Dreaming: Dudley Demented (Book 5, Chapter 1)
Harry Potter and the Sacred Text
Vanessa Zoltan, Casper ter Kuile & Ariana Nedelman
4.7 • 6.8K Ratings
🗓️ 3 August 2023
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Welcome back for Season 5! This week, Vanessa and Matt explore the theme of Dreaming in Chapter One of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix! They discuss Harry's literal dream which is overheard by Dudley, Mrs. Figg's big reveal, and the Proto-Germanic roots of dreaming. Throughout the episode we consider the question: how do our dreams impact our lived realities?
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| 0:00.0 | picture this static cars idling engines angry horns now picture you zooming |
| 0:12.0 | past it all light and breezy the sweet feeling of whizzing past traffic book |
| 0:21.0 | your train journey by Avanti West Coast.co.uk Avanti West Coast feel good |
| 0:27.7 | travel. Hi everybody I'm so excited to be getting back into book five with Matt |
| 0:34.5 | Ann Casper and Caps Lock Harry and I'm here to tell you that on October 12th at |
| 0:40.0 | 8 p.m. Eastern the three of us will be hosting a virtual live show together. |
| 0:44.7 | It will be a silly and sacred evening as your favorite trio dives into their |
| 0:50.4 | favorite trio close reading a chapter from book five together. I don't want to |
| 0:55.3 | make any promises but the last time the three of us did a virtual live show |
| 0:58.6 | Casper made himself about eight different hats over the course of the |
| 1:02.2 | evening. Tickets are on pre-sale now with a special discount until August 11th. |
| 1:07.0 | Save the date and check out notsorryworks.com for more info. |
| 1:13.4 | Chapter one, Dudley Demented. The hottest day of the summer so far was |
| 1:23.2 | drawing to a close and a drowsy silence lay over the large square houses of |
| 1:28.8 | private drive. I'm Vanessa Zoltan and I'm at pots and this is book five of |
| 1:36.4 | Harry Potter and the sacred text. Order of the Phoenix! Matt we're in book five |
| 1:43.3 | how do you feel about book five? I like book five. I also find book five in |
| 1:48.6 | furie. I think I had the least enjoyment in reading book five not because it's |
| 1:54.2 | a worse book than the other books but because the level of administrative |
| 1:58.4 | like yeah malfeasance is just yes I get claustrophobic it feels like there's |
| 2:05.6 | no way out and you can really tell what the students are feeling right and so |
| 2:08.6 | it made me very angry when I read it the first time. It offends you as an |
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