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All's Fair in Love & Quidditch: Games as Metaphors for Love & War Throughout the HP Series
Program Code:
050
Date:
Friday, July 11, 2008
Time:
9:00 AM to 10:30 AM
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Barbara Purdom studied Classics and Anthropology at Temple University in Philadelphia, where she still lives with her husband, children and too many cats, and presented "Metaphorical Queerness in the Harry Potter Books" at The Witching Hour and "Maiden, Mother, Crone" at Lumos. She has been on the Board of Directors of HPEF since its inception and is working on a book about the underlying themes of power in Rowling's books as well as writing two fantasy novels and editing a collection of sermons written by clergy and lay preachers about Harry Potter.
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Description
Games are very important in the Potterverse but not just for fun. They serve as metaphors for war, whether life-and-death war or a battle for love. Often we see in the books that the metaphors become all too real.