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“All the children of our world will know his name,” prophesies Professor McGonagall at the beginning of\u00a0Harry Potter<\/em>\u00a0.\u00a0More than\u00a020 years after<\/a>\u00a0the appearance in bookstore of the hero imagined by JK Rowling, it is clear that fiction has become reality.\u00a0The\u00a0series in seven volumes<\/a>\u00a0that traces the path of initiation of the young orphan was published more than 500 million copies, and popularized by his adaptations to the cinema.<\/p>\n But by turning the pages of this must-read in the youth literature, budding readers are not content to distract themselves.\u00a0The series is full of\u00a0references<\/a>\u00a0to classical authors,\u00a0ancient myths<\/a>\u00a0and great epics.\u00a0While exploring with Harry Potter the mysteries of Hogwarts, the children also make a small trip to the world library, which can also open new avenues for them to read.\u00a0Here are some examples.<\/p>\n Harry Potter is full of references to Greek antiquity, especially in the choice of\u00a0names<\/a>\u00a0of characters.\u00a0Just by flipping through\u00a0Homer<\/a>\u00a0‘s\u00a0Odyssey<\/a>\u00a0, which is a sixth\u00a0–\u00a0grade<\/a>\u00a0book, young readers can spot names already encountered in Harry’ s adventures.\u00a0For example, Artemis, the name of the goddess of the hunt, is also the middle name of Norbert Dragonneau.<\/p>\n Athena, goddess of wisdom, is present with her Roman name, Minerva, name of Professor McGonagall.\u00a0The figure of the prophetess Cassandra is evoked as the great-great-grandmother of Sibylle Trelawney, divination teacher.\u00a0Hermes<\/a>\u00a0(messenger god) is the name of the owl of Percy Weasley and the base of the name “Hermione”.<\/p>\n As for Olympus, the mountain where the gods live, it reappears through the director of the Beauxbatons school, Olympe Maxime;\u00a0it is an allusion to its size since it is a half-giant!<\/p>\n The Epic of Gilgamesh<\/em><\/a>\u00a0, the oldest fictional text found on the planet, is an anonymous work dating back to around 3000 BC<\/a>\u00a0.\u00a0The text focuses on Gilgamesh, king of Uruk, who goes in search of immortality after the death of his friend Enkidu.<\/p>\n This refusal of his own human condition has influenced many texts of our civilization and is one of the leitmotivs of the dangerous Voldemort in the\u00a0Harry Potter<\/em>\u00a0series\u00a0.\u00a0Following the revelations about his mother’s disappearance, Tom Riddle (Voldemort’s birth name in Jean-Fran\u00e7ois M\u00e9nard’s translation), sets out to pursue immortality.<\/p>\n Enkidu and\u00a0Merope Gaunt<\/a>\u00a0(Voldemort’s mother) play the same catalytic role that propels Gilgamesh and Voldemort into their quest.\u00a0In both cases, this quest fails because immortality remains inaccessible.<\/p>\n The Epic of Gilgamesh<\/em>\u00a0is published in\u00a0youth<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0adult version<\/a>\u00a0.<\/p>\n JK Rowling was inspired\u00a0by Ovid’s\u00a0Metamorphoses<\/em>\u00a0, as much to name her characters as her magical creatures.\u00a0Draco Malfoy’s mother, Narcissa, a more prominent figure from the fourth volume, refers directly to the myth of Narcissus in The Metamorphoses.\u00a0She is haughty and vain, just like Narcissus, who falls in love with his own image reflected in the water of a spring.<\/p>\n Filch, the janitor at Hogwarts, has the same name as Argus, giant “head encircled a hundred eyes” (Book I, translation of\u00a0Joseph Chamonard<\/a>\u00a0), constantly awake.<\/p>\n As far as magical creatures are concerned, Fluffy, Hagrid’s three-headed dog in\u00a0Harry Potter at the Sorcerer’s School<\/em>\u00a0, is a representation of Cerberus, mentioned in Ovid’s books IV, VII, IX, and XIV, the creature who keeps access to hell.\u00a0He keeps the entrance to the trapdoor under which many traps protect the philosopher’s stone.\u00a0Rowling also revives the centaurs of Ovid (II, IX and XII of the\u00a0Metamorphoses<\/em>\u00a0) with similar roles and attributes.<\/p>\n The second installment in the\u00a0Harry Potter<\/em>\u00a0series features\u00a0his narrative rewriting Shakespeare’s\u00a0The Winter’s Tale<\/em>\u00a0.\u00a0This\u00a0intricate piece<\/a>\u00a0narrates the life of the Sicilian royal family composed of Leontes, the king, Hermione, his wife, and their children.<\/p>\n From the beginning of the play, Leontes is seized with a fit of madness;\u00a0he thinks Hermione is cheating on him with his best friend and that the child she is carrying is not hers.\u00a0He puts her in prison with her son and as soon as she gives birth to a girl, he exiles her on an island.\u00a0The son and mother die in prison but Hermione comes back to life at the end of the room when a statue of her comes alive.<\/p>\n Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets<\/em>\u00a0plays on Hermione’s name since it also passes part of the book away from the story, in the form of a statue, to return to life at the end of the book.<\/p>\n The seventh\u00a0Harry Potter<\/em>\u00a0volume\u00a0builds another parallel between the two works, that of Ron’s unhealthy jealousy toward Harry and Hermione.\u00a0Thinking that Hermione prefers Harry, he decides to leave the trio and go home.\u00a0Just like in\u00a0The Winter’s Tale<\/em>\u00a0, he is seized with violent remorse and manages to surpass his jealousy to join the adventure on the end of the work.<\/p>\n Other more well-known Shakespeare plays also come back at various times in\u00a0Harry Potter<\/em>\u00a0.\u00a0The prophecy that is at the heart of books five, six and seven of the series is inspired directly from\u00a0Macbeth<\/a>\u00a0.\u00a0The Bizarr ‘Sisters, the magic music band, has the same name in English (Weird Sisters) as the group of witches in Macbeth and looks like them physically.\u00a0Their incantation is also repeated in the third film\u00a0Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaban<\/em>\u00a0as a song of the school.<\/p>\n Bellatrix Lestrange also has strong resemblances to Lady Macbeth, especially when she explains at the beginning of the seventh volume that she would be willing to sacrifice her own children for Voldemort’s cause.<\/p>\n A good knowledge of\u00a0Harry Potter<\/em>\u00a0can therefore make it easier to get into the complex and diverse works of Shakespeare by creating a pre-marked path from already known names and themes will create stepping stones in the path of reading.<\/p>\n Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire<\/em>\u00a0opens on a very special chapter where the story of the Riddle family (Voldemort’s family) is narrated.\u00a0This story is one of mystery: one morning, the maid of the Riddle enters the big living room to find the dead parents and son Riddle.\u00a0No rational explanation is given to their death except their expression of dread, and the police are caught off guard.<\/p>\n This unusual introduction to a\u00a0Harry Potter is<\/em>\u00a0actually a story of Conan Doyle,\u00a0The Adventure of the Devil’s Foot<\/em>\u00a0, where a family is also found in his living room by a servant (one person died and the other two went crazy) ).\u00a0The conditions are the same: the family members also look frightened and the police are unable to understand this murder.<\/p>\n Sherlock Holmes’<\/a>\u00a0staging\u00a0helps to unravel the story, just as\u00a0Harry Potter’s<\/em>\u00a0knowledge of the magical world\u00a0allows the reader to understand that the Riddle is dead because of a spell cast by Voldemort.<\/p>\n This\u00a0strong\u00a0intertextual<\/a>\u00a0link\u00a0is repeated throughout the\u00a0Harry Potter<\/em>\u00a0saga,\u00a0where Harry, Ron, and Hermione constantly take the detective’s place to elucidate the many mysteries that come their way: what does the Fluffy Dog keep?\u00a0Who opened the chamber of secrets?\u00a0Who is the prisoner of Azkaban?\u00a0Who put Harry’s name in the Goblet of Fire?<\/p>\n All aspects of the detective novel are present in the\u00a0Harry Potter<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0: suspects, clues, false clues, the detective’s research work and even interrogations in the latest volumes.\u00a0Conan Doyle’s lyrics have been included in many\u00a0youth <\/a>editions<\/a>\u00a0that may allow children to continue the police adventure off the pages of\u00a0Harry Potter<\/em>\u00a0.<\/p>\nThe Odyssey<\/strong><\/h4>\n
Gilgamesh<\/h4>\n
The Metamorphoses<\/strong><\/h4>\n
Shakespeare’s theater<\/strong><\/h4>\n
Sherlock Holmes<\/strong><\/h4>\n