The Duck of Minerva has a thoroughly thought-out post on “What Harry Potter inherits from Star Wars.” This post discusses the way stories like this become constitutive myths for an entire generation.
I thought it was a great parallel between the two, especially because as myths, both stories have huge amounts of truth in them, as we’ve been discussing on the previous Harry Potter post. And anytime you have a myth with truth in it, there’s echoes of the true myth that is the gospel.
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