Harry Potter…

comes out tonight at midnight.

Presumably, there is fresh bloggable material about this. But I don’t have it. So instead, I’ll just point you to a flashback of the Marxist critique of HP. Regrettably, it’s archived now, but you can access a summary of the debate here, as well as my own original post (mostly just giving outward links).

I’m sure there will be plenty of generic Potter discussion permeating the blogosphere today and tommorow, but let’s try and narrow the focus a little. What (if any) are the political motifs and themes present in the HP world?