The Ways of the Good and the Evil

I'm still reading Harry Potter and I've started to notice a pattern. As in a lot of books, the good guy wins and the bad guy loses. But in this series Rowling has a specific pattern she writes.

I've started to realize that in the beginning of the book it starts out with Harry at his cousin's house, the Dursley's. It also happens to be his birthday at the beginning of each book. He usually gets letters and gift and a few other minor patterns happen at the beginning but there's one most prominent occurence.He always gets a clue as to what will be his main problem or struggle in the book. In the first one it was just surviving his first year at Hogwarts. In the second book, his main struggle was introduced to him when he was at the Dursley's. Dobby came and warned him not to go to Hogwarts this year. And later we find out Dobby said that because he knew the Chamber of Secrets has been opened again. That became the biggest issue through out the book.I have yet to finish the third book but as it's been going I'm going to guess that it has something to do with Serius Black escaping from Azkaban, and possibly the Dementors and the new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor.

Relating back to the defeaters and the defeated the pattern there is there's always a journey to get to the battle that Harry usually ends up fighting himself and then the actual battle itself. In the first book Harry battled Lord Voldemort (which also happens to be a pattern with the antagonist) with the help of Professor Quirrell. Ron and Hermione helped him along the journey to get to where he needed to be but ran into a few problems along the way. Hermione's smarts got them past the first barrier of engulfing plants, Ron's chess skills got them passed the second barrier by playing his way to a deadly victory, and Harry's broom skills got them passed the third by catching the correct flying key, and once again Hermione's riddle solving helped him with the final one. And finally got in to where Quirrell and Voldemort were and Harry defeated them. And then in the second book, Ron helps him get down to the depths of the school's pipes to defeat Tom Riddle without Hermione because she's been petrified. Ron gets stopped from an avalanche of rocks and can't go anyfurther. Harry goes on to defeat Tom and save Ginny. There's a trend for the ending as well becausethey are structured quite similarly. If I had to guess I would guess a similar ending to the third book in some way and having to defeat Voldemort once again.

Here's more info about Tom Riddle and his diary