“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. To know exactly why these fictional books have become a vast phenomenon is impossible but gaining thoughts and slight understanding of why helps. And to understand this roaring debate between the fan bases of each book.In order to understand 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, when 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 squashing Lord Voldermort attempt at gaining back his po…
…s searched on Google “Harry Potter vs. Twilight” millions of arguments, saying which book is better pop up. Yet it’s still impossible to determine which book actually is better or even the bigger question, which will stand the test of time and continue in the lives of our children and our children’s children. And these debates have kept the fan to the burning phenomenon that these books are all about.In the end, we are not able to fully understand the huge phenomenon of wizards and vampire. Although, we know what the story is about, the attempted explanations’, and the heated debate between these two everlasting series, how and why these books have created such vast fan base, and perpetual reading and re-reading of the books is unknown. It’s just as well because the phenomena that is fiction has never been understood, which is what these books are all about.
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