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No matter what’s going on in the wide world or the tangled web of my own thoughts, I can always find comfort in the Harry Potter series. 

Maybe it’s a yearning for days’ past. I remember reading Sorcerer’s Stone while pregnant with my daughter; a little over a decade later, she’d read all seven books on her own. For my son’s 5th grade Meet the Teacher night, we were treated to a room decorated so lavishly in Harry Potter themes that it felt like we’d stepped stra...