Redemption: The Life and Lies of Albus Dumbledore (Book 7, Chapter 18)
Harry Potter and the Sacred Text
Vanessa Zoltan, Casper ter Kuile & Ariana Nedelman
4.7 • 6.8K Ratings
🗓️ 7 August 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
This week, Casper and Vanessa explore the theme of Redemption in Chapter 18 of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows! They discuss Hermione’s tea offering, Harry’s broken wand, and young Dumbledore’s politics! Throughout the episode we consider the question: what are our less visible acts of redemption?
Thank you to Koto for this week’s voicemail! Next week we're reading Chapter 19, The Silver Doe, through the theme of Peace.
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| 0:32.2 | Chapter 18. The Life and Lies of Albus Dumbledore. |
| 0:38.9 | The sun was coming up. |
| 0:42.9 | The pure, colourless vastness of the sky stretched over him, |
| 0:45.2 | indifferent to him and his suffering. |
| 0:50.0 | Harry sat down in the tent entrance and took a deep breath of clean air. |
| 0:51.8 | I'm Caspar Terkyle. |
| 0:53.9 | And I'm Vanessa Zoltan. |
| 0:56.7 | And this is Harry Potter and The Sacred Text. |
| 1:04.9 | Our only announcement is our Every Flavored Bean conversation with encouragement, of course, to sign up for our Patreon. |
| 1:08.1 | In order to hear it, Casper, what is our bean this week? |
| 1:12.0 | Well, inspired by the kind of story of Dumbledore and Grindelwald in the way in which Dumbledore looks back differently at that time, |
| 1:15.2 | and certainly Harry does, I thought we should share stories |
| 1:18.3 | that we had one interpretation of in our youth, right, at the time. |
| 1:22.9 | And now that we look back on it, we're like, huh, |
| 1:25.9 | I think about it real different. |
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