At this point, though, we have already been made aware that power and money can come to influence what is published within its pages or not.įor those movie adaptations, our first glimpses of the Prophet are through a heavily Gothic and overdetailed layout, in which headlines set out the shape of the articles in swirly curves and squiggly detailed typefaces adorned individually by hand. Rowling’s experience with media changed and evolved as her fame grew along while writing the later Potter books.įrom Philosopher’s Stone to Prisoner of Azkaban, the Daily Prophet has its most solid and trustworthy phase within the Potter series, as it is being used mainly to provide accurate information to the main characters. Such transitions did reflect into the visual development of the Wizarding World.Īmong those modifications we get to see three main different styles of the Prophet, that could be related to three main different ‘identities’ the paper presents in the series, which could also be tied directly to how J.K. Throughout the series, much like the Daily Prophet in the books changes and evolves, also did the artists behind the making and the directors conducting the movie productions.
Those decisions immediately set out the magical paper apart from anything that we would have been used to or expected to see in the ‘Muggle’ world. Translating that newsprint visual language to the screen into the Wizarding World resulted in many widely artistic and non-standard layouts and type choices. Therefore, when the movies were produced, bringing the Daily Prophet to life was a task relied on the artists involved in the production. The Daily Prophet newspaper has been used as a key element throughout the Harry Potter series both to provide a broader view of the goings-on in the Wizarding community and at times to deliver important clues and information to move the main plot of the story forward.īesides the fact that the newspapers contain moving photographs, as it would be expected within the magical world, no specific description is given in the books as to the look and feel of the newspaper overall. The evolution of The Daily Prophet Felipe Gabriel 1047 words
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