Harry Potter. The secret to the popularity of the skinny bespectacled man
In all seven Harry Potter books, the main villain Voldemort tries to defeat death and gain immortality at any cost. Harry, on the contrary, gradually realizes that imminent death awaits him, but does not in any way try to escape fate, but, on the contrary, wants to give his life in order to stop the universal evil and save the lives of many other people.
Children definitely rule the world! And this is now not about Harry Potter, but about Alice Newton, the daughter of the publisher, - the first girl in the world who read one chapter of the manuscript about the little wizard and demanded to continue. It was thanks to her that the first book of J. K. Rowling was published after twelve publishing houses refused to print it.
A thin, unremarkable boy in strange glasses has been winning the hearts and minds of several generations of children and many adults. The Harry Potter books have been translated into 67 languages and sold in millions of copies worldwide. The adaptation of a series of these books has become the most profitable in the history of cinema.
What is the secret of such success precisely at a time when, as everyone thought, children lost interest in reading?
Vector systems psychology reveals the secret of Harry Potter's popularity.
The Boy Who Lived
According to J. K. Rowling herself, the theme of death runs through the entire series of books about Harry Potter. The writer began work on the first book, experiencing the loss of her mother.
The books are just the way they are, because she died … because I loved her and she died.
J. K. Rowling in an interview with Oprah Winfrey
Just like the author of the book, its main character survived the loss of his parents. In a foster family, he suffers from loneliness and misunderstanding of others, but receives hope from the most unexpected source - the school of magic. And Rowling herself finds comfort, inspiration and joy in working on a book about a strange boy with extraordinary abilities.
In all seven Harry Potter books, the main villain Voldemort tries to defeat death and gain immortality at any cost. Harry, on the contrary, gradually realizes that imminent death awaits him, but does not in any way try to escape fate, but, on the contrary, wants to give his life in order to stop the universal evil and save the lives of many other people.
Everyone reads Harry Potter, but they really understand the main character, trying on the image of a boy on themselves, the owners of the sound vector. They are interested in the topic of life and death, death and immortality, devotion to their idea and mission of all life.
In the image of Harry, the sound people receive absolutely recognizable touches of their own psychological properties - the desire to reveal the magical features that distinguish Harry Potter from others, an unusual fate, a mysterious connection with the fiend of evil, which he feels as part of himself, and a constant struggle with himself.
People with a sound vector feel that they are not like others. Only they have a desire to know the structure of the world, the laws of the Universe, good and evil. They are distinguished by the ability to deeply concentrate, the ability to get satisfaction from the intense work of thought, understanding of the inevitable finitude of life. They are the ones who realize that only being finite does life acquire its meaning.
A thirst for knowledge, combined with a naturally given powerful abstract intellect - this is the amazing gift of the powerful wizard Harry Potter, which he could use in the fight against evil, which he sometimes felt not only from the outside, but also inside himself.
Potter won the victory, albeit at the cost of incredible efforts, going through suffering and pain, through loss and even death, but he won. And he turned out to be the chosen one who fulfilled his mission. He won and survived. I won and got the opportunity to live a full life, be happy and sad, study and work, make friends, love and create a family. This means that there is a place in this world for such closed loners as him!
Feat for the sake of others
Do not pity the dead, Harry, pity the living, especially those who live without love!
Albus Dumbledore
Harry is sonically focused on others and feels responsible for everything that happens in the world of magic. He is able to sacrifice himself for the sake of other people. Despite the harsh childhood of an orphan growing up in a family where no one loved him, Harry grows up capable of such complex feelings as compassion for all living beings and the ability to actively defend them, sincere kindness and the ability to love passionately and selflessly. This attracts an audience of visual vector readers who believe that love is the main thing.
Despite the mystical plot and the abundance of magic in the books, the fate of the heroes is not devoid of the usual realities of childhood, adolescence and adulthood. They learn, make friends, quarrel, reconcile, show their feelings, experience the first love and disappointment, thereby becoming even closer to the reader of any age.
So, for example, even after defeating the dragon, Harry is afraid to invite the girl he likes to the ball. Hermione, being an excellent student, is still very worried before passing the exams. Ron happily invites friends to his parents' house for the holidays, as he knows that Harry will not receive a warm welcome in his foster family, and Hermione will not be able to use magic, since her parents are not wizards.
Non-childish questions in novels about a young wizard
The Harry Potter books are more than mystical novels about a teenager and his inner world. J. K. Rowling's talent allowed her to reveal in books such non-childish topics as the problems of discrimination, fascism, chauvinism, dangerous public indifference, hypocrisy, hypocrisy, issues of upbringing, education, morality and many others. These themes are revealed as if by themselves through the events taking place, without moralizing or admonishing. The reader gets the opportunity to draw independent conclusions, trace the chain of social changes, understand the causes and true source of the disaster. And see: everything that happens around depends on the decisions and actions of each of us.
Tyranny can begin with people who have fallen into apathy and embarked on an easy path, who suddenly find themselves in a difficult situation.
This is how J. K. Rowling talks about the passive social position in her books.
Harry Potter, a boy with a difficult fate, but a big heart, conquers modern children and adults by the fact that they see themselves in him. The Harry Potter novels are not only interesting adventures of a wizard, they reflect the problems close to modern children, topical issues and ways to solve them.
The Harry Potter books are read by those to whom they are close in spirit. This is primarily a sound-visual audience, and the high popularity of books gives rise to the interest of all other readers who find something of their own in them.
The works of the developed sound-visual writer J. K. Rowling will certainly be a real gem in any family's library.
