![]() As Harry and his friends mature, the line between the world of wizardry, magic, and Hogwarts and the world of self-centered, manipulative, cruel adults thins to the point of almost magical invisibility. 5, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Warner Bros., 2007), I got my answer. By page 766, exhausted readers will be hoping for a change of pace as well.Why do Harry Potter movies give me, but not the children, nightmares? I've been wondering this for the past few years. ![]() At present, he responds to this "contamination" with confused annoyance and anger. From the start, when rogue Dementors descend on Privet Drive, the book shows Harry reacting to breaches in "the great, invisible wall" he once thought separated good and bad, love and hate, self and others, magic and Muggle. We even grasp that the ghastly Dursley household has a role to play in keeping Harry safe. This chapter encapsulates the drift of the Potter series away from moral blacks-and-whites, into ever-shifting shades of grey. Seen through Snape's eyes, this pair (whom Harry idolises) show that being "the height of cool" can also mean behaving like "arrogant little berks". ![]() A genuine breakthrough comes when Harry looks into Snape's "pensieve" (a safe for secret thoughts) and sees the teacher's school-age memory of humiliation at the hands of Harry's late father and Sirius. Hermione does her best to explain, but "feelings and stuff" still trap Harry. Elsewhere, the theme of "other minds" leads to the mystery of girls.
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