10 Ways Harry Potter Changed The World

10 Ways Harry Potter Changed The World

From sports to language to Game of Thrones, Harry Potter has had a lasting impact on the world.

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When it comes to fantasy literature, no figure looms larger in the 21st Century than the bespectacled wizard named Harry Potter. The creation of the English author J.K, Rowling, Harry Potter and the world of which he is a part have become an indelible part of popular culture.

He has become so ubiquitous that it’s sometimes easy to forget what the world was like before we all traveled to Hogwarts and learned about the secret world of wizards and witches that exists beside our own. Here are ten ways in which the Harry Potter films and books have changed the world.

10 The YA Boom

Though of course, young adult fiction has always been around, there’s no question that the release of Harry Potter proved that it wasn’t just a niche but a rich and deep market that could be fully exploited. In the years since the release of the novels, we’ve seen a veritable explosion of both similarly-themed books (young people discovering magical worlds or their own magical talents) as well as general young adult fiction. Though few have managed to attain quite the phenomenal success of Harry Potter, some of them have definitely come close.

9 It Proved Kids Would Read Longer Books

There is sometimes an assumption that children will only read short books. According to some people, it’s better to talk down to children rather than to speak to them on their own terms. The Harry Potter books, by contrast, speak to both children and adults. As a result, they proved to be extraordinarily popular among all ages. For their part, children seemed to enjoy losing themselves in the magical world that Rowling created. Despite the fact that the books got longer, both young and old alike continued to buy the books in record numbers.

8 Made Reading Cool Again

We’re all familiar with the stereotypes associated with someone who likes to read. Such a person is almost automatically regarded as not cool, as being something of a social outcast. One of the unexpected benefits of the success of Harry Potter has been the way that it has shifted how people think about reading and the ways that it is perceived. Now, to be seen reading a book like Harry Potter is a marker of coolness for a wide variety of people, rather than just an insular and “nerdy” activity.

7 Mainstreamed Nerd Culture

Relatedly, geeks have always had a hard time of it. They are far too frequently dismissed as being out of touch with the real world, with having too much time on their hands and being too obsessive about their chosen fan object. Harry Potter changed all of that. Now, it was not only acceptable to show that you’d immersed yourself in a fantasy world; it was cool. This would go on to make other types of geek fandom mainstream, and we’re all thankful for that.

6 Influenced Real World Language

One of the brilliant things about the Harry Potter universe is how fully developed it is, with its own internal consistency, including its own vocabulary. For example, the word “muggle” is used to refer to those who don’t have magical abilities.

In addition to be a truly hilarious-sounding word, it has also become part of everyday vocabulary outside of the books, and people use it, for example, to refer to people who aren’t fans of Harry Potter. Nothing indicates the success of a fictional universe like seeing such a blurring of the boundaries between the real and the fictional

5 Quidditch Became A Real Sport

In addition to influencing the real world through the use of vocabulary, the wizarding sport of Quidditch has also made the leap from page to the real world. For those who don’t know, Quidditch is a game played on brooms and involves two teams with various roles to play, several balls that try to take out individual players, and the all-important Golden Snitch. Quidditch games play a very substantial part in most of the books (particularly the early ones) and they provide some truly splendid visual sequences in the films.

4 Helped Lord of the Rings Kick Off the Fantasy Boom

The early 2000s were something of a golden age for fantasy films. After all, the year 2001 saw the release of not just Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone but also The Fellowship of the Ring, the first installment of Peter Jackson’s hugely successful trilogy based on the works of J.R.R. Tolkien. These two enormous financial successes led to a spate of other fantasy films that, to some extent, continues to this day. After all, it’s unlikely that we would have the success of Game of Thrones were it not for Harry Potter.

3 For Better or Worse, Kickstarted a Fan Fiction Boom

A sure sign of a particular literary work’s success is how much fan fiction it inspires. For the uninitiated, fan fiction is fiction that is set in a fictional world that is not written by the creator of that world. It is often used by first-time authors who want to practice their craft without creating their own world, and some use it to fill in gaps that they observe in the original texts. Harry Potter has been responsible for its own cottage industry of fan fiction, a trend that continues to this day.

2 Helped Make Authors Themselves Celebrities

Though there are of course many writers who labor in relative obscurity, JK Rowling is one of those who has truly ascended into the ranks of a celebrity. Her tweets are looked over and scoured, and her input is sought out by those who want to know her viewpoints on a wide variety of subjects. This is a rather extraordinary thing for an author to achieve, and a measure of her success is that she has become a celebrity in her own right, perhaps even more famous than the actors who portrayed her characters on-screen.

1 It Helped Teach a Generation Tolerance

Though it is easy to forget, Harry Potter is not just an exciting tale of a young wizard growing up and confronting evil, it is also a warning about the dangers of the rise of a dictatorial wizard who emphasizes the importance of blood purity above all else. Voldemort and his Death Eaters repeatedly attempt to purge the wizarding world of all of those who they see as not pure enough, and so their eventual defeat at the hands of Harry and his allies is a reminder of how important it is to fight against evil no matter the difficulty.

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