摘 要：《哈利波特》系列小说被译成近七十多种语言，风靡两百多个国家和地区。小说中所用的艺术表现手法具有其独到之处，本文主要谈论书中人物性格描写技巧吧。本文从对《哈利波特》中主要人物伏地魔和哈利波特等人物的描写入手,介绍了描写的种类，包括肖像描写、动作描写、心理描写、语言描写、细节描写等，阐述了小说中人物性格的描写技巧，包括修辞手法、正面与侧面描写、直接与间接描写、渲染、对比手法。本文旨在让读者深入了解《哈利波特》中人物性格的描写技巧，并感受哈利波特小说的神秘魅力。

关键词：《哈利波特》；人物性格；描写技巧

Abstract：Harry Potter series were translated into nearly seventy different languages, which were fashionable in more than two hundred countries and regions. The author uses unique artistic presentation techniques. This paper mainly talks about the  description skills of characters based on the descriptions of the main characters Harry Potter, Voldemort and so on . It introduces the usage of descriptions, including the description of appearance, actions, language, psychology and details. It also demonstrates the main description techniques, including rhetoric, front and side, direct and indirect, rendering and comparison. This paper aims to deepen readers’ understanding of the description techniques of characters in the work and reveals its mysterious charm.

Key words: Harry Potter； Character；description technique

Contents

摘 要 i

Abstract ii

I. Introduction 1

II. Main Characters 2

2.1 Lord Voldemort 2

2.2 Harry Potter 2

2.3 Dumbledore 3

2.4 Ron and Hermione 4

III.Skill Use of Description 4

3.1 Description of Appearance 4

3.2 Description of Action 5

3.3 Description of Language 6

3.4 Description of Psychology 6

3.5 Description of Details 7

IV. Character Description Technique 8

4.1 Rhetoric 8

4.2 Front and Side 9

4.3 Direct and Indirect 9

4.4 Render 9

4.5 Comparison 10

V. Conclusion 10

Bibliography 11

Acknowledgements 13

Analysis of Description Techniques of Characters in Harry Potter

I. Introduction

Harry Potter series of books and films, was cast in the shadow of other contemporary best-selling children’s books and movies. While the audience for Harry Potter's enthusiasm remains to be the test of time, there is no denying. It is indeed a brilliant movie, and this series has so far taken five episodes. As the story of the temptation to us, Harry’s adventure makes our hearts beat together. Different from other children’s film is that Harry Potter series experience the magical world of the young wizard and indulge them together. One of the joys of watching movies is the book contains a magical world full of color. Of course, you would like to thank Ms. Rowling including brooms，magic，three dogs，a unicorn, the Whomping Willow and screaming Mandala. These things are its unique charm to attract us,so we are attractten them hundreds or thousands of years of history, even tens of thousands behind. But in addition to these elements in the myth of the elements, the story of Harry Potter has been able to successfully second obvious advantage, which is that the combination of reality and fantasy. At the same time, with Harry's growth the environment is also a modern society, video games, advertising and the emergence of modern transportation. This social system enhance the broom. Now electronic products exactly the same, emergency rescue wizard tool cars and three buses London red bus as GTA. In this one, most people aspire to feel Harry’s upbringing called Hogwarts. Hogwarts look with an old European-style castle, full of illegal channels, many organs, full of strange creatures and ghosts. Although these features make the Harry Potter story in the middle of mythological, but the school is very similar to today. This is similar to the school as a social unit, the employment relationship between the teachers and students secretly competing with each other, the opposite, the school director and principal contradiction between the reality of life is that we may encounter . Harry Potter is reality and fantasy combining the best aspects of a combination of clever story. In the Harry Potter stories, Ms. Rowling has established for us a brief but magical history clear context. Advertising 3000 BC to 1000 BC, in ancient Egyptian magic into the community, the Wizards are respected. In 382 B. C., officially on sale Ollivander wand well-made. Before AD 993, as part of the Muggle witches and wizards, mistrust, Gryffindor, Helga Hovpav, Rowe Narayan Ravenclaw and Slytherin four greatest magicians are forced to work together to build magic  school, the only pure blood wizard, enter the school's proposal Sarah sars Laite Lin refused to establish after school in the chamber, the wizarding world and the Muggle eyes began to conceal their existence Muggle. But the connection between the real world of Hogwarts is not cut off, schools are connected to the real world and the Magic Kingdom a huge nets. As president, the students, their living, learning, leisure is the huge castle almost completely. Thus, Hogwarts students become a second home.