Harry Potter’s tale is the classic good vs. evil story where evil is overcome by good and followed with a happy ending. Based on the Jungian archetypes, Lord Voldemort is a clear example of the shadow. He displays every attribute including the same gender as Harry, an opposite personality, creates fear in all he meets, and brings out the best characteristics in Harry that Harry had no idea even existed until that moment. However, Harry would not have become the hero he was so famed to be without the dark wizard. When Harry was a baby, Voldemort came to kill the entire Potter family. He killed James Potter first, but when Voldemort went after baby Harry, Lily potter threw herself between the dark wizard and her child. This counteracted the spell back onto Voldemort, killed Lily, and left the infamous lightning scar on Harry’s forehead. When this happened, one could argue that Harry and Voldemort became one with one another. The argument could be made that Voldemort is literally Harry’s other half …show more content…
Most of the time when anyone talks about him he is referred to as “he who shall not be named” for the sole purpose that he strikes such fear into everyone around him that they are terrified to even speak his name. This is quite opposite from how people talk about Harry. He also has gotten the nickname “the boy who lived” due to his narrow escape from death involving the dark wizard. Harry is seen sort of as an unsung hero because people are in awe of him, but yet fear him because this was the only person who has ever had a run in with Voldemort and lived to tell about it. Voldemort was weakened by this experience but it still doesn’t ease anyone else’s mind about the wizard. This is one characteristic of the Jungian shadow archetype because even though he is weak, the fear of him is so widely accepted because everyone knows what Voldemort is capable of if given the