Hello, before we continue my first ever journey through the Harry Potter novels,

just a few quick announcements. First, Potterless itself, as well as the rest of the shows on

multitude, are growing pretty rapidly. There's a lot of you listeners out there, and we want to get

to know you better. We want to know what you like about the shows, we want to know what you don't

like about the shows, what sort of things you'd like to see from us in the future. If we start

having sponsored episodes, we want to know what kind of products you would like to hear about,

what things you don't care about at all. So we've put together a survey, and if you fill it out,

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All you need to do is go to bit.ly slash multitude survey, fill out the questions,

just so we can get a better sense of who you are and what you care about. So again, that link

is bit.ly slash multitude survey, and we would really, really appreciate it if you take the time

to fill it out for us. Also, it is the first Potterless episode in August, meaning that it's donation

time. Here at Potterless, we donate one dollar for every patron that we have on our team at patreon.com

slash Potterless at the beginning of the month. And currently at the time of recording, we have 438

patrons. So that means we are giving $400 38 to the National Alliance on Mental Illness. This came

as a suggestion from listener Sean Jones, who noted that mental illness isn't handled super well

in the books. And there's a lot of things going on in our current life, like the Kate Spade and the

Anthony Bourdain thing where mental illness really needs to be addressed. So the National Alliance

on Mental Illness does a lot of amazing things. They do programs that promote education and advocacy

and support. They've a 24-7 crisis helpline. They help out with people who are suffering from

domestic violence or sexual assault. And they work to promote public policy that supports mental

health through legislation. If you want to learn more about them, you can go to their website,

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