At the age of nine, Luna Lovegood witnessed her mother’s death after her mother’s experiment with a new spell went awry (Rowling, 2003). After this accident, her father raised her while he ran a magazine called The Quibbler where he published his eccentric ideas and conspiracy theories. This magazine and her father’s ideas influenced her personal beliefs about the world around her, causing her to often discuss imaginary creatures that the magazine wrote about with others. She attended Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry from ages 11 to 17. While there, she was sorted into Ravenclaw house, which is known for its students’ intellectual pursuits. Luna spent much of her time alone or with various magical creatures as her firm belief …show more content…
They also called her “Loony Lovegood” to enforce their ridicule of her eccentricity. However, Luna ignored their unkindness and entertained herself by continuing to read her father’s magazine and practicing her magic on her own. After the return of Lord Voldemort, although many people (including the government) did not believe Harry Potter’s word that the Dark Lord was back, she and her father supported Harry. Soon after, she became a member of Dumbledore’s Army, which was a group of students who focused on training to defend themselves against Lord Voldemort and his army (the members of which are known as Death Eaters) as war began. She excelled at these new magic skills and quickly became friends with the members of this group, including Harry Potter. Luna went with many of the other members of Dumbledore’s Army to the Ministry of Magic when they were tricked by Lord Voldemort to go to the Ministry of Magic. The group walked right into a trap and were forced to battle Voldemort’s followers, who were much more experienced wizards than themselves. During this battle, Luna supported her friends as the teens became incapacitated by their injuries. She was one of the last members of Dumbledore’s Army to be …show more content…
After this battle, the wizarding world acknowledged the return of Lord Voldemort and the Second Wizarding War began, allowing Luna to freely practice her defensive magic as well as express her beliefs about the war under less ridicule from others. She also shared the story of her mother’s death with Harry after this battle because he lost his godfather during the fight, including in her tale that she believed she would see her mother again someday. When Luna returned to Hogwarts for her next year at school, she was disappointed to find that Dumbledore’s Army would not continue now that the war was in full swing and the school itself understood the need for teaching defensive magic. She continued her friendships with the members of Dumbledore’s Army into this year. She attended a professor’s dinner party as Harry’s guest and, although some attendees laughed at her attire, she ignored them and focused on discussing conspiracy theories with other people. During this year, she also became a commentator for quidditch. She refused to comment on the actual score during these matches and focused more on going off on tangents about odd ailments that players may have possessed or discussing topics entirely unrelated to the game. At the end of this school year, Death Eaters attacked Hogwarts, forcing the students and
When most people think of Texas legacies they think of Sam Houston or Davy Crockett, but they don’t usually think of people like Jane Long. Jane Long is known as ‘The Mother of Texas’. She was given that nickname because she was the first english speaking woman in Texas to give birth.
Minerva is very rebellious, she doesn't like to listen when told to do something and she doesn't
Minerva’s has a friend that’s a revolutionary by the name of Hilda, Mate doesn’t approve of her and soon Hilda gets caught being a revolutionary and Mate soon had to end her diary because her diary has information of Hilda that Minerva doesn’t want anyone to see. Mate is gifted another journal from Minerva and she reveals that her father has died. She writes about how she had a dream how she’d find her wedding dress in her father’s coffin. She repeatedly has the same dream with different people in it. Mate graduated and moves in with Minerva at a university. Minerva soon gets married and moves to another city with her husband
Even in the beginning of the story, Minerva shows a powerful rebellious attitude. Minerva’s first encounter with courage comes during her first year at school. A girl she pities and befriends, reveals a major secret to
Minerva became afraid of the things she chose to do because of how Trujillo wanted young girls to be in his life as his mistresses. He took Lina Lovaton when she was young and got her pregnant after she got pregnant he left her. So when it was time for Minerva and her friends performance, Minerva said " That settled it. I agreed to go on the condition we dress as boys (page #21) she wanted to make her self less attractive as much as possible. Minerva tried constantly to fulfill what God wanted but when she joined the revolution she gave up. She stopped trying to fulfill her soul.
Even though Minerva is a heroine, she is a normal human being like everyone else. She has the bravery, courage, and determination to fight her battles but, she also has a family and children to care about. Minerva is not perfect, she also makes mistakes. She is stubborn, hotheaded, and determined. She makes a lot of hasty decisions that ultimately land her in prison, but she cares deeply about her husband and children. Although she is leading a revolution, Minerva has love and care for her family
Even though there are moments where things were serious Minerva still had moments where she felt like she was young again: “We moved quickly now towards the Jeep, hurrying as if we had to catch up with that truck. I don’t know quite how to say this, but it was as if we were girls again, walking through the dark part of the yard, a little afraid, a little excited by our fears, anticipating the lighted house just around the bend – That’s the way I felt as we started up the first mountain,”
Harry Potter has become one of the biggest franchises in literature and film. It has enabled millions of people to live in the wizarding world and experience hatty’s destiny to defeat Voldemort. J.K. Rowling brings a whole slew of magnificent character alive in the pages, and creates villains that instill fear in adults. Although Voldemort killed and tortured hundreds in his quest for power, he is not seen as the evilest person of the series, for that we turn to a toad-like woman in pink. Dolores Umbridge has managed to take the throne as one of the most hatted Harry Potter villain through her manipulation of power, delusional righteousness, and deepest prejudices.
In my opinion, Willy Loman did not attempt to keep-up-with the Joneses as he never made enough money to incorporate that lifestyle. His wife was repairing hose for herself and they had a cheap refrigerator in constant need of repair. Mr. Loman perhaps dwelled on a lavish lifestyle in his mind but he was extremely far from it at all. He wanted to be able to live that way but his job did not allow for those things. He expected his sons, Biff and Happy, to be successful as to compete with those around him and that did not happen either which cause Willy lots of stress, anxiety, and sadness. He consistently thought back into his boy’s younger days when they were energetic and popular as that brought him comfort. He looked at his boys as failures
According to Wilson and Goldfarb (2012) Lope Felix De Vega Caprio was considered an important asset to Spanish theatre and high on the list for best dramatist of all time. In the Spanish Golden Age, however, he was the best-known dramatist. In his entire lifetime, Lope De Vega wrote around 1800 plays, give or take a few hundred. The nature of this number is simply an estimate due to not knowing whether or not how many plays he actually wrote. Keeping in mind that Shakespeare wrote a mere number of plays in comparison to Lope De Vega total plays, Shakespeare is one of the few playwrights that surpass Lope’s extraordinary work. Although Lope De Vega wrote copious amounts of plays, the quality of his plays may have
Neville Longbottom describes himself as “almost a squib” (Chamber of Secrets 185). Despite this self-deprecating analysis, Neville is still sorted into Gryffindor, and eventually becomes one of the heroes of the Second Wizarding War. Neville does not appear to have anything in common with Peter Pettigrew, who betrays his friends; however, a parallel exists between the two characters. Neither seems to belong in Gryffindor on a surface level and they are both the hangers-on in their respective groups of friends. Similarly, Severus Snape and Luna Lovegood appear to be polar opposites. Luna is an eccentric Ravenclaw, while Snape is a strict Slytherin. However, Snape and Luna display a generational parallel because of the ways they are respectively set apart from the main groups of their generation; their status as outcasts and their intelligence. In the Harry Potter series, these generational parallels reveal how love is a form of power and encourages learning from the past.
Rowling felt very connected to her parents, besides being their daughter they supported her reading and loved reading as well so she grew up very close to her parents which is why she did what they wanted her to do instead of doing what she wanted.
At the end of every school year Harry encounters Lord Voldemort under different circumstances and every time slips away just in the nick of time. Those actions leed to the moment when Harry finds a way to destroy Voldemort completely, as he needs to destroy the horcruxes. Harry’s brave heart, compassionate friends and the power of his bold dauntlessness save the world from the most evil wizards of all the times,” Tom Marvolo Riddle ”, “ The Dark Lord ” , “ You-Know-Who “ and " He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named " are only a few names Voldemort can be
...ed Harry’s misery, she was the one who finished it off. Even after all he had been through, Harry never gave up on earning her love, and finally asked why she hated him.
As Woolf grew older, she was educated by her mother, and eventually a tutor. Due to her father’s position, there were always famous writers over the house interacting with the young Virginia and the Woolf’s large house library. Within her writing, Woolf often appears angry or depressed, which both stems from childhood.... ... middle of paper ...