The conversations can be poignant, due to the relevance delivered by the author's subtext. And there is prejudice in the wizard world against giants and werewolves. The debate unfolds into similar modern-day prejudice in the real world. Eventually, the discussion summons a parallel between the seepage of the Ku Klux Klan into the fabric of 20th century America and the wizard world fighting the dark arts whose members have infiltrated that world. Bedard said the students learn to express themselves and listen to each other, injecting opinions drawn from their respective realities and their interpretations colored by those realities.
Students learn effective communication.
They earn a healthy respect for diversity and thoughts beyond their own. They demonstrate ethical and social responsibility. Some religious groups protested the Harry Potter books, saying they promote evil and Satanism in children. Fortunately, the humbled but motivated author persisted. She had resisted public assistance during hard times, taking refuge with the muse that spoke to her in a caf corner where she would write.