Instead, he smiled, raised a hand in farewell, turned around, and led the way out of the

station toward the Sunlit Street, with Uncle Vernon, Aunt Petunia, and Dudley hurrying

along in his wake.

I'm a portrait trapped in the purgatory of Dumbledore's office.

And I'm a festival that only sees children if they've died.

And this is a wrap-up of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix as a Sacred Text.

Finessa, you and Ariana have been working really hard on a new project launching very

soon called Hot and Bothered.

Yes, we have been working on the process of writing romance novels as a sacred practice,

and the first episode of Hot and Bothered comes out on July 16th.

We'll put it in this feed, and then go and subscribe to its own separate feed, Hot

and Bothered, the new podcast coming straight from Not Sorry Productions to Your Ears.

So, Finessa, before we do our 30-second recap of the entire book, what stood out to you

reading Book 5 this time?

I think what struck me in this book is that Hogwarts is never safe.

Voldemort is in Hogwarts from the very beginning, in Quirl's Head.

We just don't know it.

But it's in Book 5, where it feels as though Hogwarts gets infiltrated by Umbridge

and by the Ministry and by Missing Formation.

But like, Barty Crouch Jr. was there as Moody last year, and Peter Pettigrew was there

the whole time as a rat.

Like, Hogwarts has always been unsafe.

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