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* SchoolRivalry: Hogwarts, Beauxbatons, and Durmstrang, the three main European {{Wizarding School}}s, are rivals to the point of keeping their precise locations secret from one another. Every three years, these three schools compete in the Triwizard Tournament--or used to, until the contest was discontinued due to the high casualty rate.
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* TeethClenchedTeamwork:
** Snape and Sirius despise each other despite being on the same side; Snape has never forgiven Sirius for encouraging him to go look for a fully-transformed werewolf while they were at school, while Sirius trusts anyone who worked for Voldemort as far as he can throw them. Dumbledore has to cajole them into shaking hands at the end of book four, and they continue to trade insults through every scene they have in the following book.
** In ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix'', Dumbledore delegates Snape to teach Harry Occlumency, which does not go well, because of the severe animosity between them.
---> '''Snape:''' It is a headmaster's privilege to delegate less enjoyable tasks. I assure you I did not beg for the job.
** Snape and Sirius despise each other despite being on the same side; Snape has never forgiven Sirius for encouraging him to go look for a fully-transformed werewolf while they were at school, while Sirius trusts anyone who worked for Voldemort as far as he can throw them. Dumbledore has to cajole them into shaking hands at the end of book four, and they continue to trade insults through every scene they have in the following book.
** In ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix'', Dumbledore delegates Snape to teach Harry Occlumency, which does not go well, because of the severe animosity between them.
---> '''Snape:''' It is a headmaster's privilege to delegate less enjoyable tasks. I assure you I did not beg for the job.
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* SignatureMove: ''Expelliarmus'' serves as this for Harry, to the point that the Death eaters are able to correctly identify the real Harry among several imposters due to his use of the spell.
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** Harry has ''Expelliarmus'', aka thepoint that Disarming Charm, which causes the Death eaters are able spell's target to correctly identify drop anything they're holding. In ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheChamberOfSecrets Chamber of Secrets]]'' he uses it against [[FakeUltimateHero Lockhart]] and in ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban Prisoner of Azkaban]]'' against [[InspectorJavert Snape]] because it's the only combat spell he knows at the time, but Harry gradually comes to use it first and foremost even after he learns other spells. In ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire Goblet of Fire]]'' he uses it against [[BigBad Voldemort]] because Voldemort's use of the word "duel" made Harry think of the Dueling Club, where he learned it. In ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix Order of the Phoenix]]'' he teaches it to Dumbledore's Army as the first spell because of his experience with it. In ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows Deathly Hallows]]'' he uses it against an [[BrainwashedAndCrazy Imperiused]] Stan Shunpike because other spells would have knocked him off a high-flying broom and [[LethalHarmlessPowers Harry doesn't want to kill innocent victims]] of the Imperius Curse. This [[FightingFingerprint exposes him as the real Harry among several imposters due in a group of fakes]]. Later in ''Deathly Hallows'' he uses it [[NotTheIntendedUse to kill Voldemort]].
** Harry also uses the summoning charm ''Accio'' a lot, having gone to a lot of trouble to master it in ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire''.
** Harry also has a reputation for producing Patronuses. These are essentially anti-Dementor apparitions. Dementors are Harry's worst fear, so it would make sense. Considering the effort he had to put into getting the spell to work at all, it's deserved. When he told (and in one case, show) a group of older wizards, likely in their forties and older, that he could produce a full body Patronus and not amorphous shield, they were shocked and impressed. It should be noted that Harry's Patronus is the same as hisuse father's Patronus and Animagus form, a stag, which makes it even more significant.
** Ginny Weasley has the Bat Bogey Hex.
** Inverted for Antonin Dolohov, a minor Death Eater appearing in the book series, where [[RunningGag he is almost always]] at the receiving end of thespell.Full Body-Bind Curse (if he appears, that is). Played straight with a curse that's only ever identified as "Antonin Dolohov's curse," which causes massive internal damage as though being run through with a sword.
** [[MilesGloriosus Gilderoy Lockhart]] is stated to have a talent in Memory Charms, though we only get to see him directly using it once [[spoiler:where it backfires on him]].
** While certainly not the only wizard to use it in the series, it's hard to say that [[BigBad Lord Voldemort's]] signature move is anything other than ''[[OneHitKill Avada Kedavra]]''. ''[[AgonyBeam Crucio]]'' is his other signature move, as is Bellatrix Lestrange's main one.
** Harry has ''Expelliarmus'', aka the
** Harry also uses the summoning charm ''Accio'' a lot, having gone to a lot of trouble to master it in ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire''.
** Harry also has a reputation for producing Patronuses. These are essentially anti-Dementor apparitions. Dementors are Harry's worst fear, so it would make sense. Considering the effort he had to put into getting the spell to work at all, it's deserved. When he told (and in one case, show) a group of older wizards, likely in their forties and older, that he could produce a full body Patronus and not amorphous shield, they were shocked and impressed. It should be noted that Harry's Patronus is the same as his
** Ginny Weasley has the Bat Bogey Hex.
** Inverted for Antonin Dolohov, a minor Death Eater appearing in the book series, where [[RunningGag he is almost always]] at the receiving end of the
** [[MilesGloriosus Gilderoy Lockhart]] is stated to have a talent in Memory Charms, though we only get to see him directly using it once [[spoiler:where it backfires on him]].
** While certainly not the only wizard to use it in the series, it's hard to say that [[BigBad Lord Voldemort's]] signature move is anything other than ''[[OneHitKill Avada Kedavra]]''. ''[[AgonyBeam Crucio]]'' is his other signature move, as is Bellatrix Lestrange's main one.
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* SneakingOutAtNight: Students weren't allowed to leave their dormitories at night, a rule staunchly enforced by caretaker Filch. So, of course, Harry had to sneak out constantly in order to get things done. He wouldn't always bring his invisibility cloak, leading him to get caught by Filch on occasion, and in book one, the likelihood of getting caught and punished (or killed by monsters, or worse, ''expelled'') made both Hermione and Neville try and protest against Harry's plans.
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* SneakingOutAtNight: Students weren't allowed to leave their dormitories at night, a rule staunchly enforced by caretaker Filch. So, of course, Harry had to sneak out constantly in order to get things done. He wouldn't always bring his invisibility cloak, leading him to get caught by Filch on occasion, and in book one, the likelihood of getting caught and punished (or killed by monsters, or worse, ''expelled'') made both Hermione and Neville try and protest against Harry's plans. Harry's habit of wandering the corridors at night is even lampshaded by Snape in ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire''.
--> '''Snape:''' I just thought that if Potter was wandering about at night again, it's an unfortunate habit of his, he ought to be stopped, for his own safety.
--> '''Snape:''' I just thought that if Potter was wandering about at night again, it's an unfortunate habit of his, he ought to be stopped, for his own safety.
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* TransformationConventions: There are two things that reveal a lot of a character's personality through animal manifestations.
** The first is the Animagus transformation, only possible after a time-consuming, complicated ritual. To put some examples, James Potter is a vain braggart yet noble at heart, so he becomes a stag; Sirius Black is loyal, stubborn, and mischievous but also tied to grief and death, so his form is a Grimm-like dog; Peter Pettigrew is a sneaky DirtyCoward who follows the strongest leader, so he's a rat; Minerva McGonagall is the Head of Gryffindor (a lion-themed House), as well as a strict, elegant old woman, so she's a cat; and Rita Skeeter, an unscrupulous journalist, is a blue beetle (as in, bugging people).
** The second is the corporeal Patronus, which can coincide with a character's Animagi form (e.g., McGonagall) or, more commonly, match the memory that powers it. For instance, Harry Potter's deepest desire is the love of a family, so he casts a stag. Meanwhile, Nymphadora Tonks' love for werewolf Remus Lupin causes her Patronus to manifest as a wolf.
** The first is the Animagus transformation, only possible after a time-consuming, complicated ritual. To put some examples, James Potter is a vain braggart yet noble at heart, so he becomes a stag; Sirius Black is loyal, stubborn, and mischievous but also tied to grief and death, so his form is a Grimm-like dog; Peter Pettigrew is a sneaky DirtyCoward who follows the strongest leader, so he's a rat; Minerva McGonagall is the Head of Gryffindor (a lion-themed House), as well as a strict, elegant old woman, so she's a cat; and Rita Skeeter, an unscrupulous journalist, is a blue beetle (as in, bugging people).
** The second is the corporeal Patronus, which can coincide with a character's Animagi form (e.g., McGonagall) or, more commonly, match the memory that powers it. For instance, Harry Potter's deepest desire is the love of a family, so he casts a stag. Meanwhile, Nymphadora Tonks' love for werewolf Remus Lupin causes her Patronus to manifest as a wolf.
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* WorkingClassWerewolves: A {{justified}} example; wizards and witches who are werewolves often have trouble finding work due to the [[FantasticRacism social stigma]] against them. Case in point, [[spoiler:Remus Lupin]] often wears very shabby robes, looks constantly ill, lives in a half-derelict cottage and only got the job as [[spoiler:Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher]] because of Dumbledore's generosity. As if that weren't bad enough, there's a recently developed potion (Wolfsbane Potion) that allows werewolves to safely manage their condition, making them less dangerous to other people and themselves, but it's so expensive few of them can even afford it.
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* WorkingClassWerewolves: A {{justified}} {{justified|Trope}} example; wizards and witches who are werewolves often have trouble finding work due to the [[FantasticRacism social stigma]] against them. Case in point, [[spoiler:Remus Lupin]] often wears very shabby robes, looks constantly ill, lives in a half-derelict cottage and only got the job as [[spoiler:Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher]] because of Dumbledore's generosity. As if that weren't bad enough, there's a recently developed potion (Wolfsbane Potion) that allows werewolves to safely manage their condition, making them less dangerous to other people and themselves, but it's so expensive few of them can even afford it.
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* ThrowingTheDistraction:
** In ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheChamberOfSecrets'', Hermione instructs Harry and Ron to cause mayhem in Snape's class to distract him while she steals ingredients for Polyjuice Potion. They throw a firework into a cauldron.
** In the book and film of ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows'', Harry distracts some Ministry workers with a rambunctious Weasley toy in order to sneak into Umbridge's office. Justified, both because that's what the toy was built for and because, apparently, the Ministry sees that sort of thing fairly often.
** In ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheChamberOfSecrets'', Hermione instructs Harry and Ron to cause mayhem in Snape's class to distract him while she steals ingredients for Polyjuice Potion. They throw a firework into a cauldron.
** In the book and film of ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows'', Harry distracts some Ministry workers with a rambunctious Weasley toy in order to sneak into Umbridge's office. Justified, both because that's what the toy was built for and because, apparently, the Ministry sees that sort of thing fairly often.
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** In real life, Dursley is the name of a British town JK Rowling dislikes. Dursley is located near to her hometown, Yates.
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* WritersCannotDoMath: Rowling even said that math was not her strongest suit. Solid gold coins are worth about five British pound in TheNineties. Silver coins can be bought for 29 pence in Muggle money. The Wizarding World is basically a third-world country.
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* WritersCannotDoMath: Rowling even said WritersCannotDoMath:
** Hogwarts' student population is much smaller than the narrative suggests. If we assume the number of students in Harry's year is representative of the typical Hogwarts class size and thatmath was not her strongest suit. Solid gold coins the Sorting Hat scene goes through the entire incoming class, there are worth roughly 40 students per year; multiplied by seven years, that's about 280 students in total. However, a scene in the third book implies there's around 800 students, as three-fourths of the school are supporting Gryffindor while there are 200 Slytherin students at a Quidditch match. However, we never see any of this larger number of students. We only see five British pound boys in TheNineties. Silver coins can be bought for 29 pence Gryffindor in Muggle money. Harry's year, which is more consistent with a smaller student body[[note]]assuming the same number of boys as girls, that's 10 students per house, times four houses is 40 students per year[[/note]]. The classes have around 20 students in them, which if the smaller number were true would mean the Houses are sharing classes -- which is exactly what we see. Additionally, there's only one teacher per subject with fourteen subjects; if there were really 800 students, either only a third of the school day is spent in class, or the teachers are all using Time Turners to teach three classes at once.
** The structure of Wizarding Britain as a whole suggests there's far more witches and wizards living there than the author's claim of three thousand magic-users. That ''really'' isn't that many people; for reference, a town with 3,000 inhabitants wouldn't even be big enough to have its own police station. Wizarding Britain, on the other hand, has enough wizards for a massive government bureaucracy with a ton of departments, an extensive law enforcement body with special forces and intelligence sections, and an entire league full of professional Quidditch teams. And that's before you take into account the 800-odd Hogwarts students, implying that a quarter of the magical population is in school.
** The Quidditch World Cup in ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire Goblet of Fire]]'' isbasically said to be the 422nd edition of the tournament. ''Literature/QuidditchThroughTheAges'' says there are four years between each World Cup -- but also that the first one was in 1473, which is impossible if the one in ''Goblet of Fire'' took place in 1994. You'd have to assume that ''nowadays'' it's every four years, but in the past it was held very sporadically. Which makes sense, considering magic is involved (for instance, the entire 1877 tournament had to be redone because nobody could remember it). Pottermore {{lampshaded}} the whole thing in its article on the Quidditch World Cup, claiming that "[a]s with so much else about the wizarding world's most important sporting competition, many query the accuracy of this statement."
** How Ollivander makes any money selling wands for seven Galleons apiece is questionable, as per Rowling's exchange rate they cost around 35 British pounds but are supposed to last the owner athird-world country.''lifetime''. Assuming Ollivander sells 200-odd wands every year, which is generous,[[note]] Assuming that half of them are replacements for lost or broken wands and the other 100 wands are for incoming Hogwarts students -- even though the books imply Hogwarts incoming classes are less than half that number. This also assumes he has a monopoly in the wandmaking business, but the books are clear he doesn't [[/note]] he'd only make around 7000 pounds a year. If [[SeverelySpecializedStore all he sells are wands]], that's not nearly enough to stay in business. And this is before getting into the fact that he has captive demand -- if "the wand chooses the wizard", he's got a brilliant opportunity to extort young witches and wizards because he's the only one with the product that will allow them to make the most of their magic.
** The relative ages of Bill and Charlie compared to the other Weasley siblings is a mess. Both had left Hogwarts by the time Harry and Ron start there, with Rowling claiming Charlie's two years older than Percy, and Bill two years older than Charlie -- except since Percy is in his fifth year in ''Philosopher's Stone'', that means that Charlie should have been in his last year of Hogwarts or very recently graduated. This makes no sense when combined with the comment on Gryffindor's losing streak having lasted since Charlie last captained the team; assuming he played until graduation, that would have to be a couple of years at least. And it's more than that, because ''Prisoner of Azkaban'' says Gryffindor's last Cup win was seven years earlier, implying Charlie is at least ''seven'' years older than Percy and left the year before Percy started. (Rowling upped the gap between Percy and Charlie to three years, which solves the graduation problem but not the Quidditch problem.) No one disputes when Bill graduated, but it does create an odd line where Ginny mentions wanting to attend Hogwarts since Bill started, which would have been when she was a year old at the earliest.
** The ages of various adults just don't line up.
*** Snape and Lucius Malfoy are said to have been in the same social group at Hogwarts, but this is contradicted in various ways; supplemental material suggests Lucius is ten years older than Snape and thus couldn't have coincided at Hogwarts, while a flashback in ''Deathly Hallows'' reveals Lucius was a prefect in Snape's first year and therefore at least five years older than him.
*** Snape is 32 years old in ''Chamber of Secrets'', but he was a contemporary of Harry's parents at Hogwarts, implying that Harry's parents were quite young when they had him.
*** Bellatrix Lestrange is also said to have been in Snape's social group at Hogwarts, but her younger sister Andromeda's daughter Tonks is in her twenties throughout the series, implying that Andromeda had a TeenPregnancy right after graduating from Hogwarts. Trying to fit this into the timeline implies Bellatrix was probably in her sixth or seventh year when Snape started, so unlikely to be in his social group either.
** Attempts to provide exact dates for the series -- specifically, having Harry enter Hogwarts in 1991 -- lead to a few minor booboos. For instance, in ''Philosopher's Stone'', Nicholas Flamel is stated to be 665 years old -- but since he's a HistoricalDomainCharacter, and we know for sure that he was born in 1330, that would put the book's setting as 1995, just a few years off. And ''Order of the Phoenix'' has the students arriving on September 1 and starting class the next day, as usual -- but that year, September 1 was a Friday, implying class on a Saturday. See what happens when you aim for specificity like that?
** Slytherin Quidditch captain Marcus Flint is introduced in ''Philosopher's Stone'' as a sixth-year, but is still the captian two years later in ''Prisoner of Azkaban'' when he should have graduated the year before. When faced with this, Rowling replied, "Either I made a mistake or he was held back a year. I think I prefer Flint making the mistake." Later editions of ''Philosopher's Stone'' correct this by calling Flint a fifth-year instead of a sixth-year.
** Hogwarts' student population is much smaller than the narrative suggests. If we assume the number of students in Harry's year is representative of the typical Hogwarts class size and that
** The structure of Wizarding Britain as a whole suggests there's far more witches and wizards living there than the author's claim of three thousand magic-users. That ''really'' isn't that many people; for reference, a town with 3,000 inhabitants wouldn't even be big enough to have its own police station. Wizarding Britain, on the other hand, has enough wizards for a massive government bureaucracy with a ton of departments, an extensive law enforcement body with special forces and intelligence sections, and an entire league full of professional Quidditch teams. And that's before you take into account the 800-odd Hogwarts students, implying that a quarter of the magical population is in school.
** The Quidditch World Cup in ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire Goblet of Fire]]'' is
** How Ollivander makes any money selling wands for seven Galleons apiece is questionable, as per Rowling's exchange rate they cost around 35 British pounds but are supposed to last the owner a
** The relative ages of Bill and Charlie compared to the other Weasley siblings is a mess. Both had left Hogwarts by the time Harry and Ron start there, with Rowling claiming Charlie's two years older than Percy, and Bill two years older than Charlie -- except since Percy is in his fifth year in ''Philosopher's Stone'', that means that Charlie should have been in his last year of Hogwarts or very recently graduated. This makes no sense when combined with the comment on Gryffindor's losing streak having lasted since Charlie last captained the team; assuming he played until graduation, that would have to be a couple of years at least. And it's more than that, because ''Prisoner of Azkaban'' says Gryffindor's last Cup win was seven years earlier, implying Charlie is at least ''seven'' years older than Percy and left the year before Percy started. (Rowling upped the gap between Percy and Charlie to three years, which solves the graduation problem but not the Quidditch problem.) No one disputes when Bill graduated, but it does create an odd line where Ginny mentions wanting to attend Hogwarts since Bill started, which would have been when she was a year old at the earliest.
** The ages of various adults just don't line up.
*** Snape and Lucius Malfoy are said to have been in the same social group at Hogwarts, but this is contradicted in various ways; supplemental material suggests Lucius is ten years older than Snape and thus couldn't have coincided at Hogwarts, while a flashback in ''Deathly Hallows'' reveals Lucius was a prefect in Snape's first year and therefore at least five years older than him.
*** Snape is 32 years old in ''Chamber of Secrets'', but he was a contemporary of Harry's parents at Hogwarts, implying that Harry's parents were quite young when they had him.
*** Bellatrix Lestrange is also said to have been in Snape's social group at Hogwarts, but her younger sister Andromeda's daughter Tonks is in her twenties throughout the series, implying that Andromeda had a TeenPregnancy right after graduating from Hogwarts. Trying to fit this into the timeline implies Bellatrix was probably in her sixth or seventh year when Snape started, so unlikely to be in his social group either.
** Attempts to provide exact dates for the series -- specifically, having Harry enter Hogwarts in 1991 -- lead to a few minor booboos. For instance, in ''Philosopher's Stone'', Nicholas Flamel is stated to be 665 years old -- but since he's a HistoricalDomainCharacter, and we know for sure that he was born in 1330, that would put the book's setting as 1995, just a few years off. And ''Order of the Phoenix'' has the students arriving on September 1 and starting class the next day, as usual -- but that year, September 1 was a Friday, implying class on a Saturday. See what happens when you aim for specificity like that?
** Slytherin Quidditch captain Marcus Flint is introduced in ''Philosopher's Stone'' as a sixth-year, but is still the captian two years later in ''Prisoner of Azkaban'' when he should have graduated the year before. When faced with this, Rowling replied, "Either I made a mistake or he was held back a year. I think I prefer Flint making the mistake." Later editions of ''Philosopher's Stone'' correct this by calling Flint a fifth-year instead of a sixth-year.
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* WizardsWar: The Wizarding World went through several major conflicts within the 20th Century.
** The conflict that is often referred to as the Global Wizard War began with [[Film/FantasticBeasts Grindelwald's rise to power in the 1920's]], and lasted until the mid 1940s', coinciding with the [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII Second World War]].
** The First Wizarding War of 1970-1981 started with Lord Voldemort's and the Death Eaters' rise to power and their attempt to take over the Wizarding World and subjugate the Muggle World. The conflict ended with Valdemort's defeat and his soul being split into the seven Horcruxes, the capture and disbandment of the Death Eaters, and the disappearance of Harry Potter, "the Boy Who Lived".
** The prelude to the Second Wizarding War began in the early 1990s, [[Literature/HarryPotterAndThePhilosophersStone when Harry Potter began attending Hogwart's School of Wizarding and Magic, and there was an attempt to steal the Philosopher's Stone]]. The Second Wizarding War began, officially according to Ministry of Magic, [[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix in 1996 when Voldemort returned and the Death Eaters, secretly, made gains within the Ministry of Magic]] with the ultimate goal of accomplishing Voldemort's vision of [[SuperSupremacist Wizard supremacy]]. [[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows The Second Wizarding War ended in 1998, at the culination of the Battle of Hogwarts]] when the Death Eaters were ultimately defeated and [[spoiler: Voldemort was killed in a duel with Harry Potter]].
** The conflict that is often referred to as the Global Wizard War began with [[Film/FantasticBeasts Grindelwald's rise to power in the 1920's]], and lasted until the mid 1940s', coinciding with the [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII Second World War]].
** The First Wizarding War of 1970-1981 started with Lord Voldemort's and the Death Eaters' rise to power and their attempt to take over the Wizarding World and subjugate the Muggle World. The conflict ended with Valdemort's defeat and his soul being split into the seven Horcruxes, the capture and disbandment of the Death Eaters, and the disappearance of Harry Potter, "the Boy Who Lived".
** The prelude to the Second Wizarding War began in the early 1990s, [[Literature/HarryPotterAndThePhilosophersStone when Harry Potter began attending Hogwart's School of Wizarding and Magic, and there was an attempt to steal the Philosopher's Stone]]. The Second Wizarding War began, officially according to Ministry of Magic, [[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix in 1996 when Voldemort returned and the Death Eaters, secretly, made gains within the Ministry of Magic]] with the ultimate goal of accomplishing Voldemort's vision of [[SuperSupremacist Wizard supremacy]]. [[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows The Second Wizarding War ended in 1998, at the culination of the Battle of Hogwarts]] when the Death Eaters were ultimately defeated and [[spoiler: Voldemort was killed in a duel with Harry Potter]].
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* SnowballingThreat: Voldemort and his followers after the former's resurrection at the end of ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire Goblet of Fire]]''. Throughout the end of that book and the majority of [[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix the next book]], the corrupt and inept Minister for Magic Cornelius Fudge actively denies Voldemort has returned and goes out of his way to suppress any idea of such among the wizarding public, severely hampering the heroes' ability to build up countermeasures while enabling Voldemort to smoothly rebuild and expand his forces under the radar, recruiting Death Eaters and giants to his cause; for a whole year. By the time the Ministry for Magic and the wizarding public ''do'' realize that the Dark Lord has returned, Fudge's inaction has cost the Wizarding World's chances against Voldemort dearly, [[spoiler:with Voldemort's forces easily overthrowing the Ministry and taking control of the Wizarding World in ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows Deathly Hallows]]'']].
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* ShapeshifterStruggles:
** People use Polyjuice Potion in many of the books, to transform into somebody else. This is introduced in ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheChamberOfSecrets'', in which they learn how painful the transformation can be, and Hermione accidentally transforms herself into half a cat, when she mistakenly uses a cat hair as an ingredient.
** Related to this is that Apparating (disappearing and reappearing somewhere else) is extremely difficult, and if not done correctly, can result in Splinching: leaving part of one's body behind.
** People use Polyjuice Potion in many of the books, to transform into somebody else. This is introduced in ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheChamberOfSecrets'', in which they learn how painful the transformation can be, and Hermione accidentally transforms herself into half a cat, when she mistakenly uses a cat hair as an ingredient.
** Related to this is that Apparating (disappearing and reappearing somewhere else) is extremely difficult, and if not done correctly, can result in Splinching: leaving part of one's body behind.
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* StepServant: the orphaned Harry was adopted by his aunt and uncle but is essentially treated like a servant rather than a son. While the Dursleys endlessly spoil their biological son, they force Harry to do endless chores, wear only hand-me-downs, eat substandard food, and live in a cupboard. In ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheChamberOfSecrets'', for example, they force him to spend all day (on his birthday!) cleaning the house and mowing the lawn in preparation for a dinner party, only to lock him in his room during the actual party. When Dumbledore pays them a visit in Book 6, he delivers a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to the Dursleys outlining what terrible guardians they were.
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* StepServant: the The orphaned Harry was adopted by his aunt and uncle but is essentially treated like a servant rather than a son. While the Dursleys endlessly spoil their biological son, they force Harry to do endless chores, wear only hand-me-downs, eat substandard food, and live in a cupboard. In ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheChamberOfSecrets'', "Literature/HarryPotterAndTheChamberOfSecrets," for example, they force him to spend all day (on his birthday!) cleaning the house and mowing the lawn in preparation for a dinner party, only to lock him in his room during the actual party. Fortunately, the Dursleys suffered the karma for their actions, with the party ruined. Later in the series, the Dursleys lose their power over Harry as he gains guardians and friends who care for him. By book 5, "Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix" " the Dursleys were threatened by Harry's new friends and family not to mistreat him, which they fearfully complied with. When Dumbledore pays them a visit in Book 6, "Literature/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince," he delivers a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to the Dursleys outlining what terrible guardians they were.
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* StepServant: the orphaned Harry was adopted by his aunt and uncle but is essentially treated like a servant rather than a son. While the Dursleys endlessly spoil their biological son, they force Harry to do endless chores, wear only hand-me-downs, eat substandard food, and live in a cupboard. In ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheChamberOfSecrets'', for example, they force him to spend all day (on his birthday!) cleaning the house and mowing the lawn in preparation for a dinner party, only to lock him in his room during the actual party. When Dumbledore pays them a visit in Book 6, he delivers a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to the Dursleys outlining what terrible guardians they were.
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* TaughtToHate: Most who have been raised in elitist "pure-blood" families are generally taught to hate "[[MageBornOfMuggles mudbloods]]" and "[[CategoryTraitor blood traitors]]." The most prominent example is Draco Malfoy, who very much embraces his parents' hateful values, at least for most of the series. Some good characters, however, have backstories in which they were raised with this sort of indoctrination but rejected it.
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* SentencedWithoutTrial: During the First Wizarding War, Barty Crouch Sr. sentenced many people to [[HellholePrison Azkaban]] without trial, including Sirius Black, as part of the extremes he went to in order to take down Voldemort and the Death Eaters. Because of this, Sirius was blamed for betraying the Potters to Voldemort and imprisoned in Azkaban for 12 years. The truth is only discovered by Harry years later: that Peter Pettigrew betrayed the Potters' location to Voldemort, then framed Sirius by blowing up a street full of Muggles and faking his own death by cutting off his finger and using his ability as an Animagus to shapeshift into a rat and hide.
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* WizardWorkshop: Some rooms in Hogwarts fit this trope, especially Dumbledore's office, which is full of mysterious magical instruments, relics such as the sword of Gryffindor, a vast number of books, and Fawkes the phoenix on his perch. Snape's dungeon is also full of cauldrons and animals in jars.
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* SurpriseCreepy: In actuality, the books (and by extension, the movies) often utilize ''deeply'' unsettling imagery and deal with dark themes such as death, loss, and betrayal in a frank and uncompromising manner. Make no mistake about it, there is genuine horror in the Harry Potter series.
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* SatelliteFamilyMember:
** Vernon, Petunia, and Dudley Dursley are the eponymous character's horribly abusive uncle, aunt, and cousin who only appear when he isn't in the Wizarding World. Their mistreatment of Harry makes him a tragic and sympathetic figure. The cruel, stupid, and spoiled Dudley is used as a {{Foil}} to Harry, making the latter appear more kind, intelligent, and humble by comparison. In later books Dudley and Petunia receive a little more characterization beyond being "Harry's awful relatives", but this is not explored with much depth.
** {{Exaggerated|Trope}} with Marge Dursley, [[spoiler:Dudley's wife and kids, and Harry, Ron and Hermione's kids except Albus]] because they're satellite family members to satellite family members. Marge exist solely to show that even worse people than the Dursleys exist. Vernon at least has some sympathetic traits (he's a HappilyMarried and a DotingParent to Dudley) and a FreudianExcuse for why he hates magic and Harry (James constantly teased him about his wealth) while Marge's only traits are that she's SuperGullible, LockedOutOfTheLoop, even more cruel and jerkish (to the level of CardCarryingJerkass) than Vernon, and HatesEveryoneEqually (it's implied that she hates even Vernon and Dudley, her only blood relatives). [[spoiler: Dudley's future relatives only show how much he changed and tries to be TheAtoner to Harry ([[NoNameGiven they even has no given names]]) while all the kids in Weasley Bloodline (except Albus) is to show that Harry is a KidHeroAllGrownUp (and Rose Weasley's role to be Albus' best friend and {{Foil}} to his years at Hogwarts)]].
** Nothing is said of Hermione's parents apart from the fact they are muggle dentists and accept her being a witch. At the beginning of the seventh book, Hermione erases their memories of her and sends them to Australia to keep them safe, demonstrating how dire the situation has become and how desperate she is to protect them.
** Vernon, Petunia, and Dudley Dursley are the eponymous character's horribly abusive uncle, aunt, and cousin who only appear when he isn't in the Wizarding World. Their mistreatment of Harry makes him a tragic and sympathetic figure. The cruel, stupid, and spoiled Dudley is used as a {{Foil}} to Harry, making the latter appear more kind, intelligent, and humble by comparison. In later books Dudley and Petunia receive a little more characterization beyond being "Harry's awful relatives", but this is not explored with much depth.
** {{Exaggerated|Trope}} with Marge Dursley, [[spoiler:Dudley's wife and kids, and Harry, Ron and Hermione's kids except Albus]] because they're satellite family members to satellite family members. Marge exist solely to show that even worse people than the Dursleys exist. Vernon at least has some sympathetic traits (he's a HappilyMarried and a DotingParent to Dudley) and a FreudianExcuse for why he hates magic and Harry (James constantly teased him about his wealth) while Marge's only traits are that she's SuperGullible, LockedOutOfTheLoop, even more cruel and jerkish (to the level of CardCarryingJerkass) than Vernon, and HatesEveryoneEqually (it's implied that she hates even Vernon and Dudley, her only blood relatives). [[spoiler: Dudley's future relatives only show how much he changed and tries to be TheAtoner to Harry ([[NoNameGiven they even has no given names]]) while all the kids in Weasley Bloodline (except Albus) is to show that Harry is a KidHeroAllGrownUp (and Rose Weasley's role to be Albus' best friend and {{Foil}} to his years at Hogwarts)]].
** Nothing is said of Hermione's parents apart from the fact they are muggle dentists and accept her being a witch. At the beginning of the seventh book, Hermione erases their memories of her and sends them to Australia to keep them safe, demonstrating how dire the situation has become and how desperate she is to protect them.
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* SecretlyEarmarkedForGreatness: At least in Magical Britain, witches and wizards are registered to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry at birth, including [[MageBornOfMuggles Muggle-borns]] and other individuals outside the mainstream of magical society. Needless to say, this usually results in a good deal of shock when the existence of magic is finally revealed to them, as was the case with Harry himself.
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** After over four books of being touted as a brave and selfless hero, James Potter is shown to have ambushed and sexually assaulted Snape in public, showing that he only saved him in the first place to spare Sirius and Remus the legal nightmare.
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** Platform 9¾, a secret entrance at King's Cross station through a pillar between platforms nine and ten.
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** The Ministry of Magic has multiple strange entrances. The visitor's entrance is accessed by [[PhoneWord dialing 62442 ("magic")]] in an abandoned telephone booth, while the main entrance is a set of public toilets that people use a Ministry-issued token to open before flushing themselves down into the Atrium.
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* TeleportersVisualizationClause: A prerequisite to successful Apparition is being able to accurately visualize the place the witch or wizard is trying to teleport to. Distance is also a factor; Apparition gets harder to perform safely the further someone tries to travel in one teleport. Most Apparition in the series is consequently used for travel to locations that characters have been to before within the British Isles.
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* WiseSerpent:
** A green snake is the AnimalMotif of Slytherin House; some of the traits associated with and valued by Slytherins are cunning and resourcefulness.
** At the North American school of magic Ilvermorny, the Horned Serpent house represents the mind of the witch or wizard and favors scholars. No coincidence that the house was founded by a descendant of Salazar Slytherin (albeit one who wanted to be in Ravenclaw as a child).
** A green snake is the AnimalMotif of Slytherin House; some of the traits associated with and valued by Slytherins are cunning and resourcefulness.
** At the North American school of magic Ilvermorny, the Horned Serpent house represents the mind of the witch or wizard and favors scholars. No coincidence that the house was founded by a descendant of Salazar Slytherin (albeit one who wanted to be in Ravenclaw as a child).
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* WizardingSchool: Hogwarts is the TropeCodifier, but other schools are confirmed to exist within the Potterverse canon, with Beauxbatons and Durmstrang being introduced in ''Goblet of Fire'' and others mentioned in supplementary material.
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* WizardingSchool: Hogwarts is the TropeCodifier, but other schools are confirmed to exist within the Potterverse canon, with Beauxbatons and Durmstrang being introduced in ''Goblet of Fire'' and others mentioned in the supplementary material.
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* SignatureMove: ''Expelliarmus'' serves as this for Harry, to the point that the Death eaters are able to correctly identify the real Harry among several imposters due to his use of the spell.
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* SingleTargetSexuality: [[spoiler:Severus Snape is still obsessed with Lily Evans twenty years after she ended their friendship and years after her death, to the point where he mistreats her son because Harry is the reminder that she loved someone else. She is the only person he is known to have loved over his thirty-eight years on Earth.]]
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* SingleTargetSexuality: SingleTargetSexuality:
** [[spoiler:Severus Snape is still obsessed with Lily Evans twenty years after she ended their friendship and years after her death, to the point where he mistreats her son because Harry is the reminder that she loved someone else. She is the only person he is known to have loved over his thirty-eight years on Earth.]]
** [[spoiler:Severus Snape is still obsessed with Lily Evans twenty years after she ended their friendship and years after her death, to the point where he mistreats her son because Harry is the reminder that she loved someone else. She is the only person he is known to have loved over his thirty-eight years on Earth.]]
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* SecondLove: Ginny, whom Harry Potter fell in love with in Book 6 after the whole Cho thing fell apart in earlier books.
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** Ginny, whom Harry Potter fell in love with in Book 6 after the whole Cho thing fell apart in earlierbooks.books.
** Harry in turn served this role for Cho, whose first love was Cedric Diggory.
** Ginny, whom Harry Potter fell in love with in Book 6 after the whole Cho thing fell apart in earlier
** Harry in turn served this role for Cho, whose first love was Cedric Diggory.
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* SeeTheInvisible: There are several ways in which Invisibility Cloaks can be thwarted. The ability of dementors to sense people is not impaired by invisibility cloaks. Moody's magical eye can see through invisibility cloaks. A person wearing an invisibility cloak still shows up on the Marauder's Map. The cloak's user also remains solid and the cloak doesn't muffle sound or disguise smell at all, meaning that anything with acute senses like cats or snakes, or even a normal human being that happens to be paying attention to such cues, can notice and locate the wearer.
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* SeeTheInvisible: SeeTheInvisible:
** There are several ways in which Invisibility Cloaks can bethwarted. thwarted:
*** The ability of dementors to sense people is not impaired by invisibilitycloaks. cloaks.
*** Moody's magical eye can see through invisibilitycloaks. cloaks.
*** A person wearing an invisibility cloak still shows up on the Marauder'sMap. Map.
*** The cloak's user also remains solid and the cloak doesn't muffle sound or disguise smell at all, meaning that anything with acute senses like cats or snakes, or even a normal human being that happens to be paying attention to such cues, can notice and locate the wearer.
** There are several ways in which Invisibility Cloaks can be
*** The ability of dementors to sense people is not impaired by invisibility
*** Moody's magical eye can see through invisibility
*** A person wearing an invisibility cloak still shows up on the Marauder's
*** The cloak's user also remains solid and the cloak doesn't muffle sound or disguise smell at all, meaning that anything with acute senses like cats or snakes, or even a normal human being that happens to be paying attention to such cues, can notice and locate the wearer.
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* SelfFulfillingProphecy: Professor Trelawney's whole "neither can live while the other survives" prophecy.
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* SelfFulfillingProphecy: Professor Trelawney's whole "neither can live while the other survives" prophecy. Voldemort indirectly hears half of the prophecy about a boy about to be born who will be his nemesis. With two possible choices, Harry Potter and Neville Longbottom, he chooses Harry, but in the process of trying to kill him, inadvertently gives him both the power to defy him and a reason to.
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* SmartPeoplePlayChess: Averted. Hermione, the best student at her school, is terrible at chess while [[BrilliantButLazy Ron]] is a prodigy who manages to win against a teacher (by proxy) when he was a first year.
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* SmartPeoplePlayChess: Averted. Hermione, the best student at her school, is terrible at chess while [[BrilliantButLazy Ron]] is a prodigy who manages to win against a teacher (by proxy) when he was a first year. Somewhat justified in that strategy is only part of the game in wizarding chess; the other part is convincing your pieces to do what you tell them.
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* SnowballFight: Happens a few times during winter breaks at Hogwarts.
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* SnowballFight: Happens a few times during winter breaks at Hogwarts. Fred and George at one point enchant snowballs to pelt the back of Professor Quirrel's turbaned head.
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* StalkingIsFunnyIfItIsFemaleAfterMale: Magical date rape drugs are sold out in the open and it's considered wacky hijinks when Ron gets accidentally dosed by an obsessed fangirl, though that might be because the potion was intended for Harry and they quickly handle the situation. Harry, at least, ''doesn't'' find the prospect of love potions funny — at one point, he actually compares them to Dark magic.
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* StalkingIsFunnyIfItIsFemaleAfterMale: StalkingIsFunnyIfItIsFemaleAfterMale:
** Magical date rape drugs are sold out in the open and it's considered wacky hijinks when Ron gets accidentally dosed by an obsessed fangirl, though that might be because the potion was intended for Harry and they quickly handle the situation. Harry, at least, ''doesn't'' find the prospect of love potions funny — at one point, he actually compares them to Dark magic.
** Magical date rape drugs are sold out in the open and it's considered wacky hijinks when Ron gets accidentally dosed by an obsessed fangirl, though that might be because the potion was intended for Harry and they quickly handle the situation. Harry, at least, ''doesn't'' find the prospect of love potions funny — at one point, he actually compares them to Dark magic.
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** This is the result if the Killing Curse (''Avada Kedavra'') hits an inanimate object instead of its intended target; [[MadeOfExplodium it will explode]]. Trees tend to [[KillItWithFire catch fire]].** Played for laughs in the sports sections. Making fun at the fact that Americans generally aren't as enthusiastic about soccer/football as the rest of the world, American wizards have an alternate sport to the popular wizard-esque football Quidditch: Quodpot, in which the players try to catch an explosive quaffle and not let it fall down.
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** This is the result if the Killing Curse (''Avada Kedavra'') hits an inanimate object instead of its intended target; [[MadeOfExplodium it will explode]]. Trees tend to [[KillItWithFire catch fire]].fire]].
** Played for laughs in the sports sections. Making fun at the fact that Americans generally aren't as enthusiastic about soccer/football as the rest of the world, American wizards have an alternate sport to the popular wizard-esque football Quidditch: Quodpot, in which the players try to catch an explosive quaffle and not let it fall down.
** Played for laughs in the sports sections. Making fun at the fact that Americans generally aren't as enthusiastic about soccer/football as the rest of the world, American wizards have an alternate sport to the popular wizard-esque football Quidditch: Quodpot, in which the players try to catch an explosive quaffle and not let it fall down.
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* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: Harry only survives through books 4 on because the revived Voldemort demands a grandiose and wand-induced death. When Voldemort actually does this in Book 7, [[spoiler:it doesn't stick]]. Voldemort actually tries this near the end of Book 5 when he shows up unexpectedly after Harry had thwarted the Death Eaters' plan. Luckily for Harry, Dumbledore intervenes just in time.
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* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: WhyDontYouJustShootHim:
** Harry only survives through books 4 on because the revived Voldemort demands a grandiose and wand-induced death. When Voldemort actually does this in Book 7, [[spoiler:it doesn't stick]]. Voldemort actually tries this near the end of Book 5 when he shows up unexpectedly after Harry had thwarted the Death Eaters' plan. Luckily for Harry, Dumbledore intervenes just intime.time.
** Harry stops Lupin and Sirius when they are about to kill Wormtail; this leads directly to Voldemort's return.
** Harry only survives through books 4 on because the revived Voldemort demands a grandiose and wand-induced death. When Voldemort actually does this in Book 7, [[spoiler:it doesn't stick]]. Voldemort actually tries this near the end of Book 5 when he shows up unexpectedly after Harry had thwarted the Death Eaters' plan. Luckily for Harry, Dumbledore intervenes just in
** Harry stops Lupin and Sirius when they are about to kill Wormtail; this leads directly to Voldemort's return.
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* TanksForTheMemories: The Pensieve is a memory receptacle that allows people to view the memories contained in it from a third-person view, even the owner of the memory, and displays events in the area surrounding the subject of the memory regardless of his/her awareness of them at the time.
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* SingleTargetLaw: After Harry gives an interview to the fringe magazine The Quibbler revealing Voldemort's return, Umbridge puts out a blanket ban on the magazine as part of her ongoing campaign to discredit Harry. Naturally, this ensures that everyone in Hogwarts will try to get their hands on it to know why it was banned (and Luna Lovegood, the editor's {{Cloudcuckoolander}} daughter, is amazed at how popular the magazine has gotten).
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* SingleTargetLaw: After Harry gives an interview to the fringe magazine The Quibbler revealing Voldemort's return, Umbridge puts out a blanket ban on the magazine as part of her ongoing campaign to discredit Harry. Naturally, this ensures that everyone in Hogwarts will try to get their hands on it to know why it was banned (and Luna Lovegood, the editor's {{Cloudcuckoolander}} daughter, is amazed at how popular the magazine has gotten).gotten), which was actually [[StreisandEffect what Hermione was targeting when she convinced Harry to give the interview]].
