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Harry Potter: Lord Voldemort
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Harry Potter is a heptalogy of fantasy novels written by British author J. K. Rowling. The books chronicle the adventures of the eponymous adolescent wizard Harry Potter, together with his best friends Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger. The story is mostly set at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, an academy for young wizards and witches. The central story arc concerns Harry's conflict against the evil wizard Lord Voldemort, who killed Harry's parents in his quest to conquer the wizarding world.
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As is the case with most wizards in the Harry Potter series, his wand is among his most valued magical possessions. Harry's is made of holly, a wood Rowling chose because it is said to repel evil.[26] It forms a deliberate contrast to the wand of his nemesis Lord Voldemort, whose wand is made of yew, which symbolises death.[26] Rowling states she later learned that in the Celtic calendar a type of wood is assigned to each month; and Harry's fictional birthday (July 31) is linked to holly. Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger ... happened to receive wands made from the appropriate woods identified the Celtic calendar, according to their fictional birth months.[26]
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In Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Harry has been chosen to compete in the Triwizard Tournament, a competition that includes champions from three different schools; Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Beauxbatons Academy of Magic, and Durmstrang Institute. Although Albus Dumbledore put an age limit on the competition, Harry's name was mysteriously entered into the competition, and he was forced to compete as set forth by the rules made by the Ministry of Magic. Harry is forced to face a fire-breathing dragon, swim under water for an hour to rescue Ron Weasly, his best friend, and find his way through a maze to get the Triwizard Cup. In the third and final task, Harry and Cedric Diggory, the other Hogwarts champion, reach the cup at the same time, and decide to win together, grasping the cup at the same time. They were not aware that the cup was a Portkey, which thwarted them to the graveyard where Lord Voldemort's father was buried. Wormtail, Lord Voldemort's servant, kills Cedric with the Avada Kedavra curse.
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In Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, the fourth film adaptation of J.K. Rowling’s popular Harry Potter novel series, Harry (Daniel Radcliffe) must contend with being mysteriously selected to compete in the prestigious Triwizard Tournament, a thrilling international competition that pits him against older and more experienced students from Hogwarts and two rival European wizarding schools. Meanwhile, supporters of Harry’s nemesis, the evil Lord Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes), send a shockwave of fear throughout the wizard community when their Dark Mark scorches the sky at the Quidditch World Cup, signaling Voldemort’s return to power. But for Harry, this is not the only harrowing news causing him anxiety - he still has yet to find a date for Hogwarts’ Yule Ball dance.
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According to author J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter is strongly guided by his own conscience, and has a keen feeling of what is right and what is wrong. Having "very limited access to truly caring adults", Rowling said, Harry "is forced to make his own decisions from early age on."[6] He "does make mistakes", she conceded, but in the end, he does what his conscience tells him to do.[6] According to Rowling, one of Harry's pivotal scenes came in the fourth book when he protects his dead schoolmate Cedric Diggory's body from arch villain Lord Voldemort, because it shows he is brave and unselfish.[7]
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In Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince the wizarding population had come to consider Harry to be the 'Chosen One' as a result of a prophecy concerning Harry and Voldemort. Dumbledore placed a great deal of trust in Harry, sharing with him memories viewed in the Pensieve regarding Lord Voldemort's past. He took Harry on an expedition to retrieve a supposed Horcrux, an object that contained a piece of Voldemort's soul and which would have to be destroyed in order to render Voldemort mortal. This horcrux was hidden in the centre of an Inferi-infested lake within a secluded cave. This set in motion events that led to Severus Snape killing the headmaster when Death Eaters invaded Hogwarts at the climax of the story. After Dumbledore's death Harry resolved that, whether Hogwarts remained open or not, he would not return to the school; instead, he decided to destroy Voldemort's four remaining Horcruxes.
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