Why reading "Harry Potter" makes us better people
Study: "Harry Potter" readers are the better people
As a study published in the "Journal of Applied Social Psychology" shows, reading "Harry Potter" has made a positive contribution to our lives. As part of the study, which was conducted with students, it was recognized that those who built a particularly close emotional bond with Hogwarts sorcerers were less likely to develop prejudices against minorities. But why is that?
How are tolerance and "Harry Potter" related?
Quite simply: The "Harry Potter" magic world is always about the distinction between "pure-bred" and "mudbloods". The latter term is meant pejoratively and is given to, for example, Hermione, whose parents are Muggle, ie non-wizards. Voldemort and his ilk have a deep hatred for the so-called mudbloods because they come from mixed families (wizards and muggle).
Of course, the gentle reader solidarises with Hermione, who is a minority in the wizarding world with her Muggle parents. This solidarity may have made readers of "Harry Potter" tolerant to minorities in the real world. Not least because the word "Mudblood" by Harry, Ron and Co. was always met with horror and aversion. In addition, this could have the positive benefit that the use of insults is fundamentally wrong!
