Week 7:Harry Potter

Harry Potter is such a classic. Of course I have read all his series. And I read it again the other day. It was really nice. Generally speaking, Harry Potter has two interwoven narrative threads, one is Harry Potter's study and life experience at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and the other is harry's involvement in the struggle between good and evil as he grows up.

I think Rowling’s worldview has a direct connection to our contemporary society, and many of the locations in the story, such as King's Cross station and the Bar in Dragon Alley, are directly related. "Wizards" and "Muggles," "Fantastic Beasts" and "Ordinary Animals" can all be seen mixing in the same space-time.

This kind of realism and fantasy mixed together, so Harry's experience in school makes me really envy, because it means that the magic in the story and the reality also have something in common, such as attending classes, taking exams, doing homework and writing papers.

There's also a lot of social issues in the book, and there's a fair amount of irony in it, like pure-blood wizards discriminating against Muggles, and Malfoy calling Hermione a "mud blood," all of which shows that there was racism at school at the time. So I think Harry Potter is really real in a way.

And in Harry Potter, the characters are very complete and the characters are very distinct, especially in terms of the academy allocation, different students represent different personalities, which is really cool. For example, I really like the stories of Harry's parents' generation, and my favorite character is Sirius. The author really put a lot of thought into creating a character. His personality and family background are so real that it feels like every character really exists in the world. Unlike last week's "The Hobbit," the Hobbit's world is one of magic, but not magic. But "Harry Potter" is magic everywhere, you can touch it, you can use it.

I've already started reading "Midnight Circus", which for some reason gives me such a sad mood..." Night had come, so there was no line outside the fortuneteller's tent. At the end of reading this sentence, I really want to cry.

Originally, it was a duel between two long-lived magicians without emotion. Because the game scene was set on the bright side, the number of participants was too large. The vivid life did not obey the rules of the game, and human emotions finally prevailed over the cold rules. Being imprisoned in a circus is much better than being imprisoned in a stone or a tree, because every day there are new tourists, every day there are new lives coming to this place, bringing with them countless possibilities, and the hardest part is that they also have fantasies and each other.