In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows it says, "Lupin had been right about magic they had never encountered or imagined. Why hadn't Dumbledore explained more? Had he thought that there would be more time; that he would live for years, for centuries perhaps, like his friend Nicholas Flamel? If so, he had been wrong...." (Rowling 278)
From this text I can predict that Harry will continually struggle to understand why Dumbledore never told him how to defeat Voldemort like how to possibly find the rest of the unknown Horcuxes. What kinds of spells could destroy Horcuxes? Harry feels that he should have or would gotten a step by step How to Kill Voldemort pamphlet from Dumbledore. I can also predict form this piece of text that they are encountering and experiencing magic they have never before imagined or encountered that there will be some close calls for the trio and they will have to improvise a lot more then usual to survive because they don't know all the spells that they need to know since they decided that they wouldn't be attending Hogwarts for their final year of schooling in magic.
Some questions that I have from looking at this text are, like Harry I too wonder why Dumbledore did not keep Harry more informed about how to defeat Voldemort ? If he had would he still be alive? Because if he had kept Harry more in the loop he would have killed Voldemort a lot faster right? In the text Harry says that Dumbledore had been wrong, but in earlier books Harry had never seconded guessed Dumbledore only in the last two books has Harry really questioned Dumbledore and his actions. Harry had looked up to Dumbledore and thought he could never be wrong and he wasn't the only one the majority if not all the wizarding community had held Dumbledore to the highest respect and thought he was the wisest wizard alive, so how can he go from that to being dumb enough to think he can live basically forever or as long as he wants? Even if he didn't think he could live for ever did he suspect he was going to die? If so why would he not tell Harry everything then so he could easily and successfully understand what he must do, how he must do it and why?
Text to World connection
As citizens of a country we all have a government in Harry Potter it's the Ministry or Hogwarts Staff for students. But, the point is they don't always give us all the information we need to hear to understand a situation or dilemma and why that situation / dilemma is happening and we know it too. Like in Harry Potter when Dumbledore doesn't tell Harry everything he needs to know about destroying Horcuxes and Voldemort.
Text to Text
Harry Potter is very much like Percy Jackson. Both protagonist have green eyes with black hair. Both have a mentor that the protagonist looks up to but sometimes has anger towards for not explaining more about their fate. For Percy that mentor is Chiron the trainer of heroes and his father Poseidon. For Harry it's Dumbledore. Both have a prophecy that dictates their future and the fate of mankind. Percy has several mini prophecies for when he goes on quests but since he is a Child of the Big Three ( Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades) he is also, the subject of -at the time -the current Great Prophecy that says he will make a choice to preserve or raze Olympus and if Olympus is destroyed so is Western Civilization which basically means man kind.Chiron won't tell him the prophecy until the fifith and final book of the Percy Jackson and the Oylpians series when he is fifiteen almost sixteen which is almost four years of keeping Percy in the dark. Poseidon gives Percy vauge advice like Dumbledore when at the end of Sea of Monsters he tells percy to "Brace himself" not telling him what to brace himslef foror how to brace himself. Harry's prophecy is about him defeating Voldemort which will in turn have the wizarding and muggle communities from disasters and mass murder from Voldemort . Dumbledore gives Harry vauge advice as well like "I open at the close," which is on the snitch he left to Harry after he died with the belief that Harry would eventually figure out what he means.
Text to Self
This piece of text relates to me because I don't always get all the information I want on certain things either and it too irritates me because I know I could have more information that would be useful for what I'm doing but the person either won't tell you or is dead and unable to be reached to communicate how to handle the situation at hand.
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