Imagination wild

In most well written stories, there is a sense of being sucked into the story, feeling present in the story line where there is no subject-object division. J.K. Rowling does an amazing job of persuading the reader to think like her and become involved in the story. For example, in the scene at the zoo when Harry removes the glass to the snakes exhibit I got scared thinking there was going to be a snake on my bed where I was reading. Mostly, the subject-object division is clearly present in the Harry Potter series because it is unknown to us, it is a magical world and we are new to it; the book draws in the reader filling their head with images and dreams of being able to go somewhere such as Hogwarts. The story leaves us wondering if there is such a place out there; a place so different than any of us know.

The thing I love about Harry Potter is the fact that it is a different place than we know so there is no expectations, anything can happen! It fulfills the reader’s expectations as well as their wildest dreams. There are many surprises in the series and things that happen that we would never expect or even imagine possible. This is especially potent in the first two books because the reader is just beginning to learn about Hogwarts and all of the different creatures so there is no real expectations, maybe little ones like expecting something bad to happen to Malfoy because of all his negativity, but no expectations of the next weird thing to happen at Hogwarts.