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On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me this podcast. Before we continue

my first ever journey through the Harry Potter series, just a few

quick announcements first. It's the first episode of Potterless in December, and here at Potterless,

we donate one dollar for every member of our team over at patreon.com slash potterless to a different

charity. At the time of recording, we have 844 patrons, meaning that we'll be donating $844

to the Chilean American Foundation.

I only recently learned about the protests going on in Chile thanks to a listener Isabel writing to me on Twitter,

and I am shocked and very upset that I didn't hear about it earlier.

There's some truly ridiculous stuff happening between the Chilean government and its protesters,

and I wanted to support the Chilean American Foundation because specifically their mission is focused on improving the quality of life and education for vulnerable

children, which given the situation in Chile right now, the children, I can't even imagine

what they are going through. So this charity has been around for over 29 years. They've held over

12,000 children. They want to do more good stuff, especially in these hard times. So that's where we'll be donating. And if you want to learn more about them, you can go to chili usfoundation.org. And thanks to Isabel for reaching out. Second, we've been doing some really fun stuff over at the Discord for Potterless. If you aren't aware, if you're a $2 or above patron, you get access to the Potterless Discord where you can message me and a whole bunch of other lovely Potterless listeners and get involved in a bunch of fun stuff we're doing. We did a trivia night where I did not do very well. So the next time we do on, which is soon, I really want to have a better showing. We have a book club going on. We have a gift exchange happening for the holidays. There's so many fun things. So if you want to check that out, become a $2.5 and above patron at patreon.com

slash potteros and check out the Discord. And finally, speaking of Patreon, we have new patrons to welcome to the team. So shout out to Danielle Gweboldt, Serge Rodenbach, Daniela Pellamer, Nicole Romero, Lindsay Christoff, Christine Schumann, Amanda Schroeder, and the returns of Elizabeth Agathon, Colin Nyoy, Aaron Anderson, and Tila, her amazing wonder daughter.

And as always, shout out to our producer. Schroeder and the returns of Elizabeth Agathon, Colin Nyoy, Aaron Anderson, and Tila, her

amazing wonder daughter. And as always, shout out to our producer-level patrons. Vicki, Aaron, Jesse, Natalie, Claude, Marquis, Samantha, Juan, Abed, Rose, Maria, Maria, Lina, Kamene, Audra, Elin, Adra, Elinna, Arroy, Akita, Taylor, Ale, Amelia, Sarah, Sarah, Zachary, Orch, Vivian Takari, Haley, Moster, Angelina, Caitlin, Grace, Rool, Ingen, Mari, Alex, John,

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