An Alchemical Reading of the Harry Potter Books by J.K. Rowling
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For ten long years, Harry Potter is living in darkness. He is an orphan. He is unwanted and neglected. Instead of a room, he has a cupboard under the stairs. He keeps dreaming about a flash of green light that may have caused the death of his parents. There is a scar on his forehead, shaped like a bolt of lighting. A month before his eleventh birthday, he has a conversation with a huge snake. Then a letter comes, written in green ink. He is moved from his cupboard to an upstairs bedroom. On his birthday, a stranger called Rubeus Hagrid appears and takes Harry to his new home, Hogwarts, a wizarding school headed by the greatest magician of the era: Albus Dumbledore. This is the starting point of J.K.Rowling’s Harry Potter books - a novel sequence filled with hidden meanings and references, following a carefully constructed underlying structure, while telling the story of four connecting generations, with also a glimpse into a fifth one, creating a circular pattern - and a reenacting alchemical process. However, to unfold this secret structure and understand the concealed allusions, we have to set off on a hermeneutical journey just like Harry himself, and reconstruct his story as the spiritual search of the human soul for wisdom, light and perfection; or, in other words, the essence of alchemy.