Does Harry Potter Tickle Sleeping Dragons?
You’ve never delved into Harry Potter like this!
In summer 2007, the collective tension was palpable as legions of breathless fans reached the bittersweet end of the Harry Potter series. Years of patience ended with odd combinations of understanding and bewilderment, relief and grief, satisfaction with ravenous pining, and wondering, ”Is that really all there is?”
Well…. That just depends on how you look at it.
While J.K. Rowling confirmed the series’ end, she also expressed her intent that her Harry Potter books not be fully understood at first reading. And considering Rowling’s cleverness, it would be sad – and also wrong – to think that now knowing the crescendo of events in Deathly Hallows also means we’ve fully deciphered all 4000 pages of Harry’s remarkable series. Far from it! Beyond Rowling’s humor, adventure, snogging, red herrings, and even the deaths, many of Harry’s hidden accomplishments, secrets, intricacies, and veiled themes are still virtually unnoticed by multitudes– which is quite a testament to Rowling’s humble genius.
Bit by bit, and flying right in the face of book-burning, anti-Harry criticisms, J.K. Rowling scattered many clues about the true nature of Harry’s deepest secrets, and coyly admitted that there’s ”clearly a religious undertone” in her Harry Potter books which was ”always obvious” to her. But what does this mean for the Harry Potter series? What have we been missing for so long? As is usual among her debating fans, what’s ”obvious” to J.K. Rowling isn’t always obvious to the rest of us. Indeed, Rowling’s scattered plethora of long-forgotten hints needs years of research and study to unlock them.
Not to worry. A Harry Potter fan herself since 1999, author Nancy Solon Villaluz spent five years doing exactly that: fervently researching and writing this compelling commentary on Rowling’s Harry Potter series. Inside you’ll plunge into a challenging, in-depth analysis of all seven (7) of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter novels, companion books, and named influences.
Dull and dry? Never! Bring your imagination along as the unique narrative of Does Harry Potter Tickle Sleeping Dragons? insightfully takes readers of all ages on a thought-provoking metaphorical journey of literary exploration. Travel paths, dodge dragons, and have tea in this witty nonfiction commentary. Tackle deep, previously-unknown mysteries of Hogwarts’ significant ”Never Tickle a Sleeping Dragon” school motto (the Latin: ‘Draco Dormiens Nunquam Titillandus’). Examine oodles of dragon-tickling evidence. Go beyond the warm shallows of J.K. Rowling’s world into the hidden depths of Harry’s richness. Many will be stunned by these scholarly discoveries, some might be very offended. But how many suspect the veritable banquet quietly lingering right in Harry’s own pages?… just waiting for anyone brave enough to approach the Sleeping Dragons’ lair?
Do you dare come along?
DUST JACKET EXCERPT:
”…Always true to Ms. Rowling’s texts and interviews, this adventurous expert-level commentary takes readers on a compelling, witty, and intensely challenging exploration of Harry Potter as no book has done before. Rather than rushed conjectures and opinions, you will instead feast on the fruit of 5 years of passionate research and accurately honed insights wrought by a patient author who waited for J.K. Rowling to finish telling her tale. Inside, you will discover surprising evidence that a school motto, clandestine faith, and a bunch of ‘books for kids’ have accomplished the unimaginable. You might even find the need to go back afresh and delight in reading Rowling’s Harry Potter epic again…for the first time.”
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