![]() God says, “How dare you question me, the Lord of the Universe?” Harry Potter at least gets more than that out of Dumbledore.Īnd then there’s Jesus, God’s own son, who finds himself utterly alone on the cross. When God finally does show up, God offers repreimands not answers. ![]() He and his friends spend over 40 chapters wondering about God’s will and where God is in the midst of Job’s suffering. He never loses faith, but he does ask for answers. Recall Job, scripture’s most famous endurer of God’s silence amidst terrible tragedy. How many times have we stormed through life angry that God isn’t revealing God’s will to us? “What is going on here?” we bellow, “Why won’t You talk to me? I thought You cared about me? What’s happened?” And like Dumbledore, God has stayed aggravatingly silent. Both in times of trial and in times of peace, God’s silence can be vexing. We too know what it’s like to feel kept in the dark by our Ultimate Authority. His godfather, Sirius Black is kept cooped up in the Order’s safe house lest he be captured by the rampaging dementors, Dumbledore’s authority is usurped at his school by a meddling Ministry of Magic proxy named Dolores Umbridge, Hagrid is nowhere to be seen for the first half of the school year, and even Snape is forced to privately tutor his least favorite pupil, Harry Potter. He’s not the only one on the outs either. He is denied this, much to his teenage chagrin. ![]() Because he has successfully faced Voldemort a few times, he feels owed a spot on the front lines of the action. Harry feels left out and kept in the dark by Dumbledore and the rest of the adults in his life. ![]() The main conflict in The Order of the Phoenix is best symbolized by closed doors. That door keeps getting shut in your face, and the more you whine about it, the more childish you seem, and the more often the door is closed. You can see the adult world, but you can’t enter it just yet. Harry Potter is fifteen.īeing fifteen is difficult, because while you may be on the cusp of adulthood, you have one foot in childhood as well. He slams doors, storms off, and lashes out at inanimate objects. Every teenager seems to go through an angst-ridden, rebellious period, and this is Harry’s. ![]()
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