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Harry Potter As A Transmedia Term Paper

Harry Potter grows up amongst the 'average' human being and he is uncommon. This is stressed as is too the mediocrity and triteness of this human called the ' * ' world. Rowling devotes pages to this and to the contrast of Harry Potter and his relations as well as society that he lives in. Grossman, on the other hand, merely slips in a paragraph alluding to Quentin's 'shitty' existence aside from informing us that Quentin was part of the nerds. But then, so were others.' On page 5, Grossman tells us: He followed James and Julia past bodegas, Laundromats, hipster boutiques, cell-phone stores limmed with neon-piping, past a bar where old people were already drinking t three forty-five in the afternoon… All of it just confirmed his belief that his real life, the life he should be living, had been mislaid through some clerical error by the cosmic bureaucracy. This couldn't be it. & #8230; He'd been issued this shitty substitute faux life instead.

It may be that the younger Harry...

That Harry Potter had the emphasis on his differentness. In that, he yanks a general chord and relates to us. This one stands alone in that he is simply someone who runs off to explore his individuality.
This comes across too in the movies of Harry Potter where the essential character remains as appealing as he in the books. The movies do differ from the books but only in small aesthetic details. The essential Harry Potter, and his dilemma of 'abnormality', remain.

Over and again, many readers have explained their attraction to Harry Potter in the fact that they could identify with him. Many of us feel atypical and would like to belong. Grossman's Quentin lacks this. He is a gangly, self-absorbed adolescent who has unregretfully left his home without a backward glance and thrown himself into the exploits of a magician. The original Harry Potter was more relatable and more humane. Readers could also identify with him. Many may, therefore, find him far more appealing.

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Grossman, L. (2009) the magicians. Viking, USA

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