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Hey everyone,
Welcome to another installment of Harry Potter Theory. In today’s brief video, we’re going to be taking a look at Harry Potter’s first encounter with the afterlife. More specifically, we’re going to be discussing Harry’s experience with, well..death, and explaining what he saw and took in during the brief period that he spent in limbo. In case you had forgotten, Harry of course dies after travelling to the Forbidden Forest to meet Voldemort:
“Harry looked back into the red eyes, and wanted it to happen now, quickly, while he could still stand, before he lost control, before he betrayed fear— He saw the mouth move and a flash of green light, and everything was gone.”
The next thing we know, Harry is beginning to regain consciousness- from here he quickly realizes that he’s no longer in the Forbidden Forest. In fact, entirely disoriented, he didn’t know WHERE he was, all he knew was that it was unlike any other place that he had been before.
"He lay in a bright mist, though it was not like mist he had ever experienced before. His surroundings were not hidden by cloudy vapour; rather the cloudy vapour had not yet formed into surroundings. The floor on which he lay seemed to be white, neither warm nor cold, but simply there, a flat, blank something on which to be."
His environment was completely surreal, and Harry had lost all of his bearings. In fact, he had no idea if what he was experiencing was real, or just a figment of his imagination. This is reflected in his exchange with Dumbledore before returning to life.
"Tell me one last thing. Is this real? Or has this been happening inside my head?"
To Which Dumbledore replies:
"Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?"
However, before leaving the afterlife and sharing a lengthy, enlightening discussion with Dumbledore, Harry notices something:
“Then a noise reached him through the unformed nothingness that surrounded him: the small soft thumpings of something that flapped, flailed, and struggled. It was a pitiful noise, yet also slightly indecent. He had the uncomfortable feeling that he was eavesdropping on something furtive, shameful.”
“Harry turned slowly on the spot, and his surroundings seemed to invent themselves before his eyes. He had spotted the thing that was making the noises. It had the form of a small, naked child, curled on the ground, its skin raw and rough, flayed-looking, and it lay shuddering under a seat where it had been left, unwanted, stuffed out of sight, struggling for breath”
“He was afraid of it. Small and fragile and wounded though it was, he did not want to approach it. Nevertheless he drew slowly nearer, ready to jump back at any moment. Soon he stood near enough to touch it, yet he could not bring himself to do it. He felt like a coward. He ought to comfort it, but it repulsed him.”
"You cannot help."
He spun around. Albus Dumbledore was walking toward him, sprightly and upright, wearing sweeping robes of midnight blue.
And the ‘thing’ that Harry had witnessed on the floor whimpered throughout his conversation with Dumbledore- wriggling around pathetically. So what, you may ask, was the ‘small, naked child’ on the floor of Harry’s own ethereal version of Kings Cross?
Many fans believe that the ‘child’ on the floor of Kings Cross was in fact the part of Voldemort’s soul that previously resided within Harry. We know that Harry carried a piece of Voldemort with him for his entire life, and so it seems to make sense that- with Harry dying and this soul shard now destroyed- it would follow him to the afterlife. However, though this is CLOSE to the answer, it’s actually wrong.
According to JK Rowling...
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