Chapter 13

[seventhsqueal <seventhsqueal@yahoo.com>]

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Richelle posted:

Mugglenet has an interesting list of Oddities/Coincidences, and I 
found this one particularly interesting:
In Chapter 13 of every book, the seemingly-innocent culprit 
makes an appearance. 
(list of  structure similarities from book-to-book snipped)

SeventhSqueal responds:

The books seem to have a consistent structure. It
reminds me of the plays of Shakespeare. The climax
always comes in the third act of a Shakespeare play.
Another consistency is the concentration of rich
information (clues) that she packs into the denouements that
always have Dumbledore. Except in GoF where instead of
leveling off into a peaceful solution the book ends in
tension and crisis. The analogy of the Shakespeare
plays comes back if one notices that book 4 is the
middle book just as act III is the middle act in
Shakespeare's plays. Voldemort's resurrection seems to
be the turning point of the series and it is all
resolution from this point on. But even though it's
not a one on one denouement with Dumbledore again,
Dumbledore is still there and the information and
clues about future development of the books is there.

Peace,
~SeventhSqueal