of Harry Potter series was published by Scholastic, New York in October 1998. It is consisted of 309 pages with 17 chapters.
D. Research Instruments
The primary instrument of this research is the researcher herself. As what Vanderstoep and Johnston 2009: 211 said, “the researcher’s interpretation is,
therefore, only one of many possible valid interpretations of a given text”. Thus, she acted as the interpreter of those data related to the purposes of this
research from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. The second instrument
used in this research is the data table. There are three data tables which help the researcher in working and interpreting the data. Those tables could be seen
in the following. The first table is needed to answer the first research question. It was
designed in order to identify the children’s problems faced by Harry Potter,
Ronald Weasley, Hermione Granger and Neville Longbottom. This table helps the researcher find the sources and kinds of those problems. The first table can
be seen in Table 1 below.
Table 1: Kinds of Problems Faced by Children
Dat a No.
Page Quotation
Explanation The
Source of Problems
The Kind of
Problems
1 2
This boy was another good
reason for
keeping the
Potters away;
they didn’t want Dudley mixing
with a child like that. The
Dursleys want to stay
away from
Harry because he is considered
bad. I.
External A.
People’s negative
judgment
Next, the second table is crucial to this research because it could help the researcher to answer the second research question. Thus, it was used to reveal
the process of child empowerment experienced by those four child characters in the novel. The second table can be found in Table 2 below.
Table 2: The Process of Child Empowerment
Dat a No.
Page Quotation
Explanation Category
1 120 When Neville Longbottom, the boy who kept losing his
toad, was called, he fell over on his way to the stool. The hat
took a long time to decide with Neville.
When it
finally shouted, “GRYFFINDOR,”
Neville ran off still wearing it, and had to jog back amid gales
of laughter to give it to
“MacDougal, Morag.” Neville
who seems
as a
weak child is accepted
in Gryffindor
which is
a dormitory
for brave students.
Giving children chance
Next, the third table is necessary to this research to answer the third research question. Thus, this table was used to reveal the influences of child
empowerment on those child characters in the novel. The third table was designed to find
children’s changes which are crucial because they are the result of child empowerment. The third table can be found in the Table 3
below.
