A Whole New World

There is vast number of us out there that have dreams of this world having magic in it and how cool it would be to be able to do magic, but sadly were stuck on a dull planet where the closest thing to magic is the closest chemistry lab. Luckily we have movies like Harry Potter that lets us envision our world if it did happen to hold some kind of magical potential. It would be cool to have some aspects of this world be merged with ours but not exactly all of them, especially the giant spiders part, but none the less it does give some little kids hope that somewhere out in the world there is magic and more to life than what we see. Now some may ask how Harry Potter supports this belief, but it can be seen right in front of your eyes when they talk about “muggles” in the movie and they exit our world and enter the magical world by crossing into the platform 9 ¾ to catch the train to Hogwarts. These movies show kids that Harry and his friends can leave this world and enter a completely new one where magical things happen that many kids dream of. Of course you may be thinking “what’s wrong with letting their imaginations work a little?”, my answer is that nothing is wrong with this but at the same time when they learn that this is not a real place and that there really isn't any magic in this world (that we know of) it could really upset these kids and cause them to not want to watch the movies any more. This idea basically is like when kids find out Santa Claus isn't real, Christmas then kind of loses the magic that you felt in it as a little kid. This dominant ideology of there being magic in the world, created by the movie, also caused a lot of issues with parents values by challenging what they believed in and showing their kids “witchcraft”. This concept caused a lot of problems for families that were close to their religion especially the Catholic religion.  So by putting this idea of a world of hidden magic within our world seems like an idea that would be great to have in a story line but at the same time could cause a lot of problems for the producers of the movie.

ϟ I never thought of it this way! ϟ

Im sure we have all heard the story of the "boy that lived" aka Harry Potter (The Hero, who restores normality) and how his story goes but just to make sure I will sum it up. It all starts when Harry's parents were murdered by the mass murderer/wizard Lord Voldemort(The villain  who disrupts normality). From this point on Harry is forced to live with his aunt and uncle in a closet under their steps. Life for Harry is not that great with his relatives until one day when it is announced to him that he is a wizard. Continuing on in this story Harry attends Hogwarts: the school for witchcraft and wizardry while fighting for his life,with the aid of his friends Ron and Hermoine (The helpers who accompany the hero), as Lord Voldemort and his "death-eaters" regain power and try to eliminate the one threat that still survives to Voldemort's power, Harry.  Along Harry's journey he encounters many friends and foes alike, for example Professor Dumbledore (The donor, who gives the hero a gift to enable normality to be restored). Along with Dumbledore we come across Ginny Weasley(The princess), Hagrid(the dispatcher) and Draco Malfoy(the false hero). Now to many people im sure that this story line might seem boring or not that great but it really is. My idea on the appeal this text has on its viewers is that it opens up a whole new world to people, a world of magic and a place that, for some of us, exists in our dreams. This text is full of creativity and imagination that intrigues the minds of the viewers and in no doubt grasps their attention. This text as a result shows that the viewers of this text are imaginative and think beyond what exists in this world alone. It shows that the viewers of this series would love nothing more than to exist in a world where they could go on adventures just as Harry does, maybe without a group of wizards trying to kill them, but none the less exist in a magical place. These movies also show the dedication of such fans because who would go see every movie out of every eight that have been made. The fans of this text were most definitely grasped by the story line of this movie and it is shown by the dedication and partially by those few fans that can quote every line of the movie.