Joanne Rowling (otherwise known as J.K. Rowling) the author best known for the Harry Potter series, has made a big impact on children as well as young adults across the world. Her story may seem straightforward and dull to some, but to others the hidden meaning touches them deeply and they are able to find a connection and be impacted in many unique ways by this work of literature. The final movie just recently came out and people are once again being drawn to the series. The Harry Potter series consists of seven books, a total of approximately two thousand pages and has been a well known series for more than a decade. This series will make you think. Rowling is criticizing the mess that the world has become today. It argues against racism, rights, and justice as well as shows how changes need to be made and the rules cannot always be followed if things are going to be made right again. This work of literature teaches its readers about the wrongs in society by connecting it closely to Hogwarts and its adventures while Harry goes against the rules in order to maintain peace as well as keep alive.
In this story, Harry Potter discovers he's a wizard with a complicated past. The strongest dark wizard of all time, Voldemort, attempts to murder him as a baby, but he was able to survive as well as maim Voldemort beyond recognition. Over the years Harry becomes stronger while Voldemort plots his revenge. In the end, Harry goes on an epic adventure to defeat Voldemort, who is trying to create a world of "pureblood" wizards through genocide. Harry Potter triumphs and becomes the hero of the wizard world.
Although it may seem like a plain, straightforward story with a happy ending, it has many aspects attached to it that show the criticisms Rowling made about the world and its flaws. Voldemort believed that the world would be better without 'muggles' and 'mudbloods' or nonpureblood wizards and nonwizards, similar to Hitler's beliefs during the Holocaust. Both got a large amount of followers and both were hypocrites for not being pureblood themselves. Rowling made Voldemort the source of all evil in this story, just as Hitler was the source of the Holocaust, which presents the ideal of racism being a horrible thing in today's society. There has been a lot of quarreling about homosexual rights as it has been pressing against religious beliefs, but what many do not know is that the source of wisdom and kindness in this story, Dumbledore, was homosexual himself, with a crush on Gellert Grindelwald, a powerful dark wizard. Not many people even caught this in the story, and had a growing respect for him as an important character. Should his homosexuality change how readers think of him now? Rowling held this as an important point; we are all equals in today's society no matter our ideals or beliefs, and yet society continues to judge us off things we may not even notice without being told.
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I like how you wrote there are racism and justice as an ideology. Harry was trying to have justice for all the wizards Voldemort and the Death Eaters had killed, including his parents and Sirius. Knowing that Voldemort was characterized after Hitler was very shocking, since I thought the racism you were going to talk about was about the Mudblood, Muggles, Pureblood, etc. Great job with your analysis!
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