In fact, it is Lupin who is sitting in front of the fireplace when Harry appears suddenly in the fire, so it is Lupin who's shocked and thrown off by Harry's arrival. Daniel Radcliffe explained why he 'never felt cool' playing Harry Potter. Inferi are not alive nor dead, they are puppets for Dark wizards and witches to use. Looking for smart ways to get more from life? It is not coincidental, then, that murder is the act required of a wizard or witch to create Horcruxes. Anyone who has lost a pet before knows how devastating it is to lose the creature who has been your most loyal confidante and friend. Not only were his best friends Lily and James taken from him, but he was found guilty of betraying them and sentenced to life in prison because of it. The deaths of twelve characters. That being said, the loss of Sirius Black is still one of the saddest moments in the entire series, and many fans will never really recover from it, much like Harry Potter himself. There is no known way to magically reunite a person's soul with his/her body once they have died. He was a crucial part of the fight against the dark and when he died trying to get Harry Potter to The Burrow, it was a very emotional moment. Whereas nearly everything you have said has been prefixed with "I assume". Harry's soul entered that purgatory like place with Voldemort (however little of him) in tow. They also cause an aberrancy of death: the removal of a soul from its body before bodily death. You say Voldemort could not posses Harry. In other words, any other human being who may have entered this Purgatory-like dimension would have experienced a different view of the surroundings depending on their personality and interests. More to the point, the killing curse rebounded off of Harry as an infant, (because of his mother's protection according to JKR). During the six centuries that have elapsed since Beedle wrote the tale, innumerable ways have been devised to maintain the illusion of the continuing presence of one's loved ones. RELATED: 10 Wizard "Problems" From Harry Potter That Have Easy Muggle Solutions. 15 VOLDEMORT. Voldemort, the shell, the humanoid form, is definitely gone, but what happened to the evil part? Harry went into a limbo state (like a coma). Sirius: "What's life without a little risk?". ", As for the "gleam of truimph" it is not a plot hole that Rolwing just left hanging. The sudden silence and sadness that grips the rest of the group really does tell the story with this one. Rather than explain everything again I'll just provide excerts from the book to prove my point. "He took your blood and rebuilt his body with it! The thought is almost too much to bear. And this Dumbledore wasn't real, but just Harry's memory of him. Harry Potter mourns over the dead body of Cedric Diggory. For example, wizarding photographs and portraits move and (in the case of the latter) talk just like their subjects. Yes he could, and does so in Order of the Phoenix, but the experience is so painful for him he is forced out. Dumbledore was a great wizard but even he could not communicate with the dead or 'semi-dead' (if that's a better term in Harry… This is highly unusual, but follows the pattern of Jesus, making the reference to Kings Cross unambiguously religious. An example is when Albus Potter and Scorpius Malfoy went back in time to prevent Cedric Diggory from being killed, he became a bitter young man who joined the Death Eaters and ended up killing Neville Longbottom, and thus inadvertently kept Lord Voldemort from being killed, which in turn led to Harry Potter's death, and changing the course of history into an age of darkness (which also caused Albus to be un-born). For Harry, King's Cross epitomized the beginning of a journey that he took (almost) every year to the only place he ever truly felt at home: Hogwarts. [22] Mandrakes are magical sentient plants whose cries will kill anyone who hears them. GinnyPi 02:19, September 30, 2009 (UTC), That is a very interesting question. Sure, maybe his shock at seeing Harry drove the existence of the mirror right from Sirius' mind. said Dumbledore. The fact that the Weasley twins represented such a positive source of light throughout all eight films is what made it so difficult for fans to grasp Fred's death. Radcliffe added that "the character's death just comes so out of the blue as well" and "was a real shocker. Harry is merely a physical vessel, the same as the locket or the cup. Tonks helped Remus believe he was worthy of love and the two eventually got married. She was arguably the most evil character in the franchise as she had no problem torturing people and making them suffer. One of the most gut-wrenching deaths in the Harry Potter series is that of Sirius Black. OTOH, Harry being a Horcrux would have tied him to the physical plane and prevented his actual death until the Horcrux was detached. "At the time, I didn't know if I'd be working with Gary Oldman again, and that was very sad, and I adored Gary, and working with him was an incredibly formative experience in my life," Radcliffe explained. "He took your blood believing it would strengthen him. Muggles can and do die as a result of magic, usually used deliberately by witches and wizards. However, the killing curse was/is so powerful that it gave Harry an iron-clad bruise, and it did destroy the part of Voldemort that was inside Harry. You look at things very differently than I do. All living things with magical powers, as do those without them, die, and all except the Phoenix are, as individuals, permanently dead thereafter. Voldemort even looked down on his mother for dying, incorrectly believing she was a muggle for suffering what he regards as a weakness; even after discovering she was a witch did not alter his perception of her mortality. that is what happens here.. Harry goes to a tunnel or rather a station from where he can either come back or move on....and he meets Dumbledore who can explain everything to him.. when he finally decides to come back to fight... he awakens from the coma stage...and gains back his consiousness..he finds himself in the forest... the whole chapter being wat he sees in the near death experience so it is definitely going on in his mind.... hope that explains all.. Dobby is easily the most selfless character in the whole series. The Elixir of Life, which is made from the Philosopher's Stone, will grant a person extended life for as long as he/she continues to consume it. Of these deaths, none were natural. Snape's role as a double agent throughout the series has caused him to receive little to no sympathy despite all the sacrifices he has made. Yet according to Dumbledore, happiness can be found in the darkest of times if one only remembers to turn on the light. lol....read the whole thing and you will understand Harry Potter better than J.K Rowling !!!! While it might be a grim way to look at things, the fact is that without the deaths there are no stakes, and the movies made sure that fans were emotionally invested by killing certain characters off. It seems if this potion is used, and the wizard is returned to a resurrected body, they seem to be unable to die until all of the Horcruxes are destroyed, as shown with Lord Voldemort during the final battle of Hogwarts, as only when all of his Horcruxes were destroyed was he killed.