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...would try a range of arguments—some universal (about respecting human dignity) and some more particular (about living up to the best in German history). None of these arguments would necessarily persuade the Nazi, but we can’t know until we try.11.FM: Could you tell Voldemort that the Dark Arts are wrong?MJS: That would be a hopeless task, even for a philosopher.12.FM: You’ve taught “Justice” to well over a 10,000 people, many of whom are or soon will be pretty influential. What if your theories...
After over 3,000 pages worth of build-up, this is the book that finally delivers the ultimate showdown between Harry and his evil nemesis, Lord Voldemort. Harry and his friends Ron and Hermione are on the run from a hostile puppet government, on a secret mission to demolish the barriers Voldemort erected between himself and his demise. For most of the book, the three of them are utterly alone, cut off from friend and foe alike, and the solitude around them lets us see even greater nuance in their already delicately crafted relationships...
...wrinkle. Dumbledore has been schooling us on this subject since Goblet of Fire, if not longer - when in doubt Rowling tends to err on the side of quashing ambiguity, both telling and showing when one would probably do. So we have known for a while that Voldemort cannot love, that he has been spiritually ruined by his parents' deaths, and he will kill anyone to stave off his own death. Harry, though also an orphan, has found the courage to love. "Do not pity the dead, Harry," a wise man tells Harry in Deathly Hallows. "Pity the living, and, above...
...Deathly Hallows he must go through the process again, with a father-figure more important than his actual father, namely Dumbledore himself. It is of critical importance that Harry understand and accept Dumbledore's fallibility, and by extension his own. It is yet another thing that separates Harry from Voldemort, who understood his father's imperfections but could not forgive them. (He solved this little problem in Half-Blood Prince, through patricide...
...VOLDEMORT CAN’T STOP THE ROCK?...