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Being a Stranger: Diagon Alley (Book 1, Chapter 5)

Harry Potter and the Sacred Text

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Taking Hagard's Wand Away

I love that hagred has a very interesting relationship with authority, but i love that he has kept the bits of it hidden in this pink umbrella. The other thing that harry is seeing through watching haggard is the full array in which the magical world responds to strangers. I love that, because s never let that at the dusleys home. But in seeing hagrad flout those rules and doing things which, you know, sometimes are funny, like giving dudley a pig'stail, and sometimes are really useful. Certainly thinking critically about when to follow the rules and when not to. It shows him that following the rules is maybe not the best way to

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