The last Harry Potter is not pagan after all

Attention: Spoilers ahead!

After watching “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2” I came to the conclusion that the last Harry Potter is not a pagan book - assuming the movie follows the book closely. It looks like J.K Rowling followed C.S. Lewis with at least one of the main Christian themes: sacrificial death and resurrection. 

In the New Testament it happens to Jesus, in “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” it happens to Aslan, in “Deathly Hallows” part 2 it happens to Harry Potter himself. Let’s add those deaths happen not accidentally – they are fulfilment of spiritual rules of the game, of old prophecies; they were pre-planned necessity.

To defeat Voldemort who symbolises evil and death Harry Potter must die. Only through this ordeal he can save his friends and defeat Valdemort. Harry goes to meet his bitter end in the forest and dies from Voldemort’s hand. Being dead Harry finds himself in a limbo – a white place somehow resembling the King’s Cross station and he has a choice (compare with Neo being stuck between the worlds at the beginning of “The Matrix: Revolutions”). It turns out a part of Valdemort’s soul lived within Harry Potter. Through his death Harry can be purified and then resurrected which leads to final defeat of Valdemort who has lost his powers. 

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2” is mature, powerful, very well acted and definitely worth watching. 

MG