"Śmierć będzie ostatnim wrogiem, który zostanie zniszczony". Dziecko-horkruks w cyklu o Harrym Potterze J. K. Rowling ["The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death." The Child-Horcrux in Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling]

According to Grzegorz Leszczyński, stereotypical approaches to the phenomenon of death in children's literature include: orphan-hood of protagonist, death of the enemy and heroic death of the main character. All those elements can be found in Harry Potter books. In this article I present an interdependent type of Harry and Lord Voldemort's relationship in the context of death in its various realizations. The main figure of the analysis is Harry Potter himself, boy that from the beginning of the story has a piece of Dark Lord inside him - as a child-horcrux. This article traces the motif of death in Harry Potter series and its relation to the concept of child and childhood. Text published in: “Śmierć w literaturze dziecięcej i młodzieżowej” [Death in Literature for Children and Young Adults], ed. by Katarzyna Slany, Warszawa: Wydawnictwo SBP, 2018, pp. 215–228