Prophecy serves as a weapon.
Knowledge is power, but it can also be a bad thing. It can manipulate others (Voldemort knows
that Harry gets flashes of his emotions and that his mind is open to Voldemort). The desperation for knowledge by Voldemort is
the seeking of certainty and control.
Thestrals are misunderstood creatures.
They are associated with death much as the Grim that was a big part of
the driving force within the third book, harry potter and the prisoner of
Azkaban. They are seen as omens or harbinger’s
of death when they are, in fact, creatures that can only be seen by those that
have seen death.
Umbridge is underestimated because she is small with a high voice. She wears a lot of pink. She basically uses the physical, her
appearance, as a shield and as an offensive tactic. If the Minister of Magic, Fudge, cannot see
how dangerous she is then she can go far in what she does for his cause. He was going over the deep end in his
paranoia, but he would have drawn the line at cruelty. She did not have a line. She sent the dementors to Little Whinging to
attack Harry. She abused children with
her punishments. She was even prepared
to use Unforgivable Curses on students.
Her pride, cruelty, and overall prejudices are her downfall. She would have been an excellent Death Eater.
Snape is starting to be understood a little bit more in this book. The reveal of his old memory shows why Snape
hates James Potter and therefore, Harry who reminds him of James. James
was a bully and Snape simply someone to push around. James did actually strut about the castle and
flaunt himself while bullying others. He
wasn’t malicious, but he sought out attention in the worst ways. He just wanted to impress one girl and he
made a mess of things being driven in his desperation for her attention.
Dumbledore’s Army is introduced as the Ministry of Magic’s fear of what
Dumbledore is actually doing with his students.
The weird thing is that the club was only started because of how the
Ministry was interfering at Hogwarts.
They made their worst fears come true by pushing for it to happen. The preemptive strike only led to a self -fulfilling
prophecy.
The order of the phoenix is a group that is fighting for what is
right. They are against the ministry who
refuses to believe and goes too far to disprove them. They are against the injustice that Voldemort
wants to make common place in the world.
They are the ones who were never accepted and who found their own place
without trying to take anyone else down from their own place. The order members learn from their mistakes
and use them to fight, but not promote killing.
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