“Novel Structure According to Harry Potter” is a ten-week course designed to instruct in the storytelling prowess of J. K. Rowling, using Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone as the case study.
As our only means of consuming entertainment, [binging] may turn us into fevered people impoverished for art that satisfies as only the True, the Beautiful, and the Good can.
In CAPC Jr., significant children in the lives of our writers pass on their own unique insights into some of their favorite cultural artifacts.
I discovered, as I imagine J. K. Rowling did at some point, that to love teenagers is to write them as they are—not as we wish they would be.
If utopia is to be found by separating the good from the bad, we need someone with an objective view to do the sorting.
For me, the magic of Harry Potter was not simply the story printed on the page; it was the countless ones that weren’t.
J.K. Rowling can tamper with the characters to her heart’s content, but I can no longer, in good faith, be part of this creator-consumer bargain.
Though God first reveals Himself in The Bible, He also gives us echoes of His Word and reflections of His image in secular novels and films.
Through delightful engagement with Harry Potter, readers are pointed to the ultimate reality.
Both of these bestselling book series feature magical worlds, good-versus-evil battles, and “wizard”-like heroes. But only one seems more prone to Christian fans’ sinful abuse.
The repentance, redemption, and agape love of Snape and Draco in the final Potter film.
