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Harry Potter
and the Monsters and Magic of Literature
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Potter Time line
1990: The idea for Harry Potter is born.
1995: The first book is completed and rejected by several
publishers.
J.K. Rowling is warned that she will never
make any real money
by writing children's books.
1997: Philosopher's Stone is published in England.
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Potter Time line
1998: Chamber of Secrets is published in England and becomes
an instant best seller. Philosopher's Stone is published in
America under the name Sorcerer's Stone.
2003: Harry Potter has become so pervasive that “muggle”
is added to the Oxford English Dictionary.
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Meanwhile, publishers are asked to set release
dates for Potter novels for weekends so as to
avoid causing massive school truancies,
The New York Times declares children's books
ineligible for its best seller list, and Harry
Potter takes the #1 slot in the most frequently
banned books of the 21st century list.
300 million Harry Potter books (and counting) have now
been sold worldwide in at least 47 languages.
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Literary Genres, Archetypes, and Motifs
The Epic
Like the ancient epics (Iliad, Odyssey,
Aeneid, Gilgamesh, Beowulf),
Harry Potter has a little something for
everyone—danger, romance,
moral lessons, and most of all the kind
of intense suspense that comes from
knowing that the fate of the world
rests on the hero's shoulders.
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The Fantasy
As a kind of epic fairy tale,
fantasy novels place ordinary
people in extraordinary situations-like the magical worlds of
Narnia, Oz, Neverland,
or Hogwarts.
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The Mystery
Mysteries offer readers a chance to test
their problem solving skills along with the hero.
Series mysteries, like Harry Potter, give
readers a way to bond with one another
by discussing clues and anticipating
outcomes between books.
Who is R.A.B.?
Is Snape good or bad?
Is Dumbledore really dead?
What's the last horcrux?
Will Harry and his best friends survive?
Will there ever be an eighth book?
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The Hero
Like the epic heroes before him,
Harry was born to be bold.
He gets out of many tight spots
through a combination of bravery,
intelligence, and skill.
It doesn't hurt that he also
inspires great loyalty in his friends
and supporters.
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The Orphan
Harry is among the ranks of
Cinderella, Jane Eyre,
Oliver Twist, Frodo, and
Luke Skywalker as one of the
most famous orphans of
literature.
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The Mentor
When Odysseus leaves for
Troy, he asks his friend Mentor
to look after his infant son.
Thus, we get the word for the
kind and wise older friend
who advises the hero
throughout his (or her)
adventures.
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The Villain
Beowulf has Grendel,
Luke has Darth Vader,
Batman has Joker,
and Harry has
Voldemort.
How would we know
who our heroes
are without the villains?
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The Journey
Like Odysseus, Aeneas,
Frodo, Dorothy, and many
other heroes, Harry's
adventures always
begin and end with
a journey.
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The
Quest
Perhaps the most famous
in all of literature (and of
history) is the quest for the
holy grail.
In Half Blood Prince, Harry
finally gets his quest. The one
thing we do know about book
seven is that Harry will be
spending his time searching
for and attempting to destroy
Voldemort's horcruxes.
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The Task
Like the labors of
Hercules, Harry Potter
is given a series of tasks
he must complete in both
Sorcerer's Stone and
Goblet of Fire.
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The Ultimate Battle of Good and
Evil
Reminiscent of the Biblical
teaching that there will be
a final show-down
between good and evil in
which good ultimately
prevails, many epics
conclude with a great
battle—the final test
of the hero's strength
and skill.
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Literary and Mythological
Allusions
The Lightening Scar
Harry's Scar is Lightening-Shaped, The Symbol of Zeus, King of the Olympian Gods
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Fluffy
Fluffy, the three-headed dog
used to guard the Sorcerer's Stone
is remarkably similar to Cerberus,
the dog that guards the gates of
Hades in Greek mythology.
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Minerva, Goddess of Wisdom
And Harry Potter's
Teacher
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Hermes, the Messenger
In Greek mythology, Hermes
is the messenger of the gods.
Percy Weasley's owl
Hermes, like other owls
in Harry Potter, acts
as a messenger,
delivering the mail.
Owls have long been
associated with wisdom, and the owl is the symbol
of Athena (or Minerva), goddess of wisdom. The owl's
ability to see at night was thought in ancient times to be
a magical quality.
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Argus, The All-Seeing
Argus, the watchman of Hera, had 100 eyes,
some of which where always awake.
Hogwarts students see their caretaker,
Argus Filch, as having much the same
characteristic.
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Mrs. Norris
Mrs. Norris, the cat, is the namesake of
the very nosy and interfering Mrs. Norris
of Jane Austin's Mansfield Park.
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The Sphinx
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Gryffindor
The griffin is a mythological creature with the
body of a lion and the head of an eagle.
Gryffindor comes from the French “gryffon d'or,”
meaning “golden griffin.”
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Fawkes
Dumbledore's bird Fawkes is a phoenix.
In Egyptian mythology, the phoenix
would rise reborn from its own ashes
at the end of a life cycle.
Is it only a coincidence that the
phoenix is connected with
Dumbledore?
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Lily Potter
The lily is often used to symbolize
Christ. Lily Potter, Harry's mother,
sacrifices her own life to save Harry's
and, in doing so, teaches the world
that love is the greatest magic of all.
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Remus Lupin
Remus and his twin brother Romulus
(the legendary founder of Rome) were said to
have been raised by wolves. Lupin is a play on
the word “lupus,” Latin for wolf.
Remus Lupin is a werewolf.
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Nicholas Flamel
Nicholas Flamel was a 15th century alchemist.
Legend says he succeeded in creating
the Philosopher's Stone, the goal of alchemy
since ancient times. The Philosopher's Stone
could be used to turn metal into gold and to create
an elixir to cure disease and to prolong life.
Alchemy was a precursor to both modern
mysticism and modern science.
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Hermione Granger
In Greek mythology, Hermione is the
daughter of Helen and Menelaus.
Rowling, however, borrowed the
name from Shakespeare's A Winter's
Tale in which Queen Hermione comes
to life again after being made into
a statue—like Hermione Granger
in Chamber of Secrets.
Granger is the name of a character
from Fahrenheit 451—the leader of “The Book People.”
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Sirius Black
Sirius, the star system, is said
to have been placed in the sky
at the feet of Orion because in
Greek Mythology Sirius was the
faithful dog of Orion. Sirius
mourned Orion's death so
profusely that Diana took pity on
him and sent him to be with
Orion in the heavens.
Sirius Black is the son of Orion
Black and, in his animal form,
is a dog.
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Gryffindor's Sword
Harry Potter pulls Gryffindor's
sword out of the sorting hat like
another famous boy who pulls
another famous sword out of a
stone.
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Sibyll Trelawney
Sibyls in ancient mythology
were prophets.
Cassandra—the great-greatgrandmother of Sibyll Trelawney—
is named for a woman in Greek
mythology who was cursed to
always prophecy the truth while
never being believed.
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The Malfoys
The family name of the people
Potter fans love to hate means
“bad faith” in French.
Draco means “dragon” in Latin and
was the name a Greek ruler from
whom we get the work “draconian”
for terribly harsh punishments.
Lucius is similar to Lucifer.
Narcissa comes from Narcissus, the man in Greek mythology who fell in love
with his own reflection. Every good Potter fan knows, however, that the real
narcissist of the series is Gilderoy Lockhart.
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Centaurs
In Greek mythology, centaurs
are half man and half horse.
The centaur Firenze befriends
Dumbledore and becomes a
teacher to Harry Potter in
the same way that the centaur
Chiron—a noted astrologer—
tutored many of the great heroes
of Greece, including Ajax,
Achilles, Hercules, and Jason.
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Basilisk
The legendary king of the serpents, the
basilisk makes an appearance in Chaucer's
“Parson's Tale.” Sometimes depected as
looking more snake-like and other times more
rooster-like, some stories of the basilisk say it
originated from the blood of Medusa, who
could also kill with a look. Hermione uses a
mirror to avoid the direct gaze of the basilisk in
imitation of Perseus who defeated Medusa
with a mirror.
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Grindylow
s
The grindylow is a water
demon from English folklore,
often used to scare children
away from water.
The word also sounds similar
to Grendel, and some people
believe Harry's encounter
with the grindylows in the fourth
book is an allusion to Beowulf.
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Hippogriff
s
A mythological cross between a griffin and a horse, hippogriffs have been
mentioned by the likes of Virgil and Cervantes. In the Middle Ages, there was
a saying, “when griffins mate with mares,” that meant something like the
modern day saying, “when pigs fly.”
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Lessons from
Harry Potter
Love is the most powerful magic of all.
Fear is dangerous and leads to the most corrupt
actions known to all of history.
Fear of death is far worse than death itself.
Every action and every inaction has consequences.
No magic can bring the dead to life again,
but no one who is loved ever really leaves us.
It's our choices, not our abilities,
that determine who we are.
Quick Quill
quotes
For the fear of death is indeed the pretense of wisdom,
and not real wisdom, being a pretense of knowing the
unknown; and no one knows whether death, which men
in their fear apprehend to be the greatest evil, may not be
the greatest good.
~Plato, “The Apology of Socrates”
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
For knowledge is limited to all we know and understand,
while imagination embraces the entire world,
and all there will ever be to know and understand.
~Albert Einstein
My fingers are crossed for Harry.
~John Irving