Harry Potter - J.K.Rowling.

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Harry Potter is a series of fantasy novels written by British author J. K. Rowling. The novels chronicle the life of a young wizard, Harry Potter, and his friends Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley, all of whom are students at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The main story arc concerns Harry's struggle against Lord Voldemort, a dark wizard who intends to become immortal, overthrow the wizard governing body known as the Ministry of Magic.

Here is my response according to my understanding:-

1)      The theme of Love and Death: How does Harry Potter make use of age old theme of Love of the dead as well as living as protecting armour? How does Harry Potter deal with the concept of Death as something inevitable?

Harry’s mother died to save Harry from Voldemort. And in doing so she gave Harry a shield of her love for protection. Harry lived as protecting armour till the end. In few years of joining Hogwarts, Harry found out that he was destined to kill Voldemort on day as it was written in a Prophecy. He got many chances to run away and many offers of friendship from Voldemort to join him, but he chooses otherwise. He stayed as protecting armour for the people who expected him to be with them from the dark time.

In this way we can say that he loves his mother a lot who is dead and helps other people as protecting armour. We see that Harry is never afraid of death. He completes all the adventurous bravely. Seeing his courage we can say that he deals positively with the concept of death something as inevitable.

2.) Feminist reading of Harmione’s character in Harry Potter: How do the character portrayal of Harmione and other female characters support feminist discourse?

Harmione is very intellectual and confident girl. She is one of the best witches of her year. Thought coming from a Muggle family, she enters the school with all the knowledge of Wizardry world and is constantly eager to learn new things and she puts it into practice. She accompanies Harry and Ron in all the adventures. Though being portrayed as an intelligent girl then also we can find some problem in her portrayal. She is used as an object of rivalry between Ron and Harry. Still her portrayal is not that problematic as compared to other female characters.

3.) Children’s Literature and Harry Potter: How far does J K Rowling transcends the canonical confines of children’s literature and claims the heights of ‘real’ literature?

“Fairy tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.” – Neil Gaiman.

Literature has the capacity to make any human capable of facing the hard times in life and also beat the hard times and come out positively.

Also children’s literature should have the content to make the kids want to read rather than being forced to read. Also it increases curiosity among the readers. The series also touches the situations and feelings that the children can relate to.

I would like to thank Poojaba mam and my sister Janki to help me to understand this text.

Reference:-
Wikipedia contributors. "Harry Potter." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 2 Mar. 2017. Web. 17 Mar. 2017.