Being kind, honest, selfless, loving friends, parents, soberly looking at things, not chasing after free glory - this is what the series of Harry Potter books written by Joan Rowling teaches. If a person is already happy with what he has, if he is pure in soul and not tainted by selfishness, does such a person need immortality? So many are interested in the question, why did Harry Potter throw a resurrecting stone? This question is not as simple as it seems at first glance. In order to answer it, one should delve deeper into the character of this young man, as well as the essence of the resurrecting stone itself.
Cases of bygone days
In the world of wizards hidden from the eyes of ordinary people (muggles), things never happened calmly. People who are eager for power by all means, as it turned out, are missing everywhere and with interest. And the magical world is no exception. The only difference between them is that, endowed with the gift of creating magic, hungry for the power of the person of the hidden world is many times more dangerous than people who are eager for power in the world of ordinary people.
The saga is silent about how things happened in past eras, but apparently no one had ever really aimed to reunite the three most powerful artifacts, presented once (as legends exist) by Death to the three brothers Perella. But this is until the ambitious and driven by the idea to change the world for the better Green De Wald and Dumbledore. But first - in more detail about the artifacts themselves or, as they are otherwise called, the âDeathly Hallowsâ. To understand how and where Harry ended up with the resurrecting stone, he should plunge into the world of ancient fairy tales.
Deathly hallows
There was once in ancient times such, so to speak, writer, writer of all kinds of fairy tales and fables. His name was Bard Beadle. And he has a fairy tale under the sonorous name "Deathly Hallows." She tells in brief about the following.
The action takes place in time immemorial. Once, at dusk, three brothers walked along the same road, until the river blocked this road. Without thinking twice, they took out wands and built a bridge using magic. Immediately nearby Death was âhanging around" forever, tidying up the souls of those drowned in the river. But seeing that they were not going to sink, Bony decided to play a kind of game with them. For allegedly being so resourceful, Death decided to bestow each of them with her gifts, one for each, and she herself secretly laid the essence of her proposal a catch.
The elder wanted to be the strongest wizard and received an elderberry wand endowed with tremendous power from Death. The middle one wished to bring back to life his beloved, who had once died. Death gave him a resurrecting stone, capable of restoring the dead to life. The Younger escaped with the invisibility cloak from Deathâs shoulders, using which he could hide from anyone.
The moral of that fable is this ...
As history has shown, the youngest turned out to be the smartest. A fight broke out behind the wand, in which the older brother rested. The middle man brought his beloved back to life. But she was no longer the same as before. Forever cold and sad, she repeated that she had no place among the living. She suffered greatly. And then the middle brother committed suicide, so that by letting her go, he himself would merge with her in the other world.
Death, chuckling, was already rubbing her hands, tidying two of the brothers. But the third, hiding under the mantle at the right time, so she didnât fall into her eyes until she was old, and died in happiness with her death.
Dumbledore and Green De Wald
They met for the first time in their youth. And the first to "dig" the long-standing history is Green De Wald. Joining him a little later, Dumbledore also began to help him in search of the "Deathly Hallows." What plans they had on them can be learned from the film, which is due to be released in 2018, Fantastic Beasts: Crimes of Green de Wald. We will not go into details, we will only say that their views on the account of their application, in the end, have diverged.
Green-De-Wald realized that since then, the wand has been constantly changing hands to various wizards and, having somehow tracked its path, has taken possession of it. The resurrecting stone with the mantle remained relics in the family of brothers and was passed down from generation to generation by inheritance. He did not have time to get to them, because in a duel between him and Dumbledore, the latter disarmed him, and the wand passed into his possession, and Green-De-Wald himself went straight to prison.
Family of Mraksov
The stone, it turns out, was stored in the family of Mraks, descendants of Slytherin and, as it turned out, the Piverell brothers. For the first time, Harry Potter saw a resurrecting stone in a whirlpool of memory when, in "The Half-Blood Prince", Dumbledore showed him the memories of one of the wizards who worked for the Ministry of Magic. It turns out that over the years that have passed since the moment described in the fairy tale, the memory of the purpose and properties of the stone has been erased in the memory of generations, and now this stone, dressed in a frame, was simply inherited by the offspring of the family as an ordinary family heirloom.
Reddle and family ring
Tom Raddle (later Voldemort), as it turned out, was the offspring of this kind, the son of the daughter of Marvolo Mrax and the Muggle, whom she enticed into her love networks through magic, while her dad rotted in Azkaban. Tom Riddle killed his papule, and turned the ring into a crucifix, not even suspecting what a magical artifact is a stone enclosed in the frame of this ring.
The fact that Harry subsequently realized who had this ring earlier and a piece of whose soul lived in it before already partially answers the question why Harry threw out the resurrecting stone after he served him. Just because I did not want to have anything to do with this scum.
More details about crucifixes
To understand why Harry needed a resurrecting stone, you should touch on the theme of crucifixion. The dark magical magic of the magical art of bygone days was fraught with inexhaustible possibilities for wizards. But contacting such magic was more expensive. Voldemort did not particularly pay attention to such warnings and, in order to gain immortality, mercilessly shredded his soul into small pieces, placing each in an object.
The essence of the magic of crucifixes is that if Voldemort is destined to die, he can always be reborn again from these pieces of his wounded and divided soul. Initially, there were six crucifixes known:
- Tom Raddle's diary;
- a ring of Mrax with a resurrecting stone and the seal of the Perewell family;
- Penelope Hufflepuff bowl;
- Locket of Salazar Slytherin ;
- Candida Ravenclaw Circlet;
- Snake of Voldemort.
The stumbling block with the crucifixes turned out to be that although Voldemort himself believed that there were only six crucifixes, there was the seventh crucifix, which the dark lord recreated unconsciously at the moment when he clashed with his motherâs spell Lily Potter, having decided to kill little Harry . Part of his soul broke away and settled in Harry himself, making him the most walking seventh of the Voldemort mortar cross.
In order to kill the dark wizard forever, Dumbledore, Harry and his company needed to first destroy all the crucifixes. And, whatever one may say, it turned out that Harry himself would have to die. It was for this that Harry Potter needed the resurrecting stone. That, having died, not to die at the same time. Pun, you ask? Yes, but it really happened.
The nature of stones is a philosopher's stone
Those who inattentively read a book or watched a film do not quite understand how the philosopher's stone and the resurrecting stone differ. And the difference is very big. With the help of a philosopherâs stone, it was possible to turn any substance into gold, as well as to make a miraculous elixir of life, which could prolong a personâs life for any length of time.
This miracle was produced only once (at least for the current period of time) by a certain wizard named Nicholas Flamel. With skillful use, this artifact could bring back to life the inferior essence of Voldemort, which was introduced into the body of the wearer. Professor Quirel turned out to be such a carrier, who, in his next campaign, managed to stumble upon the mortal, but not dead remains of the Dark Lord.
Resurrection Stone
The resurrecting stone was an artifact of a different order. According to Beadle, he knew how not to prolong the life of the living, but to resurrect the dead. But Dumbledore's tale wasnât quite happy. More precisely, the nature of the appearance of the Deathly Hallows, described in the work, did not suit him. The fact that Death itself has a material incarnation, and even such that it watches over passers-by in the river, is simply amused. When Harry was with him between the world of the living and the world of the dead at the ephemeral Kings Cross station, Dumbledore made the following assumption on this subject (quote):
... âThese are the three brothers from the tale,â said Dumbledore, nodding. âYes, I'm sure it is.â It is unlikely that they met with Death on a deserted road ... I rather think that the Peverell brothers were just highly gifted, dangerous wizards and managed to create these powerful objects. And the story, as if it were the Deathly Hallows, in my opinion, is just a legend that always develops around such creations ...
Harry - offspring of Ignotus Peverell
As it turned out later, Voldemort and Harry Potter were both offspring of the ancient family of the Perewells. We will not go into the details of the research about this. In order to take this for granted, we only turn to the continuation of the monologue between Dumbledore and Harry at the same ghostly Kings Cross station (says Dumbledore):
... - The mantle, as you know, has been handed down for centuries from generation to generation, from father to son, from mother to daughter, right up to the last descendant of Ignotus, who, like Ignotus himself, was born in Godric's Hollow.
Dumbledore looked at Harry with a smile.
- It's me?
- YouâŚ
Such are the things. Now about what Dumbledore said about those who deserve to have the Deathly Hallows with them. According to him, it is precisely disinterested, intelligent, capable of self-sacrifice and not plotting any self-interest that can possess them. The rest of the people, these gifts will simply destroy. But for an ordinary person, possession of any of the gifts can turn into a disaster. There will be many envious people who will not stop at nothing to take possession of them.
This is another reason why Harry Potter threw out a resurrecting stone, and with it he abandoned the elderberry wand itself. According to the book, he returned her to the grave to Dumbledore, where she should have been. And since her power passes only in a duel with the owner, after the death of Harry Potter, she will become the most common wand.
What really happened to the resurrecting stone?
Nothing happened to him. When Harry, having come to the forest to answer the call of Voldemort, felt that the end was really coming, he told the Snitch about this, in which, as Harry suspected, the stone had been kept all this time. To those who have forgotten and did not understand where Harry Potter came from the resurrecting stone, we recall that the snitch in which the magical object rested was bequeathed to him after his death by Dumbledore. The Snitch opened, and from it fell into that hand of this very stone, which had been damaged by Dumbledore during the expulsion of a particle of the dark soul of Voldemort, but still acting.
About how he acts, and hitherto no one knows. Just at that moment, Harry was surrounded by the ghosts of his dead and his beloved people, who supported him in this difficult moment. It is not known at the same time whether it stopped for a moment while Harry's soul essence was with Dumbledore at Kings Cross Station, his heart. Most likely, at the moment when Voldemort struck Harry with the âAvadakedaurâ spell, the young man simply experienced something like a quick knockout, from which he recovered in a matter of seconds. To keep secret that he was still alive, Lady Malfroy volunteered, remembering everything that Harry had done for her son.
Thus, it is not known whether Harry's spell of the resurrecting stone helped return, or whether he never died. But the choice, as it became clear from the words of Dumbledore, Harry still had. Here is another excerpt from their conversation (says Harry):
... - And now I have to go back, right?
- As you want.
- I have a choice?
âOf course,â Dumbledore smiled. âWe're at Kings Cross Station, you say?â I think if you decide not to come back, you can ... so to speak ... get on the train.
âAnd where will he take me?â
âGo ahead,â Dumbledore simply said ...
But, as we all know, Harry decided to return and help his friends. And the stone ... The stone remained lying somewhere in the depths of the Enchanted Forest, where Harry had dropped it when he realized that the magic had happened. Here is how this moment is described in the book by the writer herself:
... âI thought he would come,â Voldemort said in his high, clear voice, his gaze fixed on the flames of the fire. âI expected him to come.â
Everyone was silent. They seemed no less afraid of Harry, whose heart was pounding on his ribs with such force, as if trying to break out of the body that he was about to sacrifice. With sweating palms, Harry pulled off his invisibility cloak and pushed it under his clothes along with a magic wand so that there was no temptation to fight.
âApparently ... I was mistaken,â said Voldemort.
- No, they were not mistaken.
Harry said it as loudly as he could, gathering all the remaining strength: he did not want fear to be heard in his voice. The resurrecting stone slipped out of his numb fingers, and, taking a step forward to the fire, he saw out of the corner of his eye how his parents, Sirius and Lupine were melting in the air. At that moment, no one mattered to him except Voldemort. There were only two of them here - one on one ...
No one saw the resurrection stone.
He is back!
As it turned out, Harry confirmed Dumbledore's hopes in everything. His selflessness, resourcefulness and courage not only helped him to prevail over the evil essence of Voldemort. Having finished the Dark Lord, he saved the world of wizards from his imminent and comprehensive bondage. And since the magical world was closely connected with the world of ordinary people, ordinary people should be equally grateful to him.
Well, when asked why Harry threw a resurrection stone, we think we already answered. For the man of his warehouse, this magical artifact in reality was of no value. Harry knew that it was much better for the souls of dead people to be where they are now. And he was not going to involuntarily be in the living world. Therefore, as unnecessary, he simply left him in the forest, where he fell out of his hand.
Conclusion
The last mention of this artifact took place in the directorâs office of Hogwarts, where Harry repaired his old wand with an elderberry, one from the Deathly Hallows. Turning to the portrait of Dumbledore, he said: âI dropped what was hidden in the Snitch in the Forbidden Forest. I didnât remember the place and Iâm not going to go looking. You agree with me?" To which Dumbledore, wiping away the tears rolling from under his glasses, replied: âI agree, my boy. This is a wise and courageous decision, but I did not expect anything else from you. Does anyone know where you dropped it? â Harry firmly answered: "No one."
On this and finish.