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Hey everyone, welcome to another installment of Harry Potter Theory.

Today we'll be discussing the meaning behind each of the more prominent deaths in the entire

Harry Potter series.

Although the first few installments of Harry Potter were clearly written for a younger audience,

it's evident from the very beginning of the Philosopher Stone that this is not a series

afraid to kill off characters.

In fact, before we even get 50 pages into the very first novel, we learn, alongside a distraught

11-year-old Harry Potter, that his parents not only died, but were murdered by one of the

most evil and dark wizards of all time.

And so, while many of us were indeed taken by surprise when some of our favorite characters

were later killed off in the books films that followed,

it really should have been somewhat obvious that we were in for a dark and treacherous ride.

Which brings us to today's topic.

All those deaths?

What did they mean?

Did they stand for anything or were they simply meant to toy with our emotions?

Well, in today's video we'll be discussing these deaths and in

particular, what each of them meant in the larger context of the series. To start us off,

let's begin at the beginning. Lily and James Potter. Before we make it very far into either

the novel or film version of the Philosopher's Stone, we learn that Harry Potter is an orphan who's

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