Analysis: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

While I myself read books to children, I have to explain on the go, offer to think about the topics "how would you do?", "And would you like that?" - but the time is approaching when children will read themselves, and I would like to define the minimum filters for choosing books, at least to develop the ability to explain popular books.

Moreover, sometimes it is not so easy to immediately understand what the catch is. So it is with Harry Potter: many acquaintances read it, but I did not hear a clear wording of what is good about him or what is bad about him.

The first book in the series about Harry Potter is called "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone". I was interested in the frenzied popularity of the work. It means that someone needs it. Why and who needs this work? Let's start parsing.

It seemed to me interesting that in the fairy-tale world everything is exactly the same as in the ordinary one: the same human problems, the same passions, the same conflicts. The school for wizards (Hogwarts) is exactly the same: the same grades, the same evil teachers with their “favorites” and “dislikes,” all the same cramming, hooligans and gangster groups. At its core, there is nothing "magic" about it. What is the difference between the wizarding world and the school?

Firstly, the "wizards" are still tougher than in the ordinary world (people without magical abilities are called "Muggles") - also because of the fact that the "wizards" can do more destruction, but also because because they are allowed more. And it is precisely this moment that makes the world of wizards more attractive to children - readers of books. In the real world there are rules, prohibitions, and this constant "must" - you have to go to school, you have to behave yourself, you have to and you have to. In the wizarding world, you can learn to conjure and, for example, mock Muggles. The main thing is not to get caught, since it is officially forbidden to conjure in the Muggle world. But this does not stop our Harry. Important! The magical world attracts the reader as more "real" - closer to nature, to the animal world, where the strong is right, and you are strong, and you do what you want.

At some point, it turns out that all the leprosy and violations of the rules are known to the head of the school, and he even contributes to them (brings an invisibility cloak). And at that moment I remembered that Hogwarts reminds me so. And it came as a surprise to me, Hogwarts is the spitting image of the KGB special forces school as described by Viktor Suvorov (aka Vladimir Rezun) in the book Aquarium. A series of his books is clearly Russophobic, but such a coincidence led me to some thoughts.

Hogwarts is divided into four parts that compete with each other. At Rezun, the KGB special forces are competing with the GRU special forces. Moreover, often "competitions" can end in death, and take place right in the city in broad daylight (just like Rowling - the author of "Harry Potter"). The competitions were made quite deliberately by the top management of both structures so that the agents train on cats before releasing them on real combat missions.

Then the question is - why do wizards compete? Who plays off the different parts of Hogwarts? What side is the Order of Malta? This is precisely what - different "orders" and "secret societies" are built on the same principles. And then I realized this - yes, these are not orders, not the KGB, and not Hogwarts. All our structures are built according to this principle. Watch your fingers: - different religions - different states - different schools - different worldviews - different subsections in the same religion - different areas And so on, and so on.

All of them are pitted against each other as needed - when it is necessary either to stab them in battles and release them on the enemy, or, on the contrary, to weaken them. Competitions reach up to the personal level: everyone should strive to defeat everyone around in order to come out ahead. Such a dominant philosophy of education, such propaganda in the media. And Harry Potter is a vivid example of this (I think that Rowling simply did not occur to it that the school could be some other, even magical).

So we got to our topic - parenting and childbirth. Why childbirth? Because the worldview of a “survivor” is a person who strives to solve only problems from the animal world, to whom Bill Gates is a vivid example with his dictum that “the world is unfair, get used to it” (“” Life is not fair, get used to it ), - this worldview is laid during a joint childbirth, when a child is born not into the hands of loving parents, but in harsh conditions, experiences a shock. Children like soft light, warmth, welcoming dad, lie on mom’s chest, do not cut the umbilical cord longer, gradually learning to breathe…. you may not like bright light, the absence of familiar voices and the presence of unfamiliar rude ones. The state of the woman is important - is she relaxed and feels protected, or is she alone naked at an intimate moment of childbirth in front of unfamiliar men? Now think about how childbirth goes in the hospital and why it goes that way.

So, the worldview is laid during childbirth, continued by parents, then by school and by the same "socialized" classmates, and by "Harry Potters". Here the following questions are pertinent: - Why is there a propaganda of early socialization? - That is, adopting the experience of the same peers who have not yet learned love, patience, acceptance? - Why is there a promotion of individualization? - That is, "every man for himself"? So, we have a strategy of hidden unstructured management "divide and conquer".

People are made obedient puppets by restraining their development and stopping the transition from a child's consumer state to a human adult creation. If you have goals - money, power, consumption - you are easier to manage. Let's move on to the second remarkable moment in Rowling's narrative - fascism, covered by the beautiful word "tolerance". Harry Potter has the blood of a wizard. That is, what, there is the blood of a Muggle and there is a wizard? That is, the child-reader is gently invested with the idea that there are people of better blood. If you are unlucky enough to be born into a normal family, then you are a Muggle, and there will be people above you in ability, the elite, the highest caste. Somewhere I have already heard this (from Hitler, for example).

But attention !! This is Harry Potter, everything is tolerant here! It turns out that you can get magical abilities without the blood of a wizard. And I heard that too. That is, the castes are not divided by blood, but by "magical" abilities. There are abilities - congratulations, you are in the elite. Of course, you will be called “half-breed”, “Muggle”, and so on, but you are in the elite, and here everything is tough, get used to it. The Filosovsky Kamen is full of jokes on this topic. And "muggle" is a dirty word, yes. Thanks to Rowling, now we know exactly how people like, say, the Queen of England, Bill Gates, all sorts of Freemasons and other rascals treat us.

Oh yes, why is everything tolerant? Because Harry is good, he does not laugh at those wizards who are without magic blood. But the Muggles are going to scoff boldly, having studied for a year at Hogwarts and learning all sorts of funny jokes. Muggle jokes run throughout the book. Now about the images of Harry Potter.

He was sitting under the stairs and suddenly one day an owl flew to him with an invitation to Hogwarts. Well, what am I to do as a reader? Do you really want to go to magical Hogwarts? Rowling gives a simple advice - never mind, when you are needed, they will call you. If you get into the elite - congratulations, swamp everyone around you, curry favor, be the best and you will be praised and continue to allow you to take advantage of your position as the elite. If they don't call, suffer because of your inferiority. And bow to the masters. They are better, they can do anything, they work invisible and protect you from a terrible evil, you fool.

All teams from above on the management ladder are from the elite, therefore they are not discussed. The "philosophical stone" itself makes gold and gives power and longevity - that is, the ultimate dream of a child-consumer who has not grown up. The stone remains unattainable, thereby showing that this is an unattainable limit of dreams, to which one can only strive. Actually, though, this is the limit for the child consumer. And the human creator has no limit.

So what does Harry Potter teach? - That the world is cruel and you can climb up exclusively at the expense of others, and that people are divided into the elite and cattle, but you have to be tolerant and treat the elite with respect and without prejudice by blood!

Literary works, like music, and videos are weapons in the struggle for our consciousness. But sometimes they are encrypted, and you have to carefully study the works in order to give the children reasonable explanations.

P. S. I have a friend who was initiated into the first rank of Masons (that is, the very initial level). Guess why go to the Freemasons? After reading all sorts of Tolkiens, Pratchett and Rowlings, I want to join the elite. Guess what exam is there? We must recite part of their secret book by heart. That is, to cram. That is, to prove that you are ready to do any dull shit for the sake of getting into the elite.

P. P. S. Along the way, he deduced the definition of "tolerance". Tolerance is a hidden fascism in relation to a group of persons, covered by the equality of other groups opposed to it. For example, gays and lesbians are equal and everything is fine, but those who promote family values and a traditional family are subject to ridicule and then destruction.