Abstract of Paper to be Presented at Accio 2008

Reading a Narrative Destiny. Prophecies Hidden in the Lines and the Case of Harry Potter

Orsetta Innocenti

Youth literature might be considered as a peculiar fictional world which enables us to entangle – through a journey which reveals itself as both fictional and real – the logic of fictional worlds with that of the actual one of every individual's own existence. This is also the case for Harry Potter: the creation of such a parallel universe provides the readers with different possibilities of identification. From this perspective, the end of Harry Potter might, therefore, be detected by a correct act of reading the several narrative clues distributed through the books: the final education is the reading of the readers' mirroring that of the characters themselves.