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"Voldemort is ultimately defeated not by Harry alone, but by the collaboration between the characters who oppose him. Literature inspires us and helps us understand our experiences. But how do we adapt the fictional lessons of the Harry Potter universe to a reality where immigrants and refugees are being targeted with bans and border walls, as many as 18 million people might lose health insurance, and an administration is presenting lies as “alternative facts”?oving beyond comforting memes means thinking critically about the Harry Potter series, and taking our next steps not only from what the story does well, but from the ways in which it fails. rom the halls of Hogwarts to the fantastic-beast-infested streets of 1920s New York City, characters across the Harry Potter universe defy those in power."
At portside.org
