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
This author taught us that hateful speech can be an Unforgivable. The targets of Unforgivables must defend themselves, if possible, but do not owe the caster forgiveness. Forgiveness would not remedy the caster’s harm. The only hope for the caster is to undergo remorse. On the morning of December 19, 2019, J.K. Rowling broke a
Rowling apologizes for killing Snape! OK, here it is. Please don’t start flame wars over it, but this year I’d like to apologise for killing (whispers)… Snape. *runs for cover* — J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) May 2, 2017 In July 2007, when I read Snape’s death scene and realized his author wasn’t going to give him
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