Harry Potter

Hermione Granger: The Badass Heroine We All Want To Be Let’s face it. Without Hermione Granger, Harry Potter would be a footnote in Voldemort: Rise to Power, and we muggles would be little more than subservient house elves to our magical overlords. Hermione Granger, for anyone who’s been living on Mars for the past two decades, is one of the three central characters in JK Rowling’s Harry Potter books. If you haven’t read them/seen the movies and plan to, stop reading now and instead check out…

On July 31, 1965 one of the world’s greatest authors was born. Her name is J.K. Rowling. She is responsible for creating the world famous phenomenon of Harry Potter. Although she is a best selling author, her hard work and dedication started from a young age. Joanne’s parents played a major role in her love for the written word. Anne Volant and Pete Rowling met at the age of 18 in 1964 on a train going from King’s Cross Station to Arbroath, Scotland. They were both serving their country.…

have to be not a book, but a series and that’s the Harry Potter series. I love the books that are written by J.K. Rowling, I find the books to be very fascinating to read because you are allowed to escape the aspect of reality and to be a part of the world of Hogwarts. Well other than the fact that it’s science-fiction, it also has real life places involved in the series as well. Just like the use of London, it’s used as the home of Harry Potter and one of his really good friends, Hermione…

As soon as my sneakers hit the grimy sidewalk outside the concert hall, I could tell something was amiss. There was no squealing of brakes from the mid-day traffic, or any jogger along the sidewalk. As I continued down the block, I did not hear the resonance of pubescent chatter from the playground down the street, nor the squabble of vendors. All around me was utter silence. Remember when your parents would proclaim, “Silence is golden.” ? Yet after lounging my cello onto my back and stumbling…

called Harry Potter. He dragged on and on about a story of some wizard, going to a place called “Hogwarts” and there was something about a “Voldemort” character. So, I decided I needed to figure out what the big fuss was about Harry Potter. While I was constrained to the couch after having hand surgery, Jimbo, reluctantly, handed over his prized possession of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. I became infatuated with the wizarding world of Harry Potter. I felt as if I was part of the Harry,…

through the last couple of books of the Harry Potter series which focus on a darker world of wizardry. When Rowling divorced her husband and gained custody of her infant daughter, her sudden state of penury and having to live with her sister pushed Rowling up against a wall (IMDb). When Rowling faced another challenge, one of imminent poverty, she did not despair and let the wall crush her, but instead she used the pressure as motivation to finish Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. In her…

“All was well.” (Rowling, 759) is how the Harry Potter series comes to an end. While the adventure may have ended happily, most of the series was full with dark, heinous plots and themes. Much of The Deathly Hallows focuses on the theme of good and evil, a theme which, more often than not, can allude to the good vs. evil theme strewn throughout The Bible. While the conflict between Harry and Voldemort allude to the one of the most famous conflicts in the Bible- Jesus vs. Satan, there are many…

told that she wouldn't make a lot of money from her first book since it was a children’s book (“Biography.” IMDb). Twelve publishers rejected the story of Harry Potter before it was finally accepted (Farr). Bloomsbury Publishing was the publishing house that finally decided to accept the book under their children’s book division. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone began to be published in the United Kingdom during 1997 (Steffens 54). The American publishing rights were then sold to the…

J.K. Rowling is a world renowned writer with a great sense of Aristotelian appeals. She is the writer of the Harry Potter series and a graduate of the University of Exeter. In June of 2008, she was asked to write the commencement speech at Harvard University. She titled the speech, “The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination.” As the title explains, she decides to speak about the benefits of failure and her personal failures. As she talks about failure, she tells the…

little amount of friends is something that will affect your life and high school experience. Something I did to keep myself busy was watching movies, more specifically Harry Potter. I know this essay is about how books changed my life, but it started with a movie. At night time I would find myself engulfed in the world that is Harry Potter. Watching the movies made me feel happy and included in something more than myself. Yet I came to an impasse, I had watched the movies so many times that I…