Final Face Off: Harry vs Voldemort

Every character and their villains must undergo a final confrontation, the big final battle, the point of the summer action blockbuster that everyone pays to see; the part of the movie/book/comic/video game/fanfic/ any form of media that we all wait for at the edge of our hypothetical seats for. Being born in the apparent "Harry Potter age," my favourite, personal confrontation comes from the final book Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, in which Harry and Voldy have their final face off. Only one can live while the other must die. Hogwarts, Hogwarts, Hogwarts... BE THERE!!!!!!

It’s the final smack down that millennials have been waiting for; the Boy Wonder from down under the stairs and the man who never grew out of his emo phase; Harry James Potter and Tom “the Dark Lord” Riddle.

The stage has been set, the beloved Hogwarts has been invaded and Wizarding World is holding its breath to see who will live, while the other survives. Harry; recently back from the “dead” (as he was a Horcrux himself and therefore must be destroyed), and Voldemort whom is now mortal and weaker than ever, face off with one last duel with a destroyed Hogwarts as the backdrop.

“I open at the close,” the 5 words the confused first time readers till the very end of the book when everything suddenly became clear. The year of the Battle of Hogwarts occurs in May1998, the year the first novel originally came out. The first snitch that Harry ever caught was engraved with those 5 words when it was given back to him after Dumbledore’s death. The snitch opened as Harry was facing his first death to reveal the Resurrection Stone so that Harry may be reunited with his parents one last time. Catching on?

The theme of endings is prevalent throughout the entire last book. It is the last year at Hogwarts (even though they don’t go, meaning that they don’t graduate…?) for all of our beloved heroes, many of which fall either during the battle or during the events of the book. The ending of the Golden Trios childhood is also shown through the death of Harry’s owl Hedwig at the beginning of the novel.

Everything has been leading up to this battle. Everything since Harry’s parents where murdered and the final Horcrux (Harry) up until the moment the heroes returned to Hogwarts for the last time, leads to this battle. And after a spectacular battle between the two, all is resolved as Voldy dies a MORTAL death, not the creepy paper-effect thing in the movie. Seriously.

“Tom Riddle hit the floor with a mundane finality”

But damn, doesn't it look good. 

This final confrontation between polar characters that are either so good or so bad, demonstrates to children of all ages that everything must end, but it is the choices that we make and the morality that we maintain, the determines the success of our endings

Until the next book/movie comes out a couple years later!

See if you would survive the Battle of Hogwarts! I don't- I died laughing about a Chocolate Frog card.