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    Harry Potter Mentorship

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    of the “INP of Romance,” a literary template that describes each step of a hero’s journey, is the role of a mentor figure. Many major works of literature, such as the Harry Potter series, include a character who plays this role. In Harry Potter, the clear mentor is Dumbledore, Harry’s headmaster. Dumbledore consistently guides Harry as he learns how to harness his magical powers and use them to destroy Voldemort, the evil wizard. However, a book does not need to have only one mentor, nor does that

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    world to a boy named Harry Potter. The rags-to-riches life of Harry is a parallel of Rawling's own life. Rawling, a divorced, unemployed, single-mother living on public assistance, breathed life into Harry and his comrades on cocktail napkins in a café she frequented. After numerous rejections from publishers, Bloomsbury Publishers took a chance, and to borrow a trite expression, "the rest is history." Since the release of the first (of the rumored seven book series) Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's

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    being appropriated from. To support this argument, I will be displaying the value of interactivity added to the Harry Potter fandom through A Very Potter Musical. A Very Potter Musical (also known as AVPM) was created in 2009, parodying J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series. AVPM appropriated many of the characters in the series, as well as storylines and visuals from several of the Harry Potter books and movies, to reimagine Rowling’s young adult fiction novels as a work of musical comedy. In this sense

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    magic I wanted to produce. In my teen years, a book called Harry Potter caught my attention. It took me to a world I thought could only belong in my head. J.K. Rowling brought words of description to my dreams and brought out the little witch and wizard in many children's lives. I have not been able to find a more descriptive, memorable, imaginative, and well-written books for both children and adults to read and enjoy.

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    "Cadmus Potter!" Professor McGonagall, who was holding a long roll of parchment called Cadmus up to the front. The hall, which had just quieted down from the commotion Harry made, is suddenly filled with whispers again. "Potter? Cadmus Potter?" "Is he related to Harry Potter?" "Probably just someone that has the same last name, never heard that Harry Potter has a brother......" Even the new students standing in the front waiting to be sorted was talking into each other ears about Cadmus. People

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    How are England and Englishness portrayed in the Harry Potter series ? Harry Potter as a Heritage Film. What is a heritage film ? According to Wikipedia : “Heritage film is a critical term as opposed to a film genre label used by the film industry or filmmakers themselves. It initially referred to a cluster or cycle of late 20th-century British films that were argued to depict the England of the pre-World War II decades and past centuries in a nostalgic fashion” A film is considered a heritage film

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    Anansi’s Head is Small and His Behind is Big and the modern Western figure Barty Crouch Jr. found in the movie Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire both feature trickster qualities. In both of these works, these characters and their actions as tricksters are comparable. The transformations Anansi and Barty Crouch Jr. make are testimonies to their portrayal as tricksters. In Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Barty Crouch Jr. transforms into Professor Moody, while in Anansi Owns All Tales That Are

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    dream, it had all just disappeared. Harry Potter sat up from the lumpy old mattress in his room in the cupboard under the stairs. He was back, before it had all started. Though he still wasn't sure what age he was. The items in the cupboard held no clues, they'd been there

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    In the book Harry Potter and the philosophers stone, Lord Voldemort was presented as a bad guy whose name you are not allowed to say out loud. What if he was so called “tragic hero”? To be convinced by my claim, the first thing a reader needs to know is that this is based on opinions and also evidence such as: Voldemort is not just a bad guy, he is a very clever figure and a huge part of the whole series, which means, you can’t just call him “a bad villain”. I have read an extended essay made by

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    Journey: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone and The Odyssey Published in the 8th century B.C.E and 1997 respectively, both The Odyssey by Homer and Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J. K. Rowling are universally known arts of literature. The Hero’s Journey is a commonly used trope incorporated in numerous amounts of tales. This trope involves a hero who goes on a journey, finds himself in a crisis, defeats his enemies, and comes home changed. Harry Potter, the main character in Harry Potter

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