Unlocking the Hidden Pattern: Part 2

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Okay fellow Potterers and Potterites... Welcome to Part 2 of 
Uncovering the Hidden Pattern.

Part 2: The Chamber of Secrets and the Order of the Phoenix

So, in the last post we examined the similarities and mirroring 
events of PS/SS and GoF.  We saw that these two books represent the 
first tip of their respective triangles of books.  In CoS and OoTP, 
we see this pattern developed further, as demonstrated below:

When CoS begins, Harry believes that his friends have forgotten him:

`See what it's like here?' he said. `See why I've
got to go back to 
Hogwarts? It's the only place I've got – well, I think
I've got 
friends.' 
`Friends who don't even write to Harry Potter?' said
Dobby slyly
CoS, pg 19

 In OoTP Harry once again believes that his friends are neglecting 
him:

As far as Harry could tell from the vague hints in their letters, 
Hermione and Ron were in the same place, presumably at Ron's 
parents' house.  He could hardly bear to think of the pair of
them 
having fun at The Burrow when he was stuck in Privet Drive.  In 
fact, he was so angry with them he had thrown away, unopened, the 
two boxes of Honeydukes chocolates they'd sent him for his
birthday.
OoTP, pg 13

Later, in CoS Harry is locked in his room around-the-clock by the 
Durselys after the Dobby fiasco.  This goes on for three days:

They let Harry out to use the bathroom morning and evening.  
Otherwise, he was locked in his room around the clock
 Three days 
later, the Dursleys were showing no sign of relenting

CoS, pg 21-2

In OoTP, Harry once again finds himself in the house around the 
clock after being attacked by Dementors, once again for three days:

Harry spent the day in his bedroom, leaving it only to go to the 
bathroom. Three times that day Aunt Petunia shoved food under his 
room through the cat-flap Uncle Vernon had installed three summers 
ago
 So it went on for three whole days.
OoTP, pg 44

In CoS, Harry is given an official warning for using magic outside 
of Hogwarts; In OoTP, Harry is of course expelled and then suspended 
for the same reason.

In both CoS and OoTP, Harry flies away from Privet Drive right under 
the Dursleys unsuspecting noses.  In CoS it is Ron, Fred and George 
who rescue Harry in the flying car(while the Dursleys are 
sleeping).  In OoTP, it is Professors Lupin, Moody and co who take 
him away on brooms (while the Dursleys are out).

In both CoS and OoTP, Harry is then introduced to a new residence. 
In CoS, it is The Burrow, while in OoTP it is Grimmauld Place.

The school year then starts.  Here we see another startling 
similarity.  In both CoS and OoTP, the vast majority of students 
think Harry is either dangerous, mad or both. In CoS they suspect 
him of being Slytherin's heir and in OoTP they suspect him of
either 
lying or being `a-couple-of-cents-short-of-a-dollar' as we
say here 
in Oz. Either way, he is vilified in both books.

In both, he also eventually earns an apology for this from a student 
who suspected him. In CoS, it's Ernie McMillan and in OoTP,
it's 
Seamus Finnigan.

In both CoS and OoTP Harry has detention with his DADA teacher.  In 
CoS he is writing addresses for Lockhart, in OoTP it's lines
using 
blood from his own hand. In fact, after CoS, the first time we see 
Lockhart again is in OoTP.

In CoS, Ginny becomes possessed by Voldemort.  In OoTP, we see Harry 
believing that he is possessed by Voldemort.  Once again, the first 
time we hear anything at all about Ginny's experience after CoS
is 
in OoTP.

In both books Dumbledore is forced to leave Hogwarts.  In CoS he is 
forced by Lucius Malfoy who has bribed the School governors : 

`However,' said Dumbledore, speaking very slowly and clearly,
so 
that none of them could miss a word, `you will find that I will
only 
truly have left this school when none here are loyal to me.'
CoS, pg 195

In OoTP, this is mirrored when Dumbledore is forced to leave to 
escape the Ministry: 

`Where will you go, Dumbledore?' whispered Professor 
McGonagall. `Grimmauld Place?' 
`Oh no,' said Dumbledore, with a grim smile, `I am not
leaving to go 
into hiding.  Fudge will soon wish he'd never dislodged me from 
Hogwarts, I promise you.'
OoTP, pg 548

Both CoS and OoTP highlight Harry's connection to Voldemort. In
CoS 
it's when Harry learns that he speaks Parceltongue and Dumbledore 
explains the connection between them.  In OoTP, this connection 
becomes more pronounced (endangering Harry) and Harry actually has 
visions where he IS Voldemort and, more particularly, is a snake.  
In CoS Harry is concerned when he shares similar talents and 
physical characteristics.  In OoTP, Harry gets momentarily subsumed 
by Voldemort completely.

In both books, Harry's connection with Voldemort gives him
insight 
into what is going on and warns him that people are in danger.  In 
CoS, this is because he hears the Basilisk in the pipes, while in 
OoTP, the warnings he receives are in his dreams.  

In CoS, Diary!Voldemort lures Harry into a trap by using Ginny as 
bait.  In OoTP, the real Voldemort does exactly the same by leading 
Harry to believe that Sirius is in danger.

In both books Harry heads down into a hidden area.  In CoS it's
the 
Chamber of Secrets. In OoTP, this is mirrored when he and his 
friends head into the Department of Mysteries.  The relationship 
between `secrets' and `mysteries' is obvious.  Both
are underground 
areas.

In CoS, a memory charm is aimed at Ron (a spell aimed at the mind) 
and backfires. In OoTP, Ron actually does get attacked – by a
brain 
and tentacles of thought.

In both CoS and OoTP we see Harry kneeling over the figure of a 
female friend who has been severely wounded.  In CoS, it is Ginny: 

`Ginny!' Harry muttered, sprinting to her and dropping to his 
knees. `Ginny! Don't be dead! Please don't be dead!'
CoS, pg 226

In OoTP, it is Hermione (although the reaction, understandably is 
more pronounced): 

'HERMIONE!'
Harry fell to his knees beside her as Neville crawled rapidly 
towards her from under the desk
 A whine of panic inside his head 
was preventing him thinking properly: he had one hand on
Hermione's 
shoulder, which was still warm, yet did not dare look at her 
properly.  Don't let her be dead, don't let her be dead,
it's my 
fault if she's dead

OoTP, pg 699

In both CoS and OoTP, Fawkes plays a big role in the final conflict: 

In CoS Fawkes helps Harry:

As Harry trembled, ready to close his eyes if it turned, he saw what 
had distracted the snake.
Fawkes was soaring around its head, and the Basilisk was snapping 
furiously at him
 Fawkes dived. His long golden beak sank out of 
sight and a sudden shower of dark blood spattered the floor

Harry 
looked straight into its face, and saw that its eyes, both its great 
bulbous yellow eyes, had been punctured by the phoenix

CoS, pg 235

In OoTP, of course, Fawkes once again comes into play: 

'Look out!' Harry yelled.
But even as he shouted, another jet of green light flew at 
Dumbledore from Voldemort's wand and the snake struck - 
Fawkes swooped down in front of Dumbldore, opened his beak wide and 
swallowed the jet of green light whole: he burst into flame and fell 
to the floor, small, wrinkled and flightless.
OoTP, pg 719

When was the last time Fawkes burst into flame?  CoS of course.

I am sure that, if we were to do a more thorough line-by-line 
analysis, more mirroring events could be found. But by and large 
these are the main ones.

The point of all this?

You shall see in the next post:  Part 3: The Prisoner of Azkaban and 
Predicting Book 6.

Sienna