Ethical Dilemmas In Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix

The thesis of this essay is: “Although the world of Harry Potter is engrossing and inventive, the educational system at Hogwarts is filled with disturbing elements: Hogwarts promotes memorization and punishes experimentation, creativity, and critical thinking skills, creating alumni who are truly unprepared to handle calamities.” This thesis statement is claiming that Hogwarts is the type of school that does not encourage thinking outside of the box but instead supports memorizing only the current known magic to the wizarding world of Harry Potter. Students are taught, beginning at age 11, to not experiment with magic, and this limits them from trying to create their own skills in order to help them be able to protect themselves in the future. The author uses the following

The second title in the series, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, was published in July 1998 and was No. 1 in the adult hardback bestseller charts for a month after publication. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban was published on 8th July 1999 to worldwide acclaim and spent four weeks at No.1 in the UK adult hardback bestseller charts.

Harry Potter is a fascinating tale of sorcerers, wands, broomsticks, dragons, and magic. The story begins with a young boy named Harry Potter who lives at number four Privit Drive, Surray, England. His journey begins after the death of his parents at the hands of the evil Lord Voldemort. Harry learns of his past and his future as a wizard from Hagrid, the keeper of keys and grounds at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. He travels to Hogwarts where he learns spells and enchantments, makes new friends, finds enemies, and discovers fantastic secretes. J.K. Rowling weaves a web of impeccable storytelling with this critically acclaimed novel. In the tale of Harry Potter imagery, symbolism, and motif take central focus.

One would think Harry Potter lives in a utopian world comprised of fantasy and magic, however the deeper content of the story line suggests numerous ethical trials and dilemmas steeped in reality. Harry Potter, in the J.K. Rowling series, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, demonstrates the importance of possessing sound morals and having good character. When faced with numerous decisions, Harry tries his best in choosing the right thing and uses his magical powers of witch craft and wizardry for good and not evil. The book offers several examples. One that stands out is Harry chanting the magic spell “expectro patronum” as an effort to keep the dementors from killing both himself and his friends. (pg. 411) His quick thinking and resourcefulness was successful - once again Harry’s virtuous character prevails.

In Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, Rowling tells the story of Harry Potter. Harry is a boy living with his very cruel Aunt Petunia, Uncle Vernon, and cousin, Dudley in England. A letter was addressed and sent to Harry, but Uncle Vernon and Aunt Petunia won’t allow Harry to open it, but many more letters are sent to Harry as well. A big man named Hagrid then comes and tells Harry that he is a wizard and has been accepted to one of the finest Wizarding schools, Hogwarts. Harry ends up meeting Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, two kids that are also going to Hogwarts that eventually turn out to be Harry’s best friends. When Harry gets to Hogwarts, he is picked to Gryffindor, probably the best school house. Harry then meets Professor Snape, the potions teacher, who seems to hate Harry very much. Snape gives Harry cold stares and picks on him

Of J.K. Rowling's numerous works, her most widely known is perhaps the Harry Potter series. The story documents the life of a young wizard, Harry Potter, as he is educated at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and must defeat the powerful dark wizard, Lord Voldemort. Rowling writes about the journeys of adolescence as she documents Harry's coming of age through this magical lens. In the fifth book of the series, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Harry, angered by the newly instated "defense against the dark arts" teacher, Delores Umbridge, and her refusal to accept the return of Lord Voldemort, has an outburst in class and is punished with detention. In his detentions, Umbridge forces Harry to write the words "I must not tell

The Dark Lord goes onto slay Potter’s parents and attempts to slay Potter. Potter survives and prophesizes that he will seek vengeance against the Dark Lord. In the present, Harry is an orphaned boy living with his aunt Petunia, uncle Vernon, and cousin Dudley Dursley at number four Privet Drive in England. Harry is unloved, bullied, and underfed, and he believes there is nothing special about himself, other than the lightning-shaped scar on his forehead. Just before Harry's eleventh birthday, though, he receives a mysterious letter--his first correspondence ever--that is confiscated by his uncle, along with hundreds of subsequent letters from the same sender. Despite Mr. Dursley's attempts to take the family into hiding to avoid the mail, the letters continue coming. (Rowling). These events will result in a call of action to Potter by propelling him

The truth that people fear what they don’t understand is showcased in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. Throughout this novel, Harry and Albus are shown to argue and have many disagreements. As Albus continuously misbehaves and goes against his father’s word, Harry has no choice but to take action. Harry makes some questionable choices that are hard to forget, such as separating Albus from his only friend due to false accusations, leaving Albus to be convinced that is his father’s true self. Believing that Harry is a fearless, dictator of a father, Albus is left in a tough spot. Consequently, their relationship is even more unstable. After they go through highs and lows together, Harry finally reveals that he is scared to be a parent and has

In this second volume, it’s a year later in Harry Potter’s life, which begins with Harry at home on summer break with his unpleasant aunt and uncle, The Dursleys, and their horrid son Dudley.

Choices that Harry makes often lean him into dangerous situations and endanger other people, yet his intentions are always in an attempt to help and it is their actions after a situation goes bad that truly shows how Harry is a moral figure during a time of war. During Deathly Hallows, Harry, Ron, and Hermione use the Polyjuice Potion to sneak into the Ministry of Magic to retrieve a Horcrux, and in doing so, jeopardize the lives of the three employees, and the Cattermole family. Harry and his friends’ good intentions were there – they never expected that they would cause a ruckus and endanger someone’s life. However, once they realized this, they did as much as they could to warn the family and the other families waiting to be tried about what was coming, and warned them to run. Their intentions were pure, and they made a choice that they believed to be safe for the impersonated party and when they realized the danger, they accepted the consequences and sought to rectify the situation for all parties impacted:

In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Harry returns to Hogwarts for his fifth year of school. During this time he finds out about a group lead by Dumbledore called the Twelve which are trying to find information on the evil wizard Voldemort. Harry has these bad dreams which are all from Voldemort. After he has these dreams he goes to the ministry of Magic with a few friends to tell them about the dreams. When they get there Harry and his friends are ambushed by death eaters and Sirius gets killed trying to help protect Harry. After this Dumbledore explains the prophecy to Harry who does not understand it much.

First, I will give you this brief summary of the book and movie. Harry Potter is in his second year at Hogwarts. Before he goes to Hogwarts, he meets a house-elf named Dobby, who wishes to keep Harry from Hogwarts, due to his fear that Harry will be harmed. Soon after arriving, Harry starts hearing a mysterious voice in the walls of the school. Shortly after, students are attacked and become petrified. Harry discovers that someone is opening the “Chamber of Secrets” and letting out the “Monster”. After a while, Harry’s friend Hermione becomes petrified as well. Events come to a head when Ron’s sister, Ginny, is kidnapped and taken down into the Chamber. They quickly start searching for the entrance. After they find it, they head down to rescue Ginny. Harry finds an almost dead Ginny, a diary, and Tom Riddle (Voldemort). Harry learns Voldemort was possessing Ginny through a magical diary and was using her to set the monster loose on the students. The monster is then revealed to be a Basilisk. Harry saves Ginny by defeating the

This series is about a half-blooded wizards named Harry James Potter or better known as the “Boy Who Lived”. When he was just one year and three months old, Lord Voldemort attempted to kill him. Lord Voldemort is responsible for killing Harry’s mother and father. Harry was then forced to move in with a Muggle and the only blood relative left, his Aunt Dursley. In this home, Harry was very unwelcome and not nurtured whatsoever. Even though Harry was obviously greatly unloved, he remains sheltering there in order to be safe from Lord Voldemort. When he was eleven years old, he began attending the Hogwarts school of Witchcraft and Wizardry. From the moment Harry arrived at Hogwarts, he was already famous considering he survived the “Killing Curse”, and Harry just grew more and more famous throughout the book due to his heroic characteristics. At Hogwarts, Harry met his two best friends Ron Weasley

Everyone was curious of Harry because of his legacy and parentage. During Harry’s first day in his Potions class, his potion teacher Snape is very disappointed with him because he does not know “‘the difference...between monkshood and wolfsbane’" (Rowling, Sorcerer 's Stone 109). Harry does not understand why others had such high expectations of him because he never wanted them and starts to resent them when he cannot produce the results that everyone expects of him. As Harry grows up, other people 's expectations of him grow too. When Voldemort rises back to power, Harry learns from a prophecy that between Voldemort and him, “either must die at the hand of the other for neither can live while the other survives” (Rowling, Order of the Phoenix 841). Harry realizes the he is expected to kill Voldemort and again has to struggle with these expectations that he did not chose himself. Harry erupts in disbelief, as he does not want to be the Chosen One. He cries out that Voldemort “‘might have chosen wrong! ... He might have marked the wrong person!’” (Rowling, Order of the Phoenix 842). After the death of his mentor, Harry finally faces his expectations and decides that if he does not try to overcome the challenges that everyone expects him to, then there would be no one

     As soon as Harry passed through that gate of nine and three-quarters he entered a kind of total institution. A place where he was cut off from the society that he knows and would then be controlled by the officials, or a principal and teachers. This happens because he can’t really go back home with out regretting it and when he gets there like always the principal and teachers basically control you anyway.