His condemned life as a third-generation slave meant laboring in the hot sun under harsh conditions and under he threat of whips and death.For instance, he faked his signature whenever he used it, to keep other people from forging important papers with his name.That is not the end.We will rise again." Judah turns against Messala with an angry denounciation:Rome is an affront to God.Rome is strangling my people and my country and the whole earth, but not forever.I tell you, the day Rome falls, there will be a shout of freedom such as the world has never heard before.Mr.Potter has no choice." Headmistress Minerva McGonagall (Maggie Smith) worried that Potter would be offered up as bait: "Potter is a boy, not a piece of meat.