ENGB35H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Lord Voldemort, Tomboy, Places In Harry Potter
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Children aren"t imaginative in the books and when get to (ogwarts, don"t. Mixed fantasy with growing of age: bildung = novel of formation. Accessible every part of world is being explained, learned as harry learns it. Harry guides reader through this new world. Magic realism entwined with the (cid:498)muggle(cid:499) world: fantasy version of real world. Book is a puzzle pieces from the beginning play part in the end: eg. Children understand the books, can engage in conversation about the book: can properly critique it. Not a fantasy for fundamentalist witches exist and are agents of satan. Seems like ordinary book, ease you in through use of usual and normal into fantasy. Think like story in (cid:498)normal world(cid:499), our world, until much later. )mmediately sucks into the idea that it"s not as normal as it seems. Doesn"t look ridiculous since already in the past. Muggle world feels less real than the magical world.