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1)Harry Potter and Philosopher 's stone:- The first part of movie begins with Harry's childhood and follows story of Harry's  real life. He lives with his aunty and have invitation to go Hagwart. He was famous there as wizard and began his magical education journey. -Harry's life at Hagwart:- He is a famous wizard and chosen by sorting hat as talented one. There ge mates so many wizards muggles and witches . He face problem of purity of blood  here. He has two friend named Rom and Hermione. -Magical world:- The beauty of the film is presented by magical world. Harry has magical power though he has to suffer a lot. Stone ,cloak, mirror ,all these were a part of magic. Here magic is metaphor of knowledge. It is helpful to comparing reality with magic. -Voldemort:- Harry cane to know about Voldemort and how he tries to kill him. He has passes through Harry's soul and tries to get power by him. At last Harry wind the game .  2)Harry Potter and Chamber o...

11) Christianity and Harry Potter Series: How many times Harry and his friends visit Church? how often in the moments of crisis when they are helpless, clueless, they pray to God for Grace or Mercy? How many times God's Grace saves them from the Devil Lord Voldemort? Does J.K. Rowling use Christianity at any level in the entire Harry Potter series? In Harry Potter there is not any direct reference of Christianity and God. Never there is any scene which shows that they are praying to God together or doing such rituals. In all the problem of life Harry never pray to God for mercy.Harry gave fight for saving to save his life by his own but never we can find the scene of praying and worshipping. There is not any scene of church also. Though these all things are there, we can compare the character of Jesus Christ with Harry Potter.They both die to save others life,and we can compare the Character of Dumbledore with Harry's Christ. The novel is also anti christian which increase...

10)   Moral and Philosophical reading of Harry Potter: How does the concept of ‘evil breeds evil’ unfold in Harry Potter? What is the significance of Harry being one of the Horcruxes? Here it present the moral reading of text with philosophical way. How evil breeds evil and how Voldemort shows his power in Harry's body it shows the power of evil person on kind human. Voldemort have fight with Harry is also an example of moral and philosophical view that they fight with each other but can't defeat each other because they have same power. Harry thinks like Voldemort as evil way it present the effect of evil power. Harry Potter's view for Snape that he will gone to do harm with him but here Harry's view is wrong for Snape which shows  the effect of evil in good. 

9)      The theme of Love and Death: How does Harry Potter make use of age old theme of Love of the dead as well as living as protecting armour? How does Harry Potter deal with the concept of Death as something inevitable? Love of mother:- Harry Potter show the best example of power of love. Here the love of Harry s mother  is more powerful than the power of Voldemort, which saves Harry. Voldemort is not able to understand the power of love and use it very badly . Love of friends:- In the novel the love of friends proven by Ron and Hermione , who gave always company to Harry in any situation. manier  time Hermione gave the intellectual idea for come out from the problem. Harry's friends were also ready for die at the end of the novel which shows their love for him. Death:- Harry's most loveable person , his parents who loves him a lot die for save the life of Harry. They were killed by Voldemort. There are so many death in novel , Cedric,Dumbledore,...

8)      The theme of Choice and Chance: How does Harry Potter discusses the antithetical concepts of ‘choice’ and ‘chance’? In Harry Potter, there is the theme of chance and choice. To save the life of Harry Potter, his mother 's self sacrifice is a choice of his mother. All the character of school have chance to be good and do good use of their magical power but some of them have use it with bad way rather than good like Voldemort, Who use the power with evil way while  Harry use it for good purpose.So it is the choice of people. Harry got chance to play the game is the effect of Voldemort' s power who wants to meet Harry by this trick. In game also Harry choose to save his friends life rather than winning. Voldemort also get a chance to get the wand of Dumbledore and become powerful.At last Harry choose death for saving others life while Voldemort choose to become more powerful on school.

7)      Speculative literature and Harry Potter: What is speculative literature? How far Harry Potter qualifies for the same? Does J K Rowling transcends the confines of speculative literature and claim the heights of ‘real’ literature? What is speculative literature? Speculative fiction as a category ranges from ancient works to both paradigm-changing and neo traditional works of the 21st century. Speculative fiction can be recognized in works whose authors' intentions or the social contexts of the versions of stories. Harry Potter and speculative fiction:- Speculative fiction includes elements and beings from traditional stories, such as mythical creatures (dragons, elves and fairies, for example), magic, witchcraft, potions, etc.In Harry Potter,  the Lord of the ring, Harry potter , Ice ,fire, gothic element, ghost, same blood relations of good (Harry )and evil(Voldemort) are the example of speculative fiction in the novel. Use of science with magic is i...

5)      The discourse of Power and Politics in Harry Potter: How does Ministry of Magic control the resistance? How do they prosecute the ‘Other’? Power and politics in Harry Potter:- In Harry Potter, the world of witches and Wizard is more powerful on Muggles. There is politics behind Harry's name is game. Here Rowling use effect of strategies of visibility by this. The subject of visibility attain power and object of visibility become suggested by power. The politics behind the power position which we can find in book no 5 that how the ministry of magic lost the power and who become powerful ,they have done or get it by politics . Dumbledore lost his power position on school and another people powerful now.Harry's character is also narrated as power relation. Powerful Wizards starting to crush Muggles which is also a part of politics and power that how one is powerful and another is weak.

4)      Self-Help culture and Harry Potter: How does it stand by an argument that Self-Help Culture serves as a tool of social control: it sooths political unrest . . . one blames oneself for not getting better off is society and remains in one's own pursuit of self-invention, blaming oneself for the failure rather than the systems? What is self -help book? A self-help book is one that is written with the intention to instruct its readers on solving personal problems. The books take their name from Self-Help, an 1859 best-seller by Samuel Smiles, but are also known and classified under "self-improvement", a term that is a modernized version of self-help. Self-help books moved from a niche position to being a postmodern cultural phenomenon in the late twentieth century. Harry Potter as self -help book:- In Harry Potter the idea of self -help book is working manier way. When  something happen wrong there is always presence of Harry ,Ron and Hermione. This thin...

3)      Confronting reality by reading fantasy: How does reading Harry Potter make us confront the reality of our everyday existence? In Harry Potter the Magic world is far away from real world. Magic , broomstick, visiting past of people , use of wand , half man and half animal etc this all the things can be included in magic world only. These all things can not be possible in real world. Here Harry Potter use the magic for save his life. Generally writing is that thing which essentially  the act of creating alternate reality. They should not be material but real one.  Friendship, love , good, evil this all things are included in real world but in this novel it become a part of more materialistic rather than real one. The atmosphere of school, moveable paintings and other all things present the fantasy world rather than real.

2)      Discourse on the purity of Blood and Harry Potter: How do the novels play with the thesis of pure blood (Master Race) giving an anti-thesis by belonging protagonists to half-blood / Mud-blood? What sort of synthesis is sought in this discourse in Harry Potter series? In Harry Potter there is the most important role of blood mean race of students. There are so many students from different country and from different race like Wizards ,Muggles, Half blood etc. Wizards are that who cames from pure blood.Muggles are that people who have the mudblood and Half blood people is a mixture of Wizard and Muggles. Hermione as Muggle girl :- In Harry potter series character of Hermione  comes from Muggle world and she have always conflict with Draco about this because Draco comes from Pure blood. Harry as a Half blood boy:- Harry  Potter's mother comes from Muggle blood and father comes from wizard ,so he is a Half blood boy. Ron as a pure blood boy:- Her...

1)      Feminist reading of Harmione’s character in Harry Potter: How do the character portrayal of Hermione and other female characters support feminist discourse? Intellectual female character :- In J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter the character of Hermione presents the feminist view . She is more intellectual than other female  character. Here Rowling present her as more intellectual one rather than beautiful.She is more adventures character.She saved Harry and Ron ' s life manier time. Lover of Ron:- She have feeling (Attraction )for male Character also when she grew up by childhood to younger age. At the end of  novel she married with Ron rather than Harry. Helper  and friend of Harry:- Hermione also played vital role to with Voldemort and finding the Horcrux. She has more intelligence than other but she was fail to do more practical works on ground. In trouble she had solution for all things. She faced more problems about her blood line b...