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My children are secretly making holiday gifts for each other. I walked into the office and found my daughter writing a Hogwarts acceptance letter for her brother, because he wants magic to be real.

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Let's just say I left the room and had sudden, prolonged attack of itchy eyes.

This was the same day JKR was in the news for supporting bigotry and not supporting transgendered people.

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As many of my students know, I really resisted the whole Harry Potter thing for years because I was already teaching when it started and I was frustrated that at the core it is just the same old heroic narrative recycled

The heroic pattern is harmful.

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