Chaos: The Sacking of Severus Snape (Book 7, Chapter 30)
Harry Potter and the Sacred Text
Vanessa Zoltan, Casper ter Kuile & Ariana Nedelman
4.7 • 6.8K Ratings
🗓️ 17 December 2020
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Vanessa and Casper explore the theme of Chaos in chapter thirty of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (we're getting so close to the end!). This week we discuss Harry and McGonagall's use of unforgivable curses, generational differences in the fight for good, and Percy's return. Throughout the episode we consider the question: Is chaos clarifying?
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| 0:00.0 | Hi there Harry Potter and the Secretary of the tech listeners. As you may be aware every February we at the podcast |
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| 1:08.5 | Chapter 30 the sacking of Sever Snape |
| 1:12.9 | The moment her finger touched her mark Harry's scar burned savagely. |
| 1:17.5 | The starry room vanished from sight and he was standing upon an outcrop of rock beneath the cliff |
| 1:22.6 | and the sea was washing around him and that was triumph in his heart. |
| 1:26.7 | They have the book. I'm Caspar Tecile and I'm Vanessa Zoltan and this is Harry Potter and the Sacred Text. |
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| 1:41.3 | I am so excited about the group that we're bringing together from January 7th to the 10th. |
| 1:45.7 | It's a calming reflective spiritual retreat to help you reflect and plan rituals for the coming year. |
| 1:51.4 | We're going to be reading Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone together. |
| 1:54.5 | So we'll be anchored in the text but really exploring the questions of ritual and rhythm in our own lives. |
| 2:00.7 | While we do sacred readings and sparklets and it's going to be just fabulous. |
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