It is difficult to measure the impact that Harry Potter had on my love of reading. I was an avid reader long before my father bought Harry Potter & the Sorcerer’s Stone (because I bought it in the United States) for us on a trip to Barnes & Noble one weekend in the fall of 2000. At the time I was in fifth grade and read a book a day, at least. Of course, these were books intended for children, such as A Wrinkle in Time, the Dear America diaries, Animorphs, and Goosebumps (to name some of my favorite … Continue reading How to Manage Expectations: A Defense of Harry Potter & the Cursed Child