A Headmaster’s Tale
Of cephalopods, midnight duels, and dire Halloween curses..

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Content for this episode:

This is Snapecast – (0:00)
Voice: Chris
- Soundbye: Alan Rickman, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

Introduction – (0:57)
Hosts: Rachael, Wendy, Gina
- Snapey Halloween
- Why didn’t Dumbledore’s own experience with love make him more sympathetic to Snape
- Snape’s gaydar
- Coming up in this episode…

The Snape Report – (16:36)
Announcer: Jonathan
News for the second half of October.(Send your news to snapenews@gmail.com)
- Dumbledore bombshell temporarily overshadows all things Snape.
- Creative and Snapefen still actively Snape-ing: Check out Snape After DH and the Snarry Games.
- Snape may (or may not) be dead, but there’s still plenty of meta for everyone: Why Snape Joined the DE; Snape’s Boggart; Snape-inspired playlist.
- Alec Hopkins, also known as “Young Snape” has been rather busy on You-Tube.
- Snape seen masquerading as a muggle in Australia.

What If… – (19:33)
Panel: Rachael, Becca, Shannon, Rose
- What if things had been different for Snape. . .

PSA: Bathouses – (44:24)
Announcer: Rose
- Stock your Snapecast safehouse.

Fan Interview – (46:10)
Interviewer: Becca
Guest: Ariadne (Writer and Theorist)
- At the Online Wizarding Library
- At Fanfiction.net
- Border’s Great Snape Debate

A Call to Listeners – (1:01:39)
Send in your questions for Snape.
- Deadline: Midnight EST, Friday, November 23rd.
-Format: .wav, .ogg, .mp3 formats accepted, or leave a voicemail on our Skype account (username snapecast)

Snarky Chapters – (1:04:54)
Panel: Rachael, Jeff, Rose, Shannon
Deathly Hallows
- Chapter 32: The Elder Wand

The Final Run of the Snapecast Express – (1:21:21)
Announcer: Jonathan
- To reserve a seat, send an owl to severus@snapecast.com or leave a message on Podcastalley.
- Be sure to include your name, your house, and your seating preference.

Deathly Owlpost – (1:23:17)
Panel: Shannon, Rachael, Wendy, Gina
- What did Slughorn know about Snape’s feelings for Lily?
- What’s with all these childhood sweetheart storylines anyway?
- In which we explore a little Snucius.
- Howlers and e-mail from the Muggle world.

Closing – (1:40:07)
Hosts: Rachael, Wendy, Gina
- Revisiting Jo’s most recent comments about Snape’s character and Snape’s portrait.
- See you on December 1st for Episode 25, our penultimate episode!

A Headmaster’s Tale – (1:45:44)
Narrator: Rose
Voices: Jeff, Meagan, Shannon, Chris, Wendy, Gina
- Of cephalopods, midnight duels, and dire Halloween curses.

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Witches, wizards, fangirls, fanboys, and friends of Snape:

Snapecast is pleased to announce the official opening of the Snapecast Headmaster Portrait Gallery. Tickets are free and the exhibit can be accessed with the following Portkey…

The gallery will be continuously accepting new submissions even after the opening. Therefore if you have a portrait of Headmaster!Snape that you would like to see displayed please send it to severus@snapecast.com.

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Happy Snapetoberfest!
Eins! Zwei! Drei! Snape!

Direct Download the entire episode – 62 MB (2:09:45)

Content for this episode:

This is Snapecast – (0:00)
Voice: Chris
- Soundbye: Alan Rickman, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

Introduction – (0:58)
Hosts: Rachael, Becca, Meagan
- Grab a pint and celebrate Oktoberfest in Snapey style!
- The state of our Snape-ing: past, present and future
- Snape wearing lederhosen?
- Coming up in this episode…

The Snape Report – (10:00)
Announcer: Jon
News for the month of October.(Send your news to snapenews@gmail.com)
- Snape vidders not thrilled by tentative list of bonus scenes on the Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix DVD.
- LJ community colourful_bat is holding a “Beyond the Grave” fest for post-Deathly Hallows Snape/Tonks stories.
- Not to be outdone by the fic writers, many meta essayists have been tackling Snapey issues such as:
How tall is Snape in canon?
Comparing Snape to the Pop-Culture Character Type of the Lonely Nerd
Snape and Purebloods
The influence of Alan Rickman on the Attraction to Snape
Why are Severus Snape’s eyes and hair black?
- LJ user cambryn is hosting a Harry Potter honesty meme that offers Snapefans an opportunity to find out what the Snape fandom really thinks about our beloved Greasy Git in a post-Deathly Hallows world.
- Holy Hungarian Horntails, Snapefans! gin1119 proves that Snape really is Batman with a new video on YouTube!

Snarky Chapters – (13:10)
Panel: Rachael, Meagan, Wendy
- Deathly Hallows – Snape as Headmaster
Chapter 12: Magic is Might
Chapter 19: The Silver Doe
Chapter 30: The Sacking of Severus Snape

Love Potion 9 3/4 – (33:29)
Panel: Gina, Rachael, Shannon, Madelyn
- Snape/Lily
- By Any Other Name
- Fade to Black
- Last Transfiguration
- Spirals
- Thanks for the Mudblood
- Your Parting Mouth (Your Shining Eyes)
- The Words You Borrowed

PSA: Trick-or-Pretzel – (1:03:33)
Announcer: Rose
Trick-or-Pretzeler: Munchkin
- Choose your Halloween treats wisely!

Snape & – (1:04:10)
Panel: Becca, Rachael, Shannon, Rose
- Snape & Slytherin

Deathly Owlpost – (1:37:41)
Panel: Shannon, Rachael, Becca, Meagan
- In defense of Dumbledore
- In which we make dire predictesion about the movie versions of “The Prince’s Tale” and “The Flight of the Prince”
- Does Snily add to or detract from Snape’s complexity?
- Howlers and e-mail from the Muggle world.

Closing – (2:01:18)
Hosts: Rachael, Becca, Meagan
- Huzzah, we managed to do a whole episode whilst sober!
- the Headmaster Snape gallery is coming soon to snapecast.com
- Look for plenty of Snape Theory along with a dose of Halloween-y goodness in the next episode of Snapecast!
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