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Sometimes a children’s book is just that... and French intellectuals needn’t get their knickers in a twist over dissecting Harry Potter, writes BEN MACINTYRE
POOR Harry Potter. He has survived dementors, goblins, werewolves and Lord Voldemort himself, only to run into that most cunning and baffling of foes: the French intellectual.
Last month Le Monde published an article deconstructing the works of JK Rowling and arguing, in high-flown prose, that the boy-wizard is nothing less than a (...)