She turned me into a newt!

Warning: This post will contain spoilers for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, untagged. If you have not read that book completely, just know that the discussion might not make sense to you, and may ruin some elements of the novel if/when you do get around to reading it.


J.K. Rowling is a witch.

In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Harry, Ron, and Hermione spend a good portion of the novel in the woods, on the hunt for the remaining Horcruxes that belong to Lord Voldemort. (A Horcrux is, as was determined in the Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, an object that a (dark) wizard uses to store a part of their soul. In order to fragment your soul, you have to murder someone. Tom Riddle, AKA the Dark Lord Voldemort, has created seven horcruxes. In order to completely kill him, all of the horcruxes must be destroyed. Otherwise, as long as a horcrux remains, a part of Voldie's soul still lives on, and thus, he manages to be somewhat immortal. [/backstory for anyone that needed it])

One of the horcruxes is a locket that Harry, Ron, and Hermione take turns wearing/guarding while they search for a way to destroy it. This locket, which contains part of this powerful man's soul, actually begins to affect the young trio if they are around it for too long.

When this particular event took place in the novel, I came to my horrible realization:

The Harry Potter books are horcruxes.

Ignoring for the moment that souls don't exist (or that I don't believe in them, if you want to be all picky), the stories that J.K. Rowling wrote do, in a very real way, contain a part of who she is. She put her thoughts and memories and ideas into the stories, and if thoughts and memories and ideas are NOT what a soul is supposed to be, well, then I don't know what is.

Additionally, the stories go on to affect people who spend an extended amount of time with them. By reading Rowling's stories, you change your own soul.
And the fact that she has printed them into books means that she has, in a way, achieved Voldemort's goal: Immortality.

Coincidentally, both Voldemort and J.K. Rowling created seven different vessels.

But I'm 99% certain that Rowling didn't have to kill anyone to create hers.