The Eyes of Deathly Hallows: Harry Potter's Corrected and Transforming Vision
Theme:
Special Events
When:
1:00 PM, Saturday 23 May 2009 EDT
(1 hour 30 minutes)
Where:
Boston Park Plaza
- Whittier, 4th Floor
Joanne Rowling told a reporter in 2007 that the "key" to her seven book series, the lines she waited 17 years to write, were Dumbledore's farewell to Harry at what Harry thinks of as King's Cross station in Deathly Hallows. John Granger uses the predominant eye symbolism of the series finale to explain this "is it real or just in my head?" conversation and why it opens up both the "power beyond any magic" of children's tales and the meaning of the world's best selling books. Granger describes the Symbolist or Inkling stream of English literature in which Rowling writes and how Coledridge's idea of imagination and Christian images of eyes, light, and mirrors inform this work.