I wanted to add to name Kingsley Shacklebolt mentioned in the podcast. Yes, he is described as black in the Advance Guard chapter of OOP. He is a tall, bald black wizard with a deep, slow voice. He is also described as having a gold earring in his ear. This earring is missing in HBP or DH whichever book he is seen guarding the muggle prime minister.

Knowing JKRs use of names that focus on injustice the name Shacklebolt brings to my mind slavery in America. (shackles and bolts)

“thought you ought to know”

Kimberly

*sings*
We’re knights of the round table, we dance whenever we’re able
We do routines and chorus scenes and footwork inpeccable
We dine while here in Camelot we eat ham and jam and spamalot!

Sorry I just had to point out how terribly wrong you were…..(and for the record I can sing it in German too!)

It’s my mom’s fault don’t even say it!

Oh and I love your podcast I’ve listened since the beginning!

Isn’t “the blond death eater” Rowle as mentioned in both DH and HBP?

Definitely Slytherin all tha’ way baby!

Frances – Read Lord of the Rings. Now. It will help inform your reading of Harry and give you a necessary base in fantasy literature. Aside from that, it really is a damn good book. There are slow parts (Tolkein spends like 20 pages describing a chasm) but overall it carries really well.

Greg in T:

1. Admiral Akbar?
I will admit, I no next to nothing about the prequals. I saw them once each and that it is. But, I do not think that doesn’t make me a star wars fan.

Now to the waterskiing budrigars- can I be completely honest? I am ashamed to admit that they are a vague memory in my head. I think I can consider myself and Uber-Harry Potter fan (I do a freakin HP podcast, for crying out loud!), but for some reason, this did not stick with me. oh well. It is shameful.

MissouriMama (by the way, thanks for the kind words on the facebook group wall)- I am a slytherclaw because I have characteristics of both slytherin (I can be very sly and cunning when I want to be) and a Ravenclaw (I am sort of nerdy and bookish) so I couldn’t decide- ergo, I became a Slytherclaw. In the meantime, recently, I have been demonstrating some Hufflepuff tendencies so I am at a complete loss. Ironically, I don’t have any gryffindor in me- oh well.

Greg chose ravenclaw because of his pseudo-intellectual nature.

Oh, and I’ve never seen Star Wars, just from looking through the comments, there is some Star Wars discussion. So……I’ve never seen/read the Lord of the Rings either.

I’m listening guys – just really busy lately so no time to post . . . back at ya when I get through me campaign . . . keep it up eh . . .

Also, you mention the name Luna giving an impression of the character being in her own world, like she’s always ‘mooning about’. Luna coming from the Latin for moon. I think you’re right, but also, it used to be believed that the moon caused people to go crazy. The word ‘lunatic’ comes from Latin for moon also, from which we’ve derived the term ‘looney’.

I am just beginning another reread of all the books to pick up on clues left in earlier books. Can’t wait to see what there is.

And Penny, just out of curiosity, what makes you a “Slytherclaw” instead of one or the other? And Greg, are you a Ravenclaw? Why or how did you come up with that?

also, Alecto – the name you might want to consider for Erinyes is FURIES. They’re called the Kindly Ones, but it’s an ironic name for part of their mythological careers – Alecto is one of the sisters who punish impiety, especially parricides (killers of a parent). The Furies famously pursued Orestes into madness after he killed his mother, Clytemnestra (who had killed his father, Agamemnon). I thought Alecto was pretty appropriate for a cruel teacher. Crucio would be right up the Furies’ alley.