THE FEATURES OF PERSONAL OPPOSITION CREATION HARRY POTTER VS VOLDEMORT

Abstract

The article is devoted to the definition and characteristics of the main defining features of the hero and antagonist in the narrative about Harry Potter. Attention is focused on the problem of the evolution of the main characters, their characters, which is caused by the hybridization of the genre of this work by JK Rowling. The main similarities and differences of the hero and the anti-hero are characterized in the work about the little sorcerer. It has been established that Harry Potter is a mosaic image consisting of the characteristics of other heroes. He is a good wizard, but a part of the evil Voldemort lives in him, and can absorb him. It is proven that with the hybridized genre of the narrative about Harry Potter, JK Rowling blurred the clear boundaries between children's and adult literature. And this hybridized genre requires hybridized heroes, both positive and negative. The hybridity of the characters of the main characters of the septology about Harry Potter is expressed in their versatility: there are no absolutely positive and absolutely negative heroes – on the one hand, Harry and his friends have character flaws; on the other hand, the story of Voldemort's life (especially his childhood) makes us feel pity and sympathy. The story of Harry Potter is told completely and quite consistently, while the story of Voldemort's life is fragmented and not chronological, which arouses interest in it. The image of Harry raises another question – the problem of heroes-nephews or orphans or bastards in literature, when an impoverished fatherless child must defeat an enemy who was invincible before. Both Harry and Voldemort were not born heroes (anti-heroes), but became them during their lives, performing certain actions, developing the "light" or "dark" side of their "Ego". This also made a result in a hybrid readership – Harry Potter books are loved by both school children and teenagers, as well as adults.