Almost as if evolution shaped their brains to absorb children's stories so as to be able to apply those lessons when instructing their own children...
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Great piece - strongly recommend reading it It answers "why did *HP* catch on so strongly?" very well. There's also a question of "why does any *children's book series* fill that role?" - b/c it fits well into the minds of people that evolution shaped to relay children's stories