The pairs (one ""Harry Potter"" and one protector) were "right from the start" ambushed by Death Eaters, and during the fierce skirmish (including a harrowing ride the wrong way on a crowded highway), Hedwig defended Harry, but was hit with a Killing Curse.There was the potential for using his DNA to derive a "cure" for the ""mutant problem.""In his Mutant Ethics class at Xavier School, the wheel-chaired Professor was teaching students about the use/misuse of power:"When an individual acquires great power, the use or misuse of that power is everything.The Germans must retreat from their position to a trench further back.The bodies of thousands litter the field of battle.Senselessly, many of Paul""s boyhood friends are killed.And then, the French are driven back in a German counter-attack.As the Germans approach the French trenches, they are mowed down by French machine gun fire in a moving camera shot (from right to left) - the sequence of shots during the counter-attack are almost identical to the shots of the earlier French attack.]The Mysterious Ghostly Voice:While he was walking in the middle of his newly-purchased cornfield at dusk, mid-30s, idealistic, ransplanted city boy-turned-novice Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella (Kevin Costner) repeatedly heard a ghostly Voice (unconfirmed as Ed Harris, he real-life husband of Annie, Ray""s wife).