HARRY POTTER SCAR SERIES

Educationally, he seems to be an average student, frequently utilizing help from Hermione. A story about this period is called: 'coming of age.' Physically, he is growing into a handsome young man.

HARRY POTTER SCAR SERIES

Rowling's planned series of books, she claims, will take Harry through seven 'forms' or grades В— from 11 to 17 years of age. Despite all logic, he still has the ability to be selfless, considerate and (yes) show love and affection. Suprisingly, through it all, much of what makes him who he is, has not been lost. He has been disliked and abused in the Muggle world unknowingly loved and revered in the wizarding world and nearly killed by a wizard. Virtually like being 'born again' because of his secretive upbringing, the letters, determined to deliver the news, quite literally demand that Harry begin 'discovering himself' anew. The sheer magnitude of his evil actions spawn's eddies of other thematic lines, such as: prejudice, bigotry, tyranny, narcissism and the like. While Harry wins friends, embraces diversity, and avoids but doesn't fear death, Voldemort does just the opposite: produces his own enemies, eschews anything but a 'pure' race and is terrified of death. Harry is not so much a 'comparison' as he is a 'contrast.' Voldemort, according to Rowling, has never been loved, nor has he developed the capability to show it. Although Voldemort was shown to have been once an orphan like Harry, it is there that the similarities end. Rowling has provided these two characters, foils for each other if you will, in order to allow the reader to both compare and contrast their characteristics. The antagonist, Voldemort, embodies evil and is a clear benchmark for the protagonist, Harry, to battle. It is such a common theme throughout children's literature that it, not unexpectedly, drives nearly all of the book's action В— and is described on the page: 'The Hero's Journey.' Potter characters are classified based upon which 'side' they are on, and reader frustration develops when the lines are not clear. Rowling) has specified that the 'conflict between good and evil' is a pervasive theme through all seven books.