There are people who simply have an aversion for anything mainstream. As soon as too many people start getting into something they initially liked and it transitions to mainstream, they let go of it. Mainstream media has unbelievably inexhaustible long reaches though, and its influence permeates all levels of society. It’s hard to imagine anyone not knowing what (or who) Harry Potter is. It’s unfathomable to hear someone asking “what is Harry Potter about?”
It might be laughable at first, but thinking about it, in retrospect, Harry Potter is more than just a character or a story. So what is Harry Potter about? In Hollywood, Harry Potter is a multimillion dollar line of movies that has yet to see its final chapter. In books, the series of adventures of this character has been exalted time and again to almost legendary status. Even in games Harry Potter and his friends have become protagonists. But let’s start at the beginning. Harry Potter is, quite simply, the main protagonist in a series of books authored by J. K. Rowling. Potter is a young boy who found that he had wizardly roots, and in the course of the books he trains to become a great wizard all the while fulfilling a more important task of mythical proportions going back from the days of his infancy and his parents’ death at the hands of the almost all powerful dark wizard Voldemort, who, of course, is the main antagonist in the series. If for some reason this is the first time you’ve even considered looking into all the fuss about Potter and his friends Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley, you’ll probably find the series not at all victim to the all too often whims of mainstream media, making it a second rate writing job that makes money through all the promotion and mainstream influence and brainwashing.
It might help to get you into the mood of checking out the series if the next time you ask “what is Harry Potter about?”, you don’t immediately think it’s all mainstream media puke and hogwash. Think of it as something that simply crossed over into mainstream and has initially enjoyed success even without the multimillion dollar promotion tactics.
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