Fantasy into Reality: Harry Potter Inverted

A fantasy writer must find ways to suspend your disbelief when presenting you a fantastic yarn deviating from the mundane reality in which we are all affixed. The real goal, when not stated so abstractly, is to touch your heart in a way that vests your emotions in the characters so that literally your psyche rides the character’s wave through the entire storyline.




Harry Potter does this by using two common storyline tools: a child living in ordinary circumstances suddenly swept by magic and f...