Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

It all begins with the protagonist, Harry Potter. The 14 year old boy wizard is known as the “Boy who lived.” Harry defeated a very evil and murderous Dark wizard, Voldemort, when he was just a infant and left the fierce battle with no injury other than a lightning shaped scar. He attends Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Potter only just discovered 3 years ago that he was a son of two wizards, James and Lily Potter. Voldemort and his Death Eaters , or his followers, play the part…

The Prophet for Profit: Motivation of Mainstream Media in the Harry Potter Series The Harry Potter series tells an enchanting story about the magical world with the theme of love and death. Though Hogwarts, the school of magic, has been the dream place for millions of readers alike, not all the elements of the wizarding society are desirable. The power-loving Minister of Magic—Cornelius Fudge, leads the Ministry of Magic until the end of the fifth book, the Order of the Phoenix. Though the…

In Harry Potter, a seven book series written by J.K. Rowling, Harry and all of the people around him face challenges stemming from Lord Voldemort. Dumbledore is correct when saying that it is “a great and remarkable thing” that Harry can still love because the multitude of battles he endures makes it difficult for him to feel anything but anger and sadness (Rowling 508-509). Throughout each novel, there is a significant challenge that Harry and those close to him have to overcome. While these…

Muggles Vs Magic As the headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry once announced, “You place too much importance, and you always have done, on the so-called purity of blood! You fail to recognise that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!” So why should anybody who is a member of the non-magical community, an ordinary human, be exempt from the chance to interact with those pure bloods (pupils with all magical heritages)? One quarter of the enrolled…

series on the life of young Harry Potter. He suffers greatly by having his parents killed, is forced to live with abusive extended family, and then is literally shoved into a world of magic in which he is forced to learn quite quickly that luck is never quite on his side. Ms. Rowling’s fourth chapter of Harry’s life, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, proves no different as he is required to endure yet another traumatic year in a whole new way. While normally Harry is the main focus of the…

In the worldwide phenomenon that is the Harry Potter series, J.K. Rowling slips in an analysis of the muggle world. Rowling makes a strong commentary about the importance of educational support. Most wizards learn in different ways: through positive reinforcement, from reading books or they simply have raw talent. This is very similar to the real world and how students learn in classrooms all across America and in England. While Rowling is most likely making comments on the condition of the…

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…

themselves in the fantastical wizarding world bound by her seven novels. Rowling rewards her versed readers; while the Harry Potter novels are ones easily (and presumably most often) enjoyed by their younger devotees, they craft an allegorical puzzle for an informed audience. Rowling makes brilliant use of the classical tradition to provide the consumers of both canons, classical and Potter-centric, with a repertoire of themes, motifs, and language reminiscent of those in antiquity, allowing…

In the novel Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, J.K. Rowling uses characterization to show the amount of loyalty that several of the characters have towards Harry Potter, and to prove that sometimes friends, even those thought to be enemies, can sometimes be more loyal than one’s own blood. J.K. Rowling shows the loyalty that Harry Potter’s friends have towards him through characters like Albus Dumbledore, Ron Weasley, and Dobby. Rowling also shows that even those who are understood to be…

In the film Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, the setting takes place in a magical world in London, England where the main characters attend a school named Hogwarts: School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. In the film numerous characters and moments embody the theories Malory Nye point out in his book Religion: The Basics. Essentially, rituals and beliefs are prevalent in this film and the use of the theories can analyze such things. Examining Harry Potter using Arnold Van Gennep’s rites of…