There is No Real-Life Sorting Hat

But, we keep trying to sort ourselves into boxes anyway

Image by Waldo Miguez from Pixabay

I was already an adult when the Harry Potter books were released. I read the first four books during the summer between my first and second years of law school. The first movie had just been released, and the world was under the spell of Pottermania. I was not immune — I still haven’t recovered.