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Recent News and Articles on the Keywords: harry potter + thought provoking + harry  Related to the article below (Last Update: 5/12/2008)


Stuff.co.nz
TV review: Kipling saga strikes right note
Stuff.co.nz, New Zealand - Apr 28, 2008
More adventurous casting placed Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter) in the role of John, and Kim Cattrall (Sex and the City) as Carrie, Kipling's American wife. ...
Lifetime Television Proudly Announces October Marquee Event ...
PR Newswire (press release), NY - May 2, 2008
We are also thrilled to be collaborating with Craig Zadan, Neil Meron, Renee Zellweger and Sony in this thought-provoking film." "Craig Zadan and Neil Meron ...

Deccan Herald
Awaken the child in you
Deccan Herald, India - May 9, 2008
You must have tried several ways to get your little one to read (and not watch Harry Potter on TV). Here?s one way that will not only ensure that your child ...
Classical Music/Opera Listings
New York Times, United States - May 8, 2008
Harry Bicket conducts. Saturday at 1 pm, Thursday at 8 pm, Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center, (212) 362-6000, metopera.org; $80 to $295. ...

Guardian
I gave my right arm to be in this film
Guardian, UK - Apr 17, 2008
I'm sure The Oxford Murders will prove a chilling tale of horror, mathematics and suspense, just as Harry Potter is a splendid story of English secondary ...
ShowBuzz by Christina Kennedy
ArtslinkNews, South Africa - Apr 18, 2008
Witty, clever and entertaining on the surface and thought-provoking on a more subterranean level, it is a true gem of a play. Director James Ngcobo has ...
DVD Review
The Heights (subscription), MA - Apr 30, 2008
For those unfamiliar with the movie or the novel it is adapted from, Compass is a thinly veiled - but thought-provoking - macro-metaphor for the power that ...
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[BOOK] … and Stones: The Troublesome Success of Children's Literature from Slovenly Peter to Harry Potter
JD Zipes - 2002 - books.google.com
... " - The Bulletin ofthe Centerfor Children 's Books "Zipes is always thought-provoking
in his arguements." - School Library Journal ... to Harry Potter Jack Zipes ...

Infusing Soul into Student Affairs: Organizational Theory and Models -
K Manning - New Directions for Student Services, 2001 - doi.wiley.com
... One could argue that the Harry Potter series, with ... Perhaps stranger than even
Harry?s magical feats ... beaten path, Alan Briskin?s thought-provoking work, The ...

Harry Potter and the Paganization of Children?s Culture -
MO?brien - The Catholic World Report. Apr, 2001 - leannepayne.org
... commentators say that Rowling's sub-creation is witty, thought-provoking, entertaining,
expands the ... In the case of the Harry Potter series discernment has been ...

[PDF] Magic, Christianity and Harry Potter
W Bates - … :(www: leicester: anglican: org/harry-potter: htm [7 January …, 2001 - christaquarian.net
... New Age and the possibility of provoking Christian fundamentalist ... vicar condemned
me, and I thought we were ... Christian protests over Harry Potter do not always ...

The Ivory Tower and Harry Potter: Perspectives in a Literary Phenomenon(review)
BC Garner - Children's Literature Association Quarterly, 2005 - muse.jhu.edu
... 365?73) by Lana Whited on Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (July 2004).
Many of the essays, though detailed and thought provoking, are uneven and ...

The Education of a Wizard
H Potter, H Predecessors - The Ivory Tower and Harry Potter: Perspectives on a Literary …, 2002 - books.google.com
... are not immediately forthcoming, however; Ju- niper says," I thought we'd ... nearest
parallels to the apprenticeship situation within the Harry Potter books are ...

[PDF] Harry Potter and ?Magical Capitalism? in Urban China
JN Erni - asiafuture.org
... Living vicariously through Harry and his friends, ... thought-provoking literary themes
as well as portrayals of ... Potter books cumulatively serve as a powerful form ...

Putting Harry Potter on the Couch -
C Noctor - Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2006 - ccp.sagepub.com
... forgo what is familiar for the anxiety-provoking unknown ... a general feeling that some
insightful thought processes were ... NOCTOR: PUTTING HARRY POTTER ON THE COUCH ...

Harry Potter and Philosophy: If Aristotle Ran Hogwarts
A Options, TOC Latest - Journal of Popular Culture, 2005 - ingentaconnect.com
... a powerful impact on a national audience; and where Ernie Kovacs offered a
thought-provoking comedy style ... Harry Potter and Philosophy: If Aristotle Ran Hogwarts ...

[BOOK] Harry Potter and Philosophy: If Aristotle Ran Hogwarts
D Baggett, S Klein - 2004 - books.google.com
... both Muggles and non-Muggles, love Harry, which is ... When the first Potter book was
published in the ... Philosophy, it was thought, evokes esoteric and daunting ...

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Thought Provoking Association Between Harry Potter And Terrorism
Could Harry Potter be guarding the secrets of the British government's post 9/11 response to the terrorist threat? Judith Rauhofer of the University of Central Lancashire seems to think so.

Rauhofer has made a study of JK Rowling's fictional child wizard and suggests, in a research paper published in Inderscience's International Journal of Liability and Scientific Enquiry, that the author draws several subtle parallels with contemporary society. She believes this is part of the adult appeal of the books.
Book five in the series was the first Harry Potter book to be written entirely after the terrorist attacks in New York City, Pennsylvania, and Washington on September 11, 2001. "Until then, the Harry Potter series could be seen as nothing more than a simple story of good versus evil," says Rauhofer, a Research Fellow in Law. "JK Rowling's work then evolved into something more after 9/11, a social commentary on current events, in fact."

Rauhofer believes that with the Harry Potter series Rowling has created a parallel world highlighting many of the steps taken by the British government, which she says are mostly unfair and unjustifiable, in the name of the war on terror. For instance, in the fifth book, "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", all wizards are issued with emergency pamphlets. "Most people who received the UK government's "Preparing for an-emergency" pamphlet through their letterbox in 2004 will recognize the irony of Rowling's plot detail here," says Rauhofer.

Several key plot features hint at parallels between the wizard world and our muggle world, says Rauhofer. The marginalizing of an ethnic group, for instance, by the muggles themselves, identity issues with Death Eaters masquerading as others, detention without trial of Knight Bus conductor Stanley Shunpike on suspicion of Death Eater activity, interception of Arthur and Molly's post while in The Burrow in the name of safety, and many other examples.

Since the publication of the fourth book, "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", the publishers, Bloomsbury, has acknowledged that a large part of the readership is among adults, by publishing an adult edition alongside the children's version. Many commentators suspect that one possible rationale for this is to allow adults to read the book in public without embarrassment.

Jon Howells of Waterstone's says of Book 7 - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, "Based on our pre-order statistics we estimate that some 45 per cent of Harry Potter book 7 sales will be of the adult edition, which is up on about 23 per cent for the last book."

Marketing machinations aside, Rauhofer says that part of the attraction for the Harry Potter series among adults could lie in the possibility that they reflect contemporary society so well. "Rowling's description of an alternative society and its government traces recent events in contemporary society," she says, "The political thread going through the series largely focuses on the way in which the Ministry of Magic deals with Lord Voldemort's return."

If Voldemort, who really should not be named, is the real terrorist threat in disguise, then the anti-Voldemort security measures taken by the Wizards could be seen to reflect various legal and political changes that have occurred in the UK since 9/11.

Source: Judith Rauhofer
Inderscience Publishers
 
 
 
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