Trust: Magic Is Might (Book 7, Chapter 12)
Harry Potter and the Sacred Text
Vanessa Zoltan, Casper ter Kuile & Ariana Nedelman
4.7 • 6.8K Ratings
🗓️ 19 June 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
This week, Casper and Vanessa explore the theme of Trust in Chapter 12 of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows! They discuss Hermione’s planning, Harry’s gut, and Kreacher’s new attitude! Throughout the episode we consider the question: how can trust help us better navigate life’s uncertainties?
Thank you to Connie for this week’s voicemail! Next week we're reading Chapter 13, The Muggle-Born Registration Commission, through the theme of Ritual.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, everybody. Before today's episode, I wanted to tell mostly Casper, but you all can listen. |
| 0:06.7 | Casper, I'm going to Italy. |
| 0:09.2 | Ice cream, pizza, pasta. |
| 0:12.1 | All of those things. We are doing a room with the view, pilgrimage. |
| 0:18.3 | I love this novel. It is a coming of age novel that I really feel like expresses |
| 0:25.9 | the internal turmoil of loss of innocence, not because anything bad happens, but just because |
| 0:32.2 | the world starts to come into focus for you. And it's set in Florence, where I lived as an 18-year-old for a month. |
| 0:39.9 | And the only Italian I learned was, |
| 0:42.4 | me despatches, son a retardo. |
| 0:44.4 | I'm sorry, I'm late. |
| 0:45.6 | And the word for mustache, which is buffy. |
| 0:48.7 | Well, everybody, you can learn brilliant things like that and more. |
| 0:54.0 | If you come with us to Florence, Italy in May of 2026. |
| 0:59.1 | You can find out more about this really once in a lifetime pilgrimage. |
| 1:02.9 | We've never been to Italy. |
| 1:04.8 | I don't know when we're going to have the opportunity to go again. |
| 1:07.7 | So go to reading and walking with.com and look at our room with a view pilgrimage. |
| 1:19.4 | Chapter 12, magic is might. |
| 1:22.3 | As August wore on, the square of unkempt grass in the middle of Grimald Place, |
| 1:29.9 | shriveled in the sun until it was brittle and brown. The inhabitants of number 12 were never seen by anybody in the surrounding houses, nor was |
| 1:37.5 | number 12 itself. I'm Vanessa Zoltan. And I'm Casper Tec Kyle. And this is Harry Potter in the Sacred Text. |
| 1:47.3 | So, Casper, our announcement section. |
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