Comparing the Families in Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Az

Comparing the Families in Rowlings nettle fiddle and the Prisoner of Azkaban and Hobans The swipe and His ChildCreating grounds of their own, with particular kinds of boundaries separating them from the larger world, families ideally appropriate abetment and protection for each of their members (Handel, xxiv). In J.K. Rowlings Harry potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, however, the Dursleys and Aunt Marge die to carry through their roles as Harrys primary caregivers. In Russell Hobans The pilfer and His Child, the father mouse is unable to give his child all that he needs and longs for. In these deuce childrens stories, the expectation that families will provide animal(prenominal) support, emotional support, and encouragement for their children is not met.In Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, the orphaned Harry is physically neglected by his entirely living relatives, the Dursleys. Harrys Uncle Vernon, Aunt Petunia, and cousin Dudley think that by endorsing Harry s non-existence in their lives, their fear of non-Muggles would disappear. Treating Harry like a wild animal, the frightened Dursleys physically confine Harry to their home and do not allowing their nephew any contact with the outside world. When Harry finally runs forth from the Dursleys, he panics because his family never gives him Muggle money. While forcing Harry to stay indoors, the Dursleys also encourage Harry to stay out of their way, which Harry is only too talented to do (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, 24). Shunning communication and distancing themselves physically from Harry, the Dursleys fail at being the loving family that Harry needs and craves. By well-favoured Harry little to eat and old clothes to wear, the Dursleys continue to cope Harry as n... ...ting and abusing him. In The Mouse and His Child, the father mouse is favorable of his little son, but he is inept at keeping his family of two stable. Being a passive and pessimistic parent, the fath er mouse, like Harrys aunt and uncle, fail at providing the mouse child with physical support, emotional support, and moral encouragement. Although they are family, the Dursleys and the mouse father provide a dysfunctional setting for Harry and for the mouse child, forcing their children to grow up painfully faster. Works CitedHandel, G. Introduction to the first edition, 1967. In The Psychosocial Interior of the Family. Ed. G. Handel and G.G. Whitchurch. New York Aldine de Gruyter, 1994. xxiii-xxx.Hoban, Russell. The Mouse and His Child. New York Harper & Row, 1967.Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Vancouver Raincoast Books, 2000.