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    Harry Potter and History

    I thought I'd post about this book that's out now:

    http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyT...470574720.html

    I have a friend who is a huge HP fan and is also a history professor who contributed a couple chapters to the book. Namely the one comparing the history of women to the history of witches, the other contrasting the history of Muggle British government to the Ministry and so forth of Harry's experience.

    Here's a sampling of some of the other topics you'll read in the book: "Magic for Daily Use and Profit: Mandrakes, Charms, Bezoars, and Love Potions in the Muggle and Wizarding Worlds", "Nicholas Flamel: The Alchemist Who Lived", "School Ties, House Points and Quidditch: Hogwarts as a British Boarding School" and "Hairy Snout, Human Heart? Werewolves in Harry Potter’s World and in European History".
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    That looks like a really fascinating book. I'm not much of a HP fan, but a book like that is something I could totally geek out to.
    Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.

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    • #3
      There's a book on display in one of the buildings on my campus... it's entitled something like "Harry Potter's World" or something like that. I'll have to find it again, but it should be easy.
      This just proves (as well as other stuff, if you dig for just a bit) that professors come from students, and students come from high school kids.
      "Is it the lie that keeps you sane? Is this the lie that keeps you sane?What is it?Can it be?Ought it to exist?"
      "...and may it be that I cleave to the ugly truth, rather than the beautiful lie..."

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      • #4
        Oh no, this professor was an adult when Harry Potter came out. She read the books to her kids.

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        • #5
          That's cool. I'll have to check that out.

          On a related note, roomie and I are watching the Harry Potter marathon on ABC Family all afternoon today (turned on somewhere in Chamber of Secrets, then watched Prisoner of Azkaban, currently on Goblet of Fire).
          I don't go in for ancient wisdom
          I don't believe just 'cause ideas are tenacious
          It means that they're worthy - Tim Minchin, "White Wine in the Sun"

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          • #6
            Oh, yeah, I realize that some people (probably most) who contribute to stuff like these books were adults in 1996! What I mean is, that 'scholarly' is debatable, and this takes advantage of that debate, to awesome effect.
            "Is it the lie that keeps you sane? Is this the lie that keeps you sane?What is it?Can it be?Ought it to exist?"
            "...and may it be that I cleave to the ugly truth, rather than the beautiful lie..."

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            • #7
              This sounds great! As both a HP and history fan, I definitely want to give this book a look-see!
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              • #8
                I am a huge Harry Potter fan, and will definitely add this one to my collection!
                The large print giveth, and the small print taketh away.

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