Khác biệt giữa bản sửa đổi của “Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Places/Platform 9 and Three Quarters”
Nội dung được xóa Nội dung được thêm vào
n →Extended Description: link |
|||
Dòng 20:
== Analysis ==
While the platform might well have been intended to be the place where we change from Muggle to magical life, it has only actually acted as that transition once, in ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone''. In the other four books where it is a factor, and in ''Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets'' where it is inaccessible, Harry has been living in the magical world for at least a short time before the trip to the station: three times at [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Places/The Burrow|The Burrow]], once at the Leaky Cauldron in [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Places/Diagon Alley|Diagon Alley]], and once at [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Places/Grimmauld Place|Number Twelve, Grimmauld Place]].
That is not to say that it is not a transition; in each case, it is a return to school, and thus to a place where Harry's own use of magic is not only permitted, but required. Harry, as an underage wizard, is of course not allowed to use magic anywhere except school. It seems that the largely unsupervised Hogwarts Express is seen as an extension of school, for the purposes of determining whether magic is allowed. Thus, the transition from the repressed world of the underage wizard, to the free world of the wizard who is able to cast spells, seems to happen on the platform.
The reverse transition, of course, happens in the other direction. Stepping off the train and onto the platform is a return to the world of the underage wizard, a return to the world where magic must be repressed or hidden for fear of frightening the Muggles. We see, in each of the first five books, Harry's reluctance to approach that transition, to return to the unexciting life he perforce must share with the Dursleys.
== Questions ==
| |||