Place of Books about Harry Potter

Contents
Introduction
Chapter I. General facts
Chapter II. Literature success
Chapter III. Commercial success
Practical part
Conclusion

Area and object
The area of our work is literature.
For object of our research we have chosen the phenomenon of Harry Potter’s popularity.

Actuality
Our project work is topical for example for young people because Harry Potter is the greatest literary phenomenon ever and most of the books are read by teenagers.

Value
Our work can be valuable for:
students who study English
students who study literature
everyone who has read Harry Potter books

Aim
The aim of our research is making a forecast about place of books about Harry Potter in future literature.

Objectives
to study literature on this topic
to find special traits of Harry Potter books
to conduct a survey among teenagers and find out their opinion
to make a forecast about place of books about Harry Potter in future literature.

Problem Question
Our problem question is: are books about Harry Potter really great or are they pulp fiction?

Hypothesis
Our hypothesis is: in future Harry Potter series will be forgotten, it will not be popular.

Methods used
studying literature
brainstorm
analyze
survey

General facts
The 1st chapter is devoted to the genre of Harry Potter and other books of this genre, main features of Harry Potter books

Literature success
The second chapter deals with the literary success of Harry Potter series, its honors, awards and critics

Commercial success
In the 3rd part we give information about commercial success of Harry Potter books and other media connected with them.

Practical part
For our practical part we decided to conduct a survey because we had to question many people in short time.
32 students of 8th and 10th form took part in our survey.

Questions
Have you read books about Harry Potter?
If yes, why?/ If no, why?
Have you seen films about Harry Potter?
If yes, why?/If no, why?
What, in your opinion, is the cause of Harry Potter’s succes?
Readers of a newspaper The Telegraph have chosen Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone as the best book of the last 25 years. Do you agree with this opinion?

Have you read books about Harry Potter?

Why did you read books about Harry Potter?

Have you watched films about Harry Potter?

Why did you watch films about Harry Potter?

What, in your opinion, is the cause of Harry Potter’s succes?

Do you agree that Harry Potter and Philosopher's Stone is the best book of the last 25 years?

Conclusion
According to the results we have drawn the conclusion that books about Harry Potter are more entertaining than great.
Considering this we can make a forecast that in future Harry Potter series will be forgotten.

Uses
Our research paper might well be used:
at the lessons of English
at the lessons of literature
as an article for a literature magazine

List of literature
Natalia Kondratova, Michael Kaluzhskyi The story of one murder
Russian Reporter, № 9 (009)
Jayne Nelson Magic Hour
Total Film, № 109
Peter Childs, Mike Storry Encyclopedia of contemporary British culture
Boutledge, 1999
Steve Daly Phoenix Rising
Entertainment Weekly, № 928
David Bagget, Shawn E. Klein Harry Potter and philosophy If Aristotel Ran Hogwarts
St.-Petersburg, 2005
J. K. Rowling Harry Potter and Deathly Hollows
Scholastic Inc., 2007
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry-potter
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/fantasy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/bildungsroman
http://www.hpclub.com.ua/hp-books/articles/FenomenHP.htm