![]() ![]() Second Pinch Point: After Hermione is found petrified, Harry and Ron go to Hagrid to find the truth. This is the revelation that changes his whole perspective on the conflict-his Moment of Truth. Midpoint: After infiltrating Slitheren house and learning from Draco that the Chamber was first opened fifty years ago, Harry finds Tom Riddle’s diary and learns that Hagrid was involved with the first opening of the Chamber. Harry sees the first petrified student brought in. While in hospital, he learns that Dobby the house elf did it in an effort to save Harry from further danger. What was only a shadow before has now become a defined-if still mysterious-antagonistic force.įirst Pinch Point: Harry’s arm is broken during a Quidditch match by a rogue ball that was tampered with. Now he is fully engaged with the main conflict. He follows it and discovers a message, written in blood on the wall: The Chamber of Secrets has been opened. Even before the main conflict starts, Harry has a goal: return to Hogwarts, which is met by conflict in the form of his horrible Muggle family who bar his windows.įirst Plot Point: While serving detention for crashing the flying car, Harry hears a sinister voice that no one else can perceive. It’s also worth noting how even though this is the introduction of the main conflict, the story certainly doesn’t lack for conflict prior to this. ![]() On a structural level, we can see that this is Harry’s first true brush with the main conflict-although he doesn’t even yet know what that conflict is. It’s a good example for novelists, since we, too, will be dealing with lengthier spans of time between Inciting Event and First Plot Point. In a movie, all Inciting Events won’t be this obviously big, in a set-piece scene kind of a way, but because of this movie’s length, it needs this significant beat here to keep the pacing rolling along. Stranded, they steal Ron’s father’s flying car and crash land in a resentful wamping willow at Hogwarts. He is always going to be a bit inept.Inciting Event: Shortly after meeting the malevolent Lucius Malfoy-father of his old nemesis Draco-in Diagon Alley, Harry and Ron discover they can’t get through the magic portal at the train station. ![]() He has been allowed to do magic openly ever since he became a teacher but because he was never fully trained his magic is never going to be what it should be. Since Hagrid's name was cleared in Book 2, will he ever be allowed to do magic openly again? Since Ginny suffers no punishment, and Hagrid is released from Azkaban shortly afterwards, it seems that this proof was accepted by the Ministry.įurther recall that he only becomes a teacher in Prisoner of Azkaban, which fits with the idea that he’s been acquitted – the Ministry might have tolerated a convict as a Gamekeeper, but a teaching placement, less so – alongside this JK Rowling quote which sounds as if his punishment was lifted at the same time: “But this time, Lord Voldemort was acting through somebody else. “The same person as last time, Lucius,” said Dumbledore. The diary seems to act as sufficient proof that Ginny was not acting of her own free will in 1992, and could then be used to suggest that Tom Riddle framed Hagrid in his school years (recall that Dumbledore always suspected Tom, but all he lacked was proof): Was he acquitted after the events of Chamber of Secrets? (Prejudice against Hagrid for being half-giant probably counted against him as well.) Nobody was looking for an alternative explanation, because the facts seemed to fit. Otherwise, Riddle wouldn’t have got his award.” “And the attacks must’ve stopped after Hagrid was kicked out. “We always knew Hagrid had been expelled,” said Harry miserably. It follows that he’s still considered responsible for opening the Chamber in the 1942 school year.Īnd as Harry surmises, Hagrid as the guilty party nicely matches up with the course of events: If Hagrid had since been acquitted, there would be no justification for arresting him now. Chamber of Secrets, chapter 14 ( Cornelius Fudge) Ministry’s got to do something - the school governors have been in touch -” “Look, Albus,” said Fudge, uncomfortably. So very few people went over Riddle’s school days looking for the work of Voldemort-in-waiting, and even if you found something, it’d be quite a job to prove it.įurther, as Cornelius Fudge explains when he arrests Hagrid, the official record still points a finger for the original killing firmly at Hagrid: Chamber of Secrets, chapter 18 ( Dobby’s Reward) “Hardly anyone connected Lord Voldemort with the clever, handsome boy who was once Head Boy here.” As Dumbledore explains to Harry at the end of the book: Very few people besides Dumbledore knew that Tom Riddle and Voldemort were the same person, even after his rise to power. ![]() Was he acquitted before the events of Chamber of Secrets? ![]()
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