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Hey, it's me, your kitchen. I know you've been cooking in me a lot more than normal, and I'm

getting a little dirty and cleaning me isn't the most fun, but you know what could make cleaning me a whole heck of a lot more fun? While you're cleaning, listen to an episode of this podcast. Before I continue my first ever journey through the Harry Potter series, just a few quick announcements. First, this is the first episode of Potterless in September, meaning that it is donation time here at Potterless each month. We donate $1 for every member of our team

over at patreon.com slash potterless to a different charity. And at the time of recording, we have

920 patrons, meaning we'll be giving $920 to the California Community Foundation, specifically

their wildfire relief fund. So you may have seen that across California and some other parts

of the U.S., there are some pretty bad wildfires going on, and this fund not only helps with the immediate disaster relief,

but also long-term recovery efforts for those that are affected by these wildfires.

It is devastating to see, and I just appreciate that this foundation and this fund is

helping people stop these fires from spreading and also to offset some of

the damage, the lasting damage that they cause. If you want to learn more about this particular fund,

you can go to calfund.org slash wildfire dash relief dash fund. Also just wanted to take this time to

say that potterless has an Instagram account, a Twitter account, a Facebook page, a Facebook group, a subreddit. There are so many different social media worlds that we are involved in. I have a very fun time running all these accounts and interacting with people. So whatever is your preferred social media come through, say hi, meet some Potterless listeners, talk to me. It's a fun time. Twitter.com slash Potterless pod, Instagram.com slash potterless podcast, Facebook.com slash potteril, and Reddit.com slash R slash Potterless. And speaking of fun communities of people, we have new patrons to welcome to our Patreon team. So shout out to Lucas Schumacher, Akassia Raffel, Casey Pontrelli, Anna Martin, Bert Tufuques, Amanda Calliner, and Emily Solinger. Shout out to Violet Sullivan, who upgraded their pledge.

A huge shout to Eileen Gazette Pippetone and Kirsten R. Cunningham, who upgraded to the producer-level status, as well as our newest producer-level patron and Peltzer. They joined the ranks of... Vicki, Erin Klaummer, Chisma, Samantha, Juan Rosemary, Marie, Lisa Romina, Audra, Nikita Ali, Sarah, Rachel, Zachary, Orchid, Vivian the Vivian, the Owl, Alex, John Noel, Brandon, Claire, Rory, Veronica,

Lada, Noah, Tracy, Colleen, Jennifer, Justin, Jacob, Maya, Mark, Pollyzina, Harlan, Niki, Kine, Amanda Kaffir, Sarah Marta, Maya, Flore, Sierra, Dr. Jaya, Edel, Edel, Professor, Threat, Ellie, Michael, Kerry, Connie, Jen, Nedry, Will, Samantha, Aurora, Marcos, Marique, Ashton, Brittany, Phelon, the Meadows family, Jenny, Heather Brianna, Kevin, Lori, Chrissy, Jarl, Pita, Sophie, Janin, Callahan,

Bella, Melanie, Becker, Rees, Adam, Joseph Lilly's mom, T-run, Madison, Tonk, Sabrina, Sophia, Marci, Matheem, Bonipone, Kelsey, Rae, Rachel, Roch, and Erica, Mara, Landen, Kendra Kalista. Kendra, Natanya, Yogan, Darcy, Sandra, Craig, Andren, Steve, Leor, Julia,

Demy, Michelle, Kalista, La Natanya Yogan Darcy Sandra Craig Andrin

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