Potter's Property

Mark Roark has a delightful post on the property issues embedded in the Harry Potter series:

One of the truly interesting things about property represented in Harry Potter is the ambiguous relationship of ownership to the property. [...] Consider all the property that is described in the magical world — just about every piece of property may be reoriented to new ownership, even without the express consent of the “owner” — a choice of the chattel, we might say that alleviates the need for disputes.

Steve Clowney