St. Cloud Times — It’s the season when students gather their textbooks — and their magic wands and cauldrons — to return to school at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
The non-magic students, or muggles, at St. Cloud State University can mix the magical world of Harry Potter with lessons on philosophy courtesy of professor Carolyn Hartz.
Her class applies Aristotle’s 2,500-year-old writings on friendship to character relationships in the J.K. Rowling books-turned-movies about boy wizard Harry Potter.