Author: Eneasz

This chapter was so short I don’t really have any production notes to share. Yay for reduced work load this week!

The link to the available roles PDF is in the sidebar. Please check with me before starting in on any of them, to make sure they haven’t been newly claimed by anyone else.

The podcast is approaching a year and a half in age, and one of the problems with long-term projects involving other people is that life is uncertain. This was why I originally refused offers from people to do voices, I didn’t want to rely on someone else to provide lines for months upon months.

I did eventually accept some help from close friends (as first mentioned here), and Hermione is one of those friends. I figured I could always show up at their doorstep with a computer and microphone and refuse to leave until I got the next chapter’s lines. :) I also trust my friends a lot more than strangers, and they knowingly committed to a project they knew would last quite a while.

It seems my strategy had a flaw in it – friends can move away, as Hermione has done. But my mistrust was foolishly misplaced – she has continued to faithfully record upcoming lines and send them to me in plenty of time. I am grateful to her. :) Her setup isn’t quite as fancy, so if you notice a decrease in the quality of Hermione’s audio, that is why. It is a small price to pay to have friends you can trust.

When Harry first started labeling his various internal thought processes according to the Houses, I knew I had to give them slightly different voices. Slytherin and Hufflepuff were easy – make ’em sound like Draco and Neville, of course. Ravenclaw is just Harry’s natural voice. Gryffindor was tougher, as Harry doesn’t have any peers in Gryffindor in MoR. I went with a sort of superman/mighty-mouse tone (or my best approximation at any rate.)

Now that I have someone new voicing Neville this will be less obvious. And when I’m done going through the earlier episodes and replacing all of my Neville renditions with Adom’s, there will be no tie between Neville and internal-Hufflepuff at all. Older listeners might remember, but anyone new – if they think about it at all – is going to wonder why that particular voice. I think I kinda like that quirk. :)