![]() ![]() The Harry Potter books are significantly different from both of these. The Narnia booksbegin in this world, but, once through the cupboard door, we are elsewhere andelsewhen, in a world of lawful fantasy. The Lord of the Rings is set in another world – a world withnatural laws, to be sure, but clearly another world. Not simply fantasy butfantasy of a special kind, different from the works of Tolkien, for example. The Harry Potter books are works of science fantasy. Rowling toexist alongside “muggle” science. The magic of Harry Potter was designed by author J.K. ![]() A small change in the American edition of the first HarryPotter book – from philosopher’s stone to sorcerer’s stone– robs the British original of an important connection to the history ofhuman thought. ![]()
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