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1
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How is magic used in Harry Potter?

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to manipulate reality

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2
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What does the philosopher’s stone represent?

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Immortality

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What archetype does Snape represent?

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Shadow

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What archetypes does Harry Potter represent?

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Seeker and orphan

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Hufflepuff archetype

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Anima

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Slytherin archetype

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Shadow

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Dumbledore’s explanation at the end of “HP and the Sorcerer’s Stone” was discussed in class as

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Buddhist instruction about desire and ego

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In Buddhism, the cause of suffering comes from

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Desire

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Invisibility cloak represents

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human nature and ethics/morality

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legendary alchemical legend dealing with the desire for immortality and power

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Philosopher’s stone

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sorting ceremony is defined as

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an initiation ritual

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wands are

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an extension of personal power

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13
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Buddhist actions that guide one to overcome desire

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8-fold path

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14
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What is an example of a portal in Harry Potter?

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Platform 9 3/4

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The sorting hat determines a child’s placement based on what

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personal qualities, mediates a type of initiation ritual, and sees potentiality in the person being sorted

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What does blood symbolize in Harry Potter?

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life and death and a way to define people socially

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What is a talisman?

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object that has protective power

18
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What does a phoenix represent?

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death and resurrection/immortality

19
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What does the animus archetype represent?

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loyalty

20
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What does the Mirror of Erised represent?

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Desire

21
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agape

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selfless, sacrificial love

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phileo

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brotherly love

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eros

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sexual love

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storge

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love for that which isn’t human

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ethics tell us how we

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ought to act

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Gryffindor

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brave, chivalrous, hero archetype

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Ravenclaw

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smart, rational, studious, Animus archetype for reason

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Hufflepuff

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loyal, kind, anima archetype for feelings

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Slytherin

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cunning, morally ambiguous, ambitious, shadow archetype, not necessarily evil, but part of the unconscious mind the ego wants to suppress

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Confucianism

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filial piety

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Hinduism

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Dharma-duty

32
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Nirvana

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escape from suffering, elimination of desire

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