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Bubble-Wrapped Children and Safe Books for Boys: The Politics of Parenting in Harry Potter
- Children's Literature
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 39, 2011
- pp. 213-233
- 10.1353/chl.2011.0016
- Article
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Harry Potter performs the same cultural work as contemporary popular discourse on parenting by suggesting that children can be set free to have adventures without risking death, since the young people who die in the series are never killed in accidents but only as a result of fighting evil.