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To say that the Harry Potter books by JK Rowling are a success is an understatement. The books, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, set sales records and the movies have set box office records.
The Harry Potter stories are about the adventures of young boy following the English tradition of boarding school. It is about friendship, curiosity, and growing up. If Harry was an ordinary boy at an ordinary school, the books would still be enjoyable due to the storytelling, wonderful characters, and descriptions the author provides. The fact that the boarding school is a school for wizards and witches and that potions and transfiguration are taught instead of math and literature just make the stories more fun.
The books revolve around Harry Potter and his school friends. When Harry was only a year old, his wizard father and magically-gifted "muggle-born" mother were killed by a wizard so evil that no one dares mention his name. Somehow Harry not only survived this attack, we discover later it is due to the love and self-sacrifice of his mother, but the failed attack left He-should-not-be-named with reduced powers and left Harry with a lighting scar on the middle of his forehead. The attack also seems to have left Harry possessing some of the powers of the evil wizard, which helps Harry and the side of good triumph.
Harry is raised by his aunt (his mother's sister) and her husband. These very conventional people are horrified by the magical goings on by Harry's parents and seem to get their revenge by treating Harry as though he were some sort of lower form of life while lavishing attention on their own son, Dudley. Only when he is sent off to a special boarding school for wizards and witches does Harry make friends and begin to realize that he is someone special.
On a news group, someone asked why children loved these books. After much useless information ("I've haven't read them but..."), the consensus was that the books are popular because the main characters are children who solve the mysteries the adults are unable to solve, that the readers can identify with the characters because they are well drawn and are real people with both good and bad qualities, and that the stories are fun.
The books are a celebration of the imagination. Not only the imagination shown by the characters as they find ways to discover the truth and fight evil, but mainly the imagination of the author, JK Rowling. As with any good fiction, the stories and characters created by the author are unique and interesting, but it is the little things that make the world of Hogwarts and Harry Potter so credible. How do wizards send mail to one another - by owl (Harry's is named Hedwick). What is the school sport - Quiddich, a game played on flying broomsticks and using three different kinds of flying balls. How do you enter the school "houses" - through holes behind portraits or shields, but only after you have given the proper password.
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