Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

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    Joanne Kathleen Rowling wrote the Harry Potter Series; the beloved book of Harry Potter also helped her to progress through her hard times by providing a source of safety by living through her book. After she wrote Harry Potter, the genre of fantasy was improved. Books such as Twilight, Hunger Games, and Divergent came out at a later date("J. K. Rowling", 2000). Rowling published her first Harry Potter book The Philosopher's Stone in 1997 when she was 32. The Philosopher’s Stone was a popular…

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    Founded in 2005 the Harry Potter Alliance (HPA) has made it their mission to make global activism more accessible through the power of story. (Anonymous, ND). They do this by creating campaigns to fight various forms of injustice and relating them to popular culture icons including Harry Potter, The Hunger Games, Marvel Cinematic Universe, and others. By making activism more accessible and more relatable to the younger generations of the public, they are more likely to increase the number of…

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    champions in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, which is meant to test the contestants’ intelligence, magical ability, and courage through the completion of three tasks, the last of which concerns locating the Triwizard Cup. Similarly, the Arthurian legend of The Quest for the Holy Grail tells of a quest for the Holy Grail, which can be described as a goblet or cup. The goal of this essay is to compare and contrast the two tales and expand on how the allusion lends to Harry Potter and the…

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    Fire Vs Kingsman

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    exemplified when Harry is chosen as Hogwarts’ second champion in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, which is not supposed to happen, shown when…

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    Harry Potter Fire

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    I’m reading the 4th Harry Potter book, the goblet of fire. In the beginning Harry’s at the Dursley’s and he has a dream that there’s an old man that attends to a garden. He’s asleep, but he wakes up and goes in the other room, and is killed by Lord Voldemort. Harry wakes up and his scar is hurting. He goes down for breakfast and the Dursley’s get a letter from the Weasley’s asking if Harry could go to the Quidditch World Cup. The post card had 40 post stamps on it, the Dursleys said yes. The…

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    For my media analysis I am going to analyze the Harry Potter series be J.K. Rowling from a sociological point of view. There are many aspects of the story that can be interpreted in different ways. The series explores the concepts of social classes, race, discrimination and prejudice, social norms, and culture. One of the main underlining themes of the Harry Potter series is the caste system and prejudice. This story line contains ‘pure blood’ wizards who are represented by characters such…

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    author that books like Harry Potter "- derivative, thematically inconsistent and stylistically flawed -" (Pennington 93) will shape the reading parameters and the aesthetic taste of the masses. After a brief introduction where Pennington reports a series of enthusiastic reviews of the saga, he argues that Harry Potter is "failed fantasy" (Pennington 78) and J.K. Rowling is incapable of abiding to the rules of fantasy literature. Firstly, Pennington claims that Harry Potter merely replicates…

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    She moved to London where she switched jobs often. She began writing the Harry Potter series when she received the idea of the plot during a delayed train ride. Rowling moved to Portugal and taught English as a foreign language. She married Jorge Arantes in October 1992 and gave birth to their daughter, Jessica, in 1993. Rowling and Arantes divorced in 1995, and Rowling moved back to the UK. She completed writing Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone and it was published…

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    Harry Potter Book Vs Movie

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    into movies, the Harry Potter books differ from the movies in many ways. I would like to say that I love both the books and movies but I prefer the books, mainly because of all the extra details. When comparing movies to books most of the time one will favor the books more. One of the reasons is the same as mine, more detail. One of those details most fans were mad about was that Peeves didn’t make it into the movies. Peeves is a mischievous poltergeist that caused trouble for Harry and his…

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    Case 1 The suit claims Rowling’s book Harry Potter and the Goblet of fire copied substantial parts of Jacob’s 36-page book The Adventure of Willy the Wizard- No. 1 Livid Land. The plagiarism claims stem from both Willy and Harry being required to solve a task as part of a contest, which they achieve in a bathroom assisted by clues from helpers. Jacob’s estate also claims that many other ideas from Willy the Wizard were copied into the Potter books. Goblet of Fire was the fourth book in Rowling’s…

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