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Introduction

My research paper topic is love and the lack of it in Harry Potter, as a moralizing force and a creator of monstrous evil. This topic discusses the effect of love on the Harry Potter series's two main characters: Harry Potter and Lord Voldemort. From the start of the series, there is similarity evidence which is shared by both Harry Potter and Lord Voldemort, both are a half muggle, half-witch, both speak Parseltongue, and both are of house Slytherin (Morris et al. 2004). However, the two-character take two very different ways of life throughout the story. They come from different backgrounds despite sharing many similarities. Lily, the mother of Harry, died trying to protect her baby boy and shielded him from the terrifying wizard in the world by putting a spell on him (The fantasy foundations of the Harry Potter novels 2020).

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This spell was more powerful than the dark magic, which protected him from the rest of his life. Her death was the ultimate gesture of self-less, all-consuming love. Voldemort was consumed under Amortentia, a love potion given to Tom Riddle by Merope Gaunt, which caused him to become obsessed with her, rather than affection. Neither the father nor the mother was a part of Voldemort's life since the day he was born. Voldemort's father abandoned both of them after he was stopped from getting portions while his mother died after childbirth (Granger 2009). The lack of love in general and the motherly love, particularly in Voldemort's life, caused him to have different moral choices than Harry. The story of Voldemort shows us the extreme effect of lack of love. It is not just an unhappy life; there are monstrous and evil life choices that lead to death.

Fiedler Freak

Freaks are being denied by the persons of deviant physiological humans that have applications of the tradition such as; dwarfs, giants, living skeletons, fat ladies, hermaphrodites, and Siamese twins (Schueffel 2016). It is viewed as a logo of shame to such kinds, but they view themselves as usual with normal human beings' exclusion and exploitation. However, the name freak has been abandoned. It is now claimed to be an honorific title of physiologically ordinary but dissident people who use hallucinogenic drugs commonly referred to as hippies, longhairs, and heads. Such people adopt freaking out the status and urge others to follow their means of diet, music, drugs, and even excitement during crowd gathering. Some freaks have been trying to get away from their branded name for a more extended period since January 6, 1898, twins (Schueffel 2016). The BeastBeast has had many controversial definitions for centuries. Though it has surprised some students of Magizoology, the problem might be taken into a focus of three types of magical creatures (Schueffel 2016). Werewolves once lived as human beings; however, they transformed into savage, four-legged BeastBeast once a month with no social conscience and murderous intent. In my case, our Freak is Voldemort. According to Fiedler, a Freak terrorizes and arouse sympathy simultaneously, since he is one of us, unlike the fabulous monster altered by Special Forces beyond understanding. I refer to Voldemort as a Freak because he terrorizes the minds of the reader; of all of his similar traits and background with Harry, he decides to make an evil choice in life just because of a lack of love. With this words, in Harry Potter and Philosophy, Voldemort is expressed to lack love.

Voldemort was unable to see what accounted for his defeat at the hands of Harry. He was a more powerful wizard than Harry’s parents, even more so than a mere infant. But though he was able to kill James and Lily Potter, he was not able to defeat them or kill their baby. He was unable to do this because he encountered in them the very thing he lacked, love. This love, more powerful than the death curses he hurled at infant Harry, deflected them back at himself, leaving him lacking even more as a person. (P.137)

Barnum, in his autobiography, referred to human anomalies as curiosities but not as Freaks, giving them another attraction of a different kind. Curiosity is simply a Victorian word, which is memorized in the title of Charles Dickens’ most Freak-obsessed work, the old curiosity shop, which reminds us about the era that made Freaks to reach the highest point. The loss of the old confrontation in the flesh suggests an irreparable trauma to the one caused by the dialogue passage between Fool and King from the court to the stage. Monsters and monstrosities are the very recently standard terms used in the medical treatises, but the monster is the oldest term for the human tongue, referring to anomalies. Fredrick Drimmer finds out that strange people also use outmoded prejudice and claim that people can be different from anyone else, but they do not like being referred to as monsters. Fredrick used the term extraordinary people as an alternative, which he feels obliged to use it as Human Oddities in his subtitle for it is an unfamiliar term.

Writer’s Argument

The chapter focuses mainly on evil. It covers three main parts; first, corruption is a privation or deformity parasitic on something useful: lack of love, health in mind and body, hope, and clear-sightedness (Baggett & Klein 2009). Baggett and Klein uses these words to describe the forces of evil around Voldemort.

If evil is a privation, an inability, a weakness, how can Dumbledore say that Voldemort has powers that he not only doesn’t, but will never have? McGonagall answers this question, “Only because you’re-well-noble to use them,” what appears as weakness on Dumbledore’s part is revealed to be strength, the nobility that Voldemort lacks. (P.137)

The writer explains this further by giving examples of what Voldemort lacks, which makes him evil, as per the theory. For example, it is mention that Voldemort lacks nobility. It is shown that supremacy implies greatness of a character, and high moral ideals, qualities needed by an influential person to act consistently for good (Baggett & Klein 2009). Voldemort also lacks love, which resulted in him failing to kill baby Harry. The spell backfiring at him, leaving him without any personal sense, for the evil is a privation, it will always have a weakness. The power of sin does not flow from the real strength, but from the manipulation and distortion of what is right, which will always expose the lack of evil. That's is, it must take itself by deceit, disguise itself by showing it is the most powerful and invincible; this is what Voldemort did. Finally, moral evil exists out of free choice. The writer explains this fact by using the similarities of Harry and Voldemort; however, they choose to act differently on certain occasions, and one takes the right act, while the other takes the evil deed. This gives the writer to argue that evil is a free choice.

Chapter 10 is relevant to my research because it lays the basic foundation of my research topic. It unveils two main points about evil in the Harry Potter series, which I can use in my seminar paper. The fact that Voldemort lacks something good, which includes love, is perfect for my research topic since it deals with love, and from there, I can explore the background of the characters (Baggett & Klein 2009). The final point, which argues that evil is a free choice can also be used to strengthen my main argument, the fact that both Harry and Voldemort share similar traits, their choice is different from one another, and it is at this point I conclude that Voldemort lacks love, unlike Harry. At the initial stage, the writer clarifies the strive for eternal soul and life for Voldemort, who does not have parental love in the Harry Potter series. Different occasions are brought to our attention, which shows Voldemort's explicit goal in achieving everlasting life. At one instance in the essay, the writer argues that the different forms and symbols of immortal love exist in the entire series of Harry Porter; this indicates that, at the end of life, death does not bear disastrous impact; instead, a message of love transcending death is being sent by Rowling (Baggett & Klein 2009). The writer believes that Rowling aims to deliver love, friendship, care, and selflessness in the reader's mind, which results in eternal life that loves never dies. This information is relevant to my research topic because it helps me to point out the different tools, which are different forms and symbols of eternal love, life after death, which helped Harry to survive throughout the story. In addition, it is relevant for it shows the effects of these symbols on both Harry and Voldemort.

My Argument

In this discussion, I will argue that love is as a moralizing force in the Harry Potter series when it comes to the protagonist of the entire story of Harry Potter. At the same time, the lack of love results in monstrous evil, which shows the Villian story of Lord Voldemort. Basing on “Harry Potter and Philosophy If Artisole Ran Hogwarts-chapter 10,” as my first secondary source, I will argue that Voldemort and Harry share similar backgrounds and traits, apart from the lack of love demonstrated by Voldemort that Harry didn't demonstrate it, which at the end affected their moral choice in life. Another subtitle in the chapter summary that I will mention is that evil is a free choice. Exploring my secondary source, "Life and Death in Harry Potter: the immorality of love and soul," I will draw attention to different forms and symbols of eternal love throughout the Harry Potter series and its effect on Harry's love, transcendent death, and Voldemort death.

Good and Evil as Free Choice

Dementors are horrible creatures with less ambiguity than boggarts. They have features that show what they are; there was only thin, gray crabbed skin in places of eyes, which stretches over empty sockets (Stojilkov 2015). There was a gaping mouth with a shapeless hole, which they used to suck air with a death rattle's sound. The skin was described as rotting, being covered with a hooded cloak. The dementor seems a cross between Edvard Munch's painting's characters, which was the scream, a ring-wraith from the lord of rings, and the grim reaper. The entire form describes death, but the end itself does not exist apart from the parasite and the killer of life. Harry defends Dudley from dementors who have been little whinging because it was not only physical appearance that describes the Dementors. The important thing is that Dementors floods the mind by using numbing unhappiness, with the memory of dreadful things, according to Mrs. Figg (Dendle 2009). They bring these memories back only by negative means because Dementors survive by taking the happiness out of an individual's mind. Human beings remain with unhappiness, horrible thing, and the reality of death when happiness is gone. Lubin tells Harry that one will be left with nothing but the worst life experience when the dementor feeds on someone for a more extended period. The aspect of soul kissing is the most horrible thing of dementors. As much as they can feed on human souls, they can swallow a whole soul through their gaping, shapeless mouth. One can exist without the soul, but they will have no memory and a sense of oneself.

Conclusion

Thus, Voldemort is most frightening because he is human. Although boggarts and dementors chill us because of the kind of creatures they are, Voldemort chills us most because he is one of us and represents the possibility of choosing evil freely. He represents a choice to forsake living a life of abundance, giving and receiving love, for a life of simply taking by force or deceit from another’s life. Therefore, we fear most hearing from him what Luke Skywalker heard from Darth Vader in The Empire Strikes. (P.136)