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The Harry Potter books play deliberately and self-consciously with three worlds: the Magic world, the Muggle world, and (I qualify this soon) our world. I have mentioned this in Chapter 8. The manner in which the three worlds are juxtaposed against each other and give point to each other is worth teasing out further. Which of the three worlds, we might ask ourselves, is central, and why? It is an innocuous-sounding question, but the answer is not as obvious as it might initially appear to be.
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Andrew Blake, The Irresistible Rise of Harry Potter (London: Verso, 2002).
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Gupta, S. (2009). Three Worlds. In: Re-Reading Harry Potter. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230279711_11
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