Harry Potter Harry Potter is a fictional character. Fiction allows children to expand their mind through different images, thoughts, and ideas. These characteristics permit children to look at the "real" world in different ways. Harry Potter is about a boy whose parents died while he was a baby. The evil Lord Voldemort killed them. Harry was given to his maternal aunt's family, the Dursleys. The Dursleys were selfish and did not care for Harry. They …showed first 75 words of 940 total…

…showed last 75 words of 940 total…from. The Dursleys are powerless against holding him back from his destiny, and Harry only managed to survive with the lightning bolt-shaped scar on his forehead. As you can see there are many references to magic in this story. But none of them actually tell the child to go and use the "magic." This paper was written to prove that Harry Potter, in spite of accusations aimed against it, has a positive influence on children.