General Questions and Comments

Andrew: All right, so let's move on now. We want to finish up the show today. Just - yeah, enough Voldemort for - well, you can talk about him. We just want general questions about the book. Anyone have any thoughts about the fandom as a whole?

Mikey: Anybody sad about Remus Lupin's death? I Was.

Andrew: "Where's the show going?"

Mikey: I was.

[Audience members talk]

Mikey: Oh yeah, and what did you guys think about Molly Weasley?

Andrew: Give it up for Molly Weasley!

[Audience cheers]

Mikey: Yeah! Really, it's awesome! Can you imagine the movie? Really, can you imagine Movie 7 with Molly Weasley just throwing her cloak: "STAY AWAY FROM MY DAUGHTER YOU-" witch!

[Audience laughs]

Mikey: All right, still trying to talk [unintelligible].

Andrew: Hey! Hey.

Mikey: It's "witch." We changed the "B" with a "W."

Andrew: It's a children's program.

Emerson: How many other people in this crowd right now can actually see their moms doing that? I can see my mom doing that.

Mikey: How many people can imagine Ben Schoen doing that?

Ben: How would my mom do that?

[Mikey laughs]

Andrew: Would Cheryl Schoen do that?

Ben: "Not my Benny."

Mikey: Yeah.

Andrew: Okay.

Mikey: We love Molly Weasley up here.

Andrew: So anyone have thoughts like that about the book? Here, I'll take one right...

Mikey: Any favorite scenes from the book you want to tell us about?

Andrew: Maybe you can come up next, sign up here.

Ben: I like the salami, personally.

Mikey: Yeah, let's get a group of people. Not too many, just a few.

Andrew: Just a couple for now, then we'll call more people up. What's your name? Where are you from? Let me guess, it's in Illinois.

Audience Member: Yeah! Oh my god. Hi, my name is Genevieve and I'm from Oak Lawn.

Andrew: Oak Lawn. Yeah!

Audience Member: Oak Lawn, yeah!

Mikey: Oak Lawn!

Audience Member: Yeah! [laughs]

Emerson: I love how every Chicago suburb starts with "Oak." You've got Oak Park, Oak Forest, Oak...

Mikey: Oakwood.

Emerson: I'm kidding! I know the suburbs, but there's four Chicago suburbs at least that start with "Oak."

Mikey: Skoak. Oak, oak...

Emerson: Yeah, I heard you. Anyway, go ahead.

Mikey: Anyway, go ahead.

The Grey Lady

Audience Member: Not very creative, if you've noticed. Come on now. I'm wondering, you know how they said about the Grey Lady, how she was Ravenclaw? How come we've never known about that before? They never said in the first book, "Oh, that's Ravenclaw's ghost" or - we know about Nearly Headless Nick and the Bloody Baron.

Jamie: They did, didn't they? I thought they mentioned it in passing. She was like, "Oh, that's the Grey Lady. That's the Ravenclaw ghost."

Mikey: Yeah, we knew it was the Ravenclaw - we knew what all the ghosts' Houses they were. You know, we knew the Fat Friar was Hufflepuff, the Bloody Baron was Slytherin. But we didn't know the Grey Lady was Ravenclaw's daughter.

Audience Member: Yeah.

Mikey: And I don't think that's something that's common.

Audience Member: They give, like, more description about Nearly Headless Nick because, yeah, he's from Gryffindor and everything - sorry. [laughs] And everything, but why do you think, like, J.K. Rowling had the Bloody Baron and the Grey Lady, like, together somewhat? Like, somehow. I know that the Bloody Baron was, like, in love with the Grey Lady.

Jamie: Just because it links it. Like, you know, we've seen the Bloody Baron, and we've seen all the ghosts, and we've seen the Grey Lady. And everyone's wondered why the Bloody Baron had all the blood over him, obviously, and those chains that he wears. And then she finally answered a question that people were thinking, I'd say.

Mikey: I think it's kind of also we're seeing the books through Harry's eyes, and since he's a Gryffindor, we know a little bit more about Nearly Headless Nick, about his Death Day, how he can't get into the Headless Hunt, and we don't know anything else about, really, the Bloody Baron other than he was kind of bloody, he's listened to him. So I think that's why we didn't know more about the ghosts because we're learning from Harry's point of view. And if we were learning from, like, Luna Lovegood, we would hear about Nargles and stuff like that, and probably about the Grey Lady. So, yeah, so that's probably why.

Andrew: Hi, what's your name? Where are you from?

Audience Member: Hi, I'm Natalie, and I'm from Oak Park.

[Audience laughs]

Audience Member: Yeah, I know.

Mikey: Oak.

Characters Killed Off

Audience Member: Yeah. [laughs] But we know that J.K. Rowling said that when - a long time ago she said she killed off two characters she hadn't originally planned to kill, and in return granted one a reprieve. She said that the reprieve was Arthur Weasley, but who do you think the two...

[Audience members say something]

Audience Member: Really?

Ben: Lupin and Tonks.

Mikey: She said Lupin and Tonks.

Audience Member: She said it? Okay, that was my guess. Nevermind, then.

Andrew: Check the news on MuggleNet, ma'am. You would've known this.

Mikey: And that's also - that's also probably the reason why Lupin doesn't get, like, a heroic death, and it made me kind of sad that, "Oh, he's dead," instead of, like, being like...

Andrew: We'll have Alex Carpenter...

Mikey: Yeah, we'll have Alex Carpenter tell you his feelings about that, because he's dead.

Andrew: Hi, what's your name, where are you from? Which Oak are you from in Chicago?

Audience Member: I'm Jen, of Chicago, City Proper.

[Audience cheers]

Events Too Convenient

Audience Member: But via transplant from San Francisco. I want to know what everybody thinks about the lack of emphasis on the destruction of the other Horcruxes, seeing as the ring had a curse that, you know, gave Dumbledore only like a year to live based on Snape's repairing of him, and that the locket had such an adventure surrounding it, but the rest of them were destroyed so easily.

Andrew: Conveniently.

Ben: Yeah, I know.

Mikey: [unintelligible] ...one book.

Ben: It was like I was saying, everything - everything in this book, everything in Half-Blood - excuse me, Deathly Hallows - was just incredibly convenient, you know? The whole entire time Harry wouldn't even have found out he was a Horcrux, had he not just happened to be there at the exact time that Voldemort was setting the snake loose on Snape, you know? And then every time - he barely makes it out of the Malfoy Manor, you know.

Jamie: Yeah.

Ben: He gets naked and jumps into some swimming pool filled with ice and then Ron just happens to show up in the nick of time. I don't know, it's just all too convenient.

Andrew: And don't forget the fire.

Ben: Yeah, and there's the fire.

Jamie: Yeah, the [unintelligible] that happened to destroy Horcruxes.

Emerson: I still don't really understand how when they were flying away from Privet Drive, Harry's in that, you know, nose dive down to the ground, and Voldemort's chasing him. How did he just wake up, like, fine? And how come Voldemort just like quit on him because his wand didn't work?

Andrew: Because he went through the protective barrier.

Mikey: It went through the protection barrier around the house.

Ben: Also, Accio Hagrid. I mean, come on. Like that's actually going to work.

Jamie: Yeah.

Ben: Does anyone remember that?

Jamie: But I'd say to that point, it is a good point, but I wouldn't call breaking into Gringotts and then flying off on a dragon through five levels easy.

Andrew: No.

Jamie: I mean, that seemed quite dark.

Andrew: But I think that's right. I mean a lot of it did feel convenient.

Jamie: Yeah, completely. Hermione waking up next to him. [laughs]

Andrew: But in a sense some of that is storytelling. It's like it all just happens for a reason, it all leads from one thing to the next, that's just how it happens. But it does feel extra convenient in this book, I think. Hi where are you from, what's your name?

Audience Member: I'm Jacky, and I'm from Lake Forest, so not an oak.

Mikey: But a forest, where oaks are from.

[Audience laughs]

Why Didn't Dumbledore Tell Snape Harry Might Live?

Audience Member: All right then. No, my question is about how Dumbledore never mentioned to Severus Snape that he thought that Harry was going to live, and I thought that after everything that Snape has gone through and Dumbledore knowing all about it, why wouldn't he mention that he had a suspicion, especially when he was pretty confident he was going to be right? And I would think that he would at least tell Snape that to give him some hope about what would happen in the future.

Jamie: I'm done trying to analyze why Dumbledore does things.

[Audience laughs]

Jamie: It - I'm through with it. I just - clearly, he's a cleverer man than we are, and he had a plan and it worked... [laughs] ...so we can't really fault him.

Mikey: He's like a puppet master...

Jamie: He is, yeah.

Mikey: ...pulling the strings. Harry's a marionette. Harry's like, you know, Pinocchio. [singing] "I got no strings."

[Audience laughs]

Audience Member: What if he hadn't told Snape because of periods within the memory he wouldn't have been able to... [unintelligible]

Jamie: Oh yeah.

[Audience laughs]

Ben: Yeah, that's true.

Mikey: Yeah, he had to believe he would have to die. He had to believe it.

Jamie: Well done. We were testing you there. Well done.

Mikey: We were test...

[Audience laughs]

Ben: So...

Mikey: Of course.

Jamie: Good point.

Ben: ...raise your hand - raise your hand when Dumbledore says - when Dumbledore told Snape that Voldemort is going to have to kill Harry, who here was like - you know, like the, oh, blank feeling? - like the, "Oh my god." You know what I'm talking about? Who here felt that - like "Aww, no!"

Mikey: I threw my book.

[Audience laughs]

Mikey: I was like, "No! I - I - lie! My eyes lie to me."

Emerson: I remain firm in my convictions of Harry living.

Audience Member: Me too!

Emerson: So I - I... [laughs]

Reacting Out Loud to the Book

Andrew: I do have to say we haven't really told this story yet. Does anyone really get enthralled in the book when they're reading it? Like completely, like, you're reacting out loud?

[Audience chatters]

Andrew: Well, Laura, Jamie, Kevin, Eric and I were all in this one little hotel room in London, and Laura really got into the book. Like she was sitting there curled up on the bed. Anyone watch the live stream, by the way? Best thing ever, right?

Mikey: Wow.

Andrew: It was...

Ben: It was - that was weird.

Andrew: ...an original, creative idea.

Jamie: Was it boring? Do you know...

Andrew: It was boring!

Ben: It was really exhilarating watching four people read a book...

[Audience laughs]

Andrew: Well, we haven't... [laughs]

Ben: ...on the Internet.

Andrew: It was boring, but it...

Ben: It was incredible.

Jamie: Yeah, we had...

Ben: We have to do it again.

Jamie: We had like 850 people watching this thing.

Andrew: More than that.

Jamie: And then we put a sign up saying, "Gone to dinner. Be back soon." And then we came back and there were, like, a thousand people.

[Audience laughs]

Jamie: Then as soon as we took the sign away and put it back on us, it dropped about 200 people.

Andrew: Yeah.

[Audience laughs]

Jamie: It was genius.

Andrew: But Laura would sit there and read the book...

Jamie: Yeah.

Andrew: ...and like every - seriously, it was like every five to ten minutes there was just - you know, it was dead silent and then, [imitating Laura] "Oh my god!"

[Audience laughs]

Andrew: [imitating Laura] "Blah blah blah!" And - and she...

Jamie: The language was considerably worse than...

Andrew: It was - her...

Jamie: ..."Oh my god," though, when she was doing it.

Andrew: ...hair was over her face, so I'd peek in and she's like - tears rolling down her face.

[Audience laughs]

Ben: Tell...

Andrew: She's...

Ben: Tell the Kevin story, too.

Andrew: She's like, "This is so...up!" It was - it was very...

Jamie: Kevin's story...

Emerson: What?

Jamie: Should we tell the Kevin...?

Andrew: It was hilarious. I was dying.

Jamie: Andrew, do you want to tell the Kevin story very quickly?

Andrew: Yeah, you could start off.

Jamie: Okay, well, Kevin Steck - just - if anyone ever had...

Andrew: Oh, well - oh, okay. [laughs]

Jamie: ...a book to read...

Mikey: Don't ever read with Kevin Steck.

Andrew: He had finished reading before...

Jamie: Yeah.

Andrew: ...any of us.

Jamie: Do not read with Kevin Steck.

Andrew: A while before any of us, because he's Kevin. He's a fast reader. And I gave him the nickname, "The Player's Guide," because what he would do is - we would be reading the book, he'd be like, "Oh. What page are you at?" And we'd be like, "Page 496, Kevin." He's like, "Oh. Five more pages you're going to hit a really good scene!"

[Audience laughs]

Andrew: "A really good scene! And just wait for..."

Jamie: Throughout...

Andrew: "...fifteen more pages..."

Jamie: Throughout...

Andrew: "...after that."

Jamie: ...this entire thing. Yeah, throughout this entire thing he'd be like, "Jamie, what page are you on?" And I had to be like, "501, Kevin," and he'd sort of put his hand on his head and be, "Oooo."

[Andrew and Audience laugh]

Jamie: "You just wait until 504."

[Andrew and audience laugh]

Jamie: And then even worse than that is you cannot get any silence when you're reading and Kevin's around, because...

Andrew: Or Eric. Eric. Eric. [laughs]

Jamie: Or Eric, because you'll say like, okay, it's reading time now. For the next 45 minutes, all we're going to do is read, you know, to get further in the book. So you'll sit down, and everyone will open their books and start reading. And then before you can really get into it and relax, Kevin will say something and this will jog you out of your concentration of reading the book. So you'll say - complete silence and then two minutes later, "Guys, I am hungry."

[Audience laughs]

Jamie: And then soon we'll be like, "well, in 45 minutes we'll go get some food." And he'll say, "okay." Then two minutes later, "Andrew, have you seen that new article on the Internet about this thing?"

[Audience laughs]

Andrew: "No, Kevin!"

Jamie: Yeah, then Andrew will be getting as annoyed as I am, and we'll exchange a look that says, you know. And then two minutes later Kevin will come up with something else again, and again, and again...

Andrew: And then Eric will be like, "Hey, Kevin, you want to go see Transformers tonight?"

Jamie: Yeah, yeah, and Eric will come up with some...

Andrew: No, shut up!

Jamie: And then, in the end, we'll just go read in the bathroom or something. Close the door so Kevin can't annoy us with his comments.

Andrew: Yeah. [laughs] Anyway...

Mikey: I get the bathtub.

Andrew: What's your name and where are you from?

Audience Member: I'm Laura, I'm from Evanston, and it's my birthday today.

[Audience cheers]

Jamie: Happy Birthday!

Mikey: Happy Birthday!

Snape the Bat

Audience Member: Thank you. So my question slash comment is about Snape. We've, all through the books, had these rumors of him being a vampire or a bat. And then, you know, after he's done with his conversation slash fight with McGonagall...

Jamie: Oh yeah.

Audience Member: ...he finally jumps out the window and we see a bat streaking out...

Jamie: I thought that was just...

Audience Member: Is he just - is he an Animagus? I mean, we've had a lot of illegal Anima - Animagus.

Ben: Animagi?

Jamie: I think he just looks like a bat, because after he does that, I think it's Flitwick says, "so you've been learning some new spells from your master." And Voldemort, as we know, can fly without the use of any - anything. A spell or a cloak or anything like that.

Audience Member: But I mean...

Jamie: He looks like a bat.

Audience Member: ...there's a huge difference in size from Snape to a bat.

Jamie: Yes, I think, I think - but I thought they said, "looking like a bat."

Mikey: I think it's more as he's flying away his cloak is billowing, and as he gets farther away he gets smaller and smaller like a bat small. He's like, "wheee!"

[Audience laughs]

Andrew: We're going to - in the interest of time, you'll be the last person. Yeah, in your Dumbledore's Army shirt because we got to...

Mikey: We have to wrap it up for some really cool rock n' roll after this. We're sorry, guys.

[Audience cheers]

Mikey: But we'll be sticking around for the show.

Andrew: Yeah.

Mikey: Alex is pretty cool. I like him. He's cool.

Andrew: Hi.

Audience Member: I'm Eddie from Western Springs.

Emerson: I've seen this kid at, like, every Chicago event that we've ever done. Yeah.

Parseltongue Ability and Hermione

Audience Member: And I was wondering, Harry has the Parseltongue ability because he was a Horcrux. And now that he's not a Horcrux, do you think that was removed from him?

Jamie: Yeah.

Ben: Yeah. I think so. I think since he lost the Horcrux, he lost the abilities that came with it.

Audience Member: And also, I think we should give it up for Hermione for modifying her parents'...

Jamie: For helping Harry and saving the day.

Audience Member: ...memory.

Jamie: Yeah.

Mikey: Yeah.

Andrew: That's a very good idea.

[Audience applauds]

Emerson: That takes some serious ovaries.

Jamie: Don't you all think that...

[Everyone laughs]

Andrew: What happened?

Mikey: Wow.

Mikey: He said that takes some serious ovaries.

Emerson: I don't know where that came from.

Mikey: We'll have to edit that out.

Andrew: Too much.

Mikey: Too much, Emerson, too much.

Ben: What's the point of editing it out? It doesn't even make sense.

Mikey: I don't know.

Andrew: We say "witch" and then you go off on that...

Mikey: We say "witch" and [unintelligible] and "ovary"...

Andrew: Hi, what's your name?

Audience Member: Hi, I'm Cassandra from Skocky, Illinois.

[Audience cheers]

Fred's Death

Audience Member: Hi. So I just wanted to comment slash complain about the lack of Fred Weasley being alive at the end.

Jamie: Oh yeah.

Audience Member: I felt there was no explanation afterwards. It made me hysterical. I mean, she'll vouch for me, I was screaming on the phone to her about it. And there was no explanation and now I'm just wondering, what you guys think about this too, like, what did George do? I mean, he lost a part of himself almost, you know?

Ben: He lost his ear, too.

Audience Member: Yeah, and he literally lost a part of himself. [laughs] It just made me sad.

Mikey: Well, to be fair, for the twins' sake, we did come up with one twin almost completely fine. He's like nine-tenths whole. And then, you know, the other twin. Someone from the Weasley family had to die. It had to make it real for them. You know, it's sad. It's sad, and it's like the twins were among my favorite characters. But, really, if, you know, you go to battle with your entire family and everyone makes it out okay, that's a little unrealistic.

Jamie: Yeah, that is true.

Emerson: And there's like a thousand of you.

Mikey: Yeah. Okay, let's continue on.

Andrew: Hi!

Confusion About Wands

Audience Member: Hi. [laughs] Hi, I'm Nancy Allendine, and I'm from LeGrange here. And I was just wondering, like, about when Voldemort died, it was because, like, Harry's wand - or when - no, wait. He was using the Elder Wand. And, like - no wait, sorry!

[Nancy and Audience laugh]

Audience Member: Wait, Voldemort was using the Elder Wand and Harry was the rightful master because he, like, stole Draco's other wand. I don't really get that, but okay. And so, since, like, Harry wanted Voldemort dead, then it killed Voldemort, but what was the part about, like, Lily's blood being in Voldemort? How did that affect it and why wouldn't that make Voldemort show more love?

Mikey: Okay. We had a long discussion about this at one point in the car.

Jamie: At one point.

Ben: What we do in the car is talk about Harry Potter a little bit and then we argue.

Mikey: Yeah, arguing about Harry Potter is all we do in the car. Basically, the blood being in Voldemort was kind of like the glimmer in Volde - Dumbledore's eye. The reason that it strengthened the connection between Dumbledore - or Voldemort and Harry - that strengthened - that connection made it so that way Harry's wand had already overpowered Voldemort. So that's why his phoenix wand was so important when Voldemort stole - kidnapped Ollivander and told him about the twin wands. He thought that Lucius' would actually just be strong enough to, you know, to be able to take it out because they're no longer connected. But because of that blood connection between the two of them, since Harry had already taken some of Voldemort's power into his wand, because his wand already overpowered Voldemort's back in Goblet of Fire, some of Voldemort's own power was regurgitated to him, which was more powerful than anything Lucius' wand had ever put out. So that was stronger than his. Now, back to the Elder Wand. Since he - Voldemort was never the rightful master. Dumbledore was, and then Dumbledore was defeated - not necessarily killed - was defeated by Draco Malfoy with the Expelliarmus spell. Again, that Expelliarmus does everything in the books.

[Audience laughs]

Mikey: Draco Malfoy was the rightful owner - wielder of the Wand. So since Harry, two weeks before the confrontation with Voldemort, had defeated Draco, he was the rightful owner. Voldemort's wand, the Elder Wand, would not be as strong with Voldemort as it would with Harry. It recognized its true master within its distance trying to kill - or someone else trying to use his wand to kill himself. And the wand - and basically, the spell backfired because Harry was truly the Master of Death at that time. Because he was the owner of the wand, the owner of the ring, and the owner of the Cloak at that time. So that's why it backfired, and the blood was simply making the connection stronger at that time.

Andrew: Okay.

Audience Member: I was under the impression that the blood was the reason that Voldemort didn't actually - wasn't able to kill Harry. It was like... [unintelligible]

Jamie: No, yeah, it's because he has Harry's blood in his veins.

Mikey: It was again for the...

Jamie: Yeah, yeah.

Mikey: ...for the - for the Horcrux.

Jamie: Because Harry died.

Mikey: But it strengthened the connection between the two of them until when the wands also - that's what strengthened their wands being so powerful against each other. And Dumbledore explains that in his portrait in the very end. That's why his wand was so powerful only against Voldemort, because their connection was so strong.

Expelliarmus

Audience Member: You know, the whole thing with the Expelliarmus. The whole reason J.K. loves that and not the Adava - sorry. Hi. By the way, I drove all the way out from Michigan for this. [laughs] The whole reason with the Expelliarmus curse, is much more doted over the Avada Kedavra, or however you say that - Avada Kedavra - is because J.K. wanted to emphasize the disarming over the killing. It's showing mercy. It's not being cold-blooded killers like the Death Eaters, it's - you're powerless, but you're still alive.

Ben: And Harry doesn't know anything else, so...

[Audience laughs]

Mikey: To open a door, Expelliarmus.

[Audience laughs]

Emerson: Real quick here, somebody actually sent me an e-mail two days ago pointing out that in the Goblet of Fire movie, apparently - I haven't been able to check this yet - but there's a scene...

Andrew: [unintelligible], yeah.

Emerson: Yeah, do we have screen shots of that? I was going to ask, because [unintelligible] in the graveyard or what?

Andrew: It's not very convincing. It looks like it, but it's just coincidence. I mean...

Emerson: And Dumbledore - it's coincidences...

Andrew: I think it's Dumbledore's...

Emerson: It's in Dumbledore's office. He apparently - he opens up a - on the glass shelf, and there's like an object in there that has a line, a circle, and a triangle.

Andrew: Yeah.

Mikey: Now, that's - there's actually screen shots online somewhere.

Andrew: There are screen shots, yeah.

Mikey: Yeah, I think they're actually on your gallery somewhere.

Andrew: Maybe they are. Okay, final question for today?

Mikey: Or in the forums somewhere.

Audience Member: Hi, I'm Donna from Henepa, Illinois, almost Iowa. And...

Mikey: Wow.

The Audiobook

Audience Member: [laughs] There you go. I listened to the book with Jim Dale's recording rather than reading it. So, first of all, yeah I wanted all the details in the ending, but I knew we couldn't have that, and I really liked the literary device that J.K. used when you wave good bye with Harry to the train departing the station. But since I was listening to it and didn't have it in front of me, I really expected the Harry Potter music at the end of the recording. Every recording. To come up after Harry said, "The greatest man I ever knew." And I really thought that was going to be the ending. I don't know if anybody else felt that way, who had listened to the book.

Andrew: Did anyone else listen to the book yet? Yeah? How long was the recording?

Emerson: Twenty-six hours.

Mikey: Yeah.

Andrew: Twenty-six?

Mikey: [unintelligible] CDs. It's in my apartment at home.

Andrew: Wow.

Mikey: Did anyone listen to music while reading the book? I listened to the Order of the Phoenix soundtrack, and, man, that soundtrack was perfect for the book. Like, especially when, like, Hedwig died. I was a little - the music was all sad, and I was just like, "Oh man. I need to stop reading."

Andrew: I love Jim Dale. I look - we were sort of thinking about listening to it in the car, but we preferred classic...

Mikey: [unintelligible] ...argue over...

Show Close

Andrew: All right, guys, looking for - Alex, do you want to come up here real quick? Alex Carpenter from the Remus Lupins.

[Audience cheers]

Mikey: Isn't he dreamy? Look at him.

Andrew: Alex, look at...

Emerson: We also - before we let Alex take the stage and rock this Border's, we have a couple prizes to give away.

Andrew: Oh yeah.

Emerson: So we're going to be doing a drawing.

Mikey: There's so many of you here.

Emerson: The first - the first prize...

Andrew: Get out your raffle tickets.

Emerson: ...is a Harry Potter "Scene It?"

Mikey: Have you "scene it"?

Ben: I'll draw.

[Andrew sarcastically laughs]

Mikey: Whoever draws automatically wins.

Audience Member: 694707?

Andrew: Yes!

Mikey: 694707? Who got the Scene It? Raise your hand.

Andrew: What's the number again? 694707?

[Audience member screams]

Andrew: Ah, I heard a...

Mikey: Someone back there! Lots of excited sounds. Uh-oh.

Emerson: 694707.

Andrew: Someone's coming. There she is. We have a winner!

[Audience applauds]

Mikey: Yay.

Andrew: Wearing a MuggleCast t-shirt. That's very good.

Mikey: I'm not on that shirt.

Andrew: All right. Next number, next number. Let's move along.

Mikey: We got to check.

Emerson: And the next prize is another Harry Potter "Scene It?"

Mikey: Harry Potter "Scene It?" Again! They're really fun to play. Is this the new one with Order of the Phoenix video? Wow!

Ben: 694518.

[Audience chatters]

Ben: Do we have a winner over here?

Andrew: Winner right over there, yeah.

Mikey: Come on, get the "Scene It?" Woo!

Andrew: And third number. Jamie.

Emerson: Third number for - what is this for? A "Scene It?"

[Audience laughs]

Emerson: It's 694478. You sound so sad. Person who won, come and be happy.

Mikey: Be excited. Yay! Prizes.

Andrew: Are we giving that away? Is someone...

Emerson: Yes, we have a sign - if you look in the back there, there's a big poster. Deathly Hallows cover art. It's signed by the illustrator, Mary GrandPre.

Everyone: Ooooo...

Andrew: Where's my ticket? I want that.

Mikey: How come I didn't get a ticket?

Andrew: Yeah. [laughs]

Emerson: Okay, for the poster...

[Audience member says something and Andrew laughs]

Emerson: Here we go, tickets out. 6947...

Audience: Awww....

Emerson: 47...23.

Mikey: It's me!

[Audience member screams]

Emerson: Yes!

[Andrew laughs]

Emerson: Yay! Yeah, just grab it, you don't need to wait.

Andrew: Thank you, everyone, for coming.

Ben: Whoa, whoa, whoa. Before we wrap things up here...

Mikey: Hold your horses, Andrew.

Ben: First of all, thank you to Adam Bromberg for driving us around. He's selling our merchandise, he's been great. Give him a round of applause.

[Audience applauds]

Mikey: He gives away free hugs. He's been feeling really lonely on the trip, so go...

Emerson: Also, thanks - the reason - when you guys go on the website each day, and you have, like, 25,000 layouts to choose from, it's because my little brother, Dylan Spartz back there, works on...

[Audience cheers]

Andrew: He's so hot. And also...

Ben: Thank you to the Borders' staff for having us, also. That's great. Give them a round of applause.

[Audience cheers]

Andrew: Merchandise is back there. You can get some fantastic Remus Lupins, MuggleCast...

Emerson: And for the first time in over half a year, if you guys - we can only sell them here at this event, but MuggleNet t-shirts are once again available for sale.

Andrew: Brand new!

Mikey: They're really cool looking.

Andrew: They're new too.

Mikey: I got the old one. He's got the really cool new one.

Emerson: This may be your last opportunity to ever buy one, because when we run out of these few boxes we have left, we are done. We can't sell any more. So in the back, $15.00 each.

Mikey: Purchase Remus Lupin CDs. T-shirts.

Andrew: Alex Carpenter's going to rock this Border's out! Stick around, don't go anywhere!

[Audience cheers]

Mikey: Stick around for it, so stay and watch some rock n' roll.


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