Here I am sharing my presentation of paper no. 13, The new Literature

1. Comparison between Harry Potter
and Holy Bible
Name – Kailash Baraiya
Roll No – 09
Batch – 2016 – 2018
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Email Id – kailashbaraiya21@gmail.com
Paper No. – 13, The New Literature
Submitted to – Department of English, M.K.
Bhavnagar University

2. Comparison between Harry Potter and Holy Bible

3. ‘Harry Potter’ and ‘Holy Bible’
 The Harry potter series by J.K Rowling tops the
New York Times list of best selling book series of all time.
 The Holy Bible is the most printed book in the world.
These two popular books have reached such a high
levels of recognition could be that they deal with
universal themes in all great works of literature. The
internal struggle of good and evil and the message that
love will always trimph at the end.

4. Comparison Between Characters
Dumbledore God
Harry Potter Jesus
Voldemort (Tom Riddle) Satan (Lucifer)
Symbol of Serpent of Harry
Potter Symbol of Serpent in Holy Bible

5. Dumbledore and God

6. Comparison Of Dumbledore and God
Dumbledore
 The virtue good is
exemplified in the character
of Dumbledore.
 Dumbledore tells Harry that
he will never leave him, when
Harry worries about
Dumbledore leaving the
school, Dumbledore replied, ‘I
will only truly have left this
school when none here are
loyal to me’.
 Dumbledore is also known for
greatest defender of Muggles.
God
 God is the embodiment of what
is good in the world.
 According to Bible God is present
in our hearts, and his spirit
always remains with us. Bible
describe God’s words to his
followers – Surely I am with you
always, to the very end of the
age, God promises never to
abandon.
 God is known as the greatest
defender of weak.

7. Harry Potter and Jesus

8. Comparison of Harry and Jesus
 Bothe Jesus and Harry are targeted even before their births due
to prophecy of them being the chosen one to bring peace to the
world, but both ultimately survive due to their parent’s protection.
 Before their birth both were fated to become the saviours of their
world.
 The angle Gabriel appears to Mary and tells her that she will
become the saviour of the human race.
 The prophecy made by Sybill Trelawney predict that a child with
unknown powers born at the end of the month of July, will challenge
Voldemort.
Harry is targeted as the destined child. Voldemort immediately
begins to take action and visits the Potters in order to kill Harry.

9. Voldemort and Satan

10. Comparison of Voldemort and Satan
Voldemort (Tom Riddle)
 Dumbledore, who gives him
an opportunity to become a
true wizard and learn to use
and control magic at Hogwarts
school .
 Dumbledore is the only wizard
Voldemort has ever feared.
Satan ( Lucifer)
 Lucifer turns against God, his
creator, in hopes of
overpowering him and
usurping his role as ruler of
the universe.
 Satan has always feared
God.

11. Comparison of Voldemort and Satan
Both evil characters try to match and overcome
the power of their opposites, only have their
attempts thwarted.
Satan falls from God’s grace just as Dumbledore
knows not to trust Voldemort.

12. Serpent in Harry Potter and
Serpent in Holy Bible

13. Role of Serpent in Harry Potter and
Role of Serpent in Holy Bible
 The symbol of the Snake has been thought of as evil
and thus associated with Satan, who even takes the form
of a snake when tempting Eve in the Garden of Eden.
 Voldemort can speak directly to snakes, which is known
as the language of Parsel tongue.
 One of Voldemort’s Horcruxes is his pet Snake Nagini,
which is inextricably linked to him in that she contains a
part of his soul.
 It is fitting that Lord Voldemort is a direct descendent of
Salazar Slytherin, founder of the Slytherin house of
Hogwarts, whose symbol happens to be a snake.

14. Work Cited
Mugglenet. Harry Potter and Holy Bible: A comparison. 6 March
2012. 25 March 2018 <http://www.mugglenet.com/2012/03/harry-
potter-and-the-holy-bible-a-comparison/>.