Harry Potter and the Half-Crazed Bureaucracy
University of Tennessee law professor Benjamin Barton, a big fan of Harry Potter, says he’s found a hidden libertarian message written between the lines of the books.
“When I read the fifth and sixth books, I noticed a real Libertarian bent. I thought, ‘Well, that’s interesting for children’s literature,’” Barton said.
Barton said he went back and read the first four books again, “and I saw the same messages were woven all the way through the series.”
Barton wrote a paper entitled “Harry Potter and the Half-Crazed Bureaucracy” that was published in the Michigan Law Review in May 2006. The paper is being reprinted as a chapter in the book, “Harry Potter and the Law” (Carolina Press), due out this summer.
Ahem… half???
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