Harry Potter

The stories you created within the Harry Potter world were my entire childhood. I grew up reading and loving the adventures and characters you wrote. However, looking back I tried to determine what specifically kept me invested and interested in the books. The concept of a child near my own age who was also someone who could use magic was all that was needed to get ten-year-old me to read the books, but what brings me back to reading them now, as an eighteen-year-old college student? Now, after spending

In the Harry Potter series J.K. Rowling sets up many stereotypes in the books. By the end of the series Harry breaks through many of these boundaries and it helps him in the end. Rowling is saying through this that all people are equal and separation hurts all and helps no one. One stereotype that is set up very early in the series is something very real and it is often seen in everyday life. The Dursleys are “proud to say that they are perfectly normal, thank you very much.” They look down upon

HARRY POTTER—MORE THAN A CONTEMPORARY PHENOMENON What makes a book a classic? What is it about a book that will have generation after generation reading it? English Literature majors could spend hours theorizing the answers to this question. One series of texts that has received publicity and wide-spread acclaim over the past seven years is the Harry Potter collection. J.K. Rowling could never have possibly imagined how her little book about a boy with broken glasses and a scar on his forehead

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone “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

In the year 1999 the series of Harry Potter by J.K Rowling were challenged. A year later in the 2000’s it would officially be banned. The reason for its removal was because of some controversial topics such as religion and setting a bad example for children and young adults, but others think otherwise (Maughan). Mainly the parents of the children, who choose to read these series, have questioned Harry Potter. One of the biggest reasons why is because of religion. For those have read the books we

irony, dramatic irony, or verbal irony. Surprising readers, situational irony contradicts the expected outcome of the story. For example, the audience of the Harry Potter series, by J.K. Rowling, expect that Harry Potter will defeat Voldemort, the evil lord, by killing him; however, they are thrown off guard when it is revealed that Harry Potter must allow Voldemort to kill

1997, a new children’s author, J.K. Rowling, released a book, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, and took the world and the wizarding world by storm. The Harry Potter franchise, which later went on to include seven books and eight movie adaptations, tells the story of a young wizard, named Harry Potter, and his rag-tag group of friends as they battle Lord Voldemort and his loyal followers of Death Eaters. The books follow Harry, who at first did not know he was a wizard and had to adapt to

colors of Christmas, and they represent joy and happiness. However, in the Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling, these colors mean something entirely different. The two colors completely contrast, and they represent good and evil. The Harry Potter Series is about a young magician, Harry Potter, who fights the most evil wizard in the world, Voldemort. These two characters are represented by red and green. Red being Harry, and green being Voldemort. Not only do these colors directly represent the

such as life lessons and morals. In the past two decades, Harry Potter, a famous work of J.K. Rowling, has become increasingly popular and well known, but sensations also come with reproaches from strong willed adults that claim simple fictional details are consuming and corrupting their children. Parents and guardians believe that Harry Potter should be banned from use in schools and libraries, but they don’t

We can see our own reflection in the characters and experience the growth with them. Harry Potter & the Sorcerer?s Stone, is the story of a young boy who finds out he is a wizard. Harry Potter loses his parents when he is one year old. Then his aunt takes him into her family. But Harry Potter does not have a happy childhood there. His aunt and cousin treat him very hard. It a kind of unfortunate. When Harry Potter turns 11 years old, he meets something amazing happens to him. He gets a letter from