Rowling doesn't let anybody off of the hook of responsibility for their choices.
Always there is Snape, the middling Hogwarts employee who is not clearly good but not clearly bad but capable of both (until fate forces his hand in Book 6). They are tragic because they don't understand the long-range consequences of their petty cruelties-but then, as we learn in this movie, even the good kids are capable of petty cruelties that break souls. Always in Harry Potter is the clear distinction between the good guys and the bad ones right alongside the good kids and the annoying kids, who could very well become evil people if they so choose. Alongside the power of goodness over evil theme is the theme of the power of the imagination to find solutions to problems that are the same in every generation: politics, power games, jealousy, stupidity, growing up. The Gothic idiom of Harry Potter brilliantly takes the challenges Harry faces out of the present on one level even though these are very clearly 21st century characters facing contemporary challenges. Truth and goodness-call if love, if you want-are worth the trouble. Such is life how seldom do we know the inner workings, the coping mechanisms, the interior life of the people around us? In The Order of the Phoenix, Harry Potter again does battle with evil to bring home the theme that when you fight, you fight well with and for your friends and to the death if necessary. They have no idea their building grew a house that the wizards and witches of the world can solve an internal problem. It's there, but the neighbors are unaware of it. As the movie opens, Harry is the subject of a smear campaign that Valdemore has cooked up because darkness works tirelessly to triumph over the light when his friends come to rescue him from the suburban horror show known as his adoptive family, they take him to the headquarters of the Order of the Phoenix, a place that doesn't exist until a row of Georgian homes stretches out to reveal it. Indeed, one of the movie's first big special effects embodies this idea. Fantasy literature has since the beginning of time been about mediating and making sense of the real world Harry Potter is part of this tradition. As Harry and his friends mature, the line between the world of wizardry, magic, and Hogwarts and the world of self-centered, manipulative, cruel adults thins to the point of almost magical invisibility. 5, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Warner Bros., 2007), I got my answer. Why do Harry Potter movies give me, but not the children, nightmares? I've been wondering this for the past few years.
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