The Harry Potter series is a world filled with magic, adventure, and memorable original characters. JK Rowling's seven books featuring Harry Potter, the young wizard with the unique lightning bolt scar and an even more remarkable destiny, continue to influence and inspire children and adults around the world. Rowling manages to balance humor and darker themes in children's books, allowing a wider audience to connect to the story. Themes such as death, love, sacrifice, prejudice, and good versus evil are major themes that appear in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Death is one of the major themes of the books and is introduced in the very first installment, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, in which Albus Dumbledore, the headmaster of the wizarding school called Hogwarts, discusses the death of Harry Potter's parents. Potter with Professor Minerva McGonagall “Rumor has it that Lily and James Potter are – are – dead'” (Rowling 14). Dumbledore decides to leave Harry with what he has left ...