MOST
HEARTBREAKING
HARRY POTTER
DEATHS
Most Heartbreaking
Harry Potter Deaths
Contents
Introduction:
#5 – Hedwig
A small snowy owl who seeks adventure.
Published at Petitcodiac Regional School
May 2016
#4 – Sirius Black
A dangerous godfather who came out of “hiding”.
#3 – Albus Dumbledore
An amazing headmaster at Hogwarts with a couple of
tricks up his sleeve.
#2 – Dobby
A free elf.
#1 – Severus Snape
Good or Bad?
I Thought…
What do you think?
Don’t you just love having a favorite character for
things? Now, do you like it when they die? NO, OF
COURSE NOT!! Well that’s what happens here. We see
a lot of our favorite characters go in Harry Potter. We
all know it sucks! It feels like someone ripped out your
heart and used the killing curse on it. We would feel
like this about the main characters because we “grow
up” with them. We create a connection with these
characters. Even though we feel this way, we need to
accept the fact that they’re gone. Until then, let’s see
which were the most heartbreaking characters in
Harry Potter.
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Hedwig
WHO DIED: Hedwig
WHICH MOVIE: Deathly Hallows
WHAT WERE THEY: Snow Owl
The idea seemed simple enough, Simple
enough for trying not to die while being
chased, by Voldemort, and a bunch of death
eaters. All they wanted to do was drink Poly
Juice Potion and turn into Harry. Over 7
people put they’re life in danger… plus
Hedwig. Read to find out why Hedwig is
number 5 on my list!
STORY TIME!
HEDWIG
HOW DID THEY DIE?
CHARACTER REACTION
Hedwig was killed by a death
eater while Harry and Hagrid
were on Sirius’s flying motor
bike. Harry (the real Harry) and
Hagrid were soaring through
the air in the night sky. Hedwig
was beside them. Suddenly, a
death eater shot up in front of
them and immediately hit
Hedwig with the killing curse. A
flash of green light went across
and hit Hedwig who began to
fall. The death eater flew back
down as soon as he shot the
curse.
As Hedwig fell, Harry, with a loud yell
of terror and hope yelled “NO!
HEDWIG!”. Once they returned to the
ground there wasn’t much time to talk
about Hedwig. Hagrid (who also
witnessed the death) tried to keep
Harry’s mind off of it by saying “Well,
never mind”. Either than Harry, Hagrid
should feel the most pain because he
bought little Hedwig for Harry for
Harry’s 11th birthday. Once people
found out they were quite sad, but
none as sad as Harry.
BACKGROUND/ HISTORY
Her from when he was 11 to when he
was 17! Hedwig was a messenger owl
also. So it was exciting to see what
type of cool wizerding gadgets he
would get. Of course Harry didn’t
expect anything though. Hedwig was
very important to Harry, so seeing her
go really hurt.
BACKGROUND/ HISTORY
Hedwig was an important part of this
story because she really developed a
relationship with Harry. Once Harry
was brought up into this whole other
world that he never even heard about
before, Hagrid bought Hedwig for
Harry! He was amazed. He was amazed
that someone cared enough about him
to do that for him. Harry took such
wonderful care of Hedwig. Harry had
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When Harry had to go back to his Aunt and Uncle Dursley’s
house, he wasn’t very happy. He didn’t want to see either of
them or his cousin Dudley. They made him feel like nothing.
Now that he had Hedwig, he didn’t know how they were going
to react. They were 100% AGAINST magic! It wasn’t going to be
pleasant. He finally arrived, his family not very happy to see
him. Harry and Hedwig were up in Harry’s room. Hedwig was
being just a little too loud. Uncle Vernon heard Hedwig and got
VERY angry! He rushed up the stairs where Harry’s room was,
fumed with anger! He nearly kicks out Harry and the owl, but
didn’t. It was defiantly a close call!
Quick Fact
7 owls played Hedwig throughout the
movies.
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Sirius Black
WHO DIED: Sirius Black
WHICH MOVIE: The order of the phoenix
WHAT WERE THEY: previously in Azkaban, Harry’s godfather,
wizard
Sirius Black is Harry’s only hope at a happy
family… or so Harry thought. Their plans to
live together and spend time together were
just fantasies, or that’s what they seem like
now.
Sirius Black
STORY TIME!
HOW DID THEY DIE
CHARACTER REACTION
Sirius Black died when Bellatrix (a
death eater) hits him with the killing
curse” AVADA KADAVRA”. He dies
right before passing through the veil.
Harry was very sad and all over the
place when Sirius died. He was not
prepared for Sirius to die and did not
like it.
When Sirius goes in the tree Harry, Ron and Hermione are there with Ron’s rat
Scabbers. Sirius starts being all crazy like and was after Scabbers. It looked like
he was after Harry but he wasn’t!
BACKROUND/HISTORY
Sirius Black was the only family Harry
had left in the magic world. Sirius was
very important to Harry.
Quick Fact
J.K Rowling was originally going to kill off Arthur
Weasley, but killed Sirius instead!
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ALBUS PERCIVAL WULFRIC BRIAN DUMBLEDORE
WHO DIED: Albus Dumbledore
WHICH MOVIE: Deathly Hallows
WHAT WERE THEY: Headmaster/ Greatest wizard of his time
Headmaster. HOORAY!!!! His dream came
true. Everything was working out in his favor.
He was getting through the horecruxes and
he j8ust felt on top of the world… until he fell
off of it.
Albus Dumbledore
HOW DID THEY DIE?
CHARACTER REACTION
Albus was on the watch tower. Harry
was hiding below to make sure that
Malfoy wouldn’t do anything. There
were a lot of death eaters. Malfoy was
attempting to kill Albus, and right
when Harry was about to yell “STOP!”
a hand covered his mouth. It was
Snape. He tells Harry to be quite by
using hand gestures. Snape goes
where Dumbledore is. He kills
Dumbledore.
While Malfoy was trying to ill
Dumbledore, they’re conversation was
quite interesting. Albus: “Draco, years
ago, I knew a boy, who made all the
wrong choices. Please, let me help
you.” Draco:” I don’t want you’re help!
Can’t you see?! I have to do this! I have
to kill you…or he’s go (Voldemorte)
gonna kill me!
In Deathly Hallows Albus and Harry go to a cave to get a
horecrux. It was stuck in this water type stuff and the only
way to get rid of the water was drink it. So Albus said to give
the water to himself. Of course Harry did not agree with this,
but he ended up giving it to him anyways. It was awful to
watch. Albus was slowly dying.
BACKROUND/ HISTORY
Albus Percival Wulfric Brian
Dumbledore. He was a very important
character. He was headmaster at
Hogwarts, he was the only person who
Voldemorte was afraid of. Albus knew
Harry when he was a baby and looked
forward for him to go to Hogwarts.
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Quick Fact
Ri
Richard Harris (Albus Dumbledore) during the
making of the films. So they replaced him with
Micheal Gambon who played Albus in the rest
of the movies.
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Dobby
WHO DIED: Dobby
WHICH MOVIE: Deathly Hallows
WHAT WERE THEY: House Elf
Dobby is a simple house elf. He did what his
master said to do. Therefore, he was a good
house elf. Until one day, he was no longer a
house elf. He was a free elf!
STORY TIME!
Dobby
HOW DID THEY DIE
CHARACTER REACTION
Sweet, sweet Dobby. It was tragic
when he died! He was a hero! When
Hermione was being tortured and Ron
and Harry were in a dungeon, Dobby
saved all three of them! But when
they were all about to magically snap
away, Bellatrix threw her knife and it
went through the portal. It hit Dobby
and he passed. Harry, Ron and
Hermione then buried him without
out magic and on his gravestone
wrote “Dobby, A free elf”.
Harry was very, very sad and in tears
when he saw that Dobby had passed.
Ron and Hermione were very sad also1
they were especially sad because
Dobby had just saved their lives.
BACKROUND/HISTORY
In the second movie, “Chamber of secrets”, is the first time we
see Dobby. Dobby appeared in Harry’s bedroom telling him not
to return to Hogwarts that year. Dobby even took his letters
from his friends making it look like no one missed him. Harry
figured this out and ended up going to Hogwarts for his second
year!
Dobby was a house elf to the Malfoy
family. Harry secretly gave Dobby a
sock making it look like it was from
Lucius Malfoy. From that day Dobby
was a free elf!
Quick Fact
Dobby is 3 feet tall.
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Severus Snape
WHO DIED: Severus Snape
WHICH MOVIE: The Deathly Hallows
WHAT WERE THEY: Wizard, potions teacher
Severus Snape was the guy who you couldn’t
tell if he was good or bad. One minute you like
him, the next you don’t!
Severus Snape
STORY TIME!
CHARACTER REACTION
HOW DID THEY DIE
Harry ran up to Severus who as he was
dying was crying and said “You have
your mother’s eyes” right before he
died.
Severus Snape died from a
deatheater. He killed him. Right after
Severus killed Albus, a deatheater
killed Severus.
In the first movie, while Harry was playing Quidditch, Professor Quirrell
was making Harry’s broom go all wonky so he would fall off. So Severus
did a counter spell. Hermione saw Severus mumble something and
thought he was doing it. So she set his robe on fire making both Snape
and Quirrell look away.
BACKROUND/HISTORY
Severus Snape was the type of person
who you couldn’t tell if he was good or
bad.
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I thought…
Here are the criteria I used in
ranking the most heartbreaking
Harry Potter deaths.
The movie:
 Ratings
 Still cried over
What do you think?
1. Do you agree with my ranking? If you
don’t, try ranking them yourself. Justify
your ranking with data. You may use my
criteria or you may use your own.
2. Here are others to consider: Fred
Weasley and Professor Lupin. Find out
more about them. Should they have
made my list? Are there others that
should be considered?