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Harry pottter is world famous literature and specially in young generation. We could see  many themes like power politics, satire, Moral values, children literature ,fiction literature, fantacy literature,mystery etc.

 Name of All Series
            Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001)

             Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)

             Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)

 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)

             Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)

             Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)

             Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 (2010)
            Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 (2011)

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 Feminist Reading of Hermione and other female characters in Harry Potter

 Feminist  reading of female characters of  Harry Potter especially in the character of Hermione Granger. In Harry potter Hermione is much intelligent and capable than Harry and Ron. Hermione is very strong and very intellectual and also very good in magic in compare to Harry and Ron, we can see in many circumstances that Hermione teaches how to do magic to male friends. It is clear that Harry and Ron  not have survived without her but it feels like she is being used more as a useful tool than a real person. We do  not find deep character development of Hermione. It is hard to understand what her ambitions are. Family background of Hermione is also not depicted. She belongs to Mud Blood it means lower cast in Magical world.

 Children’s Literature and Harry Potter: How far does J K Rowling transcends the canonical confines of children’s literature and claims the heights of ‘real’ literature?
Children's literature defines it as "all books written for children, excluding works such as comic books, joke books, cartoon books, and non-fiction works that are not intended to be read from front to back, such as dictionaries, encyclopedias, and other reference materials”. However, others would argue that comics should also be included: "Children's Literature studies has traditionally treated comics fitfully and superficially despite the importance of comics as a global phenomenon associated with children".

 It was not only a revolution in the world of fantasy novels, it also changed our childhood memories of wizards and how we fantasized their being. Young readers were introduced to a whole new dictionary of magic and fantasies. Harry Potter, Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley became overnight sensations. Harry Potter books grabbed the attention of young readers and Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and Rowling's first of the series Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone found immense popularity among
 readers and became a critically acclaimed, young adult literature.Harry Potter tell abut the Friendship, break rules,love, family etc.
The theme of Choice and Chance: How does Harry Potter discusses the antithetical concepts of ‘choice’ and ‘chance’?
In Rowling's world, as in the real world, choice and chance both can affect the final outcome and results do not come in a neat pre-determined package.However,  the final resolution is that Voldemort's power was destroyed by Harry's conscious self-sacrifice, and that, as Harry tells Voldemort in the end, was no "accident." Based on the words of Dumbledore and Voldemort, Rowling would also come down on the side of choice, not chance.Harry Potter novels bring to awareness two fundamental aspects of the human condition: the importance of one’s choices and the inevitability of one’s mortality It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities

 Confronting reality by reading fantasy:
Fantasy is a form of literary genre in which a plot cannot occur in the real world. Its plot usually involves witchcraft or magic, taking place on an undiscovered planet of an unknown world. Its overall theme and setting involve a combination of technology, architecture, and language, which sometimes resemble European medieval ages. The most interesting thing about fantasies is that their plot involves witches, sorcerers, mythical and animal creatures talking like humans, and other things that never happen in real life
 Potter books are not Reality, they are Fantasy. As Fantasy, they pose no threat to anyone who reads them, even to the most enthusiastic. Because the stories are just Fantasy, they will not cause anyone to actually go into Witchcraft.
 Adults see in Harry Potter a fairly conventional supernatural adventure story
 Harry is being raised by an aunt and uncle who are dumb, stiff and uncomprehending and who treat him with stingy cruelty.

 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 and death are major themes in J.K.Rowling’s Harry Potter books. She herself has said in a recent interview in recent interview in The Tatler magazine that “My books are largely about death.”

 Love is a deep, powerful, and ineffable emotion of attachment to, and affection for, another being or beings
Death is obviously big in Harry Potter. Death initiates the core conflict of the series; death escalates in each text; death creates the tool by which Harry can defeat Voldemort; and death resolves the conflict in the end, since Voldemort’s death is the end of the war itself. Death recurs throughout the series, but recurrence is not enough to constitute a theme.

 Resources:

 https://www.bustle.com/articles/136244-the-5-least-feminist-moments-in-harry-potter

  https://www.reddit.com/r/harrypotter/comments/78aqmv/list_of_all_female_harry_potter_characters/

  https://www.theodysseyonline.com/why-hermione-granger-is-feminist-icon

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s_literature

 https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/12415-it-is-our-choices-harry-that-show-what-we-truly

 https://www.inverse.com/article/41709-harry-potter-series-and-death

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