“There was a time when no one had heard of Harry Potter,” a title of an article published in the 2007 edition of the Chicago tribune. It attempted to describe the Harry Potter phenomenon. However, if written now it would be “There was a time when no one had heard of Harry Potter and Edward Cullen” the Twilight series has sparked a phenomenon equal to the Harry Potter series. The debate over which book is better is huge between the clashing fans, witches and wizards vs. vampires and werewolves, Harry vs. Edward, Magic vs. romance. But why are these books popular? What sparks peoples interest? Will they be around forever? Or just a passing fad.In order to understand why the phenomena of these books a basic understanding of the plots is necessary. The Harry Potter series is a seven book series about a boy wizard by JK Rowling that started in 1998. At age, eleven he’s introduced to the world of wizardry, something his aunt and uncle had kept secret from him. Even more surprising he finds out he is more famous than he could even imagine in this new world, for he is the “Boy Who Lived”. Harry survived an attack when he was only a baby, with a single lightning bolt scar on his forehead, his parents died protecting him. This attack was by the greatest dark wizard “He Who Must Not Be Named”, Lord Voldermort, who was a on a power streak across the country, but that night he lost all his powers and fled. Harry goes to school at Hogwarts under the supervision of Albus Dumbledore, the headmaster, and meets his two best friends, Hermione Granger, a muggle born [someone with non-magical parents] who’s brilliant and Ron Wesley, the seconded youngest redhead from a family of nine. Harry goes through his seven years at Hogwarts squ…
… love with, as a kid. They have grown up with the series and lived right along Harry side as he grew up from a small, 11-year-old boy to a 17-year-old man and fighting one of the most powerful dark lords and life’s pressures. The Potter series also gives a chance for people to escape and imagine, a world full of magical beings witches and wizards and have good triumph over evil, has its own staying power with fans. The internet is so full of sites dedicated to these books such as mugglenet.com, theleakycauldron.org, twilightdisorder.com, stepheniemeyer.com; these keep the phenomena’s going strong. Moreover, both books are fiction and give the reader the idea that anything is possible and takes away the problems they have in that time they are reading. Fiction allows for an escape into a world that is entirely your own, never knowing what’s going to happen next.
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