by ASRA AHMED

Created on: July 27, 2009   Last Updated: July 28, 2009

HARRY POTTER AND DEATH:

This is quite interesting to note that we literally feel the death influencing Harry Potter and his friends, Ron and Hermione, sometimes when they have to be very much careful then not only they become careful but we, the readers, also get influenced and we turn the page, where death and Harry become close to each other, without making noise so that he is not disturbed or doesn't get in danger if we disturb him. We can call this a skill of J.K. Rowling, but in my opinion, it is the fear of death that takes us near Harry Potter and makes us fear for him as well as fear for ourselves.

But one thing that is certain is that just because of his escape from death everyone in the wizarding world knows Harry Potter as The Boy Who Lived, while because of both the Harry Potter and the wizarding world, J.K Rowling is known by the whole muggle world.

Whenever Harry faced the death, it was always in different skins and ways. For example, he faced the death when he was an infant and survived it; till then he had no recollections of life and he didn't know what he was going through at that time. Even until eleven, he had no such memories, but with his encounter with the wizarding world he started to realize the importance of life; especially his life which was, after all, the life of a legend.

So in his first year at Hogwarts, he faced death first time, with the fear of death in his heart and Death looked up at him while he was looking down from his broom stick. He was saved, and besides that he also had some other encounters with death: in his second year, he also mirrored death while his best friend and his would-be wife were about to die, he was okay when all went off. In his third year, he had to fight death which was in the face of domentors. He got away from that alive.

In his fourth year, he saw Cedric being killed, but at that time life influenced him more than death, because life (which was running in him as blood) also became his greatest enemy, as it provided itself to Voldemort and bound him and Harry with double binds; the realization of which didn't prove itself important in Harry until Sirius's death,in his fifth year.

Harry lost his godfather, whom he had gained just two years before his death. in his sixth year, although many crucial things happened to Harry, but the worst of them was Dumbledore's death, which somehow destoyed Harry's inner fear for death. But in his last year, he faced death with the most painful faces not once but loads of times; Dobby's Fred's, Lupin and Tonks's, and in the last his foe/friend Snape's death made Harry feel the pain.

But when he faced the death as being Voldemort's victim, he suddenly became aware how it felt to die. But he survived and was welcomed with open hearts, but when Voldemort died from his own curse, Harry's fear for death was lessened and he knew that death will take living creatures no matter where they are, and how they are but it is a friend as well as an enemy.

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