Jenny Sawyer wrote in The Christian Science Monitor on 25 July 2007 that Harry Potter neither faces a "moral struggle" nor undergoes any ethical growth, and is thus "no guide in circumstances in which right and wrong are anything less than black and white". Working with Jack Thorne (the playwright) and John Tiffany (the director) was one of the most satisfyingly creative experiences of my working life. And it’s a shame so many people have jumped to conclusions without reading it fully, or not reading it with empathy, or, in the case of many newspapers, not reflected on the role they have played in the making of the Harry we know today. The second agent she tried, Christopher Little, offered to represent her and sent the manuscript to several publishers.

Harry is a hero because he loves others, even willing to accept death to save them; Voldemort is a villain because he does not.The series has been viewed as a Christian moral fable in the psychomachia tradition, in which stand-ins for good and evil fight for supremacy over a person's soul. Jennifer Conn used Snape's and Quidditch coach Madam Hooch's teaching methods as examples of what to avoid and what to emulate in clinical teaching, [194] and Joyce Fields wrote that the books illustrate four of the five main topics in a typical first-year sociology class: "sociological concepts including culture, society, and socialisation; stratification and social inequality; social institutions; and social theory".

From 1997 to 1998, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone won almost all the United Kingdom awards judged by children, but none of the children's book awards judged by adults, [160] and Sandra Beckett suggested the reason was intellectual snobbery towards books that were popular among children. Yates was selected to direct Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, which was released on 15 July 2009. First Name * Please enter a First Name Please enter a valid First Name, the maximum length is 50 characters. According to Maria Nikolajeva, Christian imagery is particularly strong in the final scenes of the series: Harry dies in self-sacrifice and Voldemort delivers an " ecce homo" speech, after which Harry is resurrected and defeats his enemy. We honour Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples' continuous connection to Country, waters, skies and communities.Harry is ordinary and relatable, with down-to-earth features such as wearing broken glasses; [18] the scholar Roni Natov terms him an "everychild". His overall view of the series was negative – "the Potter saga was essentially patronising, conservative, highly derivative, dispiritingly nostalgic for a bygone Britain", and he speaks of "a pedestrian, ungrammatical prose style". With his physical courage and old-fashioned manliness, he would have made an excellent medieval prince. Gender divides are ostensibly absent in the books: Hogwarts is coeducational and women hold positions of power in wizarding society.

On 25 January 2021, it was reported that a live-action television series has been in early development at HBO Max.

Harry assumes in the first book that Quirrell is on the side of good because he opposes Snape, who appears to be malicious; in reality, Quirrell is an agent of Voldemort, while Snape is loyal to Dumbledore. Everything was pulled tight as a snare drum, so expertly smoothed that you could easily spot the century’s worth of patched holes and tears.