Do you know what day it is? Today is Monday 26 June 2017 – which means it’s 20 years since Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone was first published in the UK. That’s two decades of knowing and loving Harry Potter.
Here at the New Statesman, a solid 90 per cent of the online staff live and breathe Harry Potter. So we thought now would be the perfect time to run a week of Potter-themed articles. We’ve got a mix of personal reflections, very (very) geeky analysis, cultural criticism, nostalgia, and some truly bizarre fan fiction. You have been warned.
See below for the full list, which will be updated throughout the week:
Jonn Elledge and the Young Hagrid Audition
Amelia Tait: Harry Potter didn’t cure my depression – but for an hour a day, it helped
The boy who lies: Lizzie Palmer on what the Daily Prophet can teach us about fake news
Harry Potter and the Rift in Time: a Stephen Bush fanfic
Forbidden forests: India Bourke explores how Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows saved the trees
Bethany Rose Lamont on what we can learn from Harry Potter’s “mad women”
Caroline Crampton: I loved rereading Harry Potter as an adult – until I got stuck
Why the wizarding world is a dystopian, totalitarian nightmare, by Hannah Rose Woods
Fudge, boarding schools and King’s Cross station: how Harry Potter introduced me to British culture
James Cooray Smith explains how to talk about Harry Potter if you’ve never read Harry Potter
The Quizoner of Azkaban: Nick Hilton on his life trapped in Harry Potter trivia
Anoosh Chakelian: the Harry Potter audiobooks have a magic of their own
The Harry Potter generation: Anna Leszkiewicz on why The Boy Who Lived lives on
The definitive list of the most underrated Harry Potter characters
The (second) SRSLY Harry Potter Podcast!
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