However, to be human is also to possess a range or spectrum of these values. It is sometimes taken for granted that a person is a particular way, and any action that is contrasting with the values that we believe that person holds is seen in a very suspicious light.
Since Voldemort is extremely powerful, and this is the world of magic, even trustworthy people can be coerced to do the devil’s bidding, which is why the sense of fear and doubt is heightened in this case. This uncertainty also gives rise to doubt and the question of who can be trusted at these testing times. Be it the Holocaust, the World Wars, or the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, this feeling of uncertainty infused with fear and extreme vulnerability is what happens in London when the Death Eaters begin randomly kidnapping and killing people. The uncertainty that comes along with the emergence of Voldemort and his Death Eaters, this creeping uncertainty is very illustrative of real-world events that have plagued human history. One of the major themes that subtly engulfs the events of ‘ Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince‘ is uncertainty. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Themes Uncertainty Several themes are explored in this book, and some of these themes are recurrent from previous books in the series. Furthermore, the origins of Lord Voldemort are deeply visited, and the reader is made aware, to an extent, of what circumstances led to the creation of Lord Voldemort.
Be it the mentor and apprentice relationship between Dumbledore and Harry, which was not something that formed the basis of the plot in any of the previous books, or that between Snape and Dumbledore, which was just taken for granted until now, but finally ended up being a very unlikely reality. Rowling deeply explores several details that have persisted in the series so far but were never really treated accurately. ‘ Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince‘ by J.