Oct 14, 2008

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | Themes and Characters

As the characters mature throughout J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter books, they become more savvy and more aware of the very complex and political nature of their world. This savvy awareness, as we might expect, results in a development and complication of theme. Thus, Book 1, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, we move between the two fixed points of Privet Drive in the Muggle world and Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in the magic world. The parallel and doubling becomes more demonstrative of the Muggle world and more descriptive of the magic world in Book 2, Harry...