Week Seven: Harry Potter

 



  This week, we are focusing on the fantasy story. The epic tale of Harry Potter is certainly the well-known example of this type of story for most young people today. I watched the movie when I was little, and read the books recently. For this post, I want to talk some difference between the movies and books

  Personally speaking, the Harry Potter books are much better than the movies. There are some concepts and details that I think are pretty constructive and meaningful, but the final released movies cut them out. For example, the plot that Hermione built the SPEW (Society for the Promotion of Elfish Welfare) in order to protect the legal rights of elves. I believe this is not sensible for the director to cut it out. I assume that JK Rowling intended to convey that there is a group of people's basic rights in the society needs to be protected, and the elf is the symbol of that group of people. What Hermione did is an appeal to people to concern this issue. Also, one of the conflicts in the original books is the descent of the wizards and the witches. It is obvious that Malfoy who is the purebred wizard discriminates against those wizards or witched whose parents are muggles, Hermione for example. This conflict wasn't highlighted until the fourth or fifth book because the whole Harry Potter series starts to be serious from the fourth book. However, the movies kind of hide the issue, it only concentrates on how to make the fight scene more cooler.

  JK Rowling not only created an incredible magic world for us, but also demonstrated many issues in the real life, such as the racism and hierarchy thoughts. Therefore, I believe that is why JK Rowling is so famous.

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