A cidade do Porto e Harry Potter: a paisagem imaginária

Abstract

A foreign looking out over the landscape horizon of Oporto city (Portugal) arranged the meeting with “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone”. This context awakened me up to looking for imaginary landscape and the connections between this work of fiction and the city results this article. Geography, literature and imaginary consist of problematizing reflections of contemporary brought to the evidence of theorical contributions of imaginary to reflects the living space and the geographicity. At this way, we looking the senses of Oporto landscape related to J. K. Rowling’s work, her bibliography, her path and what connect her and the imaginary layers of city in her work.