In the penultimate chapter of Goblet of Fire, Alice and Martha marvel at J.K. Rowling’s writing abilities, break down Sirius — er, Snuffles — and Harry’s relationship, and find themselves surprisingly impressed with and proud of a certain Potions professor.
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There was a lot of discussion about Sirius and his reaction to Priori Incantatem, so I’ll give my interpretation of that moment! I always thought that Priori Incantatem is just an actual spell that you can do, like you can say the words and the wand will show you what spells it has done recently, so I interpreted Sirius’s reaction as just meaning that he is aware of that spell, but not necessarily that he knew why that spell would be happening at the meeting of the twin core wands. So I guess that’s why I didn’t think it was weird that he didn’t understand that part of it, but that he does know the spell itself, and since Dumbledore is the smarty-pants he’s the one who understood that what Harry was seeing during the meeting of the wands was Priori Incantatem in action and could explain it to Harry and Sirius. I don’t know if I’m the only person in the world who interpreted it that way though.
What an interesting discussion about Harry and how he deals with grief over time.
The look of triumph is supposed to be foreshadowing. Here’s what I found on Google: The answer is in the King’s Cross chapter of Deathly Hallows. Therein, Dumbledore explains (or leads Harry to the understanding) that when Voldemort took his blood to regenerate himself, he tied Harry to life; while Voldemort still lived, Lily’s protection lived on in Voldemort, tying Harry to life and this is why he didn’t die when Voldemort “killed” him.
It’s statistically unlikely that Harry has seen his parents in so many forms through out these seven years: The Mirror of Erised, Dementor-induced memories, Priori Incantatem, Snape’s Pensieve memory and with the resurrection stone.
When Book 7 ended, wasn’t it the Aurors who guarded Azkaban?
Dumbledore is really heavy handed with the use of Voldemort’s name during his converation with Fudge.
The Weasleys weren’t but the Prewetts were. My heart breaks for her twin brothers who died.
I teared up during the Mrs. Weasley and Harry hug scene.
I could only imagine the shocking article Rita would have written if she went unnoticed. Even her Quick Quote Quill wouldn’t have been able to craft such a tale.
My understanding of the “gleam of triumph” in Dumbledore’s eyes is that Dumbledore has already deduced that Voldemort had strengthened the protection of Lily’s sacrifice by using Harry’s blood to rebuild his body. He knows that Harry will have to sacrifice himself one day, but now he knows that Voldemort has tethered Harry to life as long as he lives. He’s triumphant because he knows that Voldemort has now trapped himself by meddling with this magic.