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Chapter 23. Horror Cruxes. Harry could feel the Felix Felices wearing off as he crept back into the castle.

The front door had remained unlocked for him, but on the third floor, he met peaves and only narrowly avoided detection by diving sideways through one of his shortcuts.

I'm Vanessa Zoltan.

And I'm Matt Potts. And this is Harry Potter in the sacred text.

So Matt, this is your last episode with us for a while. You are engaging on some new commitments.

You'll be back for the last episode of the season.

And in book seven, I'll be around every once in a while in book seven.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But this is sort of your last episode as official co-host, and you are

downshifting into a special guest. That's right. I'll be back for the last chapter and

occasionally in book seven. But I'm stepping back as co-host. And, be back for the last chapter and occasionally in book seven, but I'm

stepping back as co-host. And, you know, the last time we spoke about this, a couple episodes ago,

I expressed some ambivalence around this decision. And I still feel that. And so we thought today we

talk about ambivalence as our theme. Before we hear your story, though, I just want to ask you a couple

of questions.

Okay.

What have you learned about the process of treating texts as sacred from doing this podcast for the last several years?

I've learned that trying to summarize them in 30 seconds does not.

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