The Boy Who Lived

David Holmes was the first to play quidditch for real on a Wizarding World broomstick. As Harry Potter''s stunt double, his amazing gymnastic skills saw him earn onscreen immortality jumping off buildings and dodging fire bursts to bring Harry''s story to life. Growing up alongside Daniel Radcliffe, they became like brothers. The entire team was like a second family. Then tragedy struck. During the making of Deathly Hallows Part 1 a stunt went badly wrong and David''s spinal cord snapped. He was only 25 and would never walk again. Sixteen years later, the pain can still be excruciating, his muscles are wasting, and he requires round-the-clock care. His future may seem bleak, but David has accepted his new reality, with all the different possibilities, purposes and powerful human connections that have come with it. His candid and inspiring story shares his life before and after, showing us the importance of making the most of every day, and the good that can come out of even the worst of circumstances.

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DAVID HOLMES lived a young boy's dream. A competitive gymnast, he was thrust into the Hollywood spotlight having been cast as a junior stuntman on the 1998 sci-fi movie, Lost in Space.
Two years later he landed the role as stunt double to Daniel Radcliffe in the Harry Potter films where he battled dragons, explored
underwater worlds and racked up more broomstick miles than anyone else in the Wizarding World. Then in 2009, David's world
changed when a horrific accident fractured his C6 and C7 vertebrae, leaving him paralysed from the chest down. In a period of emotional soul-searching, he came to an important realisation: he was a survivor, not a victim.

Since then, he has raised hundreds of thousands of pounds through the David Holmes Harry Potter Cricket Cup and is an ambassador for the Wings for Life Foundation and the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital in Stanmore. Elsewhere,
David has been a published essay writer in the New York Times, and has given speeches in front of members of the royal family at both Buckingham Palace and Saint James's palace. He produced a BAFTA-nominated documentary about his life entitled The Boy Who Lived and posed for a powerful portrait in which he
stripped naked and set himself on fire. He lives in Essex.

Résumé
Harry Potter's stunt double David Holmes was paralysed, aged 25, when a stunt went badly wrong. With his life now changed forever, David shares his crazy dare-devil before life with his difficult journey after, in his unflinching, powerful and inspiring story.