Dobby Has Come to Warn You Sir

We started off with three student presentations on what our paper topics are so that we could receive feedback from the class. I went first and presented my ideas about whether or not Snape is a hero in the Harry Potter series. My first paper I compared Snape to other heroes throughout history, mythology, and literature. I compared him to Robin Hood, Atticus Finch, Hercules, and Achilles. My second paper is going to be about Harry Potter and Snape and whether or not motives should be separated from the heroic act and are Harry’s and Snape’s motives the same? The class had a lot of feedback for my papers and I think they gave me a lot to work with.
My friend, Matt, presented his ideas about prophecies next. He discussed whether or not people acting on the prophecies give the prophecy power. He compared Voldemort acting on the prophecy to Oedipus acting on the prophecy. Also, whether or not prophecies predict the future or determine the future.
Finally, a girl in the class presented her ideas on science and magic. She compared the magic in Harry Potter to science in real life. Her major magic abilities/objects she chose were flying broomsticks, apparition, and the invisibility cloak. They have a machine that allows for magnetic fields to left objects off the ground and “fly”. They were able to raise a frog up to five feet off the ground. As for apparition, on the quantum level they have been able to teleport matter. Finally for invisibility, they now have something called an invisibility umbrella that allows everything underneath it to appear invisible and they have light reflective body armor that makes the light go around the object and appear invisible.
After this we watched the first half of the second Harry Potter movie, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. We spent most of this time making fun of some of the situations in the movie like how Ginny and Harry will be making out in the sixth movie and how the entire school shows up in one hallway when the chamber is opened.