2006-11-01 21:07:10 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Psychology
you feel yourself loving the harry and his friends like your own friends and family and hating his enemies like your own. everything about them is fun, even the scary parts...also, these books are for any age group, most books aren't like that
2006-11-01 21:11:44 · answer #1 · answered by Peter_Jackson_Fan 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I recently bought "Eragon," the newer book for young people that has been getting so much attention, and now I think I can answer about Harry Potter.
The Potter stories are a unique phenomenon in the publishing world. They are nominally for young people, but actually give a lot more to an adult reader. Lots of other books do this, too, but few have been written in recent days. You have to go back to Frances Hodgson Burnett or Louisa May Alcott to find as good a combination of intelligence and innocence.
But that's only half the story. Eragon has that much, I can see, although I've only just started reading it. The additional thing in the Potter series is the incredible originality and imagination. Eragon is a clearly derivative story, with elements from most of the famous fantasy stories of recent times: Dragon Riders of Pern, Lord of the Rings, and even Potter himself (the dragon and egg routine was a minor plot line in Hagrid's love of dangerous magical creatures). The Potter series created not only an incredibly original world (Hogwarts, Hogsmead, Diagon Alley, the Ministry of Magic), but placed it inside and tangential to (diagonally, if you will) the mundane world with which we are familiar. It also provided us with a unique vocabulary with which do discuss our world and the magical world.
The other factor which I do not yet know if it is included in Eragon is the amount of real stuff in the Potter books. Most of the witches and wizards that appear on the Chocolate Frog cards are historically real. The names and descriptions of magical beasts, magical (i.e., medicinal) plants, and all sorts of other elements are derived from long-known legends and from truth. There is as much truth hiding away in this fiction as there is in The DaVinci Code, although it has gotten a lot less publicity.
Add to this the fact that the characters are interesting, the situations they get themselves into are complex and ingeniously worked out, and you have a real publishing phenomenon that will become the subject of any number of scholarly interpretations and analysis over the years.
2006-11-02 06:00:08 · answer #2 · answered by auntb93again 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are such well written books, any body of any age can easily get in to them. I don't even like that genre of book but found myself a big fan after Reading the first book and couldn't wait to read the next, Id be at work and itching to get home and read this book! Totally addictive!
2006-11-02 06:25:22 · answer #3 · answered by jam 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because a lot of people can relate with whoever character they can relate too..The story isn't all about withcraft ..if you will look beyond the parameter of figurative narations and will read between the lines you will unveil the real story...a story which ismore bewitching than the story itself
2006-11-02 05:15:34 · answer #4 · answered by focalpoint 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
[just an opinion:(WHAT I THINK.. is that H.P. is not exactly one of the best wizards ever known...
it was "sheer dumb luck" that put him on the highest pedestal...
people around him who believed in him gave him confidence...to boost him...)]
H.P. BOOKS are on the roll because people love imagination...
WE naturally love fantstic story adventures...
though not all people love to read, they do so because they are influenced by the peole around them..
they also don't want to get left behind when it comes to something "hot"...
and i'd like to say: who doesn't love a good MOVIE?
(to the H.P. fans, they better pray J.K.R. won't kill him.)
2006-11-02 05:22:47 · answer #5 · answered by dumb-sel in distress 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I think it's because we all want to be special, to be unique even though we just appear average.
2006-11-02 16:23:28 · answer #6 · answered by stargirl 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
coz alot of ppl enjoyed d book...
2006-11-02 05:12:32 · answer #7 · answered by 2D1iLuV 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
good media manipulations and advertising..
2006-11-02 05:19:26 · answer #8 · answered by livinhapi 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋