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There are limits to Harry Potter's sophistication. Since Sorcerer's Stone was published in 1998, world events have moved to the point where they threaten to ask more from the books than they have to give. By Phoenix, the fifth book in the series, Harry is embroiled in a borderless, semi-civil war with a shadowy, hidden leader whose existence the government ignored until disaster forced the issue and who is supported by a secret network of sleeper agents willing to resort to tactics of shocking cruelty. The kids who grew up on Harry Potter--you could call them...
ANOTHER REASON IT'S A BIG WEEK FOR YOU AS EDUCATION SECRETARY: THERE'S GOING TO BE A LOT MORE READING GOING ON THAN USUAL. I'm all about Harry Potter this week. I have two teenagers, and they have already ordered it from Amazon, and it's coming in the mail. My little one, the 13-year-old, has spent the whole week reading the previous thing to make sure she's got the whole trajectory...
...educators and politicians. But a report last week had some good news: math and reading scores for grade-school students have gone up. Margaret Spellings, 47, who took over as Education Secretary in January, spoke with TIME's Perry Bacon Jr. about testing, her own kids and the Harry Potter phenomenon...
...THINK THE HARRY POTTER BOOKS HAVE EDUCATIONAL VALUE? Well, I think any time kids read, that's a good thing. These are big, heavy, 600-page books. You've got to have some attention, some focus to get through a 500- or 600-page book. It's literally a page turner...
...curious fact about Harry Potter's magic that it doesn't really look all that hard to do. You wiggle the wand, you say the words--"Lumos! Expelliarmus! Accio Car Keys!"--and if you're not a Muggle or a Squib, if you've got the right stuff or the midichlorians or whatever, you're in business. How hard is that? And that Hermione Granger is supposed to be some kind of genius...