Thursday, February 25, 2016

Harry Potter (required reading)


One of the things that made the Harry Potter novels guide me through life's complexities as a kid was the fact that I grew up with the characters of the novel. As a 27 year old, I was in 4th grade when the Sorcerer's stone came out. Harry,Ron and Hermione where about my age from the first to the seventh book.

JK Rowling is able to capture the struggles and the feelings that young people go through and the HP novels are so character centric (especially the three main characters) we get mkuch time devoted to the exploration and overcoming of struggles that people that age endure. Even when the setting of the books is so highly fantastical, the very real characters draw us in and when we are able to put ourselves int their positions like that, we are able to to experience the fantastical world in an extremely real way.

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