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The Harry Potter saga should not be considered solely as a crusade of the power of good against the power of evil. Of course, the story depicts the heroic battle between the young sorcerer, Harry Potter and his sworn enemy, Lord Voldemort, but the question that appears throughout this combat is identical to that of the “democratic subject,” of its emergence, and even more of its creation. In other words, the question for Harry Potter is absolutely not to give in to the Talion law in order to undo Lord Voldemort’s mortiferous power, but to engage himself in a resolutely ethical resistance, the safeguard of his human qualities, which is the condition sine qua non of his victory, to which he basically is subjected. This paper aims to determine the features of this ethic of resistance, as well as its bases and its driving strength.