Its about writing techniques of the famous writer J. K. Rowling in her best seller Harry potter seven book series.

1. Writing style and
Techniques of
J. K. Rowling in
Harry Potter series

2. Point of view
• Omniscient narrative
• Harry’s point of view
• Harry’s dreams as
Voldemort
• Quidditch Commentary
by Lee Jordan, Lovegood
• Keeping secrets to
readers

3. Harry’s dream as snake
• Harry put out his tongue. . . . He tasted the man’s
scent on the air. . . . He was alive but drowsing . . .
sitting in front of a door at the end of the corridor
. . . Harry longed to bite the man . . . but he must
master the impulse. . . He had more important
work to do. . . .
• He reared high from the floor and struck once,
twice, three times, plunging his fangs deeply into
the man’s flesh, feeling his ribs splinter beneath
his jaws, feeling the warm gush of blood. . . .
(Harry Potter and order of Phoenix)

4. Writing with a flow… (Harry’s thinking)
• Harry followed him, wondering what was going
to happen to him now. What if Moody wanted to
know how he’d found out about the dragons?
Would Moody go to Dumbledore and tell on
Hagrid, or just turn Harry into a ferret? Well, it
might be easier to get past a dragon if he were a
ferret, Harry thought dully, he’d be smaller, much
less easy to see from a height of fifty feet . . .
(Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)

5. Sense of humor
• Harry’s thinking
• Description of school students, classes
• Harry’s views on different characters, situations
• “Oh, I dunno . . .” said Harry desperately, who could not
remember dreaming anything at all over the last few
days. “Let’s say I dreamed I was . . . drowning Snape in
my cauldron. Yeah, that’ll do. . . .” Ron chortled as he
opened his Dream Oracle. “Okay, we’ve got to add your
age to the date you had the dream, the number of
letters in the subject . . . would that be ‘drowning’ or
‘cauldron’ or ‘Snape’?” “It doesn’t matter, pick any of
them,…” (Harry Potter and the Order of Phoenix)

6. Mystery and suspense
• Each book has different
mystery…
• Unknown to reader
• Person in doubt and revelations
– Snape – Quirrell (Book 1)
– Malfoy-Ginny (Book 2) etc.

7. Repetitions
• Repetition of words, adjectives
– Toad like woman (Umbridge), forgetful
boy(Neville), bossy voice (Hermione)…
• Establishing a phrase…
– The boy who lived
– He who must not be named
– Ron’s ear went scarlet….
– Merlin’s beard
• Revision of past events and
connecting to present

8. Connecting links
• Complex and confusing
• Cloak of invisibility –from 1st book to
last
• Past of Harry’s parents/friends
• Event and presenting its reason
• Connecting plot – actions

9. Magic…but Logical
• Spells connected to emotions
– Patronus
– Cruciatus Curse
• Wizards and animagus
• Occlumency lessons
• “You need to mean them, Potter! You need to really
want to cause pain — to enjoy it — righteous anger
won’t hurt me for long- (Cruciatus curse) (Harry Potter
and the Order of phoenix)

10. Characterization
• Various characters from past and present
• Character of Snape
• Harry and Voldemort
• Negative side of good characters
– Dumbledore
– Sirius Blake
– James potter
• Positive side of evil characters
– Dudley Dursely, Patunia
– Wormtail
– Percy

11. Simple to difficult ideas
• As children’s book
• School life
• Adult ideas
• Ideas of death
• Love/power
• Good/evil
• Inequality in society
• Greater good

12. Different views
• Two sides of one events (Hermione’s views on
opening DA secret classes)
• Doubting every actions (Harry’s visions at the
end of Harry Potter and order of Phoenix)
• Other characters’ view points (Ron’s doubt on
Dumbledore’s death in Harry Potter and
Deathly Hallows)

13. Memorable lines….
• “To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great
adventure.” (book 1)
• “It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far
more than our abilities.” (book 2)
• “Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the
end, if not always in the way we expect.” (book 5)
• “Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why
on earth should that mean that it is not real?” (book 7)
• “Indifference and neglect often do much more damage
than outright dislike. . . .” (book 5)
• “Wit beyond measure is man’s greatest treasure” (book 5)