Book 2, Ep. 3 | The Gothic
Material Girls
Rehak Hannah
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2021
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Beware, Witches! Deep in the belly of a dark and chilly castle lurks an abundance of secrets! In case you hadn't noticed, the Harry Potter books are chocked full of Gothic literary devices. Unraveling the mysteries of the Hogwarts castle and the cast of characters inside reveals new insights about the concepts of monstrosity, disgust, and the boundaries of social acceptability.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and |
| 0:05.0 | welcome to which please a fortnightly podcast up at the Harry Potter world. |
| 0:09.0 | I'm Marcel Cosmon And I'm Hannah McGregor. Are we doing a Granger danger segment here? |
| 0:20.8 | No, no, no, no, we're just setting the mood for today's episode about |
| 0:25.4 | the Gothic in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. Okay, but Marcel this is the sorting chat segment. We don't usually start talking about the book until the revision segment. |
| 0:37.6 | This is very true, but we can still set the move. |
| 0:56.2 | Okay, well in that case let's talk about scary stuff and truly nothing is scarier to me than the fact that when this episode is released it is going to be 2021. Oh the future! I am. Let's be honest, extremely scared of the future. |
| 1:08.0 | You know what I find even scarier than the future, Hannah? |
| 1:12.0 | What is that? |
| 1:13.4 | The past. |
| 1:14.4 | So I would say two out of three of the scariest things there are. |
| 1:21.2 | The third being, of course ghost children yeah correct do you want to hear a story yeah you really do is it about |
| 1:29.2 | ghost children it's about live children but who are terrifying. |
| 1:39.2 | Because live children can be as scary as ghost children. Believe it. |
| 1:39.9 | So my mom was babysitting her two great nieces. |
| 1:45.3 | And they were at the time, I think like maybe four and seven. |
| 1:49.4 | And my mom had like, you know, |
| 1:51.7 | tucked them into their bed and whatever. |
| 1:53.5 | They were staying over at her house. |
| 1:55.6 | And then my mom had like done her regular like end of the evening things, |
| 1:59.5 | you know, maybe watched an episode of television or something, got ready for bed, went to sleep, and then at some |
| 2:06.0 | point woke up, opened her eyes, and the two children were standing beside her bed just watching her while she was sleeping. |
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