In my previous article, I pointed out that J. K. Rowling’s making the standard arguments for euthanasia the motivation for Severus Snape’s accession to Albus Dumbledore’s request that Snape kill him amounted to advocacy of euthanasia. I stand corrected. What…

J. K. Rowling’s latest book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows<</I> contains a justification for euthanasia not by the Dark Lord Voldemort but by the venerable leader of the “good” witches and wizards, Hogwarts School Headmaster Albus Dumbledore. Aware that…

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Half-Blood Prince), the sixth and latest book of the Potter series, finally gets going when Harry’s fellow student at Hogwarts School of Magic and Wizardry (Hogwarts), Draco Malfoy, immobilizes Harry with the Petrificus curse…