You might have not known this but it has taken me over 3 years to read all of the Harry Potter books. Not because I slowly read them. But because I quit half way through for most of them. And that's exactly what I did with this last one. But now I finally finished! Hooray! So anyway, one of the things I've been thinking about it actually quite relevant to what we are doing in classwork. In our Socrates Cafe groups, my group chose the topic of Communitarianism. I think this completely relates to Harry Potter. If you don't know Communitarianism is the philosophy that the group is more important than the individual.
I disagree with the communitarianism statement fro some good reasons but I wont get into that right now. What is confusing is it's hard not agree with it in Harry Potter's situation. (Spoiler Alert!) Near the end of the last book Harry chooses to actually sacrifice himself for the life of others (which he does but soon comes back to life). The difference is that this time and the other books is that he actually let himself die. He didn't risk his life. He actually went up to Voldemort to be killed. Now this is an example of communitarianism because the group is more important than the individual ( Harry Potter).
Even though I disagree with communitarianism how can you not agree with what he did? He basically killed himself for the life of millions. Now in the real world I'm pretty sure this situation doesn't happen that often. But it completely reverses my disagreement. How can I agree and disagree. Agree to disagree? Can it be in between? Please tell me.
Nice job relating to the book and our classwork without making it seem very very choppy. (something that I should work on)Congrats on finally finishing the Harry Potter series. And I can actually relate to what happens when you read this series it happened to me many times to in the series that I'm on the last book right at this moment.
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I really liked your post, i have read the series a million timesbut i have never thought of it in that way. nice adding of the class work ;)
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I feel so proud. You finally finished it. Now I am going to start reading it again.
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I think I've said this before, but harry potter is just one of those books that I have trouble going deeper with, it just rubs me the wrong way. However I really like how you sort of did a defendification post. er, you defended the characters. Nice job Theodore
I understand what you are trying to say Sophia. Through the large publicity and just the plain "wanting to read the book", it makes going deeper with Harry Potter a bit frustrating. I don't know if you are going to doing blog posts on Harry Potter, but if you do I look forward to seeing what you have to say.
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