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The Web-quest: Harry Potter

What is Webquest:- 

A WebQuest is an inquiry-oriented lesson format in which most or all the information that learners work with comes from the web. These can be created using various programs, including a simple word processing document that includes links to websites.

1. Feminist reading of Hermione's character in Harry Potter:- click here

2. Sekf Help culture and Harry Potter:- click here

3. The discourse power and politics in Harry Potter:- click here

4. The theme of Love and Death:- click here

5. Moral and philosophical reading of Harry Potter:- click here

6. Christianity and Harry Potter Series:- click here

mini review:- click here

webquest activity:- click here

Rubric evaluation:- click here  

Christianity and Harry Potter Series

Harry Potter series are one of those where there is complete denial of God or Religion. Hogwarts and all the characters in the novels have gone through hardest time of their life. But then even we did not find anyone who is praying to God for help. There is not a single church also in the setting of the novels. When hard time comes people choose to act rather than pray. We also didn’t find that any where it was God’s miracle that save any of the characters or anywhere the God is coming and saving characters from catastrophe. So in one way J. K. Rowling has denied the existence of God or Religion in her books. May be these all are the reasons why some Christians are not happy with the books and they are asking people to not to read it. They believe that this books are celebrating Satanism. Because magic and witchcraft are symbols of Satan worshiping in the Christianity.

If we look from another angel then we can find some of elements of Christianity here. The very survival of Harry and then took him to the safe place by three person it self is like story of a Jesus. Then in last parts Harry is referred as “Chosen one”, which it self is similar as Christ. So these way we can also find Christianity in to the Harry Potter series.

Moral and Philosophical reading of Harry Potter

As a Children’s literature Harry Potter is full of moral lessons. One of very important moral lesson is to distinguish between good and evil. At every step of life, it will ask person to make choice and based on those choices our future depends. So morally good choices helps people. As in the friendship Hermione and Ron made choice to be defeated in the chess and let Harry win, because he has to complete the task. Harry also saves Malfoy from the fire and that was his moral choice. Harry can’t ignore it. It his personality to help others.

If we talk about philosophy, then the most important lesson was to fight with our self. It is said that when we are constantly looking in to the dark then darkness is also peeping inside us. Same has happened with Harry. He is constantly in the connection with Voldemort, if not physically then mentally. But while fighting with evil, evil has made impact on goodness of Harry. We can see sometimes evil is over powering the goodness of Harry. So the evil breeds evil. Very unknowingly also but Voldemort has left his part of soul in to Harry also and that part is over powering goodness of Harry sometimes. Here where Harry needs to fight. This fight is not with others, it is with his own self. This can be applicable to all. No one is thoroughly good or thoroughly bad, people are both. They should keep balance between both. When one is over powering the other one needs to fight with one’s own self.

The theme of Love and Death in Harry Potter

The theme of Love and Death: How does Harry Potter make use of age old theme of Love of the dead as well as living as protecting armour? How does Harry Potter deal with the concept of Death as something inevitable?

Love of mother:-

Harry Potter show the best example of power of love. Here the love of Harry s mother  is more powerful than the power of Voldemort, which saves Harry. Voldemort is not able to understand the power of love and use it very badly .

Love of friends:-

In the novel the love of friends proven by Ron and Hermione , who gave always company to Harry in any situation. manier  time Hermione gave the intellectual idea for come out from the problem. Harry's friends were also ready for die at the end of the novel which shows their love for him.

Death:-

Harry's most loveable person , his parents who loves him a lot die for save the life of Harry. They were killed by Voldemort. There are so many death in novel , Cedric,Dumbledore, Sirius,Dobby who loves Harry and die for him. By this the theme of love and death is proved here.

The discourse of Power and Politics in Harry Potter

we largely see in the character like Lord Voldemort, the villain of the fantasy series. He is chiefly concerned with the acquisition of power and growing more and more powerful even at cost of himself. Voldemort believes that;

       "There is no good and evil, there is only power... and those to weak to see it".

Voldemort and Albus Dumbledore are nothing short of the political endgame played on a large canvass. The power hungry Voldemort resolves to be immortal and to harass the muggles.
     
In the "Harry Potter and the order of the Phonix" we see that how media manipulate towards power. In this part every people even media also blame on Harry Potter for whatever happen in earlier part. In which use of media we see as a power. Whatever media shows that every people believing and on the basis of that people blaming on Harry Potter. So here we clearly see that how power of politics effect in Harry's life.

The main power in Harry Potter series is Ministry of Magic Functioning. Every time there is some orders from the ministry to Hogwarts and Hogwarts have to follow that. It has a power to operate all the systems in school of Hogwarts.

After coming of professor Umbridge we see many changes in the education system and she is only give theoretical knowledge of magic not give any practical knowledge of magic which earlier given by many teacher. So here we find that she has power to imply new rules which operates new education system in school of Hogwarts.

Self help culture and Harry Potter:

The characters of Harry Potter series are struggling to gain something. In a way all are helping themselves with some ideologies. Harry is treated very badly in his guardian home. He learns to stay strong in terrible situation in the life. He fights with the obstacles of the life without other's support. When he lives all alone in he dangerous situation then face all the problem with his ability. There is one scene in the last part when Sirius is killed then Harry saves his body and himself and also from the Dementors, same case with other character like Hermione, Ron who are constantly struggling for their identity. Hermione wants to show her talent that she is best from all the pure blood students. She is intelligent and with her knowledge she defeated everyone and in this way help herself. So, in this way we can get the idea about self-help and how overcome all the problem of life by our own self so from children to man all can learn this from Harry Potter series.

Feminist reading of Hermione’s character in Harry Potter:

“Feminism” as a singular noun is often seen as a misrepresentation due to the fact that there are so many different types of feminist movements with different goals. Because of this, many refer to the all-inclusive plural noun “feminisms” instead. As a part of several types of “feminisms,” feminist literary criticism embraces subjectivity in literary interpretations. A reader “cannot leave out of the picture when describing what [she sees] . . . to claim that we are objective, as patriarchy encourages men to do, is merely to blind ourselves to the ways in which we are different.

The feminist ideals in Harry Potter are most easily seen through the lead female character, Hermione Granger, as she is a manifestation of the author herself within the text. “Hermione is me,” Rowling has said in several interviews, “A caricature of me when I was younger”. In first two part of Harry potter we find Hermione as strong character. Independent and intellectual girl capable of doing magic better than Harry and Ron. Hermione’s ability to think clearly under pressure and does not let her emotion control her. Based on the analysis of challenging the representative of women as ‘Other’, as ‘lack’ and as part of ‘nature’, Hermione has broken the concept as ‘Other’ and as ‘lack’ that put women in negative sides and proven themselves as equal to men. She also shows us that women are part of ‘nature’; it shows how women have balance roles with men in the society. They have their own roles that as important as men.

It is clear that Harry and Ron would not have survived without Hermione but it feels like she is being used more as a useful tool than a real person. We not find deep character development of Hermione. It’s hard to understand what Hermione’s ambitions are. Family background of Hermione is also not depicted. She belongs to ‘Mud Blood’ it means lower cast in magical world. One would find majority of male characters into novel from harry to Voldemort. 

 Female characters are not ambiguous. They are either solely on the good side or the bad side. Mrs. Weasley, Tonks, Professor McGonagall, Aunt Petunia, Luna and Hermione are all placed firmly on this “good” side. Although they are distinguished characters, they are by no means ambiguous.

 According to  Meredith Cherland The binaries of humanism present us with sets of hierarchical opposites that take their meaning in relation to each other. Binaries like male/female, rational/irrational, mind/body, and good/evil are hu- manism's "common sense,".  Rowling, for example, often uses a discourse of rationality to mark male characters as reasonable and a discourse of irrationality to mark female characters as foolish (one has only to recall the ways in which Hermione's con- cern for the well being of the house elves is scorned by Ron and Harry to see these discourses at work). But the Veela episode turns this familiar discourse up- side down. Rowling uses a discourse of irrationality to mark Harry and Ron as males made helpless by the sexual call of the Veela and a discourse of rationality to mark Hermione as a female untouched by and outside of sexual confusion. gender as a set of two opposites categories and to support a common-sense view of how the two genders interact and relate to each other.