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.
Symbolism is one of the key literary aids in telling the story of Harry Potter. Platform nine and three quarters, the train station from which Harry's adventures begin, could be attributed to Harry symbolically and literally “leaving a troublesome world behind and venturing forth into a fantastic new one.” (Anson “The Trouble With Harry”). The platform is symbolic of a transition, a deliverance from evil and suffering into peace, excitement, happiness, and new horizons. The platform is shrouded in mystery. When Harry first arrives at the train station, he asks a nearby conductor where he can find the oddly numbered platform. The conductor thinks Harry is making a joke, because one knows where it is unless they are a wizard. “But Hagrid, there's no such thing, is there?” (Rowling 89). It is lucky for Harry that he stumbles upon another wizard family on their way to the platform. They show him where the secret platform is hidden.
The broomstick, used as transportation by witches and wizards, could also be cons...
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“You all know, of course, that Hogwarts was founded over a thousand years ago by the four greatest witches and wizards of the age” – Professor Binns (Chamber of Secrets, 150).
Two of the best things in the world, “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” and “Harry Potter,” have a good deal in common. Other than the vast amount of space reserved in my brain for storing quotes and random facts from these two stories, both tales share many similar objects, plot devices, character attributes, and themes. Even though Python's “Holy Grail” is an exact historical representation of the Arthurian Grail legend, some might argue that the “Harry Potter” story is more reflective of the actual ancient texts than the 1974 film.
Just to quickly run through the two previous books; Harry Potter is a wizard, who’s parents were killed by the worst dark wizard ever known. The reason why Harry Potter is still around, is because Lord Voldemort failed to kill Harry. His spell hit Harry, but then backfired on Voldemort taking all of his powers with him. Harry is so famous for two things. Withstanding the powers of Lord Voldemort, and, taking him back in to the underworld in hiding. In the first book, Harry receives a letter from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. He’s eventually allowed to go, and spends the next six months there learning magic, getting into trouble, and trying to solve mysteries of his past, and the school. In the second book, Harry goes back to his second year at Hogwarts, and gets into more trouble, figures out many astonishing mysteries and learns loads more magic. His best friends in the two books consist of Ron and Hermione (two of his fellow wizard students) and Hagrid the gamekeeper who was expelled from Hogwarts but allowed a job as the gamekeeper.
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Accidentally, he arrives to the black eagle restaurant, and after leaving a teachers' house because a photograph he didn't like, Harry sees a girl that seems interesting to him so that, he approaches her and they begin speaking, he tells her about the professor's house success and explains to her that he can not arrive to his house because something terrible is waiting for him in there, the suicide
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows was written by J. K. Rowling and is the seventh and final book in the Harry Potter series. The book is about a seventeen-year-old wizard, named Harry Potter, who has to travel all over England to find things that will help him defeat the evil wizard, Lord Voldomort. The main theme/moral of the entire series is good will always triumphs over evil. In every book, even when it looks like evil is going to win, good always triumphs in the end.
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