Harry Potter Analysis

Witchcraft Influences on Harry Potter Books

 

     Notice the symbol for HARRY POTTER is the same as the symbol of Sayville, the demonic lightning bolt. That is the symbol of the Sayville schools, where Melissa Joan Hart spent her childhood. Author J.K. Rowling was able to find a publisher in 1997 because Sabrina the Teenage Witch was the number one kids show in England. Sabrina is much bigger in England than in America. Sabrina started in 1996, and the show's influence can be seen in the book. The book publisher, Bloomsbury, saw how successful Sabrina was and took a chance. J.K. Rowling and Bloomsbury had an intimate knowledge of Sabrina and Melissa. There are also lots of ghost stories, witches, and a coven in Sayville.

Origin of the Lightening Bolt Symbol               Harry Potter Shirt

Rowling gives two contradictory origins of the lightening bolt symbol:

SCHOLASTIC INTERVIEW February 3, 2000
SCHOLASTIC:   "Why did you choose the lightning bolt as a trademark for Harry Potter?"
JKK:  "Just because I decided that it would be an interesting and distinctive mark."

AOL Live from Edinburgh - 2000 America Online, Inc.
UKMC Live: Beanie6426 asks...  "Why did you pick a "lightning bolt" to be the symbol on Harry's forehead?"
JKR Live:  "It had to be something that suggested the intensity of the pain that Voldemort was trying to inflict upon him but a simple and plausible shape for a scar."

So in WITCH interview is she telling the truth?

The lightening bolt symbol of Sayville.   

  Compare the Harry Potter colors to the above.

Potter-Sabrina Similarities
Witchcraft used. Kids use magic.
Group of outcast Kids.
1996-Sabrina   1997-Potter
colors/lightening bolt - Exactly the same as Melissa Joan Hart's school.
Leader of the outcasts is the star. Stars learn magic because they did not know they were supernatural.
No parents in stories (Harry looks in a mirror, Sabrina looks in a book for her father.)
Escaped pain of childhood though magic.
Finds out he has powers and is a witch at the beginning of the show, like Sabrina.
Kid in school just like Libby, the mean cheerleader.
Hogwarts LOOKS like Sabrina's school.
Melissa Joan Hart's school where she was taught the supernatural.     Melissa (Sabrina the Teenage Witch) went more total years (P/T) here than any other school in Sayville. Compare to Hogwarts. See castle type roof on left, and protruding castle type window. The door looks like a door to a castle as well, though obscured in this picture. Melissa Joan Hart went here for her spiritual instruction and learned about people from medieval times such as Sanctus Franciscus who had the supernatural power to talk to animals. Other supernatural topics covered in this school was stigmata, demons, and flying people.        Upon completing her training at this school, Melissa had to pick a name. She picked Catherine, after the medieval Sancta Caterina, who had a "kind of mystical death, in which she had a vision of Hell." Melissa was then known as Melissa Joan CATHERINE Hart.     
      Sanctus Josephus      Students in this school learned about Sanctus Josephus, who had the mystical ability to fly. After being taught it was possible for people to fly if they had supernatural powers,  the children would have races pretending they could fly, sort of like quidditch.

  Ash Wednesday was a big deal in Sayville since there are a lot of Catholics. Kids would put the ashes on their foreheads in the shape of a lightning bolt, to match the symbol of the village and schools. What the kids would like to do would later become the Harry Potter symbol.

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