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Potterversity: Essays Exploring the World of Harry Potter presents a written companion to the popular, "Hermione-Approved" MuggleNet podcast by the same name. Selected from the top Potter Studies scholars in the field, the diverse authors in the volume provide a range of interpretations of wizarding world stories. Essays include analysis of genre conventions, literary and religious symbolism, the role of games in the series, pedagogical approaches, and politically challenging issues like U.S. race relations, colonialism, and gender and sexuality--including direct attention to J.K. Rowling's controversial statements about trans people.
Grouped into the sections "Occult Knowledge," "Ancient Magic," "A Question of Character," "Self and Other," "Playing Potter," and "Teaching, the Hogwarts Way," partnered essays precede transcripts of podcast conversations, led by the hosts of Potterversity. The book's essays and conversations aim to engage not only the mind but the spirit as well--the emotional, personal, and moral responses the Potterverse has evoked in so many people around the world. Fundamentally, this book demonstrates that the characters, stories, and situations of the magical realm promote thinking that helps us navigate our more mundane but no less dangerous world. Perhaps even more importantly, they help us to recognize the magic amid our everyday Muggle realities.
Contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Your Potterversity Orientation
Kathryn N. McDaniel and Emily Strand
Occult Knowledge
Good Men and Monsters: Bram Stoker's Dracula and Harry Potter
Beatrice Groves
Dark Arts and Secret Histories: Investigating Dark Academia
Amy H. Sturgis
Conversation: Occult Knowledge
Ancient Magic
Here Be Dragons and Phoenixes: A Thematic Direction for the Fantastic Beasts Series
Lana A. Whited
The Real Magic of Christmas in Harry Potter
Emily Strand
Conversation: Ancient Magic
A Question of Character
Padfoot Revelio! The Life and Love of Sirius Black
Emma Nicholson
The Weasley Witches: From Snitches to Stitches to "Not-My-Daughter-You-Bitches"
Louise M. Freeman
Arthur Weasley and the Misuse of Muggle Artefacts
Kathryn N. McDaniel
Conversation: A Question of Character
Self and Others
The Problem with Loving Enemies: Kindness and Oppression in "The Wizard and the Hopping Pot"
Travis Prinzi
Uncle Remus's Shack: Tokenism in the Wizarding World
Mark-Anthony Lewis
Conversation: Self and Others
Playing Potter
It's All Fun and Games Until...: Leisurely and Competitive Pursuits in Harry Potter and Chivalric Romance
Laurie Beckoff
Gamifying the Harry Potter Studies Classroom
Tison Pugh
Conversation: Playing Potter
Teaching, the Hogwarts
Dumbledorisms: The Idiosyncratic Style of a Hogwarts Headmaster
M'Balia Thomas
Hem Hem... I Take Umbridge with Bigotry: Using the Witch-in-Pink to Counter Oppression
Brent A. Satterly
Conversation: Teaching, the Hogwarts Way
Before the Dismissal Bell: Closing Thoughts
Kathryn N. McDaniel
Bibliography
About the Contributors
Index
