- Title
- Harry Potter: Agency or addiction?
- Creator
- Mills, Alice
- Date
- 2010
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/54420
- Identifier
- vital:3809
- Identifier
- ISSN:0045-6713
- Abstract
- This article considers limitations on agency for characters in the Harry Potter novels, in particular, how far they are driven by an addictive yearning for their beloved dead. As well as Harry's yearning for his dead parents, Dumbledore's guilt, Snape's longing and Slughorn's craving can be read as evidence of addiction rather than love, while the Sorting ritual throws into doubt agency among the students in general. © 2010 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC.
- Relation
- Children's Literature in Education Vol. 41, no. 4 (2010), p. 291-301
- Rights
- Copyright Springer
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- Addiction; Agency; Child abuse; Harry Potter; Love
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