Harry Potter: Angry Young Man

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This post was written by: Carol Webb

We turned up at the multiplex cinema, not really expecting to be able to see the latest Harry Potter film, ‘ The Order of the Phoenix’ without queueing, this was not so. The film was showing on three screens at half-hourly intervals, ready to cater for the hordes of young people that weren’t there. They weren’t filling the seats either, and this was only two days after opening. We congratulated ourselves on our perfect timing, no-one would be spoiling our view of the screen, it was a bit eerie though, could our youth be cooling to the adventures of the boy wizard.

After enduring what felt like hours of extremely loud advertisements, the film started and we waited to be thrilled and scared by the special effects, whilst being wooed into a different universe by wonderful scenery and perhaps the odd bit of magic.

We got the special effects, and they were thrilling, but the substance of the story was heartache and homicide. The poor boy spent the whole film feeling alienated, lonely and sad. His only animated moments were when he was fighting either injustice or evil, his friends were behind him and he could use his magic wand. Fighting was the only part of his life when he actually believed in himself, but all the fighting in his world wasn’t enough to save the father figure that he had bonded with and eventually hoped to live with.

Our hero is now fifteen years of age, a flawed hero and role model for millions of teens, who no doubt empathise with his seething angst. After all, isn’t that what growing up is all about? This film and book is telling our youth that there are constant battles to be fought, that life is a struggle, and really very painful, and you’ll probably come out of it feeling bad about yourself. These un-truths add to the writing on our walls that conditions how we perceive life to be, it becomes a self-fulfilling prophesy, life becomes the struggle that we make it.

Adults who have been conditioned in this way are unhappy people, who develop diseases of the heart and need help to release the emotions that have caused their diseases. Teenage angst is not inevitable, but it is socially acceptable, and until it becomes unacceptable nothing will change. Blood pressure will continue to be the result of unresolved anger, heart attacks will be the result of squeezing all the joy from life and heart failure a belief in the strains and stresses of life.

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