â??The world changes and we change with it.â?
So says one of the characters in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child â?? a new play by Jack Thorne, based on a story by Thorne, John Tiffany, and J.K. Rowling.
I was 11 years old when the first Harry Potter book was published â?? the same age as Harry Potter himself. As an avid fan, I attended countless midnight release parties for both the books and movies as I grew into adulthood. But this time, at 30, my Saturday night didnâ??t allow me time for a midnight book run. I was too busy packing to move to Washington, D.C., to pursue faith-based advocacy work and preparing for my last day at the church, where Iâ??d served as a minister for the previous two years.
The world had changed and so had I, in the years since the Harry Potter book series officially ended in 2007. But in some ways my new reality was perfectly appropriate. After all, Harry Potter had everything to do with why I was busy that Saturday night â?? and why I became a minister and social justice activist.
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