Book 1, Ep. 4 | Class
Material Girls
Rehak Hannah
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 13 October 2020
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Dearest Witches, gather round for some lessons in class solidarity! In this episode, we'll discuss the formation of class structure in Western society, the inherent relationship between race and class, and the ways in which the Harry Potter books reach for but don't quite deliver a vision for a cross-class uprising against the powers that be. How do some characters occupy complicated or shifting class positions? What would it take for Harry, or other characters of privilege to be true class traitors?
Content warning: at 01:06:30, there is a brief mention of the history of eugenics as it pertains to Neville Longbottom's early childhood.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to which please a fortnightly podcast about the Harry Potter world. |
| 0:09.0 | I'm Hannah McGregor and I'm Marcel Kossman and according to this script, it's my turn to come up with something fun for the sorting chat. |
| 0:18.0 | Ha ha ha! |
| 0:20.0 | Okay. |
| 0:22.0 | That's right, Marcel. Very shortly, we're going to be talking about class in the Wizarding |
| 0:27.3 | World, but first we have the segment called the sorting chat and because I write the |
| 0:30.8 | scripts today I've decided you're taking the lead go. |
| 0:33.2 | It's been a hard summer fall is not looking to be much easier. |
| 0:39.8 | So how about we take this opportunity to talk about the things that are bringing us |
| 0:50.4 | joy in this otherwise overwhelming and exhausting time. |
| 0:55.0 | I'll go first. |
| 0:57.0 | Let's each name two things that bring us joy. |
| 1:02.0 | I'll start. Okay. Thing number one. I really like |
| 1:06.4 | Taylor Swift's new album folklore which was produced by Bonnie Vaire. I would never have considered myself a Taylor Swift fan before, |
| 1:15.8 | but the filthy hipster in me is really into this new album. |
| 1:20.8 | And I also take a lot of pleasure item number two in patterned button down shirts. |
| 1:27.0 | Your turn, Hannah. |
| 1:28.0 | It's incredible to me that you're wearing shirts with buttons in a pandemic. |
| 1:34.0 | Shirts with buttons. |
| 1:35.7 | When you don't have to. |
| 1:37.0 | Incredible. |
| 1:38.5 | So I also chose an album as one of my favorite things. |
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