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Harry Potter and the Ring Composition
Chiasmus, Story Circles, and The Hogwarts Saga
Doxacon Prime, 14 November 2015
Three Questions to Answer:
• What is a Ring Composition?
• Are the Harry Potter Novels Written as Rings?
• So What?
Thinking in Circles: An Essay on Ring Composition
Mary Douglas, Yale,2007
Four Characteristics of Ring Composition:
• Beginning and End Meet as Story Frame• Story has Center or Turning Point that Echoes
and Suggests Opening and Finale• “Parallel Analogies” -- Second ‘half’ of book
mirrors front ‘half’ as a kind of “reverse echo”• There are Rings within Rings, Story Mirrors inside
the Larger Story MirrorIntroverted Parallelisms in a Ring with an Axis
Chapter 4: D Exposition
Chapter 5:Middle/Turning Point
Chapter 6: D’ Echoing
Chapter 2: B Exposition
Chapters 1/9: A/A’Beginning/End-’Latch’
Beginning-Middle-
and-End:Echoing
with Emphasis at Finale or at Center
Sample Ring
Composition Construction
Chapter 3: C Exposition
Chapter 7:C’ Echoing
Chapter 8: B’ EchoingB/B’ Scene, Dialogue,
Characters
C/C’ Scene, Dialogue, Characters
D/D’ Scene Dialogue, Characters
Biblical Chiasmus• Chiastic Verses -- Prologue to John opening• Ring Stories or Passages – Abraham and Isaac• Book Rings – St Paul’s Letter to the Galatians• Ring of Books – Hextateuch (Milgram)• Biblical Canon – ‘Bible Wheel’“The artificial part of poetry, perhaps we shall be
right to say all artifice, reduces itself to the principle of parallelism.” Gerard Manley Hopkins
Picturing Chiasmus: Galatians Center
A B C D [D’] C’B’
A’
The heir remains a child and servant (4:1)
Until the time appointed of the father (4:2)
When that time came, God sent forth his Son (4:4)
Made under the law (4:4)
To redeem those under the law (4:5)
Because ye are sons, God sent forth the Spirit of his Son (4: 6)
That ye cry, Abba, Father (4:6)
That ye are no more a servant but a son and heir (4:7)
Picturing Chiasmus: Galatians As a Whole
A B C D
E D’ C’B’
A’
Prologue (1:1 – 1:12)
Autobiographical section (1:13 – 2:19)
Justification by faith (2:11 – 3:4)
Arguments from Scripture (3:5 – 3:29)
Arguments from Scripture (4:11 – 4:31)
Justification by faith (5:1 – 5:10)
Moral Section (5:11 – 6:11)
Epilogue (6:12-18)
Central Chiasm (4:1-10)
How Pervasive Is This?The Shape of Biblical Language
Fr John Breck• Synoptic Narratives• Synoptic Discourses• The Gospel of St. John• Letters of St. Paul• ‘O Gladsome Light’• The Ladder of Divine Ascent
Hymn of the Resurrection(A) Having beheld the Resurrection of Christ, let us worship the holy Lord Jesus, the only Sinless One.
(B) We worship Thy Cross, O Christ, and Thy holy Resurrection we hymn and glorify:
(C) for Thou art our God, we know none other beside Thee, we call upon Thy name.
(B) O come all ye faithful, let us worship Christ’s holy Resurrection, for behold through the Cross joy hath
come to all the world.
(A) Ever blessing the Lord, we hymn His Resurrection; for having endured crucifixion, He hath destroyed death by death.
C. S. Lewis Familiarity with Chiasmus/Ring Composition
• The Bible• Virgil’s Aeneid• Boethius’ Consolation of Philosophy• Milton’s Paradise Lost• Charles Williams’ The Place of the Lion• J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit
Chapter 6: Into the Forest
Chapter 9:In the Witch’s House
Chapter 12: Peter’s First Battle
Chapters 3-4: Edmund and the
White Witch
Chapters 14-15: The Ransom and
Resurrection
Chapter 2: What Lucy
Found There Chapters 1/17: Lucy Looks Into a Wardrobe/
The Hunting of the White Stag
Beginning-Middle-
and-End:Redemption of Edmund
Chapter 5: Back On This Side
of the Door
Chapters 7-8: At the Beavers’
Dam
Chapters 10-11:The Coming of
Spring and Christmas
Chapter 13:Deep Magic From the Dawn of Time
Chapter 16: What Happened
About the Statues
Mr. Tumnus
Edmund’s Fall and the Ransom
The Law of Logic and Emperor
Peter: Prig and Prince
Report and Return of Aslan
Chapter 4: D Exposition
Chapter 5:Middle/Turning Point
Chapter 6: D’ Echoing
Chapter 2: B Exposition
Chapters 1/9: A/A’Beginning/End-’Latch’
Beginning-Middle-
and-End:Echoing
with Emphasis at Finale or at Center
Sample Ring
Composition Construction
Chapter 3: C Exposition
Chapter 7:C’ Echoing
Chapter 8: B’ EchoingB/B’ Scene, Dialogue,
Characters
C/C’ Scene, Dialogue, Characters
D/D’ Scene Dialogue, Characters
Beginning and End
Middle Joining Beginning-End
Chamber – Half-Blood Prince Story Parallels and Analogies
Prisoner – Order of the Phoenix Story Parallels and Analogies
Ring of Seven Book Series
(Tom Riddle)
(Sirius Black)
___________Beginning-
Middle-and-End:
Harry Potter’s
Battles with the Dark
Lord
HP2Chamber of
Secrets
HP1Philosopher’s
Stone
HP5Order of
the Phoenix
HP3Prisoner of Azkaban
HP6Half-Blood
Prince
HP7Deathly Hallows
Ring of Seven Book Series
_____________Beginning-
Middle-and-End:
Harry Potter’s
Battles with the Dark
Lord
HP4Goblet of Fire
=========
==========
Chapter 7: The Sorting
Hat
Chapter 9:The Midnight Duel
Chapter 11: Quidditch
Chapter 3: Letters from
No OneChapters 1-2/17:
The Boy Who Lived-Vanishing Glass /The Man With Two Faces
Beginning-Middle-
and-End:Miraculous
Survival
Ring of Harry Potter
and the Philosopher’s
Stone__________
Chapter 6: Journey from Platform 9 3/4
Chapter 12:Mirror of
Erised
Chapter 16: Through the
Trap Door
Adventure!
Ron and Harry: Identity, Family Issues
Self Revealed
Chapter 7: The Sorting
Hat
Chapter 9:The Midnight Duel
Chapter 11: Quidditch
Chapters 4-5: Keeper of the Keys
Chapters 13-15: The Forbidden Forest
Chapter 3: Letters from
No OneChapters 1-2/17:
The Boy Who Lived-Vanishing Glass /The Man With Two Faces
Beginning-Middle-
and-End:
Miraculous Survival
Chapter 6: Journey from Platform 9 3/4
Chapter 8: The Potions
MasterChapter 10:Halloween
Chapter 12:Mirror of Erised
Chapter 16: Through the
Trap Door
Adventure!
Rubeus Hagrid
Ron and Harry: Identity, Family Issues
Self Revealed
Worst Enemy/Best Friends
Chapter 7: The Sorting
Hat
Chapter 9:The Midnight Duel
Chapter 11: Quidditch
Chapter 3: Letters from
No OneChapters 1-2/17:
The Boy Who Lived-Vanishing Glass /The Man With Two Faces
Beginning-Middle-
and-End:Miraculous
Survival
Ring of Harry Potter
and the Philosopher’s
Stone__________
Chapter 6: Journey from Platform 9 3/4
Chapter 12:Mirror of
Erised
Chapter 16: Through the
Trap Door
Adventure!
Ron and Harry: Identity, Family Issues
Self Revealed
Chapter 9: The Writing on the Wall
Chapter 10:The Rogue Bludger
Chapter 11: The Dueling
Club
Chapter 4: At Flourish and Blotts
Chapters 1-2/18: The Worst Birthday – Dobby’s Warning /
Dobby’s Reward
Beginning-Middle-
and-End:Dobby the House-Elf
Ring of Harry Potter
and the Chamber of
Secrets__________
Chapter 5: The Whomping
Whillow
Chapter 15:Aragog
Chapter 16: The Chamber
of Secrets
Journey into Darkness
Ron and Harry: Anglia Adventures
Heir of Slytherin
Chapter 10: The Marauder’s
Map
Chapter 12:The Patronus
Chapter 14: Snape’s Grudge
Chapter 3: The Knight Bus
Chapters 1-2/22: Owl Post – Aunt Marge’s Big Mistake /
Owl Post Again
Beginning-Middle-
and-End:‘Owl Post’
Presence of the Beloved
Dead
Ring of Harry Potter
and the Prisoner of Azkaban
__________Chapter 5:
The Dementor
Chapter 18:Moony,
Wormtail, Padfoot,
and Prongs
Chapter 21: Hermione’s
Secret
Escape to and from Fudge
Remus Lupin’s Silence
Marauder’s Map
Chapter 13: Mad-Eye Moody
Chapter 19:The Hungarian
HorntailChapter 25: The Egg and
the Eye
Chapter 6: The Portkey
Chapters 1/37: The Riddle’s House/ The Beginning
Beginning-Middle-
and-End:‘Struggling to
Believe’
Ring of Harry Potter
and the Goblet of Fire__________
Chapter 8: The Quidditch
World Cup
Chapter 30:The Pensieve
Chapter 32: Flesh, Blood,
and Bone
Portkey Diggorys
The Gang’s All Here
Moody Saves Harry
Chapters 10/11:
The Woes of Mrs. Weasley / Luna Lovegood
Chapter 19:The Lion and the
SerpentChapters 30/29:
Grawp / Career Advice
Chapter 2: A Peck of
OwlsChapters 1/38:
Dudley Demented /The Second War Begins
Beginning-Middle-
and-End:Ragin’ Harry
Ring of Harry Potter
and the Order of the
Phoenix__________
Chapter 4: Number 12, Grimmauld
Place
Chapter 35:Beyond the
Veil
Chapter 37: The Lost Prophecy
The Bond of Blood
Sirius’ Closed Curtains
Weasleys and other Exotic
Animals
Chapter 15: The Unbreakable
Vow
Chapters 16/17:A Very Frosty Christmas/
A Sluggish Memory
Chapter 18: Birthday Surprise
Chapter 3: Will and Wo
n’tChapters 1-2/30-29:
The Other Minister – Spinner’s End /The White Tomb – The Phoenix Lament
Beginning-Middle-
and-End:Scrimgeour/ Dumbledore
& Snape
Ring of Harry Potter
and the Half-Blood
Prince__________
Chapter 4: Horace
Slughorn
Chapter 26:The Cave
Chapters 28/27: The Flight of the
Prince / The Lighyning-Struck
Tower
Telescopes and Trainers
“You Are With Me” “I Am With You”
Love Potions
Chapter 15: The Goblin’s
Revenge
Chapters 18/19:Life and Lies of Albus
Dumbledore / Silver Doe
Chapter 22: The Deathly
Hallows
Chapters 3, 4: The Dursleys
Departing, The Seven Potters Chapters 1-2/36-35:
The Dark Lord Ascending – In Memoriam/The Flaw in the Plan – King’s Cross
Beginning-Middle-
and-End:Tom, Albus, and Severus
Ring of Harry Potter
and the Deathly Hallows
__________Chapters 10-13: Kreacher and
the Ministry of Magic
Chapters 26-25:Griphook and
Gringotts
Chapter 34: The Forest
Again
Confrontations with the Dark Lord
Refuge and Underground
Adventure
Snatched Conversations
Three Questions to Answer:
• What is a Ring Composition?
• Are the Harry Potter Novels Written as Rings?
• So What?
Theory of Everything: Rowling’s Key
• “Tell me one last thing,” said Harry. “Is this real? Or has this been happening inside my head?”
• Dumbledore beamed at him, and his voice sounded loud and strong in Harry’s ears even though the bright mist was descending again, obscuring his figure.
• “Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean it is not real?”
Why You Don’t Already Know This:
• Materialism• Rationalism• Individualism• Philosophical
Nominalism
Beginning
Middle
End
Ring Composition Symbol
Circular StoryCircle Divided in Half
for Mirrored Halves
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