Freedom: The Battle of Hogwarts (Book 7, Chapter 31)
Harry Potter and the Sacred Text
Vanessa Zoltan, Casper ter Kuile & Ariana Nedelman
4.7 • 6.8K Ratings
🗓️ 27 November 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
This week, Casper and Vanessa explore the theme of Freedom in Chapter 31 of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows! They discuss Fred’s death, Malfoy’s pals, and the very big fire! Throughout the episode we consider the question: how can freedom feel like a burden?
Thank you to our anonymous listener for this week’s voicemail! Next week we're reading Chapter 32, The Elder Wand, through the theme of Humility.
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| 0:00.0 | Chapter 31, the Battle of Hogwarts. |
| 0:04.3 | The enchanted ceiling of the Great Hall was dark and scattered with stars, and below it the |
| 0:09.1 | four longhouse tables were lined with disheveled students, summoned traveling cloaks, |
| 0:13.9 | others in dressing gowns. |
| 0:15.9 | I'm Caspar Ter Kyle. |
| 0:17.8 | And I'm Vanessa Zoltan. |
| 0:19.7 | And this is Harry Potter and The Sacred Text. |
| 0:23.8 | Caspar, I just have one announcement in addition to the bean, and that is that I have gotten |
| 0:29.5 | really emotionally attached to Lectio-Devina. So for the last several years, I've been doing a |
| 0:35.3 | virtual Zoom Lectio-Devina with our patrons, and I don't want to |
| 0:39.2 | give that up. And so we are going to keep doing those for our patrons even after the show ends. |
| 0:47.3 | And we're actually going to add more lectio de Vina. So for the last 10 years, I have done a sacred |
| 0:53.2 | reading practice with a sentence from |
| 0:54.7 | Harry Potter every week. And I don't want to stop just because the podcast is ending. And so I have |
| 1:01.5 | tricked Ariana Nettelman into doing a weekly lectio de Vina with me with a random sentence from the |
| 1:09.5 | Harry Potter books every week over on Patreon. |
| 1:12.8 | We are going to have listener submissions for those sentences, and sometimes we're going to |
| 1:18.2 | randomly generate sentences. And I'm just really excited to keep doing LectioDevina and |
| 1:25.8 | keep sacred reading Harry Potter and get more Ariana into my life |
| 1:30.8 | and still just be a part of our amazing Patreon community. So those are going to start in January. |
| 1:36.6 | You can sign up at patreon.com slash Harry Potter Sacred Text. And if you are anxious about Harry Potter |
| 1:42.6 | and the sacred text ending, you can just join us there. And do you want to tell people about the bean? Yes. And if you are anxious about Harry Potter and the Sacred Text ending, you can just join us there. |
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