#426: Discovering Sorcerer's Stone

Published: July 22, 2019, 3:26 p.m.

Do the people behind Wizards Unite listen to MuggleCast? Some new game features would suggest so!\n\nEric announces the MuggleNet Caption Contest is back!\n\n#MuggleCasTBT takes us back to a bold prediction made about Nicolas Flamel and his "safe house" in Crimes of Grindelwald\n\nWe take listener feedback on last week's Dark Mark tattoo debate\n\nOur Main Discussion focuses on The Beginning of Harry Potter\n\nDid Sorcerer's Stone launch a generation of readers?\n\nHarry Potter's biggest ally may have been the Internet!\n\nHow did all of the hosts get started on the Potter series?\n\nWe discuss J.K. Rowling's struggles behind getting published, including being a woman\n\nDid you know Rowling didn't even have a middle name until Sorcerer's Stone was published?\n\nWe revisit our Episode 200 interview with Harry Potter producer David Heyman, who talks about how he found Harry\n\nWas it really necessary to change Book 1's name to Sorcerer's Stone in the United States? We read interesting comments from Scholastic's Editor at the time, Arthur Levine.\n\nThe hosts share what moments in Sorcerer's Stone really resonated with them and name their favorite chapter\n\nQuizzitch: What time does the Hogwarts Express depart from platform 9\xbe?\n\nThere's never been a better time to support the show! Become a Patron by July 31 and get this year's physical gifts - signed album art and a MuggleCast tote bag!\n\n\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices