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Aug 6, 2023 · What’s even cooler is that ‘Harry Potter’ has become an intergenerational bridge. Many of us have shared the magical journey with our younger siblings, cousins, or even our own kids.
- Nathan Chen
Aug 9, 2023 · A saga that began with an orphaned boy wizard living under his aunt and uncle’s staircase has morphed into a narrative phenomenon, capturing the hearts of readers of all ages around the world.
Nov 22, 2016 · “I grew up with Harry – the series is my childhood – and it has shaped how I live my life,” says Harneet Singh, a loyal fan and the president of Wilfrid Laurier University’s Harry Potter...
- The series taught adults that, when it comes to literature, age ain’t nothing but a number. Whether you started reading the series at an age-appropriate 12 only to wait in line at 22 for the joy of the final installment or, like my dad, you decided to indulge your overzealous daughter by reading the copy she hid in your carry-on bag on a work trip and fell in love, the Harry Potter series took adults reading books written for kids and teenagers from being something mildly embarrassing to being an everyday occurrence.
- It taught publishers that, as long as the books are GOOD, kids will read them, no matter how long they are, or how many you write. Before “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire,’’ a 700-page children’s book was unheard of.
- That led to an EXPLOSION of popularity for children’s and young adult literature, especially series. Did you know that the Harry Potter series is the reason that The New York Times Bestseller List has a separate list for children’s books?
- It made book culture into pop culture. Find someone who was working at one of Harvard Square’s bookstores in July 2007 and ask them about the Harry Potter Party thrown in the square to celebrate the release of the final book in the series.
Twelve years since the publication of the final Harry Potter novel, this collection of essays considers how the series impacted the generation who grew up with it and how they, in turn, have impacted the world.
- Leone Betts
- 2021
It was the mass migration to LiveJournal by a significant portion of creatively inclined Potter fans in the mid-2000s that eventually led to the flourishing of networks that would transcend...
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Nov 6, 2019 · Not only did Harry Potter affect our understanding of fantasy, but it also affected the way we looked at the real world around us. It helped shape the Millenials’ perspectives, morals, and ...
