Grace: The Lion and the Serpent (Book 5, Chapter 19)
Harry Potter and the Sacred Text
Vanessa Zoltan, Casper ter Kuile & Ariana Nedelman
4.7 • 6.8K Ratings
🗓️ 4 January 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
This week, Vanessa and Matt explore the theme of Grace in Chapter 19 of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix! They discuss Harry’s game-saving capture of the snitch, Ron’s first big match, and Hermione’s magical talent. Throughout the episode we consider the question: what are the conditions which allow us to be graceful?
Thank you to Emily for this week’s voicemail! Next week we're reading Chapter 20, Hagrid’s Tale, through the theme of heartbreak with Casper.
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| 0:00.0 | Chapter 19, The Lion and the Serpent. |
| 0:03.4 | Harry felt as though he were carrying some kind of talisman inside his chest over the following two weeks, |
| 0:08.2 | a glowing secret that supported him through Umbridge's classes and even made it possible for him to smile blandly as he looked into her horrible |
| 0:15.0 | bulging eyes. |
| 0:16.1 | I'm Matt Potts and I'm Vanessa Zoltan and this is Harry Potter and the Sacred Text. |
| 0:23.0 | Matt, an announcement before we get started today, which is that we are so lucky |
| 0:28.0 | the Fetzer Institute just made a big contribution to us in order for us to offer more scholarships on our |
| 0:36.2 | pilgrimages. And so to that end, go to reading and walking with.com to apply for those scholarships |
| 0:42.4 | everyone and a huge thank you to |
| 0:43.8 | the Fetser Institute who we're partnering with on making access to spiritual care |
| 0:49.4 | for non-religious folks more accessible. The Fesser Institute is so amazing. Do you know where |
| 0:54.6 | the Fesser Institute is located, Vanessa? Is it in Michigan? Kalamazoo? |
| 0:58.8 | It's Kalamazoo, Michigan. Hometown of Kolett and my father. One of the great |
| 1:02.0 | small cities in America. |
| 1:03.5 | Vanessa for our Patreon perk today, our Every Flavor Bean segment, |
| 1:08.0 | we're going to talk about Lucky Breaks. |
| 1:10.0 | So there's a moment in that chapter today when Ron is in practice and he makes this amazing kick save. |
| 1:16.0 | It's such a good save. It resembles like some great professional keeper's famous save. |
| 1:20.0 | So I'm going to tell a story about something that happened. My cousin is a police officer in Japan and he experienced something very lucky during the course of his normal duties in Japan and it's a fun story and when I suggested this is something to talk about |
| 1:32.8 | Vanessa said, oh my gosh you have to tell the story. |
| 1:35.1 | So I'm going to tell the story. |
| 1:37.0 | If you are not a patron but would like to hear this wonderful story |
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