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Loneliness: The Vanishing Glass (Book 1, Chapter 2)

Harry Potter and the Sacred Text

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Is There a Difference Between Being Unknown and Being Lonely?

i think that harry does walk through the world as an anointed one. It's horrible the circumstance that he lives in, but he does just seem to be protected. Harry seems to be empathetic. He askes the snake, what was it like there? And i think it's remarkable that harry illustrates that difference between being alone and being lonely. But we do get a sense, again and again, of magic seems to interfere whenever anything really threatening is about to happen. So certainly his glasses are broken because he's been punghed several times. But his nose doesn't seem to be broken because he has been punged so many times,. There's a line there

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