Basic Dramatic Structure of HP, How do book 1 and book 7 tie together? |
 Jul 23 2006, 11:47 PM
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Being Eaten by the Pea Soup Posts: 18 Joined: 12:17am July 3, 2006  |
in my sophomore english class my professor spent a great deal of time discussing the structure of greek plays. many of you have seen the pyramid structure used to show the rising and falling action it looks like a small mountain. shakespeare followed the greek outline for plays and so did many other great playwrites. what i think is really interesting though, is that the different acts parallel one another. so in a 5 act play the first act and the fifth act will have similar things happening the second and fourth acts will have similar things happening and the third act will be the climax. what i mean by similar things is that often a character will only appear in the second and fourth acts, or the location will be common or a theme will tie the two acts together. i was thinking about this in terms of harry potter and realized that the structure of a five act play could be easily used for a 7 book series.
if this is the case then books 1 and 7, 2 and 6, 3 and 5 would all have things in common and book 4 would be the climax since we don't know much about book 7 yet i'll start by showing you the similarities i found in the other books 2 and 6: in book 2 harry encounters the first horcrux in book 6 harry finds out what a horcrux is. in book 2 harry finds out a little bit about lord voldemort's past as he encounters tom riddle in book 6 harry spends a great deal of time learning about tom riddle's past. 2 harry saves ginny, 6 harry realizes he loves ginny. 2 people are being petrified and attacked, 6 people are being attacked by death eaters in both books everyone seems uneasy and scared. 3 and 5: both books have a great deal to do with prophecies. at the end of book 3 harry saves sirius at the end of book 5 sirius dies to save harry. in both books james's friends and their pasts are talked about a great deal. in 3 harry takes extra lessons from lupin to learn how to make a patronus, in book 5 harry teaches his classmates how to make patronuses. 4: the obvious climax of the books as lord voldemort returns to his former glory. the triwizard tournament showed that harry was a powerful wizard. so that brings us to books 1 and 7, here are a few of my guesses at what book 7 may have in common with book 1: the books started with someone living, it will end with someone dying snape saved harry in book 1, maybe he'll repeat the act or maybe he'll kill harry harry will return to godric's hollow, where it all started book 1 ended with harry facing LV, book 7 will end with them facing eachother again harry's mother died to save him in book1, in book 7 someone else will sacrifice themself for harry book 1 harry travelled to hogwarts for the first time, he will visit it for the last time in 7 book 1 harry makes two best friends, in book 7 they will stick with him book 1 harry and draco face off in a wizard's duel, book 7 they will duel once more book 1 hagrid looks after harry, book 7 he'll help harry along the way there are a lot of possibilities of things in book 1 that will come into play in book 7. i'd love to hear everyone's theories, or any ties you see. -------------------- make no small plans, they have no magic to stir mens' souls
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