Harry Potter Essay

Censorship of Harry Potter (series) According to many Americans, if one has read the Harry Potter (series), by J.K. Rowling, they have began to participate in witchcraft and evil. Surprisingly, the Harry Potter (series) is the number one most challenged book on the “Top 100 Banned Books from 2000-2009”. However, in the Harry Potter (series), the message constantly portrays good prevailing evil. The three main characters: Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, and Ron Weasley teach the reader that good

and read in books. Within my own life, one person that stuck out to me was Harry Potter. We are similar to an extent, yet also very different due to our families and friends, situations growing up, and characteristics. Harry Potter had to grow up with his aunt and uncle whereas I grew up with my mom and dad. We had two different lives at home growing up; he was an outsider looking into a family while I was in a family. Harry had no direct family except for his aunt who did not care for him, while

This month’s SSR book I read was Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. The author is J. K. Rowling. The copyright date is 2000 and there are 734 pages in the book. J. K. Rowling is a British author who is known for the Harry Potter series. Her first book was Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, published in 1997. The second book, called Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, was published in 1998. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, the third book, was published in 1999. The genre of this

ponyboy is the second youngest. Harry potter is a book about a boy who lived through a terrible killing genocide by a feared wizard named Voldemort or Tom Riddle. Flowers for algernon, Or FFA is a book about a guy with a mind disablity, his IQ was very low for a grown man. All of these characters, Ponyboy, Harry Potter and Charlie Gordon all struggled to have the world accept them and it was very hard for them to fit in. In Harry Potter acceptance was a big part of Harry 's life, he always had to deal

she contributed to a large extent to the the success of Harry. Because of this episode, among others, these scholars that think that the Harry Potter series presents a stereotypical gendered vision therefore argues that Hermione is only an enabler of Harry and Ron's adventures, that she is kind of passive. However, during this episode, Ron can also appear as an enabler, as he sacrifices himself on the chessboard so to allow Hermione and Harry to go on. Then, Hermione makes her own sacrifice as well

We are constantly surrounded by adaptations, from BBC One’s adaptation of Ann Cleeves’ Shetland, to Harry Potter. Adaptation is an integral part of our lives as we long always strive for meaning in everything, adaptation can allow us to see new meanings in what we watch and take something we would not necessarily have seen in the original. Adaptation is the application of previous concepts to new concepts, taking for instance a play onto the big screen, whilst the original conditions are lost a

When Harry Potter was gaining attention from all over the globe, a select amount of Catholics saw Harry Potter as “the Devil.” Father Gabriele Amorth of the Archdiocese of Rome, who is also a top exorcist, believes that all magic leads to the devil. The Catholic Church has no official stance on the series, but many other respected priests have stated that they think the Harry Potter books are a perfect example of right and wrong and they see Catholic figures in the characters. Also, J.K. Rowling

The little boats lurched forward, gliding smoothly on the water. Albus looked over the edge of the boat and swore he saw a greenish face staring back at him. The night was unusually warm for September, not rainy or windy. A crescent moon was reflected on the still surface of the lake. "Alrigh', duck yer heads now, we're passin' through a short tunnel," shouted Hagrid, "then you'll get yer firs' look at Hogwarts." Albus lowered his head as the small group of boats floated into the small opening

As Harry lowered himself into the pitch black hole of the trapdoor as black as a cave hanging only by his fingertips, there was a shudder of the ground as one of the paws of the Fluffy hit the ground. He fearfully told me ‘Don’t follow if anything happens to me. Send word to Dumbledore, okay?’ ‘Okay’ I said in dismay. ‘Hopefully I’ll see you soon’ Harry said As he said those last words to me, I was wishing inside that I went with him because he is special and then I would not be as anxious as

themselves in the fantastical wizarding world bound by her seven novels. Rowling rewards her versed readers; while the Harry Potter novels are ones easily (and presumably most often) enjoyed by their younger devotees, they craft an allegorical puzzle for an informed audience. Rowling makes brilliant use of the classical tradition to provide the consumers of both canons, classical and Potter-centric, with a repertoire of themes, motifs, and language reminiscent of those in antiquity, allowing for parallels