The Hero

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The Heros Journey
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The Call

• Invites the hero into the adventures. Offers an
  opportunity to face the unknown and gain some
  physical or spiritual value. It may be taken on
  willingly or forced upon them (refusal to call).

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The Threshold

• Jumping off point.
• The interface between the known and the unknown.
• Known world security
• Unknown a different, unfamiliar world with
  dangers and challenges.

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Threshold Guardians

• People, beings, or situations which block the
  passage to the journey.
• Two Functions
• 1) Protects hero from journeying before ready.
• 2) Once ready, steps aside point the way.

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Helpers

• Provide assistance or direction.
• Often, the help comes as a divine gift or
  intervention.

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Mentor

• AKA Guide
• Keeps the hero focused on the quest, provides
  stability, and acts as psychological foundation
  when the danger is the greatest.

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Challenges or Temptations

• Can be outward (physical) or inward
  (psychological)
• Challenges grow more difficult as journey
  continues.
• Challenges always strike the heros greatest
  weaknesses.

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Talisman

• A gift given that helps the hero throughout the
  journey.

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The Abyss (apotheosis)

• The heros GREATEST challenge
• faces it alone
• the point when hero must slay the dragon.
• It is always something he dreaded or needs to
  resolve.

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Revelation and Transformation

• Transformation is complete when the hero conquers
  the abyss
• - Fear dies to make way for courage,
  which is a total change.
• Revelation a sudden, dramatic change in his
  thinking/ perspectives

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Atonement

• at-one with their new self.
• Acceptance of changes and are RE-BORN.
• Hero now has harmony with life.

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The Return

• Hero returns to everyday life, and now must begin
  attributing new self to society.
• GLORIFICATION!!

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Heros Journey Harry Potter and the Sorcerers
Stone
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The Call

• Harry is first CALLED TO ACTION through the
  letters that begin appearing at Privet Drive and
  continue despite Uncle Vernons efforts to stop
  them.
• The call continues when Hagrid shows up himself
  on Harrys 11th birthday.
• His refusal to the call Harry doubts that he is
  who Hagrid thinks he is. He fears it has been a
  horrible mistake. How could he be a wizard?

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The Threshold

• This occurs at Platform Nine and Three Quarters
• After the Weasleys tell Harry where the platform
  is, he must take a leap of faith and head
  straight for a solid wall.

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Threshold Guardians

• Harrys survival of Voldemorts attack and
  delivery to the Dursleys by Hagrid.
• Hagrid returns to help Harry get ready for
  Hogwarts.

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Helpers

• Supernatural aid has been with Harry since the
  beginning.
• Ron and Hermione lend their particular talents

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Mentor
Dumbledore aids Harry throughout his journey
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Challenges Temptations

• He had to face himself and his fears when he puts
  on the Sorting Hat.

• He must face Prof. Snape
• He makes enemies with Draco Malfoy
• He almost gets into trouble with Filch
• He faces his first time on broomstick

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Challenges Temptations

• Since Harry has never known his parents, it is a
  moment of intense love when he sees them in the
  Mirror of Erised.
• The mirror also serves as a temptress to Harry.
• Dumbledore warns Harry that the mirror could
  become and obsession and he has it moved.

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Talisman
His owl

• His fathers invisibility cloak. The cloak gives
  him unimagined power.
• The cloak allows him to find the Mirror of Erised
  and to save Norbert and Hagrid.

His wand
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The Abyss

• This stage of the journey begins the moment Harry
  goes through the trap door in search of SS.
• He faces new trials which even become
  life-threatening.
• Voldemort again tries to kill Harry.

Harry survives but misses his triumph because he
falls into blackness later to be awakened by
Dumbledore.
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Revelation and Transformation

• Dumbledore tells Harry how he saved the SS and
  escaped being murdered by Voldemort.
• Gryffindor wins the House Cup thanks in part to
  Harrys bravery
• Harry does not wish to return to the Dursleys
  home. He has more knowledge of who he is, where
  he comes from, and what he is capable of doing.

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Atonement

• After disembarking from the Hogwarts Express,
  Harry chats with Ron and Hermione while the
  Dursleys look on.
• Here the reader realizes that Harry accepts his
  dual existence.

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The Return

• Harry assures Ron and Hermione that he will enjoy
  his holiday.
• He reminds them that the Dursleys dont know they
  arent allowed to use magic at home.