Potter is greeted with “scraping chairs” of excitement and instantly “…shaking hands with everyone in the Leaky Cauldron” (69). This is done by Potter at the “famous” Leaky Cauldron with Hagrid (Rowling 68). In the next step Harry crosses the threshold by leaving the behind his world of normality for a foreign experience.

Hagrid first introduces Harry to the wizardry world and helps him and his friends decipher the Sorcerer’s Stone. Throughout the book, he likes to live alone and barbarically as keeper of the grounds. The motto that the explorer exhibits is “don’t fence me in” (Golden 3). Hagrid can be classified as an explorer in the twelve common archetypes. Harry’s supernatural aid is a “giant of a man” who delivers the letter on Potter’s eleventh birthday, Rubeus Hagrid (Rowling 46). A supernatural aid is often a figure who guides the hero through his new journey. Harry seems excited and ready to explore the magical world. Durley could not keep the mail a secret and Potter ends up receiving a letter that he is admitted to Hogwarts School. The refusal of the call is when the hero objects to the undertaking. The first two steps in Joseph Cambell’s monomyth are actually switched because oddly enough, the refusal of call is not done by Potter himself, but by his own uncle before the call to adventure. Dursley takes drastic measures to keep the letters that Harry has been admitted to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry unopened, like moving the family of four out to a secret shack. He displays his force through constantly nagging Potter. Dursley, shows characteristics of the ruler archetype by trying to have the most successful family. Harry Potter lives with his uncle, aunt, and cousin who hide from Harry that he is a wizard. The call to adventure is the original alarm given to the hero, taking him from normality into an unknown trip. The first stage of Joseph Cambell’s seventeen stage monomyth is separation, with five steps: call to adventure, refusal of call, supernatural aid, crossing the threshold, and belly of the whale. Harry Potter’s heroic journey can be traced by readers throughout the novel. Harry demonstrates the three stages separation, initiation, and return, which are then divided into seventeen steps. Potter follows the stages introduced by Joseph Campbell’s Monomyth, learning new wizarding skills and challenging himself. Harry Potter’s heroic journey through the Muggle World into the Wizarding World shows a growth in himself and his mind.

Rowling is the first book in a seven-part series. The novel, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, written by J.

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