Harry Potter Essay: 2

The Harry Potter novel series has captured the minds and hearts of millions perhaps even billions of readers. I personally have read the series twice, and have loved every second of devouring this extraordinary series. This series is so long though, it could take days just to explain the plot, theme, and moral. Since we only have a little of time allotted, I shall focus on the Harry Potter novel I have just read; The Half-Blood prince. This work in is the sixth of seven in the world of Harry Potter (Harry is known as in the books the boy who lived, the chosen one, and Dumbledore’s man). In this epic tale, the main themes are bravery, loyalty, and friendship.

 

The reason loyalty is a theme evident in many parts of the book. One of those reasons is clean when the Minister of Magic asks Harry to be their spokes person, (mainly because Harry is famous amongst wizards) Harry says no. The reason he said no, was because he would have to desert his friend and headmaster of the school (Hogwarts) he goes to learn magic; Albus Dumbledore. It is also evident when Hermione goes to the hospital wing of the school to see Ron (Ron and Hermione are Harry’s two best friends), even when they are in the middle of a horrific fight.

           

You can plainly see the theme of friendship in The Half-Blood prince, when Harry tells Ron and Hermione that he’s not returning to Hogwarts next year to finish his last year of magical earning. Instead he tells them that he’s going to look for the remaining Horcrux’s. (A Horcrux is a powerful dark magical object, in which a wizard or witch has concealed a fragment of their soul. The only known way to make a Horcrux is to murder another person. Lord Voldemort (Tom Riddle) holds the known record for making the most Horcrux’s. He has meds six, and has killed at least 50 people.) Harry tells Ron and Hermione that he doesn’t want them to come with, because it will be very dangerous, but Ron and Hermione wear him down and he lets them come with him in the end. If that’s not true friendship, I don’t know what is.

          

If you take a close enough look, you will see bravery as a theme every in this story. Just one of these many examples is displayed when Harry goes with Dumbledore to look for one of the four remaining Horcrux’s. They have to make the journey to the location of the Horcrux through Harry’s least favorite form of magical travel; apparition. (Apparition is the magical act of disappearing from one place, and appearing in the other in less than three seconds. The feeling is very sickly, because it feels like being sucked down a five inch diameter pipe, spinning at an almost impossible speed.) He then has to swim through icy seawater in a cave, and battle an army of Inferi. (Inferi are corpses which are reanimated by a dark wizard to do their bidding like a puppet.) If that’s not courage, I don’t know what is.

         

When only look, you will see the themes bravery, loyalty, and friendship everywhere you look.  People should live by these concepts every day of their life. If people really did we would have peace in this world, which is Harry’s goal in the series. You see, that is why bravery is the most important theme, Harry has to be brave in order to save the wizarding and mortal world from Lord Voldemort. Harry knows that if Voldemort wins, the world will fall into chaos. The only way to find out if Harry wins, is to read this book, and the last; Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.