Signalmen wave flags to pass a message from hill to hill.The owner snaps off the head of a stalk, rolls it between his palms, blows away the chaff, and then pops a kernel into his mouth.The simple love story set on a pastoral landscape becomes a profound allegorical tale of harmony and discontinuity, love and hate, hopes and fears, and good and evil." As darkness fell, he trio eventually left the van and walked into an abandoned house on Elm Street in the neighborhood.This immediately caused a personal rift between Harry and other students ("He""s a cheat.He""s not even 17 yet"), between Harry and best friend Ron, and between Dumbledore and adult representatives of the other competing schools.