Dimension stone

Harry Potter is one of the many and most well known modern mythology today. It is a series of seven novels written by J.K. Rowling that follows the life of a young orphaned wizard named Harry, who finds out he is a wizard and starts to attend Hogwarts School Of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The series is a journey of him, along with his friends Ron and Hermione attempting to defeat Lord Voldemort, one of the most powerful and dark wizards of all time. This series is modern mythology because it has…

I woke up the next morning hearing a tapping. I slowly got up, careful not to wake Harry, and I turned around when I heard Harry talk in his sleep. “Elizabeth? Tell Aunt Petunia I’m getting up.” He mumbled before sitting up and fully waking up. “I don’t think Aunt Petunia is even up.” I say with a small laugh while opening the window to let the owl in. The owl swooped in with a newspaper clutched in it’s beak. The owl dropped the newspaper on Hagrid then attacked Hagrid’s coat that laid on…

As a Slytherin, I have often found myself underwhelmed or disappointed with the representation of my house throughout the novels. Merlin is long gone, don’t get me started on the Great Snape Debate, Slughorn is spineless, and Malfoy has always been the character I hated to love. Upon rereading the series, I had a startling epiphany – perhaps I had been looking for the representation I so desperately sought in all the wrong places. There is one character who continuously embodies ambition,…

In her texts Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince J. K. Rowling explores the journey of her main protagonist’s growth. Throughout both texts Rowling uses a variety of techniques to show how Harry grows from a naïve young boy to a confident young man. The use of third person narration, setting and character development throughout each novel enables readers to see how Harry develops from an inexperienced young wizard to a wizened young man. In the…

The characteristic of dehumanization in both Travis Prinzi’s “Dehumanization: Defining Evil in Harry Potter,” and the Harry Potter series written by J.K Rowling offers various similarities between the definition of the word evil, and the context for which the word can be used in respectively. With the philosophical text that Prinzi offers in his thesis regarding the validity of dually the denotation, and the connotation of the word evil, and how it is used to describe several characters in the…

Animals have a significant part in human’s daily lives. Everyday people overlook the importance the animals have in the lives around the people they care about. This happens in reality and in stories, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone is no different. Many characters have interactions with the animals around them; these relationships are not always positive or negative. They can range from friendship, companionship, enemies to antagonistic relationships. The reason I decide to read this…

man, the friendly beast, the evil figure, the damsel in distress, and many more. One movie that would qualify as a “Hero’s Journey” movie would be, “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” because Harry starts his new life once he steps into a new world. At the beginning of the film, “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone”, Harry is living an ordinary life in the “muggle”, or ordinary, world. His whole life…

classmates and disguised by his professor. When Harry is caught out of bed with Hermione and Neville, Professor McGonagall remarked, “‘Now get back to bed, all of you. [I have] never been more ashamed of Gryffindor students’” (Rowling, Philosopher’s Stone 178). This is a very low moment for Harry in the text. While he broke the rule for to help Hagrid, he lost some of his purity. Students that were not in Slytherin started to think he was not as wonderful as his past made him out to be.…

big Quidditch game is coming nearby, but harry is nervous about Snape 's evil plans. Harry then see 's Mr. Snape is heading somewhere and follows him. Snape talking in the forest with Professor Quirrell and heard him mentioning about the Philosopher Stone. Harry and his friends try to figure out what Snape is been trying to do but can 't think of a plan in action. Hermione, Harry, and Neville are told to go to the Forbidden Forest with Hagrid for their detention because of the dragon story…

I ran through the dark forest covered mountains. The cold, shilling air zipped through my long, pitch-black hair. The bats flew by me squealing with joy as they tried to race me. All was silent except for the brushing of the leaves and the flapping of wings. I soon heard howling and saw the wolves running in the shadows, joining on the race. My red eyes pierced through the coating of the night and gave me access to the world very few have seen. That many have feared. The night. I flew out of the…