General information
Name: Harry James Potter (middle name given in honor of his father, James Potter)
Date of birth: July 31, 1980
Parents: James Potter and Lily Evans Potter
Body type: skinny
Distinguishing marks: lightning bolt scar on forehead, round glasses and a scar on the cheek that appeared after the fourth course
Uncommon Possibilities: Wizard, Wyrmtongue
Studying at Hogwarts: 1991-1997
Faculty: Gryffindor
Favorite Subject: Defense Against the Dark Arts
Quidditch: Seeker (1991-1996)
Wand: Holly and Phoenix Feather, 11" long
Broom: Nimbus 2000 (1991-1993), Lightning (since 1993)
Wife: Ginny Weasley
Children: eldest - James Potter, middle - Albus Severus Potter (named after the last two directors of the Hogwarts school: Albus Dumbledore and Severus Snape (in the English version of the book - Snape), the youngest - Lily Potter
Best friends: Ron Weasley, Hermione Granger, Sirius Black, Rubeus Hagrid, Neville Longbottom, Luna Lovegood
Biography
Infancy (1980-1981)
Harry James Potter was born on July 31 (the same day as JK Rowling) 1980 to Lily and James Potter. James Potter's best friend, Sirius Black, became Harry's godfather. Sirius, James and Lily were part of the Order of the Phoenix, a group of wizards who fought desperately against the Dark Lord Voldemort. They were not outnumbered, but continued to fight despite numerous losses. James and Lily managed to escape death at the hands of Voldemort three times.
Before Harry was born, a prophecy was made that at the end of July a boy would be born who would either be able to defeat the Dark Lord or the Dark Lord would kill him. Under the conditions of the prophecy, Harry Potter, born on July 31, and Neville Longbottom, born on July 30, were suitable. Lord Voldemort heard part of the prophecy from his supporter Severus Snape and decided to destroy the child. Voldemort chose Harry as his victim. James and Lily learned that Voldemort planned to kill Harry, and in October 1981 they used the Loyalty Spell to hide from the Dark Lord. Unfortunately, at the last moment, James Potter's best friend Sirius Black convinced the Potters to choose Peter Pettigrew as the Keeper of the Secret, who turned out to be a traitor and spy for Voldemort, and revealed their whereabouts.
On the evening of October 31, 1981, the Dark Lord appeared in Godric's Hollow and attacked them. James tried to protect his family, but died. The Dark Lord was about to spare Lily, but she stood in his way, protecting the child. Then he killed her too. This self-sacrifice of Lily turned out to be a vital circumstance for Harry, as it was an ancient sorcery that protected the child. When Voldemort cast the Avada Kedavra spell and it hit Harry, Lily's sacrificial defenses deflected the spell and reversed it. The reflected spell almost killed Voldemort (knocked out the soul from the body), but left a scar in the form of lightning on Harry's forehead. Thus, Harry stopped Voldemort for several years.
The battle between the Potters and Voldemort turned the house into ruins. The good wizard Albus Dumbledore, director of the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, sent the half-giant Hagrid to Godric's Hollow, who managed to save Harry before the Muggles began to investigate what had happened. At the Potter's house, Hagrid unexpectedly met Sirius Black, who asked that Harry be given to him as the boy's godfather. Hagrid didn't agree because he was following Dumbledore's orders. Sirius lent Hagrid his flying motorcycle so that he could take Harry to where the boy would be safe.
Hagrid and Harry were still on the road for the next 24 hours after the incident. Dumbledore apparently provided security on Privet Street. The following evening, Minerva McGonagall met Dumbledore on Privet Street, soon after Hagrid appeared on a flying motorcycle with Harry. The three left Harry at the doorstep of house number 4, the home of Harry's last relatives, Vernon and Petunia Dursley.
A decade of mistreatment (1981-1991)
For the next ten years, Harry's life was filled with abuse and deprivation. His aunt Petunia, sister Lily, and his uncle Vernon were madly in love with their son Dudley, who was pampered in every possible way, and Harry was kept in a closet, fed leftovers, forced to wear Dudley's old clothes, which were much larger in size, yelled at him, insulted and beaten. Dudley mercilessly mocked Harry, using the support of his parents, as well as his physical strength (Dudley was six times larger in size and fat, while Harry was thin and bespectacled).
Three times during these years, the Dursleys were visited by Uncle Vernon's sister, Marge. She took great pleasure in chastising Harry. She gave Dudley expensive gifts and brought something terrible to Harry or forgot about him altogether. She often took her beloved bulldog Sinister with her. When Harry was nine, she let the dog chase the boy up a tree, where he had to stay well past midnight until Marge called the dog away.
In addition, the uncle and aunt decided to suppress the magical beginning in him. They never talked about his true origin. He was told that his parents died in a car accident, and a scar on his forehead appeared from there. The first rule in the Dursleys' house was "don't ask questions." Their goal was to keep Harry subjugated and oppressed in the hope that he would not be able to develop what they considered an abnormal magical aptitude. They sent him to the same school as Dudley, who continued to bully him there as well. Dudley's friends joined in the bullying, and the other students, fearful of Dudley and his friends, avoided talking to Harry.
Despite the efforts of the Dursleys, Harry managed to manifest magical abilities. When one day Aunt Petunia was pissed off by Harry's messy hair and she cut it off with kitchen scissors, Harry woke up the next morning with newly grown hair. On another occasion, Dudley and his buddies were chasing Harry, who suddenly ended up on the school roof. Harry dyed the teacher's wig blue and shrunk Dudley's ugly sweater so he didn't have to wear it. And also, when they went with the whole family to the zoo, he began to talk to the snake and she attacked Dudley from the aquarium. After that, Harry was imprisoned in the closet of the Dursleys' house.
By the age of ten, Harry had grown into a thin, useless boy with eternally disheveled black hair and a narrow face. His eyes, like his mother's, were emerald green. He wore taped glasses that had been broken in constant fights with Dudley. Harry was unusually fast, a knack developed by constantly trying to avoid being beaten by his cousin.
His life changed dramatically in the summer of 1991. Harry Potter began to receive strange letters that frightened his uncle and aunt. They destroyed the letters, preventing Harry from reading them, but the letters continued to come in increasing numbers. In an attempt to avoid the letters, they ended up hiding in a hut on a cliff surrounded by the sea. During the night, during a violent storm, Harry glanced at his sleeping cousin's watch, counting down the minutes and seconds to his eleventh birthday. At the very moment that Harry's birthday arrived, Hagrid burst into the hut, only to be surprised to find that Harry had no idea about his magical origin. Hagrid told the boy all about his past and drove Harry to Diagon Alley on the morning of July 31, 1991 to buy school supplies. A month later, on September 1st, Harry took the Hogwarts Express and arrived at the School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. "Hogwarts".
Life at Hogwarts
Harry Potter entered Hogwarts at the age of 11 and spent 6 years there, except for summer holidays. There he found new friends such as Ron Weasley, Hermione Granger, Neville Longbottom, Ginny Weasley and others. He also found new enemies - Draco Malfoy, Crabbe, Goyle and Voldemort.
Further fate
After defeating Voldemort, Harry became head of the new Auror department at the Ministry of Magic and married Ginny Weasley. Harry and Ginny have three children: James (oldest), Albus Severus (middle) and Lily (youngest).
On July 31, 2016, Little, Brown and Company published the eighth part of the Potter series titled "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" - and this time it is not the usual "year in the life of wizards" format, but a script book for a play that has already been staged on the London stage. The authors of the publication were not only JK Rowling, but also screenwriter Jack Thorne and director John Tiffany. On this occasion, we decided to recall what important things happened in the seven Potter books, translated into 67 languages.
"Harry Potter" is a coming-of-age novel for millions of people, a 7-book about a boy who conquered evil in himself and in the world. Regardless of age, all people today are divided into those who have or have not read Harry Potter. You may not like these novels, but you cannot ignore the fact that it was this book that influenced mass reading at the beginning of the 21st century. All parts are filmed, and fans hunt for many owners of the Harry Potter name. For example, in the US state of Florida, a 70-year-old man named Harry Potter now lives, and the pensioner is constantly disturbed by calls from children, while TV channels seek to interview him.
Meanwhile, the first novel about Harry Potter could never come out: publishers did not agree to print such a thick book. Few people believed that in the age of short messages, children, and then, as it turned out, adults were ready to read hundreds of pages of a story about a young wizard. The first edition of the book - 1,000 copies - was released after a positive evaluation of the 8-year-old daughter of the publisher. Have we thought about the questions a children's book about the wizarding world raises?
Harry Potter
Harry Potter - an orphan 11 years old, a scar on his forehead, round glasses. He lives with his half-brother with his aunt and uncle, relatives consider him abnormal and keep him in a closet under the stairs. This story is somewhat reminiscent of the story of Cinderella, don't you think? Even before Harry was born, a prophecy was made that a boy would be born at the end of July, whose parents challenged Voldemort (popularly the Dark Lord or He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named) three times and remained alive. He will either be able to defeat the Dark Lord, or he will die at his hands. Voldemort is an evil mage who is defeated 10 years before the time the first book begins, while trying to destroy Harry's entire family. But thanks to the maternal sacrifice, the boy remained alive, and the Dark Lord became a ghost and now wants to be resurrected. The action of 7 books takes place in a world similar to England in the 90s.
"Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone"
In the first part, Harry Potter is 11 years old and his relatives prevent him from learning that he is a wizard and belongs to another world. All 7 books they will harass Harry and consider him crazy. However, already at the beginning of the story, on Harry's birthday, a messenger from the world of wizards comes to Harry - the forester Hagrid: a half-giant who will become a true friend of the young magician. The forester guarding the forest - a place of initiation and mystery - invites Harry Potter to Hogwarts School of Wizardry (usually owl invitations are brought to children, but Harry's uncle and aunt burned these letters).
The boy turns out to have savings in the bank of wizards, patrons, and friends for life appear - Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger. A journey of 7 years begins. Harry leaves the world of people (muggles) and goes to school on a train that leaves from platform 9¾, King's Cross station in London. Only the elite, young magicians, to whom the owl brought the same invitation, get to this platform. On the train, Harry also meets the first enemy - Draco Malfoy - an anti-hero, the cunning son of one of the servants of evil.
There are four faculties in Hogwarts: Ravenclaw - wise men, Hufflepuff - hard workers and kind people, Slytherin - cunning and zealots of blood purity, Gryffindor - brave heart. Remember, Slytherin students, like the founding father of the Salazar faculty, stand for the purity of blood - only those who have both mom and dad wizards can get there. No direct fascism, but then it will become clear that the founder of the faculty, while he was alive, and many of his graduates - the future servants of Voldemort - would like to see a world without dirty blood, without those who have only one wizard parent. A talking hat distributes the students among the faculties, which first offers Harry the path of "pure blood" - Slytherin. However, the heart of the young magician tends to Gryffindor.
Every year at Hogwarts, Harry Potter learns about his personal history. Voldemort, who represents evil in the world of Harry Potter, is still a disembodied spirit, but he really wants to acquire corporeality, and Harry regularly interferes with him. While the Dark Lord only has enough strength to capture weak creatures - from field mice to weak-willed people, one of them turns out to be a teacher of protection from dark forces.
Harry is a hero who will always cause discontent, because he is constantly lucky and often unexpectedly comes first. For example, he becomes the youngest player in Quidditch - a sport in which broomsticks are flown and balls are thrown into vertically fixed rings in the air. They try to kill Harry because he is the only one who survived the attack of the Dark Lord, in fact, the boy carries the knowledge of death. The murder breaks down, and then Voldemort's servant wants to force Harry to get the philosopher's stone - an excellent remedy for aging, just for incorporeal evil. The stone that grants immortality is hidden in the mirror of desires - everyone who looks will see their dream on the mirror surface, so many went crazy at this mirror, spending most of their lives there. Only those who "really" do not want to get the philosopher's stone, for example, Harry Potter - the boy is completely devoid of selfishness. The director intervenes in the matter - the great and kind wizard Dumbledore, Harry's mentor and some analogue of Gandalf from The Lord of the Rings. The boy is saved, evil remains in the air, and Harry realizes that his life is a struggle.
"Harry Potter And The Chamber of secrets"
In this part, the students of Hogwarts begin to freeze and turn into stone, and next to the petrified bodies, someone leaves the inscription "The Chamber of Secrets at Hogwarts is open."
The school of wizardry keeps many legends, one of them is about a secret room - a place created by Salazar Slytherin - a monster lives there that kills "half-breeds" - a basilisk.
All the Harry books are built like detectives, we have suspense and anxiety, and the stone ghetto is actually waiting for young "wrong" magicians.
In the same part, Harry Potter suddenly learns about his ability to communicate with snakes - the possibility of evil within the young man himself. Soon he begins to hear a snake voice from the walls of the castle, but writes it off as hallucinations. Everyone suspects that it is Harry Potter who turns students into stone, that he released a monster - a young magician will rarely be trusted in this world, he is too strange.
Harry is helped not only by people, but also by things: the world of wizards is full of artifacts. So, in the hands of a young magician there is a map of marauders, showing where all the living creatures are around you while you are at school and next to it, and an invisibility cloak that performs its usual functions. But evil also has its artifacts: Harry finds a strange diary that shows him fragments of the life of a young Voldemort. And here infantilism makes itself felt - Harry does not tell anyone about his video sessions with someone else's past.
In the chamber of secrets, young wizards meet a basilisk and a young Voldemort. Once upon a time, an evil magician studied at Hogwarts, found a basilisk and subjugated it to his will, and the bodies of petrified wizards helped him to gain a corporeal shell in this part of the Pottery for some time. Harry feels the connection between the Dark Lord and the diary, intuitively sticks the basilisk's poisonous fang into the pages and the diary goes into the world of waste paper - the evil has not yet revived. An important feature of the confrontation between Harry Potter and evil forces is that the young magician almost always acts intuitively, he does not know, but he feels. The Chamber of Secrets and the rest of the Potter books are built like detective stories, but in the end we are never told the whole truth.
"Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaban"
With each successive book, more death awaits us and fewer safe places. On the school train, Harry encounters the Dementors, servants of Voldemort, "blind dead bodies" floating in the air and sucking positive emotions out of living beings. The Dementor is our revived anxiety, when it approaches, a person experiences horror, fear, despair, the world darkens, the temperature drops. A new dark arts teacher, Remus Lupin, a half-werwolf friend of Harry's father, teaches the young wizard and his friends how to summon a patronus, a kind of positive force that takes the form of an animal. To invoke a patronus, a person will have to remember and experience joyful memories. Defense Against the Dark Arts teachers don't stay at school for more than a year and sooner or later die a violent death or go insane. Once again, we are faced with the fact that evil is usually active and attacks, while good repels attacks. Evil is always there, in this part we learn that Ron Weasley's rat is actually Voldemort's old servant, who has been hiding at his side for many years waiting for the darkness to come.
If evil usually attacks on the sly, then good can be carried by changing the laws of time and space. Hermione, Harry's friend, uses a "scholastic" time-wheel that allows her to go back in time and attend more classes. Harry travels back in time to save himself and his godfather Sirius Black in the present. Physical laws do not forgive only the meeting of different temporary versions of one person, and magical things teach the heroes of responsibility.
"Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire"
Serenity leaves the world of Harry Potter completely. Death Eaters come to an international Quidditch tournament and start a mayhem. Students are told about three forbidden spells, life in the magical world depends on this knowledge. Instead of sexual harassment, you can simply be tortured with the word “Cruciatus” for a long time - outwardly it looks like the body of a paralyzed person placed in a cube. Other forbidden spells are "Imperio" - control of someone else's will and "Avada Kedavra" - instant death. Wizards consider death, pain and lack of will - the choice of the person himself, and not another magician. The world of wizards is not only inhabited by magical heroes ready to fight and win, most magicians want peace, at least not to violate the integrity of their body, mind and life.
Harry is supposed to break the rules, all his actions show the reader that the rules do not exist. Harry, as a hero, cannot escape the adventure - and he becomes the fourth participant in the tournament of the three wizards - something like the Olympic Games, or rather a triathlon: steal the egg guarded by the dragon, unravel the secret of the egg and save your friend from the bottom of the sea, then go through the labyrinth in which everyone wants you dead, and finally, find the goblet of the three wizards. A hero who breaks the rules accepted by the community receives an unexpected ending as a punishment. After all the tests, Harry and the second winner, senior student Cedric Diggory, meet at the goblet. Victory in the hands of Gryffindor: touch - and the heroes are in the cemetery. So the victory turns into a short ritual of the resurrection of Voldemort, the cup turns out to be a portal. At the graveyard, Voldemort's servant sheds Harry's blood on the grave of the Dark Lord's father. The question of blood is one of the most important in Pottery - the dark forces and in the soul all the representatives of Slytherin are ready to destroy the "Mudbloods" - the most terrible curse in the world of magicians. The rest of the wizards are tolerant.
So, Voldemort has revived, but cannot kill Harry, their magic wands turn out to be made of the same material, a phoenix feather and part-time symbol of immortality. In this book, they tried to kill Harry for the fifth time, but his "comrade in arms" Cedric Diggory dies.
"Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix"
The dark side of the magical world begins to seep into the human world. Harry saved his stepbrother from a long relationship with the Dementor. The court of wizards accuses Harry of illegal use of magic (you can conjure after 17 years and so that people do not see). Harry is justified, but the Ministry of Magic does not want to recognize the return of Voldemort: so far only Harry has seen the embodiment of evil, and Dumbledore takes his word for it. The media is on the side of the conservative ministry, it is easier to blame one teenager for insanity than to believe in the return of evil. By the way, Harry feels him physically - he has a scar (a trace from the first attempt on his life) - and mentally - at night the boy has only nightmares.
The Ministry decides to show its power over Harry Potter's body: the new dark arts teacher Dolores Umbridge forces him to come to her and write with a special pen "I will not lie anymore." This is how the ministry, through its protege, reacts to the appearance of uncomfortable information: a scar with this inscription remains on Harry's hand, and lines written in blood on the sheets. The Ministry not only turns a blind eye to such punishments, but ignores “protection from dark forces”: if, in the opinion of the authorities, dark forces have not been revived, then why learn to protect themselves from them?
And Harry again violates all prohibitions. For example, to meetings. And he creates a detachment of Dumbledore - trains students in case of the arrival of evil.
On the pages of The Order of the Phoenix, we are shown with maximum breadth the work of censorship and what the policy of closed eyes and tied hands leads to.
Evil constantly plays on the feelings of the young magician. Harry's consciousness in a dream is attacked by the Dark Lord, and the boy is deceived: he is shown a world in which evil wizards have caught the good ones and torture them in the secrets department of the Ministry of Magic, among the victims is Harry's godfather Sirius Black. What is the hero doing? He rushes to save his loved ones and does not expect help from adults, this preserves his infantilism: one of the laws of the children's world is not to involve adults in your problems. Dumbledore's detachment goes to the dungeons of the ministry, to the department of secrets and falls into a trap, only evil wizards are nearby, but somewhere on the shelf there is a prophecy that hides the secret of the relationship between Harry Potter and Voldemort - the answer to the question, is it part of is he of that strength? Joanna Rowling has done everything clearly: the prophecy can only be taken by the one to whom it is related - you will only know your fate yourself. The Ministry of Harry Potter is trying to kill for the sixth time, but Dumbledore helps him escape, but Harry's godfather, Sirius Black, dies. The peculiarity of the gradual battle between good and evil is that we often worry about the death of good heroes, usually more of them die than evil ones.
"Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince"
After the return of Voldemort, his allies, the Death Eaters, also awakened. The sleep of a simple wizard will no longer be peaceful. The Order of the Phoenix is also resurrected - a collection of adequate and strong magicians who understand that evil is evil. And the place for their meetings is the house of Harry's godfather, Sirius. And this year at school, Potter again demonstrates incredible abilities - he begins to brew potions better than anyone, although he used to interfere with everything in a row and often his “brew” exploded. He is assisted by a potions textbook, with comments by the half-blood prince, and he was none other than Severus Snow in his school days. So, Harry grows up, and he increasingly has to make strengths out of his weaknesses, master unpleasant skills, learn more and more about the world. It turns out that Voldemort, during his first life, divided his soul into 7 parts, placing them in storage-horcruxes, such as a diary or a snake. To create one Horcrux, you need to kill at least one creature. Now it's time for Harry to find and destroy all Horcruxes. Then, and only then, Voldemort will perish completely. In this part, JK Rowling prepares Harry for independence. His mentor Dumbledore dies, and Harry decides that studying is undoubtedly important, but saving the world comes first. Next year, his plans are far from lessons and textbooks - to find and neutralize, this is what our hero is preparing for.
"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows"
As soon as Harry becomes an adult, the hunt immediately begins for him. Before the start of the school year, they try to kill him 7 times, now collectively. As a result, his bird, the owl Hedwig, and one kind wizard, the Auror Alastor Moody, die. Harry understands more and more that he has become a decisive pawn in the game of good and evil and brings death to his loved ones, and leaves. Together with Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, they search for Horcruxes. And young wizards can be understood. In addition to saving the world, their quiet life is also at stake.
While Harry is destroying the soul of Voldemort in parts, evil forces are planning to attack the Hogwarts school of magic - death eaters, giants, the whole cheerful company from the side of evil. The school is preparing for a siege, and a sense of sincere solidarity is in the air. "Protect the school!" - the stone guardians of Hogwarts come to life on the orders of Minerva McGonagall. At this moment, you understand that Rowling was able to create a school that you want to protect and die for, for a place where you are happy "not like everyone else." Meanwhile, Harry learns from the memories of Severus Snow that the professor is not an enemy, but the last Horcrux is inside Harry Potter himself. So, this time, in order to defeat evil, you need to defeat yourself - to sacrifice yourself. And Voldemort kills Harry. True, death is still symbolic, in the end Harry is alive and defeated everyone.
What can we expect from the eighth book, when the world has already been saved, and Harry has grown up? Perhaps we will be told a story about a new evil that comes into the world with a new generation of children who have to grow up.
In Beedle the Bard's tale, Death tricked the wizard brothers into taking their lives by inviting them to choose one gift each. The older one asked for a powerful wand, the middle one for a resurrection stone, and the younger one for an invisibility cloak. Thus, the Deathly Hallows were born.
Fans believe that Voldemort, Severus Snape and Harry Potter are the embodiment of the three brothers, and Dumbledore is Death. It all fits: the Dark Lord was selfish and greedy for power. Having obtained the elder wand, he lost his life. Snape grieved for Lily Potter and longed to be reunited with her. Harry had an invisibility cloak that saved him more than once.
Why is Dumbledore here? And despite the fact that the director of Hogwarts was the owner of all the deathly gifts. Moreover, it was he who gave them to the wizards. Some will argue that the Dark Lord stole the elder wand from Dumbledore. This is not entirely true. Do you really think that the greatest headmaster of Hogwarts would allow Voldemort to take possession of a powerful artifact?
And all three of them died because of Dumbledore. The Dark Lord was killed by Harry, but he would not have succeeded without a teacher. Snape sacrificed his life by trusting the professor. And Potter accepted death consciously, meeting Death as an old friend.
The theory is slightly spoiled by the fact that Harry Potter received both the invisibility cloak and the resurrection stone. But who are we to destroy such a beautiful metaphor for the tale of Death. Moreover, it is one of favorite JK Rowling's theories.
That's definitely a crazy theory. It's hard to believe that the strict but fair McGonagall is a Death Eater. However, a user named miss DW considers the professor a traitor and treats her with distrust.
For starters, McGonagall was rude about Muggles in Sorcerer's Stone. She called them "not exactly stupid". Quite a harsh remark for a wise old sorceress. We know the professor teaches the perfect art for a double agent - transfiguration. This craft is based on changing matter and hiding one's own "I".
The most interesting thing is that the professor is not very concerned about the safety of Harry Potter. Sending a child to the Forbidden Forest inhabited by terrible creatures is a very drastic punishment.
But most of all questions are caused by details that lie in completely unremarkable things. Recall the scene with the troll in Philosopher's Stone. Snape and Quirrell appeared in the toilet, which is quite logical, as well as McGonagall. How did she know where to look for Harry? Look at the joint photo of all members of the Order of the Phoenix. She's missing someone. But McGonagall was close to Dumbledore, at least after the war with Voldemort.
img01.deviantart.net There are many small details in books and films that support this theory, but we will not pay attention to them. Yet Minerva McGonagall does not look like an evil Death Eater. Moreover, in the battle for Hogwarts, she fought without hesitation with all the minions of the Dark Lord.
The saddest and creepiest theory worthy of a separate film in the style of Martin Scorsese. Her supporters are sure that Harry Potter never left the dark closet under the stairs, did not receive a letter from Hogwarts and did not fight Voldemort. Some fans believe that he simply fell asleep and did not wake up, remaining in the magical world forever.
JK Rowling herself knows about Harry's theory of insanity. In one of the interviews, the writer admitted that the wizard is in many ways similar to her. They had the same unfortunate past. It can be assumed that the world of magic and wizardry is a rethinking of JK Rowling's childhood. That's probably why she didn't deny the idea.
One of the pillars on which the conflict between Harry and Voldemort rests is prophecy. It reads: "One of them must die at the hands of the other, for neither can live in peace while the other lives." In Rowling's interpretation, Harry must kill the Dark Lord or die by his hand. But the words of the prophecy can be understood in another way: the one who remains will never die, because there will be no person capable of killing him.
Voldemort confirms this theory with an endless search for immortality. If you remember, he divided his soul into several parts. This allowed him to stay alive when his physical body was destroyed. Perhaps Harry will live forever, watching his loved ones and friends one by one.
This red-haired guy with a stupid hairstyle is a teacher at Hogwarts? It's hard to believe, but there are some similarities between the two characters. They are both red-haired, they love chocolate frogs, and Dumbledore confessed his love for Bertie Botts candies, although they were not there in his youth. In addition, the professor's dream of knitted socks as a gift is very similar to Ron's attempt to apologize to his mother for being so dismissive of her handmade gifts.
But how could this happen? Very simple. In the world of Harry Potter, they are not considered something unusual. Recall at least the time-turner from Prisoner of Azkaban.
Fans believe that there is a parallel timeline in which Voldemort won, killed Harry and Dumbledore and gave humanity hell.
In a parallel universe, there are separate resistance cells, one of which is Ron. Presumably, he found an unusual time-turner and traveled back in time, becoming Dumbledore.
If you think a little, there will be many questions for the headmaster of Hogwarts. Of course, he was a perceptive person, but throughout the story, it seems that Albus knows everything in advance. It is unlikely that Dumbledore could have sent Harry to certain death to the Basilisk if he had not been sure of the boy.
Another great screencap idea. Relying on this theory, you can look at all the actions of the director from the other side. That's just JK Rowling denied it in 2005, which is a pity.
The Dursleys are definitely unpleasant people. But what if there is another explanation for their disgusting behavior? It is known that one of the Horcruxes was in Harry. We all know how this artifact affects others. Ron almost went crazy because of him, and after all, Weasley was a wizard. It is unknown how the artifact affects ordinary people.
It turns out that the Dursleys lived next to the Horcrux for 11 years. No wonder they treated Harry so badly. This theory does not rule out that the Dursleys did not like the Potters, but even the most heartless adoptive parents could not mock a child like that. Perhaps the effect of the artifact fueled their dislike for the family of wizards and caused real hatred.
J. K. Rowling described in detail the modern world of magic and sorcery. Sometimes she turned to his historical past, but we never learned about many events. Like why wizards hide from Muggles. The fans had to find the answer themselves. Reddit user Celeritas365 concluded that the wizards fought the Muggles and lost.
The Ministry of Magic is more like a department than a full-fledged government. Recall how the Minister for Magic in Goblet of Fire said he had to inform the Prime Minister of England about the dragon. Although wizards never let ordinary people into their affairs and secrets.
Dumbledore's dislike of the Ministry is quite right, because it is thoroughly imbued with the spirit of bureaucracy.
Ministers hush up high-profile cases, deny the negative consequences and hide behind the law, like ordinary officials. The ministry building also raises some questions: why are there so many elements from the Muggle world in its architecture? Why do wizards even need elevators when they have a teleporter?
The answer is simple. A long time ago, there was a conflict between wizards and Muggles, in which the latter emerged victorious. In this case, Voldemort's desire to destroy the human race seems completely justified. The Dark Lord hated humans because he knew the truth and wanted to save pureblood wizards from slavery.
Harry Potter was protected by powerful magic, thanks to his mother, who managed to cast an ancient spell of protection during the attack of the Dark Lord. His mother sacrificed her life to save Harry, and that protection was passed on to her next of kin, her sister. Ancient magic ceased to act only in two cases: upon the onset of adulthood (for wizards, this is the age of 17 years), or if he left his aunt's house forever. In the seventh part of the book, he leaves the house on Privet Street for good, a few days before his coming of age.
Harry Potter was Voldemort's unplanned Horcrux. He became him at the time of Voldemort's murder of his mother in Godric's Hollow (Harry himself was then 3 months more than one year old). This led to several consequences:
Harry Potter has great powers in Defense Against the Dark Arts. As early as his third year, he learned to summon a Patronus.
Harry Potter was a brilliant Quidditch player. Already in his freshman year, he played for his faculty as a catcher, becoming the youngest catcher in the last 100 years. In total, he caught the Snitch and brought victory to his team in 7 out of 9 games (see the Quidditch article for more details). His ability to fly on a broom came in handy not only in Quidditch: in the first book, Harry caught the key bird, in the fourth he defeated the dragon in the Triwizard Tournament, in the seventh he saved Draco Malfoy from Hellfire.
Harry Potter spoke Serpentine or Parseltongue. parseltongue). This ability, which the boy had not previously suspected, manifested itself in him even before studying at Hogwarts, in a terrarium (although he himself did not understand that he was hissing and not talking), when the Dursleys, seeing no other way out, were forced to take him to a trip to the zoo they arranged for Harry's cousin Dudley Dursley's birthday.
Harry grew up in a difficult emotional environment, but this did not affect his character badly. In addition to kindness and courage, Harry is endowed with such qualities as mercy, compassion and the ability to sacrifice himself. Harry is a good friend and comrade, does not like to lie, always tries to help those who need help. At the same time, Harry knows how to stand up for himself, which is explained by the firmness of his character. Harry is often tormented by controversy over being Voldemort's Horcrux, but his light side has always prevailed. Along with the loss of his godfather, Harry gains a certain grim determination. Harry's shortcomings include some secrecy and isolation, often he believes that he can only act alone.
The parents of Harry Potter, who is a descendant of the Peverell brothers, are wizards - Aurors Lily (Evans) Potter and James Potter. James Potter's best friend and fellow student, the animagus Sirius Black, became Harry's godfather.
Before the birth of Harry in 1980, the seer Sibyl Trelawney uttered a prophecy in a conversation with the head of Hogwarts, Dumbledore, that at the end of July a boy would be born whose parents three times challenged the former Hogwarts student Voldemort, who had entered the path of evil, and who either could defeat the Dark Lord, or perish at his hands. Under the conditions of the prophecy, Harry Potter and the son of the Aurors Frank and Alice Neville, who was born a day earlier, Longbottom, were suitable. Lord Voldemort, having learned about the prophecy from his supporter Severus Snape, decided to destroy the child, choosing Harry. Lily and James Potter used a spell of trust to make Sirius Black the Keeper of the Secret, but at the last moment, Black managed to persuade the family couple to transfer the secret of Lily, James and Harry's hiding place to another animagus - Peter Pettigrew, who betrayed them.
The following year, on the evening of October 31, the Dark Lord, having learned about Harry's location, appeared in Godric's Hollow and attacked the family. James tried to protect his family, but died from the Avada Kedavra spell. At the request of Severus Snegg, the Dark Lord was going to spare Lily, but she stood in his way, protecting the child. Then he killed her too. When Voldemort tried to kill Harry, Lily's Ancient Protection Spell deflected the spell, leaving only a scar on Harry's forehead and hitting Voldemort, This neutralized him for many years, resulting in the final Horcrux that Harry became, with a lightning bolt scar on his forehead. This was the first attempt to kill Harry Potter. The child was taken from the scene of the tragedy by Rubeus Hagrid and left on the threshold of the house of relatives - the Dursley family.
For the first 10 years of his life, Harry lived unaware of the existence of magic. The Dursleys kept him subjugated and oppressed, hoping in this way to neutralize the magical abilities that they considered abnormal. However, despite this, Harry sometimes showed magical abilities, for which he was punished each time.
On his eleventh birthday, he began to receive letters from Hogwarts, but the Dursleys destroyed them, preventing Harry from reading them. Because of this letters came again. It ended with the fact that the Dursleys and Harry, who tried to hide from letters in a hut on an island in the middle of the sea, were visited by a half-man - half-giant Hagrid, who told the boy everything about his past and about the world of wizards. Together with him, Harry visited Diagon Alley to buy supplies for the school, and at the same time he met wand maker Ollivander. In addition to shops, in Diagon Alley, Hagrid and Harry visited a branch of Gringotts Bank, and Harry was surprised to learn that he was rich. There, Hagrid took the Philosopher's Stone, created by Nicholas Flamel. A month later, Harry boarded the Hogwarts Express and arrived at Hogwarts.
On the train to Hogwarts, Harry Potter met Ron, Fred and George Weasley and Hermione Granger. Death Eater Lucius Malfoy's son Draco Malfoy also offered him friendship (they had previously met at Madam Malkin's shop in Diagon Alley), but Harry did not like his advice not to be friends with Ron and his disdain for Hagrid. Harry and Draco had a falling out and Draco has been his enemy ever since.
Before Ron said that all evil wizards and wizards go to Slytherin, the Sorting Hat suggested that Harry go to Slytherin, but he refused. Then she sent him to Gryffindor, where Ron and Hermione also got.
During their freshman year, Harry and Ron became friends with Hermione Granger. Potions professor Severus Snape hated Harry because of the difficult relationship with his father James, with whom he had previously studied at the school of witchcraft. In his freshman year, Harry didn't know the reason for this hatred.
Harry showed an outstanding talent for flying on a broomstick. He was accepted as a Seeker for the Gryffindor Quidditch team, becoming the youngest Seeker in over 100 years. In the future, Harry turned out to be an excellent player (for more details, see the Quidditch article).
During the first of the games, the broom began to throw off Harry as a result of the sorcery of the weak and naive Defense Against the Dark Arts professor Quirrell, who served Voldemort. Snape protected Harry with his magic. Thanks to Hermione setting Snape's robe on fire, and in her great rush to do so, she accidentally knocked Quirrell off his feet, the curse ended and the broomstick stopped throwing Potter off. Thus ended in failure the second attempt to kill Harry.
The third such attempt occurred after Harry, with the support of his friends, made his way into the room where the philosopher's stone was located. It turned out that Quirrell, who was possessed by Voldemort, wants to steal it. The purpose of the theft is the revival of Voldemort. Harry managed to prevent Quirrell from stealing the stone and, thanks to magical protection, to hold out in the battle against Quirrell until the arrival of Albus Dumbledore, who saved Harry. With the help of the Mirror of Erised, Harry received the Philosopher's Stone, which was then destroyed. Quirrell died, and Voldemort could not be reborn. So failed the third attempt to kill Harry Potter.
During the beginning of the battle for Hogwarts, during which Remus Lupine dies, Harry reached the Shrieking Hut, where Voldemort, who had mastered the Elder Wand with a snake, was located by that time. There, he was present at the death of Severus Snape, whom the Dark Lord mistakenly recognized as the master of the Elder Wand. The professor, dying, managed to transfer his memories to Harry. From the memory, Harry learned that another Horcrux was himself, and Snape, being a supporter of the Dark Lord in his younger years, because of his love for Lily Potter, went over to Dumbledore's side. Harry decided, by handing over the duty to kill the snake to Neville, to come to Voldemort to be killed.
Harry went to the Forbidden Forest, where, with the help of the Resurrection Stone discovered in the Snitch, he met with his parents and friends Lupin and Black. Then he came to Voldemort, and he attacked him with the Avada Kedavra spell. Waking up in a place that seemed to him like King's Cross Station, Harry met with Dumbledore. After talking with him, he realized that by sacrificing himself, he did the right thing, and part of Voldemort's soul, which was enclosed in him like a Horcrux, was destroyed. Potter was able to come back to life, but he had to pretend to be dead. His body was taken to Hogwarts, after which, by the will of circumstances (during which Neville killed Nagini, who was the last Horcrux), Harry met with Voldemort one on one in the Great Hall. After a brief dialogue, Harry and Voldemort simultaneously fired spells at each other: Voldemort with the Avada Kedavra spell, and Harry Potter with the Expelliarmus spell. Thanks to the Elder Wand, located in Voldemort's possession, but which considered Harry to be its master, both spells shot at the first. Thus Voldemort was defeated.
After defeating Voldemort, Harry married Ginny Weasley. They had three children: James Sirius (senior; named after Harry's father - James Potter and Harry's godfather - Sirius Black), Albus Severus (middle; named after two directors of Hogwarts - Albus Dumbledore and Severus Snape) and Lily Luna ( the youngest; named after Harry's mother, Lily Potter and Luna Lovegood). According to Sibyl Trelawney's prediction in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Harry will live to a ripe old age and become the Minister for Magic and the father of twelve children. Harry is the godfather of Teddy Lupine (the son of Remus Lupin and Nymphadora Tonks, who died in the Deathly Hallows), with whom he has an excellent relationship: Teddy has practically become a member of the Potter family. Headed the Office of the Aurors. Harry also made sure that the portrait of Professor Snape was hung in the director's office ... .
In many ways, the image of Harry is a collective one. Rowling partly borrowed his appearance from her old friend Ian Potter, with whom she played wizards at the age of 2-7 when she lived in Winterbourne. Like Harry, Ian wore round glasses as a child. According to the press, it was from him that Joan took the surname Potter, which she really liked, because for some reason she did not like her own - Rowling. After the book's release, Ian Ruby's mother, who during their childhood was a close friend of Joan Anne Rowling's mother, wrote to Joan congratulating her on her artistic success. In a reply letter, Joan thanked Ruby while reassuring her that Ian was not Harry's prototype at all. Although Rowling herself does not deny the fact that Harry got his last name from Ian Potter, Sean Smith, who wrote a biography of the writer in 2002, suggests that Joan could have taken the last name from the writer Dennis Potter, who lives in Dean Forest, where the Rowling family moved in 1974
Interesting facts about the Harry Potter films that you might not know:
24. The actress who played Moaning Myrtle in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets was 37 years old at the time of filming. She was the oldest actress ever to play Hogwarts students.
23. Rowling used profanity in Rowling's original idea, but the writer later felt that this would be unacceptable for young readers.
22. Publisher Rowling suggested that she use her initials instead of her full name in order to attract the attention of a male audience as well. The writer chose “J.K.”, borrowing the letter K from her grandmother, whose name was Kathleen. Thus, neither "K" nor "Kathleen" is in any way connected with the official name of the writer.
21. Only Alan Rickman (the actor who played Severus Snape) knew about the future fate of his character before the last book was written. Rowling personally shared this secret with him.
20. According to Rowling, the name for Harry's school came from a plant that the writer saw in Kew Gardens in New York.
19. Rupert Grint came to the audition dressed as a drama teacher and rapped about his character. The first lines of his text began as follows: "Hello, my name is Rupert Grint, and I hope you don't think I stink."
18. Contrary to popular belief, the letter "t" at the end of the word "Voldemort" is not pronounced. This name comes from a French word meaning "flight of death".
17. Rowling created the image of the 11-year-old Hermione, starting from herself at the same age. Even Hermione's patronus is the otter, Rowling's favorite animal.
16. During the filming of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, there was a head lice outbreak among children.
15. Tom Felton originally auditioned for the roles of Harry Potter and Ron Weasley, but ended up being cast as Draco Malfoy.
14. The idea for Sirius Black's tattoos was based on tattoos used in Russian prisons. Usually they serve to ensure that others respect and fear this person.
13. Robbie Coltrane (the actor who played Hagrid) had a mini hair dryer and a small fruit bat stuck in his beard during filming.
12. The Dementors, the deadly phantoms guarding Azkaban, were the epitome of the depression that Rowling had been battling for some time.
11. Since 2008, 400 million Harry Potter books have been sold worldwide and translated into 67 languages of the planet.
10. Perhaps the most impressive fact is that JK Rowling became the first writer in the world to earn billions thanks to her works.
9. While filming the kiss scene between Harry and Hermione, Rupert Grint had to be kicked off set for laughing too much.
8. During the filming of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Tom Felton's pockets had to be sewn shut as he constantly tried to smuggle food onto the set.
7. One of the flying cars used in the filming of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets was stolen. Seven months later, she was found through an anonymous phone call to the police.
6. McGonagall's name was engraved on one of the Quidditch trophies in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. It is very likely that the professor was an excellent player in her time, which would explain her interest in this sport.
5. Since many people had problems pronouncing Hermione's name, Rowling voiced it in the movie "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" with the direct participation of Viktor Krum.
4. It took forty copies of Salazar Slytherin's infamous medallion to be created before Harry and Ron could finally destroy it, according to the story
3. When the book "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" was released in the UK, the publisher asked not to sell it until the beginning of the holidays, so that students would not skip classes
2. In order for the actors to better understand their characters, director Alfonso Cuarón had all three main characters write essays about their character. In the best tradition, Emma Watson wrote a 16-page essay, Daniel Radcliffe got off with a small sheet, and Rupert Grint did not do it at all.
1. The least successful Harry Potter film made $90 million more than the most successful Twilight film.
