Comfort: The Pensieve (Book 4, Chapter 30)
Harry Potter and the Sacred Text
Vanessa Zoltan, Casper ter Kuile & Ariana Nedelman
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🗓️ 17 May 2018
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Vanessa and Casper explore the theme of "comfort" in chapter thirty of "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire." This week we discuss Bellatrix's fanaticism, how the pensieve is a model for virtual reality, and why Dumbledore reveals certain information to Harry. Our question this week is: Is it ever okay to be truly comfortable?
Next week we're doing and Owl Post episode with special guest, Rabbi Scott Perlo. Thanks this week to Thea Raymond-Sidel for our voicemail.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everybody. I'm here today to tell you about the most exciting pilgrimage. We are finally doing |
| 0:07.8 | my favorite Jane Austen novel, Emma. We are going to Sussex, just the most beautiful place in the UK, in my opinion. |
| 0:17.2 | And we are going to be close reading Emma through the theme of growth. |
| 0:23.9 | I cannot wait to go on this trip. |
| 0:25.9 | We're staying in a converted castle and it's just going to be so beautiful and the food is |
| 0:31.0 | going to be so good and the walks are just some of my favorite walks along like cliffs |
| 0:36.8 | and sea views. |
| 0:39.5 | And then we're going to talk about Emma and Knightley. |
| 0:42.8 | And we're going to ask ourselves, can people change? |
| 0:46.4 | What does it mean to want to grow and want to be better, but also want to love yourself now? |
| 0:53.2 | And who better to ask those questions with than Jane Austen herself? |
| 0:59.3 | So join us. |
| 1:00.4 | Go to reading and walking with.com and come with me and talk about Emma in Sussex. |
| 1:14.4 | Chapter about Emma in Sussex. Chapter 30, The Pensive. |
| 1:17.1 | The door of the office opened. |
| 1:19.5 | Hello, Potter, said Moody. |
| 1:20.7 | Come in then. |
| 1:21.9 | Harry walked inside. |
| 1:23.3 | He had been inside Dumbledore's office once before. |
| 1:26.0 | It was a very beautiful circular room lying with pictures. |
| 1:29.4 | I'm Caspar Tercaille. |
| 1:30.7 | And I'm Vanessa Zoltan. |
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