"These divination methods are real subjects. There are things that you and I as Muggles know about, like scrying and tea reading and tarot cards. These are things with a human history and meaning, and even learning what they are and what they have meant to people over the ages, that is a thing that is worth studying; she can provide that even if she doesn't have the Sight most of the time."

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We know what it is, how draining it is because of dementors, to be reminded of the worst memories of your life, and that, I think, does give kid readers a boost in understanding what trauma flashbacks are: that the memory you relive during a flashback is experienced by your body and mind as happening again for real in real time.

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JC: "There's also an interesting moment when Harry comes back to the Leaky Cauldron after spending a day out in Diagon Alley where he can both hear people talking in Diagon Alley and hear the traffic on Charing Cross Road at the same time from his room."

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JC: "Even if he can't go back to Hogwarts, even if he can't really be part of the Wizarding world, he still has this magic and he knows how to use it and he can use it in his life. It makes me think about maybe queer folks, or people who've been rejected by their family for a variety of reasons. Your family can reject you, society can reject you, but they cannot take away who you are on the inside. This identity is yours, and you get to keep it."

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LK: “This may be the most intensely fatphobic chapter of the series. It's also full of scapegoating, corporal punishment, eugenics, dehumanization: themes that get darker in the series starting with Book Three.”

JC: “Wow, what does it take for me to feel sorry for Petunia? Yeah.”

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MinaLima are the graphic design house that made all of the props for all of the movies. Eduardo Lima is gay, and they have extremely not-subtle Pride decorations in the House of MinaLima flagship store every June. And they also have these buttons, and they show an owl -- a barn owl, not a particular character in any fantasy series about a small wizard or anything like that. Just a barn owl flying over a Progress Pride flag background.

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“I love that idea that it's the choices that we make that are the most important rather than the circumstances in which we find ourselves. Just because -- under the circumstances you were born -- you were assigned a particular gender, doesn't mean that that's how you have to stay. You can make a choice to live your life the way that's going to be fulfilling to you.” -JC

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Now he knows, "there's somebody that was at least as powerful as me. I have to meet this person." The diary he originally wrote -- with the stated intention of just trying to kill the people he despises -- now has changed to a deeper yearning for somebody to talk to that might understand him so that he might not be alone.

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