Obedience: The Letters from No One (Book 1, Chapter 3)
Harry Potter and the Sacred Text
Vanessa Zoltan, Casper ter Kuile & Ariana Nedelman
4.7 • 6.8K Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2021
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
This week we're lucky to be joined by Jolie Doggett as we explore the theme of obedience in chapter three Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. This week we discuss Vernon's toxic masculinity, Dumbledore's manipulation, and whether Petunia fell in love with Vernon because he's so dominant. Throughout the episode we consider the question: How do you choose what to be obedient (or disobedient) to?
Thanks to Zoe for this week’s voicemail! Next week we’re reading Chapter 4, The Keeper of the Keys, through the theme of Celebration.
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| 0:00.0 | Chapter 3 The Letters from No One By the time he was allowed out of his cupboard |
| 0:05.8 | again, the summer holidays had started, and Dudley had already broken his new video |
| 0:11.2 | camera, crashed his remote control airplane, and the first time out on his racing bike. |
| 0:17.0 | I'm Vanessa Zoltan. |
| 0:18.5 | I'm Matt Potts. |
| 0:19.5 | And I'm Jolie Doggett, and this is Harry Potter and the Sacred Text. |
| 0:25.2 | This week we are thrilled to be joined by our friend Jolie Doggett, who writes at the |
| 0:30.1 | intersection of race, gender, and pop culture. |
| 0:32.8 | She is a senior editor for Zora of publication 4 and by women of color, and you can find |
| 0:38.5 | her blog at Jolie Doggett.com. |
| 0:41.6 | Jolie, welcome back. |
| 0:42.6 | We're so excited to have you. |
| 0:44.0 | I'm excited to be here. |
| 0:45.6 | A whole guest host like I'm going to stay for the whole episode. |
| 0:49.5 | It's crazy. |
| 0:50.5 | Thank you guys. |
| 0:51.5 | We are picking the themes in a slightly different way, and so we gave you the option of picking |
| 0:56.9 | a theme, and you picked the theme of obedience. |
| 0:59.3 | I did. |
| 1:00.3 | And you have a story for us? |
| 1:02.0 | Yes. |
| 1:03.0 | I did choose the theme of obedience, because I actually thought it would be a pretty easy |
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