Belonging: The Potions Master (Book 1, Chapter 8)
Harry Potter and the Sacred Text
Vanessa Zoltan, Casper ter Kuile & Ariana Nedelman
4.7 • 6.8K Ratings
🗓️ 24 June 2021
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Vanessa and Matt explore the theme of belonging in chapter eight Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. This week we examine Hagrid’s hut as a welcoming space, discuss how Snape’s cruelty confirms Harry as special, and have our first conversation about pedagogy at Hogwarts. Throughout the episode we consider the question: How do we belong to another person without trying to possess them?
Thanks to Katta for this week’s voicemail! Next week we’re reading Chapter 9, The Midnight Duel, through the theme of meanness.
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| 0:07.0 | From the writer Bohemian Rhapsody. |
| 0:09.0 | This is what they want. |
| 0:10.0 | America's sweetheart. |
| 0:11.0 | You won't get it, don't you? |
| 0:12.0 | Just watch me. |
| 0:16.0 | I want to dance with somebody only in cinemas now. |
| 0:20.0 | Hi everybody. I am very excited to tell you about a pilgrimage that I get to go on. |
| 0:26.0 | We will be treating Emily Dickinson's poetry as sacred, an Amherst Massachusetts on July 14th to July 17th. |
| 0:36.0 | Vanessa, that sounds like an amazing pilgrimage, an amazing set of poetry to treat his sacred. |
| 0:43.0 | I can't think of anything that would make it more amazing. |
| 0:45.0 | I can't think of any two people who might be coming on this trip. |
| 0:48.0 | Who could make this trip more amazing? |
| 0:50.0 | Well, you may have heard of them that they are the people who you think in the first paragraph. |
| 0:55.0 | First paragraph of your acknowledgements in your book. |
| 0:58.0 | They are the people who, along with you, helped design this podcast. |
| 1:02.0 | Amy Hollywood and Stephanie Paulsell, who have actually taught a class at Harvard Divinity School, |
| 1:07.0 | reading Emily Dickinson's poetry closely. |
| 1:10.0 | The Emily Dickinson class was one of the most popular and successful classes at HDS in like the last three years. |
| 1:15.0 | Both Stephanie and Amy are brilliant and wonderful and funny and kind and excellent teachers. |
| 1:21.0 | And because the poetry is so rich. |
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