Is there necromancy in Harry Potter? |
Posted: January 10, 2020 |
Necromancy is a kind of magic to communicate with the dead people by summoning their spirits or by raising them into some others body. It is done for divination, foretell future, hidden knowledge, use the dead as a weapon or bring the dead back to life. It is called Death Magic, or a more general term is witchcraft. To an extent, we can say that there is necromancy in Harry Potter. Tom Riddle was the most prominent and successful necromancer (Choose your necromancer name) in Harry Potter. He had raised an army of the dead for the First Wizarding War, also called as the army of Inferi. It mainly consisted of the people and wizards he had killed in his life. The biggest army of the undead of in the cave where Tom Riddle hid the locket of Salazar Slytherin. He hid it to protect from any possible intruder — his army for further grown in size at the time of Second Wizarding War. A thick grey mist followed this army. Another mention of necromancy was in the book of Hermione Granger. She had a book called The Nightshade Guide to Necromancy. It can be found on the shelf of her bookcase in her Ministry Office. Another instance was when Albus Dumbledore mentions in his notes about Beedle the Bard that necromancy was magic that never worked. It means that he has tried it. Wizards usually used witchcraft to bring the people from Death to life. But it mostly resulted in Inferi. Inferi is mindless creatures with n soul and intelligence, which means that they were not raised, people. Cadmus Peverell, the creator of resurrection stone, had people believed that the Death had given it to him. It was a try to bring the people back from the dead. Thus, created with the same intention but in a completely different way. Voldemort was after the Sorcerer’s stone. He was desperate to come back to life in his own body rather than living off of someone like a parasite. Harry Potter was the one in possession of it. He had it with himself when he came across Voldemort. The stone appears for someone if they truly look for it and with good intentions. It appeared in the pocket of Harry. And, yes, Voldemort could not get his hands on it. Voldemort further tried to return to the world by drinking unicorn’s sacred blood. Towards the end, when Voldemort killed Harry, he met Albus Dumbledore at a station, he talked to him and then came back to life and defeated Voldemort with more than ever before. Voldemort was finally brought back with a ritual in the cemetery with Harry’ blood. Harry had escaped him with the help of the spirit of his loved ones. It can be said that necromancy has always been a part of Harry Potter but not out in the open. It was a full adventure of stopping Voldemort and his followers to use witchcraft to bring him back. Tom Riddle or Voldemort was the biggest necromancer (Be A Necromancer Now) of the Harry Potter series.
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