![]() ![]() It can even conquer death.īy the time Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows opens, however, it seems that death finally has the upper hand. In Rowling's world, that kind of love is stronger than any magic. Rowling's fictional works, was defeated not by power but by loveby a young mother who sacrificed her life to save her young son. Both pointed the way to hope in the face of death.Īnd there was at least one echo from the Scriptures in the Sorcerer's Stone: Lord Voldemort, the Hitleresque dark wizard in J.K. The night I spent with her, I brought along my Bible, the biggest cup of Dunkin Donuts coffee I could find, and a new novel, picked up from the bookstore on the way to the hospital: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.īoth the Bible and the "Boy Who Lived" proved good company during the watches of the night. Not wanting her to die alone, we took turns sitting by her bedside, round the clock. ![]() On New Years Day 1999, she had a massive stroke from which she would never recover. Rowling’s attention to detail in her writing shown by this turn of events and also lost an opportunity to show how Harry’s ability to do the right thing paid off later in life.I first met Harry Potter when my grandmother was dying. By altering Pettigrew’s death in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1, the filmmakers minimized J.K. They may also have been afraid of alienating those audience members who hadn’t read the books, even though the movies also showed Harry’s mercy to Pettigrew. The magical hand, having been created by Voldemort, may have even recognized that having a servant with a life debt to Voldemort’s worst enemy was dangerous, and so it eliminated the threat - ironically saving Harry’s life in the process.Įven aside from the violence of this death that might frighten young viewers, the filmmakers may have felt they were asking too much of audiences to remember the mercy Harry showed to Pettigrew in the third film. ![]() In the book Deathly Hallows, Harry reminded Pettigrew of the life debt that he owed to Harry, causing the hesitation. This also allowed Pettigrew the opportunity to escape and return to Voldemort. The moment was set up in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, when Harry chose to stop Sirius Black from killing Pettigrew and allow him to live. While the movie producers may have been trying to protect younger viewers, they did a disservice to the story arc for Harry and Wormtail. ![]()
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