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Woeste, Victoria. "It Is Our Choices That Make Us What We Are: The Moral Dilemmas of Harry Potter" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the The Law and Society Association, Jul 06, 2006 <Not Available>. 2009-05-25 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p97150_index.html>

Woeste, V. S. , 2006-07-06 "It Is Our Choices That Make Us What We Are: The Moral Dilemmas of Harry Potter" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the The Law and Society Association <Not Available>. 2009-05-25 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p97150_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: This paper outlines and analyzes the moral dilemmas and patterns of moral reasoning as constructed in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series. The novels posit the child wizard Harry Potter as a archetype of innocence and portray his emerging notions of morality as uncomplicated by his own choices. The novels’ juxtaposition of good and evil is essentially uncomplicated, and readers are not invited to consider the possibility of Harry’s own moral ambiguity. This paper will reflect on the conflicts between law and morals, between justice and power, that arise in Rowling’s constructed social and moral universe. It will consider how the character of Potter-as-hero might be seen as problematic, not just as a literary type but also as a moral actor. Though Rowling appears expects readers to accept unquestioningly Harry’s freedom to choose what to do and how to be, she has, perhaps unwittingly, limited his capacity to accomplish those goals, which philosophers and legal theorists alike consider essential to modern individualism. Finally, the paper will discuss how this reading of the ideas of good and evil and constraints on free will leads to the identification of a different character as the moral anchor of the books.

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