Deception: The Advance Guard (Book 5, Chapter 3)
Harry Potter and the Sacred Text
Vanessa Zoltan, Casper ter Kuile & Ariana Nedelman
4.7 • 6.8K Ratings
🗓️ 17 August 2023
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
This week, Vanessa and Matt explore the theme of Deception in Chapter Three of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix! They discuss the Dursley's fake lawn care award, Moody's suspicions, and the Order's chosen method of transportation. Throughout the episode we consider the question: when is a little bit of deception helpful?
Thank you to Emily for this week’s voicemail! Next week we're reading Chapter 4, Number Twelve, Grimmauld Place, with Casper through the theme of Apathy.
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| 0:00.0 | One of my favorite activities is to go out with a friend and get a lot of |
| 0:08.8 | friend tries and dream up romance novel plots. And part of what's so fun about |
| 0:16.3 | these conversations is that you realize what it is that you value about a person |
| 0:21.2 | who you love. You realize what the world would need to look like in order for |
| 0:26.5 | you to feel like happily ever after was possible. Because this has been such a |
| 0:31.3 | rewarding thing in my life, last year we launched a romance writing workshop |
| 0:35.8 | in conversation with national novel writing month and a rhyme-o. And this class |
| 0:40.6 | was such a big success that we're doing it again this year and honestly we hope |
| 0:44.5 | to do it every year because every November we should just spend some time |
| 0:49.1 | thinking about what love is. If you are interested in learning how to write a |
| 0:53.2 | romance novel being part of a community, hearing amazing guest lectures, |
| 0:57.6 | setting aside time every week for a couple of months to focus on your writing. |
| 1:01.8 | Join us for our romance writing workshop in conversation with nanorim-o. |
| 1:05.7 | You can find out more at notsorryworks.com. |
| 1:17.9 | Chapter 3. The Advanced Guard. I've just been attacked by |
| 1:21.9 | the mentors and I might be expelled from Hogwarts. I want to know what's going on |
| 1:25.6 | and what I'm going to get out of here. Harry copied these words onto three separate |
| 1:29.7 | pieces of parchment the moment he reached the desk in his dark bedroom. |
| 1:34.0 | I'm Matt Potts. And I'm Vanessa Zoltan. And this is Harry Potter and the sacred text. |
| 1:40.5 | Vanessa this week in our every flight for being bonus segment, we are going to be discussing |
| 1:45.2 | and speaking around being deceptive times in our past when we have tried to conceal ourselves |
| 1:51.9 | or escape detection or tell stories of our own stealth in honor of our theme this week |
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