Book: How Harry enchanted the world

Harry's incredible success, both in my home and in homes around the world, is due to the fact that these books speak directly to the human heart - in which, no matter how many dragons guard it, there is always a God-shaped hole, yearning, to have it filled out.

Looking at the monster into which the mutilated and almost soulless Voldemort has become, we see in this story the answer to Christ’s rhetorical question: “What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?” (Mark 8:36).

It seems that the Harry Potter books, like modern Aesop's fables, tell us that ultimately it is not knowledge, not special external preparations, not even piety that saves us. Only the properties of our soul - courage, love, inner valor - make us receptive to grace that can bring salvation in spiritual war.

Godless fiction is slow poison for the soul.

Incredibly, Rowling has managed to write a coherent and compelling parable about God's judgment on the spiritual qualities of our souls and our ability to love (or the rejection of love) - and this parable delights readers of the postmodern world, encouraging them to strive for purity of heart and accept the defense of sacrificial love. For generations that have developed an impenetrable immunity against any kind of “fire and brimstone preaching,” such an achievement borders on a miracle.

Reading Harry

Aunt Marge and her bulldog allude to Margaret Thatcher and the English patriots of the old school, whom Rowling sees as pompous, self-righteous monsters.

Every choice Harry makes carries a hidden message: Do

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The Harry Potter books are classics; not only children's, but also real, without discounts, classics of world literature. These stories are masterfully told - it is worth paying attention to how carefully the entire series and individual books are structured - and carry a huge semantic charge.

In our world of Republicans and Democrats, rich and poor, hawks and doves, Rowling points out the problem of soul and body that concerns each of us. It suggests a spiritual solution to our troubles, speaks of the need for internal victory and that it is within that the answer to the external conflicts and contradictory ideologies that tear us apart begins.

In a world where the reality and inevitability of death is often hidden from view, Harry

Reading as such serves an important religious or mythical function.