Similarities Between Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallow

The classic trolley problem is a thought experiment where participants have the option to save five people by purposely and deliberately killing another person. Although putting one’s ethics on the line already, the question to be extended is to ask the participant if they would send their son, aware, to his death in order to save the world. This question is one of many moral decisions made by the characters in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the seventh book in the Harry Potter series written by J.K. Rowling. Experienced by the readers first hand, this leaves the audience in a moral debate within of whether or not support or condemn each character’s, who the readers have grown attached too, decisions. By creating this emotional attachment to the characters and then revealing another side of the characters, J.K. Rowling effectively helps readers further feel empathy and human understanding. Paralleled with the trolley problem is a character named Albus Dumbledore. Throughout the novels, Dumbledore is seen as a caring figure to all

Few novels or series can accomplish this as J.K. Rowling did, but few manage. Other books that come to mind that leave the audience in question about morality is Ender’s Game. Leading the reader through an adventure of a child named Ender who defeated, unknowingly, an enemy species, and based of the reader’s point of view, Ender either committed genocide or created a safe future for the human race. This type of ending, leaves me in a heated case, both defending and accusing, with myself for hours over the actions of the characters and their guilt; it leaves groups of people resembling a jury bickering over the state of innocence of a character. However, above all else, it leaves the readers to question our sense of morality, ethically, and, on a deeper level, human understanding of each