However, a cauldron appears both in the four mythical jewels of Ireland (its magical power was that nobody ever went away from it unsatisfied) and in the legend of The Thirteen Treasures of Britain (the cauldron of Dyrnwch the giant would cook meat for brave men, but not for cowards)." I did consider making Helga Hufflepuff's hallow a cauldron, but there was something slightly comical and incongruous about having such a large and heavy Horcrux I wanted the objects Harry had to find to be smaller and more portable.
Many folk and fairy tales make mention of cauldrons with special powers, but in the Harry Potter books they are a fairly mundane tool. They appear in hundreds of years' worth of pictures of witches, and are also supposed to be where leprechauns keep treasure. Rowling wrote of cauldrons on the Pottermore website: "Cauldrons have had a magical association for centuries. It is peeved when they crash it into the Whomping Willow, but swoops in to rescue them from death by Aragog. Because it was enchanted by Arthur Weasley, it likely behaves towards Ron and Harry as a parent would. The car is personified, but not anthropomorphized. This consequence displays Ron and Harry's adolescent position, unaware of the political world they inhabit. When the car is seen by Muggles, Lucius Malfoy claims that Arthur Weasley is unfit to draw up their laws, and wants to scrap the Muggle Protection Act. Weasley's quiet rebellion public, which has serious consequences for the Weasley family. He appreciates the Muggle design ingenuity of the vehicle and also has the magical chops to enchant it to have a bigger trunk and backseat, to fly and become invisible.
It also represents his adult hybrid sensibility. Weasley, his car is a quiet rebellion from his wife and from the bureaucracy of the Ministry of Magic.
The car's faulty invisibility booster represents the tenuousness of their adolescent position.įor Mr. When Ron and Harry are unable to go to school on the Hogwarts Express, they steal the car, which gives them great freedom and joy at first, until they find they don't have the same resources that they did on the train: they get hungry and thirsty. It provides the means of escape from Harry's childhood bedroom at the Dursleys. Weasely's car represents the independence of adulthood. These have been gifted by Lucius Malfoy as a bribe to place his son Draco as a Seeker on the Slytherin team, and so represent the unearned advantage of legacy wealth. Later Harry is dejected when the Gryffindor House Quidditch team struggles to keep up with the speed of Slytherin House's Nimbus 2001 broomsticks. But he shares it, as they take turns practicing on his broomstick at the Burrow. Harry's Nimbus 2000 broomstick is far superior to Ron's Shooting Star, which was "often outstripped by passing butterflies." Harry's wealth has given him greater power. In Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets brooms symbolize status in the wizarding world. Broomstick (Motif)įlying brooms have been a symbol of witchcraft since the 15th century. Because the students are ignorant of what is petrifying their classmates, they make up rumors that perpetuate fear and prejudice. It is referred to as "the monster." The idea of it was as terrifying as the reality. For much of the book, the identity of the basilisk is unknown. His intention was for his heir to one day release the giant snake to terrorize and/or kill everyone at the school without pure wizard blood. It was placed in the Chamber of Secrets by one of the founders of Hogwarts: Salazar Slytherin.
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