Harry should just circle all of June <g> (was: Auror training an epilogue to HP)

[psychic_serpent]

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> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "allies426" <AllieS426 at a...> 
> wrote:
  
> > Also- random thought- why doesn't Harry seem to catch on that 
> > something MAJOR and usually BAD happens to him at the end of 
> > every school year?  ; )
> > 
--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "greatelderone" 
<greatelderone at y...> wrote:
> Because he is Harry Potter.
 
:: sound of rimshot::  LOL!  While this is partially true, and the 
WORST things seem to happen every year around June, in the fourth 
and fifth books, there are actually so many awful things happening 
through the school year that it starts to become difficult to 
distinguish between those things and the awful things that form the 
climax of each book.  (This occurs to a lesser extent in the second 
book, with the accumulating petrified bodies, culminating in the 
decision to close the school when Ginny is taken into the chamber.)  
Certainly Harry going up against a Hungarian Horntail or having to 
rescue people from the lake are not much more horrendous than having 
to get the Stone before Quirrell does, kill a basilisk (another sort 
of dragon) and confront an convict (Sirius) and then rescue said 
framed convict (Sirius again) as well as a hippogriff.  (In fact, I 
think the first two tasks in the tournament are worse than what 
Harry had to do near the end of PoA--there were more possible ways 
for him to die, for a start.)

Harry's fifth year is even worse!  It's one terrible thing after 
another.  I think she was setting us up for this in the fourth book 
by having a series of tasks that Harry would have to perform that 
were scheduled over the stretch of the entire school year.  Things 
come to a head when the six go off to the Ministry, certainly, but 
the earlier events of the school year--everything Umbridge did, Fred 
& George's triumphant exit, Mr. Weasley being attacked--certainly 
give a feeling of impending doom hanging over all.  Every decree 
handed down by Umbridge is worse than the last.  I don't think Harry 
is blindsided in book five at all, frankly; I think he's waiting 
with a combination of terror and anticipation for the end-of-year 
disaster, that he's not the least bit surprised in general.  I think 
he was surprised by some of the specifics of the Ministry battle, 
but I think he was anticipating some kind of major attack from Death 
Eaters for months--since the previous summer, in fact, when he spent 
so much time listening to and reading the news for signs of 
Voldemort-type activity.

--Barb
  
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