Hogwarts

Throughout the Harry Potter series, storylines and plots changed throughout the books, but one thing remained consistent- the personalities of the characters. A reader could always rely on Harry to save the day, Ron to be his sidekick, Mrs. Weasley to be motherly, and Draco Malfoy to be a bully. This is because the characters each had their own archetype, or pattern of behavior throughout the series. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling specifically demonstrated these archetypes.…

“Goin’ Back to Hogwarts”: Fans and Redemption of Antagonists in Harry Potter’s Fanfiction Harry Potter is a literary series that has swept the world with its unique magic filled universe, and as such its fans refuse to let the world created by J.K Rowling be something found only in the pages of the original books, or in our TV screen, so they have take it upon themselves to expand or reshape Harry Potter in many interesting ways. The Harry Potter universe has become a fanfiction phenomenon, its…

movies/books. The Harry Potter movies portrayed arachnophobia through the character Ron Weasley. Ron’s fear of spiders is revealed in the second book, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. In this book/movie, there is a giant basilisk living in the Hogwarts castle. The basilisk is a massive snake that is born from a chicken’s egg hatched beneath a toad. “Spiders flee before the Basilisk, for it is their mortal enemy.” In the Chamber of Secrets, Harry, Ron and Hermione happen across a line of…

In the book Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling, The main character, Harry, changes throughout the story due to the fact that he is a wizard. In the beginning, Harry Potter was a mistreated nephew of the Dursleys who had taken him in because of his parents death due to a “car accident”. Harry Potter was always seemed to feel unloved and mistreated. “Harry Potter lived in a cupboard under the stairs” (Pg.7). This evidence from the story alone proves that Harry was not a true…

“Daddy just open it” I rolled my eyes and smiled. He unwrapped the box and opened the little latch to a brown box. “Oh wow” My father took out one of the books it had a deep red cover golden embroidery on the spine, the cover of the book was “Hogwarts: a History.” Mother took out the next book it was ocean blue with silver embroidery and stars on the front pages. The title of that book was “Astronomy: constellations” mother looked over the book before placing it in her lap and pulling out…

characters is homosexual. During a question-and-answer session at New York's Carnegie Hall back in 2007 JK Rowling revealed a shocking truth about one of the characters. After one the fans had asked whether Dumbledore, the headmaster of the fictional Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, had ever been in love, the author replied: “My truthful answer to you… I always thought of Dumbledore as gay.” (qtd. in Smith, 2007) While a lot of fans seemed amazed and happy about this revelation, many…

can control water and talk to animals; Frank that can turn into animals and Annabeth who is the daughter of Athena. While Harry Potter is a series novel by J.K. Rowling. It is about a young boy named Harry Potter and his adventures as he attends Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. He learns to do magic and comes face to face with his archenemy, Lord Voldemort. The main characters in this series are Harry potter…

In this essay will evaluate the seemingly archetypal narrative that exist within the Harry Potter series by J.K Rowling. As of July 2013 The Harry Potter series had sold an approximate amount of 450 million copies, reiterating the notion that the series is one of the best- selling series in all of history. Just as professor Mcgonagall said in the first novel. “every child in our world will know his name!”. To this day, 17 years since the release of the first book, many social scientist have…

Harry Potter controversy, 2001, saw parents bringing petitions to ban the books to school boards, libraries, and in one case in Georgia, all the way to the Board of Education, fearing that a child might read these books and run away from home to find Hogwarts, the school Harry attends. Pushes to ban these stories are supported by Christian groups, educators, and scholars alike, who assert that Harry and his band of friends teach children “to disobey authority, lie, and steal, because Harry and…

Survive by Nevermore 's Shadow Ginny Weasley sat in the girl 's bathroom, staring at her pale, trembling hands. She grit her teeth together hard, trying to end the torrent of tears that had been streaming down her face for what had to have been hours. Hogwarts was horribly quiet, as news of Hermione Granger 's death spread throughout the school. Laying on the floor at her feet was the diary. that infernal thing that lead to all of this. It was her fault, all of it. If only she hadn 't been so…