J. K. Rowling is a British writer, best known for her children novels-Harry Potter’s series. This effort had gainglobal attention and won numerous awards and honors.The writer had created something that is not merely a typical children's book but a truly araremarvel.The clamorhas been overwhelming since their release, debates and discussion are raging universally. The proffered apprehensions and opinions span quite a spectrum, which reinvigorated a genre of aficionados. The sorting of Hogwarts students in four different assemblages centered on their personalities remindsthe Academy, school founded by Plato.The Sorting Hat judges traits and temperamentof each student and placed them into four different assemblies …show more content…
The Tales of Beedle the Bard contain such stories as The Warlock's Hairy Heart, Babbitty Rabbitty and her Cackling Stump, The Tale of the Three Brothers etc. These tales prove to be more than just bedtime stories for wizard’s children they generate an atmosphere for growth of storyline. In the ‘Tale of the Three Brothers’ the death gave three items to three brothers that turn out to be ‘The Three Deathly Hallows’. These three magical items when combinelet the wielder to conquer death itself. Harry becomes the owner of all three items and exploits them to protect the wizard - world from Lord Voldemort retribution. The function that this story in particular fills is very alike to the mythoi of primeval Greek religion. Often purpose of myths isto explain the reason and presence of certain things, customs and traditions, especially in the case of festivals and carnivals. Like the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, that gives the story of Demeter and her daughter Kore, and is an origin myth for some of the practices of the Eleusinian mysteries. It also explains the existence of corn. In Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Harry saves Cedric's body from desecration by lord Voldimort, unlike inthe Homer’s Iliad, king Patroclus of Troy salvage …show more content…
The sirens were the earliest recorded race of Merpeople. They lived in Greece. In mythology, the sirens were island-dwelling maidens that sung beautiful songs to travelling mariners to lure them into sailing closer and crashing on the treacherous rocks around their island homes.
The weaving of myth into the fabric of her story, the writer gave the world of Harry Potter an amazing realness, veracity and inherent history, one that are built on the fundamentals of mores in classics, mythology and ancient Greek -Religion.