Beneath a bench, they find a bloodied and deformed version of Voldemort, in a terribly weakened state.
What follows is an ethereal dream-like scene where Harry meets Dumbledore at a limbo-version of Kings Cross Station. There, Voldemort performs the Killing Curse on him, and Harry falls to the ground, dead. With only two left – Nagini and Harry himself – the Boy Who Lived gives in to Voldemort's demands and meets him in the Forbidden Forest. In other words, Harry is one of the seven Horcruxes, each of which contains a fragment of Voldemort's soul, and all of which need to be destroyed in order to finally defeat him. But because she did, it meant that Harry wasn't just left with something permanent from Voldemort, but from his loving mother too. So, if Lily hadn't have used sacrificial protection for Harry, the Boy Who Lived would have died when Voldemort struck him with the Killing Curse. So why doesn't Harry die from the Killing Curse? At the end of Sorcerer's Stone, we learn from Dumbledore that Lily used a ‘counter charm to protect Harry before Voldemort performed the Killing Curse on her, leaving her son with ‘love-based protection.ĭumbledore adds that it's the same reason why Professor Quirrell – the Dark Arts teacher whose body had been hijacked by Voldemort – couldn't bear to have Harry touch him that Lily's sacrificial act is the kind of magic that "lives in your very skin" – and that that mark is "love". Of course, we know that Voldemort leaves Harry with more than the lightning bolt, but we'll talk about that a bit later. Voldemort, on the other hand, is left without a body. Harry is left with a rather impressive souvenir - his infamous lightning bolt scar. We later learn from Dumbledore that, as the phoenix is able to regenerate at the end of its life, its tears contain healing powers.ĭumbledore also explains that Fawkes was only ever able to respond to Harry's need for help in the first place because of Harry's loyalty to Gryffindor – which is also why he was able to pull the sword from the hat, something that only a true heir of Gryffindor is able to do. Within moments, Harry is near death, however, Fawkes returns and cries into Harry's fatal wound, which saves his life. When they finally do battle in the main chamber, with Harry pulling the Sword of Gryffindor from the Sorting Hat (brought to him by Fawkes) and kills the beast, but not before a venomous fang penetrates his arm.
When Harry enters the Chamber of Secrets, he discovers that the monster that's been lurking beneath the school all these years is a giant Basilisk, and is being controlled by Tom Riddle – a piece of Voldemort's soul that resides in the diary (which we later discover is one of the Horcruxes).Īfter Dumbledore's phoenix Fawkes blinds the Basilisk, the snake pursues Harry through the tunnels.
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