Blarney Stone

Harry Potter, who? Walking through campus, a mall, or even through a park, one will see people reading several different types of novels. However, nowadays it is rare to find a J.K Rowling novel in sight. It is much more common to find the works of Suzanne Collins or John Green being read now since the Harry Potter series ended in 2011. One will even find that it is increasingly common to find people who know nothing of the “chosen one” and would prefer to keep it that way. Due to these things…

Jack Thorne, JK Rowling, and John Tiffany’s playwright Harry Potter and the Cursed Child follows up on the wizarding world and Harry Potter’s life. Throughout this intriguing story, Harry and Ginny’s youngest son, Albus Severus Potter, and his best friend, Scorpius Malfoy, attempt to rebel against Harry and his past. A conversation between Harry and Amos Diggory sparks an idea in the two boys that Cedric Diggory, a boy who was previously murdered by Voldemort, shouldn’t have been killed and…

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is an outstanding movie! There was tons of action, the magical creatures looked very realistic, and the movie had amazing actors! In Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry, Ron and Hermione quest to find the heir of Slytherin. For the heir has opened the chamber and muggle borns of Hogwarts are being found petrified, forcing them to close the school. In the end, Harry is able to get into the chamber and defeat the basilisk, who was responsible…

Harry enters his fifth year at Hogwarts more isolated from others than ever before. After witnessing the murder of his classmate and the rebirth of Voldemort, Harry is sent back to live with the Dursleys at the end of the school year. When we see Harry for the first time in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix he is once again alone, in the bushes outside of the Dursley's home (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix pg 3). Harry has received very little information from his friends about…

Throughout Harry’s stay at Hogwarts he, Ron and Hermione had tried to find the Sorcerer’s Stone. Harry believed that Snape hated him. Often in class he would ask Harry the most difficult questions about infusions. The other students would rummage through their desk to get…

Young girls are impressionable, which pushes the idea that the books they read should include characters that it would be beneficial to imitate. Characters like Anastasia Steele and Bella Swan, however, are problematic because they are female characters who are defined by, and submissive to the male characters of their respective books. While Hermione Granger is not the sole center of the Harry Potter series, she is central to them. Hermione is never portrayed as a static entity as many Disney…

Grab Your Pitchforks, Because This Paper is an Unpopular Opinion Lost love, tragic backstory, and a generally sardonic outlook on life— the perfect formula for a beloved character. Chances are, when you read that description, you thought of a specific character from your favorite novel. If you read the title of this paper, you probably thought of a specific character from a specific novel, that character being Severus Snape. Now Professor Snape has a very passionate fan base. Just utter the…

“The Prince’s Tale” by Alexandre Desplat is from the final installment of the Harry Potter movies, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, and actually is a mix between two songs, “Severus and Lily’s Theme” and “Dumbledore’s Farewell.” After Severus Snape is murdered by Lord Voldemort, Harry Potter rushes to his side and gathers Snape’s memories in a vial so that he may view them later (it was Snape’s dying wish that Potter take his memories and view them). When Potter is finally able to…

As I analyzed how Voldemort and his servants exemplified love and loyalty, I saw how they had strong love and loyalty but it was self-centered. Selfishness and fear were the main motivations of Voldemort for bringing about his plan of getting rid of Muggle-born wizards and taking control of the wizard government or destroying it if refused to comply with his vision. He was selfish because he was afraid of being defeated and losing his power. He did not care about who lived and who died in the…

Throughout Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, relationships between Harry, Ron and Hermione are explored. While throughout all seven of the Harry Potter books the relationships between Harry, Ron, and Hermione grow stronger, the students also have bonds that grow between their professors, particularly between Harry and his professors. While Harry encounters many professors throughout his time at Hogwarts, in Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry’s bond between Dumbledore, Remus Lupin and Severus…