For this book in particular I thought I would bring up the idea of dropping hints that end up transforming into more than they originally seemed. A hint that is continually shown (even in prior books in the series) is the idea that Harry is beginning to sense Voldemort's emotions. It starts innocently enough in the fourth book when Harry feels his scar hurt for no apparent reason and it worries him. This continuously happens up until the book that I am currently on in which after this has happened numerous times, he starts to be able to sense the emotions coming from Voldemort that have caused this reaction in him. This is also not the end of this little part of the story as in Harry Potter and the Order of the Pheonix it is still not explained what connection it is between Harry and Voldemort that allows him to feel all this.
A factor in the story that is not exactly hint dropping but is related to something being more than it originally seemed (that is also connected to the way that the protagonist is affected to those around them) is the presence that the Dursley's have all throughout the series. While they are obviously there to show Harry's past and play a little part in the story, I think that they are also there to show the basic opposite of what Harry could have turned into, yet did not. They are the formation of his character, and Dudley is almost the definition of Harry's opposite. And yet they are still there to remind us in every book where he came from. In the Order of the Pheonix, Harry and Petunia share a moment in which you can truly see where he got some of the parts of himself from, when she shows a connection to the wizarding world and they have a combined moment of worrying over what is going to happen in the future. I also feel that Harry may have gotten his temper from Uncle Vernon, as that is Vernon's most prominent trait, and this is the book in which Harry's temper and rash actions really begins to play a part in the story.
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