Harry potter - Week 7 Magic

Magical tales personally is one of my favorites, there is great euphoric feeling you can get when reading a good magical adventure novel. A nostalgia that draws you in and instills a sense of wonder and hope that now seems so distant. Magical narratives are well known for their place in children literature for their use in spiritual education.  

When I talk about spiritual education I am not talking about religious knowledge. Especially considering that many churches and catholic schools band the Harry Potter novels from their libraries. I’m talking about how magical narratives help children learn how to cope and understanding everyday human hardship. The Harry Potter books and franchise is one of the most important spiritual education narratives for my generation. Especially sense the grow as the readers did, each year (I was born the year the first novel came out).

J.K Rolling started to wright the first Harry Potter novel in a broken down train after escaping her abusive husband with her child. Coming from hardship her self J.K Rolling creates a mystical world full of excitement and wonder yet filled of dark down to earth realities. ‘Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone’ the first book in the series of seven, Starts with Potter’s horrible loss of his parents only to be put in an abusive house hold. He is bond for greatness but the Dursley’s are determined to keep him from it. As we all know they fail and Harry is on his way to Hogwarts school of Witchcraft and Wizardry to learn who is truly is. Children reading the novel learn and relate to the isolating feeling of going to a new school and creating new friends. They begin to grow spiritually and emotionally in a fun way that expands their mind. Spiritual education within magical narratives can crucial to a child’s and even adults expiation on ideals they may of never understand till it was put in a magical world.