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amoral....Clearly, we must strive to nurture both intelligences and morality and,
insofar as possible, yoke them together as virtues.” (45-46)
Giftedness, then, in the Harry Potter series is many things. It is a particularly
scarce talent within a community of those of great talent—a Parseltongue among
wizards, a Quiddich prodigy among many broom-riding children. It is not, as we
have seen, necessarily extraordinary talent used for the good. The evil, the twisted,
are as gifted—or perhaps even more gifted—than the great Harry Potter. How the
giftedness is used is, as Professor Dumbledore tells Harry, certainly more impor
tant than the possession of the gift itself.
Christopher Newport University
Old Dominion University
Ahcia Willson-Metzger
David Metzger
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