Despite stringent security measures at Hogwarts, Harry is confronted by Black at the end of his third year of schooling, and Harry learns that Black was framed and is actually Harry's godfather.

Despite his disapproval of Harry's irregular behavior, he loved his son.

Despite this, Voldemort uses the Elder Wand to cast his final Killing Curse against Harry's Expelliarmus charm.

Despite being deeply in love with Harry, Rakel decides to terminate their relationship ; Oleg's being kidnapped by Waaler and coming very close to death led her to feel that Harry's profession – and his utter dedication to that profession – would make life with him too disruptive and dangerous.

Despite Harry's conservatism, it pales against his neighbor Ralph Kane, who is a John Birch-like ultra-right-winger who is fanatically intolerant and obsessed with every absurd conspiracy theory.

Despite earlier suggestions that it was merely a series of Greek scholia translated from the Samaritan Pentateuch, scholars now concur that it was a complete Greek translation of the Samaritan Pentateuch either directly translated from it or via the Samaritan Targum.

Despite failing to be elected to the shadow cabinet, Castle remained as the Labour shadow spokesperson on Employment in the early days of the incoming Conservative government in 1970, which introduced many of her policy suggestions as part of their Industrial Relations Act.

Despite these important aspects of her reign, together with the suggestions of modern scholarship as to the long-term effects of some of her innovations in governance, much of the attention to Wu Zetian has been to her gender, as the anomalous female supreme sovereign of a unified Chinese empire, holding during part of her lifetime the title of Huangdi.

Despite serious concern and many suggestions from its employees to require a minimum purchase and / or a delivery charge, Kozmo continued to use the same business model of free delivery no matter what the price, even if it were a $. 50 pack of gum or candy bar.

Despite suggestions that co-creator Len Wein originally intended for Logan to be a mutated wolverine cub, evolved to humanoid form by the High Evolutionary, Wein denies this:

Despite Banks ' suggestions, no professional natural-history artist sailed on the First Fleet in 1788, so until the turn of the century all drawings made in the colony were by soldiers, including British naval officers George Raper and John Hunter, and convict artists, including Thomas Watling.

Despite suggestions by eunuchs to have her only buried as an imperial consort and not be honored as Emperor Huan's wife, Emperor Ling had her buried with honors due an empress dowager, with Emperor Huan.

Despite early fears that the injury was career-threatening, and suggestions of a future hip-replacement from his surgeon, he was back in the United team by December.

Despite suggestions of receiving a second wife, the king ignored these requests.

Despite this difficulty in attributing mistakes to McKinsey employees and alumni, some suggestions have been put forward:

Despite suggestions that the format could change to 10 games per side in 3 six team regional groups with a knockout phase at the end of the season from 2010 in July 2008 the ECB decided to keep the current format till at least 2013.

Despite suggestions to the contrary, the Welsh town of Porthmadog ( meaning " Madoc's Port " in English ) and the village of Tremadog (" Madoc's Town ") in the county of Gwynedd are actually named after the industrialist and Member of Parliament William Alexander Madocks, their principal developer, rather than the legendary son of Owain Gwynedd.

Despite the assertions of nouveauté, this vision of the novel can be construed as developing from earlier writers ' suggestions and practice.

Despite suggestions of continued power struggles between aristocratic and royal prerogative, the reign of King Seongdeok is seen by most Korean scholars as the apogee of the Unified Silla state.

Despite this setback, suggestions were made that the rockets, mines and torpedoes be used against the Combined French and Spanish Fleet in Cádiz.

Despite spending months organizing the Officer Corps of the Provisional Army, Washington held true to his statements in his farewell address and declined suggestions that he return to public office by running for reelection in the presidential election of 1800.

Despite suggestions to the contrary, Sabbath is not based on the equally corpulent character Sunday from the novel The Man Who Was Thursday ( 1904 ) by G. K. Chesterton, though this is jokingly alluded to in the Doctor Who novel History 101 ( 2002 ).

Despite his academic qualifications, Jim Crow Era segregation laws and the suggestions of a friend of the family led him to attend Morgan State University ( then Morgan State College ) in Baltimore, Maryland.

Despite suggestions that Carswell would never be called to speak in the House again, Martin called him to speak at Prime Minister's Questions for the first time the following week.

Despite this, it was well known why Docherty had been sacked, and there were suggestions that he could sue the club for wrongful dismissal.

Despite the disordered nature of much of Haliday's life and suggestions that he suffered from nervous dyspepsia ( belied by much of his writing ) by and large he was in robust health.

Despite the fact that Card sometimes researches issues with strong political implications, he does not publicly take a stand on political issues or make policy suggestions.

Despite rumours surrounding the song's meaning, lead singer Justin Hawkins has refuted suggestions that the lyrics pertain to pubic lice or sexually transmitted infections: " People have said it's about pubic lice, but that's obviously wrong because pubic lice don't grow on you, do they?

Despite some misgivings on her part, she is ordered by the Undersheriff McKeen to follow his suggestions in performing an unorthodox investigative style known as " reverse forensics ", which, although successful in luring out the suspect, fails to produce charges because of a lack of communication between the undersheriff and the district attorney.

Despite exceptions such as usage in The New York Times, the names of sports teams are usually treated as plurals even if the form of the name is singular.

Despite the fundamental philosophical differences between the free software movement and the open source movement, the official definitions of free software by the Free Software Foundation and of open source software by the Open Source Initiative basically refer to the same software licences, with a few minor exceptions.

Despite the different subject matter between this poem and the Works and Days, most scholars, with some notable exceptions ( like Evelyn-White ), believe that the two works were written by the same man.

Despite the strict guidelines, some exceptions have occurred: Bionic Commando ( though swastikas were eliminated in the US version ), Smash TV and Golgo 13: Top Secret Episode contained human violence, the latter also containing implied sexuality and tobacco use ; River City Ransom and Taboo: The Sixth Sense contained nudity, and the latter also contained religious images, as did Castlevania II and III.

Despite the fundamental philosophical differences between the free software movement and the open source movement, the official definitions of free software by the Free Software Foundation and of open source software by the Open Source Initiative basically refer to the same software licenses, with a few minor exceptions.

Despite the associations of different bass instruments with certain genres, there are exceptions.

Despite these risks, pregnant women are not routinely screened for toxoplasmosis in most countries ( France, Austria, Uruguay, and Italy being the exceptions ) for reasons of cost-effectiveness and the high number of false positives generated.

Despite this, enemy design itself was bemoaned for being " corny and generic ", with notable exceptions to some of the Paper Marios original boss characters.

Despite ( or perhaps because of ) his pride and persistence, Sylvester is, with rare exceptions, placed squarely on the " loser " side of the Looney Tunes winner / loser hierarchy.

Despite these exceptions, Number 10 has been known as the Prime Minister's official home for over one hundred years.

Despite promises at the time, Crockett buried the UWF, letting its various titles die out and, with the prime exceptions of Sting, the Fabulous Freebirds, Shane Douglas, Rick Steiner, and for a while Eddie Gilbert, and Steve Williams, none of its various stars made headway into Crockett's promotion.

Despite the exceptions, the legal protections of the First Amendment are some of the broadest of any industrialized nation, and remain a critical, and occasionally controversial, component of American jurisprudence.

Despite a few exceptions, Tabu is best known for acting in artistic, low-budget films that go on to garner more critical appreciation than substantial box office figures.

Despite common belief, keys stamped with " Do not duplicate " or " It is unlawful to duplicate this key " are, with few exceptions, perfectly legal to duplicate.

Despite a general CRTC policy that limits station ownership to one station per market per language per company, several exceptions have led to twinstick operations in several markets.