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  • 3 Messages Hidden in Harry Potter (and Fantastic Beasts)

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    Watching Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them gave us an appreciation for an aspect of Harry Potter we’ve never really paid much attention to. Let’s talk about allegory, and Rowling’s ingenius approach to it. Subscribe for more! ➤http://tinyurl.com/ho9cl6s Facebook ➤ www.facebook.com/TaleFoundry Twitter ➤ https://twitter.com/TheTaleFoundry ***View the video description on Youtube for sources/attributions/additional information***

  • Rowling’s Pulled the Wool Over Our Eyes and We Love Her For It

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    thetalefoundry

    Welp, if you’re going to do a show about storytelling and fiction, seems pretty inevitable that you’ll get around to discussing Rowling’s work at some point. We’ve come to that bridge, and we’re crossing it in a haze of sparkly-eyed wonder. If we’re being honest, it wasn’t actually any sense of obligation that drove us…

  • Looking for a starting place for this month’s story — any ideas?

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    This month we’re talking about Harry Potter, Fantastic Beasts, and how Rowling approaches allegory in both. So, the plan is to write a short fantasy story that hides an allegory in the most important part of the fiction. Right now it’s just an idea, but we’d love any opinions on how we should begin our…

  • How Fantastic Beasts Handles Allegory

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    Watching Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them gave us an appreciation for an aspect of Harry Potter we’ve never really paid much attention to. Let’s talk about allegory, and Rowling’s ingenius approach to it. Subscribe for more! ➤http://tinyurl.com/ho9cl6s Facebook ➤ www.facebook.com/TaleFoundry Twitter ➤ https://twitter.com/TheTaleFoundry ***View the video description on Youtube for sources/attributions/additional information***