Temptation: The House of Gaunt (Book 6, Chapter 10)

Harry Potter and the Sacred Text

Vanessa Zoltan, Casper ter Kuile & Ariana Nedelman

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

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🗓️ 10 October 2019

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Vanessa and Casper explore the theme of temptation in chapter ten of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. This week Casper and Vanessa unpack the tragic story of Merope Gaunt, considering her abuse and the way she perpetuates it with Tom Riddle Sr. Throughout the episode we consider the question: how do we interrupt temptation when it leads us astray?

Thanks to our anonymous listener for this week's voicemail! Next week we’re reading chapter eleven, Hermione’s Helping Hand, through the theme of Pleasure.

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1:11.7	Chapter 10 The House of Gaunt For the rest of the week's potions lessons, Harry
1:23.9	continued to follow the half-blood prince's instructions wherever they deviated
1:28.3	from libatious orages. With the result that by their fourth lesson, Slughorn was
1:33.5	raving. I'm Casper Ter Kyle and I'm Vanessa Zoltan and this is Harry Potter and the
1:38.7	Sacred Text. Casper, did you know that Chris Borland was an NFL player who read about
1:46.1	concussion problems and quit upsetting the entire city of San Francisco where he was a player?
1:53.5	I did not know that there was such a person as Chris Borland but I'm sure glad that he
1:58.0	did that. He's amazing. He had to like give back money.
2:02.0	The point of that story is that we have a local group in the Bay Area. So if you're upset
2:07.2	that Chris Borland quit, you can be happy that there's a Harry Potter and Sacred Text
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