Grace Candido-Beecher [author of Voldemort] reads that phrase "the boy" as when Voldemort says it, he means Harry and he also means that part of himself that was the young Tom Riddle growing up in an orphanage.

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When your friends are literally in mortal danger around you, the only important thing is these people's lives have to be saved. That is such a good, strong value that I think the Harry Potter generation, the millennials that grew up with this, really internalized from this international bestseller, which is one of the reasons why there's so much confusion and mass indignation at thinking that it's now okay to throw trans people under the bus.

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The locked room, the one that you can't do anything about. You can't get in, there's no handle, there's no nothing. I associate this room with Snape in all ways. To me, the energy that keeps this room sealed is exactly what this whole volume has been showing us about Occlumency.

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