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- The theme of Choice and Chance: How Harry Potter does discusses the antithetical concepts of ‘choice’ and ‘chance’?
· one’s choices and the inevitability of one’s mortality. ( Harry Potter and Lord Voldemort)
· Somewhere choices made in the novels are not all for the good. (Ex. Peter Pettigrew makes the choice to betray his friends). Hero sacrifices his/her choice for others.
· Malfoy choose Voldemort’s way or choice and becomes a Death Eater himself.
· Tom chooses at a young age to cause pain to others.
· Tom and Harry were highlighting the priority of choices over abilities. Harry and Voldemort preferred different choices for use of their abilities. Draco also chooses choice to support good which make him good at the end.
“It Is Our Choices”:-
...Over and over again in the novels it is made clear that it is a person’s choices and actions that are the defining elements of his moral character. It is not our ancestry, social roles, or wealth that makes us who we are. It is, as Albus Dumbledore tells Harry in Chamber of Secrets, “our choices . . . that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities” (CoS p. 333). The key action before the first book of the series begins is Lily Potter’s choice to protect her son at the cost of her own life. Later, Hermione Granger makes the heroic choice to challenge the racism behind the slavery of the house-elves. Neville Longbottom chooses not to step aside so that Harry, Ron, and Hermione can leave their dormitory to go looking for the Sorcerer’s Stone, and Neville chooses in Deathly Hallows to fight on at Hogwarts even after the Death Eaters take over. The choices made in the novels are not all for the good. Peter Pettigrew makes the choice to betray his friends and thus forever casts his lot with the forces of evil. We are told that Tom’s mother, Merope Gaunt Riddle, chooses her own death instead of staying alive to care for her son.
The books’ tone and plot darken with Rowling’s fifth installment, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2003). Here, Rowling investigates political ideologies as Harry grows more confident, now an intelligent fifteen-year-old who has found family among the friends he fights alongside. And here too, Rowling creates a new level of emotional pain for Harry, which readers experience vicariously, feeling Harry’s agony as Sirius leaves him forever. Following the fifth book’s publication, Rowling’s Harry Potter series had sold two-hundred and fifty million copies worldwide and had been translated into fifty-five languages (Watson par.4). The sixth book broke this record, selling almost nine million copies during the first twenty-four hours of its release (“Potter Book” par.1).
Voldemort, in his ruthless, futile quest for immortality, openly rejects his own humanity. This prevents him from ever really understanding what life is about and what makes it so precious. It blocks him from appreciating the power of love and its fundamental role in human life. It is this failure to recognize and accept his humanity that makes his irredeemable evil possible, and ultimately, is what leads to his defeat. And it is Harry’s acceptance of his mortality that allows him to embrace his humanity and to love. It is this recognition that gives Harry the power to defeat Voldemort. More than that, it makes it possible for Harry to develop into a realized, virtuous adult. In his acceptance of his mortality, “the boy who lived” is able more fully and wholly to live.
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- References:-
- https://reasonpapers.com/pdf/341/rp_341_3.pdf
- https://scholarworks.gsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1034&context=english_theses
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