Does Harry Potter parody government response to terror?
Could Harry Potter be guarding the secrets of the British government’s post 9/11 response to the terrorist threat” Judith Rauhofer of the University of Central Lancashire seems to think so. Rauhofer has made a study of JK Rowling’s fictional child wizard and suggests, in a research paper published today in Inderscience’s International Journal of Liability and Scientific Enquiry, that the author draws several subtle parallels with contemporary society. She believes this is part of the adult appeal of the books. Book five in the series was the first Harry Potter book to be written entirely after the terrorist attacks in New York City, Pennsylvania, and Washington on September 11, 2001. “Until then, the Harry Potter series could be seen as nothing more than a simple story of good versus evil,” says Rauhofer, a Research Fellow in Law. “JK Rowling’s work then evolved into something more after 9/11, a social commentary on current events, in fact.” Rauhofer believes that with the Harry Potter
