... television and media have demolished their interest of reading. The amazing storyline, interesting plot and endearing characters have made the success of Harry Potter great. Harry Potter started an astounding interest for children and adults to read. J. K. Rowling, the writer and creator of Harry Potter, has written books that are easy to comprehend yet are still sophisticated in nature. J. K. Rowling's amazing and remarkable sentence structure and ... plot formation has left readers wanting more. Harry Potter books are known for their "who done it" plots which make the readers use thei...

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... that is sometimes overlooked for it's more modernism feel are the adventures of Harry Potter. Harry Potter, by J.K. Rowling, has all the characteristics as any traditional epic literary work and is a very exciting story for all ages. Harry Potter, although sometimes looked down upon by society for the witchcraft involved, is ... an epic is how the hero's deeds determine the fate of a group of people. This is the perfect example of how Harry Potter is an epic. When Harry, along with his friends, Ron and Hermione, try to find the Sorcerer's Stone, they are put in great danger. Their ... ...

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... with witches wizards and mythical creatures. "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" (2003) is about Harry's fifth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Over the summer holiday his friends Ron and Hermione have been very inspecific in their letters and Harry is dying to get back and find out ... K Rowling started writing these books because she was bored with the world as it was and thought that Harry's world might be a bit more interesting. Fundamentally Harry Potter is a traditional good versus evil story. Harry is the one who, according to prophecy, can defeat the D...

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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Harry Potter is in many ways reflective of many epic heroes throughout the history of literature. The archetypes that follow Harry Potter through his trials and tribulations are very much the same as the archetypes that follow past heroes such as Beowulf and Ulysses. Harry's encounters follow along the same lines as many adventures in past archetypal journeys. Harry begins his adventure ... with the Dursleys, but this summer will not be as bad considering the magical background discovered in his neighborhood. The Dursleys pick Harry up at the train st...

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... about his reputation to conquer. After reading this book, it is clear that Harry Potter does not live up to his wizardly name while studying at Hogwart's, yet does contain the potential to do so. When Harry was wearing the sorting hat to decide what house he would be joining, it ... first class." (Rowling, p100) Professor McGonagall who happens to be a woman, portrays the confidence and control that a great wizard must have in order to be successful. Harry does not possess this yet. With Professor McGonagall being a woman, which is often looked at differently than a man perhaps, she pos...

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... For example, when he tries to fly a broomstick he ends up breaking his wrist because he can't control it. Malfoy taunts him constantly for this. Harry, on the other hand, has great skills at flying a broomstick. On his first try he has great agility and speed. Professor McGonagall describes him ... traits. He sacrifices himself in a chess game to help Harry out. It proves that he is willing to sacrifice himself for the greater good. Finally, Harry exhibits numerous positive characteristics. He is generous, caring, and he always does things in order to achieve some greater good. Although...

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... Voldemort and his parents who died to save their son. He is the type of person that would put himselft at risk to help another in trouble. Harry is skinny, with stingy black hair, and has bright green eyes. As he matures, he is discovered to be caring, very brave, a loyal friend, ... the Sorcerer's Stone also. Her background is completely human, and has no traces of wizardry. Lord Voldemort sets to kill Mr. Potter, Mrs. Potter, and their baby, Harry. Harry's parents die trying to protect Harry. Astonished by this act of love, Voldemort is unable to kill the baby and loses his power. He ...

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... Hogwarts - The school of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The book was first published in 1997 and the film has been long awaited in coming. I first read Harry Potter and The Philosopher's Stone in the year it was published and heard about the film adaptation eighteen months ago. Initially, I thought that it would be ... with his adventures at Hogwarts and his quest to save the Philosopher's Stone from the evil Voldemort. Since Voldemort's attempt to kill Harry as a baby, his power has dwindled. In order to restore it to it's former glory, he needs the elixir of life, the Philosopher's Stone, w...

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... Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix started out like every other Harry Potter book. Harry had to suffer at his aunt Petunia and his uncle Vernon's square house on Privet Drive during the summer. Petunia and Vernon Dursley were what you call "muggles". They were close-minded non-magical folk who despised all witches and wizards. That was the main reason why they treated Harry ... Hogwarts and he could never use magic again. The next day 8 or 9 people, who went by the name Order of the Phoenix, picked him up from the Dursleys to take him to their headquarters. Many of the people in ...

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Harry Potter & the Order of the Pheonix I am currently reading Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. This amazingly magical book focuses on so many different themes. One great theme of this book is love, because Harry Potter was blessed with such an incredible love by being accepted into the magical world. Another awesome theme is the trust between Harry, Hermoine and Ron, because they always stick together no ... matter what and defend each other to the fullest. There are also many hidden secrets in this big magical world of Harry's. Some so horrible to ... trust from them, and if the...

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... preconscious in his cradle, he survived a magical assault by the infamous dark wizard Voldemort (whose name is so terrible in its effects that only Harry and Hogwarts' headmaster, Albus Dumbledore, dare pronounce it), deflecting a killing spell back upon its sender and reducing Voldemort to helplessness. Despite the ... which was entrusted by the famous alchemist Nicholas Flamel to Dumbledore. With the aid of Hermione and Ron, and encouragement from Dumbledore and Hagrid, Harry contrives to thwart Voldemort's ambition in a tense climax, but he realizes that he is engaged in a contest tha...

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... The author is J.K. Rowling. The setting of the story is in England at a school for wizards called Hogwarts. There are three main characters, Harry Potter; Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger. Harry is a skinny boy with dark brown hair (which is always messy) and glasses. Ron is the youngest boy in a family of five, ... "Mudblood". This means that she is a wizard whose parents are not magical. She however is a very talented wizard. The story is basically all about Harry. He attends Hogwarts School of Wizardry, which is located far away from the rest of civilization, (the Muggles). When he ar...

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... You can actually figure out what sort of feeling each of them had, say miserable, ambivalent, anxious, agitated, and remorseful. In this book, Harry Potter demonstrated an adolescent sensation: immature, curious, rebellious, but kind-hearted. This is exactly the way teenagers react when confronted with what they considered adversities. ... world seemed chaotic and confusing. The Ministry of Magic refused all facts, while Professor Albus Dumbledore had to set up the Order of Phoenix against the Dark Lord. Harry, the target of the devils, was to encounter more than he could imagine. Before...

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Plot Summary Harry Potter is furious with his friends for not writing him in so long; Sirius hasn't been in touch either. He doesn't know how much more of the Dudley's he can handle. Mean while Hermoine, Ron, and the Order of the Phoenix are trying to plan against Lord Voldmort. Dumbledore's losing ... respect because he trying to tell people that there nightmares have come true; he who must not be named is back. To make things worse, when Harry gets back to school there is a ... new Defense against the Dark Arts teacher. The old hag makes Harry's life miserable, adds new rules that are outr...

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... of how evil a character can be. Connections to Modern-Day Anti-Hero Macbeth was put in a compromising position to kill a man whom he was loyal, similarly to Professor Snape in Harry Potter. The significant difference was that Macbeth was forced to kill Duncan by his wife, his ambition, and for his own selfish gain. Snape was forced to murder Dumbledore, by Dumbledore ... in order to prove his fake-allegiance to the Death Eaters. Macbeth experienced guilt and remorse until he gained the throne, yet he was forced to continue pretending to feel the weight ... ...

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