Mythology behind the Harry Potter world
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Why does Harry Potter touch us deeply yet leaves us unconvinced at the same time?
Harry Potter is completely based on the millennia old mythologies which still make sense, and they will make sense forever. These are the basic truths of life which Rowling has gift-wrapped in a world analogous to ours. The characters are all borrowed from mythologies but it is not the Harry Potter characters who are touching us deeply, it is really the mythological characters which have touched even our ancestors through the ages. When Rowling shows us how these characters would behave in the present day scenario then we can realte to them. But even Rowling is lousy and does not do full justice to these characters.
One of the major ones which Rowling is not able to explore much is Remus Lupin. Rowling says that she thought of people infected with HIV and their stigma when she wrote about him. His role is to just act like a lover, husband, and dad. Bullshit, there is so much to Lupin's character than Rowling will ever be able to explore. She does not even shed much light on why Tonks fell for him despite everything, how being a metamorphmagus affected her perception of the world, Rowling sometimes looks like an idiot.
Rowling makes everyone get married the moment them set foot out of Hogwarts NEWTs. or not married at all like Minerva McGonagall. Someone like Lily Evans would not have married James Potter that early in her life because she does not look like a fool. Tonks is dying to marry Remus without trying to make him her boyfriend first or help build his trust in her first.
When Lupin gets the love of his life and a happy family, Rowling cannot help but kill him off. All the couples except Lupin and Tonks are either shallow or they don't get married after all. Where is the connection between Harry and Ginny or Ron and Hermione? We don't even see Harry ever feeling affection for Ginny despite knowing her for so long and spending so many holidays at her place. Rowling was herself suffering from broken marriages and a broken life struggling to feed her two daughters. She either sees marriage in a fantasy world or sees it as something to be avoided altogether. Only Lupin and Tonks who had all the depth in their relationship make Rowling uncomfortable and let's face it, Rowling does not know what love is, such a shame that she is a girl.
Minerva's mother had to lock away her wand when she married a muggle but one day she had to confess it all to her daughter. Then Minerva chose not to marry the muggle she loved because she did not want to lock her wand away. All this does not make any sense because if someone loves you then why will they care whether you are a witch or not? So, the implausible story of McGonagall made a lot of sense to Rowling but the plausible and great love of Tonks for Lupin made no sense to the author.
Truth be told, Rowling does not know what love is. Those who are lovable like Ted Tonks and Sirius Black are just killed off while Lucius Malfoy wrenches himself free from MInistry's hands again. Rowling feels hopelessness and she shows it when Dumbledore tells Harry in the Hospital wing at the end of the first book that they were fighting a losing battle, and the evil would always show up. But the victory of the good once and for all is what our history holds and so does our Indian culture. The books carry more hopelessness than they carry hope. That is why the hero, Harry, is a whining and weak idiot fit to be killed by death eaters any instant if Rowling did not force him to stay alive. How is it possible that Harry escaped all those death eaters in the graveyard when he saw Voldemort return again and could not manage to handle Severus Snape? Even Hermione Granger is no more than a blabbering idiot who knows just enough to let the trio solve the cases, and how can a Hogwarts student know more than Hogwarts Professor anyway?
Rowling claimed that Arthur lived so Lupin had to die, that is a lie. She says that she had wanted to kill off a good father to show what war can do to the world. Then is she trying to suggest that Lupin should have stayed behind coddling his baby instead to going to fight? She made a tragic hero out of Draco Malfoy who deserved a second chance, but why did she not make him suffer by losing his mother or father? And, if Malfoy had known love then why did he agree to become a death eater, every pureblood aristocrat does not end up becoming a death eater, do they?
Snape did not disgust Harry for aspiring his mother when he did not love her. Harry acts like an idiot and is behavior is not plausible. If Harry had any loyalty towards his father then he would not have warmed up to Snape, he would have hated him further to have aspired his mum and for having called her a mud blood when she didn't give any favourable response.
How could Harry not realize that the doe was a patronus in the forest? Harry is shown to be a master of Patronuses then how could he not know that the auspicious silvery doe was a patronus. In Grimmauld Place when Lupin shows up in the book seven, Harry shows that he is always on his guard then why did he not assume that the Patronus could be a trap to lure and kill him?
Rowling, from the very first chapters, outlines the major plotline of the whole series, foreshadowing the kind of challenges our Hero will have to face and the internal, coming-of-age battle all teenagers experience.
Drawback: Rowling has used the stream-of-consciousness technique yet not shown how Harry really must have felt when traumatic things occurred in his life. It was as if he were a rag doll meant to take up traumatic events as if they were natural and he never felt a thing. Does a hero ever face a villain like Voldemort unprepared when the other great witches and wizards have been killed? It is too unrealistic. Harry did not come of age, he just danced around like a puppet bait in the wizarding world with Hermione Granger throwing around bits of information and her youth being an excuse for her not knowing everything.
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