Acknowledgments
Introduction / by Giselle Liza Anatol
[pt.] 1. Reading Harry Potter through theories of child development
1. Archetypes and the unconscious in Harry Potter and Diana Wynne Jones's Fire and Hemlock and Dogsbody / Alice Mills
2. Harry Potter and the magical looking glass : reading the secret life of the preadolescent / Lisa Damour
3. Harry Potter and the acquisition of knowledge / Lisa Hopkins
4. Safe as houses : sorting and school houses at Hogwarts / Chantel Lavoie
5. Harry and hierarchy : book banning as a reaction to the subversion of authority / Rebecca Stephens.

[pt.] 2. Literary influences and historical contexts
6. Harry Potter's schooldays : J.K. Rowling and the British boarding school novel / Karen Manners Smith
7. Accepting mudbloods : the ambivalent social vision of J.K. Rowling's fairy tales / Elaine Ostry
8. Hermione and the house-elves : the literary and historical contexts of J.K. Rowling's antislavery campaign / Brycchan Carey
9. Flying cars, floo powder, and flaming torches : the hi-tech, low-tech world of of wizardry / Margaret J. Oakes
[pt.] 3. Morality and social values : issues of power
10. Cruel heroes and treacherous texts : educating the reader in moral complexity and critical reading in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter books / Veronica L. Schanoes
11. Harry Potter and the rule of law : the central weakness of legal concepts in the wizard world / Susan Hall
12. The fallen empire : exploring ethnic otherness in the world of Harry Potter / Giselle Liza Anatol
13. Class and socioeconomic identity in Harry Potter's England / Julia Park
14. Cinderfella : J.K. Rowling's wily web of gender / Ximena Gallardo-C. and C. Jason Smith
Selected bibliography
Index
About the contributors.