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🗓️ 14 August 2025
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This week, Casper and Vanessa explore the theme of Peace in Chapter 19 of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows! They discuss Ron’s return, the destruction of the trio’s first horcrux, and Hermione’s anger! Throughout the episode we consider the question: how do we set the stage for peace?
Thank you to Cath for this week’s voicemail! Next week we're reading Chapter 20, Xenophilius Lovegood, through the theme of Purpose with special guest Micaela Blei.
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0:00.0 | Chapter 19, the silver dough. |
0:03.6 | It was snowing by the time Hermione took over the watch at midnight. |
0:08.0 | Harry's dreams were confused and disturbing. |
0:11.0 | Nagini wove in and out of them, first through a gigantic, cracked ring, then through a wreath of Christmas roses. |
0:19.8 | I'm Vanessa Zoltan. |
0:21.9 | And I'm Casper Teckel. |
0:23.4 | And this is Harry Potter in the Sacred Text. |
0:28.2 | Okay, Casper, announcements. |
0:30.7 | Of course, you can always get ad-free episodes on Apple Podcasts and through our Patreon. |
0:35.8 | And our bonus conversation this week, I was so excited to come up with an idea, |
0:40.2 | but you already had such a good idea in the doc. |
0:44.6 | I wanted to talk about spooky sensations, right? |
0:48.6 | When you know something without knowing how you know that you know it, |
0:52.9 | like just that sense that Harry has that like someone is there, but it's a good presence. He doesn't need to be afraid. And, of course, he turns out to be right because it's wrong. But, like, have you experienced things where you know something, but you don't know why you know? Spooky sensations are being conversation this week. I can't wait. |
1:17.0 | Everyone sign up for our Patreon at patreon.com slash harry pot of sacred text to hear about that. |
1:19.6 | Casper, our theme this week is peace. |
1:22.1 | What story do you have for us? |
1:26.4 | So I grew up in England in the 1990s. |
1:31.2 | You know, I was born in 1986. So my childhood memories are of the 1990s. And I grew up in England in the 1990s. You know, I was born in 1986, so my childhood memories are of the 1990s. And I grew up in the countryside predominantly, but now and then we would go into London. |
1:36.3 | I know we would go on like Boxing Day for the sales or like, I remember going to see my first musical, which was all of a twist. |
1:43.8 | And the city was a place that |
1:46.2 | you went to, but it was like a special occasion kind of city thing. And, you know, usually maybe |
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