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This article appeared in the October 1, 2007 edition of The Nation.

September 12, 2007

MUGGLES FOR HARRY POTTER!

Letters from muggles of all stripes--parents, grandparents, teachers, doctors, librarians, readers old and young--were unanimous in decrying Lakshmi Chaudhry's "Harry Potter and the Half-Baked Epic" [Aug. 13/20], her review of the final book of the series. Letters featured such terms as "humorless," "sanctimonious," "asinine," "off the mark," "nonsense," "half-baked" and "a review that might have appeared in The Weekly Standard." A reader opined that Chaudhry had "splattered herself with her own ink. Perhaps the quill she used came from Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes." No letters were delivered by owl.    --The Editors


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About Jonathan Schell

Jonathan Schell is the Harold Willens Peace Fellow at The Nation Institute and teaches a course on the nuclear dilemma at Yale. He is the author of The Seventh Decade: The New Shape of Nuclear Danger. more...
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