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| | HPL: Essays - Harry Potter and the Good Life |
 | | Harry’s parents, James and Lily Potter, died in a violent magical attack at the hands of Lord Voldemort (or Tom Riddle, as he was known before he led an underground revolution — resonating with Satan’s career moves in Paradise Lost — seducing his followers over to the Dark Side). |
 | | Thus Harry was left on the doorstep of his only living relatives, the Dursleys, a caricature of all that is wrong with middle class families in the Muggle world, that is, the non-magical world in which we all live. |
 | | Harry has chosen a life of rectitude, but he is still in the process of cultivating both the dispositions of acting and feeling that comprise a life of rectitude, and the requisite practical wisdom. |
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