For the seventh week I read The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern and watched some of the Harry
Potter films. The novel started out kind of slow for me. It took a while to get
into, but it was not terrible. I think that if one compared it to J.K.
Rowling’s Harry Potter series,
although there are some overlapping themes between the two of them, The Night Circus just pales in
comparison. I just felt that the characters from the former are a little flat
and underdeveloped. I mean with the latter series, the reader gets to actually
“grow up” with Harry as the series progresses in a way that I think makes one
have a stronger connection with those characters as opposed to the ones from
this week’s novel. With that being said, there are some ideas that these novels
share and obviously the theme of spiritual education and magic would be number
one. Now one could argue that it is not really the same kind of magic because
Magicians =/= Wizards but when defined as the art of producing a desired result
through the use of incantation or various other techniques that assure human
control of supernatural agencies or the forces of nature, I think it applies to
both. Another similarity between the two is the manipulation of the young
student from their mentors. In both stories the mentors play their pupils play
pawns for their own game. While some could say in Dumbledore’s case it was for
the greater good, he still took advantage of Harry’s trust just as Prospero and
Mr. A. H. use their mentees to continue their rivalry.
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