Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Fan Theory: Did Hagrid Know That Voldemort Unintentionally Made Harry A Horcrux? Theories about characters and other subjects within the Wizarding World have existed for years. However, there is one that hasn’t been considered. Did Hagrid know that Voldemort unintentionally made Harry a Horcrux? Let’s take a look at the facts. The Facts - Common Ground • Voldemort (when he was Tom Riddle) and Hagrid went to school together. • Both were orphans. Tom Riddle’s father abandoned his wife and…

In the young adult novel, Harry Potter, people often see Snape as a misunderstood hero, a guy who had a terrible life but somehow prevailed, but he’s bad person. He’s obsessive, a bully, and just a terrible guy. A lot of Harry Potter fans see Snape’s and Lily’s love as a sad, lost love. Although he might’ve had actual feelings for her, he handled them horribly. Snape mixed up his feelings and mistook obsession for love. He often acted like she was entitled to him, instead of the perfect one for…

Alexandre Desplat is from the final installment of the Harry Potter movies, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, and actually is a mix between two songs, “Severus and Lily’s Theme” and “Dumbledore’s Farewell.” After Severus Snape is murdered by Lord Voldemort, Harry Potter rushes to his side and gathers Snape’s memories in a vial so that he may view them later (it was Snape’s dying wish that Potter take his memories and view them). When Potter is finally able to watch Snape’s memories,…

met. Voldemort loved his servants in a way, but that love was selfish. He only used them to get what he wanted. Voldemort told Harry in the first book that “there is no good or evil, only power and those too weak to seek it” (Rowling 291). All Voldemort cared about was getting what he wanted and maintaining his control and power. When Lord Voldemort sought to kill the Potters, he was doing it out of…

H is for Heroic: Harry sticks by his morals and has a strong sense of what is right and what is wrong. When he firmly believes that an injustice has occurred, he will do anything necessary to set things in order. After he discovered that Sirius Black, the man who he once thought to have killed his parents, was actually innocent and was going to have his soul sucked out of him by the dementors at any moment, Harry was dead-set on saving Black’s life, no matter what the risks. "’Get on— there 's…

“Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light”-Albus Dumbledore. The Harry Potter series, in the opinions of millions, is one of the best book series ever written. There are many characters, alike and different, but we are going to focus on two of the most important of those characters today, Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy, from the Harry Potter series, by JK Rowling, who are not portrayed as friends, or similar people, or alike, but are…

The book, “Gulp; Adventure on the Alimentary Canal” is a non-fiction book written by the author Mary Roach in 2013. The author Mary Roach was born on March 20,1959 and was raised in Etna New Hampshire when after growing she succeeded in school and got a Bachelors of Arts from Wesleyan University in 1981 which is located in middletown Connecticut. Roach specialized in popular science and majored in psychology which has helped her with all her five published books being, Stiff: The Curious Lives…

“We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are.” J.K Rowling stated in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. This powerful and inspiring quote establishes on how all humans make mistakes and they are not always perfect. It illustrates that the decisions one makes will help decide what kind of future will they face. In addition, this excerpt typifies the key to any situation by showing when times get tough, people need to…

According to a recent study, Harry Potter is the most popular watched movies series in the world. We all know that the Harry Potter movies are based on the books. So what does it mean? Is the plot and characters in the movies are exactly same as those in book? While some people get angry if a movie differs from the book that inspired it, others support a filmmaker’s right to make changes. The movie, Smoke Signals (1998), directed by Chris Eyre, is based on Sherman Alexie’s story, “This Is How…

Since the first Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, was published in 1997, J.K. Rowling’s ‘Potterheads’ have done close-readings of the series. From determining detailed Hogwarts house characteristics to theories claiming Ron Weasley is actually Headmaster Dumbledore, the Potter fans have generated seemingly endless ideas and continue to find hidden meanings and symbols in the books. One particular trend in the series is the copious amount of biblical parallels. This is not…