Harry Potter Holy Grail Research Paper

This story takes place at the present time. It takes place over the course of one year. It all starts at a small town outside London, then moves to an enchanted castle, located in a the middle of Britain. The castle is very large and would take hours to describe in detail. It has secret passages, doors that can move, and suits of armour that can get up and walk around. It has four large towers, and a dungeon in which Potions class is held for the pupils. The castle is actually a large school by the name of “Hogwart School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.” Hogwart is surrounded by a forbidden forest, which has werewolves and

Sir Gawain and Sir Galahad are similar because both are very religious. Sir Gawain is religious because he refuses to sleep with the lady of the castle when she comes in his room and tries to seduce him. He does not fall for her charms because it is against the Code of Chivalry.

The goblet of fire was my favorite book. I love the games and all the creativity the book delivered. I though all the chapter of the book were necessary to the book. If he were assigned any less chapters the book would feel very watered down.

Piaget says that people learn things by organizing new experiences into existing schemes, or patterns of behavior and thought. That is, people’s cognitive development occurs when they adapt their thought processes and organize them into new or modified schemes, a process he calls equilibration ( McLeod, 2015). I believe that harry is the formal operational stage because Harry and his friends work together to solve problems trying to get tough a series of challenges in order the get the stone in the movie Harry Potter and the sorcerer's stone around the two hour marker, and most of the challenges are life threatening to say the least but they make it though, and according to piaget's theory of cognitive development at this stage The ability to systematically plan for the future and reason about hypothetical situations are also critical abilities that emerge during this stage (McLeod, 2015).

History, although mostly recorded through words, draws from a foundation of visuals like pictures and photographs. That is, up until recently, civilizations did not write down every single event that occurred so future generations would know the civilization’s history- instead, they generally either passed it down verbally or put it into art. Indeed, some of the earliest languages were illustration-based rather than actual words. Therefore, it makes sense that photographs and portraits play such a large role in present day society, as well as the Muggle worlds and magic worlds that J.K. Rowling depicts in the Harry Potter septology. Particularly, in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, the photos and portraits are significant in that they

July 31, 1965 , daughter to Peter James Rowling and Anne Rowling, Joanne Rowling later known as around the world as J. K. Rowling was born. Rowling had a sister named Dianne and grew up in Yate, Gloucestershire, England. She went to the St Michael's Primary School before enrolling herself at the Wyedean School and College. For further studies, she admitted herself at the University of Exeter for BA in French and Classics. After college she moved to London she became a researcher and bilingual secretary for Amnesty International. While there Rowling also wrote a short essay titled “What was the name of that Nymph again? Or Greek and Roman studies recalled,” that was published at the University of Exters Journal Pegas.

It was Pliny the Younger who said, “An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.” This idea is sometimes referred to as the thrill of the chase. The excitement of the thought of finally achieving a goal or obtaining some object often serves pleasure and excite the person more than actually achieving it. When someone finally achieves his/her goal, he/she often finds it less satisfying then was expected. Throughout anyone’s life, he/she has likely experienced a time in which this occurred and the final reward proved to be less rewarding than he/she had expected. As people desire for and strive to achieve or obtain something, they often raise their expectations and fool themselves into thinking the reward will be much more gratifying than it actually is; furthermore, this idea says much about human nature and brings to attention much

Most people today know Joanne Rowling by her nickname J.K. Rowling which "J" is the first letter of her first name and the first letter "K" for Kathleen which is her grandmothers name. J.K. Rowling decided to use that name to appeal to boys so using a unisex nickname she did just that. J.K. Rowling was born and raised in England. She was born on the 31 of july 1956. Her father James Rowling and mother Anne volant met on a train on their way to join the British navy. Even from an early age J.K Rowling had always dreamed about being a writer. She remembers even at the age of six she recalls wanting to get her stories published. From then her desire to be a writer only grew. At the age of 17 J.K. Rowling left her childhood town to go to Exeter University where she earned a French and Classics degree. "She slightly regretted choosing French, saying she would have preferred to study English. However, it was her parents wish that she study something 'more useful' than English" (Pettinger). She then studied a year in paris, graduated, then moved to London.

J. K. Rowling is the author of the best-selling Harry Potter series. As Bruno Bettelheim says, “If we hope to live not just moment to moment, but in true consciousness of our existence, then our greatest need and most difficult achievement is to find meaning in our lives” (Bettelheim 2). ”when children are young, it is literature that carries such information best” (Bettelheim 4). In literary circles, mention of Rowling or her work is likely to raise some tempers. Critics find her work “antithetical to established literary values, sustained by clearly monetary interests, and which in a few short years has climbed to an astonishing peak of international glory and financial success” (Virole 1). The beginning of Rowling’s series is

Pi is an incredible individual. He went on an inconceivable journey that changed him mentally. There was no way he would come back the as the same person. After going through a shipwreck, he refuses to believe that he might really be stranded. When he acknowledges that he really is lost, Pi kills for the first time for the sake of survival. His physical and religious limits are tested immensely and it transforms him forever.

The story events take place England, in Hogwarts school and The Department Of Ministry. King’s Cross Station is where most events took place before school. The Author J.K. Rowling conceived of the idea of this setting in 1990 while sitting on a delayed train from Manchester to London, King’s Cross. King’s Cross is mentioned in the book and the book/movie series, and is referred to as King’s Cross Station where the main characters go to board the train. The students would run through a mystical wall with their parents to the magic side to board the train on Platform 9 ¾ with their trolleys . On the platform in the station the children would say good bye to their parents and board the train to Hogwarts which was one of the settings in the

“This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord: “Go down to the potter’s house, and there I will give you my message.” So I went down to the potter’s house, and I saw him working at the wheel. But the pot he was shaping from the clay was marred in his hands; so the potter formed it into another pot, shaping it as seemed best to him. Then the word of the Lord came to me. He said, “Can I not do with you, Israel, as this potter does? Declares the Lord. “Like clay in the hand of the potter, so are you in my hand, Israel. If at any time I announce that a nation or kingdom is to be uprooted, torn down and destroyed, and if that nation I warned repents of its evil, then I will relent and not inflict on it the disaster I had planned. And if at another time I announce that a nation or kingdom is to be built up and planted, and if it does evil in my sight and does not obey me, then I will reconsider the good I had intended to do for it.” (Jeremiah 18:1-10). This served as a parable to warn the people of Israel what their fate would look like if they continued in their old ways.

The widely popular Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling has been the center of religious controversy since it’s first publication in 1997. While they’re many religions that completely reject the series, the Catholic Church is one, which is divided in its stance on Potter. The Church has praised the films for their portrayal of good and evil, but warn against the lure of magic into occultism. Scholar Laura Feldt explains: “The Harry Potter novels have also met strong religious reactions including extreme acts of rejection by church leaders and parents in conservative Christian communities in the USA” (101). However, as firm as the stance on Harry Potter and magic in the Catholic Church seemed to be, as the books and movies were released a divide occurred amongst believers. Some supported idea that Christian themes like love, sacrifice, and good versus evil were in the text. However, the argument against Harry Potter, like Fr. Costigan’s assessment – which is the area I focus on – that Harry encourages children to break rules and promotes that the ends justify the means, still exists making Harry immoral (Costigan). While I understand the conflict the Catholic Church is enduring when finalizing a stance on Rowling’s series, I disagree that Harry’s actions contradict the teachings of the Church.

He was raised by his abusive muggle aunt and uncle after Voldemort killed both of his parents. He lived in a broom cupboard as almost a slave and didn’t know magic existed or the truth on how his parents died- he was always told a car crash- until age eleven, when Hagrid, a friend of his parents, came bursting through the door and said the famous line, “You’re a wizard, Harry.” He also attended Hogwarts until becoming a dropout before his last year. His adult life began when he dropped out. He fought at the Battle of Hogwarts, killing Voldemort. He then became an Auror, a dark wizard hunter, to ensure peace in the wizarding world. He used the hardship in his life to become a powerful wizard, however unlike Voldemort, used that power for

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone turned many heads when the book first hit the shelves in