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Article: If Harvard were Hogwarts
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- June 1, 2008
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HARVARD UNIVERSITY'S COMMENCEMENT speaker this week is "Harry
Potter" creator J.K. Rowling, and if it seems surprising that a
children's author would stand on a podium previously occupied by
Bill Gates and Kofi Annan, maybe it shouldn't. Not just because the
world's richest author is a natural fit for the world's richest
university, but because deep parallels abound between Harvard and
Hogwarts, the wizard boarding school at the heart of Rowling's
invented universe. Both trade on a mystique borrowed from the
traditions of British boarding schools; both boast their share of
rituals and arcana.
Great Hall: Harry Potter's first glimpse of the inner world of
Hogwarts is its vast dining hall, a ...
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