Auburn's Judith Sheppard re-reads Harry Potter and finds ominous messages

This is the lead to a column by Dr. Sheppard that appears in the January-February issue of AAUP's Academe.

"A third of the way through the movie version of Harry Potter and the Order of the the Phoenix, the fifth installment of that hugely entertaining reworking of Arthurian myth that I refuse to analyze literarily further—it’s been done—I gasped and said to myself: “To hell with this ‘epic battle of the mythical forces of good and evil’ stuff people think this movie is about. This is a movie about academic freedom.”  Full column.