Reader’s Digest — While Hagrid hasn’t come busting down our door with a one-way ticket to Hogwarts, Muggles who love the Potter series—you know you’re a superfan if you can appreciate these Harry Potter jokes—can come pretty close at St. Cloud State University in Minnesota, where professor Carolyn Hartz is bringing the magical world of Harry Potter to college by applying it to the teaching of philosophy.
The class focuses on applying Aristotle’s work on friendship and character relations to the adventures of the beloved boy wizard. And luckily, there’s no Dark Lord to worry about here; instead, the curriculum taps into the fundamentals of logic, ethics, love, nature, and the human soul by relating it to major scenes of the award-winning Potter stories.
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