JK Rowling Harry Potter

The Harry Potter book series is a famous example of a young adult novel dealing with complex moral issues. Through out the book series you follow harry from his point of view, his experience with these moral issues. From the beginning to the end you see harry deal with these issues, make mistakes, and evolve from his past experiences. The Harry Potter series deals with a lot of complex moral issues that range from dealing with the grief of losing a love one to your actions define you not your past.

A large moral issue that is brought up constantly through out the book series is assumptions, especially with relation to the Slytherin house. The rumors surrounding the Slytherin house are that if you are sorted into Slytherin you must be a dark wizard. When Harry first arrives to the wizarding world he is shown both subtlety and outright the distain that is held for the Slytherin house. With no other knowledge of the house or the people in it, Harry decides that what they said is true and prompted the hat to place him in Gryffindor instead of Slytherin even though the sorting hat felt that the Slytherin house was best suited for him. It takes until the forth or fifth book for Harry to realize that he made a mistake with his assumptions. With the introduction of Sirius Black, Harry learns that your house doesn’t define you. When you meet Sirius you learn that he came from a long line of dark wizards, yet Sirius was sorted into Gryffindor and fought for the light side, however, because of the assumptions of Sirius’s family line he was sent to Azkaban without trial, even though his innocence could have been easily proven with the fact that he has no dark mark. You learn during the third book that it was actually Peter who betrayed the Potters and that he was a death eater. Showing the readers that anyone is capable of dark intentions, no matter the house.


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