Bonus: Carly's Favorite SNART

Bonus Episode! 

Carly lost power during Season 5 Episode 11, so here is favorite Harry Potter book featuring Snake Art (or SNART)!


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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:11):
Hey guys, Carly here with a little bit of a
bonus episode. As you're aware if you've listened to our
latest episode, my power went out about twenty five or
so minutes in, so I didn't get to finish the
episode at all, which made me really sad, and I
didn't get to discuss my favorite Chamber of Secrets Harry
Potter book with snake art. So that's what I'm gonna

(00:33):
do right now. I know it'll be no surprise to
anybody that I picked the twentieth anniversary Lithuanian Chamber of Secrets,
but it really is a lovely book the whole All
seven of them are just so well illustrated. Anyway. The illustrator,
and I'm not going to say the name properly, so
I apologize in advance, but the illustrator is E. Katterina Boodwright,

(01:00):
and the artwork is just I think some of the
best there is in the Harry Potter universe. I picked
the twentieth anniversary Lithuanian Books or book, I should say,
because I love that it doesn't give any spoilers. So

(01:20):
many of the other cover art that I've seen that
has a basilisk or a snake on It has, you know,
spoilers from the end of the book on the cover,
and I think sometimes the artist presupposes that the people
reading the books are already familiar with the story, and
that's just not always the case. You know, you get

(01:41):
new readers to fandom and story all the time, so
I think sometimes some of the spoilers that are on
the books is frustrating, and I feel like the Lithuanian
there aren't. The illustrator very elegantly shows what's going on
without giving anything away. And for those who aren't familiar

(02:01):
with this, it is a green book, which green is
my favorite color. There's multiple shades of green, which is
even better. And there are what we now know to
be phoenix feathers falling down from the top of the book,
and there's a key hole in the center of the
book and we can see what we now know are
coils of a snake with the sort of gryffindor kind

(02:23):
of stabbing through them. But there's no blood or anything
like that, so we don't really know quite what's going on,
but it feels intense from the cover art, right, You're
not going to have a sword stabbing downward with a
lot of red on the cover without something being intense,
so we can get that it's an intense story. But

(02:44):
you know, if I were to be a kid at
a bookshop, I'm not necessarily sure that I would know.
I certainly wouldn't have guessed basilisk if I were a
brand new reader. That's never going to be the top
of my list of things to guess with Giant Snake,
although maybe because of the coils, I might think there's

(03:06):
a snake involved, but I wouldn't have guessed how it
would have played out the same with where the sword
came into play, and you know Fox at the end,
I would have never guessed that. So I think that
this is very cleverly illustrated. We have some major points
from the book in there, like I've said, but no spoilers,

(03:28):
which I think is really cool. I love this cover art.
I can't say enough good things about this cover art
in fact, and the more I look at the Lithuanian
books doing different projects and things, the more I just
think they're so well done. So I'm very thrilled to
be able to talk about it here today. I would

(03:49):
like to know your favorite snake art or you know
as Eric said Snart. He's so clever with titles for episodes,
but I would love to know what you guys think.
And there will be pictures posted on the Instagram as well,
so you can kind of see what I've just described
in detail, because it really really is phenomenal. You can

(04:11):
also see the book on all the Prettybooks dot Net
on the Lithuanian page, but it'll be up on the
Dialogue Alley podcast Instagram soon too. All right, that's my
favorite snake art and why I hope y'all are having
a wonderful Thursday and have a great rest of your day.