Wednesday, July 22, 2026

Candid Comment - Public Filming and Constitutional Auditing: Rights, Risks, and the Problem With Rage Bait

Have you ever been in a public place and noticed someone filming? I am speaking mainly of places like a library, post office, police station, or other facility that is highly trafficked by the public. In Canada and the US, there are people who are described as constitutional auditors. They are a group of people who record in and around buildings in the public spaces—generally associated with government. The goal of these auditors, as you will see later in this article, is to ensure that officials and staff understand and respect legal rights with regard to public access and recording. Note: In the US, they are referred to as "First Amendment auditors," and in Canada, "Charter auditors."

Canada and the U.S. have different laws; knowing how to avoid jail, injury, and, in extremely rare instances, death is critical for anyone wanting to take a camera out and start filming in public spaces. It should be clarified that we are talking about audits that do not apply to open carry laws in the US. Those carry the risk of death. Canada does not permit open carry of any firearm.

So what is the difference between a good-faith auditor and those creating rage bait content, and what are the risks for both? Let's talk about that. But before we begin that conversation, it should be noted that the camera is not the focus; the filming is not the problem; it is what the person using the camera is doing, how they behave, that is at the heart of the debate with respect to auditing. 

A good-faith auditor is someone who acts with professionalism. They usually go to a space unmasked, but not always, and quietly do the work. When challenged, they explain what they are doing and the purpose behind the audit. And in general, either leave when asked or explain what they are doing to officers. And if lawfully ordered to leave by an authorized person, do so. Critics note that there are those auditors who are generally crafting a confrontation so they can get what is known as "rage bait." The idea is to get engagement and monetize their content. Being disruptive in public in many places may result in some of them ending up being put into a squad car and standing in front of a judge; this, however, depends on the circumstances of the incident. So first let's tackle this question: Is auditing a good thing? The answer, surprisingly, at least in democratic countries like the U.S. and Canada, is yes.

The premise behind auditing is to do the following:

Exposing Systemic Training Failures: Auditors have frequently documented that the people trusted with state power—such as police officers and government managers—did not actually know the laws they are paid to enforce. Over the years, audits have exposed governments and businesses to the realization that their staff were regularly providing inaccurate or misleading information. That has prompted a move to ensure staff have clearer guidance on what is and is not allowed.

Preventing "Mission Creep" and Institutional Overreach: Civil liberties are fragile. Those who do audits argue that if citizens do not actively exercise lawful rights—such as filming from public spaces, recording police where permitted by law, or accessing publicly accessible government facilities—public officials may gradually expand their authority beyond what the law permits. Responsible auditing serves as a reminder that government powers have legal limits and that public spaces exist for the public to use. The same principle applies to private individuals and businesses: everyone is bound by the law. While private property owners may set lawful conditions for entry, neither governments nor private citizens are above the legal protections and restrictions established by law.

Sparking Institutional Reform: High-profile audits have forced police departments and federal agencies across North America to rewrite their training manuals. Many police forces now have specific directives explicitly instructing officers not to detain, identify, or escalate situations with people filming them, saving taxpayers millions in potential civil rights lawsuits.

Protecting Marginalized Communities: Bystander photography has historically been the single most powerful tool for exposing police brutality and corruption. By firmly establishing and defending the right of any citizen to stand on a sidewalk and record a traffic stop, auditors protect the legal right of everyday people to document official wrongdoing.

It's not to make money or become famous. It's to highlight errors and ensure that democracy does not get eroded. That those in authority uphold laws and values and respect people. 

While the legal theory behind auditing holds immense value, critics argue that the modern movement has corrupted its own purpose. This is what diminishes the value of auditing:

Profit Over Principle: Many modern auditors operate within a digital economy where YouTube ad revenue, memberships, and viewer donations can create financial incentives for content that attracts attention. A calm, respectful interaction between an auditor and a public employee may generate limited engagement, while a confrontation involving conflict, raised voices, or controversy is more likely to attract views and shares.

The result is a cycle where controversial encounters can become financially rewarding for content creators. Viewers who engage with this material may experience frustration or anger, while the creator benefits from increased traffic, advertising revenue, and online exposure. This creates a situation where conflict itself can become part of the business model.

Targeting the Wrong People: Rather than focusing exclusively on policymakers, government officials, or institutions with the authority to change policies, some aggressive auditors direct their attention toward frontline public employees, such as municipal clerks, librarians, and postal workers. These individuals often have limited authority over the rules or procedures being challenged.

While documenting government interactions can raise legitimate questions about transparency and accountability, confrontational encounters with low-level employees may do little to address the underlying policies or systems involved. Instead, these interactions can create highly shareable content where conflict and controversy drive viewer engagement, online exposure, and potential revenue.

Wasting Public Resources: When an auditor encounter escalates to the point where a municipal building must be secured, operations are disrupted, or emergency services are required, significant public resources may be diverted from their intended purposes. These responses require time, personnel, and taxpayer-funded resources to manage.

Public employees are trained and compensated to provide essential services, and their time is funded through public resources. While individuals have the right to question government actions and assert their legal rights, unnecessary escalation can place additional burdens on workers, agencies, and members of the public who rely on those services. In situations where public resources are required to manage avoidable conflicts, the financial and operational costs are ultimately carried by the community. 

The aggressive auditor damages the legitimacy of the audit and makes good faith auditors' work much more difficult. Because government, business, judges, and law enforcement are pushing back. They are using a wide range of tactics to make it more difficult for aggressive auditors to create their content. This in turn also affects good faith auditors. So what makes for a successful audit, and who fits into the role?

The answer is someone who is mature and has an advanced understanding of local law and an absence of financial bias. The ideal auditors are:

Credible Citizen Journalists: Individuals who view themselves as bound by professional ethics. They focus on documenting the truth, not manufacturing an argument. In other words, they know the rules: do not pick a fight, and if they do get into a discussion, know how to dial things down. 

Legal Advocates & Law Students: People who possess an academic interest in civil liberties. They understand exactly how constitutional rights function practically and how to document violations for the courts. In other words, people working on cases where the law is not being equally applied or there is overreach by officials and law enforcement and businesses.

Community Watchdogs: Local residents with an established stake in their community. They audit to ensure their local tax dollars are funding well-trained public employees, rather than travelling long distances strictly to harass strangers. In other words, people who are known for this kind of work in a specific neighbourhood with good standing and no agenda other than ensuring the audited site is compliant at all levels, and so is the staff working there. 

So let's circle back to good vs. bad. In this graphic we see the top notable good vs. bad auditor bullet points.

One thing to keep in mind is that it is true that in many cases police, business people, and general workers in government do not have total 360° knowledge of the law. So if they tell an auditor to leave, the smarter, well-trained one is going to do that as the risk of arrest and harm increases with resistance. As I often say, sometimes it is wiser to concede the battle and withdraw to fight another day. And that is where the lawsuit option is. The point is to avoid a problem and lower the risk of retaliation. 

How are they viewed by experts, observers, and the general public at large? They see them in two distinct categories. 

Good-Faith Educators: Stand in public areas, remain completely calm, stay polite, and film without actively disrupting anyone.


Generally Tolerated: Viewed as eccentric but harmless, or even respected for testing transparency.


Aggressive Agitators: Wear masks, wander into restricted zones, yell insults, and film people up close to manufacture a crisis.


Highly Disliked: Widely viewed as manipulative grifters looking to exploit the law for financial gain.


Going the aggressive route can lead to some really bad outcomes. 

Increasing Legal, Financial, and Physical Risks: Confrontational auditing practices are leading to increased scrutiny and criticism of auditors; some encounters result in legal disputes, financial consequences, and physical confrontations. The good news is that severe outcomes, including death, remain extremely rare in Canada and the United States; however, auditors still face risks such as arrest, civil claims, criminal charges, equipment damage, or physical altercations depending on the circumstances.

Legal Risk: Although the overall legal risk for Charter and constitutional auditors is generally considered to be low when they operate within the law, it is not insignificant. There are no comprehensive statistics measuring the rate at which charges against auditors are withdrawn, dismissed, or proceed to trial, making precise estimates difficult. Nevertheless, legal disputes remain an occupational hazard for many auditors. Canada and the United States share many similarities as common law jurisdictions, but important differences exist. Canada has a single federal Criminal Code that applies nationwide, whereas the United States has a combination of federal criminal law and individual state criminal codes. In civil matters, both countries primarily follow the common law tradition, with Quebec and Louisiana retaining civil law systems for private law. Auditors who are arrested or sued may incur legal fees, fines, settlements, probation, or, in more serious cases, imprisonment if convicted. Even when charges are ultimately withdrawn or dismissed, the financial and personal costs of defending a legal action can be substantial.

Financial Risk: Copyright claims are among the most significant financial risks faced by Charter and constitutional auditors on platforms such as YouTube. Background music played by police officers, businesses, passing vehicles, or members of the public can inadvertently trigger automated copyright detection systems, rendering portions of otherwise lawful recordings difficult or impossible to monetize. For creators whose videos generate substantial viewership, a copyright claim on a viral video can result in significant lost advertising revenue. In addition to copyright-related losses, many Charter and constitutional auditors incur considerable legal expenses defending themselves against civil lawsuits, criminal charges, or other legal actions arising from their work. Even when those cases are ultimately dismissed or resolved in the auditor's favour, the financial burden of obtaining legal representation can be substantial.
Physical Altercations and Damage to Equipment: One of the most significant occupational risks faced by Charter and constitutional auditors is the potential for physical confrontation and damage to their equipment. Professional cameras, smartphones, microphones, and other recording gear can represent a substantial financial investment, making damage or loss particularly costly. During confrontational encounters, auditors may have their cameras grabbed, their view intentionally obstructed, or their access physically blocked. Verbal abuse is common, and in some documented cases, encounters have escalated to physical assaults involving pushing, punching, grabbing, or forcefully restraining the auditor. While serious injuries and fatalities appear to be rare, the possibility of physical harm cannot be entirely discounted. Maintaining situational awareness, understanding the applicable law, and avoiding unnecessary escalation are important measures for reducing these risks.
This said, there is the evolution we see with regard to auditing in the US and Canada
Era & Years Altercation Frequency Primary Conflict Type Institutional Response
Genesis Era (Pre–2016) 🟢 Exceptionally Low Sidewalk filming / Heavy-handed arrests Confusion; unconstitutional wiretapping charges.
Emerging Era (2016–2019) 🟡 Moderate & Rising Interior lobbies / ID demands / Standoffs Panic calls from staff; regular trespass arrests.
Peak Friction (2020–2022) 🔴 Extremely High High provocation / Physical fights / Swatting Physical takedowns; citizen backlash; camera smashing.
Saturation Era (2023–2025) 🔵 High Volume, Low Force Financial warfare / Admin blockades Retraining programs; "weaponized audio" tactics.
Lockdown Era (2026+) 🟢 Stabilized / Plateaued Structural deadlocks / Legal battles Secured interior doors; keycard locks; strict zone control.
Another risk that aggressive auditing creates is sextortion.
Pipeline Type Source Vulnerability Sextortion Mechanism & Threat
1. Face Harvesters High-definition (1080p/4K) close-ups of government workers or citizens uploaded to YouTube/TikTok. Scammers feed footage into AI face-swapping software to create explicit deepfakes, then demand a ransom.
2. Crowdsourced Doxxing Auditor fan bases uncover names, workplaces, and social media handles of people in the videos. Crime rings scrape this contact data to build a curated list of the victim's family and bosses for targeted blackmail.
3. Rogue Auditors Bad-faith actors capture individuals in private or embarrassing scenarios on sidewalks or through windows. Instead of uploading the video, rogue actors demand cash or intimate content to keep the footage offline.
4. Counter-Attacks High-profile auditors expose their own faces, voices, and locations to the public. Trolls catfish the auditor to trick them into sending explicit material, threatening to leak it to their subscriber base.
By actively being aggressive and zooming in and getting a close-up, an auditor could potentially cause serious harm to people. Government workers, the police, and people with medical or mental health issues could face potential risk due to actions of an aggressive auditor. Even those looking for justice through the courts can become victims; an aggressive auditor filmed them. And those who are fed up with auditors can and do go after them and their families. 
The way to avoid risk is to adhere to standards and the law. Below are some guidelines for safe auditing. 
Defense Phase Actionable Strategy How It Disrupts the Pipeline
1. Immediate Tactics While Being Filmed Control Your Expressions Avoid intense, angry, or expressive facial movements. Deepfake AI software thrives on dynamic expressions to map faces accurately.
Keep Your Voice Level Speak in a calm, monotonous tone or remain completely silent. This prevents bad actors from gathering clean voice clips for AI audio cloning.
De-escalate the Scene Walk away or ignore the camera completely. Denying auditors dramatic "viral moments" lowers the chance your video gets pushed by algorithms.
2. Lockdown Your Digital Footprint Audit Your Social Privacy Set Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn accounts to strict private modes. Hide your friend lists and connection directories.
Remove Contact Details Delete your phone number, email address, and workplace listings from your public-facing social media biographies.
Scrub Public Registries Use data removal services to opt-out of data broker sites that publish your home address, family members, and phone histories online.
3. Immediate Steps If You Are Extorted Never Pay the Ransom Paying extortionists never guarantees data deletion. Instead, it flags you as a profitable target for repeated blackmail.
Preserve the Evidence Take screenshots of all threats, messages, phone numbers, and payment addresses before blocking the scammer. Keep the raw chat logs.
Report to Authorities File an immediate report with the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) at ic3.gov or contact your local cybercrime unit.
Flag to Platforms Use the automated reporting tools on YouTube, TikTok, or X to flag the video for harassment, privacy violations, or non-consensual content.
For Canadians, you want to use these resources.
Canadian Resource Group Official Reporting Portal Mandate & Action Steps
1. Centralized Cybercrime Reporting reportcyberandfraud.canada.ca Co-managed by the RCMP and the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre (CAFC). Use this secure federal portal to track down digital extortion networks.
2. Local Police Enforcement Your Municipal Police or Local RCMP Detachment Contact your local service (e.g., Toronto Police, Ottawa Police) to launch a direct criminal investigation. Local police hold the mandate to investigate these crimes.
3. Youth & Minor Protection Cybertip.ca & Project Arachnid Operated by the Canadian Centre for Child Protection (C3P). Implements rapid internet crawling to detect and remove non-consensual sexual images of minors under 18.
4. Provincial Take-Down Services Provincial Agencies (e.g., B.C. Intimate Images Protection Service) Provides regional legal mechanisms to force social platforms to take down leaked or deepfaked content. Check your specific province for active take-down support.
As noted, there are good-faith auditors who actually do the work. They do so by auditing the process, not the people. I touched on this earlier in this article, but it is worth revisiting this point. There is a good and justifiable reason to conduct an audit. How that should be done is the key to being good at auditing.
The first step is to check your motive. Why are you doing the audit? What purpose do you have for going to a public space with a camera and mic? What is the goal you want to achieve?
Know the law or have a basic enough understanding of what the law says you can and can not do. You can record openly while on a sidewalk even if it is in front of a bank or government office or small store. But, once you step onto the property, the legal framework changes. You can be asked to stop recording in a Walmart, even in their parking lot, which is private property. For a government building or say an LCBO, which is our liquor store here in Ontario, no! You have no legal grounds to record even in the parking lot. For places like Canada Post even inside a drugstore like a Rexall, or say Service Ontario or any Canadian government facility. NO! You are not allowed to record inside or in the lot; only on the sidewalk. The same goes for hospitals and clinics. For police and fire stations in general, the sidewalk is fine. Below is the complete breakdown of this. I should point out this is Canada-based; in the US the rules may be different. You want to check local, county, state, and federal regulations. 
With that said, you may want to take note that privacy laws are very complex in Canada and the US. The restrictions are based on ownership and policies alongside the laws governing privacy. Circumstances, especially with regard to doing audits in parking lots, need analysis to ensure that, indeed, the area in question, while public, is not an area open as a public forum space. This is true of spaces where government or other kinds of business take place. You may want to consult a lawyer before doing an audit in such spaces. 
Facility Type Film Inside? Film Parking Lot? Film From Sidewalk? Primary Legal Mechanism
LCBO Stores ❌ No ❌ No (Private/Plaza) ✅ Yes Retail Policies & Trespass to Property Act
Service Canada / Ontario ❌ No ❌ No (Leased plazas) ✅ Yes Citizen Privacy Acts & SIN Data Protection
Police Stations ❌ No (Lobbies blocked) ❌ No (Secure compounds) ✅ Yes Informant Privacy & Active Investigations
Fire Stations ❌ No (Unless crew permits) ❌ No (Operational lanes) ✅ Yes Workplace Rules & Emergency Response
Hospitals ❌ No (Strictly banned) ❌ No (Private grounds) ✅ Yes Patient Health Information Acts (PHIPA)
It goes without saying that while you can record on the sidewalk and have someone's private home or an apartment building in the shot, zooming into the house is risky. Zooming in and possibly capturing intimate moments could lead to charges.
Is there a proper way to do an audit? Yes, absolutely, there is a proper way to do an audit. An accurate audit does the following things:
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Institutional Compliance Audit Target Checklist

What a Good-Faith Audit Objectively Evaluates

🏛️ 1. Physical & Public Access Points

  • Unlocked Public Lobbies: Verifies that areas meant for the general public remain open and accessible during standard operational hours.
  • Clear Property Boundaries: Checks for distinct physical or visual transitions separating public spaces from restricted employee zones.
  • Secure Employee Barriers: Ensures that high-security areas (like server rooms or private offices) are properly locked to safeguard sensitive records.

🖼️ 2. Mandatory Postings & Signage

  • Public Fee Schedules: Confirms that service fees, structural fines, and permit costs are openly posted for consumer transparency.
  • Hours of Operation: Verifies that facility hours are accurately and clearly displayed at all primary public entrance ways.
  • Nondiscrimination Policies: Checks for mandated public notifications, such as labor law posters or accessibility guidelines.

🗃️ 3. Information & Public Records Access

  • FOIA/FOI Resource Forms: Confirms that Freedom of Information request documents are physically stocked or easily available to citizens.
  • Public Comment Sheets: Verifies that feedback forms or public sign-up sheets for municipal council meetings are openly provided.
  • Informational Pamphlets: Checks that educational materials regarding local government programs are accessible without barriers.

👮 4. Staff & Security Policy Compliance

  • Official Identification: Documents whether public employees and security personnel are wearing visible, compliant name tags or badge numbers.
  • Verbal Policy Accuracy: Tests whether employees correctly cite actual municipal laws regarding photography rather than fabricating rules.
  • De-escalation Capabilities: Evaluates whether facility security handles a passive camera calmly or instantly escalates to law enforcement intervention.
The key thing to remember is that when doing an audit, your goal is to check process, procedure, and compliance. It is not to target the staff. You are ensuring the building itself and the documents the staff are in charge of meet standards and compliance rules and laws are upheld. Generally speaking, if an auditor is in a public space, they are allowed to record; if not, then there is a strong chance they will be stopped. So if you want to join the ranks and do audits, you may want to ensure you are acting with good intentions. 
There is nothing wrong with wanting to make money from the content you create. Many people who do this are monetizing the content. The issue is the confrontations most often associated with the audits. It is not wrong to make money from the content. It becomes a problem when the action is solely to craft a crisis to gain a large amount of views to gain profit that is causing the controversy, scrutiny, and pushback. A good faith audit follows the following structure.

The Good Faith Auditor Checklist

Step-by-Step Compliance for 1A & Charter Audits

1. Pre-Audit Preparation

2. Equipment & Backup Setup

3. On-Site Execution

4. Interaction & De-escalation

5. Law Enforcement Strategy

To conclude, the goal for a good audit is to audit process, procedure, access, and compliance. The building is the target to audit, and the way people are treated is to ensure that the law is upheld. While it is ok to make money with the content, creating a dramatic scene could lead to adverse reactions and other outcomes that may include, in rare circumstances, jail but, more often than not, confrontations that can get physical and may lead to charges being laid. In addition, the monetization scheme could be interrupted by lawsuits and copyright strikes. In the rarest of circumstances an auditor can end up injured or killed. 
In practice, most of the time, most audits that are aggressive in nature lead to no immediate impacts other than verbal confrontations and the occasional push and shove. 
Thanks for reading this article; let me know what you think of it and if you have been in front of or behind the camera, what is it like? I will see you in the next one. 

Cliff T. 

Notable citations and their links

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Canadian Police Agencies

  • Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP): Rewrote its baseline use-of-force manuals for the first time in 30 years to introduce a new Public and Police Safety Framework. Read the updated framework goals in the RCMP Departmental Plan and track current progress via the RCMP Departmental Results Reports.
  • Ottawa Police Service (OPS): Overhauled its tactical training matrix and frontline deployment workflows after an independent administrative review. View the full structural findings in the Ottawa Auditor General Staffing Audit.
  • Toronto Police Service (TPS): Redrafted its core protocols following human rights audits regarding systemic profiling and force disparity. Access the live, updated database of public procedures via the Toronto Police Service Procedure Listing.
  • Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) & Municipal Forces: Phased out historical 2004 physical restraint models in favour of a modern de-escalation framework. Review the provincial directives via the Ontario Public-Police Interactions Training Aid Document.

United States Police Agencies

  • Washington State Law Enforcement: Forced widespread revisions to local patrol tactics manuals following a state-wide compliance investigation. Review the training gaps and compliance tracking updates on the Washington State Auditor Police Training Connection.
  • Mesa Police Department & National Lexipol Agencies: Rewrote standard operating manuals to include explicit directives that ban officers from retaliating against public recording or making unlawful identification demands.

Research regarding the risks of deepfakes and sextortion / extortion 

Citation for the historical trends regarding Auditing

🟢 Genesis Era (Pre–2016)

  • Summary: Characterized by widespread institutional ignorance and confusion regarding citizen recording rights. Police departments frequently arrested citizens on public sidewalks using non-applicable wiretapping laws, leading to major civil rights lawsuits.
  • Citation: This era was structurally closed by the landmark ruling in Glik v. Cunniffe (2011), which legally solidified the public’s First Amendment right to openly film law enforcement personnel in public spaces.

🟡 Emerging Era (2016–2019)

  • Summary: Activists moved inside public buildings, deliberately testing the limits of public lobbies, municipal service desks, and identification demands. Staff panic led to frequent, legally vulnerable trespass enforcement actions.
  • Citation: The shift to interior spaces prompted national directives, such as the American Library Association Office for Intellectual Freedom's 2019 Advisory Bulletin, which warned municipal employees not to engage or escalate.

🔴 Peak Friction (2020–2022)

  • Summary: Driven by explosive YouTube algorithm monetization and post-2020 social unrest, audits became highly confrontational. This phase peaked with physical altercations, broken cameras, swatting incidents, and massive civil payouts by municipalities.
  • Citation: High-profile flashpoints, such as the 2021 New London incident covered by Police1, exposed deep systemic training gaps and led to immediate officer suspensions and forced retirements.

🔵 Saturation Era (2023–2025)

  • Summary: Agencies realized physical force played directly into the hands of auditors seeking litigation payouts. Institutions switched to non-engagement tactics, administrative blockades, and creative operational disruptions.
  • Citation: Law enforcement industry guidelines shifted toward de-escalation, as documented in the Police1 Academy Guide on Handling Audits (2023), which trained officers to ignore provocations and weaponize copyrighted background music to stop streams.

🟢 Lockdown Era (2026+)

  • Summary: Municipalities finalized the physical and structural redesign of public properties. By installing electronic badge access systems, heavy security glass, and double-door traps, institutions effectively blocked audit activities.
  • Citation: These measures rely on the Public Forum Doctrine established in Cornelius v. NAACP Legal Defense Fund (1985), allowing agencies to legally declare secured interior employee areas as "Non-Public Forums" where recording is entirely banned.





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Thursday, June 11, 2026

Candid Comment-Why I Am Glad Harry Potter Isn't Real

This is an article about how the wizarding world of Harry Potter, a fictional world, mimics the world and why I am very glad this world really does not exist.

The Main Point Of This Article

Harry Potter, the series that follows a boy from a baby to 17, is a tale of a young man who grows up in a home where he is loathed and unwanted. At the end of the series he has to fight to the death against the very person who killed his parents and set him on a course filled with many unpleasant things. Most of them are near-death experiences and seeing people he cares for die. He is also tortured in one of the books by an equally awful instructor / government official who delights in being cruel. Now, to be fair, there are good guys who help along the way.

Harry and the inhabitants of the muggle and wizarding worlds

There is no doubt that the story features a good vs. evil plot and is also a coming-of-age story and explores themes of love and loss, along with resilience in the face of very challenging situations. It should be noted that under real-world circumstances, Harry would be severely mentally incapacitated. The list of disorders he could have is quite debilitating, to say the least. Unless, and the books do add this in, a person gets strong supports and a whole lot of TLC to counter and mitigate them. Harry in our world would still be mentally ill. It should also be made clear that Harry was actually assaulted by Vernon, and he almost killed him on several occasions. 

It should also be noted many of the other characters in the story would also be mentally ill. In point of fact, the wizarding world is a trauma-filled and trauma-inducing environment. Even with the reforms that were implemented post-book era. Though we can say going to school is a lot safer as time passes and a healthier crop of people grows up over the decades, the trauma will eventually be healed for the most part. This is one of the many reasons why I am so very glad this is just a story and not a real thing, though it is a very good mirror of what our real world does look like, as sadly there are real-world cases and stories similar to the fictional Harry Potter story, though we see no dark lords here. Or do we? I will let you think on that.

Going to school filled with wonder and possibly death

The story arc features a school that is technically a death trap. Not to mention a place where slave labour is used and a house system that is somewhat flawed. 

Imagine a place where stairs move at will, vanish, or trap you. How about a forest nearby that has a whole lotta creatures that want to kill you? Next doors that do not open without touching them in a certain way, answering riddles, or providing passwords. 

The staff are really cool with some exceptions. One who had a maniac who wanted to take over the world connected to him through his soul, he ended up dead. Another was a fraud who wrote books for fame and fortune and stole ideas, then wiped memories; he ended up erasing his own mind by using a broken wand and ended up on a mental ward for the remainder of his life. Another was a werewolf; ya no need to explain what happens when you get bitten by one. He left after it was leaked that, well, he's a werewolf; parents would not like that, would they? An imposter followed next, then a sadistic teacher who used a quill that etched words into flesh—lovely, just lovely. Thankfully, she got sacked, and later after the government was taken over when a deadly war ended, she was arrested and got sent to prison for life. There are a couple more who were equal to the task of not being so great, with one exception: a double agent who, after killing the headmaster, left the school. FYI, it was planned by the headmaster, as he was very ill. Yeah, a mercy killing. Go figure. 

Then there is the school nurse professional, you bet; the problem is she has to administer aid to students who get turned into, hmmm, toads, fall off brooms at high speed, 50 feet up, etc. Potions and a wand—those are all she's got to do this. Speaking of brooms, etc., the students play a sport that involves high-speed balls trying to hit them and all at a height that would essentially kill anyone. So in the world of Harry Potter, this works, I guess, but in the real world, Quidditch would definitely not fly, pun intended. Then there are the caretakers, a half-giant who likes animals that are lethal in many cases and an angry janitor who wants to string students up by their thumbs. Plus a whole lot of other things, like a lake that is cold and filled with hostile creatures and parts of the school that are hiding some nasty secrets. And honestly, students die at this school. One was killed by a snake, and in the last book, a few were killed in a battle to the death against very qualified combatants. 

Next, we have other support staff, elves. Enslaved elves! Yep, in this world, slave labour is a thing. And it is something that is actually written into magical law in the wizzarding world. Elves are actually owned by wizards and witches; nice world, eh? Not! At least during the book era, once past this time, the laws were changed, and while elves still are owned in the wizarding world, in more modern times they cannot be abused or in any way mistreated, and they can demand a wage, days off, and pensions. The house elves at the school and in other places, like homes, are better off but are still enslaved. Unless freed by their owners when they get an item like a simple sock handed to them.

Yes, in the real world there are teachers who are horrible, schools that are hellscapes, and sadly, kids do die on campus. However, the vast majority of schools are actually safe places, and the staff care about their charges. And there are some real consequences for bad behaviours for both the students and the staff at large. Although my schooling was not the best, in fact, I was taught by a fraud who ripped off a well-respected Jewish organization to the tune of thousands and sent students with essentially a grade 4 education into high school, most of whom ended up as janitors or institutionalized in the end. Thankfully, I and a couple of my classmates actually got a real education and even went to college. As for that teacher, the fool tried the same trick in Israel and got caught. So while there are flaws in education, nothing compares to the wizarding world. What I mean to say is that this world is much worse than the real one, though the post-book era does see improvements, as noted earlier. 

The Government: corrupt, leadership incompetent, autocratic and racist

The wizarding world is a benevolent autocratic society. on the British side. North America, which is more democratic, had a deeply flawed past. Corruption, leaders who were incompetent or who could be bribed. Despite being elected, the minister has unchecked power. They sit in court as judge and prosecutor all while still being the head of the government. They control the media, operate a system of surveillance, and at one time employed soul-sucking creatures to guard prisoners in what amounted to a torture chamber. They use the press for purposes of propaganda, and the system is inherently racist. They and the people they govern have a belief that they are superior to nonmagical people and other races. 

Think of North Korea, and you will get a clear indication of what the real world has as the mirror to this world. This also plays out around the world; even here in Canada, racism exists. So while it is important to recognize that we have flaws in the real world with respect to government and media, there are equals to the unforgivable curses that do exist. 

Imperio: Control of the will of a person = Sodium thiopental, a drug used to lower a person's will to resist questioning. Also in the 60s and 70s, the CIA used LSD, among other techniques, in an attempt to control the minds of people. Project MK-Ultra was the code name for this. And, sadly, Canada participated in this. The project was a failure and resulted in causing severe harm to the victims. Even to this date, lawsuits still persist. 

Crucio: Pain without physical marks = waterboarding, electric shock, and white room torture. None leave scars, but they can cause psychological breakdown. In Harry Potter's world, Crucio causes pain and, if used in a prolonged manner, causes damage to the brain. The Longbottoms were tortured into madness and did not recognize their son Neville. Much like the victims of MK-Ultra and those who experience things like waterboarding in excess.

Avada Kedavra, the Killing Curse murder by wand = Cyanide, nerve agents like Sarin Gas are the real wolrd equivalents. I need not explain what happens with this type of scenario.

So yes, we see equality in badness here re the government, media, and acts of violence, state and non-state sponsored. At least in the fiction of the books the three curses are outright banned. And, using them gets you life in jail; unfortunately, in the real world, a lot of people who do this get away with it. But, if I had my choice, I would not have some wand-waving nut running around doing this, not to mention being able to read my thoughts, which is something they in the books can do along with erasing memories. Which is what MK-Ultra did, but not en mass. Thank God for small miracles.

My point is to express that it is actually a good thing that this world does not exist for the very reason that it would be worse for our world, such as it is, if it did. Beings with the kind of power that the books portray—power that cannot be readily checked—would be catastrophic for humanity. The blessings, if you want to look for them and there are some in the books, are as follows. First, the magical world really does not want to assimilate into our world. Party because, as noted in the books, their society was viewed with fear, and nonmagical people did attempt to kill them and, in many cases, succeeded. So the society crafted legislation to protect themselves. There is some interaction between the two societies, notably through marriage and children with the gift. But, for the most part, the two don't mix. And in that society is a group that wants to rule over nonmagical people with an iron fist, so ya good thing this is not a real thing, or shall I say, society. 

Though it must be said that there are real people who practice witchcraft, Wicca, and paganism. But they are not in any way like the wand-waving type in the books. Also, those who do magic, like pulling rabbits out of hats, are actually more or less illusionists. They use methods to trick our sense of sight and perception. And they use props and staging to do it. For those curious about card reading and mediums, yes, they do practice a sort of witchcraft. It should be noted that the Bible expressly forbids doing this; there are clear passages in the Old and New Testaments leaving no doubt that doing so is so dangerous to the soul, leading to eternity in hell. We are not talking about sage performers but people who mess around in the spirit world deliberatly. However, the books treat magic as traits, not deliberate choices. If the characters were real, they would be in serious spiritual peril biblically speaking.

What the books really do

The Harry Potter series mirror our world in a fictional way. They are very hyper when it comes to that. Everything explored in the books is overemphasized to make a point about how our world is flawed.

The books point out these things:

1. Incompetence (The Fudge Era)

  1. Incompetent governments are rarely driven by evil; they are driven by weak leaders who prioritize their own comfort and career survival over an inconvenient reality. The Psychological Denial: When Voldemort returns, Minister Cornelius Fudge refuses to believe it. Accepting the truth would mean his peaceful, prosperous administration is over, forcing him to make hard choices. 
  2. The Incompetent Response: Instead of mobilizing a defence against the actual threat, Fudge channels 100% of the state's energy into fighting the messengers (Harry and Dumbledore). Incompetence makes a government target its own citizens to maintain a false illusion of safety. 

2. Overly Bureaucratic (The Departmental Bloat)

  1. An overly bureaucratic government treats paperwork, rules, and red tape as more important than human lives and common-sense justice. The Weapons of Red Tape: The Ministry is a labyrinth of highly specialized, bloated departments (e.g., the Misuse of Muggle Artifacts Office, the Wizengamot). This hyper-bureaucracy detaches government workers from the human cost of their actions.
  2. Form Over Substance: In Order of the Phoenix, Harry faces a full criminal tribunal before the entire Wizengamot court just for using defensive magic to save his cousin from Dementors. The bureaucracy focuses strictly on the violation of a technical subsection of a law, completely ignoring the life-or-death context of the event. 

3. Autocracy (The Centralization of Power)

  1. Autocracy begins the moment a government starts systematically dismantling the separation of powers and stripping independent institutions of their autonomy. Chipping Away at Freedom: Terrified of losing control, the ministry passes a relentless stream of "educational decrees." These decrees systematically strip Hogwarts—historically an independent entity—of its self-governance.
  2. The High Inquisitor: By appointing Dolores Umbridge to oversee the school, the Ministry centralizes the power to censor speech, ban student organizations, and override the headmaster. Autocracy uses the letter of the law to choke out the spirit of liberty. 

4. Dictatorial (The Suppression of Dissent)

  1. A dictatorial regime is defined by the absolute suppression of opposition, the weaponization of the police state, and the use of physical terror to enforce compliance. The Banality of Torture: When Umbridge encounters student resistance, she introduces the Black Quill—a torture device that carves lines into children's flesh, using their own blood as ink. 
  2. Silencing the Public: The ministry relies on Azkaban prison, an institution guarded by despair-inducing monsters (dementors). This is a purely dictatorial tool: a state-sanctioned torture camp used to keep the population too emotionally broken and terrified to ever stage a rebellion or protest.

5. Fascist (The Systemic Radicalization)

  1. Fascism occurs when the state actively adopts a philosophy of genetic supremacy, creates a legally disenfranchised underclass, and uses its legal framework to execute systemic persecution. The Puppet State: When Voldemort takes over the Ministry in Deathly Hallows, he keeps the existing bureaucratic machinery fully intact. He simply installs a puppet minister (Pius Thicknesse) via the Imperius Curse, demonstrating how easily a bloated civil service can be repurposed to execute evil. 
  2. The Bureaucracy of Genocide: The Ministry creates the Muggle-born Registration Commission. Strikingly mirroring the real-world Nuremberg Laws of 1930s Germany, this government office forces a specific minority group to register, strips them of their wands, accuses them of "stealing" magic, and sentences them to prison. 

Summary: The Structural Train Tracks



The ultimate political warning of Harry Potter is that the well-intentioned bureaucracy of a democracy can easily become the administrative weapon of a dictatorship. The Ministry of Magic was so obsessed with its own image, so bogged down by its own red tape, and so willing to compromise on civil liberties that it practically built the tracks for Voldemort’s fascist train to run on.

1. Architectural Tribalism (The House System)

  1. In the real world, schools that force students into rigid, competitive subgroups often accidentally foster extreme "us versus them" mentalities. 
  2. The Hyperbolic Division: Hogwarts codifies tribalism through the House System. Eleven-year-old children are permanently sorted into four distinct factions based on generalized personality traits.
  3. The Echo Chamber Effect: This sorting creates immediate, insular echo chambers. Students sleep, eat, and study exclusively with their own tribe. Instead of encouraging diverse friendships, the school structure actively incentivizes students to view other houses—particularly Slytherin and Gryffindor—as bitter, lifelong enemies rather than peers.
  4. The Poison of the House Cup: The school economy revolves around a zero-sum point system. A single student's mistake can strip points from their entire house, turning peer pressure into a weapon. This system causes entire student bodies to collectively ostracize or bully individual outcasts (such as Harry in Chamber of Secrets or Neville in Philosopher's Stone).

2. Radicalization and Groupthink

  1. When a tribalistic environment is left unchecked, it easily escalates into political radicalization, where students begin policing each other's identities. 
  2. The In-Group Supremacy: Within the Slytherin common room, pure-blood supremacy is not just tolerated; it is a foundational cultural identity. Because the administration fails to dismantle this toxic ideology, the house effectively operates as a radicalization pipeline for the Death Eaters.
  3. The Inquisitorial Squad: In Order of the Phoenix, Dolores Umbridge takes tribalism to its logical, autocratic conclusion. She deputizes a select group of students (predominantly Slytherins), granting them arbitrary power to strip points, hand out detentions, and physically police their fellow classmates. The school officially transforms into a police state where students are weaponized against one another.

3. The Abuse of Power by Staff and Educators

  1. Tribalism and danger are severely worsened when the adult authority figures inside a school use their institutional power to actively inflict emotional or physical trauma on minors. Weaponized Favouritism (Severus Snape): A corrupt educator often uses their power to shield their preferred "tribe" while systematically destroying others. Snape routinely docks points from Gryffindor students for trivial or invented infractions while completely ignoring severe rule-breaking and bullying committed by his own Slytherins.
  2. Psychological Sabotage: Snape doesn't just grade harshly; he deliberately targets students' psychological vulnerabilities. His relentless, targeted cruelty toward Neville Longbottom is so severe that he becomes Neville's literal Boggart—the absolute manifestation of the boy's worst fear, outpacing Voldemort or death.
  3. Physical Torture as Discipline (Dolores Umbridge): When an abusive administrator faces dissent, they often escalate from emotional manipulation to physical violence. Umbridge utilizes the Black Quill, a dark magical device that physically carves lines into a teenager's hand, forcing them to bleed out their own punishment. By framing this as legitimate "discipline," the system masks severe child abuse under the cover of school policy.
  4. Negligent Enablement (Albus Dumbledore): Abuse can only thrive if the head of the institution permits it. Dumbledore is repeatedly aware of Snape’s psychological cruelty, Lockhart's utter incompetence, and the lethal dangers hiding inside the castle, yet he chooses to tolerate them to serve his own larger geopolitical strategies. His leadership models how institutional negligence leaves children exposed to harm.

Summary: The Fractured Sanctuary



Hogwarts demonstrates that a school becomes dangerous the moment its leadership stops viewing students as individuals and instead treats them as members of opposing factions. When teachers trade their duty of care for ideological warfare or personal vendettas, the school ceases to be a sanctuary of learning and becomes a volatile breeding ground for trauma and systemic abuse.

1. State Co-optation and Controlled Propaganda

  1. When a media outlet relies entirely on a government or corporate elite for its legal access, funding, or survival, it loses its independence and transforms into the state's public relations wing. Manufacturing Denial: In Order of the Phoenix, when the government desperately wants to hide an unfolding crisis (the return of Voldemort), the mainstream press (The Daily Prophet) complies completely. They don't just omit the truth; they actively publish a coordinated smear campaign to discredit whistleblowers (Harry and Dumbledore) as unhinged and dangerous.
  2. The Real-World Consequence: By weaponizing the press to manipulate public perception, the state ensures that the general population remains completely unprepared for an impending disaster, delaying vital collective action until it is too late.

2. Commercial Sensationalism and the "Clickbait" Economy

  1. Even outside of state control, the profit models of modern media frequently incentivize outrage, division, and invasive spectacle over nuanced reporting because drama sells. 
  2. The Distortion of Reality: Represented hyperbolically by Rita Skeeter and her Quick-Quotes Quill, sensationalist journalism takes a person’s complex, real words and instantly rewrites them into highly polarized, scandalous headlines.
  3. Invasion and Character Assassination: To feed the public's appetite for entertainment, the sensationalist press violates basic human privacy (symbolized by Skeeter illegally transforming into a beetle to wiretap children). It manufactures false narratives—such as inventing toxic teenage love triangles or framing marginalized groups (like Hagrid’s half-giant heritage) as existential public safety threats—purely to drive readership.

3. Exploiting Public Complicity and Confirmation Bias

  1. A toxic media landscape relies heavily on the psychological vulnerabilities of its audience. The public often prefers a comfortable lie over a terrifying truth. 
  2. The Comfort of Falsehood: The citizen body willingly consumes state propaganda because accepting the alternative—that their society is unsafe and their institutions are failing—is deeply distressing. A corrupted media feeds this cognitive dissonance, allowing citizens to remain willfully blind to the systemic rot happening right around them.
4. Normalizing Extremism During Totalitarian Takeovers
  1. When a fascist or dictatorial regime forces its way into power, a previously weakened, unprincipled press will effortlessly pivot to legitimize tyranny. 
  2. The Bureaucracy of Hatred: In Deathly Hallows, once the Ministry falls to a coup, the Daily Prophet instantly becomes an engine for state-sanctioned bigotry. It ceases to be a newspaper and begins printing daily decrees that systematically strip rights away from minorities (Muggle-borns), framing them as dangerous criminals who "stole" their status from the dominant group.

Summary: The Ultimate Systemic Threat



When the media ceases to be an independent pillar of truth, it leaves the entire population intellectually defenceless. By replacing genuine journalism with state propaganda and sensationalist infotainment, it successfully paralyzes public resistance, protects corrupt institutions, and directly paves the way for societal collapse.

1. Police Brutality: State-Sanctioned Violence

  1. When law enforcement lacks transparency, independent oversight, and strict accountability, officers stop protecting the population and begin using physical force to compel absolute submission. 
  2. The Exaggerated Mirror: In the wizarding world, the Ministry’s enforcement officers operate with complete impunity. During the height of the panic in the First War, Barty Crouch Sr. authorized Aurors to use the Unforgivable Curses—including the killing curse and the torture curse (Cruciatus)—directly on suspects without a trial.
  3. The Abuse of Minorities: This state violence is heavily directed at those without social or legal capital. For instance, when Dolores Umbridge encounters centaurs in the Forbidden Forest, her immediate reaction is to use her official wand to physically bind, muzzle, and threaten them.
  4. The Systemic Threat: In the real world, police brutality utilizes tactical gear, excessive physical assault, or lethal force to suppress dissent. In both settings, this creates an environment of continuous public hypervigilance and fear, proving that the state views its citizens as enemy combatants.

2. A Rigged Justice System: The Illusion of Due Process


A justice system becomes rigged when the courts stop acting as independent arbiters of truth and instead operate as a political theatre designed to secure convictions, appease public outrage, or protect elite interests. 
Trials for Public Spectacle: In Order of the Phoenix, Harry is subjected to a full criminal tribunal before the entire Wizengamot court. The Minister for Magic explicitly manipulates the legal rules, changes the time of the trial at the last minute to prevent legal defense, and deliberately suppresses crucial witness testimony to engineer a guilty verdict
The Search for Scapegoats: In a broken legal framework, innocence is entirely secondary to state optics. When the Chamber of Secrets is opened, Minister Cornelius Fudge personally arrests Hagrid and sends him away without a shred of evidence or a formal trial. Fudge openly admits his motivation: "The Ministry's got to do something... if it's found out it's not Hagrid, he'll be let out, but I've got to take him." 
The Elimination of Appeals: Crucial truth-finding magical mechanisms, like the absolute memory-extracting Pensieve or the forced truth serum Veritaserum, are selectively withheld by the Ministry. Sirius Black was cast away for a lifetime sentence without ever receiving a single trial. The system acts as a conveyor belt to dispose of political problems rather than a seeker of objective reality.

3. Jails as Torture: The Eradication of the Human Mind

  1. A penal institution ceases to be a prison and becomes a torture facility when its primary function shifts away from temporary confinement or social rehabilitation and turns exclusively toward breaking the physical and psychological identity of the prisoner. 
  2. The Ultimate Weaponized Alcatraz: The island fortress of Azkaban represents the absolute, most terrifying manifestation of the prison-industrial complex. The Ministry explicitly refuses to build physical walls or hire human guards. Instead, they delegate incarceration to Dementors—immortal, blind rot-monsters that feed entirely on human souls and emotional happiness.
  3. The Extraction of Hope: Under the Dementors' influence, inmates are physically and chemically trapped inside their own skulls. They are forced to live in an inescapable, looping nightmare of their absolute worst memories, losses, and traumatic failures
  4. Permanent Psychological Ruin: The text explicitly notes that most prisoners inside Azkaban lose their minds within a matter of weeks. They stop eating, succumb to severe clinical depression, and perish from pure, unadulterated despair. Even innocent survivors who are eventually cleared and released, like Hagrid, suffer from permanent, debilitating trauma and lifelong psychiatric scars. The prison doesn't hold you; it systematically dismantles your humanity.

Summary: The Ultimate Instrument of Tyranny


When law enforcement answers to no one, when the courts prioritize political image over evidence, and when prisons utilize psychological devastation as standard policy, the justice system stops serving the public and starts terrorizing them. It proves that a society's descent into a totalitarian state is complete the moment its legal system transforms into an absolute machine of torture.

The books not only tell the story of a boy who would become a hero and save a society but also actually show the rise of Nazi Germany. 

The infographic below explains the comparison.


There is an upside

To be fair, there has to be a 360 look at the books and the world it speaks of, and while much of this story is fraught with death, torture, and a whole lot of bad. The books do actually have a surprisingly positive impact. We learn at the end of the series that sweeping reforms are made, and the wizarding world does change; many laws are rewritten, and a lot of the racism is dealt with. Though not completely, for example, goblins and house elves are still forbidden from possessing wands. Another is the autocratic nature of government; the minister still has absolute power even though they are elected, and the court system still denies appeals, but the prison system has been reformed. The guards have been replaced, and essentially the death penalty has been revoked. In our real world there are actually some real benefits derived.

The books have not changed systems in an overt way. What they have done is offer cautionary tales and have acted as guides; you read that right, guides. The books are actually used as teaching tools from grade school to university level. The people learning from these lessons are the ones who will do one of two things. Use the knowledge to make the world better, or use it as a means to circumvent the lessons the books are teaching. For the most part I would say the split is about 50/50. 

From a personal point of view and as a content creator who writes as a hobbyist and professional, here is how I would frame my response re the creation of my content; I will use this blog as the example.

Below is the ethical guide I use to do this work.

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That said, I am perfectly happy knowing that the world Harry Potter comes from is fictional. Despite its changes at the end of the series, this world remains largely dangerous, susceptible to corruption, and technologically backward. Its health, transit, law enforcement and justice, and political and educational systems are unique but so far behind those of the modern world that it would be foolish for anyone to want this to be a real society. But that does not mean it is not a world we cannot learn from or appreciate for its uniqueness, and frankly, there are decent people in that world. It's just not one I would want to be real, because honestly, there are enough places in our real world that closely mirror it today. I think the books are worth reading and using as study guides. And with respect to age, I would suggest guided reading for younger children. I would never let an 8- to 11-year-old read this book if I were a parent. But that is your choice as a parent. 

This article was a doozy to do. As this universe is very deep, there are a lot of rabbit holes, and yes, it can be quite addictive. J. K. Rowling did a great job of creating a series that really draws people in. A fascinating complex universe surrounds the story of a young boy growing up and facing the ultimate fear, death. And she wove in history and cautionary tales very well. But, like I said, glad it is just a story.

Tell me what you think of this article. Please keep in mind to be respectful in your responses. But I would love the feedback. 

Key Resource Links

  • This is a link to the comprehensive overview of the Montreal Experiments on Wikipedia. A judge officially authorized a class-action lawsuit on CBC News for survivors of the Allan Memorial Institute. 
  • Legal progression and state immunities: see the Consumer Law Group Case Record tracking the dismissal of the U.S. government from the suit while keeping Canadian institutions liable. [1, 2, 3, 4]
  • Global monitoring updates via Amnesty International that verify accounts of psychological torment.
  • For a direct view of historical reporting on the personal, devastating effects of Dr. D. Ewen Cameron's "psychic driving" regimens, reference this firsthand victim profile hosted by the BBC News Article. [1, 2]
  • For the factual toxicity and operational reality of nerve agents, reference safety descriptions from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW).
  • For general medical guidelines on toxin exposures, you can link directly to public health advisories on chemical safety from Health Canada.
  • To ensure historical accuracy regarding the structural stripping of minority legal protections, link to the archival context on the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum site.
  • BuzzFeed article: 15 Times “Harry Potter” Got Mental Health Just Right.
  • An article by Dr. Betsabe Rubio tackles the idea that Hogwarts is actually for all intensive purposes a mental institution.
  • Wikipedia: The Politics of Harry Potter

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