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Harvard's real common ground this summer--the story that spanned major, gender, age and summer job--was not public service, activism, the Internet, the presidential election, or cell phones. It was Harry Potter...
...friends look up from The Goblet of Fire to report that Harry Potter is an escape: a nice easy read, a page-turner, a no-brainer. But the statistics point to something larger. Fox News reports that 43% of the Harry Potter books sold were bought by people over 14 who were not buying the books for a child...
...more than escapism, trickle-up reading or a return to childhood: Harry Potter is the new mythology, a mythology that resonates strongly with Harvard students...
...larger issues are not to be missed. Harry Potter's story begins as a story of being chosen. We are beyond this, faced with the larger, more immediate problems of choosing. When Harry received his summons, he chose to go, and to accept the responsibility that came with it. Though much less exciting than the heavens splitting open, it's our individual choices which make future mythologies possible...
Enjoying the same fairy-tale makes for great dinner-table conversation, but we have to be able to bring it back. Magic is simply the crystallization of a power to change, and becomes wizardry or sorcery depending on how it is used. In Harry Potter's world, there is a third option: to be a Muggle, one without magic...