The Darkest Magic of All
Win as a team, lose as a team; experience victory as a team, experience trauma as a team. While on any team, the ideas of family and companionship are encouraged to the fullest extent, and most of the time, are received and understood throughout the entire squad. That means in any group, the losses and traumatic incidences that are experienced are done so in a shared fashion. Some may even call it communal or shared trauma. Within Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, J.K. Rowling introduces her readers to a dark magic of her own called trauma on the characters of two parallel groups of wizards who are fighting for the greater good, and later on, their lives. Although it seems trauma is experienced by all …show more content…
As a family, they wished to watch over one another and keep each other safe, this was not always possible though. A good example of this is shown in the book when Mad-Eye Moody is showing Harry the picture of the original Order, “That’s Frank and Alice Longbottom… Better dead than what happened to them” (Rowling 173-174). It’s clear that Moody feels a sort of regret and loss at the thought of the Longbottom’s being tortured to madness. Those feelings of grief took over what was left of the Order as they lost so many of their members while they were fighting in the original battle with Voldemort and the Death Eaters. When tragedies happen like that of the Longbottom’s fate, an entire family, like the Order, can feel the effects of the trauma and change their ways based around …show more content…
Members like Moody and Lupin may actually experience less trauma than the rest of the group in the sense that they have much more experience in situations that involve dark magic. Rowling shows this contrast of the members quite early in the book when Molly states “Of course it could just be a boggart, but I thought we ought to ask Alastor to have a look at it before we let it out” (Rowling 84-85). Later on, it proves to show that even though Molly seems confident and competent in her magical abilities, even she cannot hold up to the extreme darkness of the trauma a boggart can show. Lupin, who comes to her rescue, has experience with his traumas and seems to have overcome them by not letting them control his life, but that takes serious time and effect to master a trauma as serious and continuing as his of being a werewolf. Although member like Lupin and Moody may experience less trauma because of the amount of dark magic that is normal to them, they are still apart of the group when communal trauma is concerned because no one can go through the traumatic experiences of losing friends, sometimes even witnessing their deaths,
Win as a team, lose as a team; experience victory as a team, experience trauma as a team. While on any team, the ideas of family and companionship are encouraged to the fullest extent, and most of the time, are received and understood throughout the entire squad. That means in any group, the losses and traumatic incidences that are experienced are done so in a shared fashion. Some may even call it communal or shared trauma. Within Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, J.K. Rowling introduces her readers to a dark magic of her own called trauma on the characters of two parallel groups of wizards who are fighting for the greater good, and later on, their lives. Although it seems trauma is experienced by all …show more content…
As a family, they wished to watch over one another and keep each other safe, this was not always possible though. A good example of this is shown in the book when Mad-Eye Moody is showing Harry the picture of the original Order, “That’s Frank and Alice Longbottom… Better dead than what happened to them” (Rowling 173-174). It’s clear that Moody feels a sort of regret and loss at the thought of the Longbottom’s being tortured to madness. Those feelings of grief took over what was left of the Order as they lost so many of their members while they were fighting in the original battle with Voldemort and the Death Eaters. When tragedies happen like that of the Longbottom’s fate, an entire family, like the Order, can feel the effects of the trauma and change their ways based around …show more content…
Members like Moody and Lupin may actually experience less trauma than the rest of the group in the sense that they have much more experience in situations that involve dark magic. Rowling shows this contrast of the members quite early in the book when Molly states “Of course it could just be a boggart, but I thought we ought to ask Alastor to have a look at it before we let it out” (Rowling 84-85). Later on, it proves to show that even though Molly seems confident and competent in her magical abilities, even she cannot hold up to the extreme darkness of the trauma a boggart can show. Lupin, who comes to her rescue, has experience with his traumas and seems to have overcome them by not letting them control his life, but that takes serious time and effect to master a trauma as serious and continuing as his of being a werewolf. Although member like Lupin and Moody may experience less trauma because of the amount of dark magic that is normal to them, they are still apart of the group when communal trauma is concerned because no one can go through the traumatic experiences of losing friends, sometimes even witnessing their deaths,