Harry Potter

As college students across the United States are preparing their end of semester exams and papers, they can take in the hijacking of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1, the first installment of JK Rowling's latest film mega -best-selling Harry Potter, many of them started in public schools.

This penultimate film shows three main characters, Weasely Ron, Hermione Granger of Harry Potter and the pursuit of academic goals. In fact, the trio has fallen out of their school Hogwarts magic to fight a civil war that has plunged the ugly world of magic in chaos. activism can be exciting and engaging experience for students who face the weight of the final phase.

Are there any inspiration in the film to stay focused on school? Especially when the film suggests that our world can not be so far from the dark, totalitarian bureaucracy of the Ministry of Magic after the Death Eaters take over. Even in our relatively calm atmosphere 21st century university 40 + years after the student movement in 1968, there are students itching to escape the library streets.This film gives the impression of abandonment may be dangerous, but the characters have no other choice and have little use for school anyway.

This is a student Hermione Granger star seems to be totally self-sufficient in their own learning and self-taught spells can raise enough to save her two men always unlucky. Who needs school when you and your friends can only read the directions and find the magic answer to the right just at the right time? The fact is: the world of magic, we do not.

It is the wet blanket realistic response is, of course: Harry Potter characters live in a fantasy world where if they take away from their studies for a confrontation with absolute evil, they still have their wands, spells and the elf wrest from dangerous at the right time. For us, certainly there are civil wars raging around the world, poverty and injustice around the world. Would it be so hard to drop out of school for a while to go somewhere and fight the good fight? It can. School dropout for students of this world may be disappointed by a true American universities meant huge personal losses, both for students and their families.

What, then, if one of spiritual help or motivation to continue the school can offer in this film? Watching this blockbuster, the student can establish its own management, many of the ideas of staging a series of letters and philosophy: The Ministry of Magic is a textbook study of monumental, authoritative industrial design black lacquered title? Check. Heavenly filtered lighting? Check. Loss of gold ornaments and sculpture by Arno Breker style? Sure. Does anyone miss the references to Macbeth with a young witches and wizards is a swamp? What about all the classic names and constellations? Perhaps there is an ethical message that would inspire students to focus on work at the same time to cope with existential intensity is 18-22 in our time?

Rowling ethics tend to be more religious than secular, in fact, she always mobilizes a Christian ethic of natural law that comes directly from the city of St. Augustine of God: Man is born good, but imperfect necessity of grace for good end to choose good over evil. Lord Voldemort, the power-hungry, revenge-bent, distorted self-final enemy of evil, once was a lonely child that never grace a new love, or community, and ultimately chose evil. Harry Potter, far from being perfect in itself, is an average student with a volatile nature, which often throws him a life-threatening. This ethic is also a correlation in the secular normative theories later. With Kant, we could say that Rowling shows us the crooked timber of humanity, but Kant could also say that although the students target throws all sorts of challenges, students must make their own destiny.

So what's the message from this film? Harry Potter and his friends left school to save the world, but you do not jump to that conclusion - yet. Talk to your teachers, whatever evil they may seem: it is their job to help you. They are not officials of the Ministry of Magic, who have to cling to a rulebook written by the elderly, but rather they are there to work for you and help you explore ideas that are often at odds with their own insularity.

I hope your teachers are the kind of benevolent smile Dumbledore evil Umbridge deviation. Too often, they are licking wounds vain types soured as Severus Snape, but Snape is even capable of good. When there are no magic wands or spells to save, you can review and choose the good for others, especially their teachers to talk with you about important ideas.