s nice. All right! Yeah!
MA: Sue, that was very nice of you.
SU: That was very good.
MA: That was very nice.
SU: It was the most coolest moment for me.
AS: There were a couple of things we learned on the red carpet. Miranda Richardson…was it? Wait, it was Miranda Richardson.
MA: Miranda Richardson.
JN: Yep.
AS: Will not be in the fifth movie.
BS: Oooh!
Audience: Oooh!
MA: Now, she didn’t say whether that meant Rita Skeeter won’t be in the fifth movie.
AS: No, where I get it from it was that she wasn’t going to be…and you asked her why and she said why…
MA: And she said, “Well, you know, it’s nice to see new faces and….”
JN: I think that she didn’t know what she was talking about though. They’re not going to cast a new Rita Skeeter. That doesn’t make any sense.
AS: Well, they have to now.
JN: She was an excellent Rita Skeeter. What does she do in Book 5?
MA: The article. The Quibbler article.
JN: Other than being in the bar and writing the article. Who cares who wrote the article? That’s just one thing.
MA: Okay.
AS: They could just take her face.
MA: They care.
KS: They can even just put her name on it. They don’t even have to show her.
JN: Yeah. Yeah. It’s filler.
AS: Well, if you care about cutting the scenes out, then you might be a little bit disappointed in Goblet of Fire.
MA: Yeah.
AS: Because especially at the beginning they really put a focus on the end with and Triwizard Tournament. The Triwizard Tournament, Cedric’s death, the whole thing, Pettigrew, all that. But the beginning was very cut. It’s….
KS: Very fast.
MA: It’s very…
JN: Yeah. I’ll make a prediction right here. I don’t think even as of tonight we saw the finished movie because there were things that looked so…
AS: What do you mean by that?
JN: …empty in some points.
MA: Well.
JN: Some transitions were off, some special effects didn’t seem to be there. You have some points…
AS: No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Newell said to us..
MA: Yeah.
KS: He did.
AS: …he polished it up and cleaned it –
MA: He also said…
JN: He said, “Hopefully this going to be the polished up thing.” He said hopefully.
AS: What are they gonna do? Change it? Six days before?
JN: You do alot in a week with all that…
AS: Yeah, yeah, but –
KS: At most, they’ll just go to a fix of transitions.
JN: Some transitions are terrible.
KS: Like, in the end, they blanched out like a solid wall at the door, where they blanched through the door.
MA: Why do you guys – I didn’t even notice that at all! I didn’t notice any of that.
AS: We’ll, you’re not into films. I mean – no no no no no no no no – I mean, you’re not into the, the – like me, Kevin and Ben, okay…
KS: Uh-oh. Yeah, we are.
AS: Wasn’t there with the – okay, sorry.
JN: I don’t think they care whether they take the wall or not, seriously. They just want to see the movie.
AS: Wait, originally in MuggleCast – I don’t know – someone could write something which suited – I say that, well, we talked about Sirius’ head in the fire. Actually, it didn’t turn out that bad.
KS: Yeah, it wasn’t that bad.
JN: I have only one question – only one question – was there or was there not a scene in one of the books where someone feeds somebody toast when they’re in the fire.
(Crowd cheers)
JN: How the hell are you going to do that when you’re sitting there in the cold?
MA: They’re wearing fur coats!
JN: Well, no one likes fur coats! (SU talking in the background)
MA: (Laughs) Emerson!
ES: Yeah!
MA: A little quiet there. (Pause) Who wants to hear Emerson’s thought of the film?
(Crowd cheers)
ES: Ah… yeah. All right, I gave you guys the quick summary which came down good. All right, you’ve all seen – I’m sorry you all Rupert fans out there, but I really wanted to hit him hard in the face.
MA: (Flabbergasted) Rupert?!
ES: No, not Rupert, not Rupert, his character.
AS: Okay, okay, okay… okay. We’re sitting there…
ES: His character.
AS: Yeah.
MA: Oh, well.
AS: Okay, nevermind.
ES: But I know some of you guys had trouble distinguishing between Rupert and –
MA: Well, you said Rupert – you could’ve said Ron.
JN: It’s written in the book for him to be kind of a boob this time.
MA: (Stifles a laugh) A boob…?
JN: He’s like all grumpy-like. He could’ve told me how to put the name in that – it’s like – it’s not Rupert’s fault, nor his – If you don’t like that…
ES: It was exaggerated more so –
JN: Pick up a joke –
ES: It was exaggerated more so in the movie, I thought. I thought it was more emotional, and there was more passion behind –
MA: No.
JN: They only have half hour to do that though – they don’t have 200 minutes…
MA: No, but the thing I didn’t like about this was the – oh, Dean told Parvati, told Madame Maxime, told the squid, told the – told the – they do this thing where the – the – when they’re fighting, they’re passing messages back between each other – and the make-up Ron says, ‘Oh, oh, but I – but I did warn you about the dragons. Dean told Parvati, told – told my uncle, told… whatever – and it’s just sort of dopey.
AS: Maybe they were just laughing at it and it was just your rendition of it – I, I think they’re gonna find a really funny one –
MA: My rendition of it clearly is exactly how it is in the film. I mean –
KS: What did you think about the dragons?
Audience: Awesome!
KS: They were crazy, weren’t they?
BS: Best scene in the movie.
JN: Yeah.
KS: It wasn’t as emotional, but just for pure entertainment. It’s scary, because like, you got – parents dead, forget it no book five.
MA: Harry ends up on a – on a – dragon breaks free – Harry ends up on the window ledge, on the highest part of Hogwarts, trying to get his Firebolt back, and not die. (Laughs) And it’s um, even if you know there are three movies and a book left, you’re like ‘Oh my God, Harry, get up, get up!’
KS: That’s sorta – where I got disappointed about the Cho Chang thing, ’cause if you’ve seen – if you’ve read the books already and you see that scene – like – if you haven’t read the books and you watch that, you’re gonna be like ‘Oh sweet, there’s – there’s gonna be a – they’re gonna be shipped all over the place, and – But you know what’s going to happen, so you don’t get the same feeling again.
MA:Dan Radcliffe, on the red carpet, he said he was most excited to film the scenes with Ginny.
(Crowd screams with delight)
MA:At first – at first he said cave’ – he said ‘oh oh – cave’ – until he said, while he was being pushed along, ‘Oh, wait – but also, Ginny!’ It was very sixteen-year old boy.
KS: Katie also mentioned that she was looking forward to the – er – the scenes which she were looking most forward to… was, I guess, with Dan.
BS: Who’s Ginny (Hard G)?
KS: Hmm?
JN: Who’s Ginny?
KS: I said ‘Katie.’
MA: Katie, not Ginny. Kayling, ahhh.
ES: You’re tired, Ben.
BS: Not yet. See that microphone there? There’s all you, not yet, not yet.
MA: I got some interviews from the red carpet, guys. You guys – we got to ask them some great questions –
ES: We learned alot.
MA: Up-close and personal for many – for the first time, right?
AS: Well, before that, we know why J.K. Rowling hasn’t been here – I guess she has – been planning to like – sort of –
Audience: (Yells) Rowling!
AS: Rowling ("Roll"), okay, whatever. Rowling ("Raow"), Rowling ("Roll").
MA: You can’t ‘whatever’!
AS: Rowling, okay, Rowling! Rowling! "Roll"
MA: She heard that!
AS: J.K. Rowling – I’m sorry Jo. J.K. Rowling ("Raow") – J.K. Rowling –
JN: You just revertetd to Rowling ("Raow").
MA: What?
(Murmur around the room)
AS: J.K. Rowling ("Roll") – I know. J.K. Rowling ("Raow") – What?!
MA: Andrew, you’re insulting her! You’re insulting her –
AS: J.K. Rowling ("Roll").
(Crowd cheers)
MA: (Audible whisper) Get it right. (Laughs)
AS: J.K. Rowling ("Roll") was very – well she told – we didn’t – err – who was it that told us?
MA: Me?
AS: …The reason that she hasn’t been here –
MA: Oh yeah!
AS: Her husband has… I can’t remember – appendicitis, appendicitis.
MA: He went for surgery. And – but he’s fine, he’s fine – he’s getting better, we’ve been told.
AS: Yeah!
MA: But you know, they’re sort of grossly cute when you see them together. It’s really sort of sickening – how much in love they are, it’s really great. And so – how much they want to stay together –
AS: Hey, hey – wait a second.
MA: What?
AS: Everyone, take a look at the ring that Jo gave Melissa… yeah, yeah, alright!
JN: You can – you can keep it still for the cameras.
MA: Which camera?
Becky Sims: I love you, Andrew!
AS: Thanks, my sister… okay.
MA: I love you too.
AS: Oh, thanks.
JN: Hey Ben, is this the hot sister you were talking about back there?
AS: Yeah, that’s my the hot sister. (Laughs) Okay, uncalled for.
JN: He was talking about Andrew’s hot sister all day yesterday.
MA: (Cheekily) Oooh!
AS: Hey, Beck, you want to stand up?
(AS‘s sister stands up)
AS: My sister, everyone!
(Crowd cheers and claps appreciatively, followed by an awkward silence).
AS: So continuing on…
MA: Yeah, next.
(Crowd laughs)
AS: Who do we want to hear more from? No, no, no.. I do not answer to you, I do not answer to you.
MA: Hey guys, it’s my mom, she’s at the after-party, do you want to come?
AS: Yeah! Yeah!
MA: Hi mom! (Awkward silence) Hello? (Crowd laughs) mom?
MA’s Mom: Melissa?
MA: Yeah?
MA’s Mom: Hello?
MA: Yeah?
MA’s Mom: Can you hear me?
MA: Yeah, I can hear – can you hear me?
MA’s Mom: Got Jesse here.
MA: Jesse?
MA’s Mom: Yes, I took pictures with him.
MA: You took pictures with Jesse Martin from ‘Rent’?
MA’s Mom: Yep.
(Crowd screams)
MA: What did he say?
MA’s Mom: He wants to say hello to you.
MA: He wants to say hello to me?
MA’s Mom: Yeah.
MA: Oh –
MA’s Mom:, I told him I’m Melissa’s Mom, Anthony’s friend?
MA: (Giggles) Thanks, mom!
JN: Laughs.
MA’s Mom: You’re welcome.
(Crowd laughs)
MA’s Mom:He gave Theresa the number to call to get tickets to the premiere.
MA: Mom, hey listen, listen to me mom – about 8,000 people are listening to you right now.
MA’s Mom: I don’t know what you’re saying.
(Silence for several seconds)
JN: Silence.
AS: Clearly her reaction says it all.
MA’s Mom: I can’t hear you through the phone.
MA: Wha – what?
MA’s Mom: I can’t hear you.
(JN laughs)
MA: About eight – about 8,000 people are listening to you right now. We’re doing the PotterCast right now.
MA’s Mom: Oh, hi everybody!
AS: Yeah, alright! It’s mom!
MA: How was the party?
MA’s Mom: Hi to everybody! Hi to –
(MA and the crowd laughs)
MA’s Mom: It’s the Harry Potter premiere.
MA: How is it?
MA’s Mom: Here, Jamie, say hello… they’re live on the PotterCast.
(Crowd laughs)
AS: (Jokingly) She’s the best!
Jamie Waylett (JW): Hello!
MA: Hey Jamie!
JW: Pardon?
MA: Jamie!
AS: (Whispering) Jamie Waylett!
JW: Hello everyone!
MA: Jamie –
(Crowd screams)
MA: How was the premiere, Jamie?
JW: Pardon?
MA: How was the premiere?
JW: How was the premiere? It was brilliant! Good – good turnout!
MA: There’s – Jamie, there’s like hundreds of people listening to you right now.
JW: Hello everyone!
(Crowd screams louder than usual)
AS: Yeah! Yeah, all right!
MA: Are you at the party?
JW: Yeah, just outside now, yeah.
MA: What’s it like?
JW: It’s – it’s awesome.
MA: You’re what?
JW: I’m talk – I’m talking to Jesse Martin as well.
MA: You’re talking to Jesse Martin?
JW: Yes, he’s too cool!
MA: He’s good, huh?
JW: (unintelligible) Hello?
MA: Hello?
MA: Guess what – what? … What, Jamie?!
JW: Yeah, hello – Melissa?
MA: Yes!
JW: You’re breaking up a little bit!
MA: What? What did you want to tell me?
JW: You know, I might be going to the premiere of "Rent" …
MA: I – really? (turns to audience) He’s going to the premiere of "Rent" …
(Screams from audience)
AS: … All right! Yeah – all right!
MA: … which is next Thursday – guys, go see "Rent" – I’ve seen it – it …
(Screams from audience)
JW: Oh, I can hear you …
MA: So how are you enjoying yourself, Jamie?
JW: I’m having a good, good time – I love it out here!
MA: Who else is there?
JW: Pardon?
MA: Who else is there with you?
AS: Get Emma Watson on the phone!
(Screams from audience)
MA: I can’t hear you …
JW: (unintelligible) I’ll get her on the phone for you.
MA: What’d you say?
JW: Hello?
MA: Who’s this?
JW: It’s quite a bad connection!
MA: Yeah, I know! Who’s this – this is still Jamie? (pause) Oh, sorry …
JW: Pardon?
(Laughter from audience)
MA: Jamie, who else is there with you right now?
JW: Who am I with?
MA: Yeah.
JW: What – right now?
MA: Yeah.
JW: (unintelligible)…outside with…(unintelligible)…mom and my mom…(unintelligible)…go back. Going back in, in a minute…(unintelligible)…get as soon as I can see anyone …
AS: … British actor there with the cellphone … not good …
JW: (unintelligible)
MA: OK – Jamie – are you inside yet?
JW: Not yet, not yet – I’ll be in – I’ll be in, in about two minutes …
MA: OK – we’re going to call you back a little later and we’re gonna … (laughs) we’re gonna use you … we’re gonna have you go all around and put us on the phone with …
JW: That’s all right!
MA: … everybody you can.
JW: I’ll sort – … Hello?
JN: Hello?
JN: Jamie Waylett – yeah!!
MA: Yay!
(Audience clapping)
AS: It’s Jamie Waylett – all right! Yeah!
MA: Hold on … Jamie?
AS: Jamie Waylett …
MA: (in background) We’re going to call you back later, OK?
AS: Jamie Waylett, yeah – (unintelligible) Mr, uh, Poo-poo Pants, but he – he played a role …
ES: … Ummmm …
AS: … a minor one … yeah, it was funny – he played a role …
MA: Who? What? The ferret scene was …
AS: That’s a good scene – yeah!! …
(Screams from audience)
AS: … All right!
ES: And the ferret ended up in his pants – and I think he enjoyed it!
AS: Yeah, and Emerson – was that the first time you saw that?
ES: What?
AS: Was that the first time you saw that scene?
MA: No, he was in Defense Against the Dark Arts when they were doing the spider …
AS: I’ve seen it because the clip was online …
MA: Yeah.
AS: OK.
ES: Yeah, I know ….
MA: Emerson doesn’t go online.
AS: I know – because you were cracking up –
MA: They don’t have Internet at Notre Dame.
AS: Hahaha – yeah.
ES: Don’t get me started singing the fight song again.
MA: Do it! I have a recording but it’s better live.
ES: Alright, alright.
JN: No!
SU: You don’t have it memorized?
ES: Oh yeah.
MA: Of course he does.
ES: Alright, here we go!
BS: Notre Dame sucks!
ES: Don’t make me take away your speaking privileges again, Ben Schoen. All right …
Cheer, cheer for Old Notre Dame
Wake up the echoes cheering her name,
Send the volley cheer on high,
Shake down the thunder from the sky,
What tho the odds be great or small
Old Notre Dame will win over all,
While her loyal sons are marching Onward to Victory.
(Screams from audience)
MA: Guys, a lot of you – a lot of you have been wondering where our – where our set reports are and the answer to that is that Emerson and I recorded them as a Podcast, and it will be out – hopefully – this week and we’ll have him singing that – so you should have that, um – many times on our respective Podcasts, ’cause really – isn’t that, you know – (sarcastically) doesn’t that just make your day? Emerson – today – ah, anyway ..
AS: See – what else is there to talk about? We’ve been, like, discussing it like crazy in the taxi …
MA: Well, why don’t we say hi to some of the people…
JN: Why don’t we take some questions?
AS: No – no questions.
MA: No, not yet. Why don’t we say hi to some of the very special ..
SU: Can I – can I – can I …?
MA: Oh, well go ahead –
SU: I just …
MA: No, go ahead …
SU: I just want to say something about the parents who were concerned about the last scene in particular. Now, I’m a parent, and that scene – if you’re considering to take your children or not – is really pretty intense …
MA: Yeah …
SU: … it really is. I know that we – I personally wanted to see it. It’s a PG-13 movie and because it’s – um, what happens – I mean – there’s a war on and Voldemort kills. He’s a murderer and even though it’s Wormtail – I mean, he’s evil, and the scene is really intense, and it’s just a fair warning and you should really see it if you take your children – that’s my opinion.
ES: Cedric was sleeping …
AS: You have to be careful.
KS: I think the worst thing was the cauldron.
JN: What?
KS: The hand.
MA: The Leaky Cauldron – what?
KS: No, the hand. Yes, it was the worst thing – no, no – the cauldron scene was very intense, so if you do want to bring your children, you may want to cover their eyes during that scene because it – it gets pretty gross … yeah, very gross.
AS: It is …
MA: Well, let’s – why don’t we say hello to some – I’m sorry to interrupt, by the way – we’re getting on in time and I wanted to say hello to some of you guys, some of the really awesome special guests we have here, so why don’t we …
AS: We lucked out with a lot of people – um, I’m pretty sure they’re here …
MA: Yes!
AS: Are they?
MA: Yes.
AS: I don’t see them, but …
MA: I don’t see them.
JN: They’re right behind the podium.
MA: Where?
ES: Where’s Eric Scull?
MA: (laughs) He’s spottable.
AS: Andy and Zach, are you invisible or something?
AS: So anyway – oh, wait – first of all is, do I see Matt Vines back there? Hey, there he is – Matt Vines from Veritaserum.com – yeah!
MA: Jeff? Jeff? Jeff from HPANA? Is he here?
MA and AS: Oh, there’s Jeff from HPANA?
MA: OK …
BS: Yeah, Aris Janetakos…
MA: Hey, Jeff – is it H-P-A-N-A or HP-ANA – please settle this!
Jeff Guillaume: It’s an acronym!
(AS laughs)
MA: So, it’s H-P-A-N-A – OK, that’s what I’d say! You would say HP-ANA.
AS: Because it rolls off the tongue a little bit easier – Aris Janetakos is also here from Veritaserum.com and host of VTM OnAir …
BS: We call him Tacos!
AS: … and then – also Andy and Zach from Harry Potter Fan Zone but …
MA: All the way from Australia!
AS: Andy is all the way from Australia – and he lucked out and got a ticket, along with Zach, to see the film. Is he here?
BS: Where are you at, Andy?
MA: Is he here?
AS: I’ll take that as a "no."
MA: OK, anyway – moving on … do you want to do questions?
ES: Wait, wait – one more thing.
JN: Yeah, let’s …
ES: One more shout out – my little brother Dylan back there, in the blue MuggleNet shirt …
MA: Oh – yeah! Dylan Spartz!
(Screams and clapping from audience)
KS: Stay close to security!
AS: Right there! All right, so – let’s take a couple of questions … OK, keep cool! Keep cool!
MA: Line up! Line up!
AS: No, no, no, no, no, no, no – her first … let’s just pick them out.
MA: They have to come up to the microphone.
AS: I know – come up to the microphone right here … All right, wait, wait – first, first – say your name and where you’re from and come really close to the mike – really close to the mike …
MA: …and which boy you love the most.
Rachel: Emerson.
MA: Oh, jeez that’s so boring to say.
Rachel: No, Ben – I’m all through Ben right now – it’s all about Ben!
AS: OK, ask… so what’s on your mind?
Rachel: OK, well I’m Rachel …
AS: Hi, Rachel.
Rachel: … I’m from Westchester and I’m with my friends over there … (points into audience) …
AS: Yeah!
Rachel: First of all though, I’d just like – I want to say that I hope JK Rowling, if she’s listening, that her husband gets through and I’m really glad that they love each other so much because Dumbledore – R.I.P. – would be really glad to know that there’s a little more love in the world.
Everyone: Awwww.
Rachel: Anyway, I was just wondering – do we get to see Sean Biggerstaff in this film?
AS: No. No.
MA: You don’t even get to see him at the premiere party or anything – he’s not around.
Rachel: I thought he might be, like in the beginning, like at the World Cup?
AS: No, the World Cup – they really cut up – you’ll see the World Cup but …
MA: … there’s no play – it’s just the entrance and you sort of get a feeling for it and then all of a sudden they’re all sort of dancing round a campfire …
AS: Another disappointment of mine was, Molly Weasley was not in it either.
Rachel: What! I love her!
AS: I love her, too.
Rachel: Doesn’t everybody want her to be your mother?
AS: Yes!
MA: She is my mother as you have heard.
Rachel: All right, that’s good.
ES: All right, shout out, he’s here, Eric Scull, Eric Scull.
(Cheers)
BS: All of you must know, Eric was walking around in a Hogwarts robe all day.
(cheers)
MA: And we sent him out for audio supplies and he got lost on 11th Street wearing his robe, I don’t know how you can get lost wearing that robe, you’re pretty findable.
(Laughs)
Eric Scull: The miracle is that I wasn’t beat up.
MA: OK, who’s next?
Audience Member: Thank you.
MA: You with the sparkles.
AS: OK, feel free, ok here’s…what kind of questions are we looking for, movie questions, questions about the podcast?
MA: If you say Horcrux, you will have something thrown at you.
AS: …no theories, I don’t want to think about theories.
MA: Horcri.
BS: Save the Muggles.
MA: Go ahead.
AS: What’s your name, where you from?
Courtney: I’m Courtney and I’m from Minnesota.
AS: Hi Courtney from Minnesota. What’s on your mind?
Courtney: Do we get to see any magical creatures at all during the movie?
BS: No.
MA: Yes, Yes….
BS: Dragons. Oh yeah, Dragons.
MA: Dragons, the Grindylows, the Mermaids, you know you get plenty of them, just not in the maze.
KS: I was very impressed with the Mermaids.
MA: Yeah.
KS: Yeah, they were excellent.
ES: I was not impressed, I wanted them to be like The Little Mermaid.
(Laughs)
AS: It’s not a Disney film. They don’t have the rights.
ES: The Little Mermaid, right.
MA: That just does not surprise me.
AS: They were not very nice, let’s just say that.
MA: Hey, what about the Moaning Myrtle scene? What do you guys think about that?
AS: OK, wait a second.
MA: Sorry…
AS: Let’s not go too far. I can’t, I can’t even think about it. We asked Dan about the scene, I wasn’t paying attention to what his answer was. I was busy.
ES: I was.
AS: I was, I was filming. What was his response? By Moaning Myrtle, we mean bathroom scene.
(Laughs)
ES: Yeah, I asked him if he was worried what you crazy screaming fan girls would think about the scene and he said that he hoped you like it.
(Laughs)
MA: Well, and also ’cause he was wearing flesh-colored underwear.
BS: It’s better then me with my shirt off.
AS: Wait, he told you that?
MA: Yeah, he said that on the red carpet. No, um and also the scene, that scene really…in the middle of the premiere in London, I went, "Oh my God!" Because they showed alot more then I expected them to show.
(Screaming)
AS: No, no, no, no…no no putting the wrong thoughts into your mind, don’t exaggerate.
MA: In that first split second, I really….
AS: No.
MA: …was scared for Dan’s modesty.
AS: Full frontal nudity!
MA: No!
(Laughs)
MA: But you’ll see what I mean, and then Moaning Myrtle spends the rest of the time being absolutely shameless, I cannot believe…
KS: Yeah, it’s true.
MA: …it didn’t get an "R" rating after that.
AS: Yeah, that would…..
MA: Yeah. We got questions, at the back, lets go from the back.
AS: Yeah, in the back. Eric you, no, Eric you …..
MA: John’s going to pick one.
JN: Um…
Audience Member: Pick me!
KS: Yeah, go way in the back.
AS: I’d just like to make a public service announcement that tonight’s event is a Podcast, there will be no books signed.
(MA laughs)
AS: …so sorry about that. That’s on the sign we just put up.
MA: Thanks for clearing that up.
AS: Go ahead, what’s your name and where ya from?
Giselle: Hi um, I’m Giselle and um after seeing the movie do you agree with the statements that they sort of lean toward a Harry/Hermione relationship more than…
AS: In the movie?
BS: Say if for me Emerson, say it…
MA: Go ahead Emerson.
ES: Duh….
AS: Emerson, Emerson.
(cheers)
ES: The D-word, what did I say again?
AS: Drop the D-bomb.
MA: Emerson, wasn’t there a word you used in Scotland?
ES: Uh..what was the word again, was it….Delusional?
(Screams)
ES: And after seeing this movie…
AS: Was anyone offended by that?
ES: …I feel even a bit more vindicated.
MA: Even a little bit more?
ES: Even a little bit more.
MA: Ohhh wow.
SU: I’m not a, I’m not a…
MA: Guys, ok how many Harry/Hermione shippers do we have in the audience?
AS: Was anyone offended by the whole Harry, I mean the delusional fan thing? How could you, right? Come on.
MA: Look at that silence, ok hold on with the defense, um, no this movie is very, um…it’s the Harry/Hermione moments are in front of Rita Skeeter on purpose, you know, and uh…
AS: You’ve seen the clips.
MA: …and the Ron and Hermione moments are, I had a friend in London, turned to me who had never read the books and he turned to me and said, and I said, "So what did you think? Harry/Hermione? Ron/Hermione?" There’s a lot of debate over this and he said it…you…it like hits you over the head with a sledgehammer (laughs) and I said I can’t, in public, say anything to agree with that statement….
BS: Harry/Hermione is like the brother sister type thing…
(Crowd agrees and cheers)
AS: Yeah! Brother and sister! None of this shipping.
KS: And during the movie the course of the relationship, like the friendship of Harry and Hermione not a relationship….
BS: Like worried about each other, not…
MA: A beautiful, amazing friendship!
KS: A friendship…and…
ES: This issue has also been beaten to death with a wet noodle, so we should probably move on…
AS: There’s a, aw geez I hate, let me choose…
JN: How about a guy?
AS: How about that guy with the camera…
MA: Shirt with the camera!
AS: Yes, I have that shirt, I have that shirt! Ok, sorry.
(Lots of crowd noise)
AS: Nintendo Rehabilitation Clinic.
MA: What?
AS: Little over –
JN: What’s your name and where ya from?
Kevin: My name is Kevin, I’m from Long Island.
(Cheers)
KS: Good name!
(Laughs)
AS: (In a high-pitched voice) Oh my God, no way.
Kevin: Um..do you think the movie deserved the PG-13 rating and….
AS: Yes!
Kevin: …and what in particular caused it and what do you think about future movies?
KS: The cauldron scene!
BS: No, the bathroom scene. The bathroom scene.
(Laughs)
MA: The cauldron scene.
(Crowd and AS laugh)
KS: But, in all seriousness. It’s definitely the cauldron scene, the graveyard scene. It is intense.
MA: I mean, you pretty much see him cut off…
KS: I think that one scene, if they had cut that scene it could have gotten the normal rating. But because of that scene, it got PG-13.
SU: It’s not just the one act of it. That whole scene is very intense. He’s got Harry tied up. You see Cedric is dead.
MA: Sue, into the microphone.
SU: It’s really very intense.
KS: Between the whole-
SU: Oh… no, no, no. Go ahead.
MA: Wait, John Noe has a little bit of an announcement.
SU: Okay.
BS: Or, Ben Schoen does.
MA: Or, Ben Schoen does.
BS: Okay.
MA: You rowdy people.
BS: If you would be so kind to stay off the bookshelves in the back, that’d be nice. Do not stand, sit or climb on them.
AS: Thank you.
MA: Thank you.
(AS laughs)
BS: You sit on them, you buy them.
AS: Thank you for your patience. So, did we answer that question?
Kevin: You didn’t answer the second part.
AS: What was the second part?
MA: Well, in future movies?
Kevin: Yeah, what do you think?
MA: I don’t think there’s any going back now.
KS: Yeah.
AS: No, no way.
Kevin: Well do you think it’ll get all the way to "R" by the sixth or seventh book?
KS: No.
AS: No.
MA: Definitely not.
AS: Well we don’t know what’s in Book 7. So technically it could be "X".
MA: We don’t know about seven.
KS: As it stands… As it stands it won’t go beyond PG-13.
AS: Yeah, that seems like a fair rating. If they go "R", then you can forget about kids seeing it.
BS: Yeah, if it’s "R", then it’s not even a children’s book anymore. Next question.
MA: Next…
JN: Hopping girl.
MA: Where’s hopping girl?
JN: Come on up.
MA: Hopping girl in yellow.
JN: Hopping girl in the green and the glasses.
MA: No, yellow. She’s wearing yellow.
JN: I’ve been looking at her… she’s been doing that for twenty minutes for God’s sake.
(Crowd laughs)
AS: Who in the yellow? Just…
JN: There’ll be time for both of them. Both come up.
MA: Okay, wait guys. We’ve got a party update. I’m sorry, hold on a second. (speaks into her phone) Yes, Mom?
(Silence)
Talihia: Okay, so what do you-
MA: Hold on –
KS: One second, one second.
JN: For real.
MA: Yes, Mom?
Matthew Lewis (ML): Can she hear us? Yes.
MA: Hi. Jamie!
Matthew Lewis (ML): Oh, yes. Hello!
Melissa Anelli (MA): Who’s this?
MA’s Mom: Melissa?
MA: Who’s this?
MA’s Mom: It’s me, babe.
MA: Hi, Mommy.
MA’s Mom: I have Matthew Lewis here. He wants to say hello to everybody. Hold on.
MA: Who’s here?
Andrew Sims (AS): Let’s just get to it. Put Radcliffe on the phone so we can end this.
ML: Hello?
MA: Who’s this?
ML: Hello?
MA: Who is this?
ML: (laughs) It’s so loud. I’m going to move to somewhere quieter to see if I can hear you a bit better. (Crowd Laughs) Okay, I can hear you a bit better now.
MA: What?
ML: I can hear you now.
MA: Cool!
John Noe (JN): Who is this?
ML: It’s Matthew, Matthew Lewis.
(Crowd Cheers)
MA: Matthew, did you hear that?
ML: Hello?
MA: You might have a fan or two here. How’s it going, Matt?
MA’s Mom: Do you know how many people are there?
MA: Hello?
MA’s Mom: Melis?
MA: Yeah.
MA’s Mom: Can you hear us?
MA: Yes, we can.
MA’s Mom: Can you hear us?
MA: Yes!
MA’s Mom: OK – I’m gonna change spots with Matthew. This is a good spot. Then we’ll try again.
ML: Hello?
MA: Yes?
ML: OK, I can make you out a bit better now.
MA: How’s it going, Matt?
ML: How are you?
MA: I’m good – how was the film?
ML: It was – it was really good!
MA: How good?
ML: Really good!
MA: You know – those scenes that you did with – about your parents – were really excelllent.
ML: You enjoyed them, yeah?
MA: Yeah.
ML: Cool! Yeah, I –
JN: That was some really cool dancing, dude.
MA: Say again?
ML: You know, I just thought it was (unintelligible) crops up until the fifth film, but I thought it was great that they kept it in the film – the fourth film – so that it all links together that way – and someone asked me sort of what – what was going through my head at that point and I sort of said, "Well, really, I didn’t have to do much imagination, ’cause JK Rowling – I just sort of went through the books and I pictured what JK Rowling had written in the fifth book when he did, like, the hospital ward with his parents; I kept that in my head and yes, you don’t have to perform – I just had to imagine what she’d written and yeah, I think that it worked pretty well!
MA: Yeah, he said that he went through the books with – about Book 5, what JK Rowling had written and used it for his acting in Movie 4 ’cause he’s a good little fan …
AS: He’s a good researcher.
(screams and clapping from audience)
MA: Hey, Matt – there are like – I’m gonna guess – about five hundred people here right now listening to you!
ML: I can hear a lot of people!
MA: Yeah!
(screams from audience)
(ML laughs)
MA: Are you ready for five?
ML: Sorry?
MA: Are you ready for five?
ML: Yeah, absolutely – I think I personally start in February, so it’s pretty cool.
MA: Cool! Are you enjoying the party?
ML: Yeah, it’s cool. We’re just going to start moving around and seeing different people and we’re having fun!
MA: Are you going to take us all inside?
ML: Sorry?
MA: We’re gonna come there and you’re gonna let us all in, right?
ML: I (laughs) – yeah, sure!
(everyone laughs)
AS: (laughs) All right, let’s go! Yeah!
(screams from audience)
MA: Thank you, Matt!
ML: You’re welcome – I’ll see you later!
MA: Later, dude!
JN: Bye-bye!
ML: Bye!
MA: My mom’s gonna come back on.
MA’s Mom: Melissa?
MA: Yeah?
MA’s Mom: I’ll talk to you later. Alright?
MA: Talk to you later!
JN: Thank you!
MA’s Mom: Bye!
MA: Thank you, mommy!
(screams from audience)
MA: Don’t I have the best mom in the world? She’s like, tracking these people down and pulling them over to a quiet spot so that we can get them on the phone! OK, I’m sorry – question?
Talihia: OK, so, um …
JN: What’s your name?
Talihia: My name’s Talihia. Hi! Um…
JN: Where are you from?
Talihia: Long Island – (screams from audience) – OK, so, um – at the end of the fourth book, there is this part where Dumbledore says, "Call on Mundungus Fletcher and Remus Lupin and all of the old crowd," and that’s the beginning of the Order of the Phoenix – and I was wondering, if they did that in the book at all, or …?
MA and AS: In the movie?
Talihia: Yeah, in the movie.
MA: Gone.
Talihia: They cut it out?
MA: No, but not completely – there is a scene in which Harry – you know when Harry runs into Dumbledore’s office to tell him about Crouch and he interrupts something …
Talia: Yeah.
MA: … there is a scene – he’s witnessing Cornelius Fudge’s stupid assishness…
JN: That’s true!
MA: … (laughs) as he walks in and so you’re getting the feelings of that – a lot of things are so quick that you will miss them – the only mention of the Longbottoms, even though Neville’s – and you could see Neville’s reaction to it – the only mention of the Longbottoms is in the Pensieve scene in which they say – you know – you tortured Frank and Alice Longbottom and if you’re not a fan, you’ll miss it.
JN: It’s true.
MA: OK.
Talihia: Nice talking to you guys – big fans!
AS: Oh – thanks!
JN: Yellow’s turn.
AS: There are so many, I feel bad not –
Julie Rich: OK, first of all I want to say –
JN: Hold on, hold on.
MA: Keep cool! Keep cool!
JN: We got a young lady here.
Julie Rich: OK, first of all I’m big fans of both your Podcasts – I listen to them religiously every week.
AS: Thank you!
Julie Rich: Second of all, my name is Julie Rich – I’m from Westville, New Jersey and …
AS: Yeah, Jersey – all right! Yeah! (audience clapping) Jersey – OK!
Julie Rich: OK, and my question is, how is Ron’s characterisation in the movie, because – honestly, Ron’s my favorite character and in last two movies, he’s meant to be doing scared and confused faces …
JN: Sue and I were just talking about this.
Sue Upton (SU): Thank you! All right, yeah.
JN: That was what Sue and I were talking about on the way over here – one of the things we talked about was how much better of a film this was for Ron – for Rupert – you know, for both of them, and you know, obviously they are the same people but (audience clapping) it’s much better and it was – and we got that scene where he got angry with Harry and we got to see the confliction and all that stuff going on with Hermione; we got to see his – you know – crazy fan emotion for Krum at the beginning and just complete and utter distaste in the end and it was just – you got to see a little – quite a few more levels than just the "Fraidy-Cat" Ron and it was very refreshing to see that I think.
MA: And he’s an excellent – you just see the levels of his acting finally.
JN: Yeah, there’s one point in particular, right when Harry walks up towards the Goblet when they call his name, and they got, like, this dark kinda sorta music happening and you see Ron just kinda turn and just look at him and he just kinda (mimics facial expression) like, "whoa"…
AS: The entrance scene …
JN: It was good – it was good.
AS: … for both schools – was great.
Kevin Steck (KS): What do you think about the study, with Snape?
MA: Snape abusing the children?
JN: Yeah!
MA: Snape, like, smacking them on the head!
AS: This is a Snape that I think we all like because he doesn’t play a huge role in the actual movie but he comes in at the right times …
JN: It’s true.
AS: … to lighten things up, I think.
JN: A little bit.
MA: Alright, this girl is like dying to ask a question.
AS: Who’s dying?
MA: Eric Scull, you’re on MuggleCast!
AS: OK, come on, Eric.
MA: Eric Scull wants to ask a question guys, should we let him?
AS: Right here – here! (audience screams)
Eric Scull: Uh, this question is for the board – first of all, I’d like to thank everybody for being here tonight and – you guys are great.
MA: Somebody’s gonna have to wrest from him soon.
Eric Scull: I – speaking of abuse…
(MA laughs)
Eric Scull: … and, um, out-of-characterness, my question is for Andrew but all of you can of course answer once he goes silent and it’s implicate.
AS: What?
Eric Scull: Have you changed your mind on the ever-abusive Michael Gambon…
MA: Yeah, that’s it – I want to know…
Eric Scull: … as Dumbledore?
MA: …becuase he’s different in the movie than how he’s portrayed in the trailers.
KS: OK … He’s not very personal …
AS: No! He’s still very angry in this movie – he’s an angry Dumbledore but he can calm down, he can keep cool sometimes – this is how he works. This is how he rolls.
KS: the Goblet scene – the whole Goblet scene annoyed me because he was SO angry.
MA: Yeah.
KS: It looked as though he was going to –
AS: He was angry! He – I don’t want to spoil anything for you, but he was just very angry!
MA: (laughing) You don’t wanna spoil anything, yeah right.
JN: You’ve been spoiling things all night – but, no – how they have it in the trailer, where you know – you see the name come up, and you see him scream Harry Potter –
AS and MA: That’s not how it happened.
KS: He starts off small.
JN and AS: There was like a "Harry Potter" then (louder) "Harry Potter" and he’s looking –
AS: The reason he was screaming was that he couldn’t find him.
JN: He was trying to find him.
AS: It’s not anger, it’s false –
KS: Yeah, but what about after?
JN: Yeah.
KS: What’s WB trying to pull?
BS: "Did you put your name in the Goblet of Fire?"
MA: Do we have questions that aren’t, "Is this in the movie?" Because you’re going to see it in a week. Do we have other questions?
AS: I still stand by what I say, that Michael Gambon is …
MA: … a feisty Dumbledore.
AS: I like Dumbledore. There’s a lot of people –
MA: Kevin – Kevin – I’m taking a question.
KS: No, you, right there, in blue with the green band – right there. You’re pretty patient!
AS: What’s your name and where are you from?
Brendan: My name’s Brendan – I’m from Westchester – um …
(audience screams)
AS: … yeah, Westchester – all right!
Brendan: Yeah, I was just wondering – was the part when Harry asked Cho Chang to the Yule Ball – what did – does he say "Wangoballwime?" ’cause that’s like my favourite quote from the book.
MA: Me too!
AS: That’s it!
MA: It’s a little more distinct but it’s, there’s a sound as if, "Want to go to the ball with me," and she’s like, "What the hell?"
AS: And we talk about this on one of the podcasts and we were saying how we were really hoping that it – ’cause they didn’t show it in the trailers.
MA: She’s so good, isnt’ she – (audience screams) – she’s good. The good Cho. Emerson, why don’t you pick a question?
Emerson Spartz (ES): OK, the girl in the MuggleNet shirt has been jumpin’ up and down the whole time we’ve been here.
MA: And the girl that he picks will be his girlfriend.
AS: Oh, of course.
Leanne: Thank you, um –
ES: I just didn’t want you to hurt yourself.
Leanne: Well, we’re past that, but thank you for the consideration!
MA: Are you … are you going to kill him – is this what this is? Are you an H/H person?
Leanne: I’m not going to kill him – I’m simply going to simply, no, I’m not non-violent – I’m …
ES: So what’s on your mind?
Leanne: First of all, I want to say about being a Harry/Hermione shipper – not all of us are delusional – some of us knew the whole time that Harry and Hermione were not gonna get together but we just like Harry and Hermione, don’t we? (audience screaming and clapping) I don’t think that that is a crime.
MA: That is not, you are not who we’re talking about. You people don’t understand. If that’s what you like, hey, that’s what you like. I have my friend Mike right here, he likes Harry/Basilisk. I mean, hey. (audience laughs) You know. More power to you! No one’s going to say that his ship’s gonna come true!
ES: Do you guys happen to remember, right after the delusional thing, I made a post and I said, "This isn’t directed at you who can acknowledge that Ron and Hermione were going to get together. It was acknowledged at the ones who were really arrogant about it and claiming that there was so much evidence that we couldn’t see and that we were all stupid for believing in Ron and Hermione."
Leanne: Well, well, well – Emerson –
AS: The next big ship –
ES: I specifically didn’t single you out.
Leanne: Emerson, you’re very lucky you’re cute, because most of us are not so forgiving.
(audience screams)
AS: The next big ship –
MA: "You should be lucky he’s cute!" He’s not cute!
AS: The next – the next big ship is gonna be Hagrid and Madame Maxime, ’cause in this movie, I will tell you what, they are together!
MA: She eats something out of his beard! It’s nasty!
JN: Yeah that’s gross!
AS: There’s more than that!
MA: So nasty!
Leanne: Before I ask my question, I…
AS: You haven’t asked your question yet?
(laughs)
Leanne: No! I want to apologize to Eric for maybe scaring him a little? I just know what I want.
KS: He’s not easily frightened.
AS: All right, what’s your question, what’s on your mind, what’s your question?
Leanne: I know that I – and I’m sure many other people are – really excited about the second task, the whole underwater scene. How is that?
AS: It was, it was good.
KS: It was excellent, I liked that.
JN: I thought it was a very clever idea to bring it in the middle of the lake like that, I think that was – that was…just visually it was cool and.. What?
MA: Microphone.
JN: Oh he keeps taking it away from me! Yell at him! What am I saying… Yeah, they moved the whole second task out so they had to take row boats to get out to that little area in the lake, but I thought it was cool how the – whatever the stuff he eats, mmm…
MA: Gillyweed!
JN: …how that kicks in, it looks almost painful when it happens, and then he gets real excited and jumps out of the water. But the funniest line I think – should I tell them the funny Neville line?
(crowd yelling yes and no)
MA: No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no…
JN: I’m not gonna do it, but that’s just hilarious.
MA: No, that’s just bad sportsmanship.
JN: That is hilarious.
AS: Ok, ok, let’s keep switching up. Next question.
Ben Schoen (BS): Hold on! Hold on! Ok, what’s your name?
Lyane: My name is Lyane, I am from the Upper side, right here in New York City, and, ehm, I love Eric.
Everyone: Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
Lyane: He doesn’t love me though! He’s terribly shy…
AS: Alright, this kid in the blue hat…
MA: No the red and gold!
JN: The red and gold!
AS: The red and gold, blue hat! Name, where you’re from, what’s on your mind.
Dan Ball: My name is Dan Ball and I’m from Massachusetts.
(uproar and applause)
AS: Yeah Massachusetts! Alright!
Dan Ball: I think your show is wicked awesome, and well – my question is : I was at the premiere really early in the morning, like at four, really early in the morning..
MA: That’s really early.
Dan Ball : And I was wondering if umm – well I’m a really obsessed Emma Watson fan,…
BS: Yeah!
MA: You might be the only one.
Dan Ball : ..Yeah, and I just to know if she was nice and stuff, if she was cool or not.
AS: Wait wait wait, in the movies or on the red carpet?
Dan Ball: What?
AS: In the movies or in person?
Dan Ball: In person.
MA: She went right by us on the red carpet.
AS: Yeah she went right by us so ehm, we have no comment.
ES: It wasn’t her fault, her publicist was …
BS: She was going for me, she knew who I was, she was coming for me.
(laughter and applause)
Dan Ball: Ok.
MA: Ok, I’m gonna pick somebody over here.
AS: We gotta keep rolling here, there’s ton of people today.
MA: Ok there’s a girl who’s like about to fall over – you right there, yeah… Oh that’s what you meant, well next time, ok, I’m sorry.
KS: Nice T-shirt.
Mic: Thank you. Emm…
AS: Ah that’s it, The Leaky Mug.
MA: I got that shirt today! Somebody gave that to me, it’s around here somewhere. Thank you!
Mic: You’re welcome!
MA: Thank you guys, I’ve met you up at the red carpet! Ah guys, can we put my mom…
AS: Ok, one last time, one last time…
MA: One last time… Hi mommy.
MA’s Mom: Can you hear me?
MA: Yes, loud and clear.
MA’s Mom: Yes, I have Tolga with me..
MA: Tolga! Tolga Safer, he plays Karkaroff’s aide.
Tolga Safer (TS): Hello?
MA: Hey Tolga!
TS: Hey, can you hear me ok?
MA: Everybody can hear you, say Hi.
Audience: Hi!
TS: Oh my God! How many people are there?
(crowd laughing)
MA: We’ve got how many people – we’ve got probably..
TS: How many people are there?
MA: …probably five to six hundreds people are here.
TS: Are there lots of people?
MA: Lots of people! Your little premiere was nothing compared to this!
TS: Really? Hi everyone!
Audience: Hi!
TS: I’m here with Katie who plays Cho Chang. You guys wanna say hi?
MA: Yeah!
Audience: Yeah! (cheering)
TS: (to Katie Leung) Say hello, there’s like a thousand people there – a thousand.
Katie Leung (KL): Hello?
MA: Hi Katie!
AS: Katie Leung – Cho Chang!
(applause and cheers)
KL: Emmm. Hi! (surprised) My heart is going a thousand..
MA: Are you having a good time so far?
KL: Well, er, I’m having a great time, guys – lots of love – I’ll speak to you later – Bye!
MA: Bye Katie!
AS: She was quick!
MA: That was to the point, very nice.
MA’s Mom: Hello?
MA: Yeah Ma!
MA’s Mom : Are you still there?
MA: We’re all still here!
MA’s Mom: Ok, can you hold on a second?
MA: What?
MA’s Mom: Emma, would you say hello?
(crowd erupts)
AS: Oh my God! Oh my God!
MA: Oh my God! Ma!
Emma Watson (EW): Ah hello?
MA: Hi Emma!
EW: I’m sorry but I can’t hear anything…
AS: Yeah that’s Emma, that’s Emma! Yeah.
(crowd drowning EW talking)
MA: How you doing, Emma?
MA’s Mom: Melis?
MA: Yeah yeah, where was she?
MA’s Mom: That was Emma Watson.
MA: What?
MA’s Mom: Ok, it’s really loud here.
MA: It’s really loud in here too!
MA’s Mom: Ok.
MA: Thank you, mommy!
MA’s Mom: You’re welcome.
MA: You’re the best.
MA’s Mom: Bye.
MA: Bye!
(applause)
MA: Well, she was there! She said something while you guys were all screaming, so, we couldn’t hear it.
AS: It’s mayhem in those party. Ok, so what was your question?
Mic: What was the most disappointing part of the movie?
AS: Ah, can I take this one?
MA: I would have wanted Harry and Hermione to get together but it just didn’t happened – I’m sorry yeah..
AS: Ahem, the beginning, because they really – it’s fast-paced, but you really – they just cut – one thing in that – it was really quick, like the Portkey scene..
JN: That was awesome though.
AS: It was – oh, no no, that was really cool…
JN: That was really cool.
AS: …when they got to the Portkey, and some of the shots that they used while they were going along, that was actually really nice.
JN: And another thing that you’ll see right at the beginning – that reminds me – speaking of the Portkey, speaking of special effects, ’cause I’m big on the special effects – I have one thing I’ve noticed, I don’t know if anyone talked about it yet while I wasn’t here – we actually get to see a little of Apparation in this movie …
AS: Yes that’s the funniest thing in the world!
JN: And and…
MA: Apparition.
JN: Yeah, whatever the hell it’s called! (all around laughing) There’s the cool thing that I’ve noticed – you’ll notice too – when they all Apparate and – to the destroyed Quidditch World Cup area, they Apparate in a – it’s like a poof of white kind of smoke, and then towards the end, when the Death Eaters Apparate back, it’s black smoke…
(crowd murmurs)
JN: ..So it’s kind of interesting little thing that – I thought was interesting because I like that kind of stuff.
MA: Sue’s gonna pick a person now.
Audience: Pick me!
SU: Wait, before I do, I wanna say hello – we were talking about the other fansites that are here, there’s someone else we need to …
AS: Mike from Shurtugal.com, I forgot to mention him.
SU: Jenna is here from DanRadcliffe.com…Hello! Hi Jenna!
MA: Jenna from DanRadcliffe.com!
SU: Hi, hello!
AS: Where is she? Stand up, Jenna!
Jenna: I am standing!
(laughing)
AS: I can’t see her!
JN: It’s funny ’cause she’s short.
SU: There she is! Woo hoo!
ES: Jenna from DanRadcliffe.com.
(applause)
MA: Hey, hey, we also, we also – guys hold on, I’m gonna hold the questions for one second – we also ….
AS: We also got a really cool story.
MA: …we got a lot of email at our account for this and mmm, one girl, and Emerson told her she was crazy, but one girl chose this over Disney World…
JN: Yes.
MA: And so…
AS: Who is it? Hey can you stand up?
(girl standing up, being applauded)
AS: Yeah! Hey, come up to the mike, come up to the mike!
MA: We have – come up to the mike – we have a little something for you – Eric is gonna give it to you.
AS: Ok so – hold on a second, hold on a second, let me set this up – so we gave you a call Friday – Friday night – I think it was?
Mic: Yeah.
AS: Last Friday night, I don’t know – we gave you a call Friday night and we said "Hey, we can’t wait to see you here", …
Mic: Yeah.
AS: …because your mother left your cell phone number with us, and, so we’re really happy that you chose Disneywrold over us, because I’ll admit it, I’m impressed.
MA: And Emerson spent ten minutes telling her all the things she was missing..
AS: Oh yeah, Emerson made her feel bad about it, that was really..
MA: But so we tried to make it up to you a little bit…
AS: So, we are going to make it up – we’re not going to make it up, well..
MA: Well, we’re gonna try to make it up.
AS: We have a little something for you – first of all, we know you like us a lot..
Mic: Yes I do.
AS: …Second of all – where is it?
MA: Eric?
MA: Do it, Eric!
JN: We’re running out of time!
AS: Here, you want to come up? Just come in front of us…
(crowd reacting)
AS: …We’ve got you a little Mickey Mouse! Now..
KS: We’re going to sign it.
AS: We’re all gonna sign it – see he has little Harry Potter scar on there too – turn it around – isn’t that nice?
(crowd cheering, applauding)
AS: We’re all gonna sign the back of it..
MA: They’re signing his butt!
(laughing)
AS: ..we’re gonna sign the back of it and that’s for you..
(MA phone rings)
MA: Oh guys, I just have a feeling she’s gonna have Dan, so we have to answer…
Eric Scull: (very low) Turn it off…
MA: Shut up! Hello Ma? Hi!
MA’s Mom: Hey Jamie wants to introduce you to somebody. Hold on.
Jamie Waylett (JW): Yeah, hello Melissa?
MA: Yeah Jam?
JW: Yeah I got Robert with me who wants to say hello.
MA: Nah! Yeah!
JW: Yeah I got – one second, one second. I hear you..
JW: Are you having a good time so far?
MA: Who’s this?
JW: Ah hold on…(crowd laughing) One second, loads of people here, you know? (unintelligible)
MA: Hello? Who’s this?
Robert Pattinson (RP): Hello?
MA: Who’s this?
JN: Tell us who..
AS: Yeah I guess we can guess who it is from that…
JN: Tell us your name, dude! What’s your name?
RP: Hello, I’m Rob Pattinson and …
MA: Hi Rob!
AS: Oh, Robert Pattison, Cedric Diggory!
(crowd erupts)
RP: Hello.. I can’t hear anything, so yeah..
MA: Robert, can you hear us now?
RP: I can’t hear anything! I can just hear the squeaking.
JN: Tell us something, tell us something…
MA: Robert, tell us..
RP: I have to go sign some autographs, so, I hope you guys have a good night and I hope you enjoyed your PotterCast.
MA: Thanks, Robert!
JN: Thank you, Robert!
AS: Yeah, Robert Pattison! Alright!
(crowd applauding)
MA: He even hung up for my mom.
(laughing)
AS: Alright, so here it is, here’s your Mickey Mouse doll, signed by everyone on staff – we’ll be happy to talk to you afterwards, ok?
(crowd applauding)
MA: Ok, next question, Sue’s gonna pick.
(crowd pleading to be picked)
AS: What happened?
MA: Well, we’ve got time for a few more, guys.
AS: Yeah, we gotta keep them moving.
Audience Member : Hi guys – ok, just so you know, I’ve made you shirts with my sister so get them later..
AS: Oh! Hey, we’ll take them!
Audience Member: ..Yeah, ok, two questions. Someone said that Barty Crouch Sr. sucked. Was that your opinion? And also was Mad-Eye Moody’s eye sucky?
AS: Ok, ok – the person who said Barty Crouch Sr. sucked was – Yeah – Matt from Veritaserum – and I actually have to agree with that a bit because I don’t think his attitude – his acting was all that there for the part.
Audience Member : Ok.
JN: For who, for who?
MA: For a father who knows that his son is the one behind these things.
JN: Yeah.
MA: So…
BS: They don’t speak for all of us – I thought his acting was good…
KS: He sounded like a female.
AS: …His acting was good, his attitude wasn’t there – by attitude I mean voice. It just – I don’t know…
KS: No, no, I think that’s his voice though, and I don’t think it was his intention was to come off that way.
AS: Whatever that is, I think it ruined the role.
JN: Alright, here’s what’s going on, guys – we’re suppose to wrap this up very very shortly, we’re already running a little late, can you maybe, some of you do us a little favor, maybe come back tomorrow and buy a book from Barnes & Noble – they appreciate…
AS: But still more questions.
JN: …more people than late here like this, and now we have signs, but we’ll take a few more questions here.
KS: The one with the sign.
AS: Yeah, someone, someone..
JN: Hufflepuff, Hufflepuff, right here!
(crowd applauding)
SU: I love you Hufflepuff!
Leigh Partels: Wait, the socks! I wanted to give them to…
MA: Nice!
Leigh Partels: …you but I couldn’t resist wearing them.
AS: What’s your name, where are you from..
JN: Is that Emerson’s skirt you’re wearing?
ES: Oh…Below the belt.
Leigh Partels: Tell me about it.
JN: Go ahead.
Leigh Partels: So.. I’m Leigh Partels here from Princeton, New Jersey and a… (crowd reacting)…Yeah, Exit 8A if anyone’s wondering. I’m gonna play devil’s advocate for all the teenage boys – Ginny Weasley, how much?
AS: How much does she appear?
MA: What do you mean?
Leigh Partels: How much did we see of Ginny Weasley and …
Audience Member: …how awesome is she?
Leigh Partels: Yes, thank you, how awesome is she?
MA: You can’t really call her awesome. She doesn’t really do anything, yet.
Leigh Partels: Oh, come-
JN: Ginny is-
MA: Listen, I’m a Ginny fan.
JN: Yeah, you have a lot of dancing this year.
Leigh Partels: At the Yule Ball?
MA: Exactly.
JN: Her and Neville have quite a few moments together at the Yule Ball.
(Crowd Awwwws)
JN: They looked adorable, for lack of a better word. They did well. And Ginny did have a lot more face time in this movie. Just showing up with the trio, which I think is a very good precursor to when we’ll see more and more in Book 5 and 6 and 7.
MA: And more and more and more and more…
JN: And in Book 7 when she and Harry get married.
(Crowd Cheers)
MA: John’s seen an advance copy. He talks to Jo regularly.
JN: Yeah, me and Jo are…
MA: They’re going to fix the Horci thing.
JN: We talk on AOL.
ES: All right. Melissa, I say the one who made the big sign.
MA: What’s a matter?
ES: I say the girl who made the really big sign.
MA: Why? What does it say?
ES: Because she made a really big sign.
MA: It says, "We Love Muggles!"
BS: MuggleNet, MuggleNet.
MA: It says Muggles.
AS: Yes, come up.
MA: Come up, come up.
AS: Okay, wait a second. This is… say your name when you get up.
Chaya: Chaya.
AS: Chaya.
Chaya: I’m Chaya.
MA: Hello, Chaya.
AS: This is the girl who I screwed up on the show.
Chaya: Yeah, they wished me a happy birthday, but they said my name wrong.
JN: Awwww…
Chaya: He apologized, so I forgive him because I love you, Andrew. So…
AS: Aww. Thank you.
Chaya: Make sure you give Eric his shirt, because otherwise I’ll be upset.
AS: I did that already.
Chaya: Okay, good.
AS: I handed it off to someone.
Chaya: Okay, so here’s my question.
AS: You’ll get it. You’ll get it.
Chaya: I want to know what the most major difference between this movie and the previous ones was. Like what was really different about it?
AS: The humor. The humor. It was a lot funnier, I think. There was much more, there were funnier scenes.
JN: We know it’s funny and we know there have been articles talking about how there is more British humor in it too. I think some of the other more noticeable differences is, well there were some similarities to the third movie and how they more of the art film kind of look. The cinematography – excellent. There are some scenes, especially in the first few minutes, where when they’re walking up to the Portkey, they’re silhouetted by the sun. You don’t think you’re watching a Harry Potter movie at that point. Especially not the first two. And it’s just shot beautifully.
MA: Yeah.
JN: And then mix that with the score. We’ve got a new composer, Patrick Doyle, who did an incredible job.
SU: Patrick Doyle rocks.
JN: You’ve probably heard it already too. But it that was just very nice and I won’t ramble on.
MA: Thanks guys, we’ve got one more…
ES: Melissa, Melissa, Melissa.
MA: What, what, what?
ES: I want to weigh in really fast. I want to weigh in on this. I thought the biggest difference between this movie and the other movies was that in the first three movies, there was filler. There was filler footage. There is nothing wrong with it. But this movie was, because they had to trim a really, really long book into a short movie, it was slam bang, there was no filler. One scene to the next, you feel like… I mean you watch the movie for ten minutes and you’re already 150 pages into it. And I thought that was a very noticeable difference.
MA: When they come out on the third task, it was like, "Oh my gosh. We’re there already?"
ES: There are no bathroom breaks in this movie.
JN: Yeah.
MA: Guys, one more question!
(Crowd noise)
JN: Who has… who has come from the farthest away? This is what we’re going to do.
MA: Yeah.
JN: If you think you are furthest from New York for your hometown, seriously…
AS: No, no, no.
(The whole crowd calls out their hometown)
JN: Does anybody live… Where are you from?
MA: First five people come up, say where you’re from.
Audience Member: California.
MA: Where?
Audience Member: California.
JN: Anybody live further away than California?
AS: California.
MA: How could you live further than from California, live in Asia?
(More crowd members calling out)
JN: From where?
Estee’: South Africa.
JN and AS: South Africa?
MA: (laughing) South Africa!
JN: Come on up, South Africa.
AS: No offense, California.
JN: I hope you’re bringing an ID with you.
AS: I feel bad for California now.
MA: South Africa, get your butt up here.
AS: Wait, wait. First you have to prove you’re from South Africa.
MA: How do you do that?
AS: I don’t know.
Estee’: I can speak a different language.
MA: Ooooh, do it.
Estee’: What do I say?
AS: Uhh… say I love MuggleCast.
MA: Say we love…
JN: Say how much you like Harry Potter.
Estee’: (Says how much she likes Harry Potter in a foreign language)
AS: Ohhh…
BS: Alright.
AS: I believe… Stop it, stop it, stop it.
(Crowd laughs)
KS: We get it.
AS: So what’s your question? Oh wait, name… What’s your name, where are you… well we know where you’re from.
Estee’: Estee’. Estee’.
AS: From Calif – From South Africa. What’s your question?
Estee’: Okay. I heard from or read somewhere, I’m not sure, that it was really obvious that Mad-Eye Moody was an imposter. So, was it made really obvious…
MA: Now I don’t think so.
Estee’: …and also how was his acting because he looks…
KS: It’s not obvious for anyone who has not read the book.
MA: Right.
KS: It is very obvious for someone who has read the book.
MA: Which, clearly…
KS: The bottle, he swigs from the bottle constantly.
AS: There is foreshadowing.
Everyone: Yeah
JN: There is a lot of hip flask drinking.
KS: It was very obvious if you’ve read the book, which I’m sure you all have. But for someone just seeing for the movie, they won’t have a clue.
BS: But Brendan Gleeson, the guy who played Mad-Eye Moody, did a really good job, I thought.
MA: Yeah, yeah.
KS: He did.
MA: He even overcame that stupid strap thing of the eye. I didn’t like that.
AS: I couldn’t complain about that.
MA: Well you can’t because the effect would have been so much money.
AS: He is actually probably the funniest person.
JN: Oh yeah.
AS: Because he’s really cracking the… He has this attitude that’s like, "I don’t care."
JN: Yeah. The weirdest scene with him is at the Yule Ball. They’re dancing and singing to that fast song…
KS: That was a little weird.
JN: And they show this shot of Moody tapping his feet, and his fake foot, and he’s got a pet ferret on his lap. Like he owns a pet ferret and they’re both dancing with the song.
MA: And he’s drinking from his hip flask.
JN: It’s the weirdest thing I’ve ever seen.
MA: Yeah, yeah. Well okay guys. I really want to do this, and I haven’t asked you about it, but if you listen to PotterCast there is a thing that we do with the fans called "Live or Die". And…
(Crowd cheers)
AS: I don’t know what this is about.
MA: It’s… I know, because you don’t listen to PotterCast. I listen to MuggleCast. So, see? (Imitating AS) In the Ratings!
AS: Fine, I won’t do it.
MA: So, we’re going to say the name of a character, all of us will go down and say the name of a character, you shout out whether he’s going to live or die. Gotcha?
AS: Okay.
MA: (To AS) You, go ahead. In Book 7.
AS: Shout out a name?
MA: Yeah, pick a name.
AS: Aww… geez! Oooh, Snape.
(Crowd Responds)
AS: Okay, sorry. Geez!
JN: Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Everybody… everybody for live, say live.
Audience: Live!
MA: Die?
JN: Everybody for die, say die.
Audience: Die! (louder)
AS: You are cruel, cruel people.
MA: Goner.
JN: He will die.
MA: Ummm… Oh geez, Neville.
Audience: Live!
MA: I like you people.
JN: Anyone for die?
(Silence)
MA: (Laughs) Nice. Go ahead, John.
JN: Okay. How about Ginny Weasley?
Audience: Live!
MA: And have twelve children and be married to the Minister of Magic.
JN: How many for die?
Audience: Die. (softly)
MA: Anyone for die? Ahh… you’re weak. Ben?
BS: I have a really good one. Harry Potter?
Audience: Live! Die!
MA: Wait.
AS: Hold on.
MA: Shhh… who says live?
BS: Live.
Audience: Live!
BS: Die.
Audience: Die! (same for Live)
MA: What?
BS: That’s 50/50.
KS: Okay… How about Ron?
Audience: Live! Die!
MA: Guys, pick the last one.
KS: How many for die?
Audience: Die!
KS: Okay, if it’s for die, say die now.
Audience: Die!
KS: How about live?
Audience: Live! (louder)
MA: Okay, only one more, so Emerson or Sue pick it.
JN: Cedric!
(Crowd laughs)
ES: Harry Potter.
JN: Live!
KS: We already did Harry Potter.
ES: Harry Potter?
MA: We did Harry Potter. Where were you?
BS: He’s not paying attention.
ES: Alright, more importantly… Martin Miggs the Mad Muggle?
Audience: Live! Die! Live!
ES: Y’all crazy!
AS: Alright.
MA: Alright, guys. Guys, seriously.
AS: With that note, we do have to wrap it up.
Audience: Awwww…
AS: I know, it’s not our fault. Blame it on Warner Brothers.
MA: You’ve got forty-five minutes in the store. Buy everything, do it.
AS: Andrew Sims is my best friend (reading a shirt). That’s sweet.
MA: That’s Andrew Sims’ challenge, is to buy things.
AS: No, what happened was that Warner – Don’t pack up yet!
MA: What are you doing?
BS: Where is John Noe’s burritos?
AS: We need to run through a few thank you’s, then we will meet everyone. When I mean everyone, I mean everyone.
MA: Oh my god.
AS: First of all, first and foremost, Steven Cappela and J.J. Gorgan at Electronictv.com for providing Microphone equipment and Cameras for recording on the red carpet. Let’s… Yeah! Come on, Yeah! That’s it.
(Crowd cheers)
AS: He’ll love that.
MA: Doing our audio over here, is Richard Moringlane, otherwise known as DJ R-Thentic. We’ll have all his information up on our page when this goes live.
(Crowd cheers)
AS: Melissa Anelli for leading this project and getting this done.
(Crowd cheers)
MA: Am I fired?
AS: Without her, we wouldn’t have those posters behind us.
KS: And I wouldn’t have my ticket. So…
MA: Oh… we’re supposed to give away the thing.
AS: Okay. And then also…
JN: Melissa’s Mom, for-
MA: Melissa’s Mom.
(Crowd cheers)
AS: Yeah! Melissa’s Mom!
MA: Is she not the coolest? She’s going around just grabbing them.
AS: All of our special guests. Everyone who came out from other sites; Jenna from DanRadcliffe.com, Mike from Shurtugal.com, Matt Vimes, Aris, who else am I missing? Andy and Zach from Harry Potter Fan Zone, Barnes & Noble of course. So we can actually say it.
(Crowd cheers)
AS: Yeah! Yeah, buy their books. All right? Okay, and then we also would like to thank all of you guys for coming out…
MA: Wait!
AS: … and for listening to the show and supporting it. And we also-
KS: Don’t leave yet guys!
AS: We also-
MA: We’ve got one last thing, guys. Do you still have your tickets?
(Crowd responds)
MA: Okay. Well we’ve got two last prizes.
KS: I hope you do.
AS: Two give-aways, and then we’ll meet everyone.
MA: First is a Harry Potter Scene-It?. You pick.
KS: Now, do they…
AS: Winner of the Harry Potter Scene-It? game…
JN: Take out your tickets.
AS: Seven, six, three, zero, five, nine. No one? You got it? Right there, come on up!
JN and MA: Yay… Come on up!
MA: And we’ve got to move quick so do the next one. Alright, guys. The last one is a surprise.
AS: This is a really good one.
MA: This is a Leaky Cauldron t-shirt. "We know who, you know where."
AS: So, who wants a Leaky Cauldron shirt?
(Crowd cheers)
AS: Yeah, but wait a second. Wait a second. Who wants a Leaky Cauldron shirt which the entire Harry Potter cast signed on the back.
(Crowd goes crazy)
AS: Yeah! Yeah!
MA: We thought you’d like it.
AS: Let’s see… who do we have on here? Daniel Radcliffe…
MA: We’ve got Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, Katie Leung, Tom Felton…
AS: Rupert Grint if you didn’t mention him.
MA: … Emma Watson, Bonnie Wright, Matthew Lewis, James and Oliver Phelps, a lot of people.
AS: Everyone! Who is going to pick it?
MA: Emerson.
BS: Okay, Emerson.
AS: Here you go, buddy. Pick one.
JN: (Ghost voice) Ooooh, Emerson.
BS: Read it.
ES: Seven, six, three… five… five…
MA: Come on, dude.
ES: Zero!
(Quiet pause)
Eric Scull: Yes!
(MA and crowd laughs)
AS: No, no you don’t. Anyone?
MA: Who is it?
AS: Did anyone? Come forward?
MA: Oh, they left. Don’t they, aren’t they sad they left? Okay, next.
AS: Wait, wait… Say it one more time.
ES and MA: Seven, six, three, five, five, zero.
AS: Okay, another chance.
JN: Hurry up.
MA: Hurry up, hurry up. We’re going to get kicked off.
ES: Seven, six, three… five, eight, two.
KS: No one?
AS: You?
BS: We got it, we’ve got a winner.
MA: Come up!
AS: Does anyone have it?
Audience Member: We have a shirt for Emerson!
(Crowd laughs)
JN: We’ll do that later.
AS: A shirt for Emerson, sweet… sweet. Keep pulling them.
ES: Seven, six, two, two, seven…
(Crowd is confused)
ES: Seven, six, three…
KS: He’s dyslexic.
ES: Seven, six, three, two, seven, three.
Shirt Winner: That’s me!
(Panel cheers)
AS: Come on up!
MA: Come on up, show us your ticket. Alright guys, listen. Thank you so much.
AS: Nobody go anywhere because we want-
(Crowd calls out for John’s sheet)
MA: The what?
Audience: The sheet!
JN: Are we going to do it?
MA: Oh, the freaking sheet. Give me it. We’ve got something for John, everybody.
(Crowd cheers)
BS: Ah, the sheet!
MA: Oh my god!
(JN puts the sheet on)
JN: (Ghost voice) Oooooh, I’m Sirius Black!
(MA Laughs)
KS: John, that’s a good look for you, buddy.
MA: Thank you, guys!
(JN, still wearing the sheet, falls over his chair)
(Crowd and Panel laugh)
AS: Now Barnes & Noble really wants us out. We will sign autographs and take pictures, whatever you want. So that’s it, thanks everyone.
KS: Goodbye.
BS: Visit BenSchoen.com.
(Crowd cheers, music comes in)