In terms of developmental psychology, “Harry Potter” is structured around a clash between successful and unsuccessful identity formation.
Parents pressure schools to ban books because they want to protect their children. Their children want the books because they have a different set of needs.
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Voldemort can be interpreted as the father in Harry Potter’s primal scene.
In today’s post I link to two very smart articles looking at Harry Potter through the lens of the battle against terrorism and armed conflict as it is conducted in today’s world.
Given how for years we’ve been witnessing certain evangelical Christians criticizing, banning and occasionally burning the Harry Potter books, what are we to make of their inability to appreciate Harry’s Christ-like sacrifice as the end of “The Deathly Hallows”?
During Christmas week we get to imagine being children again so I’ve decided to write about student responses to Harry Potter. Members of my British Fantasy Literature class could write essays on any work of fantasy as long as they applied the tools and perspectives we developed in the course. Michelle Steahl and Evan Rowe [...]
