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Hey brother!

Okay guys, today we are going to tackle one of the more commonly asked questions in the

Wizarding world of Harry Potter which is why didn't Harry die or how did Harry Potter

survive it's a very simple question but with a kind of complicated answer.

Because by the time Harry gets into the woods, it feels like any number of things might have

been the reason he survived and is allowed to come back to life.

And I think that's where a lot of the confusion comes in,

like, which thing that was preventing Harry from dying

was actually in play when it actually came down to it?

Like Harry walks into the woods, he has prepared to die. He tells the snitch that and it reveals the resurrection stone. And I can see a lot of people reading the book being like, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow,

wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, dumbledore, you genius!

You gave Harry the way back,

and it practically mirrors how he defeated Quarrel back in philosopher Stone.

And yes, I do mean mirror in more than one clever way.

But in philosopher Stone, he can only get the stone because he wanted to find it, but not use it. And now he can only open the snitch, which will protect him from death when he's ready to die. But he is prepared to die, so boom, resurrection stone,

we're saved.

Except no, because he drops it, and then also that's not at all

how it works anyway.

But he did just have it right, and it is the

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