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    Emma Watson

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    Emma Watson The want to become an actress is what helped Emma Watson become the person she is today. Becoming an actress has opened so many doors to her. It has helped her become not only famous but a role model to people everywhere. She has taken her role from Harry Potter and used it to inspire other young girls across the world. She herself has become a worldwide phenomenon. Her opportunities do not stop at acting. Emma Watson has had and has many opportunities open to her. According

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    Since the beginning of the series, Harry Potter’s life has been influenced by the choices of Albus Dumbledore. Everything that has happened to Harry has occurred because of Dumbledore, but does that make him purely Dumbledore’s boy or is he his own person with agency to do as he wants? After Voldemort murdered Harry’s parents, Dumbledore decided to bring baby Harry to his aunt and uncles because “they’re the only family he has left now,” and he feels “it’s the best place for him” (Sorcerer’s Stone)

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    expressed by Sirius Black who is Harry Potter’s uncle in the series written by J.K. Rowling .This quote describes the character of Harry Potter because of his will to choose light over dark again and again. His tendency to do this has changed kids’ lives around the world from reading this series. The Harry Potter series, written by J.K. Rowling, follows Harry Potter and his fellow wizards as he faces the evil Lord Voldemort and other smaller evils and lessons along his journey to becoming a grown wizard

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    Memory is how everyone in the world keeps track of what happens in their lifetime. Amnesia, after all, is probably one of the most feared disorders a person can get- humanity is constantly fighting to prevent the loss. Yet, even with such a high importance placed on memory, memory can rarely be used in court. A person must always have proof and evidence to confirm that their memory is accurate. In J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter septalogy, however, things work a little bit differently. Memories can be

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    The Night Of The Lake

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    The ride across the lake was everything Rose had imagined and more. She even thought she might have seen the giant squid poke up out of the water. She tried to point it out to Albus, but it had disappeared when he looked over. They finally pulled up to the shore and began following Hagrid up the grounds to the castle. It was so much bigger than she had imagined. “It’s so big,” Albus said in awe. “I was just thinking the same thing,” Rose replied. The students sidled up to the entrance. The doors

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    In recent years, two books have come about to be immensely popular on the market. Those books are Twilight and Harry Potter. Harry Potter is about adolescent wizard and his best friends; they attend a school of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The main story is Harry 's quest to defeat the evil wizard Lord Voldemort. He wants to control the wizarding world and overpower non-magical people; he wants to get rid of his oppressors which just happen to be, Harry’s parents. Twilight is about a girl named Isabella

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    Thou Mayest In JK Rowling’s novel, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Draco Malfoy tries to overcome the conflict of making the right decision after his father coerced him to become a Death Eater. He battles with the internal conflict of whether he wants to go to the light side and risk his family’s life or stay on the dark side and go against what his heart is telling him. Draco does not want to be the antagonist and desperately wishes to leave his family’s villainous legacy and infamous reputation

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    Hogwarts school of wizardry where he learned how to harness his magical powers, unfortunately, he chose to use them for evil in order to become the greatest dark wizard of all time. Lord Voldemort terrorized the wizarding world, especially targeting ‘half-blooded’ wizards, himself a ‘pure-blood’ supremacist. His evil, which knew no bounds, also wreaked havoc on the muggle (persons without magic powers) world. As a highly effective villain, Voldemort proved to be powerful, intelligent, immoral, and extremely

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    situation goes bad that truly shows how Harry is a moral figure during a time of war. During Deathly Hallows, Harry, Ron, and Hermione use the Polyjuice Potion to sneak into the Ministry of Magic to retrieve a Horcrux, and in doing so, jeopardize the lives of the three employees, and the Cattermole family. Harry and his friends’ good intentions were there – they never expected that they would cause a ruckus and endanger someone’s life. However, once they realized this, they did as much as they could

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    Severus Snape is a fictional character in J. K. Rowling 's Harry Potter series. He is characterised as a person of great complexity, whose coldly sarcastic and controlled exterior conceals deep emotions and anguish. In the first novel of the series, Snape is a teacher who is hostile from the start toward Harry. As the series progresses, Snape 's character becomes more layered and enigmatic. Rowling does not fully reveal the details of his true loyalties until the end of the final book, Harry Potter

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