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...YORK CITY—What might have been the country’s biggest Harry Potter party last Friday night was only a couple miles away from me in Times Square. I didn’t go. But I did pick up Order of the Phoenix Saturday afternoon, from a Barnes and Noble salesperson still sporting a black witches’ hat. And I’m betting lots of my classmates were among the five million people who purchased their copies on Saturday...
...Harvard students trek to the Potter movies and read the books? Now that dreary sourcebooks are temporarily put away for the summer, what does 870 pages of escapist literature offer us? For one, the long-noted parallels between Harvard and Hogwarts are no longer just skin deep in Order of the Phoenix. Sure, Annenberg still bears a striking resemblance to the Hogwarts of the two Potter movies. Hogwarts still has residential Houses, though its sorting system (the cunning kids go to Slytherin, the smart ones to Ravenclaw, the brave to Gryffindor and everyone else to Hufflepuff) is the kind...
...neither Harry Potter nor Harvard University can avoid some detractors. To be fair, there’s probably more credence to the “Harvard is full of left-leaning elitists” claim than to the “Harry spreads the word of the devil” claim. But though the Potter-haters’ cries that books featuring wizardry will make Satanists of our nation’s youth are clearly out of left field, their near-religious zeal in their wrath for our four-eyed hero has caused the series to become most frequently challenged...
It’s clear that the Potter books have captured the imagination and love of millions of readers desperate for a literary escape. And in many ways, Harvard too provides an escape for those of us lucky enough to reside within its gates from September to May. So to those Harvard students who hoped that the “real world” could be kept at bay for just a little bit longer when the keycards expired, take heart—and pick up a copy...
...It’s time to recognize the dignity of work and the needs of [Harvard’s] workers,” said says Potter, a Harvard Law School secretary and member of the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW...