Obligation: Seen and Unforseen (Book 5, Chapter 26)
Harry Potter and the Sacred Text
Vanessa Zoltan, Casper ter Kuile & Ariana Nedelman
4.7 • 6.8K Ratings
🗓️ 21 March 2019
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Vanessa and Casper explore the theme of Obligation in chapter twenty-six of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. This week, Vanessa starts to feel bad for Harry in his Occlumency lessons, Casper talks about the best and worst moments in his marriage, and they both gush over Seamus Finnigan. Throughout the episode they consider the question: When is a little obligation actually liberating?
Thanks to Iris Gonzalez for this week's voicemail! Next week we’ll be reading chapter twenty-seven, The Centaur and the Sneak, through the theme of Hate.
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| 0:00.0 | Chapter 26, scene and unforeseen. |
| 0:05.5 | Luna said vaguely that she did not know |
| 0:07.7 | how soon Rita's interview with Harry would appear |
| 0:10.4 | in the quibbler that her father was expecting |
| 0:13.0 | a lovely long article on recent sightings |
| 0:15.6 | of Crumple Horned Smart Caps. |
| 0:18.1 | I'm Vanessa Soltan. |
| 0:19.2 | And I'm Caspar Ticcao. |
| 0:20.5 | And this is Harry Potter and the Sacred Text. |
| 0:24.2 | One of the joys of being in a gay relationship |
| 0:26.9 | is that you don't have any of the gender assumptions |
| 0:30.6 | that come with thousands of years of history |
| 0:33.2 | around some very basic things. |
| 0:34.8 | Like, who does the cooking and who earns the money? |
| 0:38.5 | And all sorts of questions that have been so gendered |
| 0:41.8 | in how we think about partnerships. |
| 0:44.5 | And one of my favorite experiences with my husband Sean, |
| 0:48.7 | aside from the actual wedding, was planning the wedding. |
| 0:51.7 | Like, we went all in. |
| 0:53.4 | Like, we really took like 18 months |
| 0:55.3 | to plan the whole thing. |
| 0:56.8 | And part of what was so fun was that |
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