As we can notice, paranormal power has been a more and more common topic in contemporary popular culture such as films, TVs series, especially literatures, many fiction novels and mystery books have been the holy grail of their fans and scholars. People are showing greater interest in paranormal things which include vampire, werewolf, wizard, alien, superhero, or psychic abilities like telepathy, precognition, clairvoyance, and psychometry ever than before. On the other hand, according to David W. Moore’s statistic in 2001, about three in four Americans profess at least one paranormal belief, which is very unexpected for me. As far as I can see, there must be an inseparable relationship between these two phenomenon. What are the reasons behind …show more content…
To a lot of fans, the end of the series is like a farewell to their childhood, and to the amazing magic world that they were captivated and truly believed. Besides, to most of nonage children, the wizard world that’s filled with dragons, goblins, magic wands, and bubbling cauldrons is obviously much more fascinating than boring homework in normal life. It inspires them into the occult. The courageous and intelligent of the main characters, and the sincere friendship between them are also the things that the young are expecting and pursuing all the …show more content…
“J. K. Rowling’s world of Harry Potter—a shadow world of wizards, witches, fantastic creatures, and monsters of all sorts, a world superimposed on and coexisting beside English society of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries—has been read in a number of ways, including as social satire, political parable, and moral allegory” (2). It reflects the problems that exist in the real society, which makes it worth more pondering and studying. For example, in the book series Harry Potter, Luna, a good friend of the main character Harry, represents many paranormal proponents in real world to some extent. She never doubts any of her beliefs that inherited from her father, and she becomes extremely defensive when Hermione (another main female character in Harry Potter) denies the existence of the things she has been always convinced. “You are so narrow-minded, you have to have everything shoved under your nose before you……” (308), Luna said to Hermione. This sort of strategy is well known to the community of academics, scientists, and doctors who often are portrayed in popular paranormal apologetics as politically or economically motivated, cliquish, and blinded by institutionally entrenched tunnel vision. Rowling uses the existence of putative cryptids and the paranormal more generally to raise questions of knowledge and critical thinking, which become