Some of the installments may be static, others overlong, but there’s an essential integrity to the Harry Potter series, stemming no doubt from Rowling’s close association with the production process throughout. Children excited about reading! A bunch of books about-this warms the cockles of any education-loving heart-a school! A school in which kids learn to be smart and brave and honest so they can use their magical powers to fight intolerance and evil! The Potter films have managed to explore hopelessly square human truths-about pedagogy and mentorship, loyalty and betrayal, adolescent rivalry and puppy love-without ever seeming goody-two-shoes about it. Maybe this mysteriously ineradicable Potter goodwill comes from my sense that Harry Potter as a phenomenon is so self-evidently a force for good in the world.
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