| This study investigates the types of strategies the characters in Harry Potter novels implement in making requests, and the situations when they show politeness in the novels. In the reading process, the writer read both novels two times in order to comprehend the background stories and the reasons why the characters express the request strategy in that situation. The characters are differentiated by social class, where each class represents different position and occupations in the society. Afterwards, the writer collected the request statements manually by checking the statements to the classification and filling in the tables. The writer did the analysis based on Trosborg’s theory (1995) on request and Blum-Kulka’s (1989) on social and situational factors. The result of this study shows that: (1) the characters apply almost all of the strategies, and they are stated 412 times in both novels; (2) the characters show politeness in certain ways because direct request strategies are not always indicating impoliteness between interlocutors. The strategy that has the most number is imperatives (mood derivable) because the characters tend to make requests explicitly. |