The Boy Who Lived- Another History Lesson
Part of another conversation between the two young firsties reported to have been overheard by several older students who had been studying in the Library at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
"Okay so you say that the first wizarding war was finished on Halloween 1981 by... a baby called Harry Potter who somehow separated the bad wizards soul from his body. "
"Yes."
"And when this Harry Potter grew up he destroyed He Who Should Not Be Named for good in June of 1996."
"That's right. You Know Who couldn't be killed by anybody but Potter who had survived the killing curse that marked him as his equal with a lightning shaped scar on his forehead."
"Okay so a super hero called Harry Potter is born and his arch Nemesis known as He Who Should Not Be Named attempts to kill him but loses his own body and later on regains it but loses it again to Harry Potter AKA the super Hero."
"Harry Potter was and is known as The Boy Who Lived." The young wizard shuffled some of the pieces of parchments that laid on the desk top. "THE BOY WHO LIVED!"
"Of course he did. Most of us do" the other firsty answered. "It would be rather hard to have a conversation with a dead boy. Unless of course he died and decided to stay on as a ghost."
"Harry Potter is still alive. He killed He Who Must Not Be Named when he was seventeen."
"Then why make a big issue of it?"
"Because he is still alive!"
"O-k-a-y... and that is unusual because?"
"He Who Must Not Be Named tried to kill him when he was a baby but failed."
"Again with this He Who Must Not Be Named character." the other firsty's eyebrow rose slightly, "And you say this unnamed person failed to kill off the Super Hero Harry Potter who now is also called the boy who lived."
"Yes! You Know Who was vanquished when he fired the killing curse at Harry Potter on that Halloween night and it rebounded back onto him."
"Really? I still don't know who you are referring to as "He Who Must Not Be Named" but it is a bit over the top to think a baby could survive an attempt to kill it." The other firsty scrunched up their face in thought, "But The Boy Who Lived is a rather odd name for a Super Hero."
"I told you He Who Must Not Be Named and You Know Who is the same person. Harry Potter was called The Boy Who Lived after he defeated him the first time."
"Well you must admit that those are rather unusual names. Maybe he and Potters parents had been Old Hippies from the 60's. "
"Er... What makes you think they were Hippies?"
"Their other names! He Who Must Not Be Named, You Know Who, The Boy Who Lived. They aren't ordinary names." The other firsty paused to look at the bemused face of their friend who looked very bemused.
"Hippies? "
"Yeah. They called their kids all kinds of names like Rain, sky, Ocean, Sunshine. Gryphon ...
"One did not speak of the Dark Lords real name when he was alive and he was already old by the time the sixties arrived."
"Oh. He might not of been but I wonder if Potters parents were Hippies. I seen pictures of my Grandparents and their Muggle friends. Those dudes wore all kinds of brilliantly coloured Shirts, the macramé belted bellbottom pants with outrageously embroidered detailed flower patterns, suede fringed vests, Wide brimmed leather hats in shades of purple, Yellow headbands, Necklaces with a Large Peace symbol hanging on a strips of leather, love beads, large shoulder bags, pastel heart-shaped sunglasses..."
"Enough already, we're supposed to be reviewing the Wizarding wars not Muggle fashion."
" Right. So... This old dude with the really weird monikers- since nobody knows his real name went out on Halloween 1981 to battle against Harry The Boy Who lived Potter."
"He was just called Harry Potter. His parents did not call him The Boy Who Lived."
"Then who called him the Boy Who Lived? Was it a Halloween prank? "
"No it wasn't a Halloween Prank even though it was on Halloween when Potters parents were murdered by He who should Not Be Named. Harry Potter survived."
Okay, lets see If I get this straight. He who should not be named was already an old dude when the sixties arrived. So he wasn't a Hippie."
"Yes."
"Harry 'The Boy Who Lived' Potter survived the killing curse when he was a baby."
"Yes."
"You know Who vanished then."
"Yes."
But then the Old dude with the strange monikers came back."
"Unfortunately yes."
"This Harry was called The Boy Who Lived because he survived the attack but his parents died."
"Yes."
"Then Potter grew up and got revenge for his parents death by killing the old dude called He who Should Not be Named or You Know Who again."
"By Merlin's Beard I think you may have got it."
"I do? So... will there be another sequel? "
"A sequel?"
"Yeah, like in the movies... The first being about Boy Who Lived and You Know Who, Then The Return of the Boy Who Lived VS You know Who who... "