Harry Potter Lexicon Minute

In my last podcast [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/2021/07/03/op36-of-magic-and-duels-part-one/], I talked about the first of two magic duels in chapter 36 of Order of the Phoenix [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/source/the-harry-potter-novels/op/op36/], the one between Harry and Bellatrix. Now it’s time to move on to the main event, the massive duel between Albus Dumbledore and Voldemort. There is no other magical battle in the entire series to equal this one. The roller-coaster flow of spells and counterspells is wild and breathtaking. This is certainly one of the most exciting, most cinematic magical battles in the entire saga. This mighty duel is the centerpiece of the entire seven-book tale. We are most of the way through the middle book of the series. It’s the watershed moment, when the forces of good and evil collide and the fate of the wizarding world is at stake. But neither side wins, not yet. So what is the actual point? The most important aspect of this duel is to show how powerful truly high-level wizards are, and how powerless Harry is in this situation. Remember, up to this point Harry has seen himself as what I call “super-hero Harry.” He has begun to count on his abilities and his “special-ness” to be able to face Voldemort one day. And of course he does! Any of us would. If we have to fight a supervillain, we had better find our inner superhero or we’re toast. And toast it is. Harry gets a first hand look at just how powerful he will need to be in order to go toe to toe — or wand to wand — with Voldemort. He sees magic way beyond that which he has experienced, way beyond what he even thought possible. His abilities, while impressive for a fifteen year old wizard, are nowhere near strong enough for a flat out battle. Of course, we’re seeing it too. We’ve been wondering how this is all going to end and assuming there will be a huge showdown at some point. We have imagined Harry and Voldemort in a duel, something like that Priori Incantatem [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/event/duel-in-the-graveyard/] faceoff in the graveyard [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/place/great-britain-united-kingdom/england/yorkshire/little-hangleton/graveyard/], and figuring that maybe, just maybe the twin wand cores would be the secret to Harry winning the day. But in this duel, there is little wand-against-wand spellcasting. The truly epic combat consists of all environmental effects and transfiguration. The most jaw-dropping spells completely bypass the kind of “spells meeting in midair” situation that allowed Harry to escape the graveyard battle. Instead we see the water from the fountain whipped into a liquid prison and streams of fire morphing into a serpent. We see Voldemort teleport from place to place and then completely dematerialize to take on spirit form and to possess Harry. Even Dumbledore has no defense against this last tactic, and Harry feels Voldemort take over, enveloping and consuming him. And then we get the first inkling of the kind of power which CAN defeat the Dark Lord. Harry’s heart is filled not with hate and aggression but with love for Sirius. And that power is what drives Voldemort away. Here’s how it’s described: > He was gone from the hall, he was locked in the coils of a creature with red eyes, so tightly bound that Harry did not know where his body ended and the creature’s began: they were fused together, bound by pain, and there was no escape And when the creature spoke, it used Harry’s mouth, so that in his agony he felt his jaw move `Kill me now, Dumbledore…’ Blinded and dying, every part of him screaming for release, Harry felt the creature use him again… `If death is nothing, Dumbledore, kill the boy…’ Let the pain stop, thought Harry… let him kill us… end it, Dumbledore… death is nothing compared to this… And I’ll see Sirius again… And as Harry’s heart filled with emotion, the creature’s coils loosened, the pain was gone; Harry was lying face down on the floor, his glasses gone, shivering as though he lay upon ice, not wood… In the next chapter, Dumbledore makes this connection clear when he says > “There is no shame in what you are feeling, Harry … On the contrary… the fact that you can feel pain like this is your greatest strength.’ And finally: > “It is [love]… that you possess in such quantities and which Voldemort has not at all. That power took you to save Sirius tonight. That power also saved you from possession by Voldemort, because he could not bear to reside in a body so full of the force he detests. In the end, it mattered not that you could not close your mind. It was your heart that saved you.” And two books from now, it will indeed be Harry’s heart which defeats Voldemort once and for all. The post OP36: Of Magic and Duels Part Two [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/2021/07/11/op36-of-magic-and-duels-part-two/] appeared first on Harry Potter Lexicon [https://www.hp-lexicon.org].

Umbridge [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/character/umbridge-family/dolores-umbridge/] is one of those characters the reader is supposed to hate and despise, but she isn’t a Death Eater, she’s just a nasty person [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/event/1993-dolores-umbridge-crafts-anti-werewolf/]. Sirius sums this up well by saying “The world isn’t split into good people and Death Eaters”, and Umbridge is the perfect embodiment of this maxim, showing the nuance that Rowling can give to her characters. Not everything is black and white, and characters can be antagonists without being associated with Voldemort. However, not every Harry Potter character has this depth. In the third book we are introduced to Macnair [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/character/walden-macnair/], the Ministry of Magic executioner who’s tasked with killing Buckbeak [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/character/buckbeak/]. The books show him as a little bit too bloodthirsty, and obviously, Harry, and us the readers, dislike him because of what he’s there to do. Surely this is just narrator bias though, right? Nope. In the next book we learn that he’s literally a Death Eater too. And in Rowling’s original outline of the fifth book [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/?attachment_id=16219], he’s the most mentioned death eater after Lucius. If he’s not a good person, even if only from the limited viewpoint of the protagonist, then clearly he must be a Death Eater and Rowling confirms this. Some characters really are that one dimensional. The post Of Umbridge and Macnair [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/2021/07/06/of-umbridge-and-macnair/] appeared first on Harry Potter Lexicon [https://www.hp-lexicon.org].

In this podcast we’re going to take a look at the incredible magical duels in chapter 36 [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/source/the-harry-potter-novels/op/op36/] of the Order of the Phoenix. Before we get to the main duel in the chapter, however, that between Voldemort and Dumbledore, we learn a bit about the Unforgivable Curses [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/magic/unforgivable-curses/] when Harry and Bellatrix have their own duel in the Atrium before Voldemort appears. After killing Sirius, Bellatrix runs away through the Department of Mysteries [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/event/june-1996-the-battle-of-the-department-of/] and into the Atrium [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/place/great-britain-united-kingdom/england/london/ministry-of-magic-headquarters/m-o-m-level-eight/atrium/] of the Ministry of Magic headquarters [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/place/great-britain-united-kingdom/england/london/ministry-of-magic-headquarters/]. Harry chases after her, consumed by righteous anger. Once he catches up to her, he fires off the Cruciatus [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/magic/cruciatus-curse/] curse in her direction, knocking her off her feet. But she isn’t affected the way he would have expected. He has cast the spell incorrectly. Here we see something very interesting. The spell clearly involves more than the words and the wandwork. In some ways it mirrors the Patronus Charm [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/magic/patronus-charm/], which requires happy thoughts. In this case, Harry’s anger, fierce though it is, doesn’t provide the needed “energy,” if you will. Here’s how the book describes it: > Hatred rose in Harry such as he had never known before; he flung himself out from behind the fountain and bellowed, “Crucio!” Bellatrix screamed: the spell had knocked her off her feet, but she did not writhe and shriek with pain as Neville had – she was already back on her feet, breathless, no longer laughing. Harry dodged behind the golden fountain again. Her counter-spell hit the head of the handsome wizard, which was blown off and landed twenty feet away, gouging long scratches into the wooden floor. “Never used an Unforgivable Curse before, have you, boy?” she yelled. She had abandoned her baby voice now. “You need to mean them, Potter! You need to really want to cause pain – to enjoy it – righteous anger won’t hurt me for long – I’ll show you how it is done, shall I? I’ll give you a lesson -” The intention must be there, not just the emotion of hatred, but an actual desire to cause pain. Perhaps this is why the Curses are considered as evil as they are: they are specifically caused by evil emotions. Rowling actually has another larger reason for this exchange, a reason which comes into play at the very end of the series in the confrontation between Harry and Voldemort [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/event/the-death-of-voldemort/] in chapter 36 of Deathly Hallows [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/source/the-harry-potter-novels/dh/dh36/]. You see, the key to that confrontation and indeed, the key to the overarching plot of the entire series, is Harry’s intentions in that moment. He is facing Voldemort, the cause of all the pain and suffering and sadness in not only his life but that of so many others in the Wizarding World. He has every reason to be filled with hate and anger. He has every reason to want to make Voldemort suffer and die with dramatic vengeance. In other words, he has every reason to want and be able to use the Unforgivable Curses on Voldemort. And here, in chapter 36 of Order of the Phoenix, we see that he has learned how to use one of them, the Cruciatus Curse, from a true mistress of inflicting pain, Bellatrix Lestrange. He has learned his lesson well. He has clearly mastered the Imperius Curse, as we see when he uses it to control Bogrod [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/character/bogrod/] and Travers [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/character/travers-family/torquil-travers/] during the raid on the Gringotts vaults [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/event/the-great-gringotts-robbery/]. And later that day, in Ravenclaw Tower, Harry also successfully uses the Cruciatus Curse on Amycus Carrow [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/character/carrow-family/amycus-carrow/]. So when he faces Voldemort in the Great Hall as the sun rises, we know that he is capable of casting an Unforgivable Curse. He has demonstrated both curses within the last twenty-four hours. This makes Harry’s decision to turn away from the evil emotions that drive those terrible spells and instead cast a non-violent, an ANTI-violent spell, Expelliarmus [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/magic/disarming-charm/], so striking. He offers Voldemort the chance for remorse, for redemption. He is embodying the deep magic espoused by Dumbledore himself: the power of love [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/magic/love/]. Remember this exchange between Dumbledore and Voldemort when the latter came to Hogwarts [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/event/lord-voldemort-visits-hogwarts-ask-teaching-job/] asking for a teaching job? > “Yes, I certainly do know that you have seen and done much since leaving us,” [Dumbledore] said quietly. “Rumors of your doings have reached your old school, Tom. I should be sorry to believe half of them.” Voldemort’s expression remained impassive as he said, “Greatness inspires envy, envy engenders spite, spite spawns lies. You must know this, Dumbledore.” “You call it ‘greatness,’ what you have been doing, do you?” asked Dumbledore delicately. “Certainly,” said Voldemort, and his eyes seemed to burn red. “I have experimented; I have pushed the boundaries of magic further, perhaps, than they have ever been pushed —” “Of some kinds of magic,” Dumbledore corrected him quietly. “Of some. Of others, you remain . . . forgive me . . . woefully ignorant.” For the first time, Voldemort smiled. It was a taut leer, an evil thing, more threatening than a look of rage. “The old argument,” he said softly. “But nothing I have seen in the world has supported your famous pronouncements that love is more powerful than my kind of magic, Dumbledore.” “Perhaps you have been looking in the wrong places,” suggested Dumbledore. (HBP20 [/source/the-harry-potter-novels/hbp/hbp20]) Voldemort’s kind of magic is embodied in the Unforgivable Curses, the curses which Harry knows and can perform. But in what is clearly a prophecy fulfilled, he doesn’t use them. He chooses love, and Voldemort dies. What we see in that moment is a transformed Harry, a young man who has gone through terror and horror and loss to learn the hardest lesson of all, that the deepest, most powerful magic in the universe is the power of love. This painful transformation begins in the very next chapter of the book. The post OP36: Of Magic and Duels Part One [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/2021/07/03/op36-of-magic-and-duels-part-one/] appeared first on Harry Potter Lexicon [https://www.hp-lexicon.org].

Season Three is Here! Hello, everyone. Back in January, 2018 [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/2018/01/28/introduction-harry-potter-minute/], I created a new short-form podcast called The Harry Potter Lexicon Minute. I had planned on a shorter title — The Harry Potter Minute — but discovered that there was already a podcast with that name, so I added the Lexicon’s name. The podcast ran for over 160 episodes, through November of 2019. I added a few more episodes in the summer of 2020 during our 25th anniversary Canon Celebration [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/event/the-lexicons-20th-anniversary-canon-celebration/]. And now I’d like to welcome you all to a new season of the Harry Potter Lexicon Minute podcast. This time around I’ll be finishing up my series on Order of the Phoenix, which stopped at chapter 35 [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/2019/09/29/op35-whos-going-to-die/] back in September of 2019. I’ll add to my Canon Thoughts series, and maybe investigate a lingering Potter mystery [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/2019/10/06/mysteries-scabbers-the-rat/] or two. Some of our other editors have been working on scripts as well. I’m aiming for one or two episodes a week for at least the rest of the summer. So make sure you subscribe wherever you get your podcasts so you won’t miss a single one. I and the rest of the Lexicon team are really looking forward to sharing our enthusiasm for the Wizarding World with you. Thanks for listening! The post Season Three is Here! [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/2021/07/02/season-three-is-here/] appeared first on Harry Potter Lexicon [https://www.hp-lexicon.org].

Summer is over and it is time to return to Hogwarts [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/place/hogwarts-school-of-witchcraft-and-wizardry/]. Harry [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/character/potter-family/harry-potter] has lessons with Professor Dumbledore [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/character/dumbledore-family/albus-dumbledore/] to look forward to. He becomes surprisingly talented in Potions class [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/thing/potions-class/] and works hard as the new Captain [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/thing/captain-of-quidditch/] of the Gryffindor Quidditch Team [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/thing/gryffindor-quidditch-team/]. But what is his classmate Draco Malfoy [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/character/malfoy-family/draco-malfoy/] actually up to? Ready or not, here we go! [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/invitinglunatoslughornsparty-mt-219x300.jpg] PODCASTS: Fifty Years Ago [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/2019/01/12/fifty-years-ago/] by Steve VanderArk Pince and Prince [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/2019/01/02/pince-and-prince/] by hpboy13 Episode 25: The Horcrux Conundrum [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/2017/03/06/episode-25-horcrux-canundrum/] by Steve VanderArk and Nick Moline Horcrux Deaths [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/2019/08/22/horcrux-deaths/] by Steve VanderArk READER’S GUIDES: These guides were originally written in 2005 and 2006. Since that time, a few edits were made here and there but basically the text remained the same. To get ready for this Canon Celebration, our editors have been revising each one. We’ve added fan artwork to the Guide which illustrates the text. At the bottom in the Commentary section we’ve added a gallery of additional artwork. So even if you’ve read our guides before, please give them another look. And if you’re doing a re-read of the books, have the Guide to each chapter open as you go! I’m sure you’ll find a lot of information you didn’t know. [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/luna-and-neville-on-train-300x300.jpg] [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/?attachment_id=28776]Reader’s Guide to Chapter 7 [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/source/the-harry-potter-novels/hbp/hbp7] Reader’s Guide to Chapter 8 [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/source/the-harry-potter-novels/hbp/hbp8] Reader’s Guide to Chapter 9 [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/source/the-harry-potter-novels/hbp/hbp9] Reader’s Guide to Chapter 10 [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/source/the-harry-potter-novels/hbp/hbp10] Reader’s Guide to Chapter 11 [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/source/the-harry-potter-novels/hbp/hbp11] Reader’s Guide to Chapter 12 [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/source/the-harry-potter-novels/hbp/hbp12] Reader’s Guide to Chapter 13 [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/source/the-harry-potter-novels/hbp/hbp13] Reader’s Guide to Chapter 14 [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/source/the-harry-potter-novels/hbp/hbp14] Reader’s Guide to Chapter 15 [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/source/the-harry-potter-novels/hbp/hbp15] Reader’s Guide to Chapter 16 [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/source/the-harry-potter-novels/hbp/hbp16] Reader’s Guide to Chapter 17 [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/source/the-harry-potter-novels/hbp/hbp17] Reader’s Guide to Chapter 18 [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/source/the-harry-potter-novels/hbp/hbp18] [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/slughorn-christmas-party-300x289.jpg] [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/?attachment_id=21154]Reader’s Guide to Chapter 19 [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/source/the-harry-potter-novels/hbp/hbp19] Reader’s Guide to Chapter 20 [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/source/the-harry-potter-novels/hbp/hbp20] Reader’s Guide to Chapter 21 [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/source/the-harry-potter-novels/hbp/hbp21] Reader’s Guide to Chapter 22 [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/source/the-harry-potter-novels/hbp/hbp22] Reader’s Guide to Chapter 23 [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/source/the-harry-potter-novels/hbp/hbp23] Reader’s Guide to Chapter 24 [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/source/the-harry-potter-novels/hbp/hbp24/] CALENDARS Fitting the books into the real-life calendars isn’t easy! In fact, it’s impossible. But that didn’t stop us: Day by day calendar of events in the book [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/calendars-harry-potter-novels/day-day-calendar-half-blood-prince/] TEXT CHANGES OF THE EDITIONS AND THE YEARS Differences between the British and American versions [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/differences-uk-us-editions-hbp/] “Mistakes and non-mistakes” in the text [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/mistake-non-mistakes-text-hbp/] [HTTPS://WWW.HP-LEXICON.ORG/WP-CONTENT/UPLOADS/2016/01/SEVENTH-FLOOR-CORRIDOR-TROLLS-AT-THE-BALLET-300X177.JPG] [HTTPS://WWW.HP-LEXICON.ORG/?ATTACHMENT_ID=21959]ESSAYS Ginny Weasley: A Gryffindor and a Match for Harry [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/2006/01/01/ginny-weasley-a-gryffindor-and-a-match-for-harry/] by Tim Lambarski Is Harry a Horcrux? [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/2006/03/18/is-harry-a-horcrux/] by Stephen Haas The Complications with Memory [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/2006/02/11/the-complications-with-memory/] by Suzanne Foster An Almanac of Quidditch at Hogwarts [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/2007/07/18/an-almanac-of-quidditch-at-hogwarts/] by Philip Legge The Bendable Vow: Dumbledore’s Hand In One Last Legal Loophole [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/2007/07/17/the-bendable-vow-dumbledores-hand-in-one-last-legal-loophole/] by D.B. Fwoopersong Love and Death in Harry Potter [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/2006/04/03/love-and-death-in-harry-potter/] by Paul Spilsbury Some Thoughts on House-Elves [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/2006/04/30/some-thoughts-on-house-elves/] by Douglas Moran What is Magical Power in the Potterverse? [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/2006/01/28/what-is-magical-power-in-the-potterverse/] by Hugo Costa Paes INTERESTING ARTWORK We have hundreds and hundreds of pieces of fan artwork in our collection. Some subjects get a lot of depictions — Diagon Alley is a favorite topic, for example, and, well, of course it is! But there are a few pieces which illustrate more unusual moments in the text. Here are a few examples: [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/i-m-romilda-romilda-vane-300x221.jpg] [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/?attachment_id=22842]Romilda Vane [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/character/romilda-vane/] finds Harry on the Hogwarts Express [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/place/hogwarts-express/] (HBP7 [/source/the-harry-potter-novels/hbp/hbp7]) [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/hp_hbp_illustration_by_firefly_wp-300x235.jpg] [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/?attachment_id=26930]Harry earns his first detention [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/thing/detentions/] from Snape [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/character/snape-family/severus-snape/] (HBP9 [/source/the-harry-potter-novels/hbp/hbp9]) [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/fullsizerender__14__by_didxsomeonexsayxmad-d9d7tsd-194x300.jpg] [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/?attachment_id=24574]The cursed opal necklace [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/thing/cursed-opal-necklace/] and Katie Bell [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/character/katie-bell/] (HBP12 [/source/the-harry-potter-novels/hbp/hbp12]) Ginny fights with Ron. [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/ginny-and-ron-fight-300x236.jpg] [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/character/weasley-family/ginny-weasley/ginny-ron-fight-ottowl/]Ginny [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/character/weasley-family/ginny-weasley/] and Ron [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/character/weasley-family/ron-weasley/] disagree about interference in her love life (HBP14 [/source/the-harry-potter-novels/hbp/hbp14]) [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/slughornschristmasparty-mt-300x217.jpg] [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/?attachment_id=43624]Horace Slughorn’s [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/character/horace-slughorn/] Christmas party (HBP15 [/source/the-harry-potter-novels/hbp/hbp15]) [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/a-sluggish-memory-300x300.jpg] [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/?attachment_id=28830]Inside an edited Pensieve memory [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/thing/pensieve-memories/], Slughorn and Tom Riddle [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/character/riddle-family/tom-riddle/] (HBP17 [/source/the-harry-potter-novels/hbp/hbp17]) [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/hufflepuff-apparition-lessons-300x271.jpg] [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/?attachment_id=24576]Apparition [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/magic/apparition/] lessons (HBP18 [/source/the-harry-potter-novels/hbp/hbp18]) [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/hepzibah-book-6-300x300.png] [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/?attachment_id=36250]Hepzibah Smith [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/character/hepzibah-smith/] and Hufflepuff’s cup [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/thing/hufflepuffs-cup/] (HBP20 [/source/the-harry-potter-novels/hbp/hbp20]) [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/harry-kissed-her-300x240.jpg] [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/?attachment_id=22837]Harry [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/character/potter-family/harry-potter] and Ginny’s [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/character/weasley-family/ginny-weasley/] first kiss (HBP24 [/source/the-harry-potter-novels/hbp/hbp24]) ARTWORK CHALLENGE Our Artwork Challenge for all you fan artists out there is to depict one of the lesser-known characters and scenes in the series. If we really like your work, we may feature it in the Lexicon! Here are some suggestions from these chapters: * The banned products from Weasleys’ Wizard Wheezes [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/place/great-britain-united-kingdom/england/london/diagon-alley/weasleys-wizard-wheezes/], such as the Skiving Snackboxes [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/thing/skiving-snackbox/], Nosebleed Nougat [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/thing/nosebleed-nougat/], the Patented Daydream Charm [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/thing/patented-daydream-charm/]and trick wands [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/thing/trick-wands/](HBP9 [/source/the-harry-potter-novels/hbp/hbp9]) * The chaos of the Quidditch tryouts [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/thing/quidditch-tryouts/] (HBP11 [/source/the-harry-potter-novels/hbp/hbp11]) * The new Gryffindor Quidditch team members: Demelza Robins [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/character/demelza-robins/], Jimmy Peakes [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/character/jimmy-peakes/] and Ritchie Coote [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/character/ritchie-coote/](HBP11 [/source/the-harry-potter-novels/hbp/hbp11]) * Harry sending Ron up above his bed with the Levicorpus [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/magic/levicorpus/] spell from the Half-Blood Prince’s copy of Advanced Potion-Making [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/thing/the-princes-copy-of-advanced-potion-making/] (HBP12 [/source/the-harry-potter-novels/hbp/hbp12]) * A shifty Mundungus Fletcher [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/character/mundungus-fletcher/] trying to sell stolen Black family [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/character/black-family/] artefacts in Hogsmeade [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/place/great-britain-united-kingdom/scotland/hogsmeade/] (HBP12 [/source/the-harry-potter-novels/hbp/hbp12]) * Substitute Keeper Cormac McLaggen [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/character/cormac-mclaggen/] hitting a Bludger at Harry’s head (HBP19 [/source/the-harry-potter-novels/hbp/hbp19]) * Hufflepuff [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/thing/hufflepuff-quidditch-team/] and Ravenclaw [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/thing/ravenclaw-quidditch-team/] Quidditch players in action (HBP19 [/source/the-harry-potter-novels/hbp/hbp19], HBP24 [/source/the-harry-potter-novels/hbp/hbp24]) Send your artwork to steve@hp-lexicon.org. By submitting it, you are giving us permission to display your work on the Lexicon. We would like to include your name with your artwork so you are properly credited, so when you send your work let us know what name to use. Please also include a way to get a hold of you so that if we decide to feature your work as part of our regular collection we can contact you for more details. All artwork we display remains the property of the artist and they retain all copyright. SPECIAL FEATURE: DARK MAGIC SPELLS Sectumsempra [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/magic/sectumsempra/]! –Levicorpus [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/magic/levicorpus/]! – Langlock [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/magic/langlock/]! – and even the useful Muffliato [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/magic/muffliato/]….The Half-Blood Prince [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/quote/the-half-blood-prince/] may be a genius at Potions [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/thing/potions/], but the Prince’s book [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/thing/the-princes-copy-of-advanced-potion-making/] is also filled with dubious spells – the worst of which probably shouldn’t be used on anyone, not just students. In their discussion, Hermione [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/character/granger-family/hermione-granger/] makes quite a few sensible comments: [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/14632847_1764559257144811_4974782528895319521_n-300x300.jpg] [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/?attachment_id=28706] > “So you just decided to try out an unknown, handwritten incantation and see what would happen?” “….it’s probably not Ministry of Magic-approved. ….And also, because I’m starting to think this Prince character was a bit dodgy.” “Dangling people upside-down by the ankle? ….Who puts their time and energy into making up spells like that?” “Maybe your dad did use it, Harry, ….but he’s not the only one. We’ve seen a whole bunch of people use it, in case you’ve forgotten. Dangling people in the air. Making them float along, asleep, helpless.” (HBP12 [/source/the-harry-potter-novels/hbp/hbp12]) But Ron [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/character/weasley-family/ron-weasley/] and Harry [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/character/potter-family/harry-potter] won’t listen to her objections. Of course. Hermione recognises that the person who wrote these spells has an affinity for Dark Magic [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/magic/dark-magic-2/]. All through the book, she continues to try and investigate who they might be – especially after Harry’s near-fatal disaster using Sectumsempra [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/event/circa-may-1997-harry-uses-the-sectumsempra-curse/] (HBP24 [/source/the-harry-potter-novels/hbp/hbp24]). FROM THE ATLAS: HOGWARTS QUIDDITCH PITCH [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/hogwarts-quidditch-stadium-300x184.jpg] [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/?attachment_id=21719]The Quidditch pitch and stadium at Hogwarts [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/place/hogwarts-school-of-witchcraft-and-wizardry/hogwarts-grounds/hogwarts-quidditch-pitch-stadium/] take up a substantial section of the Hogwarts School grounds [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/place/hogwarts-school-of-witchcraft-and-wizardry/hogwarts-grounds/]. As the school’s location is hidden (and is likely to be unplottable [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/magic/unplottable/] as well), Hogwarts’ students are able to have their Quidditch pitch [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/place/quidditch-related-places/quidditch-pitch/] in situ year-round – unlike the stadia [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/place/quidditch-related-places/quidditch-stadiums/] for professional and World Cup matches, which have to be hidden from Muggles [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/thing/muggle]. Although there are only six matches during the school year [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/thing/quidditch-calendars/], Quidditch is an important part of school life and the rivalries between house teams [https://www.hp-lexicon.org/thing/quidditch-teams-of-hogwarts/] are quite fierce. COMING UP NEXT WEEK… More revelations, betrayals and death await us next week when we cover the last six chapters of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. 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