Beginnings: Godric’s Hollow (Book 7, Chapter 16)

Harry Potter and the Sacred Text

Vanessa Zoltan, Casper ter Kuile & Ariana Nedelman

Religion & Spirituality, Books, Jk Rowling, Sprituality, Sacred, Sacred Reading, Philosophy, Harry Potter, Arts, Reading, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 24 July 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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This week, Casper and Vanessa explore the theme of Beginnings in Chapter 16 of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows! They discuss Harry and Hermione’s new partnership, the return to Godric’s Hollow, and the concept of a “kissing gate”! Throughout the episode we consider the question: when can we begin again?

Thank you to Nathan for this week’s voicemail! Next week we're reading Chapter 17, Bathilda’s Secret, through the theme of Friendship.

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0:00.0	Chapter 16, Godrick's Hollow.
0:03.5	When Harry woke the following day, it was several seconds before he remembered what had happened.
0:09.3	Then he hoped, childishly, that it had been a dream, that Ron was still there and had never left.
0:16.9	I'm Vanessa Zoltan.
0:19.0	And I'm Caspar Ter Kyle.
0:23.4	And this is Harry Potter and the Sacred Text.
0:28.8	Oh my God, one day I'm not going to say that for like years and years.
0:29.3	I know.
0:31.7	Let's delay it as long as possible.
0:33.8	Let's do half-chapter episodes.
0:36.3	Let's do sentence-by-sentence episodes.
0:39.3	We have proved you can say a lot about very little.
0:47.1	Oh, that's actually a great transition, Casper, to our every flavor bean announcement this week.
0:53.3	We are going to talk about whether we would be cremated or buried. But then also what quote we would want on our tombstone, because in this chapter we see
0:56.4	Lily and James's tombstone, and they have a beautiful quote on it.
1:00.5	And I feel like I don't know if this is what I want, but you could say she could say a lot
1:05.4	about very little.
1:07.6	That would work on my tombstone.
1:10.0	Spoiler a lot.
1:10.6	I'm just going to put signs that are not runes, but may mean something to grendel world.
1:21.1	So if you want to listen to that conversation or get ad-free episodes or join our monthly lectio devenas or our weekly co-working on Zoom,
1:31.5	you can join us on patreon.com slash harry potter sacred text.
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