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Harry Potter and history
Reagin, Nancy Ruth
Adult Nonfiction 823.914 R797 2011
Reagin, Nancy Ruth
Adult Nonfiction 823.914 R797 2011
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| Contents | Page |
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| Acknowledgments: Writing Magical History | p. xi |
| Harry Potter's Timeline | p. xiii |
| Introduction: A Half-Blood World? | p. 1 |
| Part 1 - ôThe Burrow Is Just Outside Ottery St. Catchpoleö: When Muggles and Wizards Lived Side by Side | p. 7 |
| 1 - Magic for Daily Use and Profit: Mandrakes, Charms, Bezoars, and Love Potions in the Muggle and Wizarding Worlds | p. 9 |
| 2 - Severus Snape and the Standard Book of Spells: Ancient Tongues in the Wizarding World | p. 39 |
| 3 - Beastly Books and Quick-Quills: Harry Potter and the Making of Medieval Manuscripts | p. 55 |
| 4 - Nicolas Flamel: The Alchemist Who Lived | p. 73 |
| 5 - Why the Statute of Secrecy? Real Historical Oppression of Witches and Wizards | p. 91 |
| Part 2 - After the Statute of Secrecy: Parallel Worlds | p. 125 |
| 6 - Was Voldemort a Nazi? Death Eater Ideology and National Socialism | p. 127 |
| 7 - ôMagic is Mightö: How the Wizarding Government Gained Its Power | p. 153 |
| 8 - Were the Malfoys Aristocrats? The Decline and Fall of the Pure-Blooded | p. 173 |
| 9 - School Ties, House Points, and Quidditch: Hogwarts as a British Boarding School | p. 193 |
| 10 - Of Marranos and Mudbloods: Harry Potter and the Spanish Inquisition | p. 219 |
| Part 3 - Women and Witches, Werewolves and Muggle-Borns: Magical Hierarchies | p. 243 |
| 11 - Witches vs. Women: What Muggles Could Learn from Wizarding History | p. 245 |
| 12 - Marx, Magic, and Muggles: Class Conflict in Harry Potter's World | p. 269 |
| 13 - Hairy Snout, Human Heart? Werewolves in Harry Potter's World and in European History | p. 293 |
| Hermione Raised Her Hand Again: Wizards Writing History | p. 309 |
| The Hogwarts Faculty | p. 323 |
| Index: Notable Magical Words of Our Time | p. 327 |
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