Sacrifice: The Unbreakable Vow (Book 6, Chapter 15)
Harry Potter and the Sacred Text
Vanessa Zoltan, Casper ter Kuile & Ariana Nedelman
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🗓️ 14 November 2019
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Vanessa and Casper explore the theme of sacrifice in chapter fifteen of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. This week Casper and Vanessa discuss Snape’s love of Draco, Luna’s calming presence, and Hermione’s date with McLaggen. Throughout the episode we consider the question: can someone force you to sacrifice? Or does it have to be a choice?
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everybody, Vanessa here. I wanted to let you know about a little class that I'm running. |
| 0:05.5 | It is just going to be me and we are just going to be doing sacred reading practices on Sunday nights |
| 0:11.3 | with Harry Potter and the Sorcerer Stone. We are going to meet for six weeks this summer on Sunday |
| 0:17.0 | evenings. We're going to enjoy the heat and the sun and the light and each other's company and |
| 0:24.0 | each class we're going to do one or two sacred reading practices and it's really just about |
| 0:28.1 | community and discipline and believing that the sacred reading practices can change us and do |
| 0:34.7 | magical work on us. And we're going to work our way through Harry Potter and the Sorcerer Stone |
| 0:40.4 | over six weeks together just through Sparklitz. I hope you can join me. It's a really affordable class |
| 0:46.8 | and I'm imagining it just as lovely and I know that it will be even lovely with your presence. |
| 0:52.5 | Find out more at notsorryworks.com |
| 0:58.3 | Chapter 15 |
| 1:02.8 | Chapter 15 |
| 1:04.0 | The Unbreakable Vow |
| 1:06.0 | Snow was swirling against the icy windows once more. Christmas was approaching fast. |
| 1:12.0 | Hagrid had already single-handedly delivered the usual 12 Christmas trees for the great hall. |
| 1:17.2 | Garlands of Holly and Tinsel had been twisted around. I'm Kasperter Kyle |
| 1:21.6 | And I'm Vanessa Zoltan |
| 1:23.2 | And this is Harry Potter and the sacred text. |
| 1:25.6 | This week we're doing a special shout out to the fabulous Harry Potter and the sacred text local group |
| 1:31.2 | in Vancouver Canada run by a lecturer Torgason who I think has the best name I've ever heard. |
| 1:38.0 | Although we do think that the Vancouver group could use a name as awesome as lecturers. |
| 1:43.3 | So if you have ideas of Harry Potter related puns that could be worked into the Vancouver Harry |
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