Harry Potter Star Passes Away

 

LONDON, ENGLAND— A Downton Abby and Harry Potter actress has passed away.

Actress Maggie Smith has died at the age of 89. Smith was nominated for six Academy Award and won two Oscars for her roles in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and California Suite for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress. She also won five BAFTA Awards.

While those roles are award winning, many know Smith from her portrayal of Professor Minerva McGonagall in all of the Harry Potter films and Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham, in Downton Abby.

Smith died at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in London.

Far from the only Harry Potter actor to pass away as notably Michael Gambon and Richard Harris, who portrayed Professor Albus Dumbledore, Alan Rickman, who played Severus Snape, and Robbie Coltrane, who played Hagrid, in the film series have all passed as well as Robert Knox, Elizabeth Spriggs, Timothy Bateson, Jimmy Gardner, Alfred Burke, Eric Sykes, Richard Griffiths, Peter Cartwright, Roger Lloyd Pack, Dave Legeno, Derek Deadman, David Ryall, Terance Bayler, Hazel Douglas, John Hurt, Sam Beazley, Robert Hardy, Verne Troyer, Paul Ritter, Helen McCrory, Leslie Phillips, and Paul Grant.

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I didn't know this woman, but she was likely a nice person, and she did a spot-on job in her acting. I bear no malice towards any of the actors in these movies.

As far as for the fictional characters themselves, however:

Harry Potter stood in the shadowed streets of Caracas, the tropical night air clinging to him like a heavy cloak. His Auror mission had taken him far from the familiar cobblestones of Diagon Alley, past the borders of the magical world he knew. He was here on a covert assignment, investigating the rise of dark magic in Venezuela, a dangerous intersection of Muggle violence and Santeria rituals that even the Ministry of Magic was ill-prepared to handle.

He'd been tracking a lead for days, following whispers of gangs tied to unspeakable acts—practitioners of both black market magic and brutal Muggle crime. Tonight, that lead had brought him to a narrow alleyway in the heart of Caracas, where the walls were plastered with faded posters and graffiti, the streetlights flickering uncertainly as though hesitant to illuminate what lay beneath their glow.

Clutching his wand in his hand, Harry’s senses were on high alert. The Deathly Hallows symbol hidden beneath his shirt felt heavier, as though reacting to the dark forces around him. This wasn’t like anything he’d encountered before. He had heard of Santeria, of course—an ancient Afro-Caribbean religion with deep ties to spirits and gods—but here it mingled with something darker. They worshiped Santa Muerte, a skeletal figure draped in robes who commanded death itself, much like the Grim Reaper in wizarding lore.

Suddenly, a flicker of movement caught his eye at the end of the alley. Figures appeared—shadowed men in leather jackets, their faces covered in bandanas. They moved with a dangerous grace, like predators circling their prey. Their leader, a tall man with gleaming eyes that betrayed a fanatical devotion, stepped forward. Harry felt his wand arm tense.

"You shouldn’t have come here, mago," the man said, his voice laced with menace. "This is not your world."

Harry’s grip tightened. “I’m not leaving without answers.”

The leader smiled, a slow, wicked curve of his lips. Behind him, the gang members began murmuring prayers under their breath. It wasn’t Latin. It wasn’t any spell Harry recognized. It was something more primal, something older. They prayed to Santa Muerte, asking for her favor.

Before Harry could react, one of the gang members pulled out a talisman—a small statue of Santa Muerte—and raised it high. A gust of wind howled through the alley, and Harry’s heart skipped a beat. Magic crackled in the air, but it wasn’t the magic of wands and spells. It was wild, uncontrolled, and filled with an ancient power that unsettled him to his core.

“Avada Kedavra!” Harry shouted, aiming at the leader.

A flash of green light shot from his wand, but something twisted the spell mid-air. The leader laughed cruelly, the curse dissipating before it could reach him.

“Your magic is weak here, mago. Santa Muerte watches over us. You cannot kill the dead.”

The other gang members pulled out knives—gleaming, ceremonial blades. Harry took a step back, wand raised, but the dark magic around him seemed to sap his strength. He could feel it now, the oppressive weight of their prayers. Santa Muerte’s presence was real, tangible. She was here, her bony hand extending through the veil between worlds.

Harry dodged the first knife swipe, casting defensive spells as quickly as he could. “Protego!” he shouted, but the shield faltered. The gang members moved faster than he anticipated, their strikes precise and fueled by something unnatural.

A blade caught his side, a sharp pain slicing through his torso. Harry staggered but forced himself to stand. He wouldn’t give up—not here, not like this. But the leader stepped forward, eyes gleaming with victory.

“You think you are powerful, Harry Potter,” the man sneered. “But your kind has no power here. Not in the face of death.”

Before Harry could cast another spell, the leader reached out, pressing the Santa Muerte talisman to Harry’s chest. A cold, searing pain shot through him, unlike anything he had ever felt. His vision blurred, and his legs gave way beneath him. He collapsed to the ground, the life draining from his body.

As his vision dimmed, Harry heard the final whispers of their prayers, felt the cold hand of Santa Muerte closing around his heart. His last thought was not of victory or hope, but of the faces he would never see again—Hermione, Ron, Ginny, his children. The world began to fade.

And in that moment, as death claimed him, the symbol of the Deathly Hallows—once a symbol of power over death itself—was nothing but a faint flicker in the darkness.

And Harry broiled in flames for eons, surrounded by chihuahuas and tormented by demons who bullied him with iron staffs, chains, and steel mallets.

The End

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