Although the series of novels are often regarded as “children's literature” on most occasions, and hand-painted books are also full of childlike play. However, they have been well-received by adults. British publishers have also deliberately published a special version for Adult Reader. First Adult Fiction Prize was also awarded to the winner of the "Smith Literature Award" unveiled in London in March.

In July 2000, with the advent of Harry Potter and the Flaming Cup, the essays on Harry Potter novels mushroomed. The research of Harry Potter novels has gradually taken the path of science and rigor. At present, domestic scholars mainly start from two angles. The first is to analyze the novel’s narrative methods and characters from the novel itself, followed by the cultural point of view. Scholars from abroad study the origins of names appearing in novels from the etymological point of view. Among them, the dictionary of Harry Potter, compiled by the American library expert Steve Ward Acker, is the most comprehensive reference book for the study of Harry Potter's novels. There are fiction memorabilia, Anglo-American English Word variant comparison table and other related lists and information. This novel gives us the freedom to imagine that we are in the world of magic, thus breaking the shackles of real life, opening the way for the development of modern children’s literature and further broadening people’s thinking.

2 Hero and Anti-hero

In Harry Potter’s entire series, Harry and Voldemort have always been in positions of opposition, colliding with good and evil, and fighting in their own ways. They are looking for their own existence in good and evil ways. The sense of presence is binary opposition. The opposite fate of the two shows that only by finding a path that suits them can one find a sense of presence.  

2.1 Harry—Hero Who Saved Everything

In the book, Harry Potter saved those trapped by the evil forces of Voldemort, saved the people who were about to step into darkness, and he also saved himself. The cap had said to Harry, “Difficult, very difficult. Plenty of courage, I see. Not a bad mind either. There’s talent, Oh my goodness, yes -- and a nice thirst to prove yourself, now that’s interesting So where shall I put you?"What the cap said had laid down the whole image of Harry as he struggles for peace and justice and consistently implemented his ordinary yet extraordinary hero image. In order to defend justice and love, Harry bravely fights against evil. Even if he is faced with Voldemort whose skill and age were far beyond his own.

Harry’s childhood was full of tragic and he was abused by his uncle’s family. He probably didn’t even know what he was doing wrong, as if his existence was a mistake. Childhood has a great influence on one person, and this kind of childhood that Harry experienced is very easy to make people anti-social. But he did not become that kind of person. When he first got to know Ron in Hogwarts, he knew how to share a small snack with him. He would save Hermione on the evening when there was a giant monster, and they didn’t even get along well with each other. Even if he was only in the first grade, and he grew up in that environment, he was still a kind person. In the long battle with Voldemort, he never left anyone behind. When the students were trapped in the school and did not know how to deal with the catastrophic disaster, he risked being expelled from the school and tried his best to teach the defense against the dark arts to his colleagues. When Harry’s enemy Malfoy was about to die in the flames of the sea, he lent his hand to him; when he himself fell into a self-contradictory mood that might unconsciously help Voldemort to harm others, in order to continue fighting, with the help of his companions, he walked out of the shadows and tried hard to learn defensive techniques to resist Voldemort’s entering his thinking consciousness. His innate talent and perseverance and undaunted courage led him to finally become a powerful magician who could compete Lord Voldemort.