The Harry Potter series has too many themes to count like loyalty good versus evil death
courage and so on but the biggest theme by far is love it's undoubtedly at the center of JK Rowling's
Writing and something that she kept in mind throughout all seven books this ongoing theme
Drives the characters to do what they do in the series love is more than just a sentiment
It has literal magical properties and turns out to be the most powerful magic there is in this video
I'm going to break down the books and explain why love is such an important theme in the series
Dumbledore once told Harry about a room in the Department of mysteries a top-secret part of the Ministry of Magic that is kept locked at
All times. He said it contained a force that is it once more powerful and more terrible than death
Than human intelligence than the forces of nature
It is also perhaps the most mysterious of many subjects for study in the magical world
he of course was talking about love in the
Series love touches Harry at a very young age and not just the sentiment but the literal magic that is love
Harry's life changed forever when Voldemort came to kill his one year old self after hearing a
Prophecy that said that Harry was his greatest threat Voldemort first murdered James Harry's father when he got to have his bedroom
He found a lily Harry's mother protecting her son when Voldemort ordered her to step aside
She refused Voldemort had had enough. He raised his wands and hit her with a killing curse Voldemort
However, had not taken into account the fact that Lily had sacrificed herself for her only son
This triggered the most powerful magic in the world
Love this made the spell rebound and hid Voldemort making him vanish had he not taken
Precautions to stay alive forever the power of love would have killed him
Not only did Lily sacrifice save Harry and kill Voldemort that night but it gave Harry protection for years to come now
Wherever Lily's blood was Harry was safe
This is the reason Dumbledore's are carried to the Dursleys Lily's sister's house
Dumbledore knew that Harry would be mistreated and unloved in the sentimental form
But while he was there love was always with it always
Protecting him as long as he called the Dursleys house his home literally sacrifice lived on and her sister protecting Harry
Every one of the seven books has the theme of love pop up in some shape or form in the first book Lily
sacrifice pops up again here
Harry phases squirrel who has Voldemort on the back of his head because Voldemort is part of quarrel when how he touches him it
physically pains him the protection senses Voldemort and ensures that Harry can not be hurt by him if Quirrell even touches him he get
Lily's love protection. Not only saved Harry but the philosopher's stone as well
the thing that Harry was trying to protect in the second book the relationship between Harry and Dumbledore is expanded on a
Relationship that has a great deal of love as they have a father and son
Dynamic later on they would tell each other that they did love one another those that we love never truly. Leave us Harry
There are things that death cannot touch
Paint and memory and love. However, you applied to this saying I loved you too Dumbledore in the second book
Harry was in the Chamber of Secrets
Facing Voldemort and a basilisk have restates the Baltimore at his loyalty to Dumbledore
And this loyalty is rewarded Fox Dumbledore's Phoenix appears and blinds the basilisk
He also brought with him the sorting hat which reveals to Harry the Sword of Gryffindor
Which he uses to kill the Beast here
Harry learns that love comes with reward in the third book Harry struggles to make a Patronus charm
The only thing that could protect him from the creatures called Dementors
He's unable to do it until the love for his parents gives him the power to do so I was thinking of him
and mom
Seeing the faces
They were talking to me just
Talking
Mr. Memmer ancho's and on top of that
His petronas takes the form of a stag the thing that James his father could transform into when he was alive
His love for his parents gives him power that he never knew he possessed
In the fourth book love is brought up when Voldemort tries to get rid of the
Protection that Lily gave to Harry by putting Harry's blood the blood that carries the protection inside of himself
It works and he can touch Harry again but by doing so he gave Harry even more protection than he had before which will come
up later in the fifth book Voldemort
Uses what he thinks to be Harry's greatest weakness to lure him into a trap
Voldemort shows Harry a fake memory of him torturing his Godfather
Sirius knowing that his love for his Godfather would lure him into the trap that ultimately kills Sirius
Love once again saves Harry
however
When Voldemort attempts to possess him Dumbledore had told Harry that grief was an expression of love and this was proven to Harry here
He felt so much grief or as Dumbledore said love for his Godfather's death
Which physically hurt Voldemort when he tried to possess Harry
And Voldemort
immediately leaves Harry's body because the love that Harry feels
Puts Voldemort and too much pain to bear in the sixth book the model trains Harry to fight Baltimore and during his training
Dumbledore tells Harry that his most powerful weapon is love the one thing that Voldemort can't bear and can't understand
we also learn of boredom what's past and it becomes clear that he was conceived under a love potion that his mother used on his
Father this love potion made it so that when he was born he was unable to comprehend to love
This is the reason why love as Harry's greatest power because Voldemort will never understand it
We also see a flashback of Voldemort telling Dumbledore that nothing
He had seen while traveling the world supported his famous pronouncements that love is more powerful than any kind of dark magic
It's this arrogance to love that led Voldemort, too
Unwittingly provide Harry with tools to defeat him the opportunity to read his mind after
What have his blood inside of him and most of all the lingering?
Protection and Harry's mother gave to him in the seventh and final book during the final battle how he sacrificed himself
By doing this he gave all of his friends and family
Fighting by his side the same protection that his mother had given him through the power of love his sacrifice made his allies
Untouchable until the end of the battle
He was also able to come back to life because Fulda Warren had put Harry's blood inside of him in doing so
even though Harry no longer called the Dursleys house is home the
Protection that was supposed to go away lived on inside none other than Voldemort himself
Allowing Harry to come back to life Harry then used his greatest weapon just as Dumbledore trained him to do and ultimately
Love is what made Harry to feed Voldemort?
There are many other themes of love that pop up through the series most notably with the character Severus Snape
He was in love with Lily Harry's mother when he finished school
He became one of Voldemort's followers and one day he gave Voldemort information that ultimately led to Lily's death
He immediately betrayed Voldemort and went to Dumbledore for his help, but it was too late when he discovered Lily's death
He was described as a man that looked like he had lived a hundred years of misery Snape spent the rest of his life
Protecting Harry the love of his life son and being a double agent
To bring Voldemort down Voldemort was one of the most skilled Wizards at a clemency or mind-reading
But he couldn't tell that Snape was lying to him
But what was the reason for this it was plain and simple because he couldn't comprehend Snape's reason for betraying him his love for Lily
when he revealed this to Dumbledore he cast a Patronus which took the shape of a dough the same Patronus as Lily's an
Indication in the Wizarding World that means you have an undying love for the person whose Patronus you share
after almost
porn
There's also the example of Dumbledore and Grindelwald as boys that you became close and Dumbledore fell in love with
Grindelwald this led him to abandon
Everything he believed in a man who always did the right thing the man that stuck up for muggles and muggle-borns
He went along with Grindelwald ideas taking over and ruling the muggles love
Blinded him and led him to do things that he didn't believe
He later said to Harry did I know in my heart of hearts what Gellert Grindelwald?
Was I think I did but I closed my eyes
ultimately, he came to his senses but years later when he looked in the mirror of Erised the mirror that shows you your deepest and
most desperate desire of your heart
He saw Grindelwald some other smaller
Examples of love include the story of the Peveril brothers each brother had an object that together made up the Deathly Hallows
Cadmus Patrol had a stone called the resurrection stone
It had the capability of her calming loved ones from the dead. He used it to bring the girl
He had once hoped to marry before her untimely death back to life but soon she turned sad and cold
She didn't belong in the mortal world Cadmus couldn't touch her
He couldn't hold her
Driven mad with hopeless longing the love for her drove Cadmus to kill himself so that he could join her once again
Breaking the series down
It's clear that love is one of the most important parts of the story and drives the characters to do what they do
Love is at the heart of this magnificent series
I felt it would be a betrayal of the character if I showed Harry doing anything other than
living what all along he has
Discovered to be true which is that love is the strongest power area
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