The newest installment in the ongoing epic of COVID-19–Harry Potter and the Pfizer vaccine.

In the darkest of times, a glimmer of hope, a vaccine, is all the light needed to find comfort when the existence of something so deadly is questioned. Much like the Ministry of Magic under Cornelius Fudge, this muggle administration is in denial of many things, but most importantly, in denial of how dangerous and costly COVID-19 is to the livelihoods of its own muggles. Deep within the pages of Harry Potter and the Pfizer Vaccine, we find fiction to be living and breathing right in front of us.

To us muggles, Harry Potter is an escape to a world that carries many parallels to our world with the comfort knowing that it’s a fantasy in a book. Harry has the ability to escape our muggle world brings you along to escape to the wizarding world every time you pick up one of the books or watch the movies. Our muggle problems are put aside for a moment, to be replaced by Harry’s problems, actual problems, you know–fictional problems.

The issues of Mudbloods, Half-Bloods, and Pure-Bloods sheds light on the racial divisions and discrimination of our nation and its muggle administration that uses division to fuel racism, hatred, and white supremacy. An administration who embodies Dolores Umbridge changing curriculum to align with a hidden political agenda to empower the Pure-Bloods is much like denouncing the importance of diversity training’s critical race theory and calling it propaganda to align with a political agenda fueling division and hate as power and control. You know–real problems.

As the Pure-Bloods feel empowered, there is hope. Harry is that hope. A coming of age hero who is ready to make the ultimate sacrifice to save the people around him regardless of race, age, or sex. He stumbles through impossible scenarios to find a solution, an answer that will save us all regardless if we are muggles or not. He discovers love to be the true powerful force that can defeat all evil and inspires us to love. We continue to turn the pages to escape our muggle realities to remind ourselves there are many people out there with love risking the ultimate sacrifice to bring us out of the darkness and into a hopeful reality, much like Harry Potter and the Pfizer vaccine.