JK Rowling is one of the most influential authors of our time, breaking boundaries and creating an alternate reality in a world far from anyones imagination. The series she is most well known for is the Harry Potter series. The series is seven books accompanied by eight movies. The tale starts with a young boy named Harry, whose parents died, from the sinister Voldemort. The series takes a bunch of twist and turns that ultimately lead to Voldemort 's death. Although, Harry and Voldemort want to destroy one another, they have some undoubtedly strong connections that are undeniable. JK Rowling has said that the connections between Harry and Voldemort range from childhood, through the death of Voldemort. The story of Voldemort and Harry begins …show more content…
Aberforth, caught him and dismissed him at once. Unfortunately, Snape did not hear the whole prophecy, and when Voldemort was told, Harry was his next target. Realizing what Snape did to himself, he rushed to Dumbledore, the wizard that Voldemort feared, and begged to save the Potters. Snape had an immense love for Lily, Harry 's mother. Snape gave up his loyalty to Voldemort for Lily’s protection. Snape then became entangled in being a spy for Dumbledore on Voldemort. The night when James and Lily Potter were killed, was the night that Snape vowed to protect Harry, for his love for Lily. Harry had love, something Voldemort never had. Tom Riddle, Voldemort 's original name, was conceived under a love potion. In the Wizarding world, this leads to a child that feels no …show more content…
This is how snakes communicate with one another. This is a language that comes with a high dislike among other wizards; especially because it 's associated with dark magic. Parseltongue is usually hereditary and it 's usually among the sinister Dark Wizards. The more complex aspect is how on earth did harry get this ability? When Voldemort himself tried to kill Harry, Voldemort unintentionally made a horcrux. A horcrux is an object in which a dark witch or wizard has attached a fragment of their soul to the object in order to become immortal. Voldemort is the only known wizard who has been able to do so. So when that fateful night in Godric 's Hollow, Where the Potters lived, Voldemort accidentally doomed himself by trying to kill Harry. This is why Harry can speak in Parseltongue. "Harry. You happen to have many qualities Salazar Slytherin prized in his hand-picked students. His own very rare gift, Parseltongue, resourcefulness, determination, a certain disregard for the rules ' he added, his moustache quivering again. "Yet it is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities." ( Prisoner of
He discusses demise in the primary sentence, saying, “The marvelous thing is that it’s painless” (Hemingway 826). As the story creates, Harry as often as possible specifies his desire to pass on or the way he feels that passing is close now. “You can shoot me.” (Hemingway 826) and “I don’t want to move” (Hemingway 827), and “There is no sense in moving now except to make it easier for you” (Hemingway 827) and “Can’t you let a man die as comfortably as he can without calling him names? “ (Hemingway 827). It sounds as though Harry is surrendering, not so much, since he is a weakling, despite the fact that his wife calls him that, yet more since he feels that, it is more agreeable for him right now to set down and pass on as opposed to sitting tight for a truck or plane that will most likely never arrive. During the rest of the story, Harry has several moments when he feels the proximity of
Tom Riddle, AKA Lord Voldemort, was a half-blood prince known to be the most powerful dark wizard of all time. Riddle came from a wealthy muggle father Tom Riddle Senior and mother witch Merope Gaunt, who died shortly after Tom was born. Tom’s father left shortly after Merope found out she was expecting and left him the heir of Slytherin. Tom was raised in a muggle orphanage and when he became of age attended Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. He was placed in the Slytherin house, the most powerful house, and was the most talented student to ever attend Hogwarts. After Hogwarts Tom went on to work at Borgin and Burkes for a brief time before he disappeared for many years.
But this was not the sole thing which added to his uneasiness. He did not find an appropriate dancing partner for the Christmas party. Harry wanted to have a romantic story with Cho Chang, but he fell into the clutches of Voldemort by degrees. The part of this book, which appeals to me most is not the emotions of these youngsters. Actually they were childish from my perspective. The emotions the Death Eaters and Lord Voldemort had are more compelling for me to look into. Why was Bartemius Crouch Jr. so obedient to Voldemort? Why did Voldemort kill his father and grandparents? “Both of us, for instance, had very disappointing fathers...very disappointing indeed. Both of us suffered the indignity, Harry, of being named after those fathers. And both of us had the pleasure...the very great pleasure...of killing our fathers to ensure the continued rise of the Dark Order!” In point of fact, such tragedies and conflicts are the most
The most prominent feature of Prince Harry in the two Henry1V plays is his absolute isolation. When we first see Harry, he is a pariah and outlaw among his own people, the nobility, and a source of fear and misery for his family. He has no friends in any real sense, just pawns; unlike Hotspur, Mortimer, and even Falstaff, he has no lovers and shows no interest in sexual love. He stands alone in the world, and he stands against all the world. He is motivated only by suspicion, cruelty, pride, and greed for power. People are real to Harry only in so far as he can use them; and, ultimately, the future King can use people only when they are destroyed. His every step is toward death and destruction: the two plays begin with Harry's plot against his tavern friends, which culminates in the sacrificial expulsion of Falstaff, and end with rumours of war, the campaign against France, carried out for reasons of internal political advantage. Harry is what today is commonly described as a psychopath, and the plays demonstrate how such a man can become a successful king and defeat the world, a perfect blend of Machiavel (the immoral villain) and Machiavellian (the amoral strategist).
Harry has a calm trip back home since he has no immediate danger or enemies pursuing him. He wakes up in dumbledore's office and gets an explanation of his past and inner self. “Your mother died to save you. If there is one thing Voldemort cannot understand, it is love. He didn't realize that love as powerful as your mother's for you leave its own mark. Not a scar, no visible sign...to have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever. It is in your very skin. Quirrell, full of hatred, greed and ambition, sharing his soul with Voldemort, could not touch you for this reason. It was agony to touch a person marked by something so good.” Harry returns with the knowledge of the wizard world, gained two very close friends, and overall became a stronger more experienced
Harry Potter has become one of the biggest franchises in literature and film. It has enabled millions of people to live in the wizarding world and experience hatty’s destiny to defeat Voldemort. J.K. Rowling brings a whole slew of magnificent character alive in the pages, and creates villains that instill fear in adults. Although Voldemort killed and tortured hundreds in his quest for power, he is not seen as the evilest person of the series, for that we turn to a toad-like woman in pink. Dolores Umbridge has managed to take the throne as one of the most hatted Harry Potter villain through her manipulation of power, delusional righteousness, and deepest prejudices.
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, is the third book in the trilogy of J. K. Rowlings other Harry Potter books, though she is coming out with four more books in the coming years. Just to quickly run through the two previous books, Harry Potter is a wizard, who’s parents were killed by the worst dark wizard ever known. The reason why Harry Potter is still around, is because Lord Voldemort failed to kill Harry. His spell hit Harry, but then backfired on Voldemort, taking all of his powers with him. Harry is so famous for two things.
Lord Voldemort wanted to be more powerful than death itself. He was power hungry driven and wanted to be invincible. Professor Snape represents the brother who was madly in love with a girl who died and wanted to bring back. Professor Snape never really obtained the stone but he had a lost that impacted his craze. When Snape lost the love of his life Lily, Harry mother, he used that drive to help Harry a boy he could not stand in order to save the world. Harry Potter had the invisible cloak because it was passed down to him from his father. Harry’s father scarified himself in order to pass the cloak down to him. His humility showed Harry that love is the most important magic there is and can save the
The book talks about when Harry was one-year old Voldemort came to his house to kill him. Harry’s father tried to hold Voldemort off without a want in attempt an attempt to let his wife and Harry get away. “Lily, take Harry and go! It’s him! Go! Run! I’ll hold him off (343)!”
Have you ever read a book that bored you to death, but at the end you were like “WOW”! Well that’s the kind of book I’m reading right now, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling. She wrote a really good book, but you wouldn’t think that at the beginning. At the start it was really boring but as you get into it, it gets better and better. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is a book about a person named Harry Potter which people say is “The Chosen One”. The chosen one is a person that has to fight “The Dark Lord”, Lord Voldemort, who is the main villain in the book. In this book, Harry Potter is defeated by Lord Voldemort’s forces which are way beyond Harry Potter’s control.
When Harry Potter became an infant Voldemort try to kill him. Voldemort ended up killing Harry Potter’s parents. Voldemort lost all of his power after this event occurred and he tried to find ways to get power.
His father figured out his wife was a witch when she continued to cast a love potion on him. She stopped casting the spell on him in the hopes that he would continue to love her. However, when the potion wore off he realized how ugly she was and ran away leaving his pregnant wife. When Merope Gaunt, Voldemort's mother, died at childbirth Voldemort was put into a foster home. Throughout his years in the group home he would repeatedly hurt and torture the other kids. One incident that stood out among the others is one day Voldemort took a couple of kids into a cave and the children were never seen again. Voldemort when he was younger had a talent that was not at first explainable. He could effortlessly move stuff and hurt people with his mind and some simple hand movements. It was not until later in his life when Dumbledore came to visit him to tell him about being a wizard and how he was accepted into Hogwarts that his talent was explained. While studying at Hogwarts his hatred for muggles clearly manifested. His hatred for his father grew to such great lengths that he traveled to his fathers house and killed him and all of the other people in that house. With his complete lack of respect for human life lead him to his goals. His first goal was to eliminate all muggles and half blood wizards to create a "pure" world.
The Harry Potter series, written by British novelist J.K. Rowling, is composed of seven novels. The novels and films take the audience through Harry Potter’s life growing up as a wizard. When Harry was just a child, his parents, Lily and James Potter, were murdered by an evil wizard, Lord Voldemort. When Voldemort attempted to use a
...ed Harry’s misery, she was the one who finished it off. Even after all he had been through, Harry never gave up on earning her love, and finally asked why she hated him.
A half heard prophecy of a potential threat, spoken by a women commonly thought of as a fraud, brought to him by someone desperate to prove himself to Voldemort. He spends the next year after hearing that prophecy hunting down the one that might have the potential to kill him. Moreover, the prophecy is set in motion by Voldemort trying to kill Harry. If he had just let it go and ignored the prophecy, Harry would have never been the chosen one and Dumbledore would have never figured out about his horcruxes. Harry would have been perfectly happy being a normal student. Voldemort’s fixation on the prophecy forced Harry into that role, and lead to Voldemort’s death. His obsession with the prophecy eventually leads to his downfall.