Legacy: The Flaw in the Plan (Book 7, Chapter 36)
Harry Potter and the Sacred Text
Vanessa Zoltan, Casper ter Kuile & Ariana Nedelman
4.7 • 6.8K Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2026
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
This week, Casper and Vanessa explore the theme of Legacy in Chapter 36 of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows! They discuss Bellatrix's death, the centaurs and house elves joining the battle fray, and Neville's bravery. Throughout the episode we consider the question: can you control your own legacy?
Thank you to Rebecca for this week’s voicemail! Next week we're reading the epilogue, Nineteen Years Later, through the theme of Love.
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| 0:00.0 | Harry Potter in the Sacred Text is made possible for you to listen to by the Fetzer Institute. |
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| 0:10.1 | They are offering a new vision informed by both the spiritual and scientific ways of knowing, |
| 0:15.8 | and we are so grateful for their support. |
| 0:18.3 | Learn more at fetzer.org. |
| 0:27.6 | Chapter 36, the flaw in the plan. He was lying face down on the ground again. |
| 0:31.6 | The smell of the forest filled his nostrils. |
| 0:35.6 | He could feel the cold, hard ground beneath his cheek in the |
| 0:40.1 | hinge of his glasses, which had been knocked sideways by the fall, cutting into his temple. |
| 0:47.3 | I'm Vanessa's Old Hand. And I'm Caspar Terkeyle. And this is one of the last episodes of Harry Potter in the Sacred Text. |
| 0:58.4 | Oh. |
| 0:59.4 | This is the last real chapter. |
| 1:02.4 | We're feeling the feelings. |
| 1:04.0 | I'm not going to lie. |
| 1:05.6 | I want to take a minute to walk people through it, okay? |
| 1:08.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:09.3 | So we've got today's episode. |
| 1:11.7 | Mm-hmm. |
| 1:12.5 | We have the epilogue. |
| 1:14.2 | Yep. |
| 1:15.0 | Then we're going to wrap up book seven. |
| 1:17.2 | The long view. |
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