Sad Harry

Yeah, so my example of a contemporary tragedy is Harry Potter.  I wasn't in much of a "think outside the box" mindset tonight.  Anyways, for anyone who is unfamiliar with the Harry Potter series, Harry is led to believe by Professor Dumbledore that he must destroy all of Lord Voldemort's horcruxes in order to finally defeat him and bring piece to all of the good guys.  But what Dumbledore leaves out is the part about how part of Voldemort's soul is actually attached to Harry's soul.  So in order to completely destroy Voldemort, Harry must first sacrifice himself to be killed by Lord Voldemort so that the piece of Voldemort's soul which resides in Harry will be blasted to bits as well.  It's a pretty awful situation for anyone to be in, but it's made especially terrible because of how much Harry trusted Dumbledore's advice up until that point when he found out about the last bit of Voldemort's soul.  The audience was even led to believe that Dumbledore was to be trusted on everything.  If Harry had not come back from the dead I would say this story had the potential to be extremely tragic.  But since everything works out in the end it's not altogether tragic.  But for that brief instant in the story when Harry marched out to meet his death I think I, along with a lot of other readers, felt very betrayed and sad that Harry had to die this way. 

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[Ada S]

As a Harry Potter fan , i agree completely. When i read the book and this part came on, I'm pretty sure I cried. I could not believe that Dumbledore, someone Harry trusted all along, would betray him! It was unbelievable! Like Snape said, " You saved him for him to die at the right moment". Pretty tragic. Great choice!