Book 3, Episode 2 | Time Travel
Material Girls
Rehak Hannah
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 30 March 2021
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Greetings, Witches!
As always, we're eternally grateful for the time you spend listening with us. In this episode, we're unpacking the mechanics of time and time-travel as they play out in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. We identify the connections between western time-travel narratives and the industrial revolution and the infinitely insidious force of capitalism. We plunge into the philosophical implications of this book's particular kind of time-travel narrative, which desires to predict the future and to change the past. How fixed is our reality? How much agency do we have over our fates?
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| 0:30.7 | Hello and welcome to Witch Please, a fortnightly podcast about the Harry Potter world. I'm Marcel |
| 0:42.7 | Cosmon and I'm Hannah McGregor and Marcel. I'm going to do something absolutely unprecedented |
| 0:49.4 | today. Ooh, what's that? I am going to make us have an on topic conversation in the sorting chat. |
| 0:58.4 | Oh my god, incredible. Cos, I want to talk about time travel narratives. |
| 1:05.4 | And specifically, I want you to tell me about what your favorite time travel narrative is. |
| 1:12.5 | Oh my gosh, this is a hard one for me to answer because I love and consume so many time travel |
| 1:20.6 | narratives without really realizing how much of this genre I consume. So I think that my answer |
| 1:30.0 | is Doctor Who, but my sort of sub answer is Planet of the Apes. Oh yeah, I really love parodies |
| 1:38.5 | and so I love the Planet of the Apes. They're all so awful, but the first one is my favorite. |
| 1:44.7 | But I really love the Simpsons parody of the Planet of the Apes where it's a musical. |
| 1:56.2 | So that's my answer. How about you, Hannah? So I have a lot of favorite time travel narratives. |
| 2:03.2 | And I particularly, you know, as a child, I loved the genre of like girl is unexpectedly sent back |
| 2:10.8 | in time to the 19th century and has to learn to churn butter. Love those. I was also obsessed as a |
| 2:17.4 | child with like going to Upper Canada Village, which was a 19th century theme park outside of Ottawa, |
| 2:27.7 | where you would go and like see people milling flour to make bread and get berated by the school |
| 2:34.8 | teacher for not being in long skirts. And then I, you know, I continue to like really like romance |
| 2:40.4 | novels that had a time travel component where like a sassy modern lady goes back in time and |
| 2:46.3 | falls in love with a medieval night, but she's like, what a modern and understand feminism. |
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