It was because in some religious communities - particularly among conservative evangelicals, but also some Catholics and Muslims - the Harry Potter series was viewed on a spectrum that ranged from suspicion to outright opposition. That wasn’t because they just weren’t into books, or because they didn’t know about Harry Potter. The books shaped the imagination of millions of children, who flocked to midnight release parties, dressed as Harry and Hermione and Ron for Halloween, watched the movies, and even now frame their understanding of real-world political events in terms of Hogwarts and He Who Must Not Be Named.īut a sizable chunk of the same age cohort didn’t read the books at all. So what if you didn’t grow up immersed in the wizarding world of Harry Potter?įor plenty of Americans - especially millennials, who were children when the books first came to the US - that’s an almost unimaginable hypothetical.
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