江苏省常州市西夏墅中学高中英语 Unit4 Films and film events文化背景 牛津译林版选修 8A brief introduction of Harry PotterHarry James Potter is the title and the main character of J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter fantasy series. The books cover seven years in the life o f the lonely orphan(孤儿) who, on his eleventh birthday, learns he is a wizard. He attends Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry to learn magic. Under the guidance of the kindly headmaster Albus Dumbledore, Harry discovers that he is already famous throughout the wizarding world(巫师界), and that his fate is tied with that of Lord Voldemort, the universally feared Dark wizard who killed Harry's father and mother.Second to fourth booksIn the second book, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets《哈利·波特与密室》, Rowling pits Harry against Tom Marvol o Riddle, Lord Voldemort's "memory" within a secret diary which has p ossessed Ron's younger sister Ginny Weasley. When Muggle-born students are suddenly being petrified, many suspect that Harry may be behind the attacks, further aliena ting him from his peers. In the climax( 高 潮 ), Ginny disappears. To rescue her, Harry battles Riddle and the monster he controls that is hidden in the Chamber of Secrets. In the third book, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Rowling uses a time travel premise. Harry learns that his parents were betrayed( 背 叛 ) to Voldemort by their friend Peter Pettigrew, who framed Harry's godfather Sirius Black for the crimes, condemning him to Azkaban prison. When Sirius escapes to seek revenge, Harry and Hermione use a Time Turner to save him and a hippogriff named Buckbeak. But Pettigrew escapes, and an innocent Sirius remains a hunted fugitive.In the p...
