Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” is the first movie in the Harry Potter series stemming from the popular J.K. Rowling books. In this first Harry Potter movie, Harry discovers that he is in fact, a wizard, and goes off to the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry where he faces many daunting tasks as he uncovers the truth of his dark and dangerous past. The research done on this particular movie examines Potter as the hero, traces his hero’s journey through the Call to Adventure,…

In Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by J.K. Rowling, Albus, a wizard, saves the world form a new evil. At the beginning of the novel, after a touching conversation with his dad Harry, Albus Potter boards the Hogwarts Express for his first year at school. There, he meets Scorpius Malfoy, Draco’s son. The two quickly become friends, and are later Sorted into Slytherin house together. Three years pass, and on Albus’ fourteenth birthday, Harry gives him his old blanket as a gift, along with a love…

Joanne Rowling, Author of the famed Harry Potter series, was born July 31, 1965 in Yate of the United Kingdom (“J.K.Rowling”). Rowling has grown to be one of the most profoundly known children’s authors of the twenty-first century. The genesis of Rowling’s writing career began at a very young age. Since childhood, Rowling knew that she wanted to be a writer. At primary school, Rowling would entertain her classmates by telling thrilling tales of rabbits and a bee. This quality of storytelling…

Pivotal Moment in Literacy Development Getting my hands Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone was a pivotal moment in my literacy development. I remember receiving the first book in the series, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, at the age of 11 for Christmas. There were six other books that followed, all better than the last. At the pace that these books were released, they had successfully accompanied me through my critical years of development and on to adulthood. JK Rowling and her…

In J.K. Rowling's story, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Harry and his cousin Dudley are attacked by dementors. While on their way home, Harry and Dudley had gotten into an argument. Dudley had been teasing Harry about his nightmares and it had gotten to the point where Harry pulled his wand out and aimed it at Dudley. Two dementors had shown up and attacked both of them, but Harry defeated them by casting his Patronus. Dementors are known to guard the wizard prison Azkaban. The…

It seems like everyone loves Harry Potter. Everyone has read the books, watched the movies, and take quizzes online to see what house they would be in if they went to Hogwarts. Kids want to be like Harry Potter. The books were good and so were the movies, but I think the Michael Vey series by Richard Paul Evans is a better character to try to imitate. Michael Vey is fourteen years old and the Elgen Corporation performed an experiment on babies when he was born. A lot of babies died, but the…

As you guys might have been able to tell, I love Harry Potter. Harry Potter is one of the best series ever and the author, J. K. Rowling, is the first author to ever become a billionaire off their series of books. It truly is a magical book that follows three friends, Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, and Hermione Granger, on their adventures. It is a great book to start as a third grader and read throughout grade and middle school. There are many deaths through out the series with most of them…

Throughout the series of Harry Potter it is easy to acknowledge that each character is layered, each has their limitations and motivations. Amongst the many, Sirius Black genuinely exemplifies each of the key virtues; prudence, temperance, fortitude and justice. Though he did not have the most upstanding reputation, in the end he was honored once light had shed on his reasoning. From his background, to fall, to redemption, ultimately to being killed by his deranged cousin Bellatrix, Sirius had a…

In 1997, JK Rowling published the first installment of the Harry Potter books, a series which would come to define a generation. From apparition to house elves, every detail about this wizarding world enthralls a reader, completely transporting them into the story, to live the excellent plot alongside beautifully written characters. Due to the success of the book series, Harry Potter’s world has been under examination across multiple academic fields, from literary experts to scientific…

such as Harry Potter and the literal Son of God, Jesus Christ? Of course. There are several ways in which you could interpret the character Harry Potter as a Christ figure. Really, even if J.K Rowling didn’t have Harry as a Christ figure in mind while writing the series, there is no denying the extreme similarities between the two. Also, according to Thomas C. Foster’s book How to Read Literature Like a Professor, any book can have a Christ figure if there are enough clues. Even though Harry…