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...Bill and Fleur? From Harry Potter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: You Didn't Know Harry Potter Was Jewish? | 4/28/2008 | See Source »

...That's right. Almost anything you need to know about Jews, you can learn from Harry Potter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: You Didn't Know Harry Potter Was Jewish? | 4/28/2008 | See Source »

...take the opportunity to ask the questions I'd always wanted to ask about Hasidism: What is it like? Why the clothes? I don't quite understand some of the more thoughtful answers about the second coming of Moses and Rabbi Nachman of Breslov. But I know Harry Potter, even if I never saw its Jewish significance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: You Didn't Know Harry Potter Was Jewish? | 4/28/2008 | See Source »

...Adam moves to enlighten me, offering an amazingly complete dual cosmology of Harry Potter and the Chosen People. Jews, he explains, are the wizards. The non-Jews are the muggles. And Israel's wizards are engaged in a kind of invisible spiritual warfare (just like in Rowling's books) that most muggles can't even see, much less understand. Rowling may be a muggle, says Adam, but she knew what she was doing. Why else would a yeshiva like Hogwart's be so central to their lives? Why would the power of naming and names be so important to both...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: You Didn't Know Harry Potter Was Jewish? | 4/28/2008 | See Source »

...when she gave a reading in Seattle and somebody drove 4 hours and took a boat to get there. At twilightmoms.com a website for fans over 25, there are more than 200,000 posts. Last year there was an Eclipse prom in Tempe, Ariz. "It's not like Harry Potter, where you can wear a wizard's robe," Meyer says. "But they do what they can. One girl even had colored contacts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stephenie Meyer: A New J.K. Rowling? | 4/24/2008 | See Source »

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