Harry Potter and the first Chakra

Currently reading the Harry Potter series for the first time.  For a long while I suspected there may be some relation to the seven books in the series and the seven chakras of the human energy system so here are my unedited notes from my first read through of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.  And when I say unedited, I mean unedited.  I will fix names and such when I have a chance. Or not.  Maybe I will just use these musings in other ways:

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Root Chakra

Harry becomes homeless

Harry is poor, or thinks he is

Harry is forced to live at the fringe of the Dreazley home having to live under the stairs, below the bottom

After Harry learns who he is, suddenly he has a vault full of money.

After getting Hogwarts, Harry proceeds to break rules that should get him kicked out of Hogwarts. First, after Neville is injured after misflying his broom and drops his Forget-Me-Not charm taht is swiped by Malfoy who is also breaking the rules and promises to put it high in a tree, Harry takes off after him. But instead of being kicked out, because Mrs Monicle sees him make an impressive catch, she gets him on the Squibbage team.

Later that night, after Malfoy challenges Harry to a wizard duel, Harry breaks the curfew rule and brings Ron, Herminie, and Nevillie along with him. Not only do they break curfew and wander the halls of Hogwarts after midnight, they break a further rule and end up in the forbidden corridor.

One of the reasons I was not attracted to Harry Potter right from the start is because I know there is no such thing as a “sorcerer's stone” and that what the title is referring to is the fabled Philosopher's Stone.

I honestly do not understand why Americans are fine with having things dumbed down for them. First Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone insults my intelligence and secondly it wounds my pride as an American.

I think most Americans are just as capable of understanding the concept and history of the Philosopher's Stone as any given European and so it makes no sense to me to talk down to a population, unless you want that population to stew in its own ignorance. But how does promoting someone else's ignorance help anything?

The same thing happened with Pan's Labyrinth which I think was a 2008 movie Guillermo Del Toro. I was very excited to see this film but as the movie went one I became increasingly disturbed by a lack of Pan. Why was it called Pan's Labyrinth when it was Faun who controlled the labyrinth? Listening to the commentary track, Del Toro said it was because the producers didn't think Americans knew who or what a faun was, but you know what? We can look it up.

This may be part of the lesson of the first chakra: Don't believe what your education system tells you. Suss it out for yourself! Risk getting kicked out of school. The school is there to serve you, not you it.