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Harry Potter and the Sacred Text

Peace: Hagrid's Tale (Book 5, Chapter 20)

Harry Potter and the Sacred Text

Vanessa Zoltan, Casper ter Kuile & Ariana Nedelman

Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Jk Rowling, Books, Reading, Harry Potter, Arts, Sacred Reading, Sprituality, Sacred, Philosophy

4.76.8K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2019

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Vanessa and Casper explore the theme of Peace in chapter twenty of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. They discuss wizard/giant relations, analyze Umbridge’s intimidation strategy, and compare The Second Wizarding War to World War I. Throughout the episode they consider the question: How do you respond to violence with restorative peace?

Thanks to Felix Moore for this week's voicemail! Next week we’ll be doing an Owl Post with Professor Stephanie Paulsell.


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0:00.0

Chapter 20 Hagrid's Tale Harry sprinted up to the boy's dormitories

0:06.3

to fetch the invisibility cloak in the marauders map from his trunk.

0:10.2

He was so quick that he and Ron were ready to leave at least five minutes before Hermione

0:14.8

hurried back down from the girl's dormitories.

0:17.2

I'm Casper Ter Kyle, and I'm Vanessa Zoltan, and this is Harry Potter and the Sacred Text.

0:23.4

Vanessa this week we're reading the chapter through the theme of Peace, and it's your turn

0:27.4

to tell a story.

0:28.6

It sure is.

0:30.3

So people often ask me how I ended up at Divinity School.

0:34.0

Fair question, atheist Jew, I went to business school first, confusing,

0:39.2

and I never really have a good answer because I do feel like it was like 15 years in the making,

0:46.4

and it wasn't one clear thing.

0:49.6

But what I can say is that it started when I was 14 years old and read Les Mizz by Victor Hugo

0:57.0

for the first time.

0:58.4

This book blew me away.

1:01.9

The opening hundred pages of the book, there's this really intense moment in which a priest

1:06.6

opens his home to an ex-convect, and he serves him dinner and he invites him to spend the night

1:13.2

and the guest in the middle of the night steals the silverware from the house.

1:18.8

And he's like, if I just steal this, I could change my whole life and I could live a different life.

1:24.2

And he gets caught by the Jean-Dame's, by the police, and he gets brought back to the priest.

1:29.4

And the Jean-Dame says to the priest, he says, this man says that you gave him the silverware.

1:36.0

And the priest says, yes, of course I gave him the silverware.

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