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MuggleCast: The Harry Potter Re-Read Podcast

#426: Discovering Sorcerer's Stone

MuggleCast: The Harry Potter Re-Read Podcast

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News, Arts, Tv & Film, Entertainment News, Books

4.64.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2019

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Do the people behind Wizards Unite listen to MuggleCast? Some new game features would suggest so! Eric announces the MuggleNet Caption Contest is back! #MuggleCasTBT takes us back to a bold prediction made about Nicolas Flamel and his "safe house" in Crimes of Grindelwald We take listener feedback on last week's Dark Mark tattoo debate Our Main Discussion focuses on The Beginning of Harry Potter Did Sorcerer's Stone launch a generation of readers? Harry Potter's biggest ally may have been the Internet! How did all of the hosts get started on the Potter series? We discuss J.K. Rowling's struggles behind getting published, including being a woman Did you know Rowling didn't even have a middle name until Sorcerer's Stone was published? We revisit our Episode 200 interview with Harry Potter producer David Heyman, who talks about how he found Harry Was it really necessary to change Book 1's name to Sorcerer's Stone in the United States? We read interesting comments from Scholastic's Editor at the time, Arthur Levine. The hosts share what moments in Sorcerer's Stone really resonated with them and name their favorite chapter Quizzitch: What time does the Hogwarts Express depart from platform 9¾? There's never been a better time to support the show! Become a Patron by July 31 and get this year's physical gifts - signed album art and a MuggleCast tote bag! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Welcome to Muggo Cast Episode 426.

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I'm Andrew.

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I'm Eric.

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I'm Micah.

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And I'm Laura.

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On today's episode, we're going to get started with our series of sorcerer stone discussions.

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Like we've said, we never completed the final chapter of sorcerer stone in our chapter by chapter series.

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So we are going to do that in a few weeks, but first we're going to reflect on sorcerer stone.

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So we'll get started with that today.

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We also have some feedback regarding our dark mark discussion.

1:15.0

We got a lot of feedback there.

1:18.0

Our social media manager, Jule, must be very happy because we got a lot of hashtag engagement on those posts.

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Who's those numbers?

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But first, a couple of news items.

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