Category: Department of Mysteries

Discussing racism, bigotry, and inequality in the “Potter” series.

Not knowing your future leaves you better off in the end than knowing it by comparing characters that do know their future and revealing their downfall.

Does “Harry Potter” follow the basic outline of epic poetry?

Does the Harry Potter book series have elements of the gangster film genre?

What do Voldemort and Shakespeare’s Richard III have in common?

The argument of who would win in a fight, Harry Potter or Edward Cullen, has been argued since the later series came out. If we analyze the details of each fantasy world, however, I think we can find our answer quite easily.

I’ve recently read an essay by Hpboy13 about Neville and Luna and why they belong together. I felt compelled to write a response to his essay with my own.

The author makes several connections between characters in the Harry Potter series and characters of the Old and New Testaments.

The “Harry Potter” series should be considered Epic Literature, owing to the fact that each book contains certain qualities that are traditional of epic works.