Mar 13, 2014 08:59:00

Harry Potter 'Potter Verse' that visualizes human relationships in the world based on balance theory

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Harry Potter series , which was a huge hit worldwide, depicts the human patterns of many characters, and ' PotterVerse ' visualizes the characters of the Harry Potter series based on balance theory. You can see at a glance who and who have what kind of relationship, and how dense the world view of one novel was.

PotterVerse
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Harry Potter Visualizing the relationships in the world looks like this.

The dots on the graph indicate each character, and when you hover over them, the character name and brief description will appear. As the main character, many lines extend from Harry Potter.

Positive connections are written in yellow and negative connections are written in green. In the case of

Argus Filch , the manager of the magic school, he has a positive relationship with Professor Minerva McGonagall and Professor Severus Snape , but he likes mischief. Many relationships are negative, including Harry's father , James Potter .

It is based on ' Social Balance Theory ' by Hokky Situngkir and Deni Khanafiah , who developed Fritz Heider's balance theory. What is balance theory? 'I like what I like and dislike what I like,' 'I hate what I dislike and I like what I dislike.' The idea is that the state is emotionally most balanced, and the aversive feelings among the three change to fit the scheme.

Therefore, in the figure below, when three humans have a mutual relationship, the state in which all three are in favor of each other (Fig. T3) and the enemies in common with the two friends are mutual. The state in (Fig. T1) is balanced, one is in a friendship with the other two, but the two are hostile (Fig. T2) and all three are hostile. The state of being (Fig. T0) is unbalanced. To put it more simply, T3 means 'friend of a friend is a friend', and T1 means 'friend of a friend is an enemy' or 'friend of an enemy is an enemy'.

(PDF file) cmnNbrsFrac-wikiVote.eps --triads-chi10.pdf
http://cs.stanford.edu/people/jure/pubs/triads-chi10.pdf


Even in PotterVerse, it is possible to know whether the relationship between the three is T3, T1, T2, or T0.

According to a study (

PDF file ) conducted by Jure Leskovec et al. Of Stanford University, a study of three social media, Epinions , Slashdot , and Wikipedia , shows that stablely balanced interrelationships (T3, T1) are not. It was five times the number of (T2, T0). On the other hand, in the Harry Potter world, stable balanced interrelationships (T3, T1) exist more than 12 times more than non-stable interrelationships (T2, T0), and are considerably more balanced than social media based on balance theory. It seems that they have a good relationship.

For example, the number of T3 'friends of friends is friends' relationships, which are said to be well-balanced, is 449, which is the largest number among mutual relationships.

It turns out that Harry Potter's family,

Petunia Dursley , Vernon Dursley , and Dudley Dursley , have a well-balanced relationship.

Furthermore, the triangle indicating T1 'Friend's enemy is an enemy' or 'Enemy's friend is an enemy' is as follows. There are 319 in total.

For Petunia Evansley and Vernon Dursley, who hate magic,

Albus Dumbledore, the principal of the School of Magic, turns out to be a 'common enemy.'

In addition, the number of unbalanced relationships such as 'I really like it because it's something I like, but I hate it' has decreased to 50 in total.

Harry's best friend

Hermione Granger and Rubeus Hagrid of Moriban are on good terms, but Hermione was scared of the ferocious three-headed dog Fluffy brought by Hagrid, so the three are in a T1 relationship. increase.

The minimum number of negative triangles where dislikes are gathered is 13.

Harry Potter's best friend

Ron Weasley , the magic school keeper Argus Filch , and Voldemort 's minion Peter Pettigrew are in this relationship.

In addition, in the

small world experiment , the result was that 'a group of two people is randomly selected from the people of the United States, and if the two people are connected, on average, six people are acquainted with each other.' However, in the Harry Potter world, the average shortest distance is 2.03, and the maximum length to connect with people is four. When viewed in the narrow world of actors, the majority of the bacon number of actors around the world is in the range of 3 to 4, so the world is even narrower than show business. You can see that there is.

As you can see from the graph below, which shows the relationships, the relationships between the 65 characters in Harry Potter are quite dense, unlike the social connections that tend to be dilute.

On the other hand, balance theory measures relationships based on likes and dislikes, but there is also the idea that not only likes and dislikes but also status affects the relationship between the three parties. This is common on social media and means that acting as 'this person is my friend' in the connection between people also means that 'this person has a higher status than me'. Conversely, if you decide that your status is lower than you, you act as if you hate that person.

However, for example, when there is a positive connection from A to B and from B to C, a positive connection from C to A should be created based on the balance theory, but A is B based on the status theory. Feels that he is in a higher position than himself, and B feels that C is in a higher position than himself, so C should see A lower than himself and create a negative connection. The Harry Potter world may not always be a well-balanced world, as the two may come to the opposite conclusions, but it is questioned as 'weak relationships'. It is certain that it is not such a light night world.