The Role of the Raise Work in Harry Potter's Real World of Not Analogies

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The book mashes a number of political concerns together without much of a care for how they fit or what they ultimately say. The real work of the book is in the characters growing up and out of the world in which they spent their childhood. "It's mostly it's that it doesn't quite know because the the mage is this reformer who has brought um you know uh okay baz's mom"

This novel about a wizarding school and its teen magicians feels like the finale of a series that you've heard about but haven't read. Which is...sort of the point? Born out of an in-universe work of fan fiction from a different Rowell novel, Carry On provides a great opportunity to dig into what helps a story inspired by another story succeed.

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