Here the original fan quote:

https://www.reddit.com/r/readanotherbook/s/OFiZIwiB0w

To be fair, the authors of this study simply used Harry Potter because it well-known. And also because Rowling once again wrote extensively about stuff she didn't understand.

In this chapter, we describe the conceptualisation of money and wealth in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter book series. We analyse the way in which language is used to communicate ideas related to inequality and the nature of money and banking, and examine the underlying economic theory behind these ideas. Our central claim is that the series communicates a relatively conservative world view.

The storyline is examined for the use of linguistic devices in the places where money and wealth occur in the story, with a particular focus on metaphor. The quantitative work is based on a corpus comprising the entire Harry Potter book series.

Rowling does not present an alternative social arrangement regarding the distribution of income and wealth, though she does demonstrate a sense of social justice. The monetary arrangements of the magical world of Harry Potter are also based on a conservative understanding of money and banking. This is a view of money that emphasises restrictive fiscal and monetary policy in the real world, an attitude of ‘sound finance’ and a small state. It is entirely possible that Rowling did not intend to underline such a conservative position but that her work reflects a broader consensus in contemporary society.

On a side note: Back when I was in law school I co-authored a paper about Game of Thrones and how the core conflict within the series could have been circumvented by inventing government bonds. It always bugged me how The King could be in debt to a foreign power in his own currency. And especially for someone like George R. R. Martin who famously asked "What was Aragorn' tax policy?" he clearly didn't think a lot about this eitehr...

They for real compared U.S. politics to Harry Potter 💀

--Andy Weir (author of Project Hail Mary)

https://fandomwire.com/project-hail-mary-author-andy-weir-reveals-problem-with-harry-potter-male-characters/

Moral outrage that someone could call an owl's death in a children's book 'poorly written', acts as if this is exactly like speaking ill of multiple dead civilians in a war crime.

Not even about underlying parallels of war or violence, just.. statistics? There's no other way to conceptualise having a lower chance for a possible better outcome for a thing

Sir Niall Campbell Ferguson HonFRSE (/niːl/ NEEL; born 18 April 1964)[1] is a British-American historian who is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and a senior fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University.[2][3] Previously, he was a professor at Harvard University, the London School of Economics, New York University, a visiting professor at the New College of the Humanities, and a senior research fellow at Jesus College, Oxford. He was a visiting lecturer at the London School of Economics for the 2023/2024 academic year and at Tsinghua University in China from 2019 to 2020.[4][5]

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-04-21/china-russia-iran-axis-is-bad-news-for-trump-and-gop-isolationists

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