Insight: The Portkey (Book 4, Chapter 6)
Harry Potter and the Sacred Text
Vanessa Zoltan, Casper ter Kuile & Ariana Nedelman
4.7 • 6.8K Ratings
🗓️ 13 October 2022
⏱️ 44 minutes
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This week, Vanessa and Matt explore the theme of Insight in Chapter Six of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire! They discuss Harry's muggle expertise, Amos Diggory's glowing pride in his son, and Fred & George's unappreciated talents. Throughout the episode we consider the question: how can our insights help us to better understand each-other?
Thank you to Paige Erin for their voicemail! Next week we're reading Book 4 Chapter 7, Bagman and Crouch, through the theme of Service.
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| 0:00.0 | Chapter 6. The Port Key. Harry felt as though his body had barely lain down to sleep in Ron's room |
| 0:06.3 | when he was being shaken awake by Mrs. Weasley. Time to go, Harry dear, she whispered, |
| 0:11.9 | moving away to wake Ron. Harry felt around for his glasses, put them on and set up. It was still |
| 0:17.7 | dark outside. I'm Matt Potts. And I'm Phenese Zoltan. And this is Harry Potter and the Sacred Text. |
| 0:24.9 | Matt, for our every flavored bean conversation today, we are going to be talking about what we think |
| 0:32.4 | would make a good port key and what would make a bad port key. I have theories. Yeah, I think |
| 0:38.2 | litter is a bad idea. Anyway, everyone if you want to hear this conversation, listen to it at |
| 0:44.1 | patreon.com slash Harry Potter Sacred Text. In our announcement today before we get started, |
| 0:49.8 | it's just that summer camp tickets are still on sale. We're really excited about gathering all |
| 0:54.7 | of you and you can find out more at notsorryworks.com. Vanessa, today you were telling us a story |
| 1:00.9 | about insight and I cannot wait to hear the insights we glean from your story. |
| 1:07.9 | So I grew up not kosher, not keeping kosher, but around a lot of people who kept kosher. |
| 1:14.4 | And so discussing what kosher was, was a big part of the conversations that we had around the |
| 1:19.9 | dinner table. And so I knew that there was like a right way and a wrong way, morally according |
| 1:26.9 | to Judaism to slaughter animals. And that you wanted a rabbi present so that it was a blessing that |
| 1:34.8 | the animal was giving up its life for me. And that there were gestures that you could make toward |
| 1:39.6 | the animals in order to show respect for the fact that they gave their life for you to eat, |
| 1:44.3 | which is why you don't mix dairy and meat in Judaism. The saying is that you don't cook a baby |
| 1:49.6 | in its mother's milk. But I grew up eating meat. We had hamburgers for dinner a lot every Friday |
| 1:55.7 | night. We had chicken schnitzel for dinner to this day. My favorite food is my mother's roast. I |
| 2:01.8 | have not had it in 26 years. But if I was not eating tomorrow, I am convinced it is the meal that I |
| 2:07.2 | would want to eat today. So I, yeah, I really grew up loving eating meat and yet understanding that |
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