Patterns in the six books

[littleleahstill]

No: HPFGUIDX 146276

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" 
<justcarol67 at y...> wrote:
>
> I've noticed some patterns in the six books relating to Snape, 
DADA,
> and minor villains (the series villain remains the same, of course)
> and I'm wondering if they mean anything.
> 
> (snipped) 
> Also, although the primary villain is always Voldemort, whether he
> plays an active role in a particular book or not, there's always a
> sub-villain (usually not the person we thought it was). In SS/PS, 
it's
> Quirrell (not Snape); in CoS, it's Diary!Tom (acting through 
Ginny),
> not Draco, though it could be argued that Diary!Tom is just 
Voldemort
> in another form and the surprise sub-villain is Lucius Malfoy (who 
put
> the diary in Ginny's cauldron); in PoA, it's Peter Pettigrew, not
> Sirius Black; in GoF, it's Crouch!Moody, not one of a whole crowd 
of
> other suspects (including Crouch Sr. and Karkaroff). In OoP, the
> pattern changes; we know that the sub-villain is Umbridge almost 
from
> the time we first meet her, and unlike Quirrell, Diary!Tom (or 
Lucius
> Malfoy), Wormtail, and Barty Crouch Jr., she's not an agent (or
> aspect) of Voldemort. And in HBP, it changes again. The people 
Harry
> suspects, Draco and Snape (falsely suspected in Books 1 and 2) 
seem to
> be what Harry thinks they are, bringing the pattern full circle. 
What
> will happen to the pattern in Book 7? Will Snape and Draco 
continue to
> be the sub-villains, only to be found--not innocent, exactly, but
> something other than villains in the end? Will Harry realize, at he
> started to do in GoF when he thought about Barty Jr. supposedly 
dying
> in Azkaban, that it all comes down to Voldemort and that Voldemort 
has
> ruined Snape's life, and maybe Draco's, too?
> 
> Carol, wondering how it all fits together and whether there's any
> significance to these patterns


Leah

I've snipped the first part of this post (on Snape) because although 
I thought it was very interesting, I've nothing to add.  However, I 
wonder whether the true villain in OOTP could be Kreacher.  A lot of 
Harry's time in this book is spent trying to hide Sirius from 
Umbridge, whereas it is Kreacher who is hidden in plain sight all 
along who ultimately engineers Sirius' downfall.

Leah