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    Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets start off with Harry spending the summer with his horrible but only remaining family‚ the Dursleys. The Dursleys are not a very good family. On Harry’s birthday the Dursleys throw a dinner party that isn’t even for Harry. Harry is visited by a house-elf named Dobby. Dobby warns Harry not to return to Hogwarts because something bad is going to happen. Hogwarts is the magical school for wizards that Harry is attending. Harry doesn’t listen to the warning and

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    How Is Harry Potter Brave

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    Harry Potter Throughout the book‚ J.K. Rowling was making a point about bravery. She portrays bravery as facing your fears and proving that you are more that people say you are. Bravery is not the only thing Harry represents; he also represents unselfishness and leadership. Unselfishness and leadership are both represented by his actions and what he says. Even though he represents many strong traits‚ they all still add up to make Harry Potter a humble person in the books. From the very first

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    Many presidents have faced domestic and international problems‚ but it is a challenge not to know about them until you become the president of the United States‚ that is what happened to the 33rd President of the United States Harry S. Truman At the time of Roosevelt’s death‚ Truman was Vice-President for only 82 days and he faced more challenges in domestic and foreign affairs than any other U.S. president did at the time‚ yet he manages to steer this country in the right direction. Truman

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    known as Harry Potter day in the future - there will be books written about Harry - every child in our world will know his name." Professor McGonagall‚ in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. J.K. Rowling will mesmerize you from the very first page. The witches and wizards in Harry Potter may be fantasy‚ but the magic within the pages is not. The series that has attracted both children and adults has become an acknowledged classic worldwide. Acclaimed author Stephen King said‚ "Harry Potter books

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    ------------------------------------------------- English Essay ------------------------------------------------- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban [Author] Question With reference to the text‚ discuss ways in which Harry’s decisions have an Impact on the ways in which other characters develop. Make additional reference to other Harry Potter novels‚ if applicable The character of Harry Potter has had an interesting effect on the students character development‚ none more so than that of his closest

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    Since 1995 the character known as Harry Potter has gained not only positive feedback‚ yet also negative. Harry Potter has been known around the world as the “boy who lived” not only in the fictional world he was created‚ but as well as in our own world. It has come about that the brand of Harry Potter is estimated to be around the sum of $15 billion and ever growing. The character created in a children’s novel has taken on a life of itself rapidly increasing in the eyes of viewers as either an honorable

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    In Harry Potter‚ the Sorcerer’s Stone movie many characters severed as foils to each other. A foil is one character that serves as a contrast to another. First‚ I will talk about Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy. Once Draco introduced himself to HarryHarry knew they would not get along because Draco acted like an entitled wizard and is an uncaring spirit. As the movie progressed‚ Draco continued to develop as a foil he went to the house of Slytherin‚ bullied Harry’s friends‚ and serves as an enemy

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    Adolescence Explored Through the Harry Potter Saga Part I: The process of one’s individual growth is demonstrated through various types of actions‚ the most common one being – decision making. Whilst the Harry Potter saga is often seen as mystically farfetched and fantasy-like‚ careful thought has been put in the character analysis followed by the complexity of personal relations. Ergo‚ when I had decided to examine the movies‚ two movies in particular came to mind – Harry Potter and the Prisoner of

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    literature later remodeled and revised to develop new versions of tales previously told. From the dystopian novel The Hunger Games‚ to the mythological tale Percy Jackson‚ authors have derived their own work from literary works preceding their own. In Harry Potter‚ many of the characters and their roles are influenced by those seen in the Hobbit including: Gandalf as fatherly figure‚ Bilbo as an underdog‚ and Gollum as a mere obstacle for the protagonist who is internally destroyed by power. In the Hobbit

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    * * Harry Potter is an average 11-year-old boy who has lived with the Dursley family ever since his parents died in a car crash. For some reason the family has always mistreated him. On his 11th birthday a giant man named Rubeus Hagrid hands him a letter telling him that he has been accepted as a student at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. * Harry soon learns that his parents were wizards and were killed by an evil wizard named Voldemort‚ a truth that was hidden

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