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A Goodreads user asked Manny Rayner:

Still don't understand why modern science or the intellectual class doesn't criticize the mass market consumption of Harry Potter/ Divergent that are deeply Platonic with the classification of characters into various houses, while it continues to criticize Plato's Republic for classification based on dominance of appetite, courage & reason. As if Rowling simply lifted off unabashedly from Plato. Explain; please?

Manny Rayner I'm sorry, I still haven't read Harry Potter and the Nature of Virtue, Harry Potter and the Illusion of Reality or Harry Potter and the Paedophile Philosopher. I'll get back to you when I've done that.

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