J.K. Rowling

At the age of eight, Harry would begin attending a public school within Independence. Notably, it appears that his mother sent him five weeks late during his first year. Despite this, his teacher,

All this has added to the growing popularity of the Harry Potter brand that is everywhere today. Young readers can relate to Harry’s issues and the books create another world the readers can subconsciously ‘escape’ too.

The wildly popular Harry Potter books might be casting a spell over adults and children who just can't seem to get enough of the young wizard-in-training, but some schools and parents aren't quite so enchanted.

Humans have always loved stories, from magical ones filled with wonders, to the everyday life reciting’s. Humans crave stories; they crave the moment of going to a magical land of wonders that exceed their own lives. Such is the case with books. Books hold the magic of binding a story and making it immortal. Creating a world that shall never be forgotten, whilst always adding new members. Unfortunately not all see books as a valuable relic. Most people nowadays do not even deem books as worthy of their time at any given moment. Nevertheless, some books do have the power to make even books haters yearn for more and are read even centuries after they were first published. The article ”How Harry Saved Reading” written by Norman Lebrecht in 2011 dives into the subject of how J.K.Rowling managed to make

In this book, Harry potter is accused of using magic outside of school to save his cousin from the dementors. He was then expelled and then put onto trial. Dumbledore was there to help Harry get back into Hogwarts. When he came back into school he faced several challenges. One of those challenges was the new dark arts teacher Dolores Umbridge. She did not teach her class how to fight, but other things that wouldn’t help he students in the future. Harry and his friends started a club to learn how to fight back at enemies. She then started to put out all these rules, but later she was never again seen after being taken away from a giant. Harry later lost one of his best friends Sirius black due to a spell hitting and killing him. His body was

In Harry Potter acceptance was a big part of Harry 's life, he always had to deal with two things, Attempted murder on him and always being famous and well known. This made it very hard for him to be accepted into some groups because they thought he was the direct Heir of slytherin and was related to Voldemort and that he would help Voldemort destroy the world. But just because his childhood was destroyed by Voldemort, “It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.” - J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire) Pg 624 In this case harry became a grown man and defeated Voldemort.

In Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling, there is a lot of evidence supporting the fact that Harry Potter often does things that are risky or could get him in trouble. However, they tend to work out for him in the end because he has help and resources.

Harry Potter at first didn’t know anyone and didn’t know anything about Hogwarts. His goal was to fit in. Throughout Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone Harry seems to make new goals for himself. Then one of his quests/goals is to go and stop who he thought was Snape but it was actually Professor Quirrell and Voldemort. Harry Potter’s quest changed from fitting into saving Hogwarts from Voldemort, or as they say He-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named. In trying to fulfill his quest he met some friends and of course some

Harry Potter is a fascinating tale of sorcerers, wands, broomsticks, dragons, and magic. The story begins with a young boy named Harry Potter who lives at number four Privit Drive, Surray, England. His journey begins after the death of his parents at the hands of the evil Lord Voldemort. Harry learns of his past and his future as a wizard from Hagrid, the keeper of keys and grounds at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. He travels to Hogwarts where he learns spells and enchantments, makes new friends, finds enemies, and discovers fantastic secretes. J.K. Rowling weaves a web of impeccable storytelling with this critically acclaimed novel. In the tale of Harry Potter imagery, symbolism, and motif take central focus.

The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling has become the epitome of children’s literature; with unique characters leaving eternal memories for readers. Amongst these characters, Harry, a selfless, loyal, orphaned wizard raised by a non-magical family, and Draco Malfoy, a wealthy, arrogant, intimidator, create the major sources of conflict throughout Rowling’s series. This complex, yet captivating central conflict between Harry and Draco throughout the series has allowed for millions of copies of books being sold worldwide. Based on the fact that Harry and Draco have attempted to murder each other multiple times, readers most often assume one

The most influential book I have ever read was Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling. This book was the most impactful book I have read because of all of the people, fantasy worlds, and adventure. I thoroughly enjoyed being able to learn about a world filled with brave souls and passionate, kind people. Through all the struggles Harry Potter and his friends, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, faced they stayed loyal to each other and were courageous through all the difficult predicaments. Additionally, many characters J.K. Rowling created are great role models to all. An especially significant role model is the character Hermione Granger because of her brilliant and logical thinking skills in pressured situations. Hermione taught

Thesis: Sarah’s Gailey’s article, “Women of Harry Potter: Hermione Granger is more than a Sidekick explores what the nature of what a hero is and argues that H.G is more of a hero than H.P. H.P is viewed as the Hero for his achievements and defeating Voldemort, while H.G is reduced to being a sidekick.

In the Harry Potter series by J.K Rowling Harry starts of in the unfamiliar wizarding world of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. After lord Voldemort killed Harry’s parents he is sent of to his aunt and uncle's house as a baby. Harry does not like living with them but eventually at age 12 he gets a letter to attend hogwarts which he will soon find out that he is a wizard. After being sorted into one of the four houses (Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, ravenclaw and slytherin)he gets sorted into gryffindor and finds friends in his house(Ron and Hermione). They have to stick together and work together to defeat him. This leads to one of the themes for this book series being that “You are much stronger when with friends”.

Using imagination and creativity, J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series has defined literature as transformative. In this seven-book series J.K Rowling imagined and creatively pieced together a fantasy world of muggles, wizards, tyrants, and heroes to symbolically share with readers problems plaguing modern society. Similar to Shelley’s work of the past, never before have readers in the modern era seen teenage and adult mania surrounding an 11-year-old wizard. Some will argue that J.K. Rowling’s young-adult series lacks depth or wants to twist young minds by using magic and evil, but through close examination it is evident that

It is clear that the Harry Potter series has taken a journey on the Hogwarts Express to the road of international success. The “Harry Potter” series is the story of the eponymous boy, orphaned at birth and left in the care of the aunt and uncle along with the ill mannered son who make up the Dursley family who are known as “Muggles” (non-magical people). On Harry's eleventh birthday, Harry receives a letter from Hogwarts, a school that grooms young wizards and witches, and promptly enters a world of wonder and mystery. At Hogwarts, he meets his two closest friends, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger who begin there adventure together through love, friendship and learning about magic. Harry learns very soon that the death of his parents was no