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    Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 Critical Analysis of the trailer By Lydia Turner Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 released in 2011 and directed by David Yates. Warner Bros distributed the film. It is based upon Harry Potter the Deathly Hallows written by J.K Rowling that was split in to two parts this film was the final film of the whole series, which consisted of eight films. The films target audience are people of the ages of 15 to 24 however younger and older audiences

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    Katrina Anne Winemiller Professor Larissa Purvis English 112 1. November 2014 How Harry Potter and parallels to the Bible As a professional reviewer, Mike Furches reviews Harry Potter in his blog, “Reviews with Mike Furches: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part 1” on blogspot.com. Mike’s concern for the dark, scary aspects of the Harry Potter books led him to research the subject more thoroughly, hoping to point out the reasons children should not be reading them. Because of the social, political

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    Harry Potter Satire

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    Harry Potter. What do you think when you hear that name? Good guy? Savior? Brave warrior? Hero? That’s pretty typical when you hear his name, and there’s a reason for that. No one has ever taken on The Dark Lord and survived, but Harry did. Twice actually. Harry was even able to defeat Voldemort when he was just a baby. He was so young that he doesn’t even remember. That’s why he’s just so much better than The Dark Lord. In the series, Harry is the good guy. He’s the one that saves thousands

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    Harry Potter Eugenics

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    When a person first watches the Harry Potter movie series, they see the story of witches and wizards, the struggle between good and evil, and the power of love. However, if you take a more in-depth look at the plotline of the movies, an overt relation to the Holocaust and Nazi Germany is evident. The Holocaust is a hot-button issue that most films and TV shows try to avoid talking about. However, in the Harry Potter series, a major underlying theme is the concept of eugenics. Eugenics is essentially

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    bizarre bereavement and or creation. They sometimes show high leadership skills and can sometimes be admired by higher powers and monarchs. Looking at these characteristics of a hero and analyzing books such as the ones J.K. Rowling 's "Harry Potter", P.C Cast 's " House of Night" series readers can see how the main character and or hero matches the definition. Likewise if you look at people in today 's world you can

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    series of Harry Potter, many creatures appear in the books and put into greater detail in the movies. Were these famous magical creatures made up or compared to something similar in mythology and folklore? There are many famous creatures throughout the story that add curiosity to one?s mind when first reading about one. The feeling one may get is to be able to see what this creature is capable of doing in comparison to others. In each book and movie, there is usually a creature that Harry, Ron, and

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    One of the main reasons for the success of Rowling’s Harry Potter is the universality of the different story elements which - unconsciously, perhaps - subtly satisfies readers. By cleverly weaving the characteristic archetypes that famous psychotherapist Carl Gustav Jung mapped out in the year 1947, Rowling illustrates multiple fairytale tropes. In The Philosopher’s Stone, she incorporates one such element: the archetype of the ‘shadow’, whereby the narrative of ‘evil’ and ‘good’ is put to question—and

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    In the book Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone there are two different worlds. One, which is the same as our real world, called the muggle world. There’s nothing particularly special about it, people go to their normal jobs everyday and later comes home to their normal families to spend some normal time with them. They read about abnormal things in fairy tales and fantasy books, those things doesn’t exist in the ”real life” to them. The magic world however is full of wizards, sorcerers, supernatural

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    “Religion in Harry Potter: Do J.K. Rowling’s Novels Promote Religion or Undermine It?” published in 2011, explains how the Harry Potter books correlate with religious faiths by explaining themes such as immortality, sacrificial love and by suggesting that the “concept of free will underpins the development of Rowling’s… characters” (53, par 16). As Harry travels through this new, foreign world, he has to face many unthinkable obstacles that explore religious and moral based principles. In the Harry Potter

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    Harry Potter was conceived on the 31st of July in 1980 to folks Lily and James Potter. He was conceived a wizard and into a mysterious crew. He has dark hair, blue eyes and weakened vision, requiring glasses. His father’s closest companion, Sirius Black, was made Harry 's adoptive parent when he was a child. Amid the First Magician War, when he was a standout year old, Voldemort endeavoured to execute Harry however fizzled. To start with James attempted to square his way and was killed, and then

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