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Harry Potter: Why Are We Obsessed?
After millions of books and four movies have been created people still talk about Harry Potter and his friends. This series has taken the world by storm, and it truly has an international presence as readers in 200 nations, in over 40 languages, indulge in these books and movies. A U.S. consumer research survey reports that "over half of all children between the ages of 6 and 17 have read at least one Harry Potter book". With the financial backing of Warner Brothers, Mattel, Coca Cola, and Scholastic, Inc., Potter is sure to be a force to reckon with, for years to come. Public school educators and many parents in America are thrilled with a series that has captured the imagination of children like no other in history, prompting a revived interest in reading.

This series of books by British author J.K. Rowling focuses on the plights of young Harry, who is selected to attend the prestigious one thousand-year-old Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Harry himself is an orphan, his parents--practitioners of "white magic” were murdered by the evil Lord Voldemort--a master of the "Dark Arts" . So why are people so obsessed with Harry Potter? Children are unquestionably fascinated with the kind of power that Harry and others in his world possess. Author JK Rowling says, "The idea that we could have a child who escapes from the confines of the adult world and goes somewhere where he has power, both literally and metaphorically, really appeals to children and adults alike." Plenty of parents, clergy and teachers are happy that the J.K. Rowling series promotes a healthy interest in reading.

Although these books have been removed, restricted, banned and burned so many times that they rank first on the American Library Association's list of "challenged" books from 2000-2005, the top choice for child, teen, and adult readers alike is Harry Potter.
It sometimes seems that Harry Potter is going to take over the world. Here I am in the immediate presence of the fourth Harry Potter film in Wooster. It's midnight on Sunday and every one of the cinemas has been full to the brim with children to adults eager to see how the latest film - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, will stand up. For me Harry Potter steals the soul of most people who pick up one of the books or sees the movies. Rowling's novels are terrific page-turners and, like the Sherlock Holmes stories, they proved themselves to be an extraordinary captivation long before the first one was made into a film.

I asked several people of all ages why they love Harry. Sitting at my computer I got on a chat room made strictly for those of us that are obsessed with the young wizard. The first person that chose to answer my question was a twelve year old boy, who had read the first two books, he stated the reason he loves Harry Potter is because of the magic.
Magic being the number one cause that people are also obsessed with making Harry look evil. Children and magical powers sound like a pretty familiar combo for more than twenty years. Of course, the Harry Potter books are not magical novels or have anything to do with true Witchcraft or Wicca, with their often left-wing politics and their cobras rising up like bejeweled curves of meaning in the tropical slush of the jungle.

But they have the very attractive ability to be flexible, to shift at the touch of a wand from a world of routine and discipline, sport and school work, to a world where real evil walks abroad to destroy any good thing that breathes, where the Dark Lord is he who shall not be named and where people who are otherwise ordinary, like Harry, Ron and Hermione, risk everything to be true to the gifts they have, which have their value only in relation to the quest for Good and the fight against Evil. I think Rowling has hit on a very viable and sparkling parameter, because the magical realism has been in the air these past few years. It has allowed her to give the Harry Potter books the realistic atmosphere of school, where unattractive people such as Professor Snape push you around and strict but loveable people such as Professor McGonagall stick up for you.

A world which could be a bit boring - which was all too real - but which could be interrupted with adventures. Not old-fashioned everyday schoolbook adventures, though the Quidditch stories are traditional enough to please any sports head, but dark magical duels that cost nearly everything and where the shape-changing enemy may have a lot of satanic majesty and intelligence.
In the most recent Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, the Dark Lord does his best to get inside Harry. It also has the shocking death of someone who is close to Harry. It should be obvious to anyone with eyes to see that Harry Potter is popular fiction capable of enchanting almost anyone of any age.

Although The Prisoner of Azkaban doesn't have the dire confrontation between Harry and Voldemort that some of the other books have, it has an intricate and engaging plot and it has some of Rowling's strongest characterization. It's also the point where the vision and the encircling atmosphere of the Harry Potter world gets distinctly darker and creepier. It's not only Voldemort and his followers who are dark and malignant. This is a world where the Ministry of Magic can let loose its Dementors on those it deems to be outside the law and allow them to suck any identity or happiness out of them.
With it's potent, imaginative stuff, and with characters like Harry, Ron, and Herminie I am sure that both these books and movies will be here long after we and our grandchildren are gone.

With stories as captivating with faceless ghouls who swirl through the Azkaban prison, with edge of your seat action, and impulses towards good and evil I am sure you can see why Harry is both good for some of us, while others see it as the incarnation of evil.

Can someone look over this and see if all the grammer is right or not and to also see if you understand it. thanks

Answer 1

Doesn't seem too bad to me. However, I would spell out 200 as two hundred and 40 as forty. And in your quote about over half of all children, put the ending period inside the quote. And personally, I would not put a comma in the sentence about a force to reckon with for years to come. Ohter that that, I think it looks pretty good!

Answer 2

It can also be both. It's with no longer "wid". It's grammar no longer "grammer". It's please no longer "plz". A query mark (?) is going after every sentence. Sentences begin with capital letters.

Answer 3

If this is your intro paragraph, don't use a quote in it. Teacher will ding you for it.

Answer 4

The real question is what does this have to do with grammar ?

xxx RuThiE xxx

Answer 5

seems good to me