Harry Potter phenomenon: As the hate comes in a peaceful world? – FAZ – Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

As the hype around Harry Potter with the appearance of the fourth novel a new peak reached – the initial print run was one million, in Germany were all four volumes in succession at the top of the bestseller list, the author JK Rowling became the third richest woman Britain – because even Stephen King spoke up. The American author described in August 2000 the book “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire” as “simple, uncomplicated fun, and indeed, in view of the novel scope of 767 pages,” a truckload “of it. Basically, writes King, if it were a “wise constructed detective story”, as a book for “daydream hungry children” after all, better than the works of mediocre colleagues R.L. Stine, but it lacked the Harry Potter saga but in depth. More precisely at that metaphorical dark, threatening cloud that in the British Fantasy tradition – called King here Tolkien, the “Narnia” –

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novels or “Watership down” – at first barely perceptible arises on the horizon, but then condense and unload on the protagonists as a disaster. Kinderkram “In J. K. Rowling is such shadow can also make, but they are very thin and scattered quickly.” Precisely, albeit amusing, but a good school to come to the reading tastes, says King. Later, at sixteen, Potter readers should but then discover serious literature, for example “this certain King”

This assessment was Steven King alone. particularly on the preparatory aspect of the book series, the ahead the decried as reading muffle Boys generally hinführe to book, was at that time a lot of talk (the argument then moved a bit less than in 2001 came to the adaptations to the cinema, so that anyone who wanted to know as the story goes, had no longer struggle great with the novels).

The loyalty of the Death Eaters

But Kings rationale for why the main thing they read, no matter what, and if there are these magicians stories: what are in any event always resonated, the sentence was. book series was even so lightweight, stunned: from the distance of years, and having regard to the three supplementary volumes published since then anyway, but certainly also with a view only to “Harry Potter and the Goblet of fire”. The book describes the fourth year that spends the orphan Harry Potter in the wizarding boarding school Hogwarts. The earlier novels told of how Harry as a child his parents lost that fought against the basic evil wizard Lord Voldemort, and how this then, even apparently died while trying to kill Harry – the boy bears a scar which he is literally marked man.

that Voldemort had however still survives as almost disembodied something magically, was in the first volume significantly ( “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s stone”, 1997). Band two and three negotiated then from its slow-growing presence, his downright material compaction, while the peaceful magicians also refused to take note of this – not even Voldemort’s name could be mentioned

“Harry Potter and. the Goblet of fire “now, the novel, the King took the occasion of his essay, describes the same in the first scene a murder increases on terror with which the peaceful visitors of a sporting event to be covered, up to a nightmarish scene in a cemetery in of a young person is killed and Harry barely escapes death, while Voldemort gets a new body in a spooky ritual, for which Harry must contribute a few drops of blood. This happens in the circle of Voldemort’s followers, the so-called Death Eaters who held him over the years the loyalty.

Voldemort is everywhere

For that what Voldemort is, a feeling of total superiority towards those who were born without magical talent, is still present and can reactivate at any time. That is what the author here to racism, is clear in its description of the graveyard scene, reminiscent of the rituals of the Ku Klux Clan. The first victims but are the rest of us, or, in the language of the magician: Muggles

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