When it came to the real magical heavy lifting, most of that was all about one brave woman: Hermione Granger. Harry is a capable wizard, for sure, but he’s also a super lucky one. After all, when I was twelve, I was barely brave enough to raise my hand in class, so I think destroying a humungous basilisk with a sword (Harry had the sword, not the basilisk it wasn’t waving it around in the weird snake-arms that it doesn’t have) would have been just a little beyond me.Īll I’m saying is, a little plot armour goes a long way. Now, sure, I’m not trying to downplay his accomplishments. As the series progressed, he performed more and more impossible deeds and ridiculous stunts, which just contributed to his fame.
We’re talking Chris Pratt levels of celebrity (seriously, is that guy contractually obliged to appear in absolutely every movie ever?). In the magical world, needless to say, Harry is a huge deal.
This became an honorary sort of title for him, part of his whole legend. Right from the off, the very first chapter of the very first book was entitled The Boy Who Lived. Not the franchise, you understand, but the bespectacled boy wizard himself.
You know, I often think that Harry Potter gets a little too much credit.