Joy: Horace Slughorn (Book 6, Chapter 4)
Harry Potter and the Sacred Text
Vanessa Zoltan, Casper ter Kuile & Ariana Nedelman
4.7 • 6.8K Ratings
🗓️ 22 August 2019
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Vanessa and Casper explore the theme of joy in chapter four of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. This week we discuss Horace’s supposed ‘cowardice’, Dumbledore’s good pedagogy, and the usefulness of inappropriate jokes. Throughout the episode we consider the question: is joy more likely in community?
Thanks to Vivianna for this week's voicemail! Next week we’re reading chapter five, An Excess of Phlem, through the theme of Yearning. We’ll be joined by friend of the podcast, author John Green, who will tell our opening story.
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| 0:00.0 | Chapter 4 – Horace Slughorn Despite the fact that he had spent every waking |
| 0:06.7 | moment of the past few days hoping desperately that Dumbledore would indeed come to fetch |
| 0:10.9 | him, Harry felt distinctly awkward as they set off down-private drive together. |
| 0:15.3 | I'm Caspar T'Kyle, and I'm Vanessa Zoltan, and this is Harry Potter and the Sacred |
| 0:20.2 | Text. |
| 0:21.7 | Friends we are doing a bumper crop of live shows this fall, we're coming to New York |
| 0:26.0 | City, my new hometown on September 9th, and I think I might be wearing something very |
| 0:30.6 | special, so you should definitely come to this show. |
| 0:33.0 | I'm so excited! |
| 0:35.3 | Tickets for every show, by the way, are on Harry Potter's Sacred Text.com, just click |
| 0:38.5 | on the big orange button where you can find tickets for every show. |
| 0:41.6 | We'll also be back in Boston on October 2nd. |
| 0:44.6 | We're going to be in Washington, D.C. at the fabulous 6th and I synagogue on November |
| 0:48.4 | 7th. |
| 0:49.4 | We're in Chicago again on November 21st, and finally on December 19th, won't you meet |
| 0:53.7 | me in St. Louis? |
| 0:54.7 | We're coming to the Midwest and we're going to be in St. Louis for my first visit to that |
| 0:58.4 | great city, so I hope you'll join us there. |
| 1:00.6 | Well, Caspar, I have a little bit of trivia for you. |
| 1:04.0 | Same on. |
| 1:05.0 | Did you know that the oldest continuously conducted annual sailing regatta in the world is hosted |
| 1:12.0 | in Sydney, Australia? |
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