the Harry Potter books hooked young readers early with a particular social play — first at Ollivanders, and then with the sorting hat: your wand chooses you; you are destined for a house. Other stories (e.g. the popular Divergent series) play on individuality & system-breaking
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Right, but the hat wouldn't granted it if he hadn't "belonged." Thus, the hat in the first place, and thus the zillions of HP quizzes that populate the web. Everyone knows how they want to be sorted, but they need a hat or algorithm to give them permission https://twitter.com/fieryfalliblist/status/1075114998660259842 …
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I keep meaning to write an essay about how Harry Potter sits very comfortably with this idea of benevolent authoritarianism. (Cue the "Tommy"s.)
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write this!
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(Compare to, say, His Dark Materials!)
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And goes into overdrive around age 13 ...least for me (sorry mom and dad)
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