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Genre
- Boarding school
  - British school genre - Whited p. 143 (Steege), Anatol p. 7 (Smith)
  - Soccer/quidditch, boy’s tale? - Whited pp. 234, 251 (Doughty), Anatol pp. 4-5 (Lavoie), Heilman p. 213 (Alton)
  - Hogwarts - transitional between child and adulthood - Whited p. 132 (Natov)
  - Victorian boarding school + bildungsroman - Heilman pp. 209-11 (Alton)
  - More on bildungsroman - Berndt & Steveker p. 17 (Pharr)

Style
- Ordinary/extraordinary Done
  - Ordinary/extraordinary - Whited p. 129 (Natov); exotic/familiar - James p. 234 (Butler);
  - Heroic Hs, sneaky Ss, difficult French names - Whited p. 130 (Natov), Anatol p. 183 (Park)
  - Harry as everyman, a fairy-tale hero; emphasis on ordinariness - Anatol pp. 97-98 (Ostry); Heilman p. 233 (Nikolajeva)
  - Blend of portal fantasy and secret magical elites - James p. 233 (Butler)
- Blurs lines between technology and magic - Heilman p. 48 (Sheltrown)
- “Magic is apparent as magic because it defeats the desires and sharpens the explanatory failures of Muggles.” Heilman p. 67, Gupta

Allusions Done
- Motifs from fairy/folk tales
  - Harry as King Arthur (sword in the stone) Heilman pp. 209-11 (Alton)
  - Cinderella - Anatol p. 195 (Gallardo)
- Christianity - Heilman pp. 238-39 (Nikolajeva)
  - Psychomania; battle for the soul - Berndt & Steveker p. 27 (Singer)
Archetypes Vague
- Father figures: Prongs, spirit, identifcation; Hagrid, Sirius, Dumbledore - Whited pp. 110-12 (Grimes), Heilman pp. 73-74
- (?) Oedipal power struggle between Harry and Voldemort; archetypal child - Anatol pp. 1-4 (Mils)

Death Done
- Harry’s parents: Mirror of Erised, dementors - Whited pp. 134-36 (Natov)
- Grief shifts, manifests differently over time; death of multiple characters - Heilman pp. 23-27 (Taub)
- Theme of accepting death - Heilman pp. 39-40 (Ciaccio); masters of death Voldemort and Dumbledore - Heilman pp. 59-60 (Sheltrown)
- Voices inside his head in P of Azkaban - Heilman p. 73

Good and evil Done
- First impressions can mislead: Snape vs Quirrell; Snape vs Moody. Harry confuses personal animosity with evil - Anatol pp. 132-33 (Shanoes), Whited pp. 247-49 (Doughty)
- Good/evil is a choice, not an inherent attribute. Redemption and 2nd chances are important themes. (Harry doubting himself; Snape & Dumbledore) - Whited pp. 247-49 (Doughty), Anatol p. 134 (Shanoes)
- Moral complexity of Snape (and Sirius) - Anatol p. 135-36 (Shanoes)
- About Harry on the surface, but actually about Snape - Heilman pp. 84-85 (Appelbaum), Berndt Steveker p. 204 (Nikolajeva) (actually the entire chapter)
- Snape as a complex and multifaceted character - Heilman pp. 110-13 (Birch)

Class/prejudice
- Magical oligarchy
  - Glorifies the magical elite - Whited pp. 154-55 (Steege); Whited p. 169 (Mendlesohn)
  - Hierarchical Hogwarts administration - Whited p. 225 (Dresang)
  - Aristocracy of the boarding school - Heilman p. 189 (Bousquet)
  - Power hierarchy; pureblooded wizards superior to muggles; muggle genocide - Heilman p. 228 (Nikolajeva)
  - Pureblood oligarchy - Barratt pp. 14-15
- House-elves Done
  - Slavery of house elves; self-subservience - Whited pp. 178-81 (Mendlesohn); Anatol pp. 103-6 (Carey)
  - Anti-Muggle and -elf prejudice - Whited pp. 313-14, 325-27 (Westman)
  - Dobby ironing his own fingers - darkly comical element. Initially posed as a moral problem, but the author lost interest - Heilman p 165 (Dendle)
  - Compliant, brainwashed slaves; still enslaved by the end of the series - Barratt p. 50-52
  - Treatment of Dobby a disharmonious element; only respected after he dies a hero - Berndt & Steveker pp. 12-13 (Pharr)
- Racial/ethnic otherness - Anatol pp. 163-75 (Anatol)
- Dursleys “perfectly normal” - Whited p. 126 (Natov), fear of abnormality, desire to be wealthy, upper-class - Heilman pp. 66-67 (Piippo)
- Middle-class British identity: Anatol pp. 179-89 (Park)

Anatol, Liza Giselle, ed. (2003). Reading Harry Potter: Critical Essays. Westport, Conn.: Praeger. ISBN 978-0-313-32067-5. OCLC 50774592.
Berndt, Katrin; Steveker, Lena, eds. (2016). Heroism in the Harry Potter Series. Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781315586748. ISBN 978-1-317-12211-1.
Heilman, Elizabeth E., ed. (2008). Critical Perspectives on Harry Potter (2d ed.). Routledge. doi:10.4324/9780203892817. ISBN 978-1-135-89154-1.
Whited, Lana A., ed. (2002). The Ivory Tower and Harry Potter: Perspectives on a Literary Phenomenon. Columbia, Missouri: University of Missouri Press. ISBN 978-0-8262-6330-8. OCLC 56424948.