As the characters mature throughout J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter books, they become more savvy and more aware of the very complex and political nature of their world.

This savvy awareness, as we might expect, results in a development and complication of theme. Thus, Book 1, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, we move between the two fixed points of Privet Drive in the Muggle world and Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in the magic world. The parallel and doubling becomes more demonstrative of the Muggle world and more descriptive of the magic world in Book 2, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, and Book 3, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, and is ultimately expanded to the many levels of intrigue and circumstance in Book 4, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. As a result, though Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is very...