The Wildly Popular Harry Potter Series By J.k. Rowling Essay

What would you do if you awoke one morning to find that you were a living legend. That for the past twenty years your family has been known to all, as one of the most prominent wizarding families in the wizarding world. What would YOU do if you were regarded as ... a modern HERO. The only wizard ever to survive a powerful curse cast by Voldemort, the most powerful dark wizard; Harry was just a baby when he was attacked by the evil wizard. But he escaped the curse and had somehow managed to reverse it and take away Voldemort's power. This story was told for 11 years past only making the story of Harry Potter grow to become an even greater living legend.

The title Harry Potter and the Cursed Child sparked my interest, because it involved the words “cursed child.” I figured it would be interesting to read, since in the last book Harry Potter was sending his children to the school he had previously attended. The title does fit well with the text, because it’s all about Harry Potter and his “cursed” child.

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.

     The title of my book is Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. It is written by J.K. Rowling. I really liked this book. This book is a fiction book. That of course means it’s not true.

My book report is on the book 'Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone' by J.K.

Milbank explains that in the “‘post Christian phase’, where there is a decline in institutionalised religion, fantasy seems to have the ability to give glimpses of the Gospel, allowing the story of Christ to ‘persist in the echo of the public value’” (2). Anastasia Apostolides and Johann-Albrecht Meylahn state “Tolkien, Lewis, and in a contemporary world, Rowling, use glimpses of the Gospel in their work to expose and challenge the effects of the dominant discourses of their societies that they see as fragmenting and hurting people’s identities and binding them to material things” (5). In the same article, it is later stated that “As the Harry Potter series has the Christ discourse threaded in its sacred story, it allows the reader glimpses of the values of the Gospels from an everyday perspective and that makes the series function as lived theology” (6). Also stated is the idea that, “Rowling’s wizarding ‘Sub-Creation’ gives a very similar choice to those of Lewis and Tolkien (the choice between Christ and corruption)” (5). While many conservative Christians jump to the assumption that with the storyline revolving around warlocks and wizardry the series must promote satanic values, the series as a whole follows an extremely Christ-like path. Rowling states, “to me [the religious parallels have] always been obvious…but I never wanted to talk too openly about it because I thought it might

J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series has become one of the most popular children’s series in the world over the past decade. Through these books children and young adults alike have delved into a fantastical world in which they explored the problems that their protagonist, Harry Potter, has faced. In Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, the sixth book of the Harry Potter series, Harry dealt with the challenge of proving to his peers and professors that Draco Malfoy and Severus Snape were no longer trustworthy. Even so, Harry failed to realize that the author of the notes in his Advanced Potion-Making book was corrupt. In this book, J.K. Rowling uses point of view, style, and irony to demonstrate the need for people to be more analytical

The article by Michale Osteling, ‘Harry Potter and the Disenchantment of the World’, examined the controversy between the views of the conservative Christians and the Secular Mainstream, about the children’s book series, Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling. For many conservative Christians, the book is seen as a portal to the New Age, Wicca and diabolical magic. For the Secular commentary, which included liberal Christians, view the book as a make believe, so it should not concern Christians, because it is not a real occult magic. It is more of an instrumental rather than religious and parallels technology (pp6). For Osteling, the book brought a breath of fresh air, and a source of wonder to our boring modern existences (pp 4).

It is believed that “with the rise of Harry Potter, this nation’s youth have displayed a ‘mania’ that has not been seen in reference to books for a long time. For example, Barns and Nobles, America’s largest bookseller has recently declared that Harry Potter and the Order of Phoenix will be their ‘largest seller in the history of the entire company’”(Woodrum 1). Due to being in the macabre genre, some scenes are dark, but “while some parents do not allow their children to read Potter books because of their graphic content, others accuse the books of being ‘anti-Christian’”(Woodrum 2). According to filmmaker, Caryl Matrisciana, a quote from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone was related to Christianity. The quote was a scene where a hooded figure drinks blood from a unicorn (Woodrum 2). In the article, “The Harry Potter Controversy”, “Matrisciana believes the cloaked figure to be symbolic of Satan. Through stories about Harry Potter, children are ‘being introduced to human sacrifice, the sucking of blood from dead animals and possessions by spirit being’ Matrisciana states” (Woodrum 2). These beliefs, from kids views to religious conflicts, show how Rowling’s work made an impression on our

Since the beginning of the series, Harry Potter’s life has been influenced by the choices of Albus Dumbledore. Everything that has happened to Harry has occurred because of Dumbledore, but does that make him purely Dumbledore’s boy or is he his own person with agency to do as he wants?

In “Runner’s Up: J.K. Rowling,” Nancy Gibbs discusses the effects that the Harry Potter books had on Rowling and why she was a Runner Up as Time’s Person of the Year in 2007. Now that Rowling’s finished with the series, she can finally disclose all of the secrets that she’s been holding back for so long. Much to fans’ dismay, she still won’t give out many interviews; although, Rowling does disclose some of her own secrets about her religion. She comes from an atheist family, but she converted to Christianity after studying further into religions. Rowling emphasizes that she does not hope to push Christianity onto her readers, but she does hope to inspire them to do good in the world. Even though all of the books in the Harry Potter series

Like most kids, I was dreaming of receiving an acceptance letter from Hogwarts to whisk me away from our dreary world while gradually swallow the fact of being a muggle. Over the course of its publication, Harry Potter series has gained enormous popularity among readers universally, not only with children but with adults counterparts as well. As a result of its phenomenal success and ubiquitous values in literature, numerous scholarly reviews and literary analysis have been conducted, most frequently on the themes of love, death, and religions. As Colin suggests in “The Literary Value of Harry Potter Books,” a closer insight of the book reviews the sophistication and mirrors the social issues much more than generally expected (Colin, 1-21).

First, the speaker in this speech is J.K Rowling a British novelist who is well known for the series of fantasy books of Harry Potter. This British novelist was invited to give a commencement speech during the Harvard University annual meeting of the Harvard alumni on June 5, 2008. The audience seemed to be students, faculty, and guest.Rowling’s tone of voice and phrase she used expressed how honored she was to have been invited to give this speech at this event, but at the same time she was very nervous about it she states, “ but the weeks of fear and nausea I have endured at the thought of giving this commencement address have made me lose weight. A win-win situation!” This phrase communicates that she was nervous, but also added humor

“A giant of a man was standing in the doorway. His face was almost completely hidden by a long, shaggy mane of hair and a wild tangled beard, but you could make out his eyes, glinting like black beetles under all the hair” (pg 46). The previous passage is a wonderful and tasteful description of the first introduction of Hagrid from J. K. Rowling’s novel, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. This book gives intimate detail and overwhelming amounts of vivid description into the characters, settings and conflicts that arise in the book. If there is are aspects to really note about Harry Potter it is the wonderful and imaginative language and the parallels of similarity between situations Harry is

Harry Potter: Main character and the protagonist of the book. Harry is a 12-year-old kid with green eyes and round-framed glasses. He rose to fame in the wizarding community in the U.K. for being the only person to have ever survived the killing curse. Due to the terrible tragedy caused by the infamous dark wizard Tom Riddle a.k.a. Lord Voldemort, which ended up killing his parents, he had to spend his childhood with his uncaring and vile Aunt Petunia and her family. He has a neck for getting himself in trouble. He is brave and smart. He is best friends with Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley. During the book, Harry is at his fourth year in Hogwarts and mysteriously finds his name in the Goblet of Fire which leads him to participating to the