List of Abbreviations.- Series Editor\'s Preface.- Notes on Contributors.- Introduction; C.Hallett .- Glorious Food? The Literary and Culinary Heritage of the Harry Potter Series; S.Harris.- A Fairy Tale Crew? J.K. Rowling\'s Characters Under Scrutiny; A.Klaus.- The Way of the Wizarding World: Harry Potter and the Magical Bildungsroman; R.T.Tally, Jr..- Bewitching, Abject, Uncanny: Other Spaces in the Harry Potter Films; F.Pheasant-Kelly.- Free Will and Determinism: A \'Compatibilist\' Reading of J.K. Rowling\'s Harry Potter Series; C.M.Fouque.- Dumbledore\'s Ethos of Love in Harry Potter; L.Guanio-Uluru.- Harry Potter and the Origins of the Occult; E.McAvan.- Wizard\'s Justice and Elf Liberation: Politics and Political Activism in Harry Potter; M.Schulzke.- What It Means To Be A Half-Blood: Integrity Versus Fragmentation in Biracial Identity; T.Stockslager.- Magic, Medicine and Harry Potter; C.Partin.- Harry Potter and the Myriad Mothers: The Maternal Figure as Lioness, Witch and Wardrobe; R.Weaver & K.McMahon-Coleman.- \'I knew a girl once, whose hair...\': Dumbledore and the Closet; J.Daems.- \'Neither can live while the other survives\': Harry Potter and the Extratextual (After)life of J.K. Rowling; P.Ingleton.- Further Reading.- Index.