Order of the Phoenix

Every teacher has their own unique teaching style. The film Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix presents three separate examples of teachers. There is Professor Umbridge’s approach of reading and copying from the books, Professor Snape’s learn fast or die trying technique, and Harry Potter’s method of hands on real world experience. Each of the teachers generate different results in terms of student capabilities and confidence. Although there are many teaching styles, those similar to Harry’s produce the best results and yet are not used as often as they should. The first teaching style presented in great detail in the film is that of Professor Umbridge. Umbridge works for the Ministry of Magic and is sent to Hogwarts School of…

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…

The struggle between light and dark, good and evil, is not a new struggle. In fact, as some believe, it has been a struggle since the beginning of time when Satan tempted Eve into disobeying God. In the film Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, the character Sirius Black says, “We’ve all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That’s who we really are.” Dr. Jekyll and Courtney Davidson both went through this struggle. Both of them would agree…

friend’s with Lily, Harry’s mother. They later went to Hogwarts school but got accepted into separate houses. They remained friends, but as Snape’s love for the dark arts became more noticeable, Lily slowly withdrew. We learn that Lily eventually grew interest in James, Harry’s father, which was Snape’s bully throughout out all of school. However, Snape’s love for Lily never died. As Harry watches memories, he becomes aware that Snape had sold his parents to be killed by Voldemort when a…

Voldemort embodies all these traits and is equivalent to a wizard version of Hitler. He yearns to be the most powerful wizard and is willing to murder an infant if it meant reaching his goal. Not only that, but he was increasingly prejudiced against muggle-borns (wizards born from non-wizarding families), and sought to eradicate them all. Jung also mentions that the shadow is “a living part of the personality and therefore wants to live with it in some form” (Jung 20). As mentioned above, a part…

In J.K. Rowling's story, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Harry and his cousin Dudley are attacked by dementors. While on their way home, Harry and Dudley had gotten into an argument. Dudley had been teasing Harry about his nightmares and it had gotten to the point where Harry pulled his wand out and aimed it at Dudley. Two dementors had shown up and attacked both of them, but Harry defeated them by casting his Patronus. Dementors are known to guard the wizard prison Azkaban. The…

In the end of the novel, Harry accepts the fact that he has to meet Lord Voldemort face-to-face and be killed by him in order for Voldemort’s immortality to weaken. After Lord Voldemort hits Harry with the killing curse, he sends one of his followers (Narcissa Malfoy) to check and see if he is actually dead. When Narcissa realizes that Harry is not dead, she asks him if her son is still alive. When Harry said that he was, Narcissa lied to Voldemort and said that Harry was dead. This lie is what…

at Hagrid 's hut, Norbert bit Ron on the hand-- causing him severe pain. He muscled through the pain, knowing that if he went to the hospital wing, the plan of getting the dragon off to Romania with his brother Charlie, would be ruined. The only thing he could do was suffer through. The morning after the dragon bit him, it only got worse. “Ron 's bitten hand had swollen to twice its usual size. He didn’t know whether it was safe to go to Madam Pomfrey -- would she recognize a dragon bite? By the…

The kitten then climbs a tree in the next scene in order to reach the bowl of milk (moon). The author widens the kittens eyes to show a fear of height once she reaches the top of the tree. But then, the kitten notices that in the pond there was “another bowl of milk, and it was bigger” (). So, the kitten darts down the tree and jumps with “all her might,” but the kitten does not get any milk. The illustrator creates movement through the ripples of water and the water dripping down the kitten’s…

J.K. Rowling uses language to develop an Overbearing tone in different parts in book “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.” Harry Potter thinks he is an ordinary boy, but he is far from ordinary. A giant named Hagrid appears, and gives Harry the all important news, he is a wizard. Now his journey in life gets more intense as he travels to Hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry to learn all about being a wizard. Here, he meets his best friends Ron and Hermione. Ron Weasley is not very brave…