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Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Evan Rosier

Overview
Evan Rosier was one of the Death Eaters that were part of Lord Voldemort's organization. We believe that his father, only called Rosier, was also a member of the Death Eaters.

Goblet of Fire
When Harry, Ron, and Hermione were visiting Sirius Black in his cave hide-out outside Hogwarts, Sirius mentioned that one Rosier had been one of Severus Snape's friends, and he had been killed by Aurors the year before Voldemort fell.

When Harry is looking at Dumbledore's Pensieve, one of the three scenes he witnesses is Igor Karkaroff revealing names of Death Eaters in hopes that he will get his own sentence reduced. The first name he gives is that of Evan Rosier, and he is most disappointed that it is already known to the Ministry.

Half-Blood Prince
When Lord Voldemort, or Tom Riddle as he is then known, is seen in Albus Dumbledore's memories returning to Hogwarts to apply for the job of teacher of Defence Against the Dark Arts, Dumbledore asks him about his "friends" waiting for him in Hogsmeade. One Rosier, who we believe is Evan Rosier's father, is one of the friends mentioned by name, along with Mulciber, Nott, and Dolohov.

Strengths
We have little information about Evan Rosier's strengths, but they likely are involved with dueling and Wizarding battle abilities.

We can assume Evan Rosier was a very strong wizard who excelled on DADA and the dark arts, since he was able to duel one of the most powerful Aurors, Alastor Moody and take one of his eyes with him before getting killed.

Relationships with Other Characters
According to the author's genealogy chart of the Black family, Rosier Sr. was Druella Black's brother, making Evan Rosier cousins with the three Black sisters Bellatrix, Narcissa, and Andromeda.


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Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Wilkes

Overview
Wilkes was one of the Death Eaters that were part of Lord Voldemort's organization when he first rose to power.

Goblet of Fire
When Harry, Ron, and Hermione were visiting Sirius Black in his cave hide-out outside Hogwarts, Sirius mentioned that Wilkes had been one of Severus Snape's friends, and was killed by Aurors the year before Voldemort fell.

Strengths
Much like Evan Rosier, Wilkes was willing to fight rather than be arrested by aurors at the end of the war.


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The following paragraph will describe the responsibilities of a Front Desk Receptionist. It is imperative that student workers and staff alike realize that students,staff, alumni and employers are our internal/external customers. With that in mind, professionalism is an absolute must. A smile brightens the day and is more accomodating, a frown will scare the customers away. The Front Desk Receptionist duties are as follows:

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Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Major Events/Remus' Death

Overview
At the final Battle of Hogwarts, Remus Lupin is killed in battle.

Event Details
When Harry returns to Hogwarts, Neville, who is escorting him from the Hog's Head to the Room of Requirement, assumes that he is there to liberate Hogwarts from the Death Eaters, and uses the charmed Galleons that Hermione had created to recall Dumbledore's Army. Presumably, a member of Dumbledore's Army who either was in the Order of the Phoenix, or whose parents were Order members, passed the word, because members of the Order start to appear through the tunnel from the Hog's Head as well. One of the Order members who we see arrive is Lupin.

After Harry has returned from Ravenclaw Tower, he finds that Ron and Hermione have left the Room of Requirement, saying something about a bathroom. As the whole school has now been summoned to the Great Hall, Harry heads there to see if he can find them. There, he hears Professor McGonagall sending non-combatant students home. Once only students who are of age are left, Order members at head table start assigning specific areas of defence. Lupin will head up the group that is defending the grounds.

Several times during the battle, Harry looks to the grounds to see if he can see Lupin, but is never successful.

After Harry witnesses the death of Snape, Voldemort offers a cease-fire so that Harry can surrender to him and prevent any more loss of life. Harry, returning to the school, looks into the Great Hall and sees Lupin, and his wife Tonks, lying among the dead.

After experiencing Snape's memories, Harry chooses to meet Voldemort, and his fate, in the Forbidden Forest. Finding his way there blocked by Dementors, and being unable to summon a Patronus, Harry uses the Resurrection Stone that Dumbledore had left him, and summons the Shades of Lupin, his godfather Sirius, and his mother and father. He asks if it had hurt to die, and Sirius says that it had not. Lupin adds that "he will want it to be quick", meaning Voldemort.

The shades protect Harry from the Dementors as he walks through the Forest. Reaching the clearing where Voldemort waits, Harry drops the Resurrection Stone, and the shades vanish.

While we are not told this in the book, the author has stated in an interview that Lupin was killed by Antonin Dolohov.

Notable Consequences
Lupin's death once again reminds Harry that his is not the only life that is being affected by Voldemort's reign of power. This reaffirms his decision to do whatever he needs to do to eliminate Voldemort.

Lupin's and Tonks' deaths have left their infant son an orphan. Harry must be deeply affected by this, being an orphan himself, and as godfather having no little responsibility for Lupin's child.

Harry is able to summon Lupin's shade by use of the Resurrection Stone, and learns that Sirius felt little pain from his death; Lupin's silence on the matter seems to reassure Harry that he had also not felt much pain. This somewhat abates Harry's fear at the prospect of dying at Voldemort's hand.

It may be of some note that Lupin is the last of James Potter's friends to die. With his death, Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs have all met their end due to Voldemort - in reverse order from their names as displayed on the map.

Analysis
Lupin has been a father figure to Harry, and we can see that Harry is deeply dismayed by his death. The reader is equally dismayed, as it seems that Lupin's death is unnecessary. We are at the very end of the story, the final battle is raging, so many of Harry's friends and heroes have already died... could not Lupin have been spared? We can't, of course, know the answer, but we can speculate. It is necessary to the story that Harry should now voluntarily confront Voldemort and his own death, and he needs support to do that, support which Lupin, alive, could provide. However, at the same time, Harry must face Voldemort alone; the author cannot have Harry's self-sacrifice diluted by the presence of Lupin, a character Harry cares deeply about, and the likely nucleus of a pitched battle as soon as any Death Eater saw him. Were Lupin still alive, it would be difficult for the author to avoid having Harry look to him for the support he needs, and if Harry did seek that support, it would be impossible for the author to prevent Lupin attempting to accompany Harry in to the Forbidden Forest. Dead, but temporarily returned by means of the Resurrection Stone, Lupin, Sirius, James, and Lily can provide the support Harry needs, without either triggering the battle the physical presence of any of them would cause, or requiring that Harry concern himself about their fates as he meets his own doom.

Greater Picture
As godfather to the now-orphaned Teddy Lupin, we can guess that Harry now feels that he has significant responsibility in his upbringing. We never do learn exactly what role Harry plays in Teddy's life, but we believe that it is not insignificant, as in the Epilogue, Harry's children refer to him as "our Teddy." As Teddy had been left in the care of Tonks' mother Andromeda, it is a safe guess that it was Andromeda who did most of the rearing of the young Teddy, with a fair amount of help from Harry and his family.


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Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Major Events/Nymphadora's Death

Overview
At the great Battle of Hogwarts, Nymphadora Tonks is killed in battle. Tonks was meant to be at home with her newborn son Teddy but came to assist her husband Remus Lupin who was also killed in battle.

Event Details
When Harry returns to Hogwarts, Neville, who is escorting him from the Hog's Head, has assumed that he is there to liberate Hogwarts from the Death Eaters, and uses the charmed Galleons that Hermione had created, to recall Dumbledore's Army. Presumably, a member of Dumbledore's Army who either was in the Order of the Phoenix, or whose parents were Order members, passed the word, because members of the Order start to appear through the tunnel from the Hog's Head as well. One of the Order members who we see arrive is Lupin.

After Harry has returned from Ravenclaw Tower, he finds that Ron and Hermione have left the Room of Requirement, saying something about a bathroom. As the whole school has now been summoned to the Great Hall, Harry heads there to see if he can find them. There, he hears Professor McGonagall sending non-combatant students home. Once only students who are of age are left, Order members at head table start assigning specific areas of defence. Lupin will head up the group that is defending the grounds.

Returning to the Room of Requirement in search of the final Horcrux, Harry is accosted by Tonks, who demands to know where Lupin is. Asked about their son Teddy, Tonks says she has left him with her mother Andromeda. Harry tells Tonks that Lupin is defending the grounds, and Tonks runs off to find him.

After Harry witnesses the death of Snape, Voldemort offers a cease-fire so that Harry can surrender to him and prevent any more loss of life. Harry, returning to the school, looks into the Great Hall and sees Lupin and Tonks lying among the dead.

While this is not mentioned in the book, the author has mentioned in an interview since its publication that Tonks was killed by her aunt Bellatrix Lestrange.

Notable Consequences
Tonks' death once again reminds Harry that his is not the only life that is being affected by Voldemort's reign of power. This reaffirms his decision to do whatever he needs to do to eliminate Voldemort.

Lupin's and Tonks' deaths have left their infant son Teddy an orphan. Harry must be deeply affected by this, being an orphan himself, and as godfather having no little responsibility for Tonks' and Lupin's child.

Analysis
As was mentioned in the article on the death of Remus Lupin, painful as it is, the death of Lupin is somewhat necessary to the plot. Given that, however, could not Tonks have been spared? Again, we are unlikely to find an answer; however, we can speculate. Any such speculation must be fueled, in large part, by observation of the characters of Remus and Tonks, as portrayed by the author. One thing that is very obvious to the observer is the fierceness of the love Tonks holds for Remus. She has repeatedly fought to keep him, and is now fighting alongside him. It seems very likely to us that if Tonks saw Remus' death, or found him dead, that would impel her into a berserk attack on the surrounding Death Eaters, caring nothing for her own survival if she could take some of them with her, which would greatly increase the likeliness of her own death.

That being said, it would not be thematically possible for one of the two to survive without the other; Tonks without Remus, or Remus without Tonks, would be a woefully incomplete half-couple, always around to remind Harry of what he had (in his own estimation) caused. We are at the end of the series; it is necessary to tie up all the loose ends, so to speak, and given that Lupin cannot remain, Tonks cannot be left to drag upon Harry's memory. Her death, painful as it is, allows Harry to move on after the death of Lupin, and allows the book and the series to come to a satisfactory close.

Greater Picture
As godfather to the now-orphaned Teddy Lupin, we can guess that Harry now feels that he has significant responsibility in his upbringing. We never do learn exactly what role Harry plays in Teddy's life, but we believe that it is not insignificant, as in the Epilogue, Harry's children refer to him as "our Teddy." As Teddy had been left in the care of Tonks' mother Andromeda, it is a safe guess that it was Andromeda who did most of the rearing of the young Teddy, with a fair amount of help from Harry and his family.


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Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Major Events/Dobby's Death

Overview
In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Dobby, the free elf, was mortally wounded while rescuing Harry and his allies from Malfoy Manor.

Event Details
Captured by a group of Snatchers led by Fenrir Greyback, Harry, Ron, Hermione, Dean, and the Goblin Griphook are taken to Malfoy Manor. There, Bellatrix Lestrange sees that the Trio are carrying the Sword of Gryffindor, and for some reason stops Lucius Malfoy from summoning Voldemort. Keeping Hermione upstairs for questioning, Bellatrix has the others sent to a locked room in the cellar, where they encounter Luna and Ollivander who are also being held prisoner there. Though the new arrivals are tied up, Luna has found a nail with which she is able to cut their bonds.

Bellatrix tortures Hermione to try to determine where they had found the Sword of Gryffindor. Desperate at hearing Hermione's cries of pain from above, Harry is nervously fidgeting with the fragment of the magic mirror Sirius had given him years before, and sees a sky-blue eye looking out of it at him. Harry pleads for help from the owner of the eye, and shortly Dobby apparates into the cell. Harry bids Dobby take Dean, Ollivander, and Luna to safety at Shell Cottage. From upstairs where she is now torturing Griphook, Bellatrix hears the noise of Dobby Disapparating, and sends Wormtail to investigate. Harry and Ron ambush Pettigrew but are unable to defeat him. Harry reminds Pettigrew of his life debt to Harry, which makes him hesitate; his own magical silver hand detects this and strangles him to death.

Attempting to rescue Hermione and Griphook, Harry and Ron are forced to surrender when a disarmed Bellatrix threatens Hermione with a silver knife. Dobby announces his return by causing a chandelier to fall on Bellatrix. Harry seizes the wands Draco Malfoy is holding, and Stuns Fenrir. Ron collects Hermione and Disapparates to Shell Cottage, while Harry similarly collects Griphook. As Harry Disapparates, Bellatrix throws her knife at him. Harry, not knowing where he is heading, is relieved to find, in the midst of his Disapparition, that he can feel Dobby alongside. Arriving at Shell Cottage, Harry discovers that Dobby has been fatally wounded by Bellatrix' thrown knife. Dobby dies moments later, his final words being "Harry Potter".

Harry is deeply grieved and decides to dig Dobby's grave by hand without using magic. Ron and Dean join Harry and labor with him. They place Dobby's body in the grave and give him socks, shoes and a hat. Standing over the grave, Luna thanks Dobby for rescuing them and the others follow. Harry fills in the grave and carves: "HERE LIES DOBBY, A FREE ELF" on a flat rock he places on the burial mound.

The Date of Dobby's Death
Because Draco is at home when Harry is captured, we know that Hogwarts must be on Easter Holiday, which in those days was usually one week long. Easter in 1998 was on the 12th of April. If Hogwarts set the break for either the week before or the week after Easter, Dobby was killed at Malfoy Manor in April. We are using this as a working assumption, and have set dates accordingly, but we point out that Hogwarts, like many other schools, is under no obligation to anchor the term break to Easter. Many schools will have a "March break" which falls, of course, at some point in March. We are not certain whether the Spring break at Hogwarts is ever explicitly referred to as Easter Break; and if it is, we can't guarantee that it actually includes Easter every year.

Notable Consequences
Dobby's courage and eventual sacrifice saves the lives of seven people including the Trio.

Dobby’s death is an emotional turning point for Harry. While digging the grave, Harry finds that his grief distances his perceptions of Voldemort's thoughts, and decreases the pain in his scar. From this point on Harry is able to manage and exploit his connection with Voldemort in a way that Occlumency lessons and other attempts have failed to do. His ability to grieve and love is focused, and his emotions are, at last, under his control.

While it is not directly associated with Dobby's death, Bellatrix' response to finding the Sword of Gryffindor in their possession is what leads Harry to believe that there is something of great value to Voldemort in Bellatrix' Gringotts vault. The Trio had previously overheard Griphook reporting to another group that while it was believed that the Sword had been moved to a deep vault at Gringotts, all the Goblins involved in handling it had known at once it was a fake. Harry guesses that the still-undetected fake had been put in Bellatrix's family vault, and that there was something else in there, precious to Voldemort, that would be at risk if the Sword had been removed. Harry further guesses that the precious object is a Horcrux, likely Hufflepuff's cup.

The goblin, Griphook, notices Harry reverently digging Dobby's grave and thereafter considers Harry an uncommon wizard who respects non-humans. This facilitates the trio's plan to steal the Hufflepuff Cup Horcrux from Gringotts.

Though they have lost their own wands, in the battle Harry captures wands belonging to Pettigrew, Bellatrix, and Draco. This will quite likely prove important later.

Analysis
While Dobby's death seems unnecessary and perhaps cruel, it is necessary for two plot points, mentioned above. Until now, Harry has been unable to block sendings that are coming from Voldemort, and it is only because of the immediacy of his grief that he is able to dampen the images that are making their way from Voldemort's mind to his own. Additionally, it is necessary to make a significant impact on Griphook in order to gain his alliance. This latter point is worth some additional inspection.

Over the past several chapters, Harry, Ron, and Hermione have been trying to determine the sorts of locations that would be likely for Voldemort to have hidden his remaining Horcruxes. Harry, from his lessons with Dumbledore, knows that Voldemort will select locations that represent links to his magical ancestry, and the supposed status springing from that. One such location, obviously, is Hogwarts, a place that Harry and Voldemort both see as having been almost home-like in their welcoming of wizards rejected by Muggle society. (Ron, having a real home and family to return to, does not see Hogwarts as being home-like, and so discounts this possibility.) Bellatrix' obvious fear at the prospect of having Voldemort discover something has been taken from her Gringotts vault leads Harry to believe that Voldemort has hit on the deep vaults at Gringotts, traditionally used only by the most ancient Wizarding families, as being fit to house a Horcrux, and Bellatrix' vault has been selected for that honour. But how to get in there? The Gringotts goblins take great pride in the security of their vaults. About the only way that such an incursion could have any hope of succeeding is if a disaffected ex-employee of Gringotts can help them gain entrance. The author has carefully made one such turn up, but he, like the rest of his race, does not hold "wand-bearers" in any particular esteem. Somehow, Griphook must be convinced to throw in with the Trio, and Dobby alive is simply not going to be enough influence to do that; the slavish obeisance house-elves pay to humans is well-known enough that it is not going to impress Griphook. It is only the respect that Harry shows to Dobby by digging Dobby's grave that convinces Griphook to grudgingly lend his assistance.

Greater Picture
While Griphook, as mentioned, must be won to alliance, it is necessary to the story also that he be a reluctant ally. His price for assistance is the Sword of Gryffindor, which is apparently necessary for the destruction of Horcruxes. Griphook's departure with the Sword leaves Harry with more puzzles that he must answer before the final Horcruxes can be eliminated.

It is also mentioned above that Harry captures three wands. We will find out that the nature of their capture is important, and also whose wands they are.

The first wand belonged to Peter Pettigrew. Ron had forcefully removed that from Peter in their struggle in the cellar. At Bellatrix' order, he had dropped that wand and Draco had collected it. Harry then wrests it away from Draco and throws it to Ron, who is then able to use it. We will find out shortly that a wand will transfer its allegiance if it is forcefully removed from its bearer. Because Ron dropped it, it does not surrender its allegiance to Draco who collects it, nor to Harry who takes it from Draco, an unrelated party as far as the wand is concerned. the wand becomes Ron's on his capturing it, and remains so.

The second wand belonged to Bellatrix and ended up in Hermione's hands. It was forcefully removed from Bellatrix' hand by Ron, and so owes allegiance to Ron through the same path as Pettigrew's wand. Hermione is never able to get this wand to work correctly for her, but it does serve as identification for her entrance into Gringotts.

The final wand, Draco's, is wrenched out of Draco's hand by Harry and so shifts its allegiance to him. This will become important when Harry must duel with Voldemort in the final chapters of this book. Voldemort is carrying the Elder Wand, which had been forcibly removed from Dumbledore's hand by Draco, and so had transferred its allegiance to Draco. This wand apparently recognizes Draco's wand, which has allied itself with Harry. Because of this chain of allegiance, the Elder Wand will not harm Harry, and never works correctly for Voldemort.

Dobby's bravery and sacrifice is a significant part of the author's theme of tolerance and collaboration. Throughout the series, Harry's quest to defeat Voldemort is only possible because of help from good people, including House Elves, Goblins, and later Centaurs, and many others. During the Battle of Hogwarts, victory over Voldemort and his evil is assured when all species join together for the common good. We have seen before that Dobby is loyal to Harry not because of a magical enslavement but rather their mutual friendship and regard. Dobby is a free elf and chooses to risk his life in order to save the lives of Harry and his allies. Harry, representing the enlightenment of wizards, recognizes the debt he owes Dobby and his fellows. We can see that wizards must learn to respect elves, goblins, centaurs and other non-human beings in the magical world; Harry demonstrates this respect, but it is likely that it will be many years before the general Wizarding population acts similarly.


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Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Major Events/Voldemort's Death

Overview
At the great Battle of Hogwarts, Lord Voldemort is killed in a final duel against Harry Potter.

Event Details
After killing Snape, Voldemort announces that the battle will be stopped for one hour, to give Harry Potter time to surrender to him in the Forbidden Forest, and says that if Harry comes to him, everyone at Hogwarts will be spared. Harry, having learned from Snape's memories that the only way to destroy the soul fragment that he bears within him is for Voldemort to kill him, enters the Forest and seeks Voldemort, only stopping on the way to tell Neville that Voldemort's snake must be killed in order to finally defeat Voldemort. Finding Voldemort in the Forbidden Forest, Harry announces his presence and Voldemort kills him.

Harry finds himself in a strange place, apparently a cleaner version of King's Cross Station, where he meets the shade of Dumbledore. They talk, and Dumbledore explains some of the events of the past seven years to Harry. Dumbledore explains, in particular, that the soul shard that was attached to Harry has now been destroyed, and that Harry now has the choice: if he wishes, he can go back, and complete the destruction of Voldemort, or he can go to the platforms, where he will likely find a train that will take him Onwards. Harry elects to return.

Finding himself back in his own body, Harry feigns death, and hears Voldemort also regaining consciousness. Voldemort orders Narcissa Malfoy to check Harry and see if he is dead. Narcissa quite clearly sees that Harry is alive, but she quietly asks if her son Draco is still alive in Hogwarts. Harry says Draco is still alive, and Narcissa, apparently aware that it is the only way she can get into Hogwarts without a battle to rejoin her son, tells Voldemort that Harry is dead. Voldemort forces Hagrid to carry Harry's apparently lifeless body back to Hogwarts, where he taunts the defenders with the death of their champion. When he forces the Sorting Hat onto Neville's head and sets it afire, Neville produces the Sword of Gryffindor from the hat and cuts off Nagini's head.

Battle is now rejoined, with the defenders of Hogwarts being reinforced by the parents of the students who had been evacuated earlier and the denizens of the Forbidden Forest. Harry, under his Invisibility Cloak, works his way into the Great Hall, where he watches as Bellatrix Lestrange is defeated by Molly Weasley. Harry Shields Molly from Voldemort's retaliatory strike, then reveals himself. Harry and Voldemort now circle, preparing to duel; Harry, calling his opponent by his real name, Tom Riddle, offers him the chance to live by repenting of his murders. Voldemort dismisses this out of hand, and casts the Killing Curse at Harry as Harry casts the Disarmament jinx at Voldemort. The Elder Wand flies from Voldemort's hand and is caught by Harry, as Voldemort's curse rebounds upon him, killing him.

Notable Consequences
The final death of Voldemort spells an end to the Death Eaters and their depredations both on the Wizarding and the Muggle population. With Voldemort finally gone, the Wizarding world can now embark on a path leading to prosperity, rather than having to be constantly on guard against pieces of itself.

With the Elder Wand in his possession, Harry has control over possibly the most powerful wand in the Wizarding world. Knowing that owning this wand will also make him a target, he uses it to mend his own wand (which was destroyed by Hermione unintentionally at Godric's Hollow) and places it back in Dumbledore's tomb, in the belief that at his own eventual death, the wand will lose the major part of its power.

Analysis
One interesting point, one that the shade of Dumbledore also comments on, is the place that Harry finds himself in after his encounter in the Forbidden Forest. It is quite clearly modeling itself to Harry's wishes, and has taken the shape of Kings Cross Station. It is noted in the article on Platform 9 3/4 that Kings Cross has come to mark something of a transition for Harry, it being the threshold of the Wizarding World. Given this, what could be more appropriate than, in the transition between life and death, his mental imagery should revert to Kings Cross? Harry himself does not seem to understand Dumbledore's amusement at Harry's unconscious choice of venue, but we readers certainly do.

The series closes, as it must, with the destruction of the villain, most appropriately at his own hand. Yes, Harry had the strength to kill him, but offered him a chance to recover; right up until his very last, fatal spell, Voldemort was given the choice of continuing towards his own destruction, or of recanting and repenting. Offered this choice, Voldemort chose the doomed fight. The parallel with many religious belief structures is unmistakeable, and will not be belabored here.

One key fact is that Harry did not actually kill Voldemort. He was dueling with Voldemort at the time, and he was in a way responsible, but it was the spell that Voldemort cast that actually killed him. While Harry does make free use of the other Unforgivable Curses, he never uses the Killing Curse. Harry's hands remain unbloodied and his soul remains intact.

One thing that is touched on also is that by allowing Voldemort to kill him, Harry is protecting the fighters at Hogwarts. Voldemort has said that Hogwarts will be spared if Harry comes to him, and so in a manner similar to Harry being protected by his mother's sacrifice, Harry's sacrifice protects the occupants of Hogwarts. Despite the fact that Harry does not actually die, it seems that magic does not require that. It is because of this sacrifice that Voldemort's spells seem largely ineffective on the population of Hogwarts following the episode in the Forbidden Forest.

Despite our understanding, following the events in the Forbidden Forest, that Harry may not be vulnerable to Voldemort, we are as yet unsure of the fates of anyone else, or of the school. Despite our confidence that Harry will prevail, suspense is still retained, and even heightened, as we launch into the final battle. So many of Harry's friends have already died or been injured; will Ginny, seen fighting Bellatrix, survive? Will Molly Weasley prevail? Will the school be able to open again? It is to the author's credit that she is able to bring satisfactory closure to the many tangled threads of the plot, even as the tangles multiply in the final battles.

Greater Picture
With the defeat of Voldemort, our story comes to its effective end. There are only a very few issues remaining to be addressed.

One of the remaining issues, of course, is the Deathly Hallows, introduced in this book; an extremely powerful set of magical artifacts. One of them is Voldemort's wand.

By defeating Voldemort, Harry has completely gained mastery of his wand, the Elder Wand. Though he has what may be the strongest wand in the Wizarding world, Harry recognizes that not only does this wand carry great power, it also represents great danger. According to legend, the first bearer of the wand was killed on the night that his ownership of the wand became known, and the wand was stolen from him; this marked the beginning of a trail of murders that has followed the wand through history. Harry is aware that, though legend says the wand cannot be defeated in a duel, there are many other risks that it cannot protect against. Unlike Ron, who covets the wand simply for its power, and is apparently largely uncaring of the associated danger, Harry recognizes that as long as the wand exists, there will be people willing to kill for its power. Harry can clearly see that this wand is too powerful to be allowed to remain in the world. While he owns it, he only casts one spell with it, to repair his own wand; he then places it back in Dumbledore's tomb, in the expectation that, with his own unchallenged death in the future, the wand will lose its power.

Of the remaining Hallows, Harry chooses to retain one, the Invisibility Cloak, passing it on to his own children in turn as has been done for generations. The other, the Resurrection Stone, Harry deliberately loses in the Forbidden Forest, knowing that the ability to call people back from death will ultimately destroy anyone with that power.

It should be noted that with the destruction of the soul fragment within Harry, there is no longer any psychic link between Harry and Voldemort. If, by some mischance, Voldemort had secreted an additional Horcrux, Harry's scar would no longer give Harry any warning of his presence or return. Whether this leaves the door open for a sequel, we have no way of knowing.


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Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Major Events/Mad-Eye Moody's Death

Overview
Mad-Eye Moody is killed near Number 4 Privet Drive on broomstick while assisting Harry's escape from Lord Voldemort.

Event Details
Knowing that the protection afforded Harry by his living with his Aunt Petunia will end on his seventeenth birthday, the Order of the Phoenix decides to move him to the protection of one of the Order's safe houses. Believing the Ministry thoroughly infiltrated, they let the Ministry prepare to move Harry on his birthday, but secretly plan to move him themselves a few days earlier. The Ministry, in the name of protecting Harry, is monitoring the area around the house for Floo transport, use of Portkeys, and Apparition; Mad-Eye Moody believes these are simply ways of determining if someone is coming to get Harry and where they take him. As a result, Harry will be traveling by flying; the group who will be helping him escape arrive on Thestrals, broomstick, and one by means of Sirius Black's flying motorcycle. In order to make it more likely that Harry will escape, they plan to have multiple simulacra of Harry, each with a protector, each flying to a separate safe-house. The real Harry will be traveling with Hagrid on Sirius' flying motorcycle. Mundungus Fletcher is one of six Order members to be disguised as Harry by means of Polyjuice Potion, and will ride with Moody.

As they leave the house, they are attacked by multiple Death Eaters, and by Voldemort. Harry and Hagrid fly off in their own direction, pursued by a squad of Death Eaters, and do not see any of the action that takes place.

We later hear from Bill that, though clearly confused by the multiplicity of Harrys and protectors, Voldemort had quickly decided to concentrate on the Harry who was escorted by the strongest protector. That protector was Moody. Mundungus, becoming aware that he had been targeted by Voldemort, Disapparated from the back of Moody's broom. The killing curse that had been aimed at Mundungus instead hit Moody. Though Bill later went out to try and recover Moody's body, he was unable to find it.

Notable Consequences
More than almost anything else that has happened so far, Moody's death makes Harry realize that not only is he at risk, but so is anyone around him. It is quite possibly because of Moody's death (and to a presumably lesser extent George's injury, received in the same mission) that Harry decides that he must leave The Burrow. He is dissuaded from this course of action by the others involved in the escape, who indicate that they have worked hard and put themselves at risk to extract him from danger, and would not be happy to see him march off into danger from the place of safety where they have brought him.

The fact that Moody's body cannot be found will leave all involved without the necessary sense of closure that being able to bury him would provide. This will later lead Harry into a rash act.

Moody's death also indicates that even the best Auror may be powerless against Voldemort. We are already aware of Harry's disappointment at not being taught spells that can defeat Voldemort, from the previous book; Harry had expected those spells to be part of the private lessons he was getting from Professor Dumbledore. Moody's death serves to remind us that any spells available to Aurors would likely be ineffective against Voldemort.

Analysis
As mentioned in the article on the death of Dumbledore, Harry cannot be the hero of the story if there is another, greater hero standing behind to support him. While we don't really know at this point if Moody could be that strong, we can see that Moody has become the leader of the Order of the Phoenix since Dumbledore's death. While our contact with the true Alastor Moody is brief enough that we are unable to form any real opinion of his magical strength, he does seem to have great strength of character. There is a very real chance that, in relatively short order, he could learn the nature of Harry's mission, and in so doing, likely doom it to failure. Because of this, Moody must at least vanish, at worst die, before he can spend much time in Harry's company. Even if Harry is able to keep the secret of his mission from Moody, it is likely that Harry would end up leaning on Moody, as Ron almost ends up leaning on Lupin a few chapters further into the book.

Questions

 * 1) Why did the Death Eaters see Moody as the strongest Auror, and thus target the Harry riding with him?

Greater Picture
The comment is made in the Analysis section that if Moody had known of Harry's mission, he would have doomed it to failure. This is not immediately apparent to the reader, but on contemplation it becomes obvious.

By the time Moody dies, we already know that in some manner, the inner councils of the Order of the Phoenix are at least in part being passed to Voldemort. We know that the Ministry has heard that Harry will be moved on his birthday, and that Snape is aware that the Order will be moving him before that date. Snape's information is correct, as it turns out, and the Death Eaters are prepared on the day that Harry actually is transported. While the Death Eaters do not know the subterfuge of the multiple Harrys, Harry himself, and we, must assume that Snape is getting correct information somehow, and that a secret shared with the Order is now likely to reach Voldemort.

However, even if we assume that the information does not reach Voldemort directly, having the Order helping out is far too risky. Harry's sole means of success is to find the Horcruxes, get them out of where they are hidden, and destroy them before Voldemort notices. While Harry never clearly enunciates this to himself, this is clearly the sort of mission that requires stealth and small raiding parties. If the Order were to suddenly concentrate on Horcrux hunting, Voldemort would be certain to find out, and would take steps to protect the ones that remained.

In the Analysis section, it is also mentioned that Moody's body not being recovered will lead Harry into a rash action. That action occurs when infiltration of the Ministry of Magic later in this book. Harry, finding Moody's magical eye attached to Umbridge's door, wrenches it off the door and carries it away with him. This is clearly a bad idea, as it shows that there are intruders in the Ministry. However, Harry feels a need to achieve some sort of closure by appropriately interring whatever part of Moody he can find; and the only part that has come to light is his magical eye.

One other point that should be mentioned is that, while Moody's death does imply that anyone near Harry is at risk, Harry does not make the next step in this analysis yet. It is only much later in the story that Harry concludes more accurately that anyone who stands up against Voldemort is at grave personal risk, and the people around him are those who choose to stand against Voldemort. It is because of the incomplete analysis that Harry is largely unwilling to lead up the defence forces at Hogwarts in the final battle; he still fears being the lightning rod, by his presence attracting Voldemort to them. He finally determines that Hogwarts and its occupants are at risk whether or not he is there, and chooses to remain, acting as a rallying point.


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Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Major Events/Fred Weasley's Death

Overview
At the great Battle of Hogwarts, Fred Weasley is killed in battle as a large section of castle wall falls upon him.

Event Details
Voldemort has given the occupants and defenders of Hogwarts School until midnight to surrender Harry to him. Neville Longbottom, meanwhile, has summoned the members of Dumbledore's Army to Hogwarts to help Harry in the mission that has brought him to Hogwarts. Members of the Order of the Phoenix also arrive. At one point, Fred, George, Ron, Ginny, Bill, Charlie, Mr. Weasley, and Mrs. Weasley are all in the Room of Requirement, as Mrs. Weasley is forbidding Ginny from taking any part in the battle. Percy suddenly enters the room, and finding his entire family present, announces that he has been a fool, and asks to be taken back into the family. Mrs. Weasley immediately accepts him back with open arms, and the other Weasleys do likewise.

While Harry is retrieving and destroying the Horcrux, the battle is fully joined, and Harry, Ron, and Hermione emerge into a hallway where jinxes are flying as defenders battle Death Eaters who are already within the school. Percy, among the defenders, jinxes Pius Thicknesse, and says Thicknesse can consider that his resignation. Fred, battling alongside him, says he thinks that's the first time he's ever heard Percy crack a joke. At that moment, a curse strikes the wall from outside, and the wall collapses, filling the hall with dust and killing Fred. Percy is distraught, throwing himself over Fred's body; Ron helps him take Fred's body to an alcove out of the way. Percy then spots Rookwood, a Death Eater and one-time Ministry employee, and takes off in pursuit.

Notable Consequences
Fred's death solidifies Percy's resolve to fight the Death Eaters. Percy has worked for the Ministry, and against his parents' belief systems, for so long that he almost certainly finds it hard to suddenly change sides. With Fred's death, caused directly by Death Eaters associated with the Ministry, the battle becomes more personal for Percy. It is his sighting of Rookwood, an escaped Death Eater and traitor to the Ministry, that points this up particularly; Percy has to be convinced to leave Fred's body, but goes charging off after Rookwood on sight. Despite Percy's half-joking "resignation", he has been loyal to the Ministry for so long that he will likely continue so, and Rookwood, a convicted Death Eater who personifies what has gone wrong with the Ministry, and who likely is using the Ministry to shield himself, is the most likely type of person to enrage Percy and move him away from our heroes.

Additionally, Fred's death hastens Percy's full return to the Weasley family, as they together mourn Fred's passing.

Analysis
Percy's return to the Weasley family fold is necessary for various thematic reasons, the principal one being that in what is at least initially a children's book, we simply cannot have brother using lethal force against brother. Percy can estrange himself from the other Weasleys, he can return gifts unopened, avoid his father or refuse to acknowledge his existence, leave the family home, and close his apartment door in his mother's face, but he cannot be seen to aim a wand at any Weasley family member with intent to kill or injure. Friction within a family is normal, and can reach the sort of extent that we see here in extreme cases, but having it advance to the point of physical violence would require that Percy become fully a Death Eater, and he cannot be a fundamentally evil character without tainting the rest of his family. Given the resulting choice, between having Percy sit out the battle dithering in his apartment, or admitting his folly and returning fully to his family, the author's decision to allow Percy to return seems by far the better alternative, as it allows us to see Percy's admission of his weakness.

Over the course of the series, the Weasley family have suffered some rather amazing near misses. In Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry saves Ginny from the Chamber of Secrets where the "memory of Tom Riddle" is draining her life force to return to life himself. In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Harry sees Arthur Weasley being attacked by a snake and reports it, in time to save Arthur's life. In Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Harry saves Ron, who has been poisoned, with a handy Bezoar. And earlier in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, George had lost an ear to a Sectumsempra curse cast by Snape. Combine this with the forms taken by the Boggart takes when Molly Weasley is attempting to nullify it in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, and one might conclude that the death of a member of the Weasley family had not been foreshadowed, but rather belaboured. It is part of the skill involved in the series, however, that we do not see that foreshadowing until Fred actually dies. It is true that the loss of George's ear in the Escape from Privet Drive has been perceived by at least some readers as foreshadowing of another, larger loss for George.

Greater Picture
The behavior of the Twins in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire has prompted interesting speculation in some readers as well. In placing their bet with Ludo Bagman, the Twins seem supremely confident in their bet that Ireland will win but the Bulgarian Seeker, Viktor Krum, will catch the Snitch, despite Bagman's apparent belief that such an outcome would be unlikely. As it turns out, the Twins have called it precisely. At least one commenter has suggested that this may mean that the two of them may have managed to solve, in part, the mystery of Time, and have been able to retrieve information about the outcome of the match from the future. The Time-Turner clearly shows that some aspects of time are better understood in the Wizarding world than by Muggles. Additionally, over the course of this and the succeeding book, we learn that Fred and George are magical innovators of rare ingenuity and skill, even in Hermione's opinion. Given these two facts, it is at least somewhat possible that there is some technique that the Twins have pioneered to look into the future, though perhaps dimly. It has been suggested that Bill or Charlie Weasley might have availed himself of a Time-Turner, as Hermione did, to achieve his high marks; if this is the case, the Twins may well have had a chance to examine the device and learn enough of its workings to replicate at least some of its functionality. The commenter has suggested that this technique may require both twins to perform the charm, and so Fred's death prevents the technique from ever being used again; but also, has suggested that this would make it possible for Fred to be returned to a future story by extracting him from the rubble by means of time travel before he was actually crushed. If there are future stories, it would be of interest to note whether George keeps his ears concealed, perhaps to hide the fact that there are now actually two Georges, one with two sound ears.


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Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/History of Magic

Overview
History of Magic is the course in which students at Hogwarts learn, appropriately enough, about the history of magic. It is a core subject, and is required for all students from first to fifth years. We presume that NEWT-level studies are available, but as the viewpoint character does not progress in this course past year five, we don't see them. This may imply that it may only be continued at NEWT level with a written OWL examination. It is taught by Professor Binns, a ghost.

Extended Description
Very nearly all of the exposure we have to the course is involved with mentioning how boring it is. Harry is obviously not alone in his inability to stay awake in this class; of all the Trio, it seems Hermione alone is able to stay awake long enough to make notes. Harry does note at one point that with any other teacher, the subject matter (the Goblin Wars) could be much more exciting.

Possibly the main reason for the existence of this course is in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, where Hermione manages to get the story of the Chamber of Secrets from Professor Binns. Additionally, there is one time when Harry is aroused from his stupor in this class by the arrival of an injured Hedwig at the window. All other sessions of this class are uniformly dull and eventless.

Analysis
Harry's experience in this class clearly mimics the experience many students have had in one class or another. It is possible that this course is included for the purpose of balance, as if to say, yes, magic and learning about magic can be fun, but it's not all fun, there's tedious part of it as well. Selection of history as the subject in question is probably premeditated. Of all the courses that are required learning, History is by far the most commonly seen as not only tedious, but useless. Particularly at the teenage level, few students can see the value of learning about things that happened long ago. Making the instructor a ghost emphasizes that the subject material is basically unchanging, and also allows for his delivery of the material to be, if we may be permitted the pun, dry and dead.

There are points in history that have a great influence on Harry and his actions; however, he does not perceive, and perhaps Binns does not adequately teach, the background that led to the separation of Muggles and the Wizarding world, with its concomitant Decree for the Reasonable Restriction of Underage Sorcery. This decree, with its constraints on what Harry is allowed to do outside school and the consequences he suffers therefrom, is a part of a larger picture that Harry remains unaware of, despite its stemming from a critical juncture in Wizarding history.


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Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Herbology

Overview
Herbology is the study of magical plants and how to take care of, utilize and/or combat them. Herbology lessons are shown in each of the first six books.

The subject is depicted as closely related to Potions, due to the nature of the plants, many of which are cultivated for extracting useful ingredients. Throughout the series, Herbology is taught by Pomona Sprout.

Extended Description
Herbology is a core subject; it is one of the seven academic subjects taught in the first year. Harry, who chooses to pursue a career as an Auror, takes Herbology at NEWT-level.

Being located in greenhouses on the grounds, trips to and from Herbology lessons are written to depict the weather at the time (for example, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, chapter 14). There are at least three greenhouses described in the books, holding a variety of magical plants of varying degrees of lethality, including mandrakes, bubotubers, and Snargaluffs (which are valued for their pods).

Herbology is also, initially, the only subject in which Neville Longbottom excels. Neville will later show aptitude for Charms and Defence Against the Dark Arts.

Analysis
As mentioned, Herbology and Potions are reasonably closely related. We see one interaction between Professor Sprout and Professor Slughorn, where they are discussing the properties of a plant that Slughorn needs for his first-year Potions class. We have to assume there are similar, though possibly not as cordial, interactions earlier between Professor Sprout and Professor Snape.

Like Charms, Herbology is a practical class, with lots of noise and activity going on. As a result, it is a class where Harry, Ron, and Hermione can discuss their plans. It is likely for this reason that we see as much of Herbology as we do, and also possibly why all three of the Trio are able to continue Herbology studies at NEWT level.

Greater Picture
Herbology seems to the uninitiated to be a relatively straightforward and harmless branch of magic, but we are somewhat disabused of that notion by the appearance of the Venomous Tentacula, first mentioned in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. Professor Sprout's offhanded treatment of the plant in that episode is misleading; much later, we see a Death Eater being reeled in by Tentacula. Many plants are only handled with protective gear, and in the climactic battle at Hogwarts we see many magical plants being used as weapons.

In the Epilogue, it is revealed that Neville has become the Professor of Herbology at Hogwarts.


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Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Charms

Overview
Charms is a course that teaches how to cast the class of spells known as Charms. These are spells that alter an object without changing its essential nature. Given a teapot, the spell that makes it tapdance across the desk would be a charm, the spell that turns it into a tortoise would not. This is a core subject, required of all Hogwarts students until at least their fifth year. While the course is offered to sixth and seventh year students, admission is limited to those who have shown better than average abilities in Charms based on their O.W.L. grades.

The Trio take Charms from their first to their sixth years at Hogwarts.

Extended Description
The Charms class is taught by Professor Flitwick. Spells taught in this class include Wingardium Leviosa, Summoning and Banishing, Aguamenti, and turning vinegar into wine. Because it is a lab class, with much wand work and people saying spells, it is often a nearly ideal place for Harry, Ron, and Hermione to have more or less private conversations.

A number of significant events happen in and around Charms class. The first spell that any of the Trio learn properly, and apparently the first one actually cast in their school career, is the Wingardium Leviosa charm cast by Hermione. Her apparent self-satisfaction at being the first in the class to master this charm causes Ron to comment to Harry about that being the reason she has no friends. Hermione overhears this, and bolts to the girls' washroom to cry. Ron and Harry rescuing Hermione from the mountain troll that evening results in the creation of the Trio.

Charms class, as mentioned, is a lab class for much of the series, and as such provides many opportunities for conversation among the Trio, plus a certain amount of slapstick humour (Ron's vinegar explodes when he tries to turn it into wine, for instance, in the sixth book). The main purpose of Hogwarts, of course, is lessons, though as the main conflict of the story is extracurricular much of the action will take place outside the classrooms. The reader may come to anticipate those sections of the book that occur in class, partly for the insight into the difficulty of learning magic, and partly for the associated humour.

It appears that some witches, notably Mrs. Longbottom, Neville's grandmother, consider Charms to be a "soft option", an easy course even at N.E.W.T. level. Against this, of course, we have to weigh the difficulty Harry seems to have with the Summoning charm, and the fact that Professor Flitwick wants to discuss Harry's near-perfect use of that charm in the First Task of the Triwizard Tournament in Harry's fourth year. Clearly this charm is much more involved than simply pointing your wand and saying "Accio!" Additionally, we find that the redoubtable Mrs. Longbottom apparently did quite poorly on her Charms O.W.L., and we can imagine there to be a certain bias in her views.

Analysis
The definition of Charms, according to the author, is "those spells which do not change the intrinsic character of the object on which the spell is cast". As mentioned in the Overview, the spell which causes the teapot to tapdance across the desk is a Charm because it is still a teapot, albeit one with legs, feet (with the equivalent of tap shoes), and the propensity to emulate Fred Astaire. This can be expanded easily to include spells such as Aguamenti, which causes the caster's wand to send out a stream of water, and Lumos, which causes the wand to emit light. In both these cases, the object modified is the caster's wand, which remains a wand, just one that also behaves like a garden hose or a flashlight. The definitions are, however, somewhat loose; in Transfiguration class, we see that Ron and Harry are having troubles with a silencing spell, and the reader may note that a silenced toad or a silenced raven remains a toad or a raven.


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Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Care of Magical Creatures

Overview
Care of Magical Creatures is a course at Hogwarts that exposes students to various magical creatures, teaching characteristics and useful attributes. This subject is offered as an elective, taught in years three, four, and five; those with sufficiently high O.W.L. marks in the course can then go on to N.E.W.T.-level study in years 6 and 7. The Trio take this course from third to fifth year.

Extended Description
As a birthday present at the beginning of Harry's third year, Hagrid sends Harry a book, The Monster Book of Monsters, which threatens to attack Harry when he unwraps it. He finds that it is the set book (textbook) for his Care of Magical Creatures course.

At the Arrival Feast that year, Professor Dumbledore announces that Professor Kettleburn will be retiring to "spend more time with his remaining limbs", and that the new teacher for Care of Magical Creatures will be Rubeus Hagrid.

Hagrid starts off by teaching about Hippogriffs, but Draco Malfoy insults the one he is talking to and is savaged. Draco's playing up his wounds results in Hagrid losing much of his confidence, and teaching Flobberworms for the entire Autumn term.

Over the course of the following three years, Hagrid, or Professor Grubbly-Plank in his absence, teach Harry's class about a number of creatures (Knarls, Nifflers, Salamanders, Unicorns, Bowtruckles, and Thestrals, for instance) and some not so common (coursework for the entire fourth year concerns Blast-Ended Skrewts, a creature we have not seen before or since).

None of the Trio choose to take Care of Magical Creatures at NEWT level, despite having apparently sufficiently good OWL marks, so we have no information about what creatures students in sixth and seventh year would be exposed to.

Analysis
Examination of "Newt Scamander"'s book, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, shows that there are a large number of creatures in the magical world that we do not know of. Many of them have useful characteristics as well. It only takes a moment of reflection to realize that students in a school of magic must receive some education about these creatures, as they form such a vital part of daily magical life. Of course, modern urban schools no longer teach courses in animal husbandry, but such courses are still available and still required in more rural Muggle schools, and we can see that the Wizarding lifestyle is, to a large extent, more centered on small villages and rural settings than on residence in the larger cities. We suspect this is because the eccentricities of Wizarding life are less easily remarked, or more easily overlooked, when population is more sparsely distributed.

It is likely, however, that many wizards will not need to know how to work with magical creatures once they graduate from school. This would suggest that the Care of Magical Creatures course might, in real life, be a less popular course than it appears to be in the books: nearly everyone in Harry's year group ends up in that class, and there seem to be very few students dropping the course, despite the Skrewts in Harry's fourth year terrorizing the students. It is explicitly stated that Harry is using the class as a way to meet with, and discuss matters with, Hagrid, at times when the students are otherwise unable to leave Hogwarts castle. This does not explain Draco's remaining in the Care of Magical Creatures course; particularly after the Hippogriff attack, one would expect Draco's father to order Draco out of the class. We can only guess that the author chose to leave Draco in the class to be an ongoing source of conflict with the Trio, and perhaps rationalized it by having Lucius determine that he could cause more trouble for Hogwarts if Draco remained in this class being taught by a half-Giant.

Professor Silvanus Kettleburn remained only a name until the publication of The Tales of Beedle the Bard. In that book, Professor Dumbledore's notes included significant information about Professor Kettleburn's exploits, which included enlarging an Ashwinder to tremendous size as a prop in a school play, an effort that resulted in significant damage to the Great Hall when the ashwinder exploded unexpectedly. This sort of exploit, no doubt, is the reason for Dumbledore's comment about "his remaining limbs". It seems that a certain disregard for danger is a necessary component for the teacher of Care of Magical Creatures, as the creatures involved are often dangerous. Dumbledore may have selected Hagrid for the post partly because of this potential for danger in the subject matter: Hagrid, being half Giant, has a natural resistance to many forms of attack. However, it is also likely that Hagrid's employment as Keeper of the Keys and Grounds, which apparently involved no small amount of familiarity with the Forbidden Forest and the creatures therein, played a role in his selection for the post.

It is noted in the article on the Forbidden Forest that "In order to have Care of Magical Creatures classes, there must be magical creatures; part of the Forbidden Forest's function is to provide a near-by habitat." By the same token, of course, the presence of the Forest and the creatures within it clearly requires some sort of management, which Hagrid is doing for the first two years of the series. Having Hagrid teach the students about the creatures he takes care of is, of course, a logical step for the author. The reader may suffer a small amount of dismay at the removal of the clearly flamboyant Professor Kettleburn, but the appointment of Hagrid to his post does simplify the process of the Trio meeting with Hagrid later in the series.

Greater Picture
Harry does learn a number of valuable bits of information in this course. Notably, what he learns about Thestrals will help him and five others reach the Ministry in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, and what he learns about Hippogriffs helps him rescue Sirius in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. However, many of the magical creatures Harry encounters and has to deal with in his travels are covered in a different course; Defence Against the Dark Arts teaches Harry about Boggarts, Dementors, Grindylows, and Pixies, for instance, though he does have to learn about Dragons and Basilisks on his own.


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Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Astronomy

Overview
Astronomy instructs students on planets, stars, and other sky objects and their role in the magical world. At Hogwarts, this may be a core subject, required of all Hogwarts students until at least their fifth year; those with sufficiently high O.W.L. marks in the course can then go on to N.E.W.T.-level study in years 6 and 7. We believe that at Hogwarts it is taught by Professor Sinistra.

Extended Description
Astronomy classes take place in the top-most level of the Astronomy Tower, the tallest tower in Hogwarts Castle, and of course are always after dark.

Evidence is that this is a core subject, required from first year onwards. When courses are selected, there is no specific mention of this course, but the first-year book list explicitly calls out the requirement for "a telescope". Additionally, there is later mention that the telescopes are used at night for plotting the positions of the planets, which is clearly astronomy even if the course is not named.

Harry, Ron, and Hermione are seen to take the OWL exam in that course, but as they are disturbed by the firefight surrounding Hagrid's dismissal, Harry and Ron manage only an Acceptable OWL mark in the course, and do not continue at that point. We suspect that Hermione, as usual, has finished her work early and so has already earned her top marks by the time the firefight breaks out.

Analysis
We must be careful in discussion of astronomy to differentiate it not only from the branch of Muggle fortune-telling and Wizarding Divination known as "astrology", but from the study of the motion of spatial objects called "Astronomy" in the Muggle world. It is certain that Wizarding astronomy involves location of the heavenly bodies and determinations of their relative motions, but we expect that the impact of the motions of these bodies also has some magical effect, and the Astronomy course almost certainly is involved with the memorization of these effects and their uses. We note the following two examples of this sort of effect: in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, we see Professor Slughorn collecting something that is "most efficacious if harvested at twilight", as he remarks to Professor Sprout. And in our world, there is a belief that crops will grow better if planted "in the dark of the moon."


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Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Locomotor Mortis

Overview
Locomotor Mortis is the "leg-locker" curse. Similar in effect to the body bind, this spell causes only the legs to be bound together.

Extended Description
We see this spell used only a very few times. Draco Malfoy uses it on Neville in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, though that is done off-stage and we only hear about it from Neville after he manages to hop into the Gryffindor Common Room. Harry Potter attempts to use it against Draco Malfoy in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince during their duel in the bathroom, but misses, shattering a cistern.

Analysis
This spell is of limited utility as it leaves the target's wand arm free, so that he can either free himself or retaliate. It is likely to be useful only on a disarmed opponent or one without developed magical abilities. As such, it is probably a classic first-year sort of jinx, one that impedes the opponent but does not harm him particularly.


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Introduction to Chemical Engineering Processes/Unsteady state energy and mass balances

What IS accumulation?
Recall that so far in this text it has been assumed that all systems are at steady state, which means that there is no buildup of mass, energy, or other conserved quantities. However, there are many situations, such as whenever operating levels change, that a system will not be at steady state, and mass and energy will be accumulated over time.

The most important thing to remember about accumulation is that it deals with the actual amount of stuff in the system, not any sort of flow rate. If you remember if you're dealing with actual system properties rather than flow rates, it will help keep the terms straight in unsteady-state balances.

Unsteady-state Mass Balance
Lets begin the derivation of an unsteady-state mass balance with the general balance equation which you should know and love by now:

$$ In - Out + Generation = Accumulation $$

Substituting the terms we usually used for in, out, and generation, we obtain:

$$\Sigma \dot{m}_{i, in} - \Sigma \dot{m}_{i,out} + \dot{m}_{i,gen} = Accumulation $$

Now we have to come up with a mathematical formulation for the accumulation. Unlike all of the other terms in this equation, which deal with energy flows into the system, the accumulation deals with the amount of energy that is already in the system at a certain point of time, and more specifically how it changes with time.

The rate of accumulation of energy will not be constant unless it is zero (otherwise every reactor in the world would either blow up from excessive mass and energy buildup or would cease operating because all of the reactants and products would be drained out). Recall that if the accumulation reaches zero, the system is at steady state. Most systems tend to move towards a steady state (it is possible to have more than one set of steady state conditions, but it won't be covered here) over long periods of time, as shown below:

Such a system is called self-regulating (or naturally stable). If a system is not self-regulating then special control techniques (see Control systems) must be utilized to force the system into a steady state.

In order to take into account variation in the accumulation rate, we must consider the rate of change over a very small amount of time, so small in fact that it is practically zero, and the accumulation vs. time curve resembles a straight line. The slope of this line at time t is approximately:

$$ Slope = \mbox{ Accumulation rate at time t} = \frac{M_{sys, t + \Delta t} - M_{sys,t}}{\Delta t} $$

Therefore we could write the following:

$$ Accumulation = \frac{M_{sys, t + \Delta t} - M_{sys,t}}{ \Delta t} $$

We then write our mass balance by substituting this accumulation into the mass balance above:

$$ \frac{ M_{sys, t + \Delta t} - M_{sys,t}}{ \Delta t} = \Sigma \dot{m}_{i,in} - \Sigma \dot{m}_{i,out} $$

For practical applications, this equation is generally multiplied by $$ \Delta t $$. Then, rather than dealing with flow rates, a new quantity is defined:

$$ \Delta m_i = \dot{m}_i * \Delta t $$

This quantity is the total amount of mass that enters the system in a finite amount of time. Substituting this definition into the mass balance yields the following:

Unsteady-state Energy Balance
Lets start by examining what we have so far, but with the accumulation term (yet to be defined mathematically) added in the right side, since we're not at steady state any more:

$$ \Sigma(\frac{1}{2}\dot{m}v^2 + \dot{m}gh + \dot{H})_{i,in} - \Sigma(\frac{1}{2}\dot{m}v^2 + \dot{m}gh + \dot{H})_{i,out} + \Sigma \dot{Q}_j + \dot{W}_s = Accumulation $$

Following the logic from the mass balance, we obtain for the accumulation:

$$ \frac{E_{sys, t + \Delta t} - E_{sys,t}}{\Delta t} $$

Therefore, we have:

$$ \Sigma(\frac{1}{2}\dot{m}v^2 + \dot{m}gh + \dot{H})_{i,in} - \Sigma(\frac{1}{2}\dot{m}v^2 + \dot{m}gh + \dot{H})_{i,out} + \Sigma \dot{Q}_j + \dot{W}_s = \frac{E_{sys, t + \Delta t} - E_{sys,t}}{\Delta t} $$

Like in the case of the mass balance, we can only consider the total energy change over a total amount of time using this equation. To do this, we multiply the entire equation above by the time change from some starting point to the point of interest.

Now we need some definitions:

 * 1) $$ Q = \dot{Q}*\Delta t $$ is the TOTAL heat flow over the time period.
 * 2) $$ W_s = \dot{W}_s * \Delta t $$ is the TOTAL shaft work over the time period.
 * 3) $$ \dot{m}_i * \Delta t = \Delta m_i $$ is the TOTAL mass flow into (or out of) the system due to stream i during the time period.
 * 4) $$ \dot{H}_i * \Delta t = H $$ is the TOTAL enthalpy carried into (or out of) the system due to stream i during the time period.

The major assumption here is that the enthalpies, heat flow rates, and shaft work on the left hand side of the equals sign must either be constant, or the average value over the whole time period must be used, in order for this equation to be valid. Whether this assumption is valid or not depends on the situation (for example, it depends on whether the process feeding mass to your process is itself at steady state or not).

With these in mind, we multiply by delta t in order to obtain the following, unsteady state energy balance.