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- Title
Harry Potter and Humanity: Choices, Love, and Death.
- Authors
Klein, Shawn E.
- Abstract
In this article, the author describes how J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter book series highlights two fundamental parts of the human condition. The conditions are the importance of choices and the inevitability of mortality. The villain of the story, Lord Voldemort, refuses to accept his own humanity and his mortality, openly rejecting both. Voldemort's irredeemable evil and his ultimate defeat was led by the choice he made. However, the protagonist Harry Potter's acceptance of his mortality allowed him to love and to embrace his humanity.
- Subjects
HARRY Potter book series; ROWLING, J. K., 1965-; FICTION; POTTER, Harry (Fictional character); HUMANITY; LOVE; GOOD &; evil; MORTALITY; CHOICE (Psychology)
- Publication
Reason Papers, 2012, Vol 34, Issue 1, p33
- ISSN
0363-1893
- Publication type
Article