Good evening, MuggleDorks! Your trusty host here with some listener feedback on episode 60. Two things to mention though before we get to that:

1) Sorry for no Roundup on #59! The week sorta snuck by without anyone getting a chance to create a post. We'll try to avoid that in the future.

2) I'd like to direct everyone's attention to the debate poll on the right side of this page. You'll notice Laura and I are leading Eric in the audience vote with a 55/44 split. Unfortunately, this doesn't officially make Laura and I the winner. However, I am a man of my word, and I'll still stick with my promise of $10 to each of you who voted for us. Just don't tell Ben or Eric.

Let's get to the feedback from last week's show! Sandhya, 16, of Michigan writes in response to our discussion of the love room: "Maybe the purpose of this love room is not to actually contain love but merely to study the effects of it," she writes, "we must remember that the people we are dealing with here all have magic. There are auras and powers, a supernatural presence of sorts, within each wizard or witch that must change as the children get older and mature. That’s why they go to Hogwarts, their education allows them to focus their magic. The love room then could actually be a way for department of mysteries personnel to then study the effects of love on both people and their magic."

We received another e-mail from Lillian, 13, of Texas. She thinks that the Ministry of Magic uses some reverse-psychology on visitors to make sure they don't enter: "It is kind of similar (vaguely) to how you always knock on a bathroom door before you open it. People expect it to be locked or to have someone in it, so they don't just waltz in. The thing is, people would expect the door to be locked or guarded, so they wouldn't just go on in."

Eric, 26, of Houston, Texas e-mailed in about our debate on underage wizardry: "The problem with the whole Ban on Underage Magic is that it is biased. The only way that the Ministry can tell if an underage wizard has done magic is if they are in a non-magical house. If an underage which or wizard does magic in a public magical place (ie Diagon Alley) the Ministry can't tell who does it. If an underage wizard does magic in his house (where his/her parents are also magical) the ministry can't tell who performed the magic. But, if an underage wizard does magic in his/her house (where the parents are non-magical) he/she will get in trouble."

You'll hear a few more rebuttals on Episode 61 of MuggleCast, which is scheduled for a spoOoOoOoOky release this weekend!