The Treatment of the Others in Selected Works by Hawthorne and Rowling’s Harry Potter

In her Harry Potter series, J. K. Rowling created a complicated society in which wizards are judged by the purity of their blood. This paper posits that J. K. Rowling was inspired by real-world events when writing the Harry Potter series, especially the Salem witchcraft trials of Puritan New England...

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