Essay On The Death Of Harry Potter

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Harry Potter has to deal with death in a very different way in the final book than most normal people do. Harry has dealt with death his whole life because his parents were murdered by Lord Voldemort when he was just a little boy. People that are important to Harry slowly die off because of what he is. He is “the boy who lived.” There was a prophecy created by a professor at Hogwarts, a school of witchcraft and wizardry, before harry was born that said "The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord approaches. … Born to those who have thrice defied him, born as the seventh month dies … and the Dark Lord will mark him as his equal, but he will have power the Dark Lord knows not … and either must die at the hand of the other for neither can live while the other survives. … The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord will be born as the seventh month dies…" This prophecy states that there would be a boy born that was capable of defeating Lord Voldemort, but not assuring it would happen and that Voldemort would seek out this boy and “mark him as an equal.”
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