Nostalgia: The Quidditch World Cup (Book 4, Chapter 8)
Harry Potter and the Sacred Text
Vanessa Zoltan, Casper ter Kuile & Ariana Nedelman
4.7 • 6.8K Ratings
🗓️ 27 October 2022
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
This week, Vanessa and very special guest Jackson Bird explore the theme of Nostalgia in Chapter Eight of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire! They discuss sports(!!!!!), Dobby stirring the pot for house elves, and the Malfoy vs Weasley dichotomy. Throughout the episode we consider the question: how do we reconcile our conflicting feelings about the past?
Thank you to Sydney for their voicemail! Next week we're reading Book 4 Chapter 9, The Dark Mark, through the theme of Humility.
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| 0:00.0 | Chapter 8, The Quidditch World Cup |
| 0:03.0 | Clutching their purchases, Mr. Weasley and the lead, |
| 0:06.7 | they all hurried into the woods, following the lantern lit trail. |
| 0:12.0 | They could hear the sounds of thousands of people moving around them, |
| 0:15.7 | shouts and laughter, snatches of singing. |
| 0:19.2 | I'm Vanessa Zoltan. |
| 0:21.0 | And I'm Jackson Bird. |
| 0:22.3 | And this is the special guest episode of Harry Potter and the Sacred Text. |
| 0:28.8 | Well, we're lucky enough to be joined again by Jackson Bird, |
| 0:31.9 | regular guest host here. |
| 0:34.3 | And Jackson, as I'm sure you all know, |
| 0:37.0 | is the author of the wonderful book, Sorted and the host of Cool Stuff, Ride Home. |
| 0:41.5 | And most exciting to me is this new-ish gig that you have at the Neo Futurist. |
| 0:46.7 | Can you tell everybody a little bit about that? |
| 0:48.6 | Yeah, yeah. I recently joined the New York Neo Futurist, |
| 0:51.6 | which is like a weird experimental theater company here in New York. |
| 0:55.3 | And I am currently performing with them every Friday and Saturday night |
| 0:58.9 | in the East Village here in New York City. |
| 1:00.8 | We do 30 plays in 60 minutes, |
| 1:03.2 | and sometimes they're funny, sometimes they're sad. |
| 1:05.7 | They're usually social justice oriented. |
| 1:08.4 | So if you're in the New York City area, come check us out. |
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