Summary: Through plot and literary strategies, the Harry Potter series pays tribute to several themes from To Kill a Mockingbird, which J.K. Rowling recommended as one of her top 10 books for young readers. Marvolo Gaunt and Bob Ewell impose their racism and abuse on their daughters, with catastrophic consequences. The scapegoating of Tom Robinson has echoes in
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
Notes from a talk delivered at LeakyCon in Boston, MA, USA, on Saturday, October 12, 2019. A shorter version of this talk was delivered at the Harry Potter Conference of Chestnut Hill College in Philadelphia, PA, on Friday, October 18, 2019. Posted by request. Good morning. I’m going to be talking about a few aspects
Snape: A Definitive Reading, LIVE from Chestnut Hill College’s Harry Potter Conference On Friday, October 21, 2016, the MuggleNet Academia podcast invited Lorrie Kim to join them as a guest to discuss Snape: A Definitive Reading. Deannah Robinson (deannahm03 at gmail) provided the partial transcript below. Hosts: Keith Hawk and John Granger Guests: Lorrie Kim, Prof.
Summary: In a family of overachievers, one sibling outshines them all. Ronald Bilius Weasley leapfrogs over mere curse breakers and dragon tamers to take his place alongside Merlin, Circe, and Dumbledore as one of wizardkind’s all-time greats, worthy of a Chocolate Frog card. At the 2014 Chestnut Hill Harry Potter Conference, Tolonda Henderson posed the
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