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Live HPA DA meeting on Ustream at 8:30 pm EST!



Find out about how just days before the release of Half-Blood Prince, the HP fandom is taking over Twitter, showing up to the movie theater with name tags that spell out a lesson that Dumbledore taught them, how to get the HPA on Oprah, and more!



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Please join tonight's Live HPA DA meeting on Ustream at 8:00 pm EST!



In tonight's call we will continue to talk about What Would Dumbledore Do - a project that is your chance to blog about both your relationship with Dumbledore and what you think the world could learn from Dumbledore's example at this critical moment in human history.



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While through What Would Dumbledore Do, we are off to a start in discussing several ways that we can be loyal to the spirit of Albus Dumbledore, are you ready to go deeper than we already have? Because we aren’t messing around here. In declaring our loyalty to the core of Dumbledore’s spirit we are truly stepping out into the night and pursuing “that flighty temptress, adventure” on an adventure and entering the realm of deep… Continue

What was Cornelius Fudge, the Minister of Magic’s reaction to Dumbledore’s long held idea that they must end their practice of torturing prisoners and “…remove Azkban from the control of the dementors’” (GoF 707)?



“‘Preposterous!’ shouted Fudge” (GoF 707).



While former Vice President Dick Cheney believes in torturing prisoners of war, this is not the way that Dumbledore pointed toward. A society that is willing to give up its values in order to fight for its values has… Continue

“That which Voldemort does not value, he takes no trouble to comprehend. Of house-elves and children’s tales, of love, loyalty, and innocence, Voldemort knows and understands nothing. Nothing. That they all have a power beyond his own, a power beyond the reach of any magic, is a truth he has never grasped.” (Deathly Hallows page 710).



If we break this quote down, we can learn a lot about what Dumbledore has to teach us about the nature of power. True power does not exist in… Continue