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From the Magazine archives—
In honor of author J.K. Rowling’s 49th birthday:

“Harry Potter and the Ivory Tower”

Potter scholar John Granger, AB’83, puts Rowling’s series on a shelf with Bram Stoker, Geoffrey Chaucer, Jane Austen, and other Great Books authors.

“Harry Potter didn’t just drop out of the sky,” Granger says. “People may be uncomfortable using the tools we use on William Shakespeare and Dante Alighieri on Joanne Rowling, but she’s writing in a tradition that goes back to the Middle Ages and stretches all the way up from Samuel Taylor Coleridge through C.S. Lewis.”

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Illustrations by Rik Olson

John Granger is the shit. I’m still honored and humbled that he read my BA on war and oppression themes in Potter series.

-Ashley

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