Erebus

J.K. Rowling once said that Harry needs Hermione badly. This is undoubtedly true. But Harry also needs Ron. The Trio often work as a single united whole. However, just as your head, hand and heart don't draw lots on whose turn it is to pump the blood today, the members of the Trio don't just do things willy-nilly. An essay on Trio dynamic.

There's an old playwright's adage about the gun on the mantlepiece. If you show people the gun on the mantlepiece in Act One, then you have to have the safety catch come off in Act Two and fire it in Act Three. Draco Malfoy's the Harry Potter gun.

Harry curls up in his cell and doesn't cry. The cell is in the dungeons of Voldemort's Manor, buried in the bowels of London, but Harry does not care.

In his head, Draco Malfoy is still at war with Harry Potter. When Potter died to defeat Voldemort, Draco lost his parents, his status and his enemy. After six years of being a model citizen, Draco is about to discover that maybe all is not as it seems.