Özet:

The phenomenal success of the Harry Potter series has not only mesmerised the general public but has also captured the attention of academia for varied reasons. J.K. Rowling has derived allusions from various historical, cultural, mythical, and oral sources. She has intertextualized different sources from the Eastern fictional narratives. Some scholars have regarded it as a mere clever assemblage of characters, stories, allusions, and images from diverse cultural traditions, mythologies of different times and spaces. Many Euro-American readers are familiar with the Greco-Roman culture and fantasy literature but they have little or no familiarity with the Eastern tradition of such writings. The present study is based on this premise and therefore one aspect of the study is to investigate intertextual allusions taken from the Eastern narratives. Two popular narratives from the East Adventures from the Dastan of Amir Hamza by GhalibLakhnvi and Tilism e Hosruba by Asif HussainJah were selected for comparison with Harry Potter Series to identify the parallels. The results of the study highlight that Rowling has taken the concept of invisibility cloak, human with animal heads, animals with human heads, flying horse, love potion, transfiguration, foreknowledge, desire for immortality, magical birds, magical world versus muggle world and bewitched environment from the selected narratives in intertextual fashion.

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