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The Seeker's Guide to Harry Potter: The Unauthorized Course
The Seeker's Guide to Harry Potter offers 'seekers' of all kinds profound and fascinating insights into the narrative themes, symbols and mythic elements encountered in the Harry Potter books. Drawing from diverse spiritual and scholarly sources, it is an open-minded guide to the rich layers of meaning and symbolism we encounter in all seven of the novels.The Seeker's Guid...more
Paperback, 261 pages
Published
March 25th 2008
by O Books
(first published February 19th 2008)
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The book explains how harry travels thru the chemical stages and becomes his own philosopher's stone and what it means to himself and the wizarding world that he does this.
It is full of different myths that Rowling may have consciously or unconsciously put into her books. Voldemort dies the day after May Day, so Harry performs his sacrifice on May Day, significant in cyclical light vs dark times of the year. How Harry's different wands symbolize different parts of his journey.
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It is full of different myths that Rowling may have consciously or unconsciously put into her books. Voldemort dies the day after May Day, so Harry performs his sacrifice on May Day, significant in cyclical light vs dark times of the year. How Harry's different wands symbolize different parts of his journey.
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The author engages the reader (seeker) in an exploration of the Harry Potter novels using character development, choices, symbols, and more. These features can be applied to the reader's (seeker's) own life experience. I found it to be fascinating and informative. I appreciated the quotes and insights.
I borrowed this from my library through inter-library loan. (Thank you Phoenix, AZ library for sending your copy). I'm thinking I might need to own this one. Reading it made me wa...more
I borrowed this from my library through inter-library loan. (Thank you Phoenix, AZ library for sending your copy). I'm thinking I might need to own this one. Reading it made me wa...more
Another cute book to accompany the series.
It's really good, and from a much different perspective than what I'm used to. The author is a professor of anthropology and psychology and her insights supplement nicely the literary and philosophical perspectives I've taken while reading and analyzing the series. The qualms I do have with the book are her sometimes annoying style and the book's poor editing.
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