A Child's Imagination
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“Text and reader no
longer confront each other as object and subject, but instead the ‘division’
takes place within the reader himself.” This small excerpt from Wolfgang Iser’s
“The Reading Process,” can strongly be related to the Harry Potter series. When
you are reading J.K. Rowling’s work, you start to feel as though you are in the
books yourself, instead of just sitting there reading them. The descriptiveness
and liveliness she gives her characters and the environments they interact in
make the stories come to life. Ever since I have been a little girl, I have
been full of hope and imagination. With my mindset, I absolutely loved the Harry
Potter books as a little girl, and even hoped that I would get to go to
Hogwarts someday. I was so immersed in the series when I was little, that it
really felt real to me. I am so familiar with the series that I feel as though
if I was walking along the street and saw Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, or
Rupert Grint, I would not think anything of it because I feel like I almost
know them as their characters in the movies. The struggles that Harry and his
friends face during the books are relatable and help you to connect with the
characters. If someone with more strict beliefs growing up was to read the
series, they might not have had the same perception of the books, and maybe
they would not have enjoyed them. For example, if a set of parents told their
children that there was no such thing as magic or that the Harry Potter books
were going against their personal beliefs, the children would read them with a
completely different attitude or maybe they would never read them and get to
experience them at all. 
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