Desperation: Flight of the Fat Lady (Book 3, Chapter 8)
Harry Potter and the Sacred Text
Vanessa Zoltan, Casper ter Kuile & Ariana Nedelman
4.7 • 6.8K Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2017
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Vanessa and Casper explore the theme of desperation in chapter eight of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. They discuss the credibility of divination, the intensity of Oliver Wood's quidditch passion, and whether Harry's need to go to Hogsmeade is silly or understandable. Throughout the episode they consider the question: How do you prevent desperation from going hand and hand with isolation?
Next week we're reading chapter nine, Grim Defeat, through the theme of frustration. Our donor of the week is Mikhela Ungerleider and our voicemail this week is thanks to Sara Cochennet.
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| 1:59.5 | Chapter 8. |
| 2:03.5 | Flight of the Fat Lady. |
| 2:05.5 | In no time at all, defense against the dark arts had become most people's favorite class. |
| 2:10.5 | Only Draco Malfoy and his gang of slitherins had anything bad to say about Professor Lupin. |
| 2:16.5 | Look at the state of his robes, Malfoy would say, and allowed whisper. |
| 2:19.5 | I'm Kasperter Kyle. |
| 2:21.5 | And I'm Vanessa Zoltan. |
| 2:23.5 | And this is Harry Potter and the Secret Text. |
| 2:27.5 | When I lived in Berlin for a year, I loved going to all the different museums. |
| 2:31.5 | And of course, very famously, there's the Holocaust Memorial and the museum that's attached to it, |
| 2:36.5 | right in the center of the city. |
| 2:38.5 | And so often in museums that commemorate the Holocaust, it's overwhelming. |
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