Harry Potter has become one of the biggest franchises in literature and film. It has enabled millions of people to live in the wizarding world and experience hatty’s destiny to defeat Voldemort. J.K. Rowling brings a whole slew of magnificent character alive in the pages, and creates villains that instill fear in adults. Although Voldemort killed and tortured hundreds in his quest for power, he is not seen as the evilest person of the series, for that we turn to a toad-like woman in pink. Dolores Umbridge has managed to take the throne as one of the most hatted Harry Potter villain through her manipulation of power, delusional righteousness, and deepest prejudices. We first meet Umbridge in the Order of the Phoenix, when she is spearheading the trial against Harry Potter. Throughout this series we see Umbridge use her authority to gain what she wants. In the ministry she reaches beyond her position to bed the ear of several ministers for her favor. As a teacher she uses her power to enforce her own rules. Even stooping to personally inflict physical and verbal punishment upon students. She was in a place of power and respect, someone who could have done some …show more content…
While we’re not saying that Voldemort was good by any standard, he made no excuse for his actions. Everyone knows that he is evil, and that he will kill you. But, Umbridge acts like a good person, and may even believe that what she is doing is okay. She is able to create a look of a seemingly good person and parade around in the public in this makes, so many never see her other side. But if you are unlucky enough to get on her bad side, she shows her truly horrifying self. This is one difference between the two, you can pick out Voldemort and say “Yah, he’s the bad guy” but with Umbridge her appearance and way of presenting herself leads you to have to uncover the evil
She was one of the people at Harry's hearing who said he was guilty. She is really rude to Harry. She gives him detention and makes him write lines with a quill that scratches whatever you write into your hand and uses your blood as ink. She also takes away Harry's privilege of playing Quidditch ever again. Somehow Harry gets through it all.
Not only this, but over the course of the series almost every Antagonist is also a Wizard (Dolores Umbridge and Bellatrix LeStrange being the only Witches among them.)
The power of manipulation is a very powerful tool and can easily be misused to benefit
Many have come to know and love the stories of Harry Potter, the boy who lived, but what most may not realize is that Harry Potter can have a bad influence on young children and adults. Though the Harry Potter series is a children’s book that is meant to enlighten the imagination of young viewers, it can be misguiding to those cannot comprehend the difference between imagination and real life. The beloved story of Harry Potter can have a negative influence on young children and adults for a variety of reasons.
Dr. Julia Pond, is an Assistant Professor of English at Shorter University. She received her Ph.D. from Illinois State University in 2012. She currently teaches several classes in Children’s Literature, and several of her classes focus on topics that are pertinent to educating the young and middle-grade children. She has several published articles and is well recognized in her field. In her article, “A Story of the Exceptional: Fate and Free Will in the Harry Potter Series”, she addresses Friedrich Nietzche’s fate and free will philosophy, and using the Harry Potter books, she argues that Rowling allows her characters free will, with a fair amount of fate and shows us how the two forces can work in balance. I was fascinated with this article.
...Potter Evil?” New York Times on the Web. 22 October. 1999. 31 March. 2003 http://www.judyblume.com/article/harry_potter_oped.html
The author Susan Dominus shares about Daniel Radcliffe’s life in “Daniel Radcliffe’s Next Trick Is to Make Harry Potter Disappear”. Her intension meaning for the work published is to tell the reader of Daniel Radcliffe’s life. Daniel being Harry Potter an upstanding adventurous wizard in a series of movies, and how he wants his life to be normal again. Her writing is in a right-minded ethical writing style to persuade or to move the reader to feel how Daniel does. She fulfills her persuasion by illustrating his milestones in a parallel structure, displaying his feelings of being Mr. Harry Potter, and his wanting of breaking free of the name.
In 1997, the first book of the Harry Potter series was released in the United States, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. It was then that people began to fall in love with “The boy who lived.”, Harry Potter, and began their love/hate relationship with the man who would end up helping to save his life multiple times over (Rowling, J.K., 2007). This love/hate relationship developed because it seems as if this man, a professor at Hogwart’s School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, constantly was against the hero, Harry. There is a buildup of the fact that Sna...
She is ruthless, impatient and power thirsty. She manipulated Macbeth and ate away at his weak mind until he could take no more.... ... middle of paper ... ... He was blinded by the idea of him being untouchable and having everlasting power.
Ever since J.K. Rowling first introduced Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone in 1997, children and adults have read and loved the series. It has gained such popularity that all of the books have been made into major motion pictures, and a Harry Potter attraction has been opened in Universal Studios, Florida. Though the readers love Rowling’s intricate and exciting story lines, many controversies have arisen from these stories, not only in the United States, but also in various countries around the world. Perhaps the biggest controversy is the religious implications perceived by some critics. Although these critics believe that the series promotes paganism and encourages evil actions, these theories should not be taken so seriously.
As the story of Harry Potter progresses, it becomes increasingly clear that the Ministry of Magic is doing nothing to aid the fight against Voldemort and, in later books, it is actually helping evil progress throughout wizarding Britain. Political corruption in the Harry Potter series led to the rise of Voldemort and his Death Eaters through the totalitarian style of government, faulty judicial system, and rampant prejudice throughout wizarding society perpetuated by political leaders. The Government of Wizarding Britain
The portrayal of female characters in British literature has most often reflected the larger perception of women by society during the time of a work’s publication. In this regard, the immensely popular Harry Potter series written by author J.K. Rowling is certainly no exception. The circumstances for women in late 20th century Britain have improved and in many ways are nearing equality with men, yet a notable upper barrier to success still remains. Rowling captures this gender dynamic throughout the Harry Potter series by including a diverse cast of resilient female characters who are not allowed to take on the same leadership roles dominated by the men at Hogwarts, at the Ministry of Magic, in quidditch, and during the Triwizard tournament. The novels also center on an important theme of motherly love that Rowling uses to explore the sacrifices women must make in order to raise their children well. Such issues have been present in British literature for well over a century, with each generation seeing steps toward equality, both for the fictitious characters and the women of a given time period. The Harry Potter series, therefore, constitutes a reflection of female status in modern Britain that has advanced, but remains perpetually flawed.
As children we always had that desire to have some sort of extradinary power or ability and use it in whatever way we wish so. Shamefully, this fantasy could only be briefly lived in our dreams and imagination. Despite of this, that didn't stop our heroic journey to keep on trying to fly, read minds or move object with our minds. If, by any chance I could gain any superpower in an instant I wouldn't hesitate to ask for the superpower of power manipulation. To be brief, power manipulation is the ability to control any sort of energy, alter the structure or composition of myself and others, and absorb any sort of energy.
Creator of the most famous and best loved character in contemporary fiction, J.K Rowling is also the author of her own escape from a depressing existence on the verge of destitution. On the one hand, there is J.K Rowling who wrote the ‘Harry Potter’ novels, ‘The Casual Vacancy’ and ‘The Cuckoo’s Calling’; the literary phenomenon of the nineties and present day. On the other, there is Joanne Rowling (the ‘J.K’ was her agent’s marketing notch), a dreamy, rather shy, but passionate woman whose brilliance in translating her dreams into prose changed her life. In January 1994, she was broke and jobless, struggling to bring up a young child in a small rented flat in Edinburgh. Just six years later, with her first book transformed into a major Hollywood film, she was reportedly worth £65 million (Smith 2001).
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows was written by J. K. Rowling and is the seventh and final book in the Harry Potter series. The book is about a seventeen-year-old wizard, named Harry Potter, who has to travel all over England to find things that will help him defeat the evil wizard, Lord Voldomort. The main theme/moral of the entire series is good will always triumphs over evil. In every book, even when it looks like evil is going to win, good always triumphs in the end.