The final confrontation between Harry and Voldemort: in which Harry survives - again - the killing curse, and defeats the most evil wizard of all time with nothing more than his favourite disarming spell. Excellently acted by Alan Rickman in the film. Rowling's most complex creation reveals his true character, and it is heartbreaking. "The Prince's Tale." After seven books, eight films of keeping us guessing, finally J. I am afraid I am not going to come quietly at all, Cornelius." And sure enough, he does not. Dumbledore: "Well - it's just that you seem to be labouring under the delusion that I am going to - what is the phrase? - come quietly. But he's not giving in without a fight, and with an expelliarmus - the disarming spell and the only useful spell he knows - the two wands connect. Harry is just fourteen years old, he knows nothing of duelling. Priori Incantatem: Lord Voldemort has returned, and he will kill Harry Potter. It is testament to how irritating Gilderoy Lockhart is, that I found myself cheering on Snape before I ever liked him as a character. Don't try to outsmart McGonagall, Dolores. "You are raving," said Professor McGonagall, superbly disdainful. Tom Riddle's true identity. Hands up who saw that coming first time around? (Chamber of Secrets)ģ6. I turned the page - and all of a sudden, two of my favourite characters are in love with each other! Where did that come from? (It is foreshadowed in the book, but I did not suspect a thing. Tonks loves Lupin! Dumbledore's dead, Bill Weasley badly wounded, but his wife-to-be Fleur is sticking by him. After spending the first book thinking that Professor Snape hates Harry - true - and is trying to kill him - false - we discover that ineffectual, timid Professor Quirrell is not only after Harry, not only trying to bring Lord Voldemort back - but Voldemort is living on the back of his head! And Snape is trying to protect Harry. The first, but by no means the last of such twists in this series.
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