Harry Potter and the Veil of Mystery: Difference between revisions

* [[Moral Dilemma]]: Many characters in this fic arc discover truths about themselves, some pleasant and some very unpleasant, through engagement in moral dilemmas, or in some cases, the blowback from decisions they made in canon or in the fic arc. Example: Hermione Granger's decision to forbid Rita Skeeter from writing any articles of any kind {{spoiler|eventually causes a very nasty situation for her and her friends}}.

* [[Deal With the Devil]]: Voldemort {{spoiler|purposely mutilates the minds and souls of his Death Eaters in an act called the Cleansing, which removes the ability to feel happiness except through violent acts. Snape has suffered this and wishes to have it reversed, but Dumbledore was unable to effect this. Harry Potter eventually figures out how to reverse the process.}} He crows about how he even did this to himself and gleefully gloats that he believes this will help him win against Harry. Draco Malfoy {{spoiler|is the counterpoint to Snape's wish for redemption as he happily accepts the Cleansing and refuses to have it reversed even when Harry offers to do this for him.}} He's not a nice person in this arc.

* [[Grey and Gray Morality]]: There's moral ambiguity to go with the above tropes. Harry's initially relatively [[Black and White Morality|black and white]] moral system takes on a leavening of grey as he tries to reconcile the real-world acts he sees with the moral code he's developed, which was in response to regarding the [[He Who Fights Monsters|abyss]] of casting the Cruciatus Curse on Bellatrix Lestrange in ''Order of the Phoenix''. {{spoiler|Neville also ends up discovering the problems with [[He Who Fights Monsters]] when he encounters Lestrange.}}

* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: A prominent example is {{spoiler|Dumbledore purposely throwing himself through the Veil in the Ministry during a battle with Voldemort}}, assisting Harry in his task to defeat Voldemort once and for all.