Harry Potter is known to be a literary invention . Sure, he is now but one day, who knows, maybe 4,000 years down the line, Harry Potter will be seen as historic reality rather than a recent manifestation of the same mythic supernatural hero archetype we've been kicking around now for the past 50,000 years. Harry Potter, Jesus Christ - it's all the same thing. It begins as metaphor - then it becomes something more persuasive as it takes hold. It's a fascinating process (however so noxious & inevitable its atrocities) but only in terms of humanity's ability to tell stories and delude themselves into subsequent belief.
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