The Snitch in Harry Potter

Helen Lewis said I sounded like a stoned undergraduate. But then I thought, well, look, Rowling is richer than the queen. She produced this empire. It's an absolute empire. Why in the world would the story of a magical orphan become a multi-billion dollar decades long global cultural phenomenon? Well, if you're interested in culture, in fear interested in anything besides narrow politics, you'd think that that would be worthy of investigation. No doubt. That's not easy to see these things sometimes for the mystery that they are. And so I talk about it in the book and, you know, that's what she dismissed as the ravings of a stoned undergr

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