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Does anyone else feel that Harry Potter helps you deal with difficult times?
I was actually not initially a fan, I was not interested in wands and spells and weird things but recently I have become a number one fan but in a totally different way.
I love Harry Potter, the books and films because I love Harry's way of going through life. As a child he dealt with things that most adults find difficult to deal with. The death of his parents and what's more, the filthy, evil Voldemort wants to kill him too. The world of Harry Potter is very dark and depressing in the sense that the magic in it is not light and happy like Peter Pan 2003 for instance, if anyone's seen it, its like witchcraft and stuff. But this represents the fact that they are all in dark times, very dark times that Harry's destiny is to bring light into their world. J.K Rowling herself said that the main theme of the books is death.
In the beginning we have this innocent, sweet little boy who doesn't know a thing about magic and thinks he's 'Just Harry' but in the end he becomes the most powerful wizard in the world! Yes its true, he gets the Elder wand which he could have done whatever he liked but for a change he wanted to lead a normal life with family and love in it which wouldn't have been possible with such great responsibility as the Elder wand because if it fell into the wrong hands then the whole thing will start all over again. Power itself is not all evil, sure it can be corrupting but its about how its used, for good or for evil.
So Harry does not have an easy life, with all his visions of Voldemort. At the beginning it all makes no sense, Umbridge says " Because you know deep down that you deserve to be punished. Don't you Mr Potter?" meaning that basically she knows that Voldemort is inside Harry and because she is evil she doesn't care that Harry can't help that and he is not Voldemort, he is his own person and a very good one. Imagine, if Harry knew at that point what exactly she meant, he would have been sick on the spot! So that was a blood-curdling thing to say. So this Voldemort is said that he tortures victims and kills them only if they beg him and you've got these horrific dementors. But in the end everything becomes clear to Harry in the end when he is confronted with the whole truth, defeats the evil forces and wins.
It just goes to show that we can overcome anything if we are good and strong and set our minds to it. In the darkest of times, when you are at your lowest, you've just got to remember that the strength is buried deep within you, you've just got to ignite that spark deep within in you. Harry Potter makes me believe, of course as adults we can't re-convince ourselves that fairies exist but we can still, always believe in magic that is, the magic within ourselves and our world.
I can't even describe it all here but I absolutely love Harry Potter and it means a lot to me and the word is 'a lot'. I only became a fan in 2013 really even though I watched and loved the Chamber of Secrets and Order of the Phoenix a couple of years back, I only class as a fan of 2013 because I didn't really follow the complex, warped stories that much till now even though I have always loved them.
So for my question does anyone else love Harry Potter for similar reasons and if so can you please share how much it means to you?
Thanks for all your contributions so far. Yes, so while Harry Potter is a good role model for everyone, people who have had difficult childhood themselves can relate to it even better, like me. But I love Harry Potter!
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- 8 years agoFavorite Answer
Actually, Harry and his struggle and all the stuff you mentioned are why most people love Harry Potter so much.
The fantasy world Rowling created is incredible, of course, but the story isn't about hippogriffs and polyjuice potion. It's more about the struggle between good and evil and things that we all have to deal with, such as love, death, hope, and loss of innocence.The Harry Potter series' main focus is on Harry and his experience with all those things. Everyone can relate to Harry Potter (yes, he's a very important wizard, but he's also--and more importantly--just a boy) and most want to be Potter (at least I did. He was an underdog who rose to the top without ever losing sight of who he was or compromising his own beliefs and values).
I have honestly loved Harry Potter since I was seven and I have not picked up a book since then that I love more. Harry Potter will always be in my heart. The series has helped me grow as a person, and because I've always wished I was Harry Potter, it has helped me make better and braver decisions in my life (WWHPD?).
The Harry Potter series inspired a generation of children and it's an icon that will never die. Long live Potter.
- Anonymous8 years ago
I love reading how the Harry Potter series saved people during difficult times.. It gives me so much hope that the fandom won't die out, at least not anytime soon.
I was struggling in middle school, due to growing up and naturally, me and my friends used to fall out a lot, but it went too far and a lot of my 'friends' ganged up on me, simply to be spiteful. I was 10 years old and in my last year of middle school, year 6, (and a very keen reader) when I decided to read the Harry Potter series. An old friend had suggested it to me, so I thought that now was the time. It got me through the year, I was completely hooked and bought the books after I'd read them from the library, I collected sticker albums and just about anything Harry Potter related and affordable.
When I was 11 and the Deathly Hallows book was released in July 2007, I queued up from 6pm till midnight to get it. By then I was a dedicated fan, it changed my perspective and I had fictional friends in my head that got me through anything.
In September 2007, I started high school. High school, in short words, was absolute hell. Most of the people in the year were immature and bitchy, I got picked on for being different.. I dyed my hair black, had different music taste and loved to read, and they saw me as some kind of monster. Reading the Harry Potter series got me through it all, I carried them everywhere with me and I'd go home and cry because I craved the world where I knew I belonged. To some people, the sounds lame. It wasn't lame. It's a part of me and nothing can change that, it got me through the worst, it was there during my best. I need to read it soon because I haven't read it in a year, I'm surprised because I went through hell last year, personal reasons that I won't go into, but to say the least, I sacrificed my feelings for the love I have for the people around me, and Harry Potter taught me love and sacrifice, among many other things.
I can't express how much I love Harry Potter, but it has saved me, in many ways. :)
Source(s): Read each of them at least 5 times, and more to come! xD - Anonymous8 years ago
Yes, like most people who have read the series and watch the movie. I related to Harry Potter life. It's more then just another magic story, it about a little boy losing almost everything and have to live in abusive home, and face difficult paths in his life, and how he over come these odds.
Source(s): You can also read fanfiction, there I read amateurs writers about Harry Potter. - ?Lv 68 years ago
Sometimes, having difficult life can mean that you will never succeed, and once you finally can be free, you may want to commit suicide because you have gone through so much difficult times.
I dispised Albus Dumbledore, he is not God, he does not have the right to decide where his students should live, even though he was the Head of Wizengamot. It is not like God allow Christians to go through hard times and suffering, and he is with them, and he reward them when they get to Heaven.
Was Dumbledore with Harry all the time? No.
Dumbledore has placed Harry in a horrible setting for eleven years, he used Harry as a weapon against Voldemort. No one likes to be manipulated.
Does Harry like the attention he's getting because he is famous? I don't think so.
And why didn't Harry have the sense to go and live elsewhere, regardless of his safety? Harry knows his aunt and uncle hates him. I suspected Dumbledore have placed a spell on him that makes him not to be able to make proper decisions on his own, or else he would have gone elsewhere, dispite the fact that he is in danger.
Harry Potter does not really help me deal with difficult times, it makes me pity him, and causing me to show contempt with Albus Dumbledore..
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- 8 years ago
Honestly, yes IT does!!! It just let's me know that Harry Potter goes through really tough times so it lets me know I'm not going through THAT bad of times. But mostly the first book/movie and second. First harry Potter gets dropped off at his aunt's house then has to live in a cupboard and in the second book, he thinks he's not getting letters from Hermine (idk how to spell that) and Ron.
- 8 years ago
Agree. It helps greatly. I always read or watch Harry Potter whenever I am stressed or upset.
