Harry Potter a left-wing hero?
The News Review:
- Harry Potter a left-wing hero?
- Final Potter book hits Europe
- Criticize Hogwarts? Hogwash!
Harry Potter a left-wing hero?
Economic Times - Oct 27, 2007
To mark the French publicationof the final instalment of the adventures of J K Rowling’s boy magician,France’s leading left-wing daily devoted Friday’s front cover and two more pagesto answering the question “Why Harry Potter is of theLeft”. The paper, like otherFrench national media never afraid to seem intellectually aristocratic itself,invited philosopher Jean-Claude Milner to add to the millions of words ofPotter-analysis already written the world over by students, critics andenthusiasts. Milner identifieda reaction to the free-market revolution instigated by Margaret Thatcher’sgovernments. “Reading it, onehas the feeling that J K Rowling feels, like many cultivated English people,that there was a real, catastrophic Thatcherite revolution, and that the onlychance for culture now is to survive as an occult science,” hewrote.
Final Potter book hits Europe
BBC News - Oct 27, 2007
Publishers still tried to keep the plot secret by putting special lead seals on boxes of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. About 500 people queued outside a book shop in Paris, but many said they had already read the English version. The seventh adventure, called Harry Potter et les Reliques de la Mort in French, was out in English on 21 July.
Criticize Hogwarts? Hogwash!
Zanesville Times Recorder - Oct 27, 2007
The Potter books have not been without scrutiny before this announcement. Many opponents of the Harry Potter series have declared them “evil” for the use of witchcraft and magic in the books. The Hogwarts criticism is hogwash, according to this avid reader. Rowling, author of the wildly popular children’s book series Harry Potter, has outed the beloved Hogwarts headmaster Dumbledore…
My husband and I are full-blown Potter geeks. We have been reading the series since before we had kids. I gave him the first book, “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” as a birthday present when we were dating. We have devoured each book as they have been released with a mounting frenzy. We unashamedly declare our adoration of the Potter books. We have for years looked forward to sharing our love of reading and our love of Potter with our children. We began reading the Harry Potter series to our older son just over a year ago as part of his bedtime routine.