The beginning of each book shows the protagonist Harry in a miserable and abusive situation while living with the Dursleys, his only relatives who have adopted him, and then traces his way of escaping from the stifling world of the Mugger(wizard’s term for ordinary non—magical human beings)into the parallel enchanted world of the witch and wizard folk, which is for the most part masked from the Muggers’ eyes The humor and suspense of the twisting plots and highly detailed descriptions of the magical world are almost impossible to resist. Just as Amanda Craig observes, “Rowling has been compared to C.S.Lewis and J.R.R.Tolkien,chiefly because she has imagined, in considerable detail, a world magically parallel to our own 《哈利•波特》小说中的希腊神话原型分析(3):http://www.youerw.com/yingyu/lunwen_5785.html