Entertainment web magazine Screen Rant has discovered the chiastic form of the Harry Potter series, seemingly from first principles. Senior staff writer, Angel Shaw, noticed that the later novels reflected the earlier ones and wanted to know if they were the first to discover it.
Once I noticed the Harry Potter series’ reflective nature, I went to the internet to see if anyone else had reached the same conclusion. Of course, they had, and I quickly dove into what has come to be called the “ring composition” or “chiastic” theory of Harry Potter, analyzed stupendously by John Granger.
Anyone who wishes to dig deeper into ring composition can see the pillar post here, or read John Granger’s book Harry Potter as Ring Composition and Ring Cycle. John’s most recent work, the stupendously epic Running Grave: Ring Reading, can be found here.
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