What can Severus Snape from Harry Potter teach us about courage and forgiveness?
Short & Curly
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🗓️ 29 November 2018
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Severus Snape is one of the trickier characters in the Harry Potter series. As a teacher, he can be mean and impatient and unfriendly and sarcastic. But Snape might also be able to teach us a lot about growing up and courage and forgiveness. Listen and decide for yourself.
Guest: Lorrie Kim, author of Snape: A Definitive Reading.
Brains Trust: Buranda State School — Meena, Caitlin, Banjo, Rosey, Hailey and Rex.
Actors: Zali, Ngaio, Joel, Adam, Hannah and Jarvis.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a show set in the Harry Potter universe and there are spoilers ahead especially about snape several about. A spoiler! A spoiler catavra! You're listening to Short and Curly. |
| 0:35.0 | Students, your potion should be almost complete. |
| 0:40.0 | If you don't finish today, you'll enjoy an evening of rearranging my ingredients |
| 0:46.0 | cupboard. Hey Molly, what do I do after I've added the Sopophorous beans |
| 0:50.8 | juice to this potion? You stir seven times anti-clockwires. |
| 0:55.4 | Thanks. |
| 0:56.5 | Making magical potions is really tricky. |
| 0:58.7 | Silence. |
| 1:00.1 | Mr Smith. |
| 1:00.9 | Sorry, Professor Snape. I know you always think everyone's interested in your thoughts, but we aren't. |
| 1:07.7 | 10 points from Gryffendor. Geez, Professor Snape is so awful Molly. |
| 1:14.0 | What? No he's not. |
| 1:16.0 | He just wants us to focus on making our draft of living death potions. |
| 1:21.0 | Of course you don't have a problem with him. You're in |
| 1:23.8 | Slytherin House here at Hogwart School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and |
| 1:27.6 | he loves all the students in Slytherin. We were both talking a second ago |
| 1:32.3 | and he only took points from my house, Gryffendor. |
| 1:36.0 | There, what can I say? Slitheron pride baby, hiss, hiss. |
| 1:41.0 | If you listening are wondering what we're doing here, Molly and I have been arguing all |
| 1:46.0 | week about whether Severus Snape, the Potian's master from the Harry Potter series, is a hero or a villain. |
| 1:53.4 | So today on Short and Curley, we've decided to go back into the Harry Potter universe |
| 1:58.9 | to gather some more evidence and answer this question once and for all. |
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