Findings

One of the major moral problems of modern societies is the lack of a sense of community (Lickona, 1991a, p. 107). Individualism seems to make people reluctant to participate in public life and intimate relationships with others (Lickona, 1991a, p. 107). Character education seeks to implement curriculum to make children internalize moral cognition and affect their feelings through practice of character traits in order to solve the problem of a lack of sense of community such as moral decay and to educate the citizenship in school-based curriculum. The Harry Potter story shows desirable character traits of members of a society. The process of coding the episodes in the Harry Potter story finds themes related with character traits through diverse characters and episodes of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. The description of the main characters gives tips to make the world a better place, namely, a place with a sense of security and trust. In the findings section, character traits, leadership, friendship, respect, caring, and educational implications from the Harry Potter story namely, socialization of students through friendship rather than parentage or expertise; Hogwarts as the second home for students; and reflective thinking about human being’s imperfection under an on-going process will be explored.