Harry Potter e a Pedra Filosofal: em uma análise dos elementos mitológicos e da influência do latim.

Abstract

Harry Potter, a series of seven books written by the English writer J.K. Rowling, has the power to attract many readers to an enchanted world. The general objective of this research is to analyze the mythological constructions and the role Latin language plays in the book Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2017). It is intended to build meanings from the discussions about the work. For this, the actions taken were: first, we presented some aspects about Greco-Roman mythology; then we analyzed the use of Latin language in Rowling’s book trying to build meanings in this ancient language and, as a last action, we suppressed mythological constructions, identifying, pointing out and showing links for a better understanding of the work under study. The research methodology used was bibliographic with a qualitative approach based on the theoretical contributions of Eliade (1957/2000), Brandão (1986), Thomas Bulfinch (2002), Chevalier (2019), who focus on dialogues about mythological studies pointing out actions or elements present in this context. For a theory of the Latin language, we refer to the studies by Faraco (1998) and Oliveira (2001). The research universe of our study are the works of J.K. Rowling. We selected, among them, as the corpus to be investigated, the first novel of the series Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2017) ”. As a result of this investigation, we highlight the presence of creatures that allow us to visualize the wide field of mythological representations in this novel. It was also possible to recognize the use of new Latin terms and expressions that aim at meeting, in contemporary textual production, the demands of emerging sociocultural contexts, modern concepts, facts, objects. Those terms and expressions, heavily used for a certain time, gave light to new words forged in the work of Rowling with parts of others, that do not have entries in dictionaries.