Harry Potter (series)
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- For quotes from the film series, see Harry Potter (films).
Harry Potter is a series of novels by J.K. Rowling. It is about a young boy named Harry Potter and his adventures as he attends Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, learns how to perform magic and comes face to face with his archenemy, Lord Voldemort.
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (1997)
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (1998)
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (1999)
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2000)
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2003)
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2005)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (2007)
Companion books[edit]
Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them (2001)[edit]
- Text: [describing Billywig stings] ...and are rumoured to be a component in the popular sweet Fizzing Whizbees.
- Ron: Last time I eat them then.
- Text: Chimara eggs are classified as Class A Non-Tradeable Goods.
- Harry: So Hagrid'll be getting some any time now.
- Text: [describing the Hippogriff] It can be tamed, though this should be attempted only by experts...
- Ron: Has Hagrid read this book?
- Text: The Kappa is a Japanese water demon...
- Harry: Snape hasn't read this either.
- Pixie M.O.M. Classification: XXX
- Ron: But XXXXXXX if you're Lockhart.
- Ron: [about Puffskeins] I had one of them once.
- Harry: What happened to it?
- Ron: Fred and George used it for Bludger practice.
About Harry Potter (series)[edit]
Genre fiction, as Terry Pratchett has pointed out, is a stew. You take stuff out of the pot, you put stuff back. The stew bubbles on. ~ Neil Gaiman
- The ultimate quest in the Harry Potter books is that of self-discovery. In that respect, these books share a common theme with the great spiritual guidebooks of humanity... Harry is on a great quest to discover who he is -- in the simplest, most literal sense of learning about his parents -- but also in the deeper sense of discovering his own nature and his mission in life. That great quest is mirrored in a different quest theme in each book of the series.
- Harry Potter And The Ancient Wisdom By John Algeo, Quest, (2002)
- Why have these books captured the imagination of people differing widely in maturity and culture? They have done so because, like all great literature, the Harry Potter stories speak to people of all ages by presenting universal truths—not by preaching but in a subliminal, parable-like way.
- Harry Potter's Four Fathers By John Algeo, Quest, (2004)
- Back in November I was tracked down by a Scotsman journalist who had noticed the similarities between my Tim Hunter character and Harry Potter, and wanted a story. And I think I rather disappointed him by explaining that, no, I certainly *didn't* believe that Rowling had ripped off Books of Magic, that I doubted she'd read it and that it wouldn't matter if she had: I wasn't the first writer to create a young magician with potential, nor was Rowling the first to send one to school. It's not the ideas, it's what you do with them that matters.
Genre fiction, as Terry Pratchett has pointed out, is a stew. You take stuff out of the pot, you put stuff back. The stew bubbles on.
- Neil Gaiman "Fair Use and Other Things", NeilGaiman.com, (April 19 2008).
- Harry Potter is a bit of a bourgeois fantasy.
- Abigail Thorn, Witchcraft, Gender, & Marxism | Philosophy Tube, (26.10.2018)
- Harry Potter is considered a "fantasy novel" because a group of technocratic liberal elites defeated the rising tide of fascism.
External links[edit]
Encyclopedic article on Harry Potter at Wikipedia
Media related to Harry Potter at Wikimedia Commons
Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter at Wikibooks
Harry Potter tourism travel guide from Wikivoyage
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| Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone | book | film | |
| Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets | book | film | |
| Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | book | film | |
| Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | book | film | |
| Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix | book | film | |
| Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince | book | film | |
| Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows | book | films part 1 and part 2 | |
| Harry Potter and the Cursed Child | play | ||
| last words in Harry Potter media | books | films | games |
| Fantastic Beasts & Where To Find Them | book | film | |
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