Have you seen what Ellen Reiss, the Class Chairman of Aesthetic Realism, wrote about Harry Potter?  Look at "Nature, Romanticism, and Harry Potter."   She writes, in part (referring to the first in J. K. Rowling's series, "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone," the importance of this novel, its goodness, and the enthusiasm about it are explained by the following principle, the basis of Aesthetic Realism: "All beauty is a making one of opposites, and the making one of opposites is what we are going after in ourselves." And the chief opposites that Ms. Rowling has made inseparable are the opposites that are central to romanticism, that new way of feeling and showing the world which began in Europe at the end of the 18th century: the opposites of the strange and the ordinary."

She goes on to describe how these same opposites, the strange and the ordinary, affect every person's life. The more beautifully we see them, the better our lives will be.

Very often we divide the world into two parts -- what is dull, which we already know (or think we know) and what is wonderful or strange. There's your job, then there's the summer holiday. That's not the way to be happy because it's not accurate!

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