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Hog’s Head PubCast #16

by Travis Prinzi on February 10, 2007

Update: I’ve uploaded the original mp3 (the higher quality, bigger file 23mb, and it seems to be working..

I answer a lot of E-owls; Godric’s Hollow; my Prophecy 2007 proposals

Pub Menu

The Fountain Told a Lie: Deconstructing the Wizarding World
Godric’s Hollow Post at HogPro
Felicity’s Invisibility Cloak theory contains a lot of good stuff on Godric’s Hollow

Hog's Head PubCast #16 [24:23m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

{ 7 comments… read them below or add one }

Felicity February 10, 2007 at 7:47 pm: Travis–there’s something wrong here. The podcast is playing too quickly so that it’s impossible to understand what you’re saying.
korg20000bc February 10, 2007 at 8:26 pm: HA HAHA

Chipmonks do pubcast

That is funny
Travis Prinzi February 10, 2007 at 8:40 pm: Hmmm…I don’t have time to fix it at the moment, but later tonight, I’ll redo everything and see if I can find the problem. Occasionally, my iTunes software does that to a file during conversion to mp3. I’ll just have to re-convert and then upload.
Carla Lute February 11, 2007 at 3:31 pm: I guess it’s good I don’t have time to listen until later.

I did skim over the article about Dumbledore, and I think it’s pretty on track. Dumbledore is manipulating some things, but he’s doing so with good purpose.

Oy, and I think I had one of those epiphany things this week. It’s going to be very interesting to see how this plays out.
Erin February 12, 2007 at 7:55 pm: Travis,

Your essay ideas sound very intersting, especially the one about the Christian point of view on the Harry Potter series. I can’t tell you how many times during a book discussion HP vs. Christians will come up and no matter how much I insist we aren’t all like Laura Mallory, it seems to fall on disbelieving ears. Anyway, thanks for the good pubcast as usual. Looking foward to the next!
Carla Lute February 15, 2007 at 3:40 am: Travis,

I finally listened to the Podcast. I like the ideas for both the “What we can tell about J.K.’s beliefs from the books” and “The Fundamentalist debate”…

Honestly, to a great degree I still consider myself as a Fundamentalist, and definitely a conservative, so I twitch a bit when I hear the Fundamentalist and conservatives automatically lumped into the anti-HP group. You can approach Harry Potter from a very conservative perspective and still appreciate it thoroughly… I prefer saying certain-conservatives have such and such opinion.

And Erin,

I know the experience. Think about contributing something to http://www.ChristnHP.org and fight the stereotype.
Travis Prinzi February 15, 2007 at 9:32 am: Carla, I hear you. The terms are tough to deal with. I consider myself “conservative” as well, but that term carries so much baggage.

The term “fundamentalist” has been lost entirely, it seems. It’s pretty much used in pop culture exclusively for extremists of any religious group.