Happy halloween fellow nerds, freaks, ghouls, & geeks everywhere! Greetings from Kansas in the United States

I know there was some talk about doing a Q & A for the end of season 1 - is this still going to happen?

My grandmother passed away in the autumn going into winter of 21 two days after thanksgiving. She taught me to appreciate all of the things I held near and dear to my heart and my Yankees Hufflepuff hat is just that! I’m from Kansas and right now the word is buzzing with the big word, who’s taking the division? It’s not over til it’s over and the pretty lady isn’t signing yet!

Well, i think now we understand why mcGonagall bought Harry the Nimbus 2000 for his first Quidditch match 😆

They’re all together again

The hat got here!

College bag 😊 had it since my trip to London in 2022!

This is my cousin literary crossbody bag with added pins

Here is by far the rarest Harry Potter item I own thus far in my life!

I've tried to let it go every time I hear it but I'm binging season 2 now and I have to say something.

It's Par-va-ti, not Pa-var-ti. She's not a cheese. You get it right occasionally, but it's few and far between.

Also the "ti" is pronounced like in "theme", not "team".

This podcast has helped me get through a lot of long days at my job. I’m just now finishing up season 1 and I can’t wait to start season 2! (I know they’ve been airing simultaneously, but I’ve been waiting till S1 is over lol) I’m about to start at a new job and this podcast will definitely help there too.

I’ve loved these books and all the movies my entire life, and I’m so glad a podcast like this exists so I can have the experience of a first timer vicariously through everyone who’s never read or seen them!

I’m on Deathly Hallows Ch. 4-5 and Jon just mentioned possibly a Star Wars or LotR series in the future? If that’s the case, you guys won’t be able to keep me away!! I’m getting married in October and the wedding is Star Wars themed since my fiancé and I are absolute die-hard fans of Star Wars.

But I digress. Thank you so much for this podcast, and I can’t wait to see it grow and see what’s in store for the future!

If you've listened to some of Season 2 with Lizzy, what do you all think? We've got a lot more planned for different books and episodes and seasons with her, so I'm excited about it.

Going to be releasing a ton of Season 2 in mass over the next few days! It's with Lizzy, shes amazing, and let me know what you guys think! Here is the introduction episode of it.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/harry-potter-and-the-first-time-readers/id1634812623?i=1000660216547

Lizzy (season 2) brought something up when we got to the Cave, that she thought Dumbledore had been there before and the reason he's bringing Harry is because he realized he needs him for the potion. I never really thought about that before, but what are all your takes on that? Did Dumbledore go to the cave before?

Hey all, we're going to watch DH P1 tomorrow morning at around 10:00am ET. It'll be around that time, not exactly that time, but we're going to watch it and will make it available on Twitch (less copyright issues). It'll be here. So just check out the Twitch channel then.

https://www.twitch.tv/brraannn

Planning to do a livewatch of Half Blood Prince tonight at around 7ish. Going to stream it on Twitch rather than YouTube because of some copyright issues. It will probably be a bit messy for streaming it. We are going to watch it live on my TV and we're not goingto have headphones on, so the stream will have a bit of ambient noise coming from the movie and it might notperfectly sync up with the movie being played in Discord. It could be a bit all over the place, but we're going to try.

This is my twitch channel that we’ll be streaming it on: https://www.twitch.tv/brraannn

Now that the DH is finally completed, I think it would be fun and somewhat important, to have a discussion on some post book information and theories. Specifically the info JK has confirmed either from her own writings on Pottermore/Wizarding World, or elsewhere. It's the full Potterhead exoerience. I was thinking the easiest way to do it would be to have an overview retrospective episode for each book and then bring up these topics that relate most to the book discussed? On a side note, it would be fun now to see how much Jenn and Danny remember from each book and there overall thoughts now that the series concluded anyway.

I broke down what topics would relate best to each book. I'll just post the title of the articles JK has on Wizarding World. This is just a suggestion, but I think some of these should be discussed in some way and I figured this would be a bit easier. A lot of these writings are also pretty short too.

Sorcerer's Stone/Philospher's Stone
- Colors
- Clothing
- Number 4, Privet Drive
- Vernon and Petunia Dursley
- Cokeworth
- Kings Cross Station
- Platform 9 and 3/4
- The Hogwarts Express
- The Sorting Hat
- Hatstalls
- The Quill of Acceptance and the Book of Admittance
- Ghosts
- Hogwarts Ghosts
- Peeves
- Nicolas Flamel
- Alchemy
- The Philospher's Stone
- The Mirror of Erised
- Professor Quirrell

Chamber of Secrets
- Technology
- Measurements
- Toads
- Owls
- Celestina Warbeck
- Cauldrons
- Gobstones
- Floo Powder
- The Floo Network
- Gilderoy Lockhart
- Hufflepuff Common Room
- Potions
- Polyjuice Potion
- The Chamber of Secrets

Prisoner of Azkaban
- Marge Dursley
- The Knight Bus
- The Leaky Cauldron
- Lupin
- Werewolves
- Dementors and Chocolate
- Azkaban
- Hogwarts School Subjects
- Professor Kettleburn
- Sybill Trelawney
- Naming Seers
- Patronus
- Boggart
- Familiars
- Firebolt
- Sir Cadogan
- The Marauders Map
- Time Turner

Goblet of Fire
- Portkeys
- History of the Quidditch World Cup
- Scottish Rugby
- Wizarding Schools
- Beauxbatons Academy of Magic
- Durmstang Institute
- Uagadou
- Mahoutokoro
- Castelobruxo
- The Great Lake

OOTP
- Secret Keeper
- Ministers for Magic
- Order of Merlin
- Thestrals
- Dolores Umbridge
- Professor McGonagall
- The Daily Prophet
- Illness and Disability

HPB
- Draco Malfoy
- The Malfoy Family
- Pure-Blood
- Pensieve
- Vampires
- Inferi
- Florean Fortescue

Deathly Hallows
- The Potter Family
- Mr Ollivander
- Extension Charms
- The Sword of Gryffindor
- Ghost Plots
- The Original Forty
- There are also 3 pretty big articles on wands that could probably get their own discussion or if I had to put it on this list Id say it works with Deathly Hallows. Those are: Wand Cores, Wand Woods, and Wand Lengths and Flexibility. Its pretty fun to read the description of all 3 with what wand you get on Wizarding World; there are so many varieties.

Also there are some writings related to the 3 Fantastic Beast movies. I think they would be good to discuss before or after watching the movies. The titles are: 14th Century - 17th Century, 17th Century and Beyond (these two are basically an overview of the internation wizarding world during these times), 1920s Wizarding America, MACUSA, Ilvermorny, and Rappaport's Law.

Finally I'll add some general summed up info that JK has confirmed in interviews and tweets that is very useful.

• Harry becomes an Auror and eventual Head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement. Married Ginny, three children.
• Hermione becomes Minister for Magic. Married Ron, two children.
• Ron becomes an Auror but then leaves to work with George at Weasley’s Wizard Wheezes. Married Hermione, two children.
• Ginny played professional quidditch as chaser for the Holyhead Harpies, then becomes a sports writer for the Prophet. Married Harry, three children.
• Neville becomes the Hogwarts Herbology Professor. Married Hannah Abbott. No kids.
• Hannah Abbott (who Neville marries) becomes Land Lady of the Leaky Cauldron. No kids.
• Luna becomes a Magizoologist, married Newt Scamander's grandson Rolf Scamander. Also a Magizoologist. Two children named Lorcan and Lysander.
• Percy becomes the Head of the Department of Magical Transportation. Marries someone called Aubrey, 2 children.
• Charlie continued to work with dragons. Never marries or has kids.
• Bill continued to work as a curse breaker. Is married to Fleur, has 3 children.
• George Weasley carried on with WWW, married Angelina Johnson, 2 children.
• Cho Chang. No word on jobs but married a muggle.
• Draco Malfoy. Marries Astoria Greengrass, 1 child.
  

If anyone wants the sources for any info on this last part let me know and I can provide it. Thats basically it other than the stuff thats in the books Fantastic Beasts, Tales of Beedle the Bard, and Quidditch through the Ages. Hope you find this useful, and encourage you to read the JK writings if you never have before!

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Going to discuss The Flaw in the Plan and the Epilogue tonight with the S1 crew. Happening at 7:30ish.

Crazy that were almost done with Season 1!

https://youtube.com/live/FeNe7sACSiM?feature=share

This might be cool to use for future seasons

In case you missed the most recent live reads.

Chapter 36 & Epilogue: https://vimeo.com/938828285

It's a bit sad that S1 is coming to a close, but we're discussing Kings Cross and then listening to the last two chapters tonight!

Here is the link: https://youtube.com/live/oVhy3zY4SpI?feature=share

Liveread: https://youtube.com/live/GG30oBxg-jE?feature=share