Webquest Sheet

Sr.	Topic	Web Recourses	Arguments	Illustrations
1	Feminist reading of Harmione’s character	1)https://ahundredthousandstories.wordpress.com/2017/10/21/an-analysis-sexism-in-harry-potter 2) https://hp-essays.livejournal.com/115051.html 3)https://ghostwritingessays.com/feminist-criticism-theory-in-the- novel-harry-potter-by-j-k-rowling/ 4)http://www.jstor.org/stable/40058129	# The term ‘Feminism’ # Strong portrayal of ‘Hermione’ # Manifestation  of Author # other Minor Female Characters # Anti-Feminist Novel	# Independent and intellectual girl capable of doing magic better than Harry and Ron. # Female characters are not ambiguous. They are either solely on the good side or the bad side. # It is clear that Harry and Ron would not have survived without Hermione but it feels like she is being used more as a useful tool than a real person. # We not find deep character development of Hermione. It’s hard to understand what Hermione’s ambitions are. Family background of Hermione is also not depicted. # One would find majority of male characters into novel from harry to Voldemort.
2	Discourse on the purity of Blood	1)http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Blood_status 2)http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Pure-blood_supremacy	# Blood status # purity of blood # Pure blood as Superior and Mud blood as inferior # Half-Blood	# Pure-blood supremacy was the belief that wizards and witches whose family has not married any muggles or Muggle-borns are inherently superior. # Proponents of this ideology typically regard Muggle-born wizards as impure, unworthy of possessing magical ability, and often actively discriminate against them. # Hermione was insulted by Draco as being Mud-Blood. In spite of the fact that Muggle-borns are just as magically talented as those of other blood statuses. Or even more talented as magician for example Hermione who is more capable than Ron and Draco Malfoy # Ginny attracted towards Half-Blood ‘Harry’
3	Confronting reality by reading fantasy	1)https://www.jstor.org/stable/i233822 2)http://www.christiananswersforthenewage.org/Articles_HarryPotter.html	# Fantastic Novel # Actual occult practices # Life Lessons	# The hero of the book is a wizard who attends a school, Hogwarts, where he is learning   how to use his powers through studying and learning occult arts such as divination, casting spells, astrology, magical potions, and others. # Several occult arts referred to in the books are part of the real world and are not fantasy. # Children are put into situation and they find real solutions.
4	The discourse of Power and Politics	1)http://www.academia.edu/8572152/Foucauldian_Lens_Harry_Potter 2) https://www.oxford-royale.co.uk/articles/harry-potter-law.html 3)http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/lal.2009.21.1.42 4)http://www.languageinindia.com/march2012/rajendraharrypotterfinal.pdf	# ministry of magic # Politics is essentially an adult area of experience. # Power of Lord Voldemort	# There is the struggle between power and ethics showed through the war between the death eaters and the wizarding community. # After the mistake of appointing Fudge, you would hope that choosing the new Minister would be done carefully and by at least consulting the wizarding community. #” Dobby has never been asked to sit down by a wizard — like an equal –“ # Voldemort, the dark lord of the underworld, believes that “There is no good and evil, there is only power...and those too weak to seek it”.
5	The theme of Choice and Chance	1)http://www.gradesaver.com/harry-potter-and-the-philosophers-stone/study-guide/themes 2) http://potter-scarpnotes.djmed.net/sorcerers/hpscarpthemes1.html 3)http://harrypotterforwriters.blogspot.in/2011/07/circling-home-to-theme.html	# Choices define people # Choices of Harry Potter # Choice of Voldemort	# "It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities." # Harry Potter always chooses difficult path # From Harry's first moment of choosing Gryffindor over Slytherin, and Dumbledore's explanation, we know that this is one of the main themes of the series. # Harry chooses to risk winning the TriWizard tournament in order to ensure that Fleur's sister is safe. # We see choices that bind friends together as when Hermione covers for Ron and Harry about the troll. # In the end, Harry makes the choice to disarm Voldemort rather than to kill.
6	The theme of Love and Death	1)https://www.baylor.edu/content/services/document.php/61116.pdf 2)http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Themes_from_Harry_Potter 3)https://www.hp-lexicon.org/2006/04/03/love-and-death-in-harry-potter/	#“My books are largely about death.”- J.K Rowling # Death of important characters and Death eaters # Love of Friends # Love between Harry and Ginny # Love between Hermione and Ron	# “ability to love” is “the only protection that can possibly work against the lure of power like Voldemort’s.”  # Love of mother protects Harry from evil # Severus Snape’s love for Lily which redeemed him. # Narcissa Malfoy’s love for her son led her to lie to Voldemort about Harry’s death. # Harry’s ability to love and be loved is a defining difference between him and Voldemort. # . Harry builds up friendships, a support system of friends that Voldemort could never hope to match.
7	Moral and Philosophical reading	1)https://www.duo.uio.no/bitstream/handle/10852/25254/Masteroppgave2x-xElvixLinneaxHelgesen.pdf%3Fsequence%3D1 2)https://reasonpapers.com/pdf/341/rp_341.pdf http://www.harrypotterforseekers.com/articles/hpworldmoralityasaparadigm.php 3)http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/lal.2002.14.3.545 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3850454	# Aim of Children’s Literature “Moral Lesson” # Good wins over evil, Poetic Justice # knowing what is morally good and what it requires of one; # choosing to do what is morally good because it is morally good # One’s morally good acts are done out of a firm disposition to act in such ways.	# Harry Potter as protagonist shows all possible ways to be moral. He is kind to all people with whom he comes in touch even if they are evil or Death eaters. His moral codes enables him to win over his evil side and bright side shines in most powerful way at the end of the novel.
8	Magical and Mythical Creatures in Harry Potter	1)http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Care_of_Magical_Creatures 2)https://www.pottermore.com/collection/creatures 3)http://www.harrypotterforseekers.com/symbols/creatures.php 4)https://hilo.hawaii.edu/campuscenter/hohonu/volumes/documents/TheIntegrationofMythicalCreaturesintheHarryPotterSeriesTerriPinyerd.pdf	# Role of Magical creatures # Role of Mythical Creatures # Important part of Wizarding world.	# Care of Magical Creatures is an elective course at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry that can be chosen by students in their third year. # Harry was saved several time by Magical creatures.