Affirmation: The Unknowable Room (Book 6, Chapter 21)
Harry Potter and the Sacred Text
Vanessa Zoltan, Casper ter Kuile & Ariana Nedelman
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🗓️ 16 January 2020
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Vanessa and Casper explore the theme of Affirmation in chapter twenty-one of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. This week Casper and Vanessa discuss Harry and Hermione’s different relationships with house-elves, Ron’s sense of sufficiency, and some icky sexist moments that stuck out in this chapter. Throughout the episode we consider the question: Can you affirm yourself?
Thanks to Sam Blanckensee for this week's voicemail! If you want to read our response to J.K. Rowling’s tweet, you can find it here. Next week we’re reading Chapter twenty-two, After the Burial, through the theme of Bitterness.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everybody, Vanessa here. I wanted to let you know about a little class that I'm running. |
| 0:05.5 | It is just going to be me and we are just going to be doing sacred reading practices on Sunday nights |
| 0:11.3 | with Harry Potter and the Sorcerer Stone. We are going to meet for six weeks this summer on Sunday |
| 0:17.0 | evenings. We're going to enjoy the heat and the sun and the light and each other's company and |
| 0:24.0 | each class we're going to do one or two sacred reading practices and it's really just about |
| 0:28.1 | community and discipline and believing that the sacred reading practices can change us and do |
| 0:34.7 | magical work on us. And we're going to work our way through Harry Potter and the Sorcerer Stone |
| 0:40.4 | over six weeks together just through Sparklitz. I hope you can join me. It's a really affordable class |
| 0:46.8 | and I'm imagining it just as lovely and I know that it will be even lovely with your presence. |
| 0:52.5 | Find out more at notsorryworks.com |
| 0:58.3 | Chapter 21 |
| 1:03.2 | The Unknowable Room |
| 1:05.5 | Harry racked his brains over the next week as to how he was to persuade slughorn to hand over the true memory |
| 1:12.4 | but nothing in the nature of a brainwave occurred and he was reduced to doing what he did increasingly. |
| 1:18.0 | I'm Kasper Tachyle |
| 1:21.2 | And I'm Vanessa Zoltan |
| 1:22.6 | And this is Harry Potter and the Sacred Text. |
| 1:25.9 | My husband and I keep a list of travel destinations that we want to go to one day and in our top five |
| 1:33.1 | is the beautiful little city of Savannah, Georgia. |
| 1:35.6 | I always wanted to go there too. I've never been and it's supposed to be beautiful. |
| 1:41.1 | And what makes it particularly beautiful is that we have a local group in Savannah, Georgia. It's run |
| 1:46.0 | by the fabulous Emily Piett. Emily, thank you so much for bringing folks together to do sacred |
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