Literary Allusion in Harry Potter- Front Cover -- Literary Allusion in Harry Potter -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Note on texts used -- Introduction -- HARRY POTTER'S INTERNAL REFERENCES -- OVERVIEW OF CHAPTERS -- Chapter 1: Harry Potter, Greek myth and epic storytelling -- 'I BOUGHT HIM OFF A GREEK CHAPPIE': THE INFLUENCE OF CLASSICAL LITERATURE ON HARRY POTTER -- BEARING LIBATIONS: THE EPIGRAPH OF DEATHLY HALLOWS -- TELLING STORIES: HOMER'S ORAL POETRY AND HARRY POTTER -- HOMER'S ORAL NARRATIVE FORM -- RING COMPOSITION/CHIASMUS -- ODYSSEUS' SCAR -- THE PENSIEVE AND HOMERIC SYMPATHY -- Chapter 2: Naming in Harry Potter: Plato, Shakespeare and Ovid -- PLATO AND CRATYLIC NAMES -- ROWLING'S SHAKESPEAREAN NAMES: HERMIONE, HERMES AND HERMENEUTICS -- HARRY POTTER'S OVIDIAN NAMES: REMUS -- OVIDIAN NAMES: MEROPE -- OVIDIAN NAMES: NARCISSA -- CORRIDORS, UNDERGROUND CHAMBERS AND THREE-HEADED DOGS -- Chapter 3: Harry Potter's Medieval Hallows: Chaucer and the Gawain-poet -- GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT -- JUDAS AND THE ELDER WAND -- THE DEATHLY HALLOWS AND CHAUCER'S CANTERBURY TALES -- Chapter 4: The Temptation in the Desert and the Harrowing of Hell: Harry Potter, Mystery Plays and Milton -- THE TEMPTATION AND THE HARROWING -- 'CERTAIN MESSIAH TRAITS' -- VOLDEMORT AND DIVINE PARODY -- TOM MARVOLO RIDDLE: MAD TOM OR EVIL LORD? -- MILTON'S HIPPOGRIFF -- THE TEMPTATION IN THE DESERT -- CHRISTUS VICTOR AND THE HARROWING OF HELL -- THE POWER THE DARK LORD KNOWS NOT -- Chapter 5: Comedy, tragicomedy and Shakespearean influence in Harry Potter -- 'THE MACBETH IDEA': PROPHECY IN HARRY POTTER -- A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM AND THE ABUSE OF POWER -- Chapter 6: Jane Austen: Rowling's favourite author -- HOGWARTS AND HARTFIELD -- NARRATIVE VOICE -- RIDDLES, FIREBOLTS AND PIANOFORTES