In 2002, (only three of the books were published at the time) Harav Moshe Meir Weiss of the Agudah of Staten Island wrote a book entitled “A Torah Perspective for our Challenging Times” and dedicated a whole chapter to what we can learn from the Harry Potter books. He did caution that later books might be problematic as the 3 main characters become teenagers and how “clean” the author would keep it as hormones start to rage (which Rowlings pretty much did although other comments afterwards about the adult characters is definitely an issue). As an aside, Rabbi Weiss dedicated the book in memory of the firefighters from Staten Island who died on 9/11/2001).
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