...Religious symbolism is prevalent throughout the Harry Potter series. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban plot had a very similar to certain passages in the Bible. The betrayal and the trial of Jesus Christ mirror many characters’ own trials and unfairness that is their justice system during the course of the book. The tale of betrayal never gets old, but where do we draw the line on when history repeats itself? If we had the ability to go back in time and change it, would we want to have that ability, that life-altering decision? The Ministry of Magic seems to have ever-changing policies about the laws and regulations of the wizarding world. Harry Potter becomes agitated with Aunt Marge because she insulted his deceased parents. He inflates her to the size of a sumo wrestler; she is shot into the sky, and eventually found in a field. The Ministry gives Harry Potter no punishment and laughs it off because he is young. Corruption of the Ministry of Magic could be used as a metaphor of the High Priests during Jesus’s time. The High Priests are supposed to be men of God and are set to a higher moral code. They chose to act against Jesus because it endangered their way of life. The High Priests will do what it takes to get what/whom they want. The Ministry is motivated to protect and preserve their investors and aristocrats’ interests. That is shown in action when Lucius Malfoy throws a fit about a beast “attacking” his son. There are many falsely accused persons...
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...The Popularization of Harry Potter Series The Harry Potter series, which is written by JK Rowling, is a miracle of literary history that it is well known in countries with various cultural backgrounds all over the world. It has been translated into seventy languages and sold over four hundred million copies in two hundred countries. The success of the Harry Potter series results in a success of its industry, including films, video games, toys, traveling attractions and theme parks. The Chronicles of Narnia is another popular fantasy storybook published in 1950. But why did it fail to achieve the same incredible success as the Harry Potter series? Part of the reason is because the Harry Potter series is not only a book for children but also a book for adults. The details of the books connect to younger readers’ real lives, while being inspirational enough to generate older readers’ considerations. It is far more than just a fantasy series. Harry Potter’s magic world is so real to readers because it is very similar to readers’ lives. There are governments, schools, pubs, banks, bookstores, train stations, the World Cup, prisons and hospitals in Harry Potter’s magic world. These are all things young readers can relate to in their lives. The similarity makes Harry Potter’s magic world real to readers. Besides, by offering detailed examples to connect her characters with readers, JK.Rowling successfully convinces her readers that the magic world is real and they can be part of it if...
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...Name: Eslam Eid Essay Teacher: Mrs. Harp English: 9-5 Date: 6th Dec, 09 In J.K Rowling’s Harry Potter and the chambers of secrets, the author establishes ghosts as characters with feeling through the dialogue, action, and thought of Moaning Myrtle. Myrtle always haunts the girl’s bathroom when she gets angry by flooding the toilets. ‘Hermione said,’ “ Yes. It’s been out of order all year because she keeps having tantrums and flooding the place.”(133) Myrtle shows us that she always haunts the girl’s bathroom when she gets angry. Myrtle always cry when people start talking about her in a mean way, for example some people call her fat Myrtle or ugly Myrtle. ‘Hermione said,’ “Oh, no, peeves, don’t tell her what I said, she ‘ll be really upset.”(134) This quote proves that Myrtle always cry every time somebody talks about her in a mean way. Anytime somebody upsets Myrtle, she goes to the bathroom and tries to kill herself, but then she realized that she is already dead. ‘Myrtle said,’ “Peeves upset me so much I came in here and tried to kill myself. Then of course, I remembered that I’m... I’m...”(156) this quote shows us that Myrtle is always sad, that when she tried to kill herself in the bathroom she realized that she is already dead. So in J.K Rowling’s Harry Potter and the chamber of secrets, the author establishes ghosts as characters with feelings through the dialogue, action, and thought of Moaning Myrtle. Myrtle...
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...Harry Potter – The new ugly duckling. Everyone has heard of J.K. Rowling’s books about Harry Potter, who has gone their triumph over the world. The books have achieved a total sale exceeding 35 million copies in more than 35 languages, is very thick, but they are swallowed by children and adolescents who can’t get enough. Everyone knows the story of the little sorcerer who must go through much evil in the human world to find happiness at Hogwarts School for wizards. Hogwarts is in a parallel world which is populated with strange creatures and it offers a lot of exiting adventures. In this world, Harry leads the fight against the mean Lord Voltemort with his friends Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley which is the name of his best friends. Lord Voltemort, who fights for the power in the wizard world, exposes Harry for the terrible dangers in all books. J.K. Rowling planned 7 books about Harry, which is expected with great excitement every time a new book in the series appears. People are queued outside the bookstores before the release to get the first copies. The stories about the author of the books is quite an adventure which is similar to the transformation, as Harry comes from the alternation between the Muggel world, as the dull human world is called, and the wizard world. Joanne Kathleen Rowling had to go through a lot before she got famous. She was born in 1965 as the daughter of a Scottish French mother and an English father. By all accounts the met each other at...
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...|Today’s Date 12/1/11 | |Title and Date of Film Harry Potter 1/2001 |Name of Composer John Williams | Themes and Variations |Theme Title |Description (instrumentation, use of leitmotifs) | |Harry |"Harry's Wondrous World" concert suite and punctuates several of the scenes | | |in which Harry's background is shown or he discovers the world of magic. | |Hedwig |Notable in that it is played over the sight of the innumerable other owls | | |trying to deliver Harry's letter of acceptance - long before Hedwig herself | | |has even been introduced | |Nimbus |Variation of Hedwig theme | |Voldemort |Solo woodwind performs the theme very slowly as counterpoint underneath the | | |flying theme. | |Hogwarts |Extension...
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...Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K Rowling There are several settings in Harry Potter and the Goblet of fire. The settings in the book resemble medieval towns and castles. The opening scene is set in an urban street. The following scene is set at the Hogwarts castle. A castle is a common medieval image. Another common medieval image is people gathered in a stadium watching a big event. The next setting in the story is the Quidditch World cup. Another setting in the story is a town called Hogsmeade which is the last remaining wizarding town where the students at Hogwarts take trips to throughout the year. The major characters in the story consists of Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, Ron Weasley, Voldemort, Sirius Black, Vernon, Hagrid, and Dumbledore. Harry Potter is the hero and the protagonist. He is a 12 year old boy with messy looking hair and glasses. Ron Weasley is one of Harry's best friends at Hogwarts. He is tall and has red hair. Hermione is Harry's other best friend at Hogwarts. She is very clever and is always the top student in her classes. Voldemort is the most powerful dark wizard ever. Sirius Black is Harry's loyal godfather. He looks after ahrry in the novel. Dumbledore is the headmaster of Hogwarts. He is a wise, elderly, and powerful man with a long grey beared. He is the only wizard that voldemort has ever feared. Harry Potter spent the end of his summer with the Weasleys before going to the Quidditch World Cup. A group of Death Eaters attack...
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...Harry James Potter (b. 31 July 1980) was a half-blood wizard, the only child and son of James Potter and Lily Potter (née Evans), and one of the most famous wizards of modern times. In what proved to be a vain attempt to circumvent a prophecy that a boy born at the end of July of 1980 could be able to defeat him, Voldemort attempted to murder him when he was a year and three months old, shortly after murdering Harry's parents as they tried to protect him. This early, unsuccessful attempt to vanquish Harry led to Voldemort's first defeat and the end of the First Wizarding War. One consequence of Lily's protection is that her orphaned son had to be raised by her only remaining blood relative, Petunia Dursley, where he was neither welcomed nor nurtured, but would stay alive, at least until he was seventeen years old. As the only known survivor of the Killing Curse up to that point, Harry was already famous before he arrived at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Early on his eleventh birthday, Harry learned that he was a wizard. He began attending Hogwarts in 1991 and was Sorted into Gryffindor house. While at school, Harry became best friends with Ronald Weasley and Hermione Granger, later he became the youngest Quidditch Seeker in over a century and eventually captain of his house's team, winning two Quidditch Cups.[11] He became even better known in his early years for protecting the Philosopher's Stone from Voldemort and saving Ron's sister Ginny Weasley from the Chamber...
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...Harry Potter à l'école des sorciers: Résumé: Harry Potter est un garçon de qui est élevé par sa tante et son oncle qui ne l 'aime pas. Il apprend le jour de son 11ème anniversaire qu'il est un sorcier. Il va donc aller a l'école de sorcellerie de Poudlard où il va se révéler un très bon sorcier. Mais il va lui falloir plus que du courage pour affronter celui-dont-on-ne-doit-pas-prononcer-le-nom mais il pourra conter sur ses amis Ron et Hermione. Le livre: J'ai adoré!!!Le livre m'a emporter de suite et j'ai voulu tout de suite acheter le 2ème. Il vous transporte dans un monde de magie extraordinaire et vous n'avez plus envie d'en sortir. Le seul truc qui que je n'ai pas vraiment aimer dans le livre c'est les 2 premiers chapitre qui raconte surtout le pourquoi du comment mais il est indispensable car on se poserais trop de questions dans la lecture. Donc j'ai tout adorée. Je conseille ce livre pour les adulte et pour les enfants en même temps car il s'adresse a un grand publique de tout âge... Le film: Il est aussi génial!!!Par contre je regrette qu'il y ai moins d'indication que dans le film mais je pense que c'est parce que les réalisateur on un budget et qu'il ne peuvent mettre que les scènes nécessaire pour comprendre l'histoire. Néanmoins je l'ai trouver trop cool. Les personnages sont attachant, il y a de l'amour, de l'amitié, de l'action et ce n'est que le 1er des 7 Harry Potter qui sont tout aussi super l'un que l'autre mais pour sa il faut voir mes commentaire...
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...I want to start 2012 reading Harry Potter because it’s the first year without it. I admit, I’m a Potterhead or whatever you call it. I got this book last December 2010 and being a bookworm, I’m finished with it in a short period of time. I still remember, I was patiently waiting for my Hogwarts Acceptance letter even though my 11th birthday has passed by. It was silly but who’ll refuse to entertain the thought of attending a school for witches and wizards? This book is a spectacular little romp with funny, courageous, and endearing characters that you can’t help but love. Hermione, the young scholar who starts out prim and up-tight but soon becomes a true friend; Ron, the boy who has little money but who has an abundance of family and loyalty to his friends to make up for it; and then there’s Harry, the boy who starts out sleeping in a closet and ends up being a hero. Harry is kind to those that deserve it, fearless when it counts the most, and wonderfully intelligent. So what’s not to love? I don’t get it why some people say Harry Potter is evil. I mean, it does encourage me to become a witch. But we all know it’s not going to happen. In my imagination… maybe. But trust me, there is nothing wrong with Harry Potter. None at all. All in all, J.K. Rowling has the talent. I don’t want to give away too much. Read it for yourself, it’s one of my favorite books ever. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m off to start Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. PS: Those who...
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...Queer Essay On Harry Potter and the Philosophers stone A queer reading of Harry Potter and the Philosophers stone can bring up many questions of what is classed as normal. It also can show how a subculture within that society is regarded as abnormal. It can suggest that the everyday world in this novel is queer compared to the wizard world which is seen as the norm. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s Epistemology of the closet suggests that queer reading should not be from the readers own sexuality in mind, but an openness to the queer context, connections and potentials already available within the text. Bennett and Royle suggest that “some of the strangeness or uncanniness, some of the power and fascination of literary texts, that is to say has to do with the singular space which they offer for thinking differently about gender and sexuality” As Harry potter is a young adults novel that is stable for a queer reading as it traditional is a none sexual fantasy novel. Harry Potter is seen as a world parallel to our own where it has differences in people and their cultures. However no where in the novel does it mention anything about homosexuality, gender role bending, or same sex relationships. Every relationship that forms is with a character from the opposite sex and the family is mostly typical nuclear form of the mother staying at home while the father goes to work. There is no mention of a gay, lesbian or transgender character mentioned in the story. If the novel is...
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...Kelsey COMM 200: Gateway to Communication Studies November 20, 13 Review of Literature: The Rhetoric of Harry Potter Every so often there are stories that take the world by storm and make such an impact that they become part of our everyday world. (Czubek et al. 442) Jk Rowling’s Potter book series is by far one of the most loved series by adults and children for over sixteen years. First published in 1997, the world has fallen in love with Harry Potter and the magical world that he saved from destruction several times over. For me, growing up and being forced to read was always a problem until my father bought me the first book and I have been hooked ever since. A proud owner of all the books in hardback, audio books and all the movies, some would say I’m a bit of a Harry Potter nerd. For me, Harry Potter has become an everyday part of my world. In this review of rhetoric, three main components will be examined. The will be the examination of identities. Secondly, an examination of the commodity culture in the Potter books. Lastly, Christian undertones will be looked at. Identity Harry spent 11 years of his life not knowing who he was or where he belonged. He thought he belonged to his horrible Uncle Vernon and Aunt Petunia. Todd A. Czubek and Janey Greenwald have written an article that explains the parallels between Harry Potter and the Deaf world. Using a “deaf lens” we can gain insight into social arrangements in the same way that fields...
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...Harry Potter is a movie about witchcraft. The main character is Harry Potter who is a very brave, kindhearted and smart boy. He loves his parents who were both wizards. However, his parents were killed by an evil wizard named Voldemort when Harry was a baby. He survived, and as an orphan, he suffered some unfair treatment in his aunt’s house. Even though he lived an unpleasant life, he did not give up the hope for a better life. The Harry Potter movie series are inspiring and creative and they give moral lessons about bravery, perseverance, and strong friendship. Harry Potter does many acts of bravery and teaches its readers that being brave does not always mean not being scared of anything, but doing something even though you are scared. An example of this would be when he found out that he had to die so that Voldemort would be killed. He is willing to sacrifice himself to save others even though he is scared to die. In order to destroy Voldemort, he must to find all the Horcruxes. Horcruxes are parts of his soul put into different objects. Harry must destroy all the Horcruxes to make Voldemort mortal so that he can die. He then finds out that he is a Horcruxes and must kill himself for Voldemort to die. During the war in Hogwarts, several major characters are killed in the first wave of battle. Voldemort said if Harry comes to the forest, he will not attract other wizards. Harry could run away, but he didn’t. He chooses to fight against with Voldemort. After Harry died, he...
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...What is Harry Potter? Harry Potter is a series of seven fantasy novels written by the British author J. K. Rowling. The books chronicle the adventures of a wizard, Harry Potter, and his friends Ronald Weasley and Hermione Granger, all of whom are students at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The main story arc concerns Harry's quest to overcome the Dark wizard Lord Voldemort, whose aims are to become immortal, conquer the wizarding world, subjugate non-magical people, and destroy all those who stand in his way, especially Harry Potter. A series of many genres, including fantasy and coming of age (with elements of mystery, thriller, adventure, and romance), it has many cultural meanings and references. According to Rowling, the main theme is death. There are also many other themes in the series, such as prejudice and corruption. Who is Harry Potter? Harry James Potter was a half-blood wizard, the only child and song of James and Lily Potter. He was one of the most famous wizards of modern times. Voldemort attempted to murder him when he was a year and three months old, shortly after murdering Harry’s parents as they tried to protect him. This early, unsuccessful attempt to vanquish harry led to Voldemort’s first defeat and the end of the First Wizarding War. One consequence of Lily’s protection is that her orphaned son had to be raised by her only remaining blood relative, Petunia Dursley, where he was neither welcomed nor nurtured, but would stay alive, at least...
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...CHAPTER ZERO 1 CHAPTER ZERO THE PREQUEL T he speeding motorcycle took the sharp corner so fast in the darkness that both policemen in the pursuing car shouted “Whoa!” Sergeant Fisher slammed his large foot on the brake, thinking that the boy who was riding pillion was sure to be flung under his wheels; however, the motorbike made the turn without unseating either of its riders, and with a wink of its red tail light, vanished up the narrow side street. “We’ve got ’em now!” cried PC Anderson excitedly. “That’s a dead end!” Leaning hard on the steering wheel and crashing his gears, Fisher scraped half the paint off the flank of the car as he forced it up the alleyway in pursuit. There in the headlights sat their quarry, stationary at last after a quarter of an hour’s chase. The two riders were trapped between a towering brick wall and the police car, which was now crashing towards them like some growling, luminous-eyed predator. There was so little space between the car doors and the walls of the alley that Fisher and Anderson had difficulty extricating themselves from the vehicle. It injured their dignity to have to inch, crab-like, towards the miscreants. Fisher dragged his generous belly along the wall, tearing buttons off his shirt as he went, and finally snapping off the wing mirror with his backside. “Get off the bike!” he bellowed at the smirking youths, who sat basking in the flashing blue light as though enjoying it. 2 THE PREQUEL They did as they...
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...Once again the Harry Potter gang finds themselves back at Hogwarts in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban begins with Harry being home for the summer with the horrible Dursley’s. Harry Potter strolls down stairs to hear that a criminal has escaped from a near by prison. The criminal’s name is Sirius Black; he is rumored to be the most horrible and despicable man in London. Harry is confused because no other details are given other than he was a mass murder. Harry realizes that he needs to get a permission form signed allowing him to visit the village outside of Hogwarts called Hogsmeade. His Uncle Vernon Dursley agrees to sign it if Harry behaves while his Aunt visits then he will sign it. When...
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