The force of the Harry Potter cycle lies, as with Wagner, not so much in the originality of its subject matter as in the execution of a panoptic3 vision across a great span of time. Tolkien in "The Lord of the Rings" and by Richard Wagner in his Nibelungen tetralogy.2 Hagrid, Hedwig and Hogsmeade could readily appear in any of these epics. Yet she also draws deep on a well of Nordic mythology, plumbed by J.R.R. In Hogwarts, she nods to the classic genre of the English school story, established by "Tom Brown's Schooldays" in 1857. Rowling knows that the reading public will not be insulted by situations that it can recognize. Voldemort means flight of death in French, Malfoy is bad faith. Rowling goes beyond Dickens in imprinting evil into a person's name. Bumble, Magwitch and Fagin reflect negative traits in Dickens's world, so do Severus Snape, Quirrell and Filch in that of Harry Potter. Rowling gives some of her secondary characters onomatopoeic names, informing us before we read another word what kind of person they are. Harry, more credibly, wrestles with forces of darkness and commands our sympathies. Oliver is altogether too perfect, untouched by the evil around him. Alongside Oliver Twist, he is the most celebrated orphan in world literature.
Harry is a Dickensian archetype,1 a child of cruelty who inspires in us an urge to make a better world. Boarding a train to Scotland at platform 9¾ of Kings Cross Station, London, he finds acceptance as a wizard, magically empowered but under mortal threat from mysterious enemies. Harry Potter is an orphan, alone in a world of mediocrities known as "Muggles," who do not appreciate his special gifts. From the opening page of the first book, the reader engages with Harry's child's-eye view of a world ruled by imbeciles and malefactors. The sickness and death of the author's mother are pivotal to her creation. She briefly went to teach English in Portugal, where she contracted a brief marriage, returning penniless with her child to study in Edinburgh.
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Rowling conceived a series of novels based on a boy wizard. On a train to London from Manchester earlier that year, Ms.
Rowling was 15, her mother was diagnosed with degenerative multiple sclerosis she died, age 45, in December 1990. Jo Rowling-she adopted "J.K." on the publishing truism that women authors did not sell-was born in 1965 and was raised in modest, rural comfort.
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