• 14 years ago
Flashbacks throughout the series reveal that when Harry was a baby he witnessed his parents' murder by Lord Voldemort who was a dark wizard obsessed with blood purity.[19] For reasons not immediately revealed, Voldemort's attempt to kill Harry rebounds.[19] Voldemort is seemingly killed and Harry survives with only a lightning-shaped mark on his forehead as a memento of the attack.[19] As its inadvertent saviour from Voldemort's reign of terror,