Defiance: The Beetle at Bay (Book 5, Chapter 25)
Harry Potter and the Sacred Text
Vanessa Zoltan, Casper ter Kuile & Ariana Nedelman
4.7 • 6.8K Ratings
🗓️ 14 March 2019
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Vanessa and Casper explore the theme of Defiance in chapter twenty-five of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. They discuss Hermione’s manipulation of Rita, Neville’s embrace of the DA, and Cho’s disappointment in Harry. Throughout the episode they consider the question: Is defiance always personal?
Thanks to Andy Phillips for this week's voicemail! Next week we’ll be reading chapter twenty-six, Seen and Unforeseen, through the theme of obligation.
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| 0:00.0 | Chapter 25. |
| 0:02.5 | The Beetle at Bay Harry's question was answered the very next morning. |
| 0:07.7 | When Hermione's daily profit arrived, she smoothed it out, gazed for a moment at the front |
| 0:12.5 | page and gave a yelp that caused everyone in the vicinity to stare. |
| 0:17.6 | I'm Kasper Tercyle. |
| 0:19.0 | And I'm Vanessa Zoltan. |
| 0:20.2 | And this is Harry Potter and the Secret Text. |
| 0:23.2 | Before we start today's episode, a couple of exciting announcements. |
| 0:26.2 | We are going to be in St. Paul, Minnesota on April 13th. |
| 0:29.4 | We are going to be in Indianapolis with John Green on April 15th. |
| 0:33.2 | We will be in a Holyoke, Massachusetts on May 8th and we will be in London on June 18th. |
| 0:39.5 | You can find tickets to all of these events at Harry Potter, Secret Text.com. |
| 0:44.7 | Vanessa, it's time for a story. |
| 0:46.7 | What have you got for us? |
| 0:48.7 | So my mother is the keeper of the memories in our family. |
| 0:52.2 | She is the obsessive photographer. |
| 0:54.4 | She paid someone several years ago to scan all of our photographs. |
| 0:58.7 | She for example, in her daybook in the 80s would write down what each of her children |
| 1:03.6 | was wearing so that when the photos got developed, she would be able to tell by the outfits |
| 1:09.9 | what date it was taken. |
| 1:14.3 | But my mother, surprisingly, was not a prolific videographer. |
| 1:17.6 | And in fact, we only have one home video that I am aware of of my entire childhood. |
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