Cloak of invisibility

“‘For eleven years I have been trying to persuade people to call him by his proper name: Voldemort.’ Professor McGonagall flinched, but Dumbledore … seemed not to notice,”(11). Dumbledore explains what happened with the Potters, and he remains sane even after recent events. Voldemort is so vicious and powerful that many wizards flinch at his name and will not say it. I like this quote because it displays the main conflict of the Harry Potter series. Also, Dumbledore remains calm during the…

Strange events happened all throughout his childhood, things such as him transporting out of dire situations, or his hair magically growing back after a bad haircut. One day, approaching his eleventh birthday, he receives a letter in the mail. The Dursley’s do everything they can’t to stop him from getting ahold of the letter, but nevertheless, the sender was relentless. Day after day more and more letters would come in the mail, driving Mr. Dursley to drive the whole household out to a cabin in…

the owner of such an item brought me to think about the final Harry Potter movie. At the end of the movie Harry had in his position the three items that would make him the most powerful wizard of all time. He had the resurrection stone, the invisibility cloak, and the elder wand in the final scenes of the movie. As he became an adult, he found times in his life to use each except for the wand. He chose to destroy it because no one should have that much power. I think most would make the same…

Since the first Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, was published in 1997, J.K. Rowling’s ‘Potterheads’ have done close-readings of the series. From determining detailed Hogwarts house characteristics to theories claiming Ron Weasley is actually Headmaster Dumbledore, the Potter fans have generated seemingly endless ideas and continue to find hidden meanings and symbols in the books. One particular trend in the series is the copious amount of biblical parallels. This is not…

Charlie was in Romania studying dragons. They had to use Harry’s invisibility cloak that had belonged to his father, so they could hide the dragon and themselves. They sneaked the dragon in a crate up to the top of Hogwarts and Charlie’s friends met them there and took the dragon. The problem had been solved, even though…

Child labor, as defined by the ILO conventions 182 Article 2, pertains to any youth under the age of eighteen. Majority of child labor marginalize children between the ages of five to seventeen. Child labor continues to be a development concern due to its instigation of poverty. The children of developing nations are forced to work with low paying wages, denying them a right to their education and further lowering literacy in the country. Jobs for adults are outsourced because of the abundance…

options before settling on the plan to use the Polyjuice Potion. Ron suggests that only he and Harry go underneath the Invisibility Cloak, which leads to a discussion about why each of them should stay behind. This conversation results in the understanding that each of them possess an important skill that will be needed at the Ministry, and as they are too big to all fit under the cloak, the potion is their next best option (Deathly Hallows 231). Whited and Grimes surmise that “When Harry and…

for crime. With more technological devices and the know how to use them, comes more complicated crime with more opaque solutions to solving crime. Wealth, technology, and knowledge have given criminals an avenue to break laws with the unfortunate cloak of…

Objectification is a term often used to describe how women are seen not as beings but as things. As John Berger describes in “Ways of Being,” women have historically been objectified by men. Much literature and academic essays have been written about the objectification of women; however, we can also see gendered politics in new media and art, as in Laurie Simmons’ new exhibition at the Jewish Museum, “How We See.” The exhibit explores how women are identified internally and externally, and how…

These buildings withstand intense seismic waves by isolating the base of the building, and placing it on a rocking frame made of springs and boards. This technique is known as a seismic invisibility cloak, allowing the building to rock with the earthquake instead of swaying against it. This structure can be reinforced with materials such as structural steel with increased ductility, which can increase the active mass damping of the structure…