Respite: In the Hog's Head (Book 5, Chapter 16)
Harry Potter and the Sacred Text
Vanessa Zoltan, Casper ter Kuile & Ariana Nedelman
4.7 • 6.8K Ratings
🗓️ 20 December 2018
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Vanessa and Casper explore the theme of Respite in chapter sixteen of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. They discuss Aberforth living in Dumbledore's shadow, Ron wanting to step out of his prefect roll, and Harry needing a break from his trauma. Throughout the episode they consider the question: Can respite be healing?
Thanks to Maloy Moore for this week's voicemail. We're taking two weeks off for the holidays, but we'll be back on January 10th with Chapter 17, Educational Decree Number Twenty-four, through the theme of supremacy.
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| 0:00.0 | Hermione made no mention of Harry giving defense against the Dark Arts lessons for two whole |
| 0:05.2 | weeks after her original suggestion. |
| 0:08.4 | Harry's detentions with Umbridge were finally over. |
| 0:11.6 | He doubted whether the words now etched on the back of his hand, whatever they'd entirely. |
| 0:17.8 | I'm Vanessa Zoltan, and I'm Kasper Tecchial, and this is Harry Potter and the Sacred Text. |
| 0:24.6 | So Vanessa, our theme this week is respite. |
| 0:27.3 | What story do you have for us? |
| 0:29.6 | So I'm going to tell a slightly different version of a story that I have told once before, |
| 0:34.6 | which is about the time that I went to Peru with my friend, Emmy, who listens every week |
| 0:38.6 | to this podcast. |
| 0:39.6 | Hi, Emmy. |
| 0:40.6 | Emmy and I decided that we were going to go to Machu Picchu, but we decided that we were |
| 0:44.1 | going to do this in this grand way. |
| 0:47.1 | And as our listeners know, I loved to walk. |
| 0:50.6 | Emmy loves to bike. |
| 0:53.1 | And so because I love Emmy, I let her pick this adventure travel situation in which we |
| 0:59.4 | mountain-biked and then walked. |
| 1:02.9 | So on day one of this like travel to Machu Picchu situation, we were mountain biking in |
| 1:09.2 | the mountains outside of Kusko, which are like pretty significant mountains. |
| 1:14.2 | These are not like hills. |
| 1:15.6 | These are mountains. |
| 1:17.6 | And I hated it. |
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