In October 2020, Dr. Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny, gave the plenary address at the Harry Potter Conference held at Chestnut Hill College. The following is a transcript of the video from that address. The Deathly Hallows: How Literature Helps Us To See the Evil in Politics *BEGINS AT 00:03:13* Timothy Snyder: Thank you very
Delivered October 16, 2020 at the Harry Potter Conference of Chestnut Hill College in Philadelphia, PA. The way we read Harry Potter in the U.S. changed with the 2016 election. For almost 20 years, many of us were able to fall in love with this series as comfort reading. Monstrous tyrants who rounded up ethnic
Seventh blog post about Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald. Yes, the Fantastic Beasts film series is about World War II. It is significant that Queenie and Tina Goldstein are Jewish, and that will become more apparent in later films. The final showdown between Dumbledore and Grindelwald takes place in 1945. The series locations will continent-hop, with
A major theme of Potterverse is that there are worse things than death. Primary among them: remorse. Even if you’ve split your soul through crime, you can reintegrate it through remorse, but remorse is “excruciatingly painful.” You’ve got to really feel what you’ve done, and the pain of it can kill you. Larry Nassar,
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