The Stone Carvers

When I was small, my mother would always read bedtime stories to me. One of the stories she would always read was Harry Potter. The author J.K Rowling describes a wizarding academy – the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry - where many kinds of magical incantations and a variety of fantastic animals and plants reside. One time, I asked my mother, “Mom, can I become a witch when I am eleven years old?” This question seemed kind of ridiculous, but my mom just nodded and continued reading.…

“ New students, Hope to see you in Hufflepuff”. I know He definitely would be seeing me in Hufflepuff. The attributes of Hufflepuff are being kind,loyal,hard working,and patient and I express many of those attributes. The Hufflepuff colors are yellow and black two colors that fit perfectly together and the animal is the cutest badger ever. In the books and movies Hufflepuff was not touched on very much but I have several reasons why I would be in it. One way I will make it into Hufflepuff is…

In the young adult novel, Harry Potter, people often see Snape as a misunderstood hero, a guy who had a terrible life but somehow prevailed, but he’s bad person. He’s obsessive, a bully, and just a terrible guy. A lot of Harry Potter fans see Snape’s and Lily’s love as a sad, lost love. Although he might’ve had actual feelings for her, he handled them horribly. Snape mixed up his feelings and mistook obsession for love. He often acted like she was entitled to him, instead of the perfect one for…

I woke up the next morning hearing a tapping. I slowly got up, careful not to wake Harry, and I turned around when I heard Harry talk in his sleep. “Elizabeth? Tell Aunt Petunia I’m getting up.” He mumbled before sitting up and fully waking up. “I don’t think Aunt Petunia is even up.” I say with a small laugh while opening the window to let the owl in. The owl swooped in with a newspaper clutched in it’s beak. The owl dropped the newspaper on Hagrid then attacked Hagrid’s coat that laid on…

Harry Potter is one of the many and most well known modern mythology today. It is a series of seven novels written by J.K. Rowling that follows the life of a young orphaned wizard named Harry, who finds out he is a wizard and starts to attend Hogwarts School Of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The series is a journey of him, along with his friends Ron and Hermione attempting to defeat Lord Voldemort, one of the most powerful and dark wizards of all time. This series is modern mythology because it has…

As a Slytherin, I have often found myself underwhelmed or disappointed with the representation of my house throughout the novels. Merlin is long gone, don’t get me started on the Great Snape Debate, Slughorn is spineless, and Malfoy has always been the character I hated to love. Upon rereading the series, I had a startling epiphany – perhaps I had been looking for the representation I so desperately sought in all the wrong places. There is one character who continuously embodies ambition,…

In her texts Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince J. K. Rowling explores the journey of her main protagonist’s growth. Throughout both texts Rowling uses a variety of techniques to show how Harry grows from a naïve young boy to a confident young man. The use of third person narration, setting and character development throughout each novel enables readers to see how Harry develops from an inexperienced young wizard to a wizened young man. In the…

The characteristic of dehumanization in both Travis Prinzi’s “Dehumanization: Defining Evil in Harry Potter,” and the Harry Potter series written by J.K Rowling offers various similarities between the definition of the word evil, and the context for which the word can be used in respectively. With the philosophical text that Prinzi offers in his thesis regarding the validity of dually the denotation, and the connotation of the word evil, and how it is used to describe several characters in the…

Animals have a significant part in human’s daily lives. Everyday people overlook the importance the animals have in the lives around the people they care about. This happens in reality and in stories, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone is no different. Many characters have interactions with the animals around them; these relationships are not always positive or negative. They can range from friendship, companionship, enemies to antagonistic relationships. The reason I decide to read this…

man, the friendly beast, the evil figure, the damsel in distress, and many more. One movie that would qualify as a “Hero’s Journey” movie would be, “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” because Harry starts his new life once he steps into a new world. At the beginning of the film, “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone”, Harry is living an ordinary life in the “muggle”, or ordinary, world. His whole life…