Inside the World of Harry Potter

Christopher E. Bell is an associate professor of media studies in the department of communication at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs, specializing in the study of the ways in which race, class and gender intersect in different forms of children’s media. He is a TED speaker, a diversity and inclusiveness consultant for Pixar Animation Studios, a 2017 David Letterman Award winning media scholar and the 2017 Denver Comic Con Popular Culture Educator of the Year.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction (Christopher E. Bell)

Gone but Not Forgotten: The Missing Mothers of the Wizarding World

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“Beyond the veil”: The Narrative Functions of Death (Samantha J. Vertosick)

“I don’t think you’re a waste of space”: Activity, Redemption and the Social Construction of Fatness (Tolonda Henderson)

Of the Patil Twins (Soma Das)

Time Travel and the Cursed Child (Elizabeth Morrow Clark)

Frisky, Risky Firewhisky: The Rhetorical Function of Alcohol (Lauren Camacci)

Pure-Bloods, ­Half-Bloods and Mudbloods (Camilla Schroeder)

“You have your mother’s eyes”: Inheritance and Social Class (Alison Baker)

The First Gift: Owls as Paragons of the ­Non-Human (Keri Stevenson)

Dangerous Depictions of Adoption in Rowling’s Wizarding World Narratives (Tara Moore)

Harry Potter and the Paradoxes of Fidelity (Jelena Borojević)

What Is a Hero?: An Analysis of Legacy Symbolism (Marley ­Stuever-Williford)

About the Contributors

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