Hello Harry Potter and Sacred Text friends. Before we get to the episode this week, I just wanted to remind you that we as a community, as a not sorry community, are going to camp the summer to 9th through 11th at Camp Kenny Broke, which is an upstate New York.

We are going to be gathering to do all the traditional fun camp things. There'll be campfires and smores and swimming and all the fun things that you love to do a camp.

Plus all the amazing things you love to do with your friends at not sorry, all the whole not sorry community will be gathering there will be people you know from the podcast here will be offering classes and activities will be in conversation will be treating different textus sacred all your favorites from the company me and Vanessa and Casper and many of our guest hosts from the various podcast will be on site at Camp Kenny Broke in community with you reading textus sacred doing camp stuff.

It's going to be great and if you book your spot before January 31st, you will get 10% off. So don't wait go now to not sorry works calm and make your plans to join us at Camp Kenny Broke.

June 9th through 11th.

32 the elder wand. The world had ended so why had the battle not ceased the castle fallen silent in horror and every combatant laid down their arms.

Harry's mind was in freeful spinning out of control unable to grasp the impossibility because Fred Weasley could not be dead the evidence.

And I'm Vanessa Zoltan and this is Harry Potter and the sacred text.

Today's local group is the Northwest Niflers based in Boise, Idaho, but they also have a few members from Oregon since it is 100% virtual right now.

And I'm really excited for one virtual life is behind us and the people from Oregon have to just commute to Boise every week.

If you'd like to find out more about the Northwest Niflers or any other local group check out our website Harry Potter Sacred Text.com and join our community conversations.

Alright Vanessa we're reading this week's chapter through the theme of contentment and I'm hoping you have a story for us.

I do it's more of a moment Peter and I were sitting on the couch recently and he was like scrolling through probably cat videos on his phone.

He's a man who loves cat videos and I love that about him and I was sitting and I had like my feet in his lap and I was reading and the kids were actually playing Harry Potter, which is a game that gets played a lot in our house.

And this overwhelming feeling of contentment washed over me in this feeling of oh this is going to pass the older kid is 12 and I was like she is not going to be playing Harry Potter for much longer.

I felt so much like an ephemeral moment in all of its mundanity all I could do is want to take a snapshot of this moment.

So contentment to me feels like a meta feeling it's the feeling of being happy that you're happy you're noticing that you're happy and you're like hey look at me I'm happy.

It makes it so hard to read in this chapter right this chapter of just like minor and major tragedies and actually I would say a slew of major tragedies that we only get glimpses of and then one major tragedy at the end that we really get a close look at.

And so I'm excited to see where we find it because I do think that sometimes in tragic moments you can still get a snapshot of something beautiful and it's just in the last year we've had to look harder and harder for those moments so this will put us to the test.

I really love that idea that contentment is the self awareness that you're feeling happy that's such a great way to put it because when your content you don't want anything else and that takes a moment to notice maybe this will be the first chapter where we're like the theme does not exist.

I mean I found moments of yearning for content meant yeah yeah I found moments of the opposite of content meant.

Well let's remind everyone what happens in this chapter I actually thought of this chapter kind of like a video game like it's a level in a video game where you start in one location and you have to get to the other location past all sorts of obstacles and when you get there the computer like takes over and you like what you're seeing that informs the next level so that's how I'm going to give my 30 second recap.

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