Book 7, Ep. 1 | Chosen One Narratives Revisited
Material Girls
Rehak Hannah
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 August 2022
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we begin Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows! We cannot believe we're already at the start of Book 7, but honestly, we're so excited to finally get into it! We decided to go back to the start and revisit 'Chosen One narratives' which we discussed in Season 1, Episode 1 of the reboot. We pull on Northrop Frye's Anatomy of Criticism and Joseph Campbell's work about "monomyth." But, you know us, we hate letting boring old white guys go unchecked, so we also review works by Alise M. Wisniewski and Na’amen Gobert Tilahun who unpack the function of “chosen one” narratives in popular culture. Tune in for a conversation about Harry's journey as a "chosen one" and the ways the book adheres to and subverts our expectations of this western literary tradition.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Witch Please, a fortnightly podcast about the Harry Potter world. |
| 0:15.1 | I'm Marcel Cosmon, and I'm Hannah McGregor, and today, as we begin the final novel in the |
| 0:22.1 | Harry Potter series, let's take a moment to talk about how far we've come on our journey |
| 0:27.0 | making this podcast in the sorting jet rebooting this podcast has been an incredible journey. |
| 0:35.6 | And Marcel, you're making it sound like we're dying. |
| 0:38.1 | You didn't hear? |
| 0:39.1 | Oh, I forgot about that pact on the side. |
| 0:44.2 | Sorry, Harry Potter death pact. |
| 0:51.5 | Okay, but seriously, though rebooting this podcast has been an incredible journey. |
| 0:56.0 | And I'm feeling a little bit nostalgic, but I want to talk about the trials. |
| 0:59.9 | I want to talk about the things that were hard, and I want you to start. |
| 1:06.4 | What a trap. |
| 1:07.4 | This really does feel like this feels like a trap, like on the count of three, |
| 1:11.2 | let's both say what we really think about each other. |
| 1:15.5 | You know, the hardest moment was finishing any of the books. |
| 1:22.5 | That's the trial for me, you know, particularly in this reboot, like in the original run, |
| 1:29.4 | the trial was every time I edited an episode, because here's my, my deep, dark confession, |
| 1:35.7 | a somebody who like teaches podcasting, and is always like, you can edit your own podcast. |
| 1:41.2 | It's not that hard. |
| 1:42.2 | Anybody can do it. |
| 1:45.6 | Why did I agree to produce my own audiobook? |
| 1:48.2 | I don't know, because I hate it. |
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