For me, "Harry Potter" is the great myth of our time. Firstly because we had not done better since the "Lord of the Rings" in terms of mythological creation, but also because the author was able to develop the heart of our contemporary world! This feat remains impressive even today and, although say his critics (for whom Rowling is only a plagiarist, forgetting thereby Tolkien was also the ingredients that take various mythologies previous to digest and create a new one ...), the universe is that it develops a dazzling success, alternating brilliant discoveries and credibility all the more baffling that the tribulations of this little magic world are expected to pass before our eyes, in our civilized world, without anyone noticing!
But there is also a terribly ambitious work in terms of philosophical content. All the achievements and memory of the 20th century will be integrated into the little wizard world: The technology of the modern world (! Who finds an unusual echo when placed in parallel with the ancient world of witchcraft), the drama of the Shoah (barely masked through the will of the wizards "pureblood" to dominate and enslave all others), the emancipation of the woman (played by the only character Hermione, real modern heroine , of humble origins, free, proud and mighty, rising above the mass to the sheer force of his work), the meaning of work and studies in the world today (brilliant find: "non-wizards" that is to say, normal people, are in fact the descendants of those who once renounced learning witchcraft. So they live technology that others have created for them, without the need to study or to work. An ultra-lucid parable of our consumerist societies!).
Just like in the Lord of the Rings, JK Rowling will be rubbing shoulders with archetypal characters and other more original and ambivalent. So if Professor Dumbledore is none other than Merlin and Gandalf reborn, Voldemort is the heir of Sauron, if Harry is Arthur or Frodo, Severus Snape is the saga of the boy wizard with glasses that Gollum was that of Tolkien, a tragic antihero, pathetic and beautiful at once. It will also, in the final chapter of the saga, the sublime culmination of all the amazing composition of this exceptional writer.
Yes, I am not stingy with praise. But I honestly think this is deserved.
