by Travis
This is just a short, bare bones pubcast – no music, nothing fancy. Back to regular podcasts in the new year!
Happy Christmas!
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Hog’s Head PubCast #40: Merry Christmas ‘07: Godric’s Hollow and Revelation 12
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Thanks for the site over the past year, Travis. And the work you’ve put into it.
Happy Christmas to all the SoG readers and regulars.
Matthew Boyd
Thanks for the pubcast, Travis. Just got a chance to listen to it. Interesting connection between Godric’s Hollow & Revelation 12. Hopefully you’ll expand on that in the new year. I do agree that Godric’s Hollow is the best Christmas scene in the books. Jo outdoes herself on this one.
Travis – thank you so much for the latest edition to your podcast. I enjoyed it so much, it was really really good. It was excellent commentary with a fresh perspective. I just wanted to make sure I got this comment written before the year is over! Please keep them coming!
God bless you and your family!
-Mary
I’m very slow about coming to this blog to post my thoughts, but listening to this podcast right now gave me the chills when Travis read from my favorite chapter….That particular moment in the DH book in the graveyard where Harry finds his parents gravestones…is beyond a doubt my most treasured moment in the entire book..perhaps the whole series.
I’ve said this before elsewhere and to friends, that to me…it feels more alive and in focus than any other piece in DH for some reason. The way she depicts it, describes it, and allows us into that scene is so vivid that something in my engagement with reading the novel allows for me to step into the graveyard with Harry. There are very few books that can completely take you out of your element of reality and place you in the same surroundings as the main character to the point where you feel like your memory is etched forever as if you were truly there with him and Hermione. Others may argue there are places where they are pulled into the series that I just may not have been, but…..something about the way she wrote this moment is as if Harry removes his glasses and everything is in complete focus. No haze…no cover..just complete heightened senses.
Rebekah,
I have to agree. There is a heightened sense of reality, of time and place, in the graveyard scene. It’s as if JKR was describing a place she had once visited. And beyond that, the way Harry and Hermione walk away, her arm around his waist, his arm around her shoulders, that too sounds like two real people, walking together.
There were a few scenes like that in DH: when Harry is digging Dobby’s grave, when he’s in Bathilda’s house, the walk in the Forest. I think that what’s happened is that JKR has grown as a writer, the way she sees things has changed, how she feels things has changed. Her voice is different from how it used to be. I think that when Harry left Hogwarts and childhood behind, JKR left something behind as well. They both moved on to something more complex and more interesting.