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Life(and)death in Harry Potter: The Immortality of Love and Soul
- Mosaic: a journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature
- Mosaic, an interdisciplinary critical journal
- Volume 48, Number 2, June 2015
- pp. 133-148
- 10.1353/mos.2015.0027
- Article
- Additional Information
This essay examines various features belonging to the liminal area between life and death in the world of Harry Potter. Being fantasy novels, Rowling’s works are free of the reins of empirical thinking. The border they posit between possible and impossible may be displaced; still, it is more or less firmly set.