Harry as "classic" hero (was Re: Lily's Sacrifice)

[rja.carnegie at excite.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 19536

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Belle_Starr_777 at y... wrote:
> Absolutely, positively, anyone interested in the hero aspect should 
> read Joseph Campbell's "Hero With A Thousand Faces"...

I always understood that (as you touched on) it was more or less
adapted for movie theatres as _Star Wars_ - is the book better? ;-)

And _Neverending Story_, and, well, names escape me but you can
probably supply some - old-time children's fairy-stories, too -
having seen enough of these stories, informed by Campbell where they
follow after him, don't we stand where Campbell stood anyway, in
perception of how these things work?

Of course it would have saved time to read Campbell _first_,
and skip some of the other works as redundant...

Robert Carnegie
Glasgow, Scotland