What's Harry Potter Doing in the Library

No Muggles in the Library Tonight! Harry Potter Night at an Academic Library

LIBRARY TRENDS, Vol. 61, No. 4, 2013 (“The Impact of Gaming on Libraries,” edited by Scott Nicholson), pp. 814–824. © 2013 The Board of Trustees, University of Illinois Abstract This article describes how an annual Harry Potter Night program fits into a college library’s mission. The literature shows college and university libraries are already accustomed to supporting their campus communities’...

Harry Potter and the Susceptible Child Audience

Kara Lynn Andersen, in her paper "Harry Potter and the Susceptible Child Audience," argues for a rethinking of assumptions of child audiences as passive readers and viewers through an analysis of the Harry Potter phenomenon. Andersen argues that instead of categorizing children as passive and homogenous subjects of analysis, they should instead be incorporated as participants in the discourse a...

Brand New Critical Essays on Harry Potter

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Harry Potter and the Goblin Bank of Gringotts

Gringotts Wizarding Bank is well known as the only financial institution in all of the Wizarding UK as documented in the works recounting the heroics of Harry Potter. The concentration of power and wealth in this single bank needs to be weighed against the financial stability of the entire Wizarding economy. This study will consider the impact to financial risk of breaking up Gringotts Wizardin...

Y Neil Mulholland , Ph . D . the Psychology of Harry Potter