Harry Potter Research Paper

My Husband knows about my Harry Potter (almost) obsession and does not miss a chance to give me a hard time about it. I could read Harry Potter over and over again without getting bored. I also enjoy my Twilights and Hunger Games. I favor series because it allows me to make more of a connection with the characters. Knowing they have another adventure once I finish the last page gets me excited. When I was younger I read more of a variety mystery, western, and horror. As I get older I find myself going back to comfort, and that is why I reread my favorites. Going to college, working two jobs, spending time with my family, and as of recently considering being a foster parent has not left me time for pleasure reading. That is why I spend any time I do have reading novels I know I enjoy. I hope after graduating that I will have more time to expand the literature I

The Harry Potter novels have action,drama,suspense,and a good story line.The readers feel fond of Harry when he was a little kid and when he’s an adult.The action is intense because when Harry and Voldemort battle

Muggles cannot use or even sense the presence of magic, they also cannot brew a potion even if they had access to all the right magical ingredients, this is the trait that makes them so different from magical folk. Magic is present both in people and in plants and animals. These creatures or foliage is now hidden from Muggles by the government for their own protection. Muggles also cannot use objects such as flying broomstick as they require a magical presence in order to function correctly, a muggle could pick one up and use it in their manner and not realise that it is magical in the

Kindergarten and elementary school introduced Accelerated Reading, a point system that awarded children for reading books and testing well on them. The competitive nature it brought was key to my advancing as a reader through 5th grade. I was reading little series like Junie B. Jones and Magic Tree House, connecting with these simple characters and finding a certain comfort in the familiarity between each book in them. In the fourth grade, I began trying to chase the top spot in the AR rankings, Catherine. She won every year, racking up over 1,000 points. I just began pulling large books off the shelf and reading them. This was how I came across the most impressive series of my generation: Harry Potter. I read the fourth book first, because it was the biggest. It totally threw of my experience, as I read 5,6, and 7, then went back to read the first three. Rowling's ability to immerse me in a universe sparked

J.k Rowling is an author best known for her harry potter series and founder of Lumos a charity dedicated to saving children in institutions where they are forced out of all individualism, have no personal belongings, schooling or normally any food. The name Lumos came from a spell in her harry potter series to put light into dark places. Lumos helps the sick , disabled and unwealthy children forced into institutions by poverty and discrimination or purely by the lack of social services in the areas of the world where for some the only way to get an education at all is to go to a institution

Joanne Rowling was born on 31st July 1965 at Yate General Hospital outside Bristol and grew up in England and in south-east Wales.Her father was an aircraft engineer and her mother was a science technician where Joanne herself went to school. Developing and growing up, she had always loved to be around books, she wrote her first book at age 6, a book titled "Rabbit".

Born Joanne Rowling to Anne and Peter Rowling, Rowling grew up in Chipping Sodbury, England with her older sister Diana (Source 3). She went to school at Wyedean School and College, St Michael's Primary School in Winterbourne, University of Exeter, UK (Source 1). After graduating from college, she went on to find work and started to write the Harry Potter series (Source 2). After graduation she also worked at many different places, including a publishing company where part of her job was to write and send out rejection letters to different people (Source 3). In the late 1990’s, she went to France to teach english as a foreign language, but after falling in and out of love she had a daughter and moved back to the UK to continue to write (Source #2). Rowling later stated that the main character in her books resembled her greatly (Source #3). The fantasy novel soon became a hit for both adults and children when the first three books took the first three slots in the recommended list that was published by the New York Times (Source 1). The books also received many other awards, including the

Bedtime was an enjoyable and engaging period where young children listened intently to elders reading endless amounts of stories and fairytales until these children reached a certain age of maturity and decided on reading the “big boy and girl” chapter books without any assistance. Therefore, many boys and girls had acquired enough courage to crack open and read the popular and major book series Harry Potter. From there on, children and adults alike were mesmerized and hooked on the magical and enchanting world filled with wizards, witches, and spells. However, as much as people can distinguish Harry Potter, very few are aware of the brain of it all, J.K. Rowling, who went through numerous hardships, setbacks, and

In J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series, magic is a mystical force that helps the wizards of Magical Britain. Wizards are able to perform healing charms to extend life, use spells to perform daily tasks, and teleport to practically anywhere in the world; the possibilities of magic appear to be endless. However, with everything that magic can do, there is also so much that it cannot. It is known that wizards are able to conjure physical objects, but they are unable to conjure food. As Hermione says to Ron in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, “Your mother can’t produce food out of thin air,” because this violates a principle called “Gamp’s Law of Elemental Transfiguration” (DH, 292).

J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter books have been translated into more than sixty-five languages. J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter books have been translated into more than sixty-five languages. J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter books have been translated into more than sixty-five languages. J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter books have been translated into more than sixty-five languages. J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter books have been translated into more than sixty-five languages.

If I had to go alongside the main character from any movie or book I would choose the Harry Potter book series/ movie series. The first reason why I would pick that is because they have these really awesome objects like wands, invisibility cloaks and the list goes on. Another reason why I would like to go alongside the characters is because of Hogwarts. At Hogwarts they have all these amazing things like quidditch where you fly on brooms. My last reason is the battle scenes and the big wizarding war. Every one is casting spells at everything. Even though you could die, it sounds awesome!

“Let us not forget, after all, that there is always a moment when the moral choice is made. Often because of one story or one book or one person, we are able to make a different choice, a choice for humanity, for life” (Elie Wiesel). One book series that is extremely influential and delves into the topic of ethics and being a thoughtful citizen is the Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling. Furthermore, the Harry Potter books teaches a person to overcome their own fears, and there is always hope.

The beginning of my interest in reading goes way back, although I don’t have any defining “aha!” moment, where I all of a sudden enjoyed reading books. There were always books around when I was growing up, if I was at my grandparents house it was the books they kept from their youth; classics like Treasure Island or any Hemingway book, the hard covers permanently infused with dust; plenty of History books, particularly World War II history; and the children’s books I always received as presents when I visited. My mom also read a lot, but more modern books, like supernatural or light horror books, nothing too difficult (or scary). I spent a lot of time reading magazines, mostly Video Game (note: spent more time creating stories off the

Have you ever read the Harry Potter series? I bade you to read the Harry Potter series. I have three reasons why you should read the novel, and they are: if you like magic, if you like wizards and witches, if you like suspense, then read the Harry Potter series. However, if you haven’t read the series, here is a brief description of the first book of the novel: “The Fantasy Novel, ‘Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone’, By J.K. Rowling is about a boy named Harry Potter who was a one year old that was left on the doorstep of his mother’s sister’s house, (Petunia Dursley). His Aunt and her husband, Vernon Dursley, accepted Harry. Eleven years later Harry Potter receives a letter from one of the best schools of Witchcraft and Wizardry named Hogwarts, a school for magic people. When Harry finds out he is a wizard, he sets off for Hogwarts, where he finds that he is very famous because of his lightning shaped scar and his great Quidditch skills. He also meets many kind people and his very first best friends, named Ronald Weasley and Hermione Granger. Harry, Ron, and Hermione survive all the way to the end of the novel, where they discover that the Sorcerer’s Stone is about to be stolen, so Harry Ron, and Hermione try to save the stone. Finally Harry Potter alone reaches the stone where he meets the thief of the stone, the Dark Lord. There he most importantly finds a path he must take later in the series to overtake the Dark Lord, if he could survive his destiny.” After reading

Another factor which I believe has led to the novels success is that while reading, the reader wishes that they could live in this fantasy world created by Rowling where life is anything but ordinary. The novels make the reader somewhat desire a life like the one led by the characters of the novels, like going to a school to learn wizarding, always having extraordinary things happen and just being at Hogwarts seems like an unequaled joy for some. These novels have the ability to reignite the long lost imaginations of adults, and keep the imaginations of children strong.