The Hero: The hero is the main character, from who's perspective the audience sees the story from. Often the whole story revolves around this particular character. The hero is a character the audience easily connects to and empathises with, wishing their success in whatever journey and adventure they are on.
The Shadow/Villain: This character is the villain of the story or enemy of the hero. Their motives are often to revenge or destroy; often produced because of anger, hate, frustration, grief or simply madness.
The Herald: The herald can be potentially anything; a character; an event; an object. The herald can appear during the journey or is the one who announces or calls the hero for the journey.
The Threshold Guardian: This character's or characters' aim is to stop the hero in their journey.
The Trickster: The role of a trickster character is to provide comic relief, they are the clown of the story or they are mischievous, causing small or big trouble. These characters might not mean to cause trouble, but normally they accept their mischief-making tendencies.
The Mentor: The role of the mentor is to help, teach and guide the main character through the journey. The mentor is usually an older character, possessing lots of experience and wisdom.
The Allies: Allies are characters who join and/or help the hero through their journey. They often are friends and sidekicks.
The Shape-shifter: The shape shifter character changes roles through the story, these changes in the characters behaviour or motives could be either from 'bad-to-good' or the other way around.
The Father: The 'father' character could be either an actual father or someone who represent power and authority; or plays a father type figure in the hero's journey/life. These characters are often serious and judgmental, but that does not apply all the time.
The Mother: The 'mother' character could be either an actual mother or someone who represent nurture and care; or plays a mother type figure in the hero's journey/life. These characters are often female, but can be a male too, for instance the mentor who cares for the hero.
The Child: The 'child' character could be an actual child or someone who is childish, innocence and has an innocent view of things. These characters often posses a pure mind and development through the story.
The Maiden: The 'maiden' character represent purity and sexuality, this character could change a role in the story, for instance become the 'mother' archetype. These characters could also be potential love interests.
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| Fig 1: Harry Potter and Lord Voldemort. |
Shadow: Lord Voldemort is the main villain in the film series, as other harmful and evil characters come and go in different movies. He was weakened when Harry was an infant, and his goal is to gain his full power back and take over the world, becoming the most powerful wizard of all time. He tries to kill Harry multiple times and is clearly an evil character, causing fear everywhere.
Herald: In this film series's case, the herald is not only a character, but there is an object as well. Harry receives his invitation letter to join Hogwarts, which is his call for adventure. But Hagrid also encourages and eventually takes him to the school.
Threshold Guardian: There were multiple characters and creatures that were trying to stop Harry from both succeeding in defeating Voldemort and join the wizard school. But the first characters, who tried to stop Harry from going to Hogwarts in the first place were the Dursley family, his Aunt, Uncle and his cousin.
Trickster: Draco Malfoy could be described as a trickster, as he ticks on Harry any time he has a chance, but that is more of a bully type of character. However the Weasley twins, Fred and George are clearly tricksters. They provide the audience with comic relief, as they always up to no good, tricking people and causing trouble.
Mentor: Dumbledore, Hogwarts's headteacher is Harry's mentor. He is an elderly wise man, who guides and teacher Harry on his journey, always looking out for the young wizard.
Allies: Ron and Hermione are Harry's friends and allies since the first film. And while Harry plays the main character, his friends / sidekicks aid him in succeeding. As the three students are faced with easy and hard challenges, they often solve the problem as a team, and both Ron and Hermione are with Harry every step of the way.
Shape-shifter: Snape is the shape-shifter character in the film series. He comes across as a unlikable and unfriendly character, and he is shown to be part of Voldemort's army. But later on it is discovered that he is not against Harry, but was deceiving Voldemort the whole time, fighting for Harry.
Mother: McGonagall can be seen as a mother archetype as, she is the caring female character in Hogwarts, but Molly Weasley, Ron's mother is the one who acts like a mother towards Harry and treats him like his own son.
Father: Dumbledore can be seen as a father archetype as he cares for Harry, while he stays fairly serious; but Sirius Black, Harry's godfather is the one who clearly shows how much he loves and cares for the young boy.
Child: Hagrid, can be seen as the child archetype, since he comes across as a slightly goofy and innocent character; he has childish traits, but he is an adult. Furthermore, Luna Lovegood is a child archetype, as she is a very pure and innocent student.
Maiden: From the beginning the young Hermione was a potential love interest for Harry, but she ended up with Ron, so Ginny (who also fits the archetype) is the one who ends up with the hero.
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Figure 1: Harry Potter and Lord Voldemort. [online image] At: http://www.mlive.com/entertainment/flint/index.ssf/2011/07/farewell_harry_potter_final_mo.html (Accessed on 05/10/2017)
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