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Hey, it's me, your bookshelves slash other shelves you have in your apartment slash home. I know

that you have considered reorganizing me, keep just throwing stuff all on me willy-nilly, and you want to organize me, but it seems like a boring and daunting task. What could make that task less daunting and less boring? How about while you reorganize me, you put on an episode of this podcast? Before we continue my first ever journey through the Harry Potter series, just a few quick announcements. First, it is the first episode of Potterless in October, meaning that it's donation time. Here at Potterless, each month we take a dollar for every member of our team over at patreon.com slash potterillus and donate it to a different charity. And at the time of recording, we have 878 patrons, meaning we'll be giving $878 to Common Cause. Common Cause is working to make the process of voting more

Democratic from all angles. They are nonpartisan. They are just fighting to expand voting rates,

eliminate gerrymandering, and they are even pushing for a popular vote presidential election

to get rid of the Electoral College. I think given that this election coming up is very important

and a lot of people in power are really trying to do a lot to make it harder for people to vote. I felt very passionately about supporting this cause. If you want to learn more about what Common Cause is doing, you can go to Common Cause.org. And I would just say in general, for everyone, especially in the U.S., but everywhere, wherever you live, please vote. If you're in the U.S., this election is very important. I would highly encourage you to vote. Register to vote. Make sure you're registered to vote. Sign up for an absentee ballot or vote early. Do something where you vote because it's very important that you do so. In this election, it is a monumental one to say the least. So please, please, please, please, please, please, please, go go vote and check out Common Cause if you would like to as well.

Second, the beginning chunk of this episode talks about the JK Rolling situation pretty directly. Jackson Bird, our guest, is a trans man, and he talks about from his perspective, everything that's been going on. I think it is an incredibly important discussion that you all should really listen to, but if for any reason this is something that you just can't listen to right now and you just want to get to the Potter Puppet Powell stuff, which is, I will say, much more lighthearted, just skip 12 minutes and 12 seconds past the intro song ending. And finally, let's round out this intro by thanking people who are making this show possible. And that is our new patrons. So shout out to Jill McGinnis, Orley Kessum,

Sophie Birch, Fannie Sophia Tarkio, John Grant, Camila Pazana, Robin Butner, Brittany Brown, and Lydia. And a huge shout out to our newest producer-level patrons, Artemis, and Trans People Are People. How fitting for this episode. They joined the ranks of Vicki, Christine, Aaron, marchismo Samantha Juan Rosemary Marie Marie, Liza Romina, Audra Elnuchina, Adela, Nicola, Marquis,

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