Igniting Creativity

Okay, HUGE Potterhead here, ready to explain the awesomeness of Harry Potter. Many people I met have said they hated it, and many I know have loved it. The reason the the love continues, most of all, is the variety, world and balance.

Rowling built a world so full to the brim, so different, and so magical that it makes us long for more.

The specail thing about this book is the characters, with a set personality that makes them easy to imagine, but also unpredictable enough to keep the story going. The world has so many different areas to explore, igniting our own creativity and theories. We get to know everyone in a way that feels like the characters are our own friends and enimies.

The death, while it is like nails at all of our hearts, also keeps us reading. We know there is a chance that our favourite character can die, and that makes it realistic. We know not everyone will make it through, but we also know some people will, and we need to figure out who. Every page is a risk and a relief.

The sheer complexity and uniqueness of the world has just as many benifets. There is more going on than we know of, and so many stories to think of. The world is consistant and realistic while remaining magical and wild. There are so many concepts that are unexplained that make us continue to glance back and come up with our own ideas, possibaly leading to theories and fanfictions. The world has it’s own currency, goverment, expresions and fairy-tails, while staying human.

Many people would also say it’s just fantasy, but that is not true. There is always mystery and plot-twists (though never enough to make it ‘barbaric’), even when we forget to look for them. We see the emotions and day-to-day lives of ‘heroes,’ seeing their struggles, defeats, love-lifes, sucky teachers, friendships, fighting and truimphs rather like a Realistic Fiction novel. There are even some Science Fiction theories about it, and the Wizarding Past holds a simularity to Historical Fiction!

There is so much to learn and think about, with something new realized every time you pick up a book- weather it’s your first, second, or twenty-third time reading it. You can lay awake thinking about what might happen next, why this happened, and even what’s going on behind the scenes. The characters and places are described in a way that you can imagine them clearly and know what they would do in many situations.

In other words, Harry Potter is so succesful, not because the author has a splendid imagination (though she really and truly does), but because she has a unique and even more amazing ability to bring out ours.