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  • fairies (sb) & good guys (hp) use magic for good things - "joy & happiness"
    • maleficent (sb) & death eaters (hp) use magic without scruples
  • threatening of a child, who goes into safe hiding
    • aurora (sb) & harry (hp)
    • "safe hiding" = world without magic
  • parents make sacrifices for their only child
    • lily & james (hp) give their lives to save harry
    • king & queen (sb) let the fairies take aurora away
  • maleficent (sb) & voldemort (hp) don't trust their subordinates
    • keep an animal companion: crow (sb) & snake (hp)
  • protagonists let prophecies be fulfilled
    • they struggle against it in (sb) but it happens anyway
      • harry (hp) didn't necessarily struggle against his prophecy, but had trouble accepting/facing death
    • but prophecies don't turn out to be the end-all; good guys win despite (sb) or because (hp) prophecies were fulfilled
mar 22 2010 ∞
oct 7 2010 +