Harry Potter and the Magic of Self-Discovery

Harry Potter, the boy-who-lived, develops into a man of character and resolve equal to the task of defeating the outbreak of evil in the Wizarding world, Voldemort. This book explores the virtues and self-reflective development necessary for Harry to accomplish this work. Desire, loyalty, trust and truth, courage, loss, and love are steps or stages of Harry’s development. Ideas from philosophers from Plato to Royce expand the meaning of reflective self-development and discover the religious and Christian overtones in Rowling’s now classic work of imagination and hope.