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Harry Potter is very popular. Movies, novels, PC games and all these products from Harry Potter are make people crazy. Every time has one person said “9¾” or talk about “muggle”, people will been exciting to start talk about Harry Potter. Every time the new book comes out, people stay outside of bookshop over night just for books; even Oxford dictionary has to put those new created words from Harry Potter into dictionary. Some countries make Harry Potter to be the official banned book or movies. Some people think Harry Potter is a kind of reading that can make young people have incurrent thinking ways and imagination; some of people believe Harry Potter can make children have more imagination, and the story could teach them about love, bravery and the evil can never prevail over good. Why the Harry Potter has such big different issues? How is the Harry Potter getting into our life? These are interesting questions need to pay attention and discuss about it. Harry Potter is changes our life and view, no matter you want or not.



Harry Potter is the most popular book in the world. J. K. Rowling has been created a magic world in her book, a magic world; in the book there is a world full of wizards and witches. Harry Potter made readers believes the story could be true; the Muggles population was the fact to improved of believing. In this created world is so closing normal world, like in the book said sometimes the wizards and witches will change to Muggle’s cloths, walk on the street have fun, or some weird places is totally different than Muggle’s view, if you know the ‘way’ to get into magical world and even sometime Muggle will get things from magical world and get trouble. Actual world is no longer attracts to people; people working hard with their job for family, for they self and people were to be too depressive. The new and complete society is clutched the point of people’s mind from Rowling’s pan; in that magic society has low, school education, world sports game, the super stars, etc; they have unicorns, dragons, centaurs those cannot be found in real world animals in life. Anything could happen in the fantasy world.



Reader from different countries crazy about the story, not only because the story is so fantasy, and also people felt tired of what we had in the real world, complicated, strange, darkness of human nature and disappointed of the world from children’s eyes; there is no limit in the imagination world. Harry Potter has sold more than 300 millions copies of each book (Harry Potter, Wikipedia), and the movies and other products’ sales all make major sold. It got all age level of fans and in first time adults and their children has same topic same craziness of this created character. For most family from worldwide, they do not have generation gap between different age levels.



Since Harry Potter been released from United Kingdom by Bloomsbury in July 1997 (Publishing History of Harry Potter, Wikipedia), the whirlwind of this book never is stop. The book has described a world of witches, wizards and Muggles, the main character- a young wizard called ‘Harry Potter’. As the story has been developed, Harry Potter getting older, the issue of teenage and the relationships with people around the main character also has be discussed in later books. Each of books is one-year life at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, the place where to learn to use magic and solves troubles. Of course, Harry is that the kinds of student always follow school rules and listen to teacher all the time; he is like all the students in the world, sometimes do not follow school rules, sometimes feel lazy to school works and studies. At this point is no different between magic world students and real world students.



The wizards population is like to be a mystery secret for non- magic populations. However in the end of each book, Harry has to face to death and dark power each time. From first book, Harry is not really known what he need to do but the power of the hatless of loss parents from Lord Vodemort make he chooses to stand at the good side. After that, every time Harry face to Lord Vodemort and his evil power, without fear and cowardice, keep fighting with friends help. The story has to keep told the theory of ‘evil can never prevail over good.’ Of later books, the story has been darker and deathful; Harry maybe will losses some important people from his life, may losses some special emotion with deaths or to have over age’s behaved. Those of things all has to be point out have the most naturally and simply power, ‘love, bravery and friendships.’



Rowling’s magic world was defined by good and evil as colour white and black. There still has a small place for the gray area in the story. She had created some characters to represent of gray, such as like ‘Dolores Umbrdige’, some ‘Ministry of Magic employees’ and the most famous represent character ‘Severus Snape’. The book was strong point out the main character of the story, Harry has a typical childhood from traditionally hero stories; such like when he was a baby had been send away to a safety place to grow up, until he is old enough to be told who he is and what he most to do things like that. And Harry is the hero of the story and the virtuous attribute.



Before Rowling’s Harry Potter getting so popular, this story just a children book like any others in the bookshop. As the books getting famous and popular, the story also becoming to a controversial issues, for example like the Christian group. There has two different message of Harry Potter this book- positive messages and negative messages. For some countries, Harry Potter is a kind of book with ‘the satanic theme, violent, dark arts and anti- family’ (Harry Potter, Wikipedia). The group with negative messages from Christian thinks the Harry Potter book can be a bad effect of interesting of dark arts. ‘However, the positive messages are packaged in a medium witchcraft that is directly denounced in Scripture.” (Accusations of promoting the occult of Harry Potter, Wikipedia) The official exorcist of Rome, Father Gabriele Amorth said. And Pope Benedict XVI was Prefect of the Congration for the Doctrine of the Faith also said, ‘a subtle seduction, which has deeply unnoticed and direct effects in undermining the soul of Christianity before it can really grow properly.’ (Accusations of promoting the occult of Harry Potter, Wikipedia.)



In another Christian group with the positive message to Harry Potter this book. The group had be given the evidences of their argument, for example ‘Lily Potter, Harry’s mother had been self- abnegation her life for save Harry. This can be found in John 15: 13’; of another example said, ‘Harry’s Muggle guardians to knowing of Harry’s gifts of magic before been send to school, they had been given the responsibility of Harry’s growing. This also can be found in Matt 5: 13- 16.’ (Christian views on witchcraft, Wikipedia) This Christian group believes the ‘evil can never prevail over good’ and teach about subject of ‘love’ is very clear from the stories of Harry Potter. ‘It contains some powerful and valuable lessons about love and courage and ultimate victory of good over evil.’ (Christian views on witchcraft, Wikipedia) Said Paul Hertrick, spokesman for Focus on the Family, a national Christian group based in Colorado Springs.



Products, movies, novels and games from Harry Potter can be found anywhere of worldwide. Almost anything but put on logo of Harry Potter or logo of Hogwarts that can easily to make attentions of people. An example of tourism trip to UK could be ‘Harry Potter movie filmed trip’, a lot of fans will noticed and want to know more information about it. After Harry Potter this book came out, some of new created words by Rowling is used too often in usual life such as like ‘Muggle’, ‘Squibs’, etc; that make Oxford dictionary has put those words into it. When Richard Harris died (the actor of the portrayed Albus Dumbledore, the principal of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry), thousands and thousands fans from whole world felt grieve of this news. They were not felt sad of the actor Richard Harris’s death, the were felt mourn of the principal of Hogwarts School, professor Dumbledore’s death. For those fans, the actors and actresses from Harry Potter films, they are already as same as the created character from the stories.



From those facts, Harry Potter is truly getting into our life and made us to felt it used to be around our life. The sales of Harry Potter books and other products made Rowling to be richer than Queen Elizabeth II. J. R. R. Tolkien’s ‘The Lord of the Rings’ and C. S. Lewis’s ‘The Chronicles of Narnia’ has compared Harry Potter’ very often. Every time when new Harry Potter has to be start to sales, from the earlier time (12: 01 a. m. GMT or BST, or the local time at the point of sale, information from Harry Potter, Wikipedia) the books can be sold from book shop, there already has fans of adults and children waiting outside. The book has been translate to different languages since the English edition be sold, all the countries that not speaking English has to starts to translate immediately. The news from different countries will have the live reports and so on. The name of Harry Potter since is the world focal point. Harry Potter is already changes our life without any signs and notices. We starts to have some new created words in our life and sometimes we also use them, which are all by Rowling. Harry Potter made Christian group has so many different opinions, countries has major different messages and made people has more communications between adults and children, different countries people to different countries people, and make the number ‘9¾’ to be special since Harry Potter become popular now. The book only one more to go that is Harry Potter 7, but the film is much slower than books. The prevailing of fancy novels will continue for a while. Harry Potter indeed changes our life but not our views.

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