TBAY: Scriptwriting for Pleasure and Profit (2 of 2)

[Dicentra spectabilis]

No: HPFGUIDX 77511

Continued from post #77510

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Stoned!Harry relaxed visibly and Dicentra let out a slow breath.  She
pushed the pile for *Prisoner of Azkaban* toward Elkins.  "Your turn."

"Ok, what is going on with Harry during *Prisoner of Azkaban*," she
murmured to herself as she sifted through the papers.

"The threat of Sirius Black on the periphery," said Dicentra.  "That's
provoked by this."  She held up the clipping of the Weasleys in Egypt.
 "Sirius assumes the role of protector when he sees Scabbers on Ron's
shoulder."

"Right," said Elkins, "and Harry isn't allowed to go to Hogsmeade
because of this." She produced the unsigned permission slip.  "Once
again, the Dursleys function is to negate writing."

"But he does get into Hogsmeade," said Dicentra, "because of another
piece of writing."

"And what a piece of writing it is," said Elkins, as she pulled a
blank piece of parchment from the middle of the pile.  She placed it
in front of Stoned!Harry, who tapped it with his wand and swore he was
up to no good.  The Marauder's Map unfurled.

"It's not hard to identify this as the assignment of a role," she
mused.  "The twins decide to assign Harry the role of rule-breaking
adventurer, so they give him this."

"And *they* had assumed that role when they first stole the map from
Filch's office," added Dicentra. "A role that the original
manufacturers of the map intended for anyone who possessed it."

"Possessed being the operative term," said Elkins. "There's evidence
that the map can exercise a little undue influence over its owner.  I
can't help but think that the Twins didn't make the decision to give
it to Harry by themselves."

"Let's see, what else is there?" said Dicentra.  "This pile isn't very
big, is it?"  She looked at the birthday cards and letters from Ron,
Hermione, and Hagrid; the notes from Hagrid to the Trio notifying them
of Buckbeak's trial; the notice in Hogsmeade about the dementor
patrols; and Neville's password list.  

"Here's something," said Elkins, producing a roll of parchment.
"Hermione's werewolf essay.  Snape assigned the students to write
about werewolves in the hopes that they would assume the role of
informers when they put two and two together.  But only Hermione wrote
the essay, and she declined to assume the role he wanted her to take.
 Interesting."

"Not much written material in *Prisoner of Azkaban*, is there?" said
Dicentra, a bit crestfallen.

"No..." Elkins said, sitting back on her heels.  "But you know, there
is an awful lot of *reading* going on.  Think of Trelawney's class. 
She's trying to get them to read the future in all kinds of media: tea
leaves, lines on the palm, crystal balls.  And she keeps trying her
hardest to assign Harry the tragic role of The Student Who Dies This
Year by finding it 'written' in all manner of signs.  Harry tries not
to read the sign of the Grim, but he has a hard time ignoring it, and
it messes with his head."

Dicentra lowered her voice. "The strongest forces that Harry has to
wrest with are how the Dementors affect him and his desire for revenge
against Sirius Black. Neither of those things involve writing, but
don't tell Cindy."

"Don't worry Dicey," said Elkins.  "The instances of writing in
*Prisoner of Azkaban* make up in importance what they lack in number."

"Thanks, Elk," said Dicentra, brightening.  "Ready for *Goblet of Fire*?"

"Ready," she said, pushing the pile toward Dicentra.  "But you've
already identified the most important instance of writing: the scrap
of parchment that came out of the goblet."

"Right, this is the writing that assigns Harry his primary role in
*Goblet of Fire*, but I can think of two *prolific* writers right off
the top of my head: Rita Skeeter and Sirius Black."

"Oh, Rita produces an awful lot of writing," moaned Elkins.

"And all of it manipulative," said Dicentra. "But interestingly,
instead of writing a role for someone to follow, she writes about
people playing roles they've never assumed.  Arthur Weasley as
incompetent bureaucrat, Harry as tragic orphan, Hermione as, uh,
'scarlet woman.'"

"And the readers react to the unfortunate subjects of her stories as
if they really had played those roles.  Look at how Molly reacts to
Hermione when Rita says she's toying with Harry's affections, not to
mention how Draco revels in the stories about Harry crying for his mum."

"As if he didn't have enough problems," said Dicentra.  "Would you say
that Rita is writing Draco's role for him?"

"His role as chief irritant?" replied Elkins.  "No, he's been like
that from the beginning.  The only person who writes his role so far
is JKR. Come to think of it, we haven't seen him associated with
writing much at all.  Except for ferreting out articles from the Daily
Prophet to use in embarrassing Harry, he's kind of writing-free."

"Hee!" giggled Stoned!Harry to himself.  "She said 'ferret.'"

"But Draco did write a role once," said Dicentra, reaching for a
shoebox that had fallen down with the papers.  She extracted a handful
of "Potter Stinks" badges. "By distributing these badges to his fellow
Slyths, Draco ensures that Harry knows where his place is: at the
bottom of the social totem pole.  I find it significant that Harry
chucks one of these at Ron.  It's Harry's way of accusing Ron of
playing the same antagonist role as Draco."

Dicentra fell silent for a moment. 

"You said that the other prolific writer is Sirius Black," prompted
Elkins.   

"Oh yeah," Dicentra said, returning to the moment. "His correspondence
with Harry inserts a suggestion of the epistolary novel genre into
*Goblet of Fire*.  In almost all of his letters he's flat-out telling
Harry what to do. And in writing these letters, Sirius is fulfilling
his long-delayed role as Harry's protector."

"But Harry puts Sirius in the protector role first," observed Elkins,
"by sending him that letter telling him his scar hurt.  And later,
when Sirius says he is going to return to Hogwarts, Harry sends him
another letter telling him it was no big deal in the hopes that Sirius
won't endanger himself.  So, for the first time we have an example of
Harry using writing to assign a role to someone else.  In this case,
he's trying to get Sirius to lighten up on the protector role and
concentrate more on the Accused Man In Deep Hiding role."

"Harry may have written more than that role," said Dicentra as she
extracted a large roll of parchment from the pile. "Here are those
phony predictions that he and Ron made up for divination class. 
Remember that this takes place before his name comes out of the goblet
of fire.  The first three things off the top of Harry's head are:
being in danger of burns, losing a treasured possession, and coming
off the worse in a fight.  Those are the three tasks, right there. 
And then Harry's last prediction is his own death by decapitation."

"Yeah, you're big into that decapitation thing, aren't you Dicey?"
said Elkins, "that plus Ron's tin parrot lopping off the head of
Harry's rubber fish, plus Nearly Headless Nick, plus the Twins'
headless hats..."

"Shhhh!" Dicentra hissed, pointing at Stoned!Harry, whose eyes had
become wide and just a little watery. "He doesn't know."

"Ha ha, just kidding!" said Elkins brightly.  "No one's getting
decapitated.  Least of all you, Harry."

Stoned!Harry blinked a few times and wiped his sleeve across his eyes.
"Got an eyelash..." he muttered.

"But you have to admit it's a little spooky that he would finish up
with that particular prediction," Dicentra said in a low voice.

"Not half as spooky as these," replied Elkins in the same low voice. 
She had a stack of letters in her hand.  Dicentra didn't recognize the
handwriting.

"These are the letters from Crouch Sr. to Percy, telling him how to
run the department.  It's another blatant example of someone handing
someone else his role in writing.  Percy, being Crouch Sr.'s biggest
fan, went ahead and did everything he read without question.  It
doesn't seem like such a big deal until you remember that Crouch was
under Imperius at the time. What we have is yet another Weasley
unwittingly putting his trust in written material that ultimately
comes from Voldemort."

Dicentra shivered.  "I think I can find something creepier," she said,
digging into the pile.  "Ah, here it is.  In his dream, Harry is
riding the eagle owl that delivers this.  It tells Voldemort that
Crouch Sr. has been neutralized. We have to assume that Voldemort told
Barty Jr. about his father's escape by owl post, too, so Voldemort
wrote Barty the role of parricide.  This is the evidence that he
fulfilled that role."

"I can go you one better than that," said Elkins.  "Look at these."

Dicentra looked.  They were all addressed to Ludo Bagman.  "They're
the letters the twins write to Bagman, asking for their winnings,"
said Dicentra.  "What's so creepy about that?"

"Ok, I was kidding about the creepy part.  But only a little.  By
writing these, the twins put themselves into the role of blackmailers.
 I can't help but feel that they're going to flirt with more criminal
behavior in the future."

Dicentra sighed. "Is that it for *Goblet of Fire*?" 

"Looks like it.  My turn," she said.  But it took a great deal of
pushing plus a magical assist from Stoned!Harry to move the tottering
*Order of the Phoenix* pile toward her.  

"That thing is huge," observed Dicentra.

"Of course it's huge," said Elkins. "Look at the size of the book
whence it came."  She looked up and down the pile of newspapers,
letters, notebooks, and parchment. "Where do I start?"

Dicentra sighed. "Isn't there any way we can sort these things into
smaller groups?"

"Probably," grinned Elkins. She snapped her fingers, and the contents
of the Phoenix pile flew into the air.  For a moment, it appeared that
a highly localized blizzard had appeared over their heads, then the
papers fluttered to the ground and settled into several small piles.  

Dicentra blinked.  "I didn't know you could do... that."

Elkins pretended not to hear her as she straightened the piles, idly
humming something that sounded strangely like "Weasley Is Our King."

"Check it out: Muggle newspapers," said Dicentra, as she gingerly
pulled some greasy, smelly papers off the top of one pile.

"Ewww! Where did those come from?" demanded Elkins. 

"Harry went dumpster-diving in Chapter 1, remember? He was looking for
any sign of Voldemort's activities," Dicentra replied.

"That's right!  Instead of Harry receiving writing from others, he's
looking for it himself, not only in the Muggle newspapers but also in
the *Daily Prophet*."  She took all of the *Daily Prophets* from June
1995 and set them on top of the Muggle newspapers to cover their odor.
 "I don't know what he thought he would do if he found something."

"They were keeping me totally in the dark," Stoned!Harry loudly
protested.  "What else was I supposed to do?"

Dicentra and Elkins turned to stare at Stoned!Harry.  He was standing
over them, defiantly, wand in hand.  "What are you looking at?"

"Uh, nothing," Dicentra said, not taking her eyes off him.  "You just
seem a little... different."

"WHAT'S THAT TO YOU?" Stoned!Harry turned on his heel and stormed off.
 They heard the clatter of cauldrons at the far end of the room before
he finally settled in a corner to sulk. 

Elkins mouthed the word "teenager" to Dicentra, who nodded.

"Back to the stack," Elkins said quietly, pulling out a handful of
letters.  They all were addressed to Harry, and they were from Ron,
Hermione, and Sirius.  "These are those letters they sent during the
summer that made Harry so frustrated. He could tell they were all in
on something but they weren't telling him.  So again we have absence
of writing being a driving force, only this time it doesn't come from
the Dursleys -- it's coming from Harry's most trusted friends."

"Which makes it doubly ironic in 'A Peck of Owls,'" adds Dicentra,
"when Harry is peppered with letters and Vernon is beside himself with
rage at their invading his home.  "Unlike the Letters From No One,
which he kept from Harry with some measure of success, he's totally
powerless to stop these letters from coming.  It's a sign of the
increasing blurring between the Wizarding and Muggle worlds -- between
Harry's two modes of existence."

"Those letters are also competing with each other to assign Harry
roles," observed Elkins. "The first letter, from the Ministry of
Magic, tells Harry he's been expelled from Hogwarts, which would
cement his future as a failed wizard.  Then we get the letter from
Arthur telling Harry to not yield his wand and to stay home.  The next
letter from the Ministry tells Harry that he's merely been suspended
pending a hearing, and then Sirius tells him to not leave home. 
Vernon determines that Harry might be a danger to his home and tries
to throw him out, but Dumbledore's Howler to Petunia intervenes on his
behalf.  All these pieces of writing are tugging at Harry in different
directions at the same time, not unlike the conflicting emotions and
other forces of adolescence that pull at him."

They heard a derisive snort from the far side of the room.  Dicentra
grinned.  "So to respond," she said loudly, making sure her voice
carried far enough, "Harry writes three identical letters and sends
them to three different people.  It demonstrates how Harry's psyche is
becoming fragmented into ego, id, and superego, represented by Ron,
Sirius, and Hermione, respectively."

Elkins raised an eyebrow.  "No, it doesn't," she whispered, "and
besides, you don't even believe in Freudian interpretations."

"I know. I'm just playing with his head," replied Dicentra, as a
Galleon came flying toward them and landed with a resounding clatter
near Elkin's right foot.

"Here, why don't you two buy a real life," came the petulant voice
from across the room.

With great effort, Dicentra and Elkins stifled a good five-minutes'
worth of laughter Elkins reached into the pile again and withdrew
another letter, this time with Muggle stamps and addressing on it.

"The letter from Tonks telling the Dursleys about the All-England
Best-Kept Suburban Lawn Competition," she said. "It also serves as a
means to manipulation, as it lures the Dursleys from their house while
the Advance Guard rescues Harry."

"Check these out," she added, dragging a large pile of newspapers
toward her.  "A whole year's worth of Daily Prophets -- from June 1995
through June 1996."

"Geez," said Dicentra. "*Order of the Phoenix* was long, but I don't
remember it mentioning all of those."

"It doesn't mention each one individually," replied Elkins, "but they
all play a significant part in shaping Harry's role.  Hermione rightly
deduces that the remaining reporters for the Prophet take up where
Rita Skeeter left off, characterizing him as a 'deluded,
attention-seeking person who thinks he's a great tragic hero or
something.'  Harry may not really play that role, but most people
believe that he does.  The way they react to him affects the role
Harry does play -- that of misunderstood martyr."

"Martyr?" Dicentra said doubtfully.  "Isn't that a bit melodramatic?"

"He's a teenager," Elkins said.  "Everything is melodramatic to him.
Only in his case, it's not an exaggeration.  Voldemort's return is no
small event, and not being believed about something of this magnitude
is one of the factors that drives Harry's anger throughout the book."

"It also results in these," said Dicentra soberly, picking up a pile
of puckered parchment. "Look at these: rolls and rolls of the same
thing over and over again, 'I must not tell lies. I must not tell
lies' in that creepy dark-red ink.  Blood, I mean..." she sat the
parchment down carefully, as if setting down a sleeping creature that
she couldn't afford to waken.

"We don't have the most important component of this bit of writing,
though," Elkins said quietly. "We don't have the back of Harry's hand."

Dicentra shivered. "That episode has Biblical overtones, too. You
remember how Moses came down from the mount with the 10 Commandments
engraved on two stone tablets?  Well, in later scripture, the image of
engraving the commandments on one's heart was a metaphor for
internalizing the ethical code as opposed to giving it lip service.
Proverbs 7 says 'Keep my commandments, and live; ... write them upon
the tablet of thine heart.'  Then in the New Testament, 2nd
Corinthians 3 uses the phrase 'written ... not in tablets of stone,
but in fleshy tablets of the heart.'  Umbridge said she wanted Harry
to write 'I must not tell lies' until he internalized the message,
which to her meant that the words were permanently etched on the flesh
of his hand.  Considering that Harry was telling the truth, and
considering the fact that she obviously enjoyed making him suffer, the
whole episode makes for an extraordinarily twisted, perverse variation
on the Biblical metaphor."

"What role does this writing assign to Harry?" asked Elkins.

"Umbridge is trying to make him into yet another mindless unbeliever,"
answered Dicentra, "and furthermore, she's showing him that she won't
be challenged -- that the price for questioning her version of the
truth is his own blood."

"She uses the writing as a tool of coercion, then," concluded Elkins,
"which goes right along with these."  She picked up a stack of
official-looking documents.  "The Educational Decrees: with each
decree she tightens the thumbscrews a bit more; with each one, she
extends the range of her power while severely curtailing the power of
others.  Because these are documents from the Ministry, she only has
to post them around the school to assert her new status."

"That clipboard she writes on while inspecting the teachers is another
means of coercion," said Dicentra. "Whatever she writes in her notes
is considered to be the Truth, at least as far as she's concerned. 
And she uses this concocted 'Truth' to sack Trelawney and Hagrid, and
to do who knows what else."

"Aren't you guys finished yet?" boomed Cindy as she bounced into the room.

Elkins and Dicentra exchanged glances.  "Almost," said Elkins.

"And?"  

"We've discovered that it is rather common for the characters in the
Potterverse to quite literally write roles for each other, and
sometimes for themselves," explained Dicentra.

"But we've got one more thing to determine," said Elkins. "I wonder if
we can find a common theme to these roles, perhaps on a book-by-book
basis."

Dicentra poked idly through the piles for a moment.  "In
*Philosopher's Stone*, Dumbledore writes Harry's role to introduce him
to the Wizarding World and to Voldemort," she said slowly.

"Initiation, then," said Elkins. "And in *Chamber of Secrets*, the
prominent examples of role-writing concern transforming the self into
a written work and vice versa."

"*Prisoner of Azkaban* is about escape," said Dicentra. "Sirius
escapes prison because of the *Daily Prophet* article, and Harry
escapes Hogwarts using the Marauder's Map."

Elkins paused for a moment. "The writing in *Goblet of Fire* seems to
emphasize false roles.  Harry wasn't supposed to be a Triwizard
Champion, and all those Rita Skeeter articles paint Harry in a very
false light."

"And in *Order of the Phoenix*," concluded Dicentra, "it's coercion."
 Elkins nodded.

"Tell me this, though," challenged Cindy.  "Did JKR do this on purpose
or are you just reading too much into the books again?"

"I very much doubt that JKR consciously planned to use writing in this
way," said Dicentra, "but that doesn't matter.  If we can see it, it's
there."

"Reading too much into it.  I thought as much.  So what are you going
to call your exhibit?"  

"I think I'll call it 'Scriptwriting for Pleasure and Profit: The
Power of the Written Word in *Harry Potter*.'"

"That's a stupid name," said Cindy. She swaggered over to where
Stoned!Harry was sulking and poked him with her paddle. "Hey, Stoner!
Get up!  We need another body for volleyball."  She grabbed his robes,
pulled him to his feet, and dragged him protesting from the room.

"Oh, would you look at the time," said Elkins, checking her watchless
wrist.  "I've got another seminar to give over at the Canon College on
the Crouch Family Saga."  She jumped to her feet and ran out of the room.

Dicentra sat alone amid the stacks of papers.  Rising slowly, she
extracted a wand from her robes and magicked the parchment blizzard
into the air again.  "Come on," she said wearily. "We've got a display
to put together."  And she sloped out of the room, trailing papers,
parchment, and letters in her wake.


--Dicentra spectabilis


 
Appendix
Incidents of Writing in the *Harry Potter* Series (Page numbers refer
to Scholastic editions)

*Philosopher's Stone*

016 – Dumbledore: Letter to Dursleys about Harry
034 – McGonagall: Acceptance letter
073 – Dumbledore: Letter authorizing Stone's removal
102 – Chocolate frog cards
141 – *Daily Prophet* (DP): Gringott's break-in
202 – Dumbledore: "Use it well"
206 – Erised inscription
219 – Chocolate frog card; Flamel
236 – Charlie: "I'll take Norbert"
261 – Dumbledore: "Just in case"
267 – Owl from "MoM"
285 – Potion riddle

*Chamber of Secrets*

007 – Dursleys don't allow letters to Hermione & Ron
018 – Letters intercepted by Dobby
020 – Mafalda Hopkirk: One more and you're expelled
043 – List of school materials goes to Burrow
043 – Lockhart's books (throughout)
078 – DP: Ford Anglia seen by muggles
087 – Molly: Ron's howler
097 – Harry won't sign autographs
106 – Harry won't sign autographs 
111 – Snape: Slytherins have Quidditch pitch
120 – Harry addresses envelopes for Lockhart
124 – Nick can't be in Headless Hunt
127 – Kwikspell Letter
138 – Writing on the wall: "The Chamber of Secrets has been opened..."
163 – Permission to check out *Moste Potente Potions*
221 – DP: Arthur in trouble for enchanting the Ford Anglia
231 – Tom Riddle's Diary
233 – Diary insinuates itself in Harry's mind
240 – Harry writes in Diary
262 – Order of Suspension for Dumbledore
290 – Page from book: "pipes"
293 – "Her skeleton will lie..."
314 – Riddle's anagram name
341 – Harry: phone number to Ron and Hermione

*Prisoner of Azkaban*

001 – Harry writes an essay under the covers
008 – Birthday card, clipping from Ron
011 – Card & letter from Hermione
014 – Note from Hagrid about book
014 – Unsigned Permission slip
037 – DP: Harry reads about Sirius Black on bus
107 – Tea leaves
186 – Werewolf essay from Snape
191 – Marauder's Map
199 – Notice of Dementor's patrol in Hogsmeade
217 – Buckbeak's trial notification
223 – No card with Firebolt
249 – Neville's passwords
271 – Gran Longbottom's howler
362 – DP: Sirius's copy of Ron's article
432 – Note from Sirius; signed permission slip

*Goblet of Fire*

029 – Harry: tells Sirius about scar
030 – Molly: invites Harry to QWC
035 – Ron: "Dad got tickets"
036 – Harry: "See you at 5"
056 – Cauldron-bottom report
146 – Rita: rumors of bodies, Arthur not forthcoming
151 – Howlers to MoM making claims for damaged tents, etc.
152 – Twins to Ludo: "Pay us back" (multiple)
203 – Rita: alarm at Mad – eye's
221 – Ron & Harry's divination predictions
226 – Sirius: "I'm coming north"
220 – *Magical Water Plants of the Mediterranean*
228 – Harry: "Don't come north"
240 – Sirius: "Nice try"
271 – Parchment from goblet
291 – Harry tells Sirius about goblet
297 – "Potter Stinks" badges
304 – Rita's quill
312 – Sirius: Meet me in the fireplace
314 – Rita: "I still cry"
328 – Molly believes Rita
406 – Sirius: good 1st task; watch for Karkaroff
437 – Rita: Hagrid is half-giant
467 – Marauder's Map; "Egg & Eye"
483 – Sirius: Tell me when the next Hogsmeade weekend is
510 – Sirius: Meet me by the stile
511 – Rita: "Harry Potter's secret heartache"
522 – Sirius has DPs in cave
541 – Hate mail for Hermione
549 – Crouch Sr. sends letters to Percy
572 – Sirius: don't hang out with Krum
576 – Barty Jr.: Crouch is dead
578 – Harry obeys Sirius
600 – Dumbledore tells Harry he's been writing to Sirius
609 – Sirius: take no risks (multiple)
611 – Rita: Harry disturbed & dangerous

*Order of the Phoenix*

003 – Harry scavenges Muggle newspapers from dumpsters
008 – Harry reads p.1 only of DP
008 – Empty letters from Hermione, Ron, and Sirius
026 – Mafalda Hopkirk: Harry expelled
028 – Arthur: Don't yield wand; stay home
032 – Mafalda Hopkirk: Harry only suspended but must attend Hearing
035 – Sirius: Don't leave home
040 – Dumbledore: "Remember my last, Petunia!"
042 – Harry: 3 letters to Hermione, Ron, and Sirius
048 – Tonks: sends letter to Dursleys about contest
054 – Lupin: explaining to Dursleys where Harry has gone
058 – Dumbledore: reveals location of Order's headquarters
073 – DP takes jabs at Harry
080 – Secret plans on kitchen table
103 – Lockhart's guide to pests
111 – Black family tapestry
126 – Harry's guest badge at Ministry
130 – Flying memos
134 – Memo about changed venue for hearing
138 – Percy takes notes
140 – Charges against Harry
161 – Ron makes prefect
185 – Luna's *Quibbler*
190 – *Quibbler* articles
222 – Twins' advert for test subjects
232 – Snape's potion ingredients on board
239 – Umbridge's Course Aims
259 – Bowtruckle sketch
266 – "I must not tell lies"
274 – "I must not tell lies"
280 – Harry's cryptic note to Sirius
287 – DP: Sturgis Podmore article
296 – Percy's letter to Ron
299 – Hermione corrects Sinistra's essays for Ron and Harry
306 – DP: Umbridge is High Inquisitor
309 – Snape's potions grades
347 – Jinxed list of DAs
351 – Ed. Decree 24: No clubs
359 – Sirius: "Today, same time, same place."
383 – Potions book: recklessness
389 – Books in Room of Requirement
404 – Weasley Is Our King badges
415 – Ed. Decree 25: High Inquisitor can override staff punishments
447 – Umbridge's clipboard
501 – Homework planner from Hermione
509 – Lockhart autographs
511 – Lockhart fan mail
543 – DP: DEs escape from Azkaban
546 – DP: Death of Bode
551 – Ed. Decree 26: No non – course-related info to students
558 – Wanted poster in Hogsmeade of 10 DEs
565 – Rita's interview in the *Quibbler*
578 – Owls in support of Harry
581 – Ed. Decree 27: anyone with *Quibbler* will be expelled
584 – Enchanted poster of Harry's cover shot in Common Room
617 – List of DAs; "Dumbledore's Army," not "Potter's"
619 – Percy's note-taking
624 – Ed. Decree 28: Umbridge is Headmistress
641 – Snape's DADA OWL
656 – Career advice notice; leaflets
673 – Approval for whipping
725 – History OWL
780 – Label on prophecy: SPT to APWBD
845 – DP: Voldemort is back
858 – Note from Sirius with mirror
862 – Luna's request for her stuff