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Who’s the Hero? Harry or Dumbledore?

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by revgeorge on November 28, 2009

On her blog Quoth the Maven, Janet Batchler has some great comments regarding who is the hero of Harry Potter: Harry Potter or Dumbledore.  She’s responding to a story here arguing that Dumbledore is the real hero of the HP series not Harry.  Check out both and see what you think.

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Indiana Jones, Harry Potter, and the Adventure Story

by Dave the Longwinded on May 24, 2008

by Dave

Jamie and I went to see Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skulls Thursday night. I won’t linger over a review of the film — if you’ve read the criticism on the web, I would agree with some of the more moderate takes on the film. Not as good as either Raiders or Last Crusade, but definitely a better film than Temple of Doom.

The point in starting with Indy is that he is the definitive version of the adventure story in our era. According to the tenth adition of Harmon and Holman’s A Handbook to Literature (the standard handbook of literary terms for lit majors), the adventure story can be defined this way: [click to continue…]

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