Сonclusions

The fantasy genre is an exceptional type of literature that actualizes the most deeply rooted psychostructures of our consciousness (such as archetypes) through representing some transformed world full of supernatural powers.

Over the course of centuries fantasy has reached in all possible directions, backward into the mythical past, forward into science fiction, and sideways into all sorts of parallel worlds.

But there is one thing fantasy owes its privileged position to in a most crucial way, and that is mythologization. Mythology possesses the very key to our consciousness employing images that actualize the innermost ingrained psychostructures that are principal for our identification.

Thus, fantasy literature, employing mythological elements applies to the universal human experience. Being sophisticated with certain metaphysical issues fantasy, especially the high one, deals with the problems of human condition. That's why the authors revive the same archetypes over and over again in their works — everything in that perpetual quest for identity, for the better understanding of our true nature. Latter assumption brings us to the metaphysical understanding of mythologization not only as a literary device of employing mythical elements, but as one of the most primal and at the same time ultimate ways of comprehending reality.

In its inner revelatory capacity the myth used in a literary work becomes a tool of self-cognition. That's why the fantasy literature works, with a certain touch of mastery, needless to say, can make such a good Bildungsroman.

Additionally, the fantasy work provides reader with the author's unique interpretation of myth. And the more liberties the writer takes with the traditional plot and images, the better. For the whole story becomes a great mystery left for the reader to unravel. Finding mythical allusions under a disguising mask is something the well-educated reader particularly takes pleasure into.

All these assumptions take us to one of the most important conclusions that can be drawn from this paper. It is that Harry Potter series is to be taken seriously, for it is more than just adventures or the all-too-common Hero's Journey. It's a great quest for identity that bears company with a creative way of employing mythical elements.

That is why Harry Potter series holds a great value for the young readers who are yet to define their place in this world, as well as for adult readership, that can indulge in a delightful blend of mythological allusions and universal archetypal images.

The present paper doesn't claim to be exhaustive concerning the issues of J.K. Rowling's mythological paradigm, that has been realized through the system of mythological allusions, symbols and archetypes. However, we have taken a fresh perspective on the sources of imaginary world creation of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series and claim them to be, mostly, of a mythological kind.

Upon conducting the present research we fulfilled the following aims:

1) to give an outline of the researches of the myth as an ingrained psychostructure and a form of human cognition paying attention to C. Jung’s and J. Campbell’s concepts of myth as an ingrained psychostructure.

2) to research the Harry Potter series as fulfilment of certain mythological paradigm, emphasizing the influence of the world's mythical traditions (chiefly, Ancient Greek).

3) to identify some of the universal archetypes in J.K. Rowling's writing which prove timelessness of archetypal images in general.