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Welcome to Mugglecast episode 278, Micah, Eric, and Selena are all here today.

Hello everybody. Good morning. Good afternoon. Good afternoon. Good afternoon. Worldwide podcast. This is our May episode of Mugglecast.

As everybody knows by now, we're doing these monthly, we're doing a new episode every month until Fantastic Beasts Part 3.

We're going to be the new Skamander versus that new kid named Voldemort.

Part 3, Part 1, yeah.

So we're actually going to start today's episode with some Fantastic Beasts news.

And man, later in the show, we're going to talk about JK Rowling on Twitter because she has been busy on Twitter.

And it's awesome. It's amazing.

And we're also going to play Make the Music Connection and we are going to do this month in Harry Potter history.

And a couple other things today.

So first of all, looking at the news, there wasn't too much news over the past month, but there was some big Fantastic Beasts news.

Of course, in case you're living under a rock, this is the Harry Potter spin-off that's coming next November.

I just remembered something we should actually add in here.

So we found out this week that JK Rowling has finished the Fantastic Beasts script finally.

I mean, it kind of surprised me because this project was announced September 2013.

And here we are May 2015 and it's...

She's still...

She's been working on it all that time, maybe even earlier than that.

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