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Hey, what's going on? Before we continue my first ever journey through the Harry Potter series,

I just have a few quick announcements. First, August 3rd, 7 p.m. in Seattle,

Washington is the Potterless live show at Jet City Improv. If you are in the area, I would love it if you could come. I'm going to be talking about a chapter of Harry Potter in the Deathly Hallows. I'm going to do some Q&A. And then after the show, we're going to hang out at a bar next door so I can meet all your faces. So if you want to get to that, go to bit.ly slash potterless

SEA. And I hope to see you there. And the weekend after that, I will be at LeakyCon in Dallas. So if you are going to be at LeakyCon, reach out to me on social media. We'll meet up. It'll be fantastic. And if you just happen to live in the DFW area, I'm going to do some sort of meet outside the convention center so I can meet again, your faces, say hello, et cetera. So if you want any information on that, just make sure you're following Potterless on Twitter at Potterless Pod. That's where I'll be posting all the updates of my whereabouts and the details to come. Also, as you probably noticed last week, as I posted the first episode of it, I launched a new podcast called Horse. I'm co-hosting it with Eric Silver. It's a basketball podcast about everything related to the NBA, except for the actual games. So it's only things that are fun, like player drama and silly nicknames, all sorts of good stuff like that. So if you search for Horse or Multitude in your podcast app, it'll show up.

And if you're wondering what Multitude is, it's an audio collective that I am a part of with Potterless and Horse, but there's some other amazing podcasts on there, like Spirits, which is a drunken dive into mythology and legends, join the party, which is a real play Dungeons and Dragons podcast with amazing storytelling and amazing editing. and Way Station, a fancast about the Canadian show Lost Girl.

So lots of good stuff there.

And if you want more information about... podcast with amazing storytelling and amazing editing and Waystation, a fancast about the Canadian

show Lost Girl. So lots of good stuff there. And if you want more information about any of the shows,

just head to multitude. Productions. And speaking of people that warm my heart and bring smiles to my

faces, we have new patrons to welcome to the team. So shout out to Abigail Johnson, Hannah Noy,

Sierra White, Rachel Cohen, Sasha Star, Claudia Bairzinska, Carol Tenorio, Kaylee Totten, Leslie Ferguson, Mary, Catherine Kibler, Sultan Kara, Pamela Ramirez, Sarah Shackleford, Laura Similla, Nita Gill, Grace, Cat Jones, Neil Kingston, Oliver Bodge Wind, Stephen, Vanessa Marie Garzon, Naomi Sharples, Kristenceif Dauditor, Anna Sandor, Katie Wells, Ulrique Pellgrim, Gal Tamara Carney, and Cassandra Yutas, as well as Sarah Walbrun and Maya, who upgraded their pledge, and a huge adornu's producer-level patrons, Zachary Polito, Gabrielle Medcro, Jessica Ann, Natalie Jung, Arna Goodnoddoddottor, Brandi Boldenado, Melody McInnis, Jonathan Swaney, Lexi Vergaara,

a happy birthday to Kristen Chavez, and to Sandy and Avniche Saxena, your sister, Aconcha misses you.

They joined the ranks of Leanne, Vicky, Aaron, Erica, Calvin, Sadie, Jesse, Natalie, Deborah Clow, Alex, Rebecca, Frank, Marchese, Borky, Samantha, Juan, Jenna, Kieran, Louise Akancho, Rebecca Abed, Caitlin, Caitlin, Caitlin, Rachel, Maria, Maria, Maria, Lisa, Ariel, Ramea, Ramina, Kamala, Anthony, Daniel, Russell, Jenny, Dustin, Katie, Audrey, Indiana, Eleanor, Sydney, Bill Rossan, Micah, Nicita, Colette, Chrissy, Shrina, Jeremy, Lala, Chelsea, Taylor, Samie, Lauchess, Avarney, Ali, Kalmadge, Cassandra, Roxy, Melissa, Amelia, Vince, Sean, Jeremiah, Courtney, Sarah,

Jesus, Ben, Emily, Francisco, Rachel, Mary, and Cherise, who always know exactly what goes in the compost bin, what goes in the landfill bin, and what goes in recycling, and they don't stand there in front of the trash cans like an idiot for 15 seconds. If you want to be like one of these wonderful human beings and get access to bonus episodes, live streams, discounts on the merch,

patron exclusive merch, you can go to patreon.com slash potterless.

So without further ado, let's get into episode 47 of Potterless covering chapter 17 of Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince,

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