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Wizardry through the Ages
Summary: Provides a comparison of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain and Harry Potter and the Order of the Pheonix by J.K. Rowling.
Wizardry is favored tool in many of the great fantasy and fiction novels of the past and present. A prevalent theme in many of these wizardry novels is the fight of good vs. evil. Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court and J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix are two great examples of wizardry accompanying the theme of good vs. evil in literature.
In J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, the main character, Harry Potter, enters his fifth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The previous year at Hogwarts, Harry was the sole surviving witness to the reincarnation of the evil wizard, Lord Voldemort. Now in his fifth year, many citizens doubt Harry's story and start to accuse him of simply wanting attention. In a letter to one of Potter's best friends, Ron Weasley...
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