Mihir S Sharma: Harry Potter and the unexpected return

J K Rowling's creation is again at the forefront of the public imagination, more than a decade after the last book was released, is different

Often, at times of national crisis, people can turn to literature for inspiration. In the past, they have sought out writers and poets who have described the national condition, or sought to remedy it — or simply written inspirationally of another world being possible.  It’s a little startling, however, that the writer, the work and the world that are most salient at the moment are J K Rowling’s Harry Potter books.  This is not because Ms Rowling has returned to the Potterverse with a screenplay set in the late 1920s, as fascism grew in power. ...

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Mihir S Sharma: Harry Potter and the unexpected return