Harry Potter

The Harry Potter series can be an enjoyment for children or a literary failure depending on the reader. Joan Acocella, the author of “Under the Spell” thinks the Harry Potter books are an amazing series that took a new turn on fairy tales. She was able to enjoy the series while feeling a connection with the characters. Harold Bloom, the author of “Can 35 Million Book Buyers Be Wrong? Yes.” has a different view of the series. He believes that the books may be interesting, but they lack…

What if two popular movies share too many things in common? Every cinematic work needs to be unique in its own way to attract the audience. For example, the Harry Potter series and The Lord of The Rings. These two movies have become very popular in the past 10 years and gained most of the viewer’s attention sharing a lot of similarities. Although these movies have different authors, they gain a lot of popularity by having similar themes, character design, plots, and villains, but it is also…

desk and one will soon realize this is not a typical office nor an average professor. He pushes his round-rimmed glasses up the bridge of his nose as he sits behind his desk in room 302 of Colbourn Hall grading a student-written essay. A copy of “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” sits to the right of him, while the 25th Anniversary edition of “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” rests to the left. “He joined UCF in 2001 and has accomplished more during his time here than anyone I know,”…

Power Is Yours, Planeteers!”: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Children’s Environmentalist Popular Culture how society has a formulaic style that must be followed for something to become mainstream. The Harry Potter franchise shatters this formulaic style as evidenced in Elizabeth Teare’s essay Harry Potter and the Technology of Magic. Every individual in a society strives to achieve a sense of normalcy…

Prejudice and its resultant problems are present across many genres. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, and Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice showcase how prejudice negatively affects those being prejudiced, as well as those around them. Frankenstein’s creature becomes a killer due to the prejudice of others, Snape misleads Harry Potter and Harry’s friends due to his prejudice, and the entire town in Pride and Prejudice is enveloped in gossip…

Severus Snape is a complicated and well written character in the Harry Potter series but contrary to popular opinion he is not some valiant hero nor is he the persecuted martyr that the a majority of the fandom perceives him to be it is quite clear when you look at the bigger picture that Snape is actually a petty bully with deplorable morals who does not deserve Albus Potters middle name during his teen years at Hogwarts young Snape lusted after his childhood friend Lily Evans Snape tried to…

the time opening this book makes the world melt away and I’m on Privet Drive. I can relax because this is my favorite book. Everyone who knows me knows that I’m a huge Harry Potter fan. Whether they notice my Harry Potter buttons, the deathly hallows symbol drawn on my arm,…

identity, not letting us find our inner, would we create another one and then be two different people or take this identity and build up on it? Emma Watson the teen actress of Harry Potter is an example of someone that was given an identity and who was mainly influenced by this fake identity. She was given her identity by the harry potter books, as she displayed Hermione Granger since she was 10 years old. For 10 years was she in the role of her character; hardworking , clever, loyal, bossy,…

argues that Harry and his friends, portrayed as all white in the films, have varied racial backgrounds (2002). Other studies discuss direct racial representation and are more critical of how Rowling writes race. Messinger cities that Harry is a white, British male and that none of these characteristics are paid particular attention to because they are not considered remarkable (2012). Different studies are all in agreement that race and related issues are relevant in the Harry Potter books, but…

presentation, I will be discussing the novel, Harry Potter an The Philosophers Stone, written by J.K. Rowling and published on the 26th of June 1997. This book gives a detailed representation of different changes that occur to various characters in this book. Harry Potter and the Philosophers stone, was written by JK Rowling, also known as Joanne Rowling. JK Rowling…