Concealment: The Department of Mysteries (Book 5, Chapter 34)
Harry Potter and the Sacred Text
Vanessa Zoltan, Casper ter Kuile & Ariana Nedelman
4.7 • 6.8K Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2019
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Vanessa and Casper explore the theme of Concealment in chapter thirty-four of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. This week we discuss Ron’s comment about the prophecy, whether Harry is fooling himself about Sirius, and the physical landscape of The Department of Mysteries. Throughout the episode we consider the question: If you could know when you die, would you want to?
Thanks to Lorraine Haymen for this week's voicemail! Next week we’ll be reading chapter thirty-five, Beyond the Veil, through the theme of Home.
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| 0:00.0 | Chapter 34 The Department of Mysteries |
| 0:05.6 | Harry wound his hand tightly into the mane of the nearest |
| 0:08.8 | festival, placed a foot on the stump nearby and scrambled clumsily onto the horses' |
| 0:13.8 | silken back. |
| 0:14.8 | It did not object, but twisted its head around, Fang's bed, and attempted to continue |
| 0:19.6 | its eager licking of his room. |
| 0:21.3 | I'm Kasper Tekyle. |
| 0:22.3 | And I'm Vanessa Zoltan. |
| 0:23.3 | And this is Harry Potter and the Secret Text. |
| 0:27.5 | I've just a few announcements about my travel plans, everybody, before we get started. |
| 0:32.2 | I will be in London on June 18th and in Paris on June 22nd. |
| 0:36.3 | And I would love to see you. |
| 0:37.7 | You can find information about both of those events at Harry PotterSacrotext.com. |
| 0:42.0 | And if you can't go to Europe, or you don't live there, join my newsletter. |
| 0:46.6 | It's like this same is going to Paris. |
| 0:48.7 | It, I mean, I sometimes post pretty pictures of cathedrals. |
| 0:51.5 | You do, and it's a journey into a world that I never would have gotten to go to. |
| 0:57.1 | I love to explore questions of spirituality, community, and social change. |
| 1:01.6 | So if you're interested in getting a nice little email on a Friday morning for me, go |
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| 1:09.7 | It is the only newsletter I am signed up for, and it is also my favorite newsletter. |
| 1:13.9 | But the other newsletter that I love is the Harry Potter Sacred Text newsletter, which |
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