Harry Potter and the Sacred Text

I’ve been a listener of HPST since the beginning and it’s gotten me through the good, the bad, and the every day. Vanessa, Casper, and Matt are such important people in my life because they have the gift of connection and that’s such a valuable gift to possess because it is meant to be shared with others. I’m still hoping to go on a pilgrimage one day to connect with them in person. As a therapist I help people retrain their brains everyday, and this podcast helps me retrain my brain and makes me feel like I’m reading something different whenever I pick up on of the 7 books. Keep reading, keep listening. Always.

Like it says they mean well and are filled with love and equality. At times there’s long tangents about social justice and whatever the political climate of the US is. They give ridiculously huge spoilers. Chapter 5 I think of POA(book 3) they give just an absolute bombshell of the ending of the series. I’ve read the series in middle school so it’s been a while so I don’t remember everything. Don’t listen if you’re reading for the first time. Not to mention I listen to like 6 other podcasts and every other one I listen to is longer by an hour or two. They will have a 25 minute episode with 8 minutes of advertisements. It’s literally atrocious. Again they’re both very sweet people and mean well. Don’t listen with intent to listen to Harry Potter content. It’s really aggravating when you don’t recall the ending but they have no issue spoiling the whole series. We get it you’re literary people. No reason to decimate the whole series to just make a little point that’s unnecessary.

This podcast has been a companion of mine for years. It’s reinvigorated my love of the Harry Potter series. I’m grateful for the time and thought that has gone into it. And I look forward to reading the series again and again. But I’m disappointed in the way the podcast is ending. The hosts’ strong bias against Rowling that has only increased as the podcast has gone on (and now seem to mention it each episode). With the hosts having the same ideologies, there has never been a balance other than casting anyone that may disagree as fundamentally bad. As someone that is more centrist, I avoid the preachy attitudes of MSNBC and Fox News. But it feels like a MSNBC echo chamber more and more each week. In the hosts’ final act of defiance against Rowling, they have now decided to end the podcast and sever all connection to a wonderful series. It’s disheartening that they aren’t able to find any middle ground and feel like they need to toss the entire Harry Potter series by the wayside.

Thanks for making this podcast a thing.?!.?!.?! From Autumn.?!.?!.?!.?!.?!!!!!!!! To Vanessa and Matt.?!.?!.?!.?!!!!!!!!!!!!