Abstract
Boys are admitted to hospital with head injuries after running luggage trolleys into a railway station wall. An American college accepts a PhD on Ovidian Metamorphosis and Post-Modernist Influences in Writings of J K Rowling. Schoolgirl hysteria follows the leaked news that in the final adventure our hero succumbs to Dark Forces and is condemned to eternity as a retarded adolescent on the film set of Lord of the Rings. And a first edition fetches £25 000. Only the last is true but with pottermania, an affliction to which I am immune, anything is possible. True, the Philosopher's Stone film did provide a welcome diversion from plastic airline food but after a few dozen pages of the text of that and a short-lived stab at Chamber of Secrets it seemed reasonable to abandon both tales to a more appreciative age group. Yet otherwise sensible adults do worship at the feet of this precocious child, and numbered among the obsessed is the science correspondent of London's Daily Telegraph. 1 Highfield R The science of Harry Potter. 0-670-03153-4 Viking Penguin, New York and London2002: 322 Google Scholar
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